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For the most part, Rep. John Lewis had the right idea.
Tonyaa J Weathersbee
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6/27/16 6:24AM
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Whenever I hear Cubans talk about their nation’s advancements in health care, and when I think about where the U.S.…
5/28/16 11:00PM
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Donald Trump may be on his way to claiming the Republican presidential nomination, at least in part, by vowing to…
8/29/15 3:00AM
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Eleven years before Emmett Till’s bloated and brutalized corpse was displayed on the pages of Jet magazine as proof…
8/20/15 12:44PM
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Replace Donald Trump’s New York accent with a Southern drawl, then replace his use of “illegals” with the n-word,…
8/18/15 3:00AM
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Since President Barack Obama restored diplomatic relations with Cuba—culminating with the reopening of the U.S.…
7/21/15 3:00AM
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Two weeks before President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. and Cuba would reopen embassies that had been…
7/16/14 3:28PM
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Once upon a time in Florida, for many law-enforcement officers, being in the Ku Klux Klan was almost akin to being…
6/04/14 5:51PM
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On one level, I can see how Shona Carter-Brooks got it twisted.
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If Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis weren’t worthy-enough victims for people to push for “Stand your ground” laws to…
2/16/14 2:00AM
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Michael Dunn got away with murder.
2/12/14 3:15PM
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The slaying of 17-year-old Jordan Davis by a white man who didn’t appreciate his taste in music had some black…
1/13/14 11:16AM
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I’m worried that Marissa Alexander might end up becoming another Claudette Colvin.
12/17/13 7:46AM
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It’s hard to get excited about a handshake. It is just a courteous gesture, after all.
11/12/13 12:31AM
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Since Barack Obama made history as the nation’s first black president in 2008, efforts to whitewash all the other…
8/09/13 6:09PM
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In "a society dominated by forces bent on breaking" black boys "instead of nurturing them," it's important for…
3/06/13 4:19PM
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(Special to The Root) — In June of 2007, I was eating breakfast at a restaurant in downtown Caracas when a sea of…
2/07/13 12:08AM
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BlackAmericaWeb blogger Tonyaa Weathersbee writes that with an unemployment rate of 13.8 percent, blacks in America…
1/11/13 12:39AM
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In a post at BlackAmericaWeb, Tonyaa Weathersbee dismantles a plan by Arizona's controversial Sheriff Joe Arpaio to…
11/23/12 12:32AM
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Writing at BlackAmericaWeb, Tonyaa Weathersbee explains the importance of the civil rights issue currently before…