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(The Root) — I watched Lee Daniels’ The Butler in a standing-room-only theater on Martha’s Vineyard, with a thoroughly integrated audience of well-educated black and white people, whose ages ranged ...

Israel has, for decades, created many versions of itself—Israel in politics, in history, in the United States, in books, in movies and on television. The real Israel, however, has been shrouded behind ...

On the day she turns nine years old, an Iranian girl must bid childhood farewell. Male playmates are banished; girlish dresses are exchanged for a loose-fitting chador to hide the curves the wearer ...

As if we hadn’t had enough disruptions in the Year That Cannot Be Named, 2021 started off with a deafening bang for the U.S. government, in the form of one of the worst data breaches on record. The ...

Tutu Alicante was studying in the United States when his sister, suffering from an ectopic pregnancy, was rushed to the hospital back home in Equatorial Guinea. It was 1996, a year after Mobil had ...

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