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  • Alleged Alabama Mall Shooter Arrested a Week After Police Killed the Wrong Man

    After he evaded capture for a week, police finally arrested the man who allegedly shot two people in an Alabama mall in a Thanksgiving night incident that involved an active shooter, protests, and the death of an innocent man who was accused of being a criminal. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, U.S. Marshalls and South…

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  • Is Peanuts Racist? An Exclusive Interview With Franklin, Charlie Brown’s Black Friend

    Over the past few days, conservatives have begun to ring the “white people are under attack” alarm after they discovered tweets calling A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving racist because of the seeming segregation of Franklin. It is difficult to tell if the initial tweets were jokes but Fox News, the National Review and literally hundreds of…

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  • Watch: New Video Shows Milwaukee Cop Shooting Unarmed Black Man

    “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” – Juvenal text That sentence is not from the guy who made “Back Dat Azz Up.” It is from the ancient Roman poet Juvenal and is roughly translated as “Who will watch the watchmen?” or “Who will guard the guardians?” And while it is used to describe the impossibility of checking…

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  • If You Want to Understand the Economics of Institutional Racism, Read This

    To properly understand white supremacy and institutional inequality, there is no need to study the Ku Klux Klan or ask why you can’t say the n-word. Racism has less to do with the hate in one’s heart and more to do with the hard truths of economics and history. A new study titled “The Devaluation…

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  • The Last Thanksgiving: E.J. Bradford’s Mother on How Police Stole Her Son’s Life, His Dignity and Her Respect

    Never. It means not ever. No more. The word is as immeasurably tiny as “forever” is long and wide, and “never” is also as unending. Forever is a mighty long time… But “never” is even longer. On Thursday, Nov. 22, 2018, after a Hoover, Alabama, police officer shot Emantic Bradford Jr. in Hoover’s Riverchase Galleria…

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  • Why They Kneel: Stopped, Shot and Killed in Nashville and Houston

    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 Tennesee Titans travel to…

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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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