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Cory Booker Goes Full ‘Rick James’ on Senate, Releases Brett Kavanaugh’s Confidential Emails
In a move reminiscent of Charlie Murphy’s “Rick James True Hollywood Story,” Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) asked Brett Kavanaugh: “What did the five fingers say to the face?” and slapped Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) squarely in the mouth before breaking Senate rules by releasing Kavanaugh’s confidential documents to the public. In the third day of…
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Cops Cuff Black Teen Riding With White Grandmother Because Someone Thought He Was Robbing Her
An 18-year-old Wisconsin man was detained by police officers, handcuffed and placed in a squad car for questioning after authorities were alerted to a black man robbing two older white women from the back seat of the white women’s car. He was coming home from church with his grandmother and her friend. According to the…
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Jasper Williams and the Stupidity of Respectability
There exists a piece of video with a quote I have been trying to find for years. I know it happened at the Reebok Grand Prix on May 31, 2008, because I was watching. I know the quote was made by sprinter Usain Bolt, who had just set a new world record. After the race,…
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Black Cops Tell National Police Organization: Nah, Bruh. We Support Kaepernick
One day after a national organization representing police groups across America called for its members to boycott Nike for its support of Colin Kaepernick, a group of black police officers responded by telling the apparel company that they will keep copping the new Nikes. On Tuesday, the National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO), a collection…
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There Was Another Mass Shooting This Weekend But No One Cares
“Black” is a magical word. Black is an adjective. Black is a noun. It is a verb, an adverb, pronoun, preposition … It is all the parts of speech in one. Yes, “black “ is a magical thing. In America, that simple word can render a thing invisible. It can make a whole human disappear…
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Tyler Perry Offers $200,000, Announces Lawsuit Over Missing Black Man
Within four months of each other, two men vanished into thin air. Both disappearances happened in Naples, Fla. Both men were last seen with the same sheriff’s deputy. No one knows what happened to either man. Movie and television mogul Tyler Perry wants some answers. USA Today reports that Perry and attorney Benjamin Crump announced…
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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…
