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‘More Racist than Ferguson’: Hoover, Ala., and the Inevitable Death of Emantic Bradford Jr.
While I don’t know who shot Emantic Bradford Jr., I can tell you that his killer works for me. Every time I go to buy groceries, I pay his salary. My property taxes paid for the bullets he fired. And everyone knew it was going to happen. When a Hoover, Ala., police officer shot 21-year-old…
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Alabama Cops Kill 21-Year-Old After They Say He Opened Fire in a Mall. Now They Say He Didn’t
There was no “maybe.” When the Hoover, Ala., police department explained why one of their officers shot and killed 21-year-old Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. in an Alabama mall on Thursday night, they didn’t say “maybe.” They said they knew their brave officer had stopped an active shooter. They did not equivocate. They told the world…
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Thanksgiving Dishes, Ranked
Cranberry sauce is better out of the can, which means that people who like homemade cranberry sauce are bougie or just want to show off. I know turkey is the headliner of the Thanksgiving meal, but it’s highly overrated. The difference between a great turkey and a terrible turkey can be overcome with a little…
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The Survival Guide to Black Thanksgiving
Although I am known mostly for my groundbreaking research in wypipology and cookout studies, my family background has given me extensive experience in Thanksgiving-related arts and sciences. Seriously. Because I was raised in a family of women who love to cook and are saved, sanctified and filled with the Holy Ghost, we never had family…
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School Says Student Who Wore KKK Uniform to Class Was Not Trying to Be Racist
A Missouri school has suspended the teacher of a student who wore a Ku Klux Klan outfit to class but insists that the student was not acting “in a discriminatory way” because it was part of a group project. On Nov. 9, an unnamed student at Poplar Bluff High School came to school dressed in…
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Americans Don’t Disagree About What Racism Is … White People Do
In theory, I am the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Harriot, Ph.D., a great husband and father who gave up a lucrative career in music to spend more time with my family. In reality, I have not been awarded a prize for my writing; I haven’t received a doctorate and my family would probably describe my…
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Stacey Abrams Just Revealed That Voter Suppression Almost Blocked Her From Voting
On Tuesday morning, Stacey Abrams revealed that she was told she wasn’t eligible to vote when she went to the polls to cast an in-person ballot in Georgia’s midterm election, providing her own example of how voter suppression tactics prevent thousands of people from voting. First, let’s get one narrative out of the way. Conservative…
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Why They Kneel: Kansas City, LA and Why Police Should Never Be Called ‘Pigs’
To examine the injustice and inequality that prompted some NFL players to protest during the national anthem, each week, for the remainder of the NFL season, The Root will explore the data behind racial disparities in the two cities represented in the National Football League’s premiere matchup—Monday Night Football. Tonight, the Kansas City Chiefs travel…
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#RappingWhileBlack: Neighbor Calls Cops on Black Man After Hearing Him Recite Jay-Z Lyrics
We can add reciting Jay-Z lyrics to the growing list of things black people must refrain from doing after a Tennessee man found himself at the center of an armed police confrontation and quickly realized that he had 99 problems and his neighbor accusing him of domestic abuse was one. According to TMZ, Davon Eddington…
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Video Appears to Show NYPD Cops Planting Drugs in Black Teen’s Car
It was magical. The marijuana magically appeared in the backseat of a car containing four black boys. Moments before it happened, one of the boys somehow magically knew that the white cops were conjuring up evidence. Police footage showed the entire episode but, for some reason, magically cut off the moment the cop found the…
