Texas Mother’s Reasoning for Allegedly Boiling Her Baby Will Make You Cry
After Dissing Black Americans For Years, African Immigrants Want Us To Care As Trump Tries to Deport Them. A Professor Explains What We should Do
This Alabama City’s First-Ever Black Councilwoman Receives Letter Calling Her N-Word, and That’s Not All
New Development for White Michigan Karen Who Lied and Said Two Black Men Assaulted Her
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Remembering Black Soldiers in Films
is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University. From film mastermind George Lucas, 2012’s Red Tails pays homage to the Tuskegee Airmen. Lucas, who started conceptualizing Red Tails more than 20 years earlier, sought to offer filmgoers a lesson in history without sparing the in-your-face special effectst hat come with Lucasfilm movies.…
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The Last Gasp of the SCLC
What a difference a generation makes. We’ve gone from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference founders’ sexcapades—infamously taped by the original TMZ gang, J. Edgar Hoover and his FBI voyeurs—to the continuing buffoonery of their heirs and disciples. The evolving scenario involves charges and counter-charges over who’s running the joint; characterizations of opponents as “thugs,” “renegades”…
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Venus Williams Wears Quiet Storm Outfit at French Open
On the way to winning her match at the French Open, Venus Williams has the Internets going nuts due to her choice of garb, especially when this image hit the wires. As you can see below, she is wearing skin-colored shorts under her outfit: She’s done it again. Venus Williams has caused another sartorial storm…
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Check It Out: Pregnant Mom Busted for Robbing Homes
Samanthan Brewer made robbery a family affair. An Ohio woman in her third trimester of pregnancy was arrested by police after they say she brazenly broke into and robbed several homes, sometimes bringing along her children for the ride. 26-year-old Samantha Brewer of Harrison, Ohio is in police custody after they say she robbed at…
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NEWS STAND: Palin Raps Obama on Big Oil, Gang Power In Jamaica, Puffy Wants Cowell's Gig, and More
Palin accuses Obama of being in bed with Big Oil From the pot calling the kettle black file, pundit/pundit Sarah Palin is accusing President Obama of not responding to the BP Oil debacle sooner because of donations made to the Democratic Party. The former governor of Alaska, who has championed more off-shore drilling, which by…
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Jamaica in State of Emergency as Violence Engulfs Capital
The block is verrrrry hot in Jamaica. Men loyal to a drug lord stand guard against U.S. authorities who seek to take the Jamaican “don” into custody: The government declared a state of emergency as sporadic gunshots rang out in gritty West Kingston, stronghold of Christopher “Dudus” Coke, a Jamaican “don” charged in the U.S.…
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Some Skin Lightening Creams Chock Full o' Banned Mercury
Skin lightening, already a troubling cosmetic trend, can also be hazardous to your health depending on the product being used The Food and Drug Administration said Friday it will investigate skin-lightening creams for dangerous amounts of mercury. Responding to a Tribune investigation that found high levels of the toxic metal in some creams, the FDA…
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The Steele Calling the Paul Wack
Michael Steele is shaking a finger at Rand Paul over his civil rights remarks which the RNC chairman believes were ‘misplaced’ “I believe … his philosophy is misplaced in these times,” Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee, told “Fox News Sunday.” “I don’t think it’s where the country is right now,” Steele said.…
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Has Reality TV Become Black Women's Enemy?
Remember the ”real” housewife named Sheree? Whose only claim to fame is that she was once married to a professional football player? Remember how she yanked housewife Kim’s blond wig and called her white trash outside of a fashionable Atlanta restaurant? (Kim, the sole Caucasian Atlanta ”housewife” whose married lover’s checks allows her to pay…