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White Doctor in Florida Claims Police Treated Him ‘Like a Black Person’ During His Arrest
Florida, man. A doctor showed up late at the Orlando, Fla., airport for an early morning American Airlines flight to Philadelphia this past Thursday. According to the New York Times, his flight was scheduled to take off at 6:24 a.m. He got to the gate at 6:00 a.m. Airline employees at the gate told Dr.…
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Study Shows Black Cops Just as Likely to Kill Black Suspects as White Cops
Implicit bias toward black men by police is nothing new, and it is not limited to white officers. Black officers can also have implicit bias toward black men because in the case of police forces, that implicit bias is institutional. This is actually news to no one—or shouldn’t be—but a recent study conducted by a…
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Jersey Shore Employee Fired For Telling Black School Children They Were ‘Not Welcome Here’
A woman who worked as a gift shop employee at Jenkinson’s Boardwalk & Aquarium in Point Pleasant Beach, NJ, was fired by management after they investigated an incident caught in a viral video in which she was accused of being racist toward a group of black school children. On Aug. 10, Attiyya Barrett—director of the…
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Georgia Police Use Taser on 87-Year-Old Grandmother With Dementia
In yet another example that illustrates just how much more training our nation’s police forces need, police in Georgia used a Taser on an 87-year-old grandmother suffering from dementia—because there is no bigger threat to four grown men with guns than an old lady with mobility issues. The incident took place on Friday, Aug. 10.…
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Too Little, Too Late: Sacramento PD Changes Foot Chase Policy After Killing of #StephonClark
Sacramento police officers have a new foot chase policy as of late last month, and it is reportedly in response to the shooting death of Stephon Clark five months ago. KCRA reports that the new policy requires officers to consider their personal safety, the safety of the public as well as the suspect, and “the…
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Kofi Annan, Former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dead at 80
Kofi Annan, the well-respected former Secretary-General of the United Nations who also won a Nobel Peace Prize, died Saturday after a short illness. He was 80 years old. His family and the Kofi Annan Foundation confirmed his death via Twitter and said he was surrounded by his wife and their three children in his last…
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Betsy DeVos Thinks Black Students Are Too Stupid to Understand Her Plans, According to Omarosa's New Book
Raise your hand if you count yourself among those of us who are ready to go ahead and purchase Omarosa’s new book even though it pains us to support someone who so willingly sold out her own people, but we will do it anyway because the tea is scalding at this point. Listen. I know…
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Don’t Come For Cardi Unless She Sends For You, Bih!
As the resident Cardi B stan here at The Root, I fully understand that not everyone is here for her, and not everyone has an appreciation for her style. It comes with the territory. There will always be someone who has something negative to say about a star, no matter what it is. For the…
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Company Tells Woman Via Email Her ‘Ghetto’ Name Disqualified Her From Employment
We’ve all heard people say that those with Afrocentric or non-European sounding names stand a greater chance of being eliminated early in the job-hunting process. There are even some who suspect that their name is why they never got a call back after submitting their resume, but I believe this is the first time I…
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#NetNeutrality: Will FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Face the Music at a Congressional Hearing This Week?
Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai is going to have some explaining to do when he appears before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on Thursday morning at a hearing titled “Oversight of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).” Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), the chairman of the committee, said, “From efforts to better utilize…
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