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  • Doctor Who Made Racist Comments About Michelle Obama to Lose Nonpaid Faculty Appointment

    The University of Colorado’s School of Medicine is cutting ties with a faculty member who made a racist remark about first lady Michelle Obama on Facebook. Dr. Michelle Herren, who works at Denver Health Medical Center, holds a nonpaid faculty appointment at the CU School of Medicine and a medical-staff appointment at Children’s Hospital, where…

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  • Former NFL Running Back Joe McKnight Killed in Road Rage Incident Near New Orleans

    A shooting after an argument at an intersection in a New Orleans suburb Thursday has left a former NFL running back dead, according to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, NOLA.com reports. Joe McKnight, 28, who played for both the New York Jets and the Kansas City Chiefs, was identified by family members at the scene.…

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  • For 1st Time Ever, a Black Santa Comes to Mall of America in Minn.

    For the first time in its 24-year history, Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn., had a black Santa on hand to help spread holiday cheer Thursday. “This is a long time coming,” Landon Luther, co-owner of the Santa Experience, which has run an intimate photo studio at the mall for years, told the Star Tribune.…

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  • Kanye West Released From Hospital 1 Week After Being Admitted 

    Kanye West checked out of UCLA Medical Center Wednesday, one week after being admitted for exhaustion. As previously reported on The Root, during a show in Sacramento, Calif., on Nov. 19, Kanye performed just three songs before going on a 17-minute rant about Jay Z, Beyoncé, DJ Khaled, MTV and a host of other topics…

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  • #WalterScott: Michael Slager Takes the Stand in His Trial for Murder

    The white former North Charleston, S.C., police officer charged with the murder of an unarmed black motorist during a traffic stop took the stand in his own defense Tuesday, according to the Post and Courier. As previously reported on The Root, Michael Slager, 35, is on trial for the April 2015 shooting death of 50-year-old…

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  • #NoDAPL: Thousands of Veterans Head to Standing Rock to Protect Water Protectors

    A group of veterans will head to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota next week to serve as “human shields” for the water protectors who have been on the ground protesting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline for months. Veterans Stand for Standing Rock set a goal of getting 2,000 veterans to…

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  • Head of Judiciary Committee Wants to Speed Up Jeff Sessions Confirmation Hearing

    The head of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Tuesday that he wants to move quickly on the hearing to confirm Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) as U.S. attorney general. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said that he plans to schedule the hearing before the inauguration, and noted that the hearings for Eric Holder and John Ashcroft also…

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  • Report: Open and Unabashed Harassment and Intimidation After Trump's Election

    The United States is no stranger to hate crimes and racial or ethnic harassment; after all, this is a country that was built on the genocide of indigenous people, the enslavement of black people, and the systemic and institutionalized oppression that keeps one group ahead of all the rest. For the most part, bigots and…

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  • #NoDAPL: ND Governor Issues Executive Order for Evacuation of Resistance Camp

    Just days after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers told water protectors that they had to vacate the #NoDAPL campsite by Dec. 5 or risk being arrested for trespassing, the governor of North Dakota issued an executive order Monday calling for the emergency evacuation of the area. Gov. Jack Dalrymple, a Republican, signed Executive Order…

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  • Betsy DeVos, Religion and Taxpayer Dollars for Private School Education

    President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that billionaire philanthropist Betsy DeVos was his choice for education secretary. DeVos, a conservative activist, has no professional experience in schools, and she is known politically for pushing private school voucher programs—which, as the Washington Post describes, is a controversial position within public school circles. DeVos has spent millions of…

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