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A Look Inside Aretha Franklin’s 1990s Detroit Mansion, Companies That Continue To Support DEI, Tom Holland Kicks It With Zendaya’s Family, Black History Month Facts You Didn’t Learn In School And More
The Root shares its best culture stories from the week.
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Leave Kamala Harris TF Alone
Harris is not only the first female African-American vice president, she’s arguably the most scrutinized.
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Duke University to Rename Iconic Building After One of the 1st Black Women to Attend the School
Duke University has announced it will rename one of its west campus buildings after one of the first Black women to become an undergraduate at the university. According to WTVD, the university’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously on Saturday to change the name of the Sociology-Psychology Building to the Reuben-Cooke Building, after Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke. Reuben-Cooke…
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Princeton University Admitted Systemic Racism Is a Problem So the Department of Education Launched an Investigation
After Princeton University released a statement earlier this month acknowledging systemic racism is a problem on its campus, the Department of Education decided to launch an investigation into the school. Don’t worry though, this is totally not a way to punish a school for committing to be less racist. According to NBC News, the university…
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After Years of Student Protests, Princeton Strikes the Name of Segregationist President Woodrow Wilson From Its Buildings
Princeton announced Saturday that it was striking the name of former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson from its public and international affairs school as well as a residential building, citing his “racist thinking and policies” during his time in office, as well as his tenure as president of the famed Ivy League school. The decision came…
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For Parents Whose Blood Pressure Gets Raised Because of Product Recalls When ’Tussin and Wine Ain’t Enough
I was driving my daughter to school this morning, gleefully coasting across the Washington, D.C., area’s Woodrow Wilson Bridge, named after possibly the most racist president of all time, a true accomplishment considering that several presidents actually owned slaves, when my phone buzzed. Like many folks, I get an alarming (no pun intended) number of…