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  • Netflix and Sit Still: Man Tries to Cure Racism by Kidnapping Woman, Forcing Her to Watch Roots

    Iowa authorities (hopefully not the same ones who count caucus votes) have arrested a black man, who may be Black History Month’s most ardent advocate, for an alleged plot that involved kidnapping, black cinema and an impromptu crash course in racism. The Gazette reports that police in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, arrested 52-year-old Robert Lee Noye,…

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  • The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Valentine's Day Edition

    Every Friday, we clap back at hateful emails, tweets, DMs and comments from our readers. But, since today is the day when we celebrate romance, I thought we should respond to some of our emails that were about love. Unfortunately, there were none. So, we’ll just do what we usually do. Our first letter is…

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  • Alabama Lawmakers Want to Force One of America's Blackest Cities to Celebrate White Supremacy

    The mayor of the city with one of the highest percentages of black residents in America spoke out on Tuesday against legislation that compels the city to celebrate its Confederate heritage even though—and this part is absolutely bonkers—the city doesn’t have one. Birmingham, Ala., is 72 percent black, making it the fourth-blackest municipality in America…

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  • I Can't Believe Black People Might Actually Vote for Michael Bloomberg

    First, you try to get free. Margaret Garner tried to get free. On January 28, 1856, Margaret, her husband, their four children and 11 of their fellow enslaved freedom-seekers stole their master’s horse, sleigh and gun and absconded from their Boone County, Ky. plantation owner, Archibald K. Gaines. The family crossed the frozen Ohio River…

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  • School Resource Officer Suspended for Choking Black Student

    An Arkansas police officer has been relieved of duty after authorities saw disturbing footage of him fulfilling his duties by choking a black high school student. On Monday, Facebook users Auriana Mitchell posted a disturbing video of a Camden, Ark., school resource officer physically restraining a student by wrapping his arms around the student’s neck…

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  • Why Does Chuck Todd Exist?

    Look, I get it. Despite having ball-handling skills that resemble a Caucasian clapping at a Pentecostal gospel concert; in spite of possessing the vertical leap of a Benadryl-drunk third-grader, I am often afforded the privilege of not having to wait to be picked in predominantly white pickup basketball games because of my blackness. I was…

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  • Rebels of Black History: The Women Who Freed a Thousand Slaves

    Five origin stories of some of America’s greatest superheroes.

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  • Which One of Y’all Called Heidi Klum a ‘White Woman’?

    Which One of Y’all Called Heidi Klum a ‘White Woman’?

    I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. I can tell you that I don’t have money. But what I do have is a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. So, if you…

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  • Student-Teacher Dismissed for Teaching ‘Willie Lynch Letter’ to 4th-Graders

    A Tennessee instructor’s Black History Month lesson on a fake historical document backfired when school administrators discovered that she was teaching “alternative facts” instead of verifiable ones like Christopher Columbus discovering America, states’ rights causing the Civil War, or “liberty and justice for all.” While being interviewed for a book about conspiracy theories, I recently…

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  • The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: The State of the Clapback Is Strong

    My fellow Americans, I come before you today with good news. For nearly three years, we have addressed our readers’ emails, DMs, tweets, and comments in the weekly Mailbag. And in all those times, I have never shied away from an opportunity to clap back at my haters. But this is not Michael Harriot’s Clapback…

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