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New Report Shows Less Support for Black Nonprofits Since 2020 Racial Reckoning

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New Report Shows Less Support for Black Nonprofits Since 2020 Racial Reckoning

According to a new report, promised funding for Black-led nonprofits ended sooner than expected, and the consequences are alarming.

The Story of How Atlanta Became 'Black Hollywood'

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The Story of How Atlanta Became ‘Black Hollywood’

You know about Hollywood, but how much do you really know about the city of

Black Pastor Charged With Manslaughter After Deadly Backyard Baptism

Black Pastor Charged With Manslaughter After Deadly Backyard Baptism

British Pastor Cheryl Bartley was charged Wednesday after 61-year-old Robert Smith drowned during a backyard

How Dr. Dre Finally Became a Billionaire

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How Dr. Dre Finally Became a Billionaire

Dr. Dre has officially reached billionaire status. Here’s exactly how he did it!

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Race Was Discussed in a Missouri School District. White Tears Followed

Given how many tears and anguished faces filled the room during a recent “community conversation” in Eureka, Mo., last week, you’d think someone had died tragically. Naw, it wasn’t really that deep. Just a bunch of white parents complaining about their kids learning about racism and how they feel hurt by the suggestion that they…

By

Terrell Jermaine Starr

Published

May 3, 2021
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Black Man Who Was Forced to Work Without Pay by White Boss Should Get $546,000 in Compensation, Court Rules

This may be one of the most horrific stories that The Root has ever reported. For 23 years, Bobby Paul Edwards, who owned the J&J Cafeteria in Conway, South Carolina, enslaved John Christopher Smith, an intellectually disabled Black man who Edwards beat and forced to work long hours for literally no pay. Smith worked 18…

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Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

May 3, 2021
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Students at Arizona High School Disciplined After Reenacting George Floyd's Murder

Students at an Arizona high school have been disciplined after a short video of them reenacting the murder of George Floyd began circulating on Twitter. The six-second video posted last week shows a kid kneeling on the back of another student’s neck at Highland High School in Gilbert. Someone in the video says, “They’re demonstrating…

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Terrell Jermaine Starr

Published

May 3, 2021
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WTF?: Kansas Lawmaker Allegedly Kneed Student in Groin, Asked Students About 'Making Babies,' Their Masturbation Habits and More

I don’t know why I honestly thought that the wildest story I would ever hear regarding a Republican lawmaker from Kansas was the one where Kansas state Senate Majority Leader Gene Suellentrop led a police officer on a high-speed chase while driving drunk on the wrong side of an interstate and called the cop who…

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Zack Linly

Published

May 2, 2021
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Mitch McConnell Urges Education Secretary to Bar The 1619 Project From Federal Grant Programs Because White Fragility is a Helluva Drug

Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell—the guy Kentucky senator whose face always looks like it’s melting off of something—is continuing the Republican war on Blackness in education after joining fellow members of the white nationalist circle-jerk party in urging Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to help them ban Critical Race Theory into oblivion despite the easily demonstrable…

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Zack Linly

Published

May 2, 2021
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California Woman Charged With Hate Crime, Accused of Racially Harassing Black Delivery Driver

In today’s episode of White People Are Addicted to Thinking They’re in Charge of Shit, a white woman in Berkeley, Calif., went after a Black Amazon driver for allegedly speeding and ended up charged with a hate crime. And of course, a story like this wouldn’t be complete without free use of racial slurs allegedly…

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Zack Linly

Published

May 2, 2021
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Oklahoma Republican Compared Black Lives Matter to KKK and He's Just as Wrong as the Million Other White People Who Have Done the Same

We really need to talk about how basic white conservatives are when it comes to making an argument. That they are racist white nationalists is a given, but what really gets me is the fact that when it comes to thinking critically, they possess all of the depth of an inflatable kiddie pool before it…

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Zack Linly

Published

May 1, 2021
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NJ Teacher Suspended and Under Investigation for Cursing at Black Students While Calling George Floyd a 'Criminal'

In today’s episode of White People Who Have No Business Teaching Black Students, a New Jersy high school teacher has been suspended after two separate videos surfaced that showed him all in his Klan-ish feelings while shouting at and cursing at students during a virtual class—all because he’s sick of hearing about white privilege and…

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Zack Linly

Published

May 1, 2021
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Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves Says 'There Is Not Systemic Racism in America', but He Also Declared April 'Confederate Heritage Month,' So…

Every now and then I choose a story to write up, not because I think the story is particularly important in and of itself, but because it provides me with an opportunity to make a point. I’d like to thank Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves—who recently declared on Fox Noose that systemic racism isn’t a thing…

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Zack Linly

Published

May 1, 2021
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NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Wants Justice Department to Suspend Police Grants Amid Investigation Into Policing Practices

After former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the U.S. Justice Department has launched an investigation into the city’s police department to determine whether it “engages in a pattern or practice of unconstitutional or unlawful policing.” While the investigation might seem to be a…

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Zack Linly

Published

April 30, 2021