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Walking While Black: Community Calls for Jacksonville, Fla., Sheriff to Suspend Racially Biased Pedestrian Ticketing
There’s driving while black, shopping while black and flying while black. But WTF is walking while black? It’s apparently a thing in Jacksonville, Fla., where the local NAACP and several government officials have called for the Sheriff’s Office to suspend all pedestrian ticket writing because of racial bias. Civil rights leaders, including the representatives of…
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So Caucasian … Joanne the Scammer Is Getting Her Own Show
The subject of our favorite Instagram videos and memes, Joanne the Scammer, portrayed by Branden Miller, is slated to bring her messy-bitchness to TV, courtesy of producers Super Deluxe and Chelsea Peretti, wife of Jordan Peele. Shadow and Act reports that Parks and Recreation writer and actor Joe Mande is also on board to write.…
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Black Women, Don’t Throw Up Hands—Call the Bank of Hysteria to Vent
Sexual harassment got you down? Microaggressions become too much? Poverty a pain in the ass? Racism got you fucked up? Well, black women, there’s now a place to place all of your justifiable but sometimes “problematic” anger, an actual depository to just vent, let loose and scream (or text) your ass off like Nola Darling…
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Trump’s Travel Ban Is Back On, Says Supreme Court
The Supreme Court said Monday that it will allow President Donald Trump’s travel ban to be fully enforced while legal challenges against it wend their way through the lower courts. In layman’s terms, individuals from six majority-Muslim nations and two others will no longer be able to travel to the United States. There’s also a…
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Longtime Florida Congresswoman Sentenced to 5-Year Prison Term for Corruption
In 1992, Corrine Brown of Jacksonville, Fla., was the first African American from that state to be elected to Congress since Reconstruction. She served 12 terms until this January, when she lost the 2016 Democratic primary because of both corruption charges and gerrymandering of her 5th Congressional District. On Monday, a federal judge sentenced Brown…
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Meghan Markle’s White Sister Is Writing a Tell-All About the ‘Princess’-to-Be
Now that she’s broken through as an international star, it seems as if Meghan Markle’s family is coming out of the woodwork to get a piece of the action. Like Oprah’s family before her and even Barack Obama’s Kenyan half brother, whom the GOP loved trotting out, Meghan’s half sister, Samantha Grant—her father’s daughter and…
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22-Year-Old Says He Connected With 81-Year-Old on Words With Friends After She Used the Word ‘Phat’
At any given moment, there are more than 57 million Words With Friends matches happening around the world. When two of its players recently connected in real life, the internet collectively swooned, and their story went viral. “It was a cool experience,” 22-year-old Spencer Sleyon told The Root after he was able to meet with…
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Trauma May Be Passed Through Generations From Mothers to Daughters
A new study reveals that the daughters of women exposed to childhood trauma are at increased risk for psychiatric disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder. However, the study also concluded that there was no effect among male children, and no effect among children of either sex born to fathers who participated in the analysis.…
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DMX Pleads Guilty to Tax Fraud, Faces Up to 5 Years in Prison
DMX is the latest rapper who may be going to the pokey (see Fat Joe, Lauryn Hill) after pleading guilty to income tax evasion. X, whose real name is Earl Simmons, 46, appeared before a federal judge in New York on Thursday and admitted that he concealed millions of dollars from the government, according to…
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American Airlines Makes Anti-Racism Training Mandatory After NAACP Issues Travel Advisory
After a series of highly publicized racial incidents with American Airlines or its employees, the company recently announced that it will be instituting mandatory implicit-bias training for the company in 2018. “We are proud of the diversity and inclusion initiatives already in place at American, but we know we can do even better. So we…
