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LeVar Burton Gets Emotional After Learning This Surprise About His Past
In the latest episode of “Finding Your Roots,” the actor, producer and education advocate learns that his connection to education runs deep.
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Wait, Ciara and Derek Jeter Are Cousins? And Whoopi is Related to Who?
Ciara and Whoopi Goldberg got some shocking news about their family this week.
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Diddy Paid Millions for Kerry James Marshall’s Artwork, But That’s Not Why You Should Know Him.
Marshall is currently in the UK to unveil his first formal portrait of a living subject in his close friend and Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates,
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Everything You Want to Know About The History of Juneteenth
The Root explains how this Texan-based celebration came to be our 12th federal holiday.
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We’ll Never Need to Explain What Our “Kitchen ” is To Another White Person—Again.
The new Oxford Dictionary of African American English will be edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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The Root Founder Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on Pelé’s Passing and Lasting Legacy
The beloved soccer icon lost his battle with cancer on Thursday.
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Black Resilience Finally Gets Its Due in New PBS Documentary
In “Making Black America: Through The Grapevine” Henry Louis Gates Jr. examines the myriad ways Black people have overcome the odds.
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Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez Hold 2nd Wedding at ‘Plantation-Style’ House
The celebrity couple held their big three-day wedding party at Affleck’s ‘Plantation-style’ property in Georgia.
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Sho’ You Right: The Oxford Dictionary of African American English is On The Way
There is no denying this simple fact: “These are people who love language.”
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HBO Sets Premiere Date for Upcoming Frederick Douglass Documentary
Titled Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches, the documentary will feature star-studded orators such as Jonathan Majors, Colman Domingo, Nicole Beharie and more.