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Woman Who Claimed She Was Kidnapped and Robbed by Black Men Was Lying to Get Out of a Debt: Police
Instead of paying two subcontractors the money she owed, a California woman concocted an elaborate tale about being abducted, beaten and robbed by two black men, according to law enforcement officials investigating the incident. According to an initial report by the Fresno Bee, On Saturday, police in Fresno, Calif., began frantically searching for suspects after…
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Billionaire BET Founder Bob Johnson Wasn't Allowed to Check In at Florida Hotel
A Florida resort helped America’s first black billionaire set a new world record when they assisted him with becoming the first black person to ask for the police to be called on himself after the luxury hotel denied him entry because he was black wearing sunglasses. On Aug. 24, in an attempt to stop the…
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Kansas Man Sues After Spending 17 Years in Prison for Crime Committed by Look-Alike
For 17 years Richard Anthony Jones insisted he was falsely imprisoned man but no one believed him. Even though there were no fingerprints, DNA evidence and he presented a solid alibi at his trial, Jones was convicted in 1999 for snatching a woman’s purse in a Roeland, Kan., Wal Mart parking lot and sentenced to…
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The Root's 2018 Cookout Awards
Giving honor to the grillmasters, the Kool-Aid stirrers and even the people whose cooking skills are so deficient that they were only asked to bring cups and napkins, I bring you greetings from the Harriot family cookout where Aunt Marvell is our potato salad-maker. As Labor Day draws near, it also signals the official end…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Farewell to the Queen
Today’s clapback is dedicated to the memory of a real diva and a true Queen. But despite this overwhelming sadness, I know you will be in a better place. In lieu of tears, I thought it would be more appropriate to celebrate you by remaking an old classic that I sometimes sing to myself when…
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Apparently, Ron DeSantis and Racist Republicans Love White Facebook
As the great physicist, mathematician and (I’m pretty sure this is correct) the first person to stuff figs inside of cookies, Sir Isaac Newton, proclaimed in his third law of motion: “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” While the only thing I know about quantum mechanics is the early ’90’s TV…
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Holding History Hostage: One Family’s Quiet Attempt to Erase Their Father’s Part in Emmett Till’s Story
If there was ever an inverse example of a Confederate monument, it might be the Lorraine, the Memphis motel where Martin Luther King, the most famous leader of the civil rights movement, was struck down on a balcony. Or maybe it is the 16th Street Baptist Church, the Birmingham, Ala., house of worship where four…
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Failed Ferguson, Mo., Prosecutor Bob McCulloch Headlined a Conference for District Attorneys. It Did Not Go Well
Nearly four years after failing to indict Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown Jr., a black man; only days after losing his re-election bid to Wesley Bell, a black man; an Oregon organization thought St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch would be the perfect person to headline its annual conference of district…
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An Open Letter From Harriet Tubman Asking You to Keep Her Name Out Your Mouth
Hey y’all, I was just chilling in the great cookout in the sky playing spades with Sojourner about to run a dime on Frederick Douglass and Richard Pryor when my Google Alert went off. (We have pretty good wi-fi up here.) Once again I heard someone down there mention my name, comparing themselves to me.…
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Men Like Rev. Alexander Santora Are What's Wrong With White People
“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I would wish that you were cold or hot. But because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. – Revelation 3:15, 16. text On April 12, 1963, after being arrested for coordinating marches to end…
