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Millions of Black Voters Are Being Purged From Voter Rolls, Often Illegally: Report
As the end of Barack Obama’s presidency grew closer, election officials began preparing for the next election. Instead of strengthening the security of voting machines and making voting more accessible to citizens, states did the exact opposite. But they didn’t just make it harder to vote. For hundreds of thousands of registered, eligible voters across…
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School Bans Durags Because They Turn Black Boys Into Bald-Headed Gangbangers
A Massachusetts charter school has partially reversed its ban on durags after students convinced administrators of the rule’s unfairness, successfully arguing that the head covering isn’t a gateway drug that leads to gang-banging or even worse—male pattern baldness. According to the Daily Item, Kipp Academy Lynn Collegiate School had been issuing in-school suspensions to black…
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How the Republican Party Became The Party of Racism
Here’s a joke: What’s the difference between a Klan rally and a Republican Convention? Answer: The dress code. Here’s another one: How white is the Republican Party? According to Pew Research, 83 percent of the registered voters who identify as Republican are non-Hispanic whites. The Republican Party is whiter than Tilda Swinton riding a polar…
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Woman Who Called Police on 2 Black Yale Students Says She's 'Done Absolutely Nothing Wrong' in Whitest Tweets Ever
Marking a record-breaking technological accomplishment, the white woman who called the police on a black woman sleeping in a common room in a Yale dormitory became the first person ever to tweet white tears when she took to Twitter on Wednesday to lament the fact that she has become a victim of her own Beckydom.…
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Teenager Loses Job After Mistaking a Text From His Boss for a 'Dick Appointment'
After replying to an unknown number with a joking rejoinder about his penis’ busy agenda, a Chicago teenager found himself unemployed, embarrassed but fortunately free enough to attend future unscheduled sex sessions. Cory Hrobowski was forced to resign from his job at a Chicago design firm Wednesday after discussing the “terms of his employment” with…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: The Seinfeld of Mailbags
Yesha’s back, which means I have to sit here and write an extended lede. Sometimes I feel like Yesha’s just being mean to me. I bet she doesn’t even read these intros. I could probably ramble on about anything and she would just check to see if there were the requisite amount of words to…
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'Stop Fingering Me Though, Bruh!' Cop Sued For Turning Police Pat-Down Into Prostate Exam
A Washington, D.C., resident has filed a lawsuit against a Metropolitan DC police officer alleging that the cop violated this citizen’s constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure during an impromptu stop, frisk and rectal examination. According to court documents filed on behalf of M.B. Cottingham by the American Civil Liberties Union, Cottingham was celebrating…
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Illinois Cops Smash Car Window, Break Hand and Tase Passengers in Video of Traffic Stop
Law enforcement officials in Joliet, Ill., say they are in the “early stages” of investigating a traffic stop a that resulted in a broken hand, smashed car windows, a seemingly brutal beating, a tasering and a collection of viral videos that documented it all. Twenty-one-year-old Milton Travis was headed home in his silver Chevrolet Malibu…
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White People Are Right: They Built This Country
America is angry. Conservatives are mad for the same reasons they wanted to oust Obama, Muslims, immigrants and anyone who doesn’t support the Russia-fellating, rust-colored dotard in chief: They want their county back. Progressives believe Trump is destroying “their country” and the only thing that can save us are safety pins, pink pussy hats or…
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What Is the Chicago Police Department Hiding? New Questions Surface Regarding Harith Augustus' Death
In an attempt to calm the ongoing outrage surrounding the shooting of Harith Augustus, on Sunday the Chicago Police Department released a portion of footage captured by body-worn cameras of the deadly incident. Instead of holding the CPD’s feet to the fire and asking more pointed questions, most of the media immediately accepted the one-sided…
