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Video Surfaces of Odell Beckham Jr. at What Was Definitely Not a Marijuana-Cocaine-Sex-Pizza Party
A short video is making the rounds on the internet of Odell Beckham Jr. checking every box on the “How I Imagine Millionaire Superstars Party in Private” list as he … OK, I don’t want to be sued here, so I will use carefully worded language: In the three-second clip, a man who appears to…
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The Hotepocalypse Is Upon Us! Tariq Nasheed Goes Full Sisqo
Alert! Alert! Ladies and gentlemen, the Western Hemisphere’s Association of Tragedy, Dumpster Fires and Unbelievably Crazy Catastrophes (WHATDFUCC) interrupts your Friday-night festivities to announce that the body of one of the country’s foremost Hotepologists has been possessed by what appears to be the soul of a joint collaboration between the spirit of Montell Jordan’s “This…
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Washington State Changes 30-Year-Old Law That Only Convicted Killer Cops if They Were Evil … Wait, What?
Between 2005 and 2014, police in the state of Washington killed more than 200 of their fellow citizens. Some of the deaths were deemed “justifiable,” but many crossed the boundaries of what anyone would consider “reasonable.” There was a case where police shot a drunken man through his rear window and another where they shot…
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Cop Kicks Black Girls Out of Theater for ‘Acting Like Animals,’ Arrests Woman for Calling Him Out
A Pennsylvania woman was arrested for the egregious crime of standing up for a group of black girls after she filmed a police officer kicking a group of young black girls out of a movie-theater arcade in North Versailles, Pa., telling them that they were “acting like animals.” On Thursday morning, a Facebook user named…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Sticks and Stones
Welcome back to the Friday Clapback Mailbag: You already know what this is, so don’t be surprised by the collection of tweets, emails and DMs we receive from people who read The Root. It’s part of the job. From: GregTo: Michael HarriotSubject: No Subject Michael, I read your satire piece about the “racist” ( according…
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The NFL Wants Black Bodies … Not Black People
The National Football League’s annual trade carousel has officially reached top speed, and with it, the owners and general managers of America’s most watched sporting league are quietly instituting a new directive to its black players: “Shut the fuck up.” Across the NFL, teams are purging from their rosters black players considered to be extremely…
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Why Armed Teachers Means Dead Black Students, Explained
I’m sorry. I was keeping an eye on Florida’s House of Representatives all day. House members passed a school-safety/gun control bill and sent it to the governor for his signature. I hear you, but this bill will probably mean more dead black kids. This is Florida, man. You can buy a boa constrictor at a…
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The Geek Squad Is Dry Snitching on Its Customers to the FBI: Report
The Volkswagen-driving nerds who promised to remove the virus from your computer and have it back by Friday are also skilled in the art of unmoisturized tattling: Newly uncovered documents show how Best Buy’s Geek Squad has been working undercover in the FBI’s Department of Dry Snitching for a decade at the very least. The…
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Someone Thought It Would Be Hilarious to Put the N-Word on a Theater’s Black Panther Sign
One of America’s finest warriors who protect our freedoms by placing their lives on the line for you and me apparently conjured up the ingenious idea that changing the sign on a movie theater showing Black Panther to “Phat Black Nigger” would be a priceless prank. It was not. According to a Facebook post from…
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The Richest Black People in the World, Ranked
Every year Forbes releases its annual ranking of the world’s billionaires, and this year, like every year, I woke up, checked the list of the richest people in the world and decided I’d better go to work. Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos sits atop the list, passing Bill Gates, which makes sense because if you’re reading this…
