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Trump Comes for John Legend and 'Filthy Mouthed Wife' Chrissy Teigen on Twitter; Ends Up With a New Nickname We Can All Agree On
I think it goes without saying that there’s a lot of bad shit happening in the world right now: the Bahamas and the Carolinas continue to recover from the havoc wreaked by Hurricane Dorian, yet another reminder of the coming climate apocalypse; mass shootings are a regular feature of America life and the global economy…
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Black Rag Dolls Designed to Be Abused Pulled From Store Shelves in New Jersey
Black rag dolls featuring instructions on how to abuse them were removed from the shelves of One Dollar Zone stores in New Jersey after customers and a state assemblywoman called the dolls racist. The president of One Dollar Zone said roughly 1,000 of the dolls—called the “Feel Better Doll”—were removed from three stores in New…
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Ben Carr, Stepfather of Eric Garner, Dies at Daughter’s Wedding
Ben Carr, the stepfather of Eric Garner—the Staten Island man who was killed after being placed in a banned chokehold by an NYPD officer—died Friday in Jamaica during his daughter’s wedding, according to reports. PIX 11 was the first to report that Carr had “a medical emergency while attending Elisha Flagg-Garner’s—Eric’s sister—wedding.” He later died…
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#WeAreBaltimore: Residents, Mayor, Even the City's Newspaper Clap Back at Trump After Vile, Racist Tweets
After the president labeled Baltimore “a very dangerous & filthy place” that is “rat and rodent infested mess” and where “no human being would want to live,” the residents of Charm City and many others refused to let that slander lie and came to the city’s defense. This all started after the president dropped a…
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President Who Can’t Read Wants Obama's Book Deal Investigated
Man, the president must be really pressed to come up with this doozy. On Wednesday, former special counsel Robert Mueller testified before the House Judiciary Committee and the House Intelligence Committee about the Russian investigation, which reignited impeachment discussions among Democrats. Clearly, this annoyed the president, because he called reporters into the Oval Office on…
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Judge Dismisses MAGA Hat-Wearing Teen's $250M Lawsuit Against the Washington Post
Remember Nicholas Sandmann, the MAGA hat-wearing teen from Kentucky’s Covington Catholic School who stood toe to toe with a Native American elder during a protest in Washington, D.C.? (I know, it seems like ages ago, but this just happened in January!) Well, after videos of that staredown went viral, the Washington Post interviewed the elder…
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The President Was Up Early Rage Tweeting About Rep. Elijah Cummings [Updated]
President Petty, apparently tired of directing racist tweets toward the four congresswomen known as “the Squad,” found a new target to point his Twitter fingers at this morning. Just after 7 a.m. on Saturday, President Trump dropped several tweets about Rep. Elijah Cummings, calling the Maryland Democrat a “brutal bully”(ain’t that the pot…!) whose district—which…
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Emmett Till Memorial Will Now Be Bulletproof
So it has come to this. Days after a photo surfaced showing three white frat boys with guns posing in front of a bullet-ridden historic marker to Emmett Till, the commission that maintains the memorial sign plan to replace it with one that is bulletproof, according to CNN. The Emmett Till Memorial Commission had already…
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Many Americans Believe Fake News Is a Bigger Problem Than Racism, New Poll Finds
Before an orange-tinged carnival barker began waging a war with the news media and Russian troll farms began spewing misinformation across social media to help said carnival barker ascend to the White House, the quality of news probably ranked fairly low among the things most Americans typically worried about. But a recent Pew Research poll…
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Perfect 10: It's Time for Nominations to The Root 100, Which Marks Its 10th Anniversary This Year, and We Are Psyched!
We here at The Root always look forward to The Root 100, our annual list celebrating the best and brightest in the fields of social justice, politics, entertainment, sports, media, the arts, science/technology and business. But we’re really looking forward to this year’s list with an extra level of anticipation. This year will mark the…
