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  • Jeff Sessions Met With Emmett Till’s Family, but Will He Give Emmett Justice? 

    Emmett Till’s family members met privately with Jeff Sessions, head of the U.S. Department of Justice, to ask him for … well … justice. The U.S. attorney general met with Emmett’s cousin—Deborah Watts, the co-founder of the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation—and Alvin Sykes, a member of the Emmett Till Justice Campaign, on Tuesday. Emmett’s relatives…

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  • The World Changed, but Dave Chappelle Didn’t

    Remember Evel Knievel? In the 1970s and ’80s, Robert “Evel” Knievel Jr. leaped into the American zeitgeist and became one of the most famous people in the country by electrifying audiences with his motorcycle stunts. He leaped over 14 buses on a motorcycle. Millions of people watched him attempt to jump the Snake River Canyon.…

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  • Moonlight Director Barry Jenkins Will Direct New Amazon Series The Underground Railroad

    And Amazon.com’s next hit series will be: white people singing off-key about how they saved jazz! Wait … no … I think they gave us the wrong envelope. … OK, here’s the correct announcement: Barry Jenkins, director of last year’s highly acclaimed Moonlight, has been tapped to direct a new series based on the award-winning…

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  • Aaron Sorkin, One of the Most Powerful Men in Hollywood, Shocked to Learn About Its Diversity Problem

    Much the way white America was flabbergasted when it found out about police brutality by seeing the Eric Garner video, or how it clutched its pearls a couple of months ago upon discovering that there exists a movement called the “alt-right” that wants to turn America into Caucasian Disney World, this weekend Aaron Sorkin was…

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  • Remember That Football Player Who Said ‘Black Women Are Not Coachable’? He Was Out Here Catfishing White Women

    Sometimes, saying, “This nigga … ” is the only appropriate response to a situation. Like when I heard Steve Harvey say that black people must learn to respect Donald Trump. As I walked to my garbage can to toss my radio into it, I reminisced over all the racist, xenophobic disrespect hurled at Barack Obama…

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  • In Case You Forgot, Cops Are Still Killing Black People

    Does Donald Trump go to the beauty-supply store to buy his Remy hair or does he send the Secret Service? Will Blue Ivy be the lead singer of Destiny’s Grandchildren, or will the BeyHov twins form their own rap group? When Republicans pass the Affordable Health Care Act, will you be able to purchase handguns…

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  • Leaked Documents Reveal How the NYPD Ignored Abusive History of the Cop Who Killed Eric Garner

    On July 17, 2014, New York City Police Department Officer Daniel Pantaleo grabbed Eric Garner, wrapped his arm around Garner’s neck and—even though the NYPD banned the use of choke holds in 1993—squeezed. When Garner muttered, “I can’t breathe,” Pantaleo still squeezed. Pantaleo continued to press Garner’s face into the sidewalk as the victim repeatedly…

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  • Trump Gon’ Make Us Lose Our Minds

    Maybe The Root is insane. Maybe all the newspapers, cable news shows and pundits that evenhandedly cover Donald Trump, constantly offering him the benefit of the doubt, are doing it right and we are doing it wrong. Perhaps we are the crazy ones for calling out the salmon-colored, sandpaper-faced president every time he sends a…

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  • This White Woman’s Painting of Emmett Till Belongs Under the Definition of White-Peopleing, Not on a Museum Wall

    Sigh … must we go over this again, white people? In the latest case of habitual boundary overstepping and appropriation, painter Dana Schutz’s work Open Casket has sparked controversy and outrage at the Whitney Biennial in New York City. The medium-sized painting depicts the battered face of 14-year-old Emmett Till, who was lynched in 1955,…

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  • Has the NFL Blacklisted Colin Kaepernick?

    On March 7 the National Football League began its free agency period—the time when teams can offer a contract to any unemployed player. In a league where it is impossible to win without a quarterback, teams usually throw bucketloads of money at veteran starting quarterbacks in an effort to lure them to their franchise. A…

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