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Baller Moves: NFL’s Larry Fitzgerald Buys Stake in NBA’s Phoenix Suns
When Marshawn Lynch stood at that podium a little over a week ago and cautioned his fellow NFL players to “start taking care of y’all mentals, y’all bodies and y’all chickens and y’all will,” he spoke a real word because at the end of the day, it’s highly likely every professional football player wants to…
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Returned: My Year of Return and Rebirth
I am one of the disrespectful negroes who returned to Ghana and left the rest of you unsuspecting negroes back in triflin’, dumb, and dirty-ass America, and was admonished, defriended, blocked, and unfollowed by Damon because of it. While I didn’t intend for my social media feeds to add to anyone’s FOMO-turned-existential crisis, I am…
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Former Coach, NBA Community Express Concern After Disturbing Videos of Delonte West Surface: 'This Is So Very Painful'
Former NBA star Delonte West is probably best remembered as an integral member of the Cleveland Cavaliers during the 2008 NBA playoffs. But in recent years, his personal struggles with mental illness have become tabloid fodder, and on Monday a pair of disturbing videos surfaced of the once-promising point guard. In one video circulating on…
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Marsha’s Plate Trans Podcast Wants to Liberate All Black People
For the past two years, Diamond Stylz and her podcast co-hosts Mia Sloan and Zahir Alexander have been providing space for black people to liberate themselves from transphobia. They want trans black people to speak freely about their experiences without the pressure of accommodating the white gaze. They want cisgender people to have a space…
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MLK, the KKK and the NRA: A Brief History of Racists With Guns
A white supremacist with a gun killed Martin Luther King Jr. That fact alone makes Monday’s white supremacist-palooza seem particularly disrespectful. However, the history of the Second Amendment reflects America’s obsession with firearms as a means of oppression. Guns have been the primary tool for racial oppression since America was founded, so MLK Day might…
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It Takes a Special Kind of Stupid to Get Charged With Battery for Slapping a Cop's Ass. Odell Beckham Jr. Is That Special Kind of Stupid
Odell Beckham Jr. lives for attention. From his on-field attire to his off-field lifestyle, the Pro-Bowl receiver lives for the limelight. And in doing so, he often puts himself in situations that are equal parts precarious and unnecessary. Case in point, I’m writing this because instead of celebrating LSU’s college football championship on Monday like…
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Visiting Cape Coast and Elmina ‘Slave Castles’: In Everlasting Memory of the Anguish of Our Ancestors
When I was 12 or 13 and living in Frankfurt, Germany, my parents loaded my siblings and me into the car and we drove about four hours south and east to a small-ish town in the Bavarian region that was the site of the first concentration camp opened in Nazi Germany: Dachau. Built in 1933…
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The NFL Plans to Reexamine the Rooney Rule, Potentially Opening the Door to Finally Hire Black Head Coaches
White people love Seinfeld. They also love paddleboarding, guitar solos, and pretending to give a shit about diversity and inclusion. Take, for instance, serial megalomaniac Mark Zuckerberg, who in 2017 told a room full of tech-savvy HBCU students that, “If you just really focus on doing the best you can, then there’s a lot of…
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Jezebel: Numa Perrier on Combating the Stigma Associated With Sex Work and the Rollercoaster Ride of Film Distribution
Numa Perrier is a force. One of the things I thoroughly appreciated about the film Jezebel was that it didn’t lean on the typical exploitative hyper-sexualized stereotypes of black girls. Instead, it embraced our sexual identities like the warmest hug. But, that’s what happens when you let black women lead the way. The Root sat…
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10 Thoughts and Observations About My First Trip to Ghana (and Africa)
When I got married in October 2018, my wife and I broached the idea of going to Accra, Ghana, for our honeymoon. Now, this wasn’t a random “Let’s go to Africa!” ideation; I’d never been to the African continent in any of my travels and had wanted to go, and my wife grew up in…