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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…
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39 Domestic Terrorists Arrested in White Supremacist Gang Sting
In an effort to clean up the white community, federal and state authorities in Florida have arrested 39 members of white supremacist gangs and confiscated guns, explosives and even a rocket launcher in what may stand as one of the biggest racist thug gang’s mass arrests until the end of the Robert Mueller investigation. But…
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Stacey Abrams Ends Campaign for Governor of Georgia
Like the previous one and the one before him, the next governor of the great state of Georgia will be a white man. In a speech Friday afternoon, Stacey Abrams announced the end of her gubernatorial campaign, effectively squashing her bid to become the first black woman to serve as a chief executive of a…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: A Salute to Veterans
Today’s mailbag is dedicated to the brave white men and women who sacrificed their time to send emails, texts, DMs and comments to The Root. Without you, we wouldn’t be here. Well … we’d probably still be here, but at whom would we clap back? We also honor the mailbag readers who served. It must…
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Stacey Abrams May Ask For a Whole New Election: Report
As Georgia officials are preparing to crown former secretary of state and reigning Grand Wizard of Voter Suppression, Brian Kemp, governor, the legal team for the Democratic candidate for governor, Stacey Abrams, is readying an unusual but not unprecedented legal challenge: A do-over. In light of numerous instances of voter suppression, vote-tossing, long voter lines,…
