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Tamir Rice Found Guilty of Being Young, Free and Black
Today a grand jury in Cleveland did what this system does. They put an exclamation point on the statement that black lives don’t matter. That black children do not matter. That being young, black and free is a crime punishable immediately by death. For over a year, there has been a chorus of people demanding…
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Bernie Sanders Is Right: Sandra Bland Would Be Alive Today if She Were a White Woman
By deciding not to return any indictments in the death of 28-year-old Sandra Bland late Monday night, a Texas grand jury did not just make a decision; it made a declaration. It declared that Sandra Bland’s life did not matter. It declared that even though state Trooper Brian Encinia pulled Bland over on July 10,…
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New Orleans’ Removal of Symbols Honoring Traitors and Domestic Terrorists Is Long Overdue
By a vote of 6-1, the New Orleans City Council decided Thursday to remove symbols honoring the Confederate States of America, a domestic terrorist group that existed in this country 1860-1865, and one that is still revered by many white Americans who wax nostalgic about a time when the Old South still lived. Though the…
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Holtzclaw Verdict Is Not a ‘Win’; It’s Fuel to Keep Fighting
It has taken me a few days to sift through my feelings about the 18 of 36 guilty verdicts handed down by an all-white jury to former Oklahoma City Police Officer Daniel Holtzclaw for the rapes and sexual assaults of seven black women and one black child. After over a year of screaming his name…
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Former Oklahoma City Officer Daniel Holtzclaw Found Guilty on 18 of 36 Charges, Faces 263 Years in Prison
After more than 45 hours of deliberations over the course of four days, an Oklahoma City jury has found former Oklahoma City Police Officer Daniel Holtzclaw guilty of 18 of the 36 charges against him. As previously reported by The Root, Holtzclaw was arrested last August amid accusations that he had raped 12 black women…
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True Stories: Positive Black Women
Though there has been some progress in the fight against HIV and AIDS, the situation is still a dire one for black America. The battle to eradicate the stigma that is attached to the illness continues to be an uphill one. In the United States, African Americans represent approximately 13 percent of the U.S. population but…
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From Daniel Holtzclaw to R. Kelly: For Black Girls When Their (Alleged) Rapes Are Not Enough
Like most black people in the U.S. with a love of soul music, nostalgia, Erykah Badu and us, I watched the 2015 Soul Train Awards Sunday night. There was Babyface, the career-maker, along with Tevin Campbell, Cameo (Cameo!), Boys II Men, Jill Scott and just so much legendary black star power, it felt like a…
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Donald Trump Is as American as the KKK
If a mad scientist locked himself in a laboratory and threw racism, sexism, Islamophobia, xenophobia, imperialism, classism, elitism and delusions of grandeur into a boiling cauldron, the result would be Donald John Trump. Donald Trump is America. In so many ways, he is what this white supremacist nation clings to with slippery fingers in last-ditch…
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There Is Justice for 6-Year-Old Jeremy Mardis; There Should Be Justice for Black Children, Too
Jeremy Mardis did not deserve to die. I hesitated to write this piece because I did not want to politicize the 6-year-old’s death. I did not want to think about the five bullets that pierced his head and chest as he sat next to his father, Christopher Few, as Marksville, La., Marshals Norris Greenhouse Jr.…
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‘Gentler War on Drugs’ for Whites Is a ‘Smack’ in Black America’s Face [Retracted]
RETRACTED (6/12/18): This story has been removed because we have discovered it was in breach of our editorial standards. If you’d like to know more, you can read an editor’s note here. A cached version of the story is available here for transparency.
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