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Federal Court Says It’s Totally Not Racist to Ban Dreadlocks at Work
A federal appeals court ruled that employers who ban dreadlocks in the workplace are not engaging in racial discrimination, according to the Huffington Post. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 3-0 last week to uphold a lower court’s dismissal of a 2013 lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of Chastity…
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10 Things We Can’t Wait to See in the New TV Season
Every year around this time, the big four broadcast networks—ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox (I don’t count the CW, since it dropped Girlfriends)—make a big deal of trotting out their new shows for the fall TV season. And while many network executives seem to have gotten the memo about diversity—except, apparently, CBS, whose president has…
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The 7 Most Outrageous and Racist Acts Found in DOJ’s Report on Baltimore Police Department
The Department of Justice’s scathing report on the Baltimore Police Department spelled out in exacting detail how the BPD violated the constitutional rights of black residents through a series of brutal and abusive tactics that basically had a community under siege. Perusing the pages of the report is like reading some bizarro crime novel, where…
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MLK’s Daughter Calls Out Trump for His 2nd Amendment Comments
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who seems to be plagued by a permanent case of foot-in-mouth disease, dropped another doozy Tuesday in Wilmington, N.C. During a campaign speech, Trump suggested that if Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton were to win, she would appoint Supreme Court justices who would abolish the Second Amendment (Clinton has never…
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Former NFL Coach Dennis Green Dies at 67
Former NFL coach Dennis Green, who led the Minnesota Vikings and Arizona Cardinals over 13 seasons, died Thursday night from complications of cardiac arrest, according to ESPN. He was 67. In 10 seasons with the Vikings, he led the team to eight playoff appearances and reached the NFC Championship Game twice, in 1998 and 2000.…
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The 8 Wokest White People We Know
#Woke is having a moment. As The Root contributor Lawrence Ware notes, because of police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement, “The masses of black folks who were lulled to sleep by economic opportunity have now awoken to the fact that race is, and will remain, a central part of the black experience.” But…
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Prince Stopped Cursing in His Music Because of Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali, who died Friday, was one of the most inspirational figures in the world, both inside and out of the boxing ring. His words and deeds were a call to action for many, but it was the words he didn’t use that led Prince to stop cursing in his music. The artist known for some of…
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Prince Wrote a Slow Jam About Donald Trump and It Is Glorious
We all know that Prince was a brilliant songwriter who could make anything—from casual sex to partying down before the nuclear apocalypse—sound cool. That skill even applies to loathsome politicians like Donald Trump. Among the many musical treasures he left us is a song called “Donald Trump (Black Version),” which he penned for R&B group…
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No Jail Time for Ex-NYPD Officer Who Killed Akai Gurley; Instead, He’ll Serve 800 Hours of Community Service
Peter Liang, the former New York City police officer who was convicted of manslaughter in the 2014 shooting death of Akai Gurley, was sentenced Tuesday to five years’ probation and 800 hours of community service, according to the New York Post. The judge in the case, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun, also reduced the…
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Spirit Awards Honor Black Actors, 1st Transgender Woman
Yo, Academy Awards, this is how it’s done. At Saturday night’s Film Independent Spirit Awards, which recognize the best in indie films, three of the four acting awards went to black people, with Beasts of No Nation stars Abraham Attah (Best Male Lead) and Idris Elba (Best Supporting Male) winning alongside Tangerine breakout Mya Taylor (Best Supporting…
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