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For the last mailbag of 2019, we chose an email, a tweet, a DM and a comment that all ask the same question:

We’d like to welcome you to the fifth annual Wypipo Awards.

I was raised in a fundamentalist church that believed in the seventh-day Sabbath, tambourines and neverending,…

Editor’s Note: This post originally ran on December 22, 2017

“For 400 years, we have been told that black people are a problem. We are indoctrinated into this lie from the…

“The Clapback Song”:

Sometimes I take for granted how much God* has blessed me.

Curtis Flowers walked out of a Mississippi prison a free man for the first time in more than two decades. All it…

A bombastic, Trump-supporting mixed martial arts fighter is desperately hoping that doctors can make his jaw great…

In an exclusive conversation with The Root, the mayor of America’s third-blackest city announced his endorsement of…

If you woke up this morning and were shocked to discover that one of Black America’s favorite musical legends had…

Whenever someone asks if writing the weekly Clapback Mailbag ever gets old, I tell them that receiving and reading…

A “proud” Missouri “cracker” and a KKKop whose pseudonym on social media was apparently inspired by a leadership…

If it were possible to encapsulate the sentiment of an entire decade, the last 10 years could be distilled down to…

A principal who was demoted amid accusations that she prohibited students from celebrating Black History Month has…

We are all magicians.

So you want to be president.

He said it.

The founder of the restaurant chain known for delivering pizzas that taste like the cover of a Presbyterian hymnal…

Each Friday, we wade through our emails, tweets, comments and DMs to respond to readers who are searching for…