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In an episode of African-American Lives that originally aired on PBS in 2009, Tina Turner learns about her family's…
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Certain Dominicans are willing to claim any race but black. In this installment of Henry Louis Gates' PBS special Bla…
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The Root was on the red carpet at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner, and Anji Corley chatted with Gayle…
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Institutional racism in Cuba has been outlawed for decades, but in this installment of The Root Editor-in-Chief…
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In 1971, filmmaker-musician-dramatist-commodities trader Melvin Van Peebles launched a movie revolution with his…
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More blacks were transported as slaves to Mexico and Peru than to the United States. Afro-Peruvians have staged a…
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Brazil once touted itself as free of racism. It turns out that the truth was more complicated — a lot more…
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Thelma Golden, the director and chief curator of New York's Studio Museum in Harlem, spoke to The Root recently for…
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As part of the Vine series on leadership, The Root's Omar Wasow interviewed the Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised…
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The Newark mayor tells The Root, "I have an audience of over 1 million followers on Twitter — that's bigger than my…
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Nearly two decades ago, Ellis Cose ripped the veil of contentment off the black middle class and exposed its…
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To mark her 50 years in the entertainment business, Columbia Records is releasing an album of Aretha Franklin's hits…
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The first black woman professor at Harvard Business School has some unusual views about leadership. She believes…
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