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Watch Don Lemon Go Full ‘We Didn’t Land on Plymouth Rock’ After CNN Welcomes Rick Santorum Back
I’m not sure if it was the countless killings of unarmed Black men, women and children by police or the coronavirus restrictions, but something changed in Don Lemon. The CNN host has gone from a passive, middle-of-the-road, “We’ve got to see both sides” kind of a guy to a baby Malcolm X, and I joked…
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Tornado Touches Down in Atlanta Area; 100 Million People Could Be at Risk as Severe Storms Headed Down South
A tornado–kind of like one the one that took Dorothy from her Kansas farm to Oz–touched down in the Atlanta area and severe weather is still threatening some 100 million people from “the southern Plains through the Mid-Atlantic.” According to CNN, “A tornado warning was issued at about 10:30 a.m. and lasted until 11:15 a.m.…
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Black Man Who Was Forced to Work Without Pay by White Boss Should Get $546,000 in Compensation, Court Rules
This may be one of the most horrific stories that The Root has ever reported. For 23 years, Bobby Paul Edwards, who owned the J&J Cafeteria in Conway, South Carolina, enslaved John Christopher Smith, an intellectually disabled Black man who Edwards beat and forced to work long hours for literally no pay. Smith worked 18…
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Tucker Carlson Calls Joy Reid 'The Race Lady.' Hopefully Reid Challenges Him to a Cage Fight
I don’t enjoy violence. In fact, after being forced to see months of killings of unarmed Black men, women and children shot and killed by police, I’m good if I never see another violent thing ever again. Except, I wouldn’t mind seeing Tucker Carlson get his ass beat by MSNBC host Joy Reid. Reid is,…
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In a Confession Letter, Matt Gaetz’s Friend Claims the Embattled Congressman Paid for Sex With Minor: Report
Welp, it looks like Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz better start working out so that he can fight off attackers in prison because he’s about to lose his job and go straight to the pokey if anything in his former friend’s letter is true. Joel Greenberg, a longtime associate of Gaetz, admitted in a letter that…
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‘Uncle Tim’ Hashtag Blocked on Twitter After Sen. Token Tim Scott Gave His Rebuttal to Biden’s Address to Congress
Here at The Root, we don’t do house negro shame. Sure, there are plenty of Black people who sit comfortably at the feet of white men waiting all day for a pat on the head and “good boy,” but we don’t call people out on it. OK, maybe we do but that was mostly Omarosa…
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No Matter What Happened in the Derek Chauvin Trial, the Former Cop Was Leaving in Handcuffs: Report
If the jury in the trial of Derek Chauvin had found the former Minneapolis cop who kneeled on George Floyd’s neck until he died not guilty or if a mistrial was called, the Department of Justice planned to arrest him and charge him with federal police-brutality violations. According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, federal prosecutors…
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OMG! I Love This Song: Rudy Giuliani's Apartment Searched in Federal Investigation
First, a prayer. Dear sweet 8 pound, 7 ounce baby Jesus, I see you. I see what you’re doing and I like it. Please continue my continuous streak of Ls on the SNKRS app (I know you are thinking about my wallet and not my happiness). Please look into making the McRib a regular offering…
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Idaho Wants to Pass Bill Making It Illegal for Schools to Teach About America’s Racist Past or Present
You know what white people hate more than Seinfeld’s ending? Admitting that America was and still is racist AF. So Idaho—which, let me say here and now that I’m not into sexual shaming, and I don’t know Ida or whether or not they are a ho, but they are definitely on some ho shit—wants to…
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Biden to Unveil Sweeping Childcare Plan to Congress, and Republicans Plan to Send Lone Black Senator as Tribute
On Wednesday night, President Joe Biden will address Congress and reportedly unveil a $1.8 trillion plan to aid social welfare and family assistance programs that will try and do the heavy job of lifting America out of poverty. The American Families Plan would look to invest some $200 billion in “universal prekindergarten and more than…
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Watch Don Lemon Go Full ‘We Didn’t Land on Plymouth Rock’ After CNN Welcomes Rick Santorum Back
I’m not sure if it was the countless killings of unarmed Black men, women and children by police or the coronavirus restrictions, but something changed in Don Lemon. The CNN host has gone from a passive, middle-of-the-road, “We’ve got to see both sides” kind of a guy to a baby Malcolm X, and I joked…
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Tornado Touches Down in Atlanta Area; 100 Million People Could Be at Risk as Severe Storms Headed Down South
A tornado–kind of like one the one that took Dorothy from her Kansas farm to Oz–touched down in the Atlanta area and severe weather is still threatening some 100 million people from “the southern Plains through the Mid-Atlantic.” According to CNN, “A tornado warning was issued at about 10:30 a.m. and lasted until 11:15 a.m.…
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Black Man Who Was Forced to Work Without Pay by White Boss Should Get $546,000 in Compensation, Court Rules
This may be one of the most horrific stories that The Root has ever reported. For 23 years, Bobby Paul Edwards, who owned the J&J Cafeteria in Conway, South Carolina, enslaved John Christopher Smith, an intellectually disabled Black man who Edwards beat and forced to work long hours for literally no pay. Smith worked 18…
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In a Confession Letter, Matt Gaetz’s Friend Claims the Embattled Congressman Paid for Sex With Minor: Report
Welp, it looks like Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz better start working out so that he can fight off attackers in prison because he’s about to lose his job and go straight to the pokey if anything in his former friend’s letter is true. Joel Greenberg, a longtime associate of Gaetz, admitted in a letter that…
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No Matter What Happened in the Derek Chauvin Trial, the Former Cop Was Leaving in Handcuffs: Report
If the jury in the trial of Derek Chauvin had found the former Minneapolis cop who kneeled on George Floyd’s neck until he died not guilty or if a mistrial was called, the Department of Justice planned to arrest him and charge him with federal police-brutality violations. According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, federal prosecutors…
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OMG! I Love This Song: Rudy Giuliani's Apartment Searched in Federal Investigation
First, a prayer. Dear sweet 8 pound, 7 ounce baby Jesus, I see you. I see what you’re doing and I like it. Please continue my continuous streak of Ls on the SNKRS app (I know you are thinking about my wallet and not my happiness). Please look into making the McRib a regular offering…
