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Michael Strahan is opening up about his earlier years in football and life. On Thursday (Sept. 16), the former NFL star-turned Good Morning America host shared a clip from his episode of Uninterrupted’s ESPN series More Than an Athlete. In the video, the 49-year-old reflects on his path from childhood …

Works that consider the implications of a life so intimately tied with technology: Your weekly guide to the best in books TOMASZ WIECH / AFP / Getty Klara and the Sun, a recent novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, follows a humanoid robot named Klara who is tasked with providing companionship to …

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A U.S. District Court Judge has handed HBCU student-athletes a small victory denying the NCAA’s motion to dismiss, in part ruling the claims by two former student-athletes can move forward. The case, filed last year, claims the NCAA’s Academic Performance Program (APP), designed to improve student-athlete performance, is racially discriminatory …

Photo: Roman Samborskyi (Shutterstock) An unapproved haircut might become an extremely expensive one; a Michigan father seeks one million dollars in financial restitution after an unapproved haircut by an employee at his daughter’s school garnered only a “reprimand” from district officials. As The Root first reported in April, Jimmy Hoffmeyer …

Charlotte Rutherford / Sony One of the great mysteries of our lifetime is how the banjo loop and fake drawl of Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” blew up into one of the biggest hits ever. The common explanations for its popularity just don’t suffice. Yes, Montero Lamar Hill is …

Lil Nas X has a message, and we’re all ears! Source link

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Diana Copeland worked alongside R. Kelly for 15 years as his executive assistant. Now as the disgraced singer is forced to relive accounts of his decades-long abuse allegations in a sex trafficking trial, Copeland is breaking her silence. Copeland testified against R. Kelly earlier this week and opened up in …

Photo: ERIN SCHAFF (Getty Images) When Clarence Thomas wasn’t working as a mute-ass puppet for former Justice Antonin Scalia, he literally was a real-life mute who was apparently attempting to break the Guinness record for being the Black man on the highest court who had absolutely nothing to say about …