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TLC Will Headline ‘I Love the 90’s’ Tour
The sequel to the hit “I Love the 90’s Tour” will kick off this summer with TLC as its headliner. The tour will begin July 7 in Everett, Wash., and crisscross the country until it ends in Chicago on Sept. 16. The “I Love the 90’s Tour: The Party Continues” will mark TLC’s first tour…
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Living Among Trolls
Have you ever looked at The Root’s comment section? You should. It is populated by smart, hilarious, opinionated readers who share their thoughts on news, opinion, politics, race and everything else under the sun. It’s where our audience engages in intelligent debate, expounds on articles and slaps virtual high-fives. If nothing else, you can always…
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Everything You Think You Know About the Death of Mike Brown Is Wrong, and the Man Who Killed Him Admits It
Updated Wednesday, March 15, 2017, 3:45 p.m. EDT: Earlier today, Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery, who uncovered the U.S. District Court document this article was based on, tweeted the following: And this: Lowery understandably disagrees with some of the conclusions found in our original article. It is not unusual for two parties to hear testimony…
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All Health Care Is Obamacare
Despite our reasoning skills, development of complex languages and cross-cultural ability to learn the Electric Slide, humans are basically animals, and all animals share fundamental traits. Take dogs, for instance: I have an enormous, bumbling, spoiled brat of a Great Dane named Omar. When Omar was a small puppy, he would bounce to his food…
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What Trump’s Tweets Teach Us About Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown and Emmett Till
Explaining racism is hard. When you’re illustrating the complexities of racial prejudice in America, it is difficult to bridge the gap between understanding and skepticism in a populace pretending to listen with its arms folded, ready to dismiss any reasonable, salient point that demonstrates the existence of privilege and bigotry. Sometimes it’s not that people…
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We Read All 123 Pages of Trumpcare; Here’s What You Need to Know
While Donald Trump presides over this poorly produced reality show that we call a presidency, we must admit that it has been extraordinarily entertaining so far. Although the thrilling tales about the administration’s secret Russian rendezvous and Trump’s paranoid schizophrenic late-night tweets about dead people voting and phone tapping keep us glued to our favorite…
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5 Things Trump Can Do to Piss Off TrumpPets
What if you could do anything you wanted? What if every time you heard something you didn’t like, you could punch the person who said it in the mouth? Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to say anything you wanted—even if it’s a lie—and have it manifest itself into reality? You might be too…
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8 Mysterious Black Deaths That Social Media Forgot
Not every black person who dies under suspect circumstances becomes a hashtag. In fact, more often than not, the death goes unnoticed by the national media and social media alike, leaving friends and families of the victims with more questions than answers. In the past two years, in small towns all across the country, bodies…
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White People Don’t Know When to Quit
In the latest case of tone-deaf whiteness, a craft-beer lover in Birmingham, Ala., posted the above picture to Instagram. Really? Some people believe (and by “some people” I mean me) that most white people—and people in general—have tasteless jokes and stereotypes that they are comfortable enough to perpetuate in private or around their friends. But…
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Day-Glo Donald’s Secret Fake-News Meeting
Although Donald Trump continues to call legitimate news organizations like CNN, the New York Times and the Washington Post “fake news,” even temporarily barring them from White House press briefings, apparently there is one news source Donald Trump trusts: TMZ. The New York Times reports that Harvey Levin, the founder of the multimedia celebrity-gossip rag…
