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7 Reasons Why I’m Getting the iPhone X
On Tuesday, Apple announced a slew of new products, including a new Apple Watch with LTE, a new Apple TV with 4K, the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus— and a new iPhone X. I’m getting it. I don’t even know what it does. I heard the iPhone X can unlock if you give it the…
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Video Goes Viral of Crazy Confrontation After Couple Refuses to Hand Over License
Nearly 7 million people have viewed a Facebook video of police officers breaking the car window and pointing guns at a Colorado Springs, Colo., couple who refused to hand over identification during a traffic stop in Saline, Kan. According to Hays Post, Tia Jones was driving on Interstate 70 in Salina when she was stopped…
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Black Public Figures Are Being Silenced for Calling Out White Supremacy
Blackness is a box. Its sides are close enough that if you spread your arms out far enough, you can touch them with both hands. While its ceiling may be tall, if you fly high enough or long enough, you will eventually crash into it. It is an inescapable boundary that every black person in…
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The White People Are Coming! 6 Signs Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified
Centuries before anyone noticed Christopher Columbus wandering around the Bahamas searching for gold and a place to buy caramel decaf frappuccinos, wypipo had long been moving into brown neighborhoods and planting flags. It’s how apartheid started. It’s why people in Brazil speak Portuguese. It’s why the Native American genocide was rebranded as “manifest destiny.” Now…
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Meet the White Nationalist Fraternity Coming to a College Near You
Apparently, racist organizations have the same philosophy as Alabama football and R. Kelly: “Get them while they’re young.” One of the newest players in the league of white supremacist groups has been spotted on campuses around the country, calling itself a “fraternal organization,” attempting to solicit white college students into its ranks, because you know…
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Trump Election Commission Member Suggests Jim Crow Laws Worked Better
I wish that headline contained hyperbole. I wish it were made up. It is not. The man President Donald Trump has placed in charge of “election integrity” recently lauded the laws from the Jim Crow era designed to keep blacks from voting. Before you scream, “What the fuck!” allow me to clearly explain. See ……
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Canada’s Ex-Poet Laureate Stole From Tupac and Maya Angelou in the Greatest Cultural Appropriation of All Time
Move over, Taylor Swift. Kendall and Kylie, have as many seats as you need. There’s a new front-runner for The Root’s second-annual Wypipo Awards, and even though the nominations have not yet been formally submitted, I have a feeling that Pierre DesRuisseaux might be 2017’s runaway winner. Pierre DesRuisseaux is a prolific poet and writer…
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How 1 of America’s Deadliest Police Forces Gets Away With Shooting and Killing Black People
On Monday, Nov. 13, 2013, a man called 911 and said he was the victim of a carjacking. The caller said a black woman he didn’t know asked him for a ride, and when he let her in, a black man jumped in with her, pointed a gun at him, stole his 2003 Toyota RAV4…
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Apparently, Omarosa Was the White House’s Willona From Good Times
Ever since Omarosa Manigault was hired by the Trump administration, she has been the most prominent of “Trump’s blacks,” even though no one can explain what she actually does inside the White House. Was she hired to reach out to black America? Is she simply a token employed to give the Trump administration street cred?…
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Study: A Picture of a Black Person Can Anger Trump Supporters and Change Their Politics
Trump voters are very complex. They are conservatives who believe big government is getting out of hand. They want lower taxes for the middle class. They believe in comprehensive immigration reform. They want an economic policy that reflects the average … Nah, I’m just bullshitting. They just don’t like black people. According to Vox, they…
