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Forbes’ 10 Cities Where African Americans Are Doing the Best Economically Are All in the South
When Forbes began its annual ranking of the places where black people are doing the best economically, many people probably assumed that the list would be filled with places in the North and the West, culminating in the city where residents are required to own at least one pair of Timberlands and everyone’s last name…
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Watch: Black Colleges in the Age of Trump Chronicles Donald Trump’s Treatment of HBCUs
When Stanley Nelson agreed to discuss his new op-ed documentary on HBCUs’ strained relationship with the Trump administration, I struggled to find the terms to describe him. Simply calling Nelson a “filmmaker” seemed inadequate. Referring to him as the premier documentarian of the black experience seemed a little hyperbolic (not to mention that it contained…
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Bootleg Booty-Injection Killer Dies In Jail
The woman convicted of the “depraved heart” murder of another woman after a black market silicone butt implant has died in jail, less than three-and-a-half years into her life sentence. Tracy Lynn Garner, 58, was pronounced dead Sunday after she was moved from Central Mississippi Correctional Facility to a Jackson, Miss., hospital, the Associated Press…
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The Least Racist People You Know, Ranked
On Friday the erratic, bigoted dotard who somehow thinks that he can obscure his intelligence deficiency by simply declaring that he is, most assuredly, a “very stable genius,” once again tried to Jedi-mind-trick America into believing that he isn’t an unhooded Klansman when he proclaimed that he was “the least racist person” we know, in…
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Mike Pence Turned Beet Red During MLK Service as Black Preacher Went Off About ‘Shithole’ Remarks
Everyone in the black community knows that there are three people who can dismantle your soul and crush your spirit using nothing but words: the oldest barber at any barbershop, a black mother whose child forgot to take the chicken out of the freezer and—worst of all—a black Baptist preacher. According to the Colt 45…
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What Martin Luther King Jr. Would Say About White People and Their ‘Shithole’ Silence
Noor Salman has never killed a human being. She has never injured anyone. She doesn’t even have a criminal record. But after her husband massacred 49 people in Orlando, Fla.’s Pulse nightclub on June 12, 2016, an FBI agent said that he “realized that she knew” about the attack. The FBI also discovered that Salman…
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The Caucasian Panthers: Meet the Rednecks Armed, Ready and ’Bout That Anti-Racist Life
On Dec. 4, 1969, law enforcement officers raided a home at 2337 Monroe St. in Chicago. First they killed Mark Clark, who sat by the door with a shotgun. Then they trained their gunfire on the south bedroom and opened fire. When the cops stopped firing, they pulled the 21-year-old chairman of the Illinois Black…
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Barack Obama’s Interview on David Letterman’s Netflix Show Doesn’t Mention the Goldfish Cracker in Chief
Former President Barack Obama sat down with David Letterman for the debut episode of the talk show legend’s Netflix show, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction. The intimate, hourlong interview covered a wide range of subjects, ranging from Obama’s postpresidential family life to world events. There was only one subject they didn’t cover: The honorable,…
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Killer Mike: Oprah’s A’ight, but if I Had to Choose a Black Woman for President, I’d Pick …
The white daredevils at TMZ who stop celebrities at the airport and shove cameras in their faces caught up with rapper and activist Killer Mike (not to be confused with me—Flesh-Wounder Mike) at Los Angeles International Airport and asked him about the hype surrounding the potential presidential candidacy of Oprah Winfrey. (Side rant: Why does…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: The Last Hotep
If you enjoy our weekly roundup of emails, tweets, direct messages, comments and that one voicemail we did months ago, you probably won’t like this edition of the Clapback Mailbag. You might not even recognize it. While it will be chock-full of clapbacks as usual, this week’s mailbag marks the first time no white supremacist…
