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About That Kwanzaa Life: The Ladies of KFC Were the Embodiment of Umoja in 2018
As with last year, The Root is celebrating the blackest holiday of them all! For each day of Kwanzaa, we will be highlighting a person(s) from the past year who exemplifies the principle of the day. Kwanzaa remains an African-American cultural holiday that eschews the typical commercialism of the holiday season, and uplifts a sense…
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Give the Gift of Chill: Letting Your Black Atheist Family Live on Christmas
I used to love Christmas. Don’t get me wrong—I don’t hate Christmas now, and this isn’t one of those melancholic “ghost of Christmas magic” essays. My eyes still light up when I see a beautiful holiday display, and it’s the only time you’ll ever get me to admit that snow can be beautiful. I still…
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The Perpetual Stoner's Guide to Surviving Christmas Day
If you’re reading this, you made it to Christmas, the day your inner child wakes you up ahead of your alarm for a day full of joyful, healthy interactions with family and friends. You’ve spent the previous few days stressing over gift sizes, jockeying for position in your nearby grocery store, and avoiding the requisite…
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Local Color: Your Museum-Worthy Guide to Getting Cultured Over the Holidays
So, maybe you’re back home for the holidays—or maybe you’re hosting this year. Maybe you’re spending the break blessedly solo. No matter the specifics, you’ve hopefully got some long overdue downtime coming your way over the final days of 2018. But how many rounds of leftovers, good-natured (we hope) family feuds, epic sleep-ins and Hallmark…
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Racist Referee Gets Benched After Forcing Black Student to Cut off His Dreadlocks Prior to Wrestling Match
Not all referees are racist, but there’s a 99.6% likelihood that you just might be a racist ass referee if you: a) Just so happen to hurl racial slurs at your co-workers. b) Force a black high school student to cut off his dreads prior to his wrestling match. As we previously reported, New Jersey…
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Lebron Concludes NFL Owners Have a 'Slave Mentality', NFL Owners Dispute This Notion By Demonstrating Exactly That
If you haven’t been watching HBO’s “The Shop” you’re missing out. Not only does it provide us with some tremendous insight into the minds of some of our favorite athletes and entertainers in a casual barbershop setting, but the candid nature of their conversations means we get sound bites we otherwise would never hear. And…
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The 2018 Wypipo Awards
Welcome to the fourth annual Wypipo Awards. For those in attendance for the first time, all of our winners are of the Caucasian variety, so it’s just like the Grammys or the Oscars except the winner gets a golden jar of mayonnaise. One of the reasons white people pass voter ID laws, disenfranchise voters and…
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Referee With Racist Past Forces Black Student to Cut Dreadlocks or Forfeit Wrestling Match
A New Jersey high school wrestler was reportedly told by a referee with a history of racist behavior to cut his dreadlocks or forfeit his match during a competition Thursday. A now-viral video shows Buena High School wrestler Andrew Johnson having his locks sheared off by what is most likely an athletic trainer as he…
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African, American: Danai Gurira Hits Home with Her Latest Play, Familiar
An elegantly appointed middle class living room in Minnesota, punctuated with poinsettias and a wreath to celebrate the holidays—plus the rare (and oft-disappearing) piece of African art. Frankly, it could’ve been my childhood home in the same Midwestern state, but instead, it is the setting of Danai Gurira’s Familiar, an emotional family dramedy that explores…
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Unreleased Music From Beyoncé Leaked and Somebody's Probably Getting Fired
It’s no secret that Beyoncé has no respect for our edges, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that she’d release music at some ungodly-ass hour. We learned that when the Beyoncé digital album dropped in 2013, and ever since that faithful night, we’ve all been on the edge of our seats in anticipation for…