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Black Nurse, Sylvia Trent-Adams, Becomes Surgeon General After Obama Appointee Is Pushed Out
As has happened to other holdovers from the Obama administration, reps of Team Trump asked U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy to resign Friday. Murthy was replaced by his deputy, Rear Adm. Sylvia Trent-Adams, one of the first nurses to serve as surgeon general. According to the New York Times, Trent-Adams will be in an…
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Kamala Harris: ‘Trump’s Wall Is a Stupid Waste of Money’
Looks like those “California girls” (in this case elected officials) continue to tell it like it t-i-s. Like her colleague Rep. Maxine Waters, Sen. Kamala Harris had some direct words for President Donald Trump and his proposed border wall between the United States and Mexico, calling it “a stupid use of money.” The senator tweeted…
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Family of Aaron Hernandez Found Out Death Details on Twitter: Lawyer
Impossibly, the life and death of former NFL tight end Aaron Hernandez is becoming ever more tragic. His longtime lawyer now alleges that his family got information about his suicide earlier this week via “salacious details on Twitter.” According to Courthouse News Service, lawyer George Leontire said to Judge Thomas McGuire on Friday that these…
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Clive Davis Documentary Opens 2017 Tribeca Film Festival; Aretha Franklin, Barry Manilow Perform
“From Kenny G. to the Notrious B.I.G., now, that’s distance,” quipped record mogul Antonio “L.A.” Reid in the documentary on the musical life of Clive Davis, which opened the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City on Wednesday. Reid, who coincidentally (and, if the film is any indication, regretfully) replaced the then-68-year-old when he…
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Top 10 Blackest Experiences From the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Film Festival, the badass downtown sister to golden girl Sundance, is back on these screens April 19-28. Like the New York neighborhood it’s named for, every year TFF becomes richer; fortunately, as with Hollywood (though not the nabe so much), black images, people and stories abound. There is much at the festival that…
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Auntie Maxine on Trump: ‘We’ve Got to Stop His Ass’
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Auntie Maxine to us, continues to speak truth to power. On Saturday the congresswoman kept it real and succinct as she spoke on President Donald Trump: “We’ve got to stop his ass,” Waters said to a cheering crowd. As noted before, Mama Max takes no tea for the fever, and as…
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Trump Supporter Says Those Suing the President for Inciting Violence Are Right: Trump Did Urge Him On
President Donald Trump’s lawyers are working double time to get yet another lawsuit against him dismissed, even going so far as to claim that he can’t be sued because he is president of the United States. Yet a federal judge ruled earlier this month that three protesters who claim they were roughed up at one…
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Shaquille O’Neal Will Pay for Funeral of Teen Who Accidentally Shot Himself on Instagram Live
Former basketball star Shaquille O’Neal will cover the funeral expenses for Malachi Hemphill, the 13-year-old Georgia teen who accidentally shot himself on Instagram Live. NBC 11 reports that O’Neal first called and then came by the home of Malachi’s family in Atlanta a day after the teen died from an accidental gunshot wound. “We just…
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Gilbert Arenas Proves the Sunken Place Has Plenty Good Room
This nuh. Former pro-baller Gilbert Arenas recently spewed his hateful ignorance all over Instagram and was summarily (and rightly) dragged for it. The latest in a long line of “celebrities” that peddle in daily misogynoir (yeah, I’m looking at you, French Montana, Tyrese), Arenas took to social media to disparage dark-skinned women, saying they are…
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Watch Amazing Man With Autism Draw an Entire City—From Just 1 Glance
Because April is Autism Awareness Month, The Root is highlighting a black British artist on the spectrum whose work will amaze you. Stephen Wiltshire was diagnosed with autism at age 3 and today is one of Britain’s most celebrated artists. After a cursory glance, he can draw entire landscapes of cities from memory with amazing…
