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Matt Barnes Announces Scholarships for #StephonClark’s Sons at Sacramento, Calif., Rally
Updated Saturday, March 31, 2018, 9 p.m. EDT: Hours before a Sacramento Kings vs. Golden State Warriors game on Saturday, former King Matt Barnes held a rally “for unity and action” around the March 18 police execution of 22-year-old Stephon Clark. The last two Kings’ games were blocked by protesters who descended on the downtown…
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Oh, Yes He Did: Donald J. Trump Declares April National Sexual Assault Awareness Month
It’s clear that President Donald Trump has left shame way back in the place where his top hairs used to be—the distant past. But seriously, what shame? The ease with which lies roll off his forked tongue, and the fact that he chooses his advisers and Cabinet with the same criteria for a stay at…
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Let’s All Write in ‘Wakandan’ on This Disaster of a 2020 Census
This 2020 census business is getting messy—and tricky. Not only are at least a dozen states and the NAACP suing the Trump administration over it, but for the very first time, the upcoming count will also ask those who identify as “black” or “white” to further expound on their specific country of origin or ethnicity.…
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After Being Wrongly Jailed for 23 Years, Chicago Man Gets His Old Job Back. Whoopee
Sorry if I am not head over heels happy that Nevest Coleman has his old job back after spending more than two decades in prison doing hard time for a crime he didn’t commit. Coleman, now 49, was the belle of the press on Monday when he returned to his old job as a groundskeeper…
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New York Governor Jokes That Jews Have No Rhythm at Black Church
Perhaps New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was talking about a particular man of the Hebrew faith when he joked that Jews have no rhythm. But still … The 60-year-old governor, who is facing re-election this year, made his remarks before a packed, mostly African-American church in Harlem on Palm Sunday. Most likely trying to find…
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GirlTrek Takes Over The Root’s Instagram and Walks the Underground Railroad in #HarrietsGreatEscape
She was and continues to be our Moses. Harriet Tubman, the ultimate freedom fighter and warrior woman—before we even heard of a Dora Milaje—was liberating enslaved black folks through the Underground Railroad for years in a holy act of selflessness and courage. In honor of Tubman, GirlTrek, the largest national public health nonprofit and movement…
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Sade’s ‘Flower of the Universe’ Dropped, and It’s Everything We Hoped For
In a surprise treat just days before the release of the highly anticipated Disney flick A Wrinkle in Time, producer No I.D. released Sade’s new single from the film, “Flower of the Universe,” on Twitter Monday night, to the collective swoon of us all. Yes, the woman who has soundtracked the love stories of so…
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New Orleans Police Kept a Secret, CIA-Backed Policing System for Years; Guess Who It Targets?
As if the police weren’t scary enough. A new investigative article recently published by the Verge offers comprehensive and detailed evidence that a Silicon Valley company, Palantir, has provided software to the New Orleans Police Department since 2012. The technology, implemented after New Orleans’ murder rate was the highest in the nation, traces so-called criminals’…
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Is Anyone Shocked That Slavery Continued a Century After Emancipation?
Given the state of the world today, and being a black woman in America, I’m rarely shocked, especially when it comes to racial terror and exploitation. But admittedly, I was taken aback when an African-American historian and genealogist presented actual documentation of black communities in the Deep South that were enslaved well into the 1960s.…
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Sometimes You Gotta Cry Till You Laugh: Comedian Biniam Bizuneh Takes on Black Depression in Commercial Parody
Biniam Bizuneh moved from Indiana to Los Angeles six years ago to pursue comedy. Since then he’s made a good go of it, most recently as a staff writer on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and after that, making his televised stand-up debut on the Viceland show Flophouse. Right now he’s writing and starring in the Comedy…
