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Son Begs Father Not to Call Cops on Black Man for Standing Outside
A man was caught on video performing the sacred ritual passed down from his fugitive slave catcher ancestors when on July 4, he called the police on a black man who refused to submit to his nonexistent authority as the cop caller’s son tearfully begged his father not to continue his public display of assholery.…
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Kamala Harris Proposes $100 Billion Black Homeownership Plan
Joining what seems like every black woman in America at Essence Fest, senator and presidential hopeful Kamala Harris unveiled a $100 billion plan to increase black homeownership that, if implemented, could serve as a major step toward closing the racial wealth gap or at least pay two or three months rent on a modest one-bedroom…
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Starbucks Apologizes for Making Cops Leave Because Customer ‘Did Not Feel Safe’
On rare occasions, the cyclical nature of the universe creates a situation where yin meets yang, the sowers of havoc must reap the fruits of their nefarious harvest and the dispensers of bitter pills finally get a taste of their own medicine. Or, as the great educator, philosopher, and vegan animal rights activist Bugs Bunny…
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Stevie Wonder Announces Plans for Kidney Transplant Surgery
The iconic singer/songwriter who is unquestionably the greatest love poet in American history (don’t debate this) surprised British concertgoers by announcing that he will take a break from performing to undergo a kidney transplant this fall. Sixty-nine-year-old Stevland Hardaway Morris, known worldwide as musician Stevie Wonder, made the announcement in London’s Hyde Park after performing…
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Watch: Starz Drops Trailer for Sixth Season of Power
If The Wire had a love child with The Sopranos and the resulting baby ran away from its good home in the HBO suburbs, moved to a town called Starz and started hanging out with friends named “Fiddy,” we’d have to name that hit show Power. Starz dropped the trailer for the upcoming season of…
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Locked Up Abroad: A$AP Rocky Reportedly Held in Swedish Solitary Confinement After Assault Arrest
Hip-hop star A$AP Rocky is reportedly being held in solitary confinement after Swedish authorities arrested him for an alleged assault that was captured on video, which according to a Swedish court and an A$AP Rocky hit song, is a fucking problem. A Swedish prosecutor filed a request with the Stockholm district court on Thursday to…
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Police: White Man Reportedly Killed Teenager Because Teen's Rap Music Made Suspect Feel 'Unsafe'
Arizona law enforcement officials arrested a man who allegedly killed an innocent teenager in a brutal stabbing early Thursday morning. Although the teen didn’t know the suspect or apparently do anything to his alleged killer, authorities say the man committed the fatal act simply because he felt threatened by the music the teen was playing.…
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Scientists Confirm All Black People Look Alike
Instead of curing deadly diseases like cancer, AIDS or racism, researchers at some of California’s top universities came together to explore one of the most mysterious subjects in the category of shit we already knew anyway—namely, that white people think all black people look the same. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a legitimate…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: America, the Brutal Fool
Since yesterday was America’s birthday, let’s begin the Clapback Mailbag with a patriotic song: O brutal fools, those racist whites, with grammar that’s a shameFor mountains of hate mail we receive, filled with white tears of painA mailbag’s here! A mailbag’s here! Our readers love when weClapback at all the racist trolls who email, DM…
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#NotMyAriel: White Twitter Is Big Mad About Disney Casting a Black Little Mermaid [Corrected]
As the nation celebrated the national holiday that symbolizes all men being created equal, a small minority of mistreated Americans cranked up the Caucasian outrage machine to address an egregious injustice that threatened the happiness and well-being of people everywhere. But this time, the righteous indignation was not about Nikes, coffeemakers or even reality. This…
