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Did a Taylor Swift Script Dead Donald Glover’s Deadpool?
If Tyler Perry was able to get his Boondock’s episode scrubbed from every crack of the interwebs, it is entirely plausible that the whitest of all white womanhood, Taylor Swift, would be just the girl to dead Donald Glover’s Deadpool. Stephen Glover, Donald’s brother and creative partner, all but confirmed it. Earlier this week, after…
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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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17-Year-Old Houston Teen Gets Into 20 Top-Tier Colleges With Full Rides
We here at The Root love it when young black folk defy all of the low expectations, irrational fears and systemic oppression of this America. And so we salute young Mr. Micheal Brown, who was accepted to not one, not seven, but 20 of the best colleges in the nation. The 17-year-old from Houston applied…
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Feds Charge Houston Megachurch Pastor for Fleecing Flock of Millions of Dollars
The Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell, senior pastor of Windsor Village United Methodist Church, a megachurch of more than 17,000 mostly African-American members, has been charged with scamming elderly investors of millions in a dubious Chinese-bond scam. CNN Money reports that the feds have charged the 64-year-old Houston pastor—and Louisiana financial planner Gregory Alan Smith, 55—with six…
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Atlanta Charter School Apologizes for 2nd-Grade Blackface Show in the Year of Our Lord 2018
This week, between that Heineken ad, Roseanne’s nonacting ass being back on TV (notably on the same network pandering to “unheard white working-class America” and yet nixing a Black-ish episode about NFL players kneeling) and now a minstrel show at an elementary school, I think wypipo are pranking us with overt racism followed by, “Who,…
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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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An Old White Guy Says Repeal the 2nd Amendment … Maybe That’s the Ticket
On Monday, former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote an op-ed in that most venerable paper of record, the New York Times, in which he calls for a repeal of the Second Amendment, the constitutional basis for the “right” to bear arms, calling it a “more effective and more lasting reform” than stricter gun…
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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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Prince Had ‘Exceedingly High’ Amount of Fentanyl in His Body at Time of Death: Report
As the opioid epidemic continues to wreak havoc on the nation, we are sad to say that it looks like singer Prince is one of the fallen. According to a toxicology report obtained from his autopsy Monday, the concentration of fentanyl in his blood was what experts deemed “exceedingly high.” “The amount in his blood…
