Editor's note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment…
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You can hear this quote by Jimmy Carter, from an interview with Huffington Post Live, in its full context here.
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You can read this quote by Ohio State professor Brad Bushman, from a press release announcing the findings of a…
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You can read this quote by Oprah Winfrey, part of a promotional campaign for her self-help arena tour, “Oprah’s The…
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I’d like to get to the bottom of a puzzling name change in my family’s past. My great-grandfather Jeffrey Bedard…
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You can read this quote by Max Roach, from Notes and Tones: Musician-to-Musician Interviews (1993), in Bartlett’s…
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In 1825 my maternal grandfather three times removed, William Grimes, wrote and published the first fugitive slave…
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You can read this quote by President Barack Obama, from a press conference in Amsterdam about the Russian…
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You can read this quote by Dayo Olopade, about Africa’s informal job sectors that are keeping the continent afloat,…
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This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in…
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You can read this quote by The Root contributor Ivory A. Toldson, in a column about how standardized tests are not…
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Editor's note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment…
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You can read this quote by The Root’s senior staff writer, Jenée Desmond-Harris, in a column explaining why race is…
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You can read this quote by President Obama, about the negative statistics regarding young black males in education…
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You can read this quote by The Root’s associate editor Stephen A. Crockett Jr., about an unofficial announcement…
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My grandfather is 92 and owns 688 acres of backwoods Alabama. Supposedly, former slaves cobbled this farm together.…
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You can read this quote by Shirley Chisholm, which she used as her 1967 campaign slogan, in Bartlett’s Familiar…
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You can read this quote from Amilcar Cabral, from his speech “The Weapon of Theory” (1966), in Bartlett’s Familiar…
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You can read this quote by James Baldwin, from his collection of essays Nobody Knows My Name (1959), in Bartlett’s…
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This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in…
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