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Want to keep track of all the folks participating in The Root Institute virtual conference this year? Here’s a handy…
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The Root Institute, a virtual convening around the future of Black America in 2020 and beyond, features some pretty…
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Last week, Comedy Bang! Bang!, a longtime staple of every comedy nerd’s podcast feed, celebrated its tenth…
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This question is in honor of Sunday’s 91st Academy Awards:
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For years, gentrification has been changing and reshaping black communities across the country. But in Miami,…
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There aren’t many kids who can say they’ve met first lady Michelle Obama once—let alone multiple times. For teen…
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Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you know that the already-celebrated film Hidden Figures is coming to a…
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Black style is so prominent that the first word of the couplet is practically unnecessary; very little that’s…
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August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fences has finally made it to the big screen, directed by Academy…
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With the upcoming Christmas Day release of the brilliant Oscar-worthy film Hidden Figures, it looks like black…
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Senate Republican leaders say they’ll move immediately to start repealing the Affordable Care Act, often known as …
Dec 4 2016
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In a first-of-its-kind investigation, USA Today found that black people in the U.S. have been killed in police…
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Charles D. Ellison
If you’re black and work for the federal government, you were among a small, but very anxious, crowd of election…
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The New Jersey Nation of Islam Vanguard Drill Team—serious-looking young sisters marching in paper-cut precision…
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Lauren Victoria Burke
The surprise victory of reality-TV star and businessman Donald Trump will mean positions of power for one of the…
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Activists and intellectuals in Newark, N.J., talked for two hours Thursday night about what to do now that…
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When I was certain that Hillary Clinton was going to win, I was going to write about how black America now has its…