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Democratic Donor Ed Buck Indicted on Federal Drug Charges After 2 Black Men Overdose in His Home
A federal grand jury has indicted a California man on charges that he operated a drug den and administered lethal doses of narcotics that led to the overdose deaths of two black men and left a third man hospitalized. On Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California unsealed a five-count federal…
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Amber Guyger Swears She’s Not Racist. Her Text Messages Say Different
The ex-police officer who murdered a man in his home says it was all a mistake and swears it had nothing to do with race, a claim echoed by many of the law enforcement officers who shot and killed 1,088 black people since 2015, according to the Washington Post’s “Fatal Force” database. And maybe that…
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Report: Trump Wanted to Shoot, Electrocute and Use Alligators on Migrants at Mexican Border
One of the things I find most fascinating about stupid people is the unseen machinations of their minds. When they commit acts of numbskullery, I always wonder about the things they didn’t do. Did Jussie Smollett consider a story about being abducted by racist, homophobic aliens before he devised the post-Subway sandwich MAGA kidnapping idea?…
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Report: Two Out of Every 5 White Harvard Students Got In Because of the White Privilege-Affirmative Action Loophole
Merit. According to conservatives, affirmative action haters and the official position of the Trump administration, race-conscious college admission policies unfairly discriminate against more-qualified students (pronounced “hoo-wyatt pee-pole”). Even though college entrance exams have been shown to favor students from richer, better-educated families; in spite of the fact that the SAT was literally created to weed…
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Trump-Loving D.C. Police Group Books Party at Trump Hotel and Black Cops Are Mad AF
After publicly supporting Donald Trump’s run for Commander in Chief and endorsing a Hillary Clinton-hating deputy for the role of national president, Washington D.C.’s largest and most important police organization announced that the organization’s ticket prices for the annual Christmas party would triple this year, so it could hold the shindig at a very special…
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Cory Booker Raises Enough Money to Continue White House Bid
Of all the candidates vying for the Democratic nomination for president, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey may be the best-educated. He has three solid debate performances under his belt with no real slip-ups. His past is relatively scandal-free, and sources say that Cory Booker’s drug dealer friend would kick Joe Biden’s thugged-out homeboy’s ass…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: With Friends Like These…
Today’s mailbag is all about white allies. While sifting through this week’s correspondences, I noticed that many of the emails, tweets, DMs and comments we received this week were in response to three articles about white people who were “actually trying to help black people.” *Warning: This week’s mailbag is full of screenshots. The Swifties…
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The Department of Justice Is Still Investigating Emmett Till’s Murder…Kinda
Six decades after a white woman’s murderous lie incited the white supremacist lynching that pushed the civil rights movement into second gear, Department of Justice officials told Congress they were still looking into it. On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that the Department of Justice updated Congress on the progress of cold civil rights cases.…
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A Dead Man's Hard Drive Is the 'Most Perfect' Example of White Supremacy in Our Lifetime
“More perfect.” That phrase from the U.S. Constitution doesn’t just encapsulate the Founding Fathers’ goal for this ever-evolving union we now call “America.” Aside from Billy Porter’s awards show wardrobe, “more perfect” also describes the 400 years of structural bigotry on this stolen soil. While many people consider “white supremacy” to be the superlative form…
