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University of Georgia Officials Don't Think the School Has a Major Racism Problem. Students Disagree
Last week, The Root reported that the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity at the University of Georgia was suspended and is under investigation after a Black student exposed a group chat by frat members that devolved into a blatant display of racism, misogyny and homophobia. Well, it turns out that the Lambda Chi Alpha scandal may…
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Philadelphia Black Trans Woman’s Death Called Part of an ‘Epidemic of Violence’ Against the Trans Community
On Monday, a 29-year-old Black trans woman was fatally shot in Philadelphia, and city officials have called the killing an “epidemic of violence” committed against the city’s trans community. At the very least, it’s evidence that the movement to protect Black lives needs to be more inclusive of Black trans people and the Black LGBTQ…
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Virginia House of Delegates Approves Budget Focused on Criminal Justice and Police Reform
The ongoing racial reckoning in the U.S. has had Democratic legislators in Virginia looking to pass police reform policies in recent months. On Tuesday, the state’s House of Delegates approved a two-year budgetary plan that includes funding for a multitude of criminal justice and police reform initiatives aimed at addressing police misconduct and racial injustice.…
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Pittsburgh Medical Students Rewrite Hippocratic Oath to Recognize Systemic Racism, COVID-19 and Police Violence
We’ve all heard the calls to declare racism a public health crisis. Well, a group of medical students in Pittsburgh, Pa., have taken things a step further and rewritten the Hippocratic Oath to include acknowledgments of racism, the pandemic and victims of police violence and racial violence. CNN reports that the group of class of…
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Ohio Man Charged With Fraud After Allegedly Spending More Than $200,000 in BLM Donations on Luxury Items
By now, the entire world has heard of a little thing called the Black Lives Matter movement, which exploded after the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and countless others this year. Since Floyd’s death in May, the momentum of the movement against systemic racism in policing has been nonstop. But where most people see…
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Texas Sheriff Charged With Evidence Tampering in Connection With the Police Custody Death of Javier Ambler
In June, The Root reported that 40-year-old Black man Javier Ambler died in police custody in Austin, Texas, in 2019. After several months of slow news coverage relating to Ambler’s death and failed attempts by media outlets to pry information out of the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office pertaining to the case, the department released documents…
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Attorney Claims Kenosha Police Officer Who Shot Jacob Blake Was Trying to Prevent a Kidnapping
An attorney for the Kenosha, Wisc., police officer who shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back on Aug. 23 is now claiming that his client shot Blake because he believed the 29-year-old was attempting a kidnapping at the time of the confrontation that led to weeks of protests against police violence. In a recent…
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Mississippi Gives Voters a Chance to End Racist Election Policy That Keeps Black Candidates From Winning Races
The state of Mississippi is close to 40 percent Black, making it the state with the second-largest proportional Black population in the U.S. Yet somehow, no Black person has ever been elected governor or to any other statewide political office in the state’s history. Mississippi voters are now being given the chance to do away…
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Victims of Kenosha Protest Violence File Lawsuit Against Facebook, Militia Members and Kyle Rittenhouse
While Republican politicians, right-wing media and much of conservative America join hands in singing the praises of a minor charged with first-degree murder in connection with two homicides after he allegedly crossed state lines and killed people with a gun he couldn’t legally carry, victims of the violence in Kenosha, Wis., that night, including the…
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‘Vote Him Out’: Donald Trump Booed and Heckled When Paying His Respects to Ruth Bader Ginsburg
On today’s episode of Everybody Hates Chris Christie’s Favorite President, Donald Trump tried to do the mature thing for the literal first time in his life by paying his respects to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was lying in repose in front of the Supreme Court. But instead of being greeted with the kind of…
