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Cloudflare Secretly Gave White Supremacists Their Critics’ Contact Info for Years
After years of quietly handing over the personal information of anyone who complained about its white supremacist customers, including the site that waged a campaign of harassment and intimidation against American University’s first black female student body president, a major content-delivery network pinky swore it would change its policy. Cloudflare operates more than 100 data…
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Family Speaks Out After Video Emerges of Conn. Teenager Shot by Cops
Days after a Connecticut police officer fatally shot a teenager, the family of the victim spoke with The Root about the teen’s death, an alleged cover-up and a video from the scene of the incident. Jayson Negron, 15, was killed Tuesday when, law-enforcement officials say, Bridgeport Police Officer James Boulay fatally wounded Jayson after a…
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The Top 10 Black TV Mothers of All Time
It’s Mother’s Day, and in addition to remembering the women who gave birth to us, it is also important that we reflect on the other women who gave us life—our TV moms. Everyone has a favorite mother from television they halfway wished were their real-life mama. Whether it was their jokes, the way they always…
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Who Cursed James Harden?
On Thursday night, James Harden ended another season with a look in his eyes that can only be described as a combination of hearing a woman laugh heartily after seeing your penis and realizing that you have diarrhea as the roller coaster rounds the first bend on a date with your crush. It’s easy to…
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NY Seeks to Make Killing Cops a Hate Crime but Is Still Cool With Cops Killing Black People
The New York State Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would increase the penalties for killing first responders by making doing so a hate crime. In New York, whenever anyone commits a crime against another person simply because he or she belongs to another group, the offense is labeled a hate crime, which immediately bumps…
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Jeff ‘Gollum’ Sessions Emerges From Middle Earth to Renew the War on Drugs
In a harsh reversal from the Eric Holder-led Justice Department, civil liberties advocates, science and logic, Jeff Sessions has directed federal prosecutors across the country to charge drug suspects with the most serious charges legally possible. Sessions, the love child of the Travelocity traveling gnome and the yellow Teletubby, issued a two-page memo that outlined…
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The Pretrial Profit System: How Corporations Make Billions Arresting Poor Blacks
In 2008, 18-year-old Demorrea Tarver was out with some friends when he was stopped by the police. Officers found a handgun in the handbag of a minor who was riding with Tarver (Tarver said he didn’t know about the gun) and a small amount of marijuana. The cops arrested Tarver and charged him with three…
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Report: Black Girls 5 Times More Likely to Be Suspended From School Than White Girls
Black girls do not present more frequent or serious discipline problems. They are not slower learners; nor do they struggle academically more than any other student. But according to a new report from the National Women’s Law Center, black girls are twice as likely as any other student to be suspended, and 5.5 times more…
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Neo-Nazi Convicted of Murder After Jury Sees Video of Boast ‘I’m Doing My Race a Favor’
A North Carolina jury took 90 minutes to deliver a guilty verdict to a white supremacist accused of killing his former boss because he was gay. In April 2015, Kenneth Morgan Stancil III walked into Wayne County Community College’s print shop, where he worked; pointed a shotgun at his boss, Ron Lane; and murdered Lane…
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Anti-Muslim Crusader Picked for HUD Job in Trump Administration
The woman who has fueled Islamophobia, railed against the mythical encroachment of Shariah law and gone on national TV to disparage a 14-year-old student for having the gall to build a clock while being Muslim, has been hired by the Trump administration and noted dick stabber Ben Carson to work in the Department of Housing…
