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New White House Initiatives Are Great for Girls but Don’t Compare to My Brother’s Keeper
Blink and you would have missed it. Lost in much of the coverage of the Paris attacks, student protests and police shootings, more than a week ago, the White House announced a new series of initiatives meant to help women and girls of color. There was a daylong forum for it, a forum focused on…
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Chicago’s Black Youth to Mobilize Over Video Release in Police Shooting Death of Laquan McDonald
Organizer Charlene Carruthers has no plans to watch the latest video showing a police shooting death of yet another black person. She won’t watch it. She doesn’t need to watch it. She already knows what this is about. “I don’t need to watch a video to know how the Chicago Police Department treats black people,”…
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Black Lives Matter Backlash Gets Real
In the Black Lives Matter movement, the only “weapons” protesters wield are their mouths, but you wouldn’t know that from the way the activists and organizers are being spoken about by some in the press. Suddenly, Fox News pundits are talking as if Black Lives Matter is responsible for a recent shooting of a police officer…
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The 10 Things Black People Can’t Do
When I was 21, a police officer at the scene of a fire cursed me out. It didn’t matter that I was there with a camera crew and working for a TV station in St. Louis. It didn’t matter that I was absolutely nowhere near the fire (I was standing across the street). He thought…
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Shaun King, Trolling Conservatives and the Reverse Paper-Bag Test
It’s hard to write about something you know is stupid. You try to come up with words. Something fancy or deep. Profundity, be mine! But the only thing you want to say is, “This is dumb, so dumb.” Right now, on the Internet, some conservatives are trying to digitally relitigate Plessy v. Ferguson because it…
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#BlackLivesMatter to Clinton, Other Presidential Candidates: Get a Real Analysis on Race
When running for president, candidates are expected to be well-versed in many things: international relations, economics, education policy, immigration. But what about race? Daunasia Yancey and Julius Jones, both activists with the Black Lives Matter movement, think it’s time for candidates to brush up on their racial analysis because the issues of black people are…
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The 5 Biggest Challenges Facing #BlackLivesMatter
Editor’s note: When it comes to keeping a movement going, you have to have a good understanding of what is getting in your way. In the final installment of the series After the Fire, The Root looks at what challenges this current social-justice movement is facing and what the future may hold. After the Fire was…
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Black Voters Matter
Editor’s note: In the third installment of the four-part series After the Fire, The Root looks at how the social-justice movement—on- and offline—is influencing the presidential race for 2016. Did your candidate say, “Black lives matter”? After the Fire was reported and written by Associate Editor Danielle C. Belton. Illustration by Jada Prather. Read Part 1…
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Leaderless or Leader-ful?
Editor’s note: In the second installment of the four-part series After the Fire, The Root looks at the structure of this current movement, a movement where anyone can be the boss, yet nobody is the boss. After the Fire was reported and written by Associate Editor Danielle C. Belton. Illustration by Jada Prather. Read Part 1.…
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How to Burn What Can’t Catch Fire
Editor’s note: In the four-part series After the Fire, The Root looks at the growing social-justice movement, from traditional players to #BlackLivesMatter, examining where the movement has been, where it is now and where it’s going. After the Fire was reported and written by Associate Editor Danielle C. Belton. Illustration by Jada Prather. Something every…
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