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The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Just Published the Worst Editorial You’ll Read in 2018
If you are the type of person who pays attention to this sort of thing, you might have noticed that Pittsburgh is often lauded nationally for being an attractive place to live. The Economist named it America’s Most Livable City in 2014. A writer for MTV referred to it as the “new Brooklyn.” The Washington…
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Video Emerges of Manager of Pittsburgh Pizza Chain Brutally Beating Black Woman in Store
Video footage surfaced Friday evening of a black woman inside Pizza Milano—a popular Pittsburgh-area pizza chain— being pushed, restrained, head-butted and tackled by a manager of the store, who then, while on top of her, slammed her head repeatedly into the floor. (Warning: The video is very graphic and disturbing.) Equally disturbing is that Pizza…
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Maybe My Ancestors Were Kings and Queens, but More Than Likely They Were Goat Herders … and That’s Fine!
I get it, I get it, I get it, I get it. No, I really do get it. I get the hell out of it. I get the shit out of it. I get it so much it hurts. And I don’t get everything. Shit, I don’t even get most things. For instance, I don’t…
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Will ‘Shithole Countries’ Be Enough for People to Finally Admit That Donald Trump Is Racist?
The answer, of course, is no. And by “no” I mean “LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL FUCK NO. THAT SHIT AIN’T EVER GONNA HAPPEN. THESE DUDES COULD WATCH DONALD TRUMP INSCRIBE THE FIRST CHAPTER OF MEIN KAMPF ON MIKE PENCE’S ASS CHEEKS AND THEY’D STILL BE LIKE, ‘WELL, THE PRESIDENT IS JUST VERY DOGMATIC ABOUT GERMAN CALLIGRAPHY.’” THESE FECKLESS…
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Serena Williams’ Doctors (Finally) Listened to Her and Saved Her Life. My Mom Wasn’t As Lucky
Even when removing race from the equation—you can’t and you shouldn’t, but let’s try for a moment anyway—Serena Williams’ story about having to convince her doctors that something life-threatening was potentially happening to her is absurd. You’d think that, if medical professionals would trust any opinion on something not feeling quite right, it would be…
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In Defense of Following and Rooting for Players Instead of Teams
It didn’t take much convincing for me to agree with my dad’s plan—that it was in my best interest to leave Sterrett Classical Academy in the city and transfer to St. Bartholomew (a private Catholic school in the suburbs with a stellar academic and athletic reputation) and repeat the sixth grade when making the switch.…
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Uncle Denzel Reading a Takeout Menu During the Golden Globes Is the Blackest Thing That Ever Happened This Week
Denzel Washington is a living icon—a man so ensconced in our collective cultural consciousness that even his voice, his walk and his facial expressions are considered independent sentient beings. He was at the Golden Globes last night as his friend Oprah Winfrey received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement—an honor he also received…
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Tucker Carlson Is Right. I Hate White People, and Here Are 20 Things I Do to Keep That Hate Alive
Yes, it’s true. Tucker Carlson is right. I hate white people. This secret was revealed earlier this week when Carlson’s show had a segment on “Major Websites Running Bigoted Articles” and chose to spotlight The Root. And in that spotlight, each of the articles he referenced as examples of this hate was an article I…
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CNN Debuts American Woman Documentary Series … Which Has the Same Name, Theme and Aesthetic as a Series Already Created by a Black Woman
On Wednesday afternoon, I received a text message from creative director and photographer Sarah Huny Young linking me to a new CNN documentary series called American Woman. Created by Brooke Baldwin and displayed as a digital interactive, it features trailblazing women who have “shattered glass ceilings, whether in music, fashion or film,” and includes Ava…
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Shit Bougie Black People Love: 34. Making and Sharing Their Plans for the Black Panther Premiere
Perhaps, while in Slack or while looking at your Google calendar today, you noticed that an unusual percentage of the bougie black people you happen to work with are taking vacation days on Feb. 16. (And by “an unusual percentage of the bougie black people you happen to work with are taking vacation days on…
