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Killer Mike to Receive the Inaugural Change Maker Award at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards
The Billboard Music Awards will present its inaugural Change Maker Award, and the first-ever recipient will be Killer Mike. The award, which honors an “artist or group that speaks truth to power through their music, celebrity and community” will be presented by Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms this year, which makes sense given Killer Mike’s…
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Alex Smith Returns, Dak Prescott Bows Out and Other Takeaways From Week 5 of the NFL
This weekend was a lot, so let’s get to it. In April, curiosity got the best of me. So like millions of other people, I watched ESPN’s Project 11, which documented Alex Smith’s improbable quest to return to the field after suffering one of the most catastrophic injuries in professional sports: a compound fracture in…
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Ibram X. Kendi on Using His Influence to Ensure That All Black Lives Matter
“There’s just nothing to me better than when the people that you love the most—and I just love Black people–you know, send you love letters. And that’s really what The Root 100 is.” — Ibram X. Kendi, Director of Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research, 2020 The Root 100 Honoree text Calling Ibram X. Kendi,…
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For Kobe: After Suffering One of Its Biggest Tragedies, Los Angeles Achieves Arguably Its Most Meaningful Triumph
Less than an hour before the Game 6 of the NBA Finals showdown between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Miami Heat, the Heat gave me a glimmer of hope: Goran Dragic Active for Game 6 Heat guard is listed active for tonight’s do-or-die game vs. Lakers after tearing his plantar fascia in Game 1.…
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Nigerian Police Force Says it Will Disband Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Amid Protests Against Corruption and Police Brutality
Nigeria’s Police Force says it has disbanded its Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), in response to a wave of protests online and in the streets of the African nation this week decrying the unit as an arm of corruption and rampant police brutality. Inspector general of Nigeria’s police, Muhammad Amadu, said in a live broadcast on…
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Mellody Hobson's Name Will Replace Woodrow Wilson's on Residential Building at Princeton, the First to Be Named for a Black Woman
Philanthropist and co-CEO of Ariel Investments, Mellody Hobson, has gifted her alma mater Princeton University with a major donation to construct a new residential college on the site of one previously named after Woodrow Wilson. This summer, the school’s Board of Trustees voted to remove Wilson’s name from the School of Public and International Affairs…
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Another Day, Another NFL Team Incurs the Wrath of the Coronavirus as New York Jets Shut Down Team Facilities
Stephen A. Crockett Jr., your senior editor at this very website, and I have a running bet that the NFL won’t last until Week 8—I mean, Week 7—due to its inability to circumvent COVID-19. And if today’s news is any indication, we should probably bump that up to Week 6. From ESPN: The New York…
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Republicans Rejoice As NBA TV Ratings Swirl Around the Toilet Bowl, but All Is Not As It Seems
The NBA is a business. So after getting derailed by a global pandemic and pouring over $150 million into an NBA bubble to resume the season—all while hemorrhaging money from lost ticket sales, concessions and other lucrative sources of income—the absolute last thing NBA commissioner Adam Silver expected was shitty TV ratings. And calling the…
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'The Work Is in the Valley': Courtney B. Vance and Dr. Robin Smith Join Forces on World Mental Health Day
“The tapes are in our minds. It’s my responsibility to change the tape in my head because it’s a mind game. It is a battle. The battleground is the mind…And that’s why there are suicides, because we just want to stop the tape.” — Courtney B. Vance, Actor text In a world where Black people…
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'I Really, Really See You': Yamiche Alcindor Pinpoints Exactly Why Lists Like The Root 100 Matter
“It’s humbling and I’m so grateful to be on this list with so many amazing people that are doing amazing work, including my friends, Nikole Hannah-Jones of the New York Times, as well as Trymaine Lee of MSNBC.” — Yamiche Alcindor, Journalist, 2020 The Root 100 Honoree text As I write this Kinja post, my…