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First Reported 1 hour ago - Updated 48 mins ago - 1 Documents

Thousands Protest Pastor Who Made Anti-Gay Slurs

Protesters in North Carolina (YouTube)According to Reuters, more than 1,000 protesters gathered in a small North Carolina town on Sunday to denounce a Baptist minister's sermon from two weeks ago in which he called for gays and lesbians to be locked up ... [ Published 1 hour ago by The Root ]

Entities: Anti-Gay, protest, Lesbian

First Reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 Documents

Barack Obama

Memorial Day: Obama Prays for Peace

The White House released President Barack Obama’s Memorial Day proclamation, which included a prayer for peace, the Huffington Post reports.Our Nation endures and thrives because of the devotion of our men and women in uniform, who, from generation to ... [ Published 2 hours ago by The Root ]

Entities: Barack Obama, Dictatorship, White House, Encumbrance

First Reported 23 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 1 Documents

Mark Zuckerberg

Mrs. Facebook: Meet Mark Zuckerberg's Wife

Just one day after Facebook appeared on the New York Stock Exchange in May, creator Mark Zuckerberg married his longtime girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, in Northern California. But unlike the social network billionaire, Chan does not court the spotlight. ... [ Published 23 hours ago by The Root ]

Entities: Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, Facebook Inc, Heidi Roizen, Silicon Valley

First Reported 23 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 1 Documents

David Maraniss

Obama's Weed-Smoking Past Rises, Again

Politicians and marijuana -- topics that when intertwined are political catnip. From former President Bill Clinton's charge that he smoked "but didn't inhale" to President Obama's admission that he enjoyed the illegal drug as a college student in Dreams ... [ Published 23 hours ago by The Root ]

Entities: David Maraniss, Barack Obama, Punahou School, Nepeta, Dreams From My Father

First Reported May 27 2012 - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 Documents

Mary J Blige

Mary J. Blige's Charity Sued for Unpaid Bills

Five years ago doors opened at the Mary J. Blige and Steve Stoute Foundation for the Advancement of Women Now, known as FFAWN, a charity to help women. Now, according to the New York Post, the R&B diva's organization, which she began with marketing executive ... [ Published May 27 2012 by The Root ]

Entities: Steve Stoute, Charity, Mary J Blige

First Reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 Documents

Russell Simmons

Drug Addiction Is a Disease, Not a Crime

Drug addiction should not be grounds for a lifelong prison sentence, argues Global Grind founder Russell Simmons on the Huffington Post. Challenging a New York Post opinion piece that pointed to what Simmons says is unrealistic evidence of crime in New ... [ Published 14 hours ago by The Root ]

Entities: Russell Simmons, Crime, prison, Def Jam Recordings, Violent Crime

First Reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 Documents

Cory Booker

Where Mayor Cory Booker Got Confused

Cory Booker appeared on Meet the Press last week and supported private equity, and in doing so he sounded as if he were attacking President Obama, argues cultural vlogger Jay Smooth.As the likable mayor of Newark, N.J., Booker has many fans and is part ... [ Published 14 hours ago by The Root ]

Entities: Cory Booker, Private Equity, Barack Obama

First Reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 Documents

Childhood Obesity: Who Is at Fault?

Tired of the "Americans are over-weight" debate? Crunk Feminist Collective contributor Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts is, but not for the reasons you might think. Sparked by the HBO documentary Weight of the Nation, she would prefer that analysts of the country's ... [ Published 14 hours ago by The Root ]

Entities: Obesity, Feminism, Genetically Modified Foods

First Reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 Documents

MHP: Obama Surrogates Refuse to Stay in Line

As President Barack Obama campaigns for re-election, he's wrangling his team of Democratic allies, but not everyone is getting in line. Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker spoke out last week on Meet the Press, declaring that the Democrats' attack on Mitt ... [ Published 23 hours ago by The Root ]

Entities: Barack Obama, MSNBC, Cory Booker, Bain Capital LLC

First Reported May 27 2012 - Updated May 27 2012 - 1 Documents

Race-Hustling the 2012 Election?

This week on The Confab: Join The Root's assistant editor, Akoto Ofori-Atta, as she chats with staff writer Jenée Desmond-Harris and contributor Edward Wyckoff Williams about Republican race-baiting, the NAACP's stance on same-sex marriage and whether ... [ Published May 27 2012 by The Root ]

Entities: Elections, National Association for the Advancement of Col..., Sexual Orientation, Same-Sex Marriage

First Reported May 27 2012 - Updated May 27 2012 - 1 Documents

Egypt's Presidential Hopeful Accused of Fraud

Following Egypt's first free presidential election this week, candidate Ahmed Shafiq promised voters that he'd champion democratic principles for all levels of society in the country, according the Washington Post. The former Egyptian prime minister is ... [ Published May 27 2012 by The Root ]

Entities: Ahmed Shafiq, Fraud, Egypt

First Reported May 27 2012 - Updated May 27 2012 - 1 Documents

The Right to Be Racist

After delivering the winning shot for the Washington Capitals hockey team, player Joel Ward should've been showered with congratulations. Instead the black athele was the target of racist Twitter comments from a few high school students, and Ward shrugged ... [ Published May 27 2012 by The Root ]

Entities: Twitter, attack

Quotes

"Put all the lesbians in there. Fly over and drop some food. Do the same thing with the queers and the homosexuals. Have that fence electrified so they can't get out. You know what, in a few years, they'll die out. You know why? They can't reproduce."

Thousands Protest Pastor Who Made Anti-Gay Slurs [The Root - 1 hour ago]

The statistics stated in [this week's] New York Post op-ed "Why Crime's Rising: Drug Law 'Reform Plaguing NY" by former Rockland County District Attorney Michael E Bongiorno are grossly misrepresented. Mr. Bongiorno's position that crime is rising in certain parts of our state because of drug law reform is unfounded and based on assumptions, rather than facts. His entire argument is based on the increase of violent crimes, however, the vast majority (close to 75 percent) of those incarcerated for drug offenses have never been convicted of a violent felony."

Drug Addiction Is a Disease, Not a Crime [The Root - 14 hours ago]

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