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(The Root) — From your cousin Leroy to the White House, it seems like everybody is on Vine, Twitter’s crazy-popular video-sharing app. Everybody, that is, except for Android users — until now. Twitter announced yesterday that Vine for Android is now available. Now, oh humble Samsung Galaxy user, you, too, can make and share six-second…

(The Root) — The recent discovery of three kidnapped women in Cleveland has left followers of the story wondering what could have been done to rescue them sooner. When Amanda Berry was kidnapped 10 years ago, social media was still in its infant stages, but now it is emerging as a viable tool in locating…

(The Root) — A recent study by the College Republican National Committee shows that young voters find the Grand Old Party particularly unappealing. According to the 95-page study, entitled “Grand Old Party for a Brand New Generation,” voters younger than 30 are critical of the Republican stance on contraceptive rights and marriage equality. They used…

(The Root) — Thanks to some intrepid gossip gatherers, we knew well in advance that Rep. John Boehner’s daughter was marrying a black man, but Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona caught us all off guard when he Instagrammed this picture of his son and his new wife, who appears to be a woman of…

(The Root) — A 25-year-old man known to the cyberworld as Peejet is taking the Internet by storm with his Instagram account. His feed features pictures of celebrity scenes that he has hilariously photoshopped himself into. More than 73,000 followers yuk it up over pictures of Peejet spotting Drake at the gym, photobombing Halle Berry…

(The Root) — It’s not rare that popular Twitter and Tumblr accounts soon graduate to bookstore shelves and, in some cases, the small screen. But how does it happen? Is it as easy as waking up to an offer in your email inbox one day? Yes — and no. With more than 200,000 followers, the…

(The Root) — While you were showing your Instagram followers your new pair of plaid socks, Oprah Winfrey was quietly rubbing your nose in something most of us have never seen in person before: a Harvard degree. Winfrey was awarded an honorary degree from the Ivy League institution, and Instagrammed it, on Thursday. I’d imagine…

(The Root) — Mashable, a go-to website for news about innovation in social media and the digital world, is working with other organizations to foster global relationships to bring about social change via the Internet. The website has linked with the United Nations Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the UNDP, the 92Y and…

(The Root) — As much as I loved reading it, Akoto Ofori-Atta‘s piece “19 Things Every HBCU Grad Knows” made me very uncomfortable. It’s a feeling that engulfs me whenever I hear anyone look back fondly on their collegiate years, but heavily so when the school in question is an HBCU. This is mostly because…

(The Root) — Since its inception, NPR’s CodeSwitch blog has facilitated some very engrossing, enlightening discussions about race on Twitter. A recent conversation, inspired by a post on AskReddit, earned a bevy of responses. CodeSwitch asked its Twitter followers, “What’s the most ridiculous question you’ve been asked (about race)?” Using the hashtag #TheyAsked, hundreds of…