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Quote of the Day: Alice Walker

Read more of The Root’s coverage of Alice Walker here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University. He is also … Continue reading

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A Plan for Finding and Keeping Self-Love

Sometimes self-love is tough, especially when you think you might not be the right size or have the right amount of zeros in your bank account. But Jamilah Lemieux writes at Clutch magazine that happiness and security are about loving … Continue reading

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How the Boy Scouts Are Still Discriminatory

Many have compared the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender struggle for equality to the African-American fight for civil rights, and after the Boy Scouts’ recent decision to admit gay Scouts but ban gay leaders, John Aravosis cites similarities on the … Continue reading

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