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Second Black Officer Dies in Aftermath of Deadly South Carolina Mass Shooting
A South Carolina woman became the second fatality of the deadly shootout that claimed the life of police officer Terrance Carraway and wounded six other officers in an early October ambush-style mass shooting According to the State, Florence County, S.C., deputy Farrah B. Turner, 37, succumbed to her injuries on Tuesday following the attack by…
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Why They Kneel: New York City and Atlanta Prove Everything You Know About Jim Crow Is Wrong
To examine the injustice and inequality that prompted some NFL players to protest during the national anthem, each week, for the remainder of the NFL season, The Root will explore the data behind racial disparities in the two cities represented in the National Football League’s premiere matchup—Monday Night Football. Tonight, the New York Giants travel…
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Cops Sexually Assault At Least 100 Women Every Year and No One Talks About It
When discussing America’s police state, we often talk about “black bodies.” The conversation is peppered with words like “brutality” and “police violence.” But no one talks about another brutal act of violence committed by law enforcement figures. We have known about it for years but have mostly overlooked it. Everyone—including this writer—has the information but…
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Actually, No One Knows Anything About Voter Suppression in Georgia
We really need to stop pushing this narrative that Georgia is trying to prevent 107,000 people from voting. Sure, Republican Brian Kemp is Georgia’s secretary of state and is currently running against Democrat Stacey Abrams, who, if elected would become the first black governor is the history of the United States. And, yes, as the…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Killing Me Softly
Today’s mailbag is the longest we’ve ever published. But it all relates to one subject: The tone and tenor of The Root’s content. So let us begin. This first series of tweets relate to the fact that writers at The Root often use nicknames for white women and men who call the police on black…
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It Turns Out, Apartment Patty Has a Black Husband
As The Root was conducting our ongoing scientific research into how 911 became the technical support number for whiteness, our forensic investigative team, led by recent North Wakanda Higher Institute of Technology and Education (NoWHITE) Ph.D. graduate Dr. Shuri T’Keisha Harriot, uncovered some disturbing information about one of the recent standouts on the white women…
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NBC, What Is You Doing? The Today Show Airs a White Supremacist Infomercial
As America impatiently endures a white supremacist president; as hate crimes become more prevalent; as our government disappears the children of immigrants into the ether as if we have been teleported into some surreal anti-immigrant David Copperfield nightmare … NBC’s Today Show thought this might be the perfect time for their 4.29 million viewers to…
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Today Is National Black Poetry Day. Here’s a Totally Biased List of 10 Black Poems You Should Hear
Today is national black poetry day and I am, among many things, a black poet. I could link to Maya Angelou’s “Phenomenal Woman” or some other literary poets, but there are these things called books that you should totally check out. And because The Root’s Social Media Editor Corey Townsend hates spoken word poetry, I…
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Georgia Police Chief Defends Arrest of 12-Year-Old Selling Mixtapes at the Mall
A Cobb County police chief defended the actions of a brave police officer who heroically apprehended a 12-year-old black boy after the child criminal curiously assumed it was OK to sell stuff at a place where people go to buy stuff. WSB-TV reports that Cobb County, Georgia’s police chief Michael Register said the officer who arrested…
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Cheaters Never Win … Except When Republicans Suppress The Black Vote
“You wanna know why I left the Republican Party as it exists today? Here it is; this was the last straw: I was in the closed Senate Republican Caucus when the final round of multiple Voter ID bills were being discussed. A handful of the GOP Senators were giddy about the ramifications and literally singled…
