culture
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Dear Jay Z: Don't Dodge the Barneys Thing
(The Root) — Dear Shawn Carter: I just read your heated blog posting about “negligent, erroneous reports and attacks on my character, intentions, and the spirit of this collaboration” with the retailer Barneys, with whom you are partnering. Barneys, of course, is the store where a young man was arrested for quite legally buying a…
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Racist Whites More Likely to Own Guns
The more racist a white person is, the more likely he or she is to own a gun, a new international study released on Thursday has found. The report, done by researchers at Australia’s Monash University and Britain’s Manchester University, was conducted to better understand gun culture in the United States, the Daily News reports.…
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'Scandal' Recap: 5 Best Quotes About Olivia
(The Root) — Turns out Mellie got it wrong. “Flyovers” and “trailer trash” aren’t the only ones who fall for a push-up bra and a mic. Olivia Pope’s a sucker, too. Stuff the president in a penguin suit, put him in front of a podium and the girl’s a goner. In this week’s episode…
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From Which Port Was Slave Ancestor Sold?
(The Root) — “I’ve completed the African Ancestry paternal lineage test and it says that I have Angolan heritage. I would like to find information about the ports that people from Angola were sold from to the United States — and where they landed —- in hopes of pinpointing where my Angolan ancestors came from. My…
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Food Stamp Benefit Cuts Start Today
On Friday, a boost from the federal stimulus package is set to expire, which will cut the “food stamp” program by $5 billion dollars nationally. More than 47 million Americans — or 1 in 7 — will see a decrease in their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, reports CBS News. The amount could get…
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Football Field Turned Organic Farm at HBCU
In Texas, where football is king, Paul Quinn College President Michael Sorrell chose to cut the school’s football program, Yahoo Sports reports. The sports department and upkeep was draining the budget of the small HBCU, which is located seven miles outside of downtown Dallas. Sorrell, a Root100 alum and president of the school since 2007, had to make the unpopular…
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New York Bus Driver Saves Woman's Life
A Buffalo, N.Y. school bus driver risked his life to save a woman he didn’t know. Darnell Barton, 37, was driving a bus full of high school students along a parkway when he saw woman standing on the ledge, “leaning out over the traffic below,” The Buffalo News, reports. That is when Barton stopped the bus…
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Obamacare Site Accepts Help From Google Expert
Healthcare.gov, the troubled website that launched Oct. 1 and has been heavily criticized for its lack of functionality since then, is getting help from some industry heavyweights. Google, Oracle and several other tech companies are giving much-needed support by lending dozens of computer engineers and programmers to the plagued website, according to Bloomberg News. About 8.6…
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Dawson Mayor Chris Wright Shot in Robbery
Chris Wright, the young, charismatic mayor of Dawson, Ga., was shot last night in what news channel Fox 31 is calling a robbery attempt outside his home Friday morning. Wright was transported to the hospital, where Jessae Goshae, a friend of Wright’s, told the news station that the 23-year-old mayor had been shot multiple times in the leg but…