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Billboard breaks down the trend of hip-hop fans holding MCs accountable for inappropriate lyrics and ads, versus the days of C. Delores Tucker and gangsta rap when the accusations came from outside of the hip-hop community. The women who took Rick Ross down — for a lyric about drugging a girl and “enjoying” her — [...]

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A hostage situation continues in Trenton, N.J., as police negotiate with a man who NBC News reports may have killed the mother of their four children, along with one of their kids. He still holding the remaining three children hostage in their apartment. Negotiations continued in the standoff Saturday said Trenton Police spokesman Lt. Steve [...]

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After the singer sends a cryptic tweet about Rihanna, users have a little fun. Article source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheRootRssFeed/~3/vcIxW61pxOU/root-salutes-our-moms

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In a piece for the Huffington Post, White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett says that we’ve made great progress on this issue, but we still have a long way to go. Yesterday, I was honored to attend the 7th Annual Pearls of Purpose Gala hosted by FAIRgirls. FAIR stands for Free, Aware, Inspired, and Restored, [...]

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Tiffany Aliche, writing at the Huffington Post, highlights everyday parenting messages that can be translated into financial advice. Lesson 1) Clean-Up Your Mess:  [Whose] mother hasn’t chastised them about cleaning up their room? Many of us with cluttered rooms as kids, are now money-messy adults. We have no budget, no system for saving or paying [...]

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In remarks touting the health care legislation’s benefits for women and families, the president warned against misinformation.  Article source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheRootRssFeed/~3/is3vubkHIh4/celeb-moms-turned-health-advocates

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(The Root) — Three years after her death, citizens of Twitter are apparently still mourning the loss of legendary singer and actress Lena Horne. Horne began her career as a dancer at the famous Cotton Club in Harlem. From there she would become a famous actress, singer and nightclub performer. Later in life she became [...]

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(The Root) — Per usual, ABC’s Scandal had everyone on Twitter in a tizzy last night. With one more episode left in this season, the suspense is building and tensions were running high as everyone finally found out the identity of the mole. Scandal’s cast was watching and tweeting along with the rest of the [...]

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(The Root) — In an event timed to coincide with this weekend’s Mother’s Day holiday, President Obama delivered remarks on Friday touting the benefits of the Affordable Care Act while joined onstage by women and families who had stories about how they’d benefited from the health care legislation, which was signed into law just over [...]

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(The Root) — If Barack Obama is truly concerned with how history will judge his presidency, he will resist the intensifying pressure to intervene militarily in Syria’s horrendous civil war. Instead, he should complete the planned withdrawal of most U.S. forces from Afghanistan and refocus our national energy on reinvigorating the still-shaky domestic economy during [...]

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