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#NoConfederate: Charlottesville Proves That Confederate Is Already Real, so HBO, Are You Still Fucking Serious With This?
For those of you just tuning in, what was supposed to be a protest against the removal of Confederate monuments in the city of Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday turned into a full-blown Ku Klux Klan, “alt-right,” neo-Nazi revival meeting complete with burning torches, black people being attacked and beaten by racist whites, and an innocent…
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Omarosa Made an Appearance at NABJ and That Shit Did Not Go Over Well
White House Negress token black woman director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison Omarosa Manigault was added as a last-minute addition to a Friday panel discussing police brutality at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in New Orleans. Her announced appearance apparently created an uproar among black journalists attending the event. Page…
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Civil Asset Forfeiture Seems to Target Poor Black and Brown People. Why Is That?
We’ve discussed civil asset forfeiture before. This is the practice that allows law enforcement to take your cash, cars, home and any other property away from you if you are suspected of a crime. No conviction is necessary, and you don’t even have to be a drug dealer to be a target. Last month, U.S.…
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2 White Cops Steal Weed From Evidence Locker, Sell It and Get Off With Probation Because Their Families Had ‘Already Suffered’
Imagine being a sheriff’s deputy and being so white that after you and your fellow deputy confess to stealing weed from the sheriff’s office’s evidence locker, selling it in the community with the help of a former snitch who puts it out on the street for you, and then sharing the profits in a three-way…
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LeVar Burton Is Being Sued by a Public Broadcasting Station Over Reading Rainbow
In today’s episode of Black People Can’t Have a Damn Thing, Not Even if We Played a Major Role in Building It From the Ground Up, actor LeVar Burton is being personally sued by a Buffalo, N.Y., public broadcasting station that wants to stop him from using a Reading Rainbow catchphrase on his new podcast.…
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Betsy DeVos Tries to Backpedal on Her HBCU Comments, but She’s Still a Dummy Who Doesn’t Care About Black People
Earlier this year, Education Secretary and super-rich white woman Betsy DeVos put her foot in her mouth when she said HBCUs were “real pioneers when it comes to school choice.” Because she has never had to worry about not having access to education, it was clear she didn’t understand that those early schools were, in…
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Mike Brown, Ferguson, Mo., and How the Movement to Save Black Lives Changed the Way I Do Journalism
When Mike Brown was killed in Ferguson, Mo., on Aug. 9, 2014, I was still in journalism school at Arizona State University, learning more about the effective use of social media and blogs and the impact they can have on social movements. I was not aware of how important that information was going to become…
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#WalterScott: Prosecutor Believed It Was a ‘Close Call’ Between Manslaughter and Murder
The South Carolina prosecutor who tried the now former North Charleston police officer responsible for shooting and killing the 50-year-old black unarmed motorist Walter Scott said in a pretrial hearing last year that Michael Slager’s shooting of Scott was a “close call” between manslaughter and murder, but that a case could be made for either…
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I, a Fat, Beautiful Black Woman, Get Lots of Sex. Why Does That Bother You?
Hi, guys. It’s me, the resident fat, beautiful black woman and writer from The Root coming to you with an important message about fat-shaming, sex and the supposed undesirability many of you impose on fat women because of your own insecurities. In a word: Stop that shit. I was browsing Twitter on Monday and caught…
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I Have Been Issa. I Have Been Tasha. I Have Had My Fair Share of Lawrences
Insecure regularly reminds me of the lessons I am thankful to have learned in my late 20s and early 30s about relationships, sexuality and owning my womanhood. As the second season gets off to a hard and fast start, I am reminded that I have been Issa, I have been Tasha and I have fucked…
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