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Supreme Court Rules in Favor of White Jesus
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that protecting the white man’s God is more important than protecting the rights of actual human beings because—according to the highest court in America—Jesus has feelings, too. In a 7-2 ruling, the court ruled in favor of Masterpiece Cakeshop, a Colorado bakery that refused to sell a cake to…
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Valedictorian Is Cheered for Quoting Trump, Booed When He Reveals It’s Actually an Obama Quote
The audience at a high school in Kentucky was caught trying to make graduations great again when the valedictorian fooled the pro-Donald Trump crowd into applauding a quote from the collusion king, only to find out that the words actually belonged to Barack Obama. Like Taylor Swift music, Birkenstock stores and Trump’s vision of America,…
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Not All Cops: Unarmed Black Teen Not Shot and Killed by Police
Police unions, objective observers and whatever they call white people (I’m using “‘MAGA’ Yeezys” this week) often accuse the media of casting law enforcement officers in a negative light simply because some news outlets believe the public should know about police brutality and the disproportionate killing of black people. But The Root would like to…
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Young, Black and Progressive: Chokwe Antar Lumumba and Randall Woodfin Chop It Up in Birmingham, Ala.
What was billed as an afternoon with two brand-new young, progressive mayors recently elected to serve two of the blackest cities in America quickly turned into a perfect example of how new ideas, radical thinking and a new guard of black leadership are changing the political landscape for African-American voters. We should pitch this movie to…
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Stacey Abrams’ Sister Is Engaged to a Man Incarcerated 26 Years for a Rape and Robbery He Didn’t Commit
The story of Leslie’s fiance, Jimmie Gardner, is as extraordinary.
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: It’s a Hard Job, but Someone Has to Do It
Aside from Deputy Managing Editor Yesha Callahan, whose primary job is waking up at the crack of dawn to harass me about ledes and how long it takes me to write, most of the staff at The Root are usually busy doing multiple things at once, according to our readers. [Editor’s note: Some of us…
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The Sterling Brown Video Proves Once and for All That There Is No Such Thing as ‘Good Cops’
At 5 years old, I became a victim of excessive use of force when I was brutally attacked by Santa Claus. Perhaps it was my mother who told me this, but I distinctly remember believing as a child that Santa would blow pepper in your eyes if you didn’t go to sleep by a certain…
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Black Harvard Professor, Often Cited to Discredit Black Lives Matter, Accused of Sexual Misconduct
The Harvard professor whose false and misleading research is routinely cited by white people now says that a sexual-misconduct investigation by Harvard University and the state of Massachusetts is based on false and misleading evidence. For the sake of transparency, allow me to explain why I guzzle the nearest bottle of haterade whenever I hear…
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Chesterfield County, Va., Police Say ‘Facts Matter’ After Violent Arrest Video Goes Viral. Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Believe Them
Despite the fact that a viral video seems to show none of this, a 19-year-old was shocked by a Taser and taken to jail after Chesterfield County, Va., police officers say the teenager resisted arrest and assaulted an officer. Elkanah A. Odembo Jr. was charged Tuesday with assault on a law enforcement officer, defective equipment…
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Why It’s OK for Black People, but Not White People, to Use the N-Word, Explained (Again)
“Somehow, they believe that anything that doesn’t include them must automatically be anti-white.”
