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Bethune-Cookman and the Survival of the HBCU, Part 3: Things Fell Apart
Editor’s note: Please read part 1 and part 2 of “Critical Condition: Bethune-Cookman and the Survival of the HBCU.” “Look to the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you shall also see the future, foretold.” — Marcus Aurelius text When the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC)…
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Bethune-Cookman and the Survival of the HBCU, Part 2: An Inside Job
Editor’s note: Read Part 1, “Critical Condition: Bethune-Cookman and the Survival of the HBCU.” “O unhappy citizens, what madness? Do you think the enemy’s sailed away? Or do you think any Greek gift’s free of treachery? … Trojans, don’t trust this horse. Whatever it is, I’m afraid of Greeks. Even those bearing gifts.” — Aeneid,…
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Black Man Celebrating Mother's Day With White Wife Was 'Beat to a Pulp by a Bunch of Rednecks'
A black man, a white woman and three generations of racists walk into a bar. “Are you from Africa?” asks one of the white men. “Is it Africa Day?” While this may sound like the opening line to an offensive joke, WKMG and the Daytona Beach News-Journal report that police have charged two Florida men…
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Critical Condition: Bethune-Cookman and the Survival of the HBCU, Part 1
“There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.” ― Kevin J. Anderson text Winter always comes. Everything dies. Nothing else is certain. At the fall of every glorious thing that was ever built, among the ashes and rubble, you will find…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Dream a Little Dream
Fourscore and 12 Fridays ago, our writers brought forth, upon this website, a new weekly feature—The Clapback Mailbag. Nearly two years after this momentous decision, the mailbag proves, every single week, that the Caucasian still lives on a comfortable island of delusion in the midst of a vast ocean of truth. So we come, each…
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Mike Tyson Reportedly Put the Paws on The Game's Manager for Insinuating That Tupac Was Bisexual
Although I am an adventurous person who enjoys life, I have compiled a running list of things I have permanently banned myself from doing. Included in the things I have no interest in trying are: Crack cocaine Going to a Taylor Swift concert This disrespectful-to-the-ancestors macaroni and cheese recipe. Altocalciphilia trampling: The sexual fetish where…
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Homeowners Hang Mannequin and Confederate Flag in Front Yard, Claim It's a Leftover Halloween Decoration
An Arkansas woman showing obvious signs of being racist as fuck economic anxiety insisted that she decorated her front yard with a mannequin hanging from a tree next to a Confederate flag as a tribute to her favorite movie that she couldn’t quite remember, insisting that it had absolutely nothing to do with race. KLRT…
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The 10 Biggest Cultural Thefts in Black History
Netflix’s new documentary, The Lion’s Share, chronicles the history of the song “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” how it became a worldwide hit and—most importantly—how media companies including Disney, kept the song’s original creator, South African musician Solomon Linda, from receiving any of the profits. While discussing the film, someone on The Root’s staff pondered if—considering…
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#PicnickingWhileBlack: Pistol-Packing White Woman Pulls Gun on Black Couple
A black couple who planned to spend their Memorial Day enjoying the beauty of nature found themselves at the wrong end of a gun barrel when a pistol-wielding white woman confronted them at a Mississippi campground. According to WCBI, on Sunday, Franklin and Jessica Richardson planned a picnic outside of Starkville, Miss., at Oktibbeha County…
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'If I Would Have Complied, I Would Have Got Killed': Man Narrowly Avoids Being Shot By Cop on Facebook Live
How does one “comply?” When confronted by a man armed with a badge, a gun, the full authority of the state and the immunity bestowed upon the thousands of law enforcement officers who have pumped police-issued bullets into black bodies with impunity, should one obey the words of a pistol-wielding police officer? Should one comply…
