-
Why Won’t GOP Candidates Speak Honestly About Racism?
Last Thursday the nation awoke to the tragic news out of Charleston, S.C., that a white gunman shot and killed nine black parishioners during a weeknight Bible study. The avowed racist deliberately targeted these black Christians, driving over 100 miles from his home to murder the six women and three men who had congregated in…
-
Secondhand Smoke Is Making Us and Our Children Sick
Earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a study (pdf) describing nonsmokers’ exposure to secondhand smoke, the toxic vapors given off by a smoldering cigarette, pipe or cigar, or by a smoker exhaling smoke fumes. Even though blacks and whites smoke at approximately the same rate—and despite a two-decade-long public health…
-
Photos: The Root Took Over Hot-lanta With Its manCODE Event
On Wednesday The Root continued its manCODE discussion series for 2015 at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. Approximately 200 young black professionals, seasoned executives, fathers and a few young sons gathered to discuss entrepreneurship, the social-justice issues affecting our communities and the legacies that black men strive to leave behind. The event was sponsored by Prudential. The conversation was shepherded by a…
-
New Orleans Cops Nab Escapee Who Fatally Shot Officer
After an intense manhunt, New Orleans police on Sunday arrested a 33-year-old man accused of shooting and killing a 22-year veteran of the Police Department, according to NOLA. Officers arrested Travis Boys, 33, a suspect in the Saturday shooting death of Officer Daryle Holloway, the report says. Boys was captured in the city’s Lower 9th Ward after…
-
Ex-Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. Is Scheduled to Begin House Arrest Monday
Former Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is scheduled to be released from prison Monday to serve out the remaining three months of his prison term under house arrest, according to the Chicago Tribune. The 50-year-old entered prison on Oct. 29, 2013, after a conviction for misuse of about $750,000 in campaign funds, the report says.…
-
Emanuel AME Church Opens Doors for Sunday Worship
If Dylann Roof’s goal was to halt worship at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., it did not work. The church held service Sunday after police say Roof shot and killed nine people, including the beloved pastor, at the historically black church last week in an effort to start a race war, according…
-
SC Judge Who Urged Support for Family of Racist Church Killer Will Not Oversee Trial
Charleston County Magistrate James Gosnell Jr. sparked outrage Friday when he appealed for sympathy for the family of Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old self-professed racist who last week gunned down nine African Americans at prayer service at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. But the good news in this sad and disturbing story is…
-
The Lessons My Father Taught Me
There are few holidays that elicit a more complex set of emotions than Father’s Day. Some people use the day to think about the challenges they faced (and overcame) growing up without a father. Others see the third Sunday in June as another chance to highlight the tremendous work single mothers do to raise children.…
-
A Father’s Day Ode to Strong Black Hands
A recent New York Times front-page story recited the tragic and too-familiar litany of stories of “vanishing” black men who are disproportionately targeted by the criminal-justice system and therefore disproportionately absented from communities and the lives of their partners and children. These concerns are real, and the ramifications are matters to which dedicated teachers, lawyers,…
-
Should We Forgive the Charleston Killer?
It was as if I were feeling the Charleston, S.C., massacre in my bones. I had been in the United States as a guest of the Brown University International Advanced Research Institute. I was scheduled to go back on June 21, but I insisted on going back as soon as I finished my talk on…
Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
