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Another one In Michigan, not Louisiana. Almost 20,000 barrels of oil flowed into the Kalamazoo River when a pipe ruptured in southern Michigan on July 26. Enbridge, the Canadian company operating the pipeline, said more than 10,000 barrels had been removed so far. But an official from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency predicted the cleanup…

Hello Brooklyn How you doin’? Where you goin’? Can I come to? —Jay-Z feat. Lil Wayne PHOTOS BY ROBEL KASSA/PARADIGM84 Sometimes I feel like my only friend Is the city I live in, is beautiful Brooklyn —Mos Def Now I’ve come home to finish finish my Brooklyn Blues —Barry Manilow Peep the style and the…

Sheryl Huggins Salomon is senior editor-at-large of The Root and a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based editorial consultant. Follow her on Twitter. Actor Anthony Anderson (Law and Order) was the evening’s emcee. Here, Egami Consulting Group founder Teneshia Jackson (right) is showing him around the tent where much of the evening’s festivities were held. The theme for Rush Philanthropic’s primary annual fundraiser was “A…

Resting with cigarettes and rum in Lawton, a neighborhood in the southeast outskirts of Havana. The flag mural belongs to the international community arts project “Muraleando.” Professional folkloric dancer practising in the La Rampa sidewalks (23rd Street, El Vedado). A painful daily trip through Obispo boulevard in Old Havana, collecting objects from the street. In the overpopulated, poorer city…

Shirley Sherrod was a victim of one of the fastest rushes to judgment ever — followed by a rush to redress — in two whirlwind days. A deceptively edited video hit the Internet that appeared to show the USDA staffer at a NAACP event, admitting to racism against a white farmer. The NAACP immediately denounced…

is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University. Sowell was arrested in 2009 after a woman claimed that she had been raped at his Cleveland home. Soon after the police went to his house to question him, they discovered 11 bodies buried in his backyard. He reportedly lured his victims to…

The Wine Institute says that 90 percent of American wine comes from California’s nearly 2,900 wineries and 4,600 grape wine growers. The Association of African American Vintners has seven members, and there are several other black winemakers, also covered in this photo slide show, who aren’t members. Black-owned restaurants, and wine bars that carry the…

Race-Bending Practice: The spray tan Although pale skin was once considered ideal among people of European descent — it showed that you had enough wealth to avoid a tan from laboring under the hot sun — these days there’s nothing like a deep tan to show that you have the wealth and leisure time to…

Race-Bending Practice: The spray tan Although pale skin was once considered ideal among people of European descent — it showed that you had enough wealth to avoid a tan from laboring under the hot sun — these days there’s nothing like a deep tan to show that you have the wealth and leisure time to…

Republican and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, born in Jim Crow-era Birmingham, Alabama, already stands out from the typical Bush-era conservative, but adding to her impressively eclectic résumé is her training as a classical concert pianist. No matter what talk-show queen Oprah Winfrey says (or does), her legion of mostly white female fans hang…