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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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#NoBloodMoney: New Campaign Targets Credit Card Companies That Support Hate Organizations
From PayPal to Tiki torches, Airbnb to GoDaddy, American companies are either severing ties with or distancing themselves from white supremacist organizations, especially after the hateful events of Charlottesville, Va., where 32-year-old Heather Heyer lost her life. Whether they are doing this out of altruism or because they don’t want the bad publicity and/or a…
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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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Pantone Announces Prince’s Own Hue of Purple, ‘Love Symbol #2’
Everyone knows that the color purple is associated with royalty, an incredible novel by Alice Walker and the leeeegendary artist Prince. We can assume it was his favorite color, and now you, too, can have your very own Prince purple, thanks to Pantone, which has gifted him (or negotiated with his estate) his very own…
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MC Lyte Jumps the Broom in Jamaica
This weekend, old-school rapper MC Lyte (born Lana Moorer) met someone at the altar in her white dress. Lyte married John Wynche, a former Marine and entrepreneur at Sandals Royal Caribbean resort in Jamaica. The two actually met online more than a year ago. Guests at the beachside nuptials included a bevy of celebs like…
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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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Drunk American Assaulted After Giving Nazi Salute in Germany
These fools gon’ learn one day. The Associated Press is reporting that a “drunken American man” was summarily slugged for giving the Nazi salute in downtown Dresden, Germany. The 41-year-old, who is not yet identified (internet sleuths, get on it!), suffered minor injuries in the 8:15 a.m. Saturday assault, according to police. The American is…
