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  • Jeff Sessions Is Just Being a White Man

    I know that I consistently refer to white men who make racists comments as racists but I’m starting to rethink that. In a New York Times Magazine article published Tuesday, U.S. Senate candidate and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions referred to renowned scholar and Black Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. as “some criminal.” In…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • Kevin Young Named Director of Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

    The New York Public Library has chosen Kevin Young, a distinguished scholar and poet, to be the new director of its Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The research library focuses on documenting and sharing black life, history and culture around the world. Regarding Young’s appointment to head the library, NYPL President Tony Marx said, “The…

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    The Root Staff

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