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Major Cities Prepare for Massive Marches, Counterdemonstrations Across the Nation Today
As the country continues to grapple with the unbridled violence of Charlottesville, Va., last weekend, major cities such as Boston, Dallas, New Orleans and others will be the sites of major protests today—some under the guise of “free speech,” and others in defiance of white supremacy and in what organizers are calling “solidarity with Charlottesville.”…
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How Wes Bellamy, the 30-Year-Old Vice Mayor of Charlottesville, Va., Plans to Move His City Forward
As the racial divide that has always existed in America turns from a deep fissure to a gaping chasm (which side will you choose?), the city of Charlottesville, Va., remains at the center of that divide’s latest incarnation, especially after a woman lost her life at the hands of rabid white supremacists last week. After…
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Racing Pioneer Joi ‘SJ’ Harris Identified as Stuntwoman Killed on Deadpool 2 Set
Joi “SJ” Harris, the first African-American woman licensed in the sport of motorcycle track racing, has been identified as the person who died during an attempted stunt on the set of Deadpool 2 Monday morning. Harris, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., crashed through a window on the Vancouver, British Columbia, set, performing a stunt as…
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2 Texas Officers Cleared After Subjecting Black College Student to Body Cavity Search, What Her Lawyer Calls ‘Rape by Cop’
#SayHerName is a movement started by the African American Policy Forum because black women and girls are disproportionally subjected to police brutality and abuse. It is a call to uplift the names of those mostly forgotten and to seek justice. And although Charnesia Corley did not lose her life in her interaction with Houston law…
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The Root 100 No. 1s: Melissa Harris-Perry Lets the World Know She Is Not Your Mammy
The indomitable Melissa Harris-Perry, once the voice of the weekends through her two-hour show on MSNBC—at once ritual before brunch or church or work and a much-needed respite from the unceasing whiteness of political punditry—gave us #Nerdland, that delicious slice of TV that wasn’t white-centered, wasn’t male-centered and was here for all the blerds who…
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Lexington, Ky., Mayor Says Confederate Statues Are Coming Down After Charlottesville, Va., Tragedy
It usually takes a tragedy for there to be any substantive change around race in this country, and perhaps the death of Heather Heyer is the latest in that vein. On Saturday the mayor of Lexington, Ky., said that he is going to remove two Confederate monuments from his city’s former courthouse in light of…
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Marshawn Lynch Sits During National Anthem at Raiders Preseason Game
Marshawn Lynch has always been a man who marched to his own drum. Frankly, I think he’s a genius who’s laughing at all of us; for me, that was confirmed when he was one of very few high-profile NFL players who came out in support of Colin Kaepernick’s principled stand for black lives last year.…
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#MaskOff: Social Media Exposes Racists From Charlottesville, Va., White Supremacist Rally
I love when a hot-ass song by sexy-voiced Future is also a cry to rip the sheets off racists. In what was clearly a not-so-great day yesterday, my rainbow at the end of this hollow, seemingly unending, dark-ass tunnel is that those fools who marched and maimed and killed in the name of white supremacy…
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Donald Trump Ain’t Shit, He Ain’t Barack Obama and He Surely Doesn’t Care About Black People
Someone in America died today. Someone died today in Virginia in a racial terrorist attack, and our president had the audacity, the hardihood, to continue to hew to the line of dog-whistling racist dogma. Donald Trump showed us exactly who he is today—as a man, as a leader, as a human being and as an…
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1 Dead as Car Plows Into Group of Counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Va.
Updated Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017, 4:15 p.m. EDT: The mayor of Charlottesville, Va., confirmed that one person was killed as a car rammed into a crowd during a white nationalist protest Saturday afternoon. Mayor Mike Signer tweeted: “I am heartbroken that a life has been lost here. I urge all people of good will—go home.”…
