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Looks Like Black Girls Are About to Dominate Speedskating in the 2018 Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympics may just finally be worth watching, because heretofore, the international sports competition has been whiter than Cardi B’s new teeth (and cuz yes, I roots for all the black folks). On Friday, Erin Jackson became the first black woman to qualify for the U.S. Olympic long-track speedskating team, and the third-ever African…
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Police Say Burglary Was the Motive in Horrific Quadruple Homicide in Upstate New York
According to an indictment handed down on Friday, police in Troy, N.Y., have revealed a motive in the quadruple homicide of two women and two children in late December. According to the Associated Press, a Rensselaer County New York grand jury indicted James White, 38, and Justin Mann, 24, on 13 murder counts, as well…
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Kendrick Lamar Is Doing 1st-Ever Halftime Show for College Football Championship. I Cannot Wait
We gone be aiight. … Especially when Kendrick Lamar Duckworth performs the halftime show for the College Football Playoff National Championship between Georgia and Alabama at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Monday—the first-ever halftime-show performance in championship-game history. No, it’s not the NFL (nor is it Taylor Swift, the rumored performer before Lamar was chosen), but…
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Former Sheriff David Clarke Heads to Trial for Facebook ‘Snowflake’ Threat
Old Davey Clarke might wanna watch his mouth (or keyboard fingers). Although a federal judge on Friday dismissed most of a civil rights lawsuit against former Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. over an incident at a Milwaukee airport, the judge did allow one portion to stand—the claim that Clarke retaliated against the plaintiff on Facebook—and…
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You Get a Book! Billionaire Behind ‘Need to Impeach’ Campaign Buys Michael Wolff’s Trump Tome for Every Member of Congress
Billionaire hedge fund manager and Democratic donor Tom Steyer says he purchased a copy of author Michael Wolff’s new book on Donald Trump’s White House—a book the president has tried to prevent from coming out—for each and every member of Congress. Steyer says that he plans to hand-deliver Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White…
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US Tried to Get Cute on Iran but Was Promptly Rebuffed by Russia, Which Asked About Black Lives Matter
The old adage “When you point the finger, you have three pointing back at you” rang true in the United Nations on Friday as the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., and former Republican governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley inexplicably called an emergency session to lecture the Iranians about their crackdown on protests in that…
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Founder of SheaMoisture, Richelieu Dennis, Acquires Essence From Time Inc.
Essence Communications Inc., the 48-year-old mutliplatform brand that owns Essence magazine and the annual Essence Festival, has gone back to black (ownership), having been acquired by Essence Ventures LLC, an independent African-American-owned company, Essence Ventures announced in a press release. As reported earlier by Journal-isms for The Root, the Essence brand was not part of…
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North Carolina Woman Who Began College at 12 Receives Doctorate at 23
Julia Nepper was just 12 years old when she began attending community college in Wilmington, N.C. The precocious and gifted young lady had been homeschooled for the previous four years because her parents realized that she was not being challenged in the traditional classroom. Nepper went on to receive her bachelor’s degree at 16 and,…
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Anti-Muslim Gun Nut Says She’s Running for Arkansas Governor. Great
Another proud bigot is going to run for national office. Whooppeee. This time it’s 54-year-old Jan Morgan, an Arkansas gun range owner, who announced that she would be running for governor of the state in a video posted to YouTube. Morgan came to dubious fame in 2014 when she said that her Gun Cave Indoor…
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Maryland Hospital Sued After OB-GYN Found to Be Lying About His Identity for Years
In a case that is giving me serious Catch Me if You Can vibes, more than 100 patients have filed a class action lawsuit against Prince George’s Hospital Center in Cheverly, Md., after federal authorities busted a man who was a practicing OB-GYN there but who had been using false identities for decades. The Washington…
