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Our Ancestors Fought With Love. Now It's Our Turn.

Our Ancestors Fought With Love. Now It’s Our Turn.

Let this sink in. Trump recently told pastors and priests that if they speak against him, he will punish our churches. He will use the government to silence the pulpit.

Black American Spies and Why They Were The Best

Black American Spies and Why They Were The Best

Black spies used their invisibility in plain sight to carry out some of the nation’s

How Dave Chappelle Created His Own Liberal Town in a Sea of Trump Supporters

How Dave Chappelle Created His Own Liberal Town in a Sea of Trump Supporters

More than two decades ago, comedian Dave Chappelle put down roots in a small Ohio

BHM 2026: Black History Documentaries That <i>Won't</i> Traumatize You

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BHM 2026: Black History Documentaries That Won’t Traumatize You

We know Black history often means reliving the traumatizing experiences and of our past, but

Criminal Justice, News

3 Black Men Released From New York Prison After 24 Years. Judge Determined That Prosecutors Withheld Evidence of Their Innocence

It seems like not more than a few weeks ever passes before The Root covers another story about wrongly convicted Black men being released from prison after spending years and even decades behind bars for crimes they did not commit due to the wilful negligence and indifference of law enforcement and courts. In 1996, George Bell, Rohan…

By

Zack Linly

Published

March 6, 2021
News

3 Black Men Detained in High-End Retail Store for Hours by San Francisco Police Over False Claim That One of Them Brandished a Gun

Being young and Black in America is a full-time job. It feels like every minute of your life, you’re on the clock, and your job is to be aware. You have to be aware at all times of your surroundings, your demeanor and how you’re being perceived, lest you be blindsided with instant criminalization while…

By

Zack Linly

Published

March 6, 2021
News

Washington State Sheriff's Captain Suspended Over Facebook Post Calling Black Teens 'Animals'

One thing about cops, they want to be treated like they’re someone special in society, but a lot of them don’t want to be held to a higher standard than the civilians they protect, serve and sometimes have to arrest. One sheriff’s captain in Washington state’s King County found out the hard way that it…

By

Zack Linly

Published

March 5, 2021
News

Former Trump State Department Employee Arrested in Relation to Capitol Attack

Though Congress failed to hold Trump legally accountable for his role in fomenting the Jan. 6 Capitol debacle, connections to the former president keep showing up as federal investigations continue. A former State Department employee who was appointed to his post in the government by Trump was arrested on Thursday by the FBI on felony…

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Ishena Robinson

Published

March 5, 2021
News

Dr. Seuss Books Are Selling Like Green Eggs and Hotcakes Amid Non-Troversy Over Ditching of 'Racist' Books

So, conservatives across the country got their Cat in the Hat themed Underoos all in a bunch over imaginary cancel culture that only had imaginary things to do with Dr. Seuss Enterprises making its own damn decision to discontinue six books—most of which, like, nine people total have read—from publication over what it deemed to…

By

Zack Linly

Published

March 5, 2021
News, Opinion, Wypipo

Apparently Human Scrabble Is a Thing, and a Group of White Teachers in Missouri Have Managed to Make It Racist

Oh boy, y’all. Today I learned that human Scrabble is apparently a thing people do, and leave it to a group of white teachers in Missouri to find a way to make it racist. According to the Kansas City Star, a group of teachers at the Christian School District in O’Fallon, Mo., were photographed holding…

By

Joe Jurado

Published

March 5, 2021
Education, News

A Florida School Decided to Confront Complaints of Racism…Until a Diversity Curriculum Caused 'Angst'

It’s called the “Caucasian Corollary.” Most social, economic, political or even theoretical problems can be solved by addressing the situation, figuring it out, and implementing a strategy to solve the dilemma. If you’re sick, you find out what’s ailing you and you take medicine. To find the answer to 128 divided by 17, you ask…

By

Michael Harriot

Published

March 5, 2021
News

Bill That Would Make It a Crime to Insult and Taunt Police Officers Advances Through Kentucky State Senate

A new bill advanced out of a Kentucky state Senate committee Thursday, and if it passes into law, it would serve as the state’s (and possibly the nation’s) first blue fragility bill. What’s “blue fragility,” you ask? Well, it’s like white fragility, only you add a gun, badge and a massive ego that can’t take…

By

Zack Linly

Published

March 5, 2021
Clapback/Mailbag, News, Opinion

The Root's Clapback Mailbag: The Blacker the Content, the Whiter the Tears

The Clapback Mailbag was never supposed to be about me. When we first came up with this idea, I assumed every writer at The Root received damp emails, DMs and tweets soaked with the tears of white clowns. In my view, if you can’t make white people mad, are you even trying? (Sometimes, I am…

By

Michael Harriot

Published

March 5, 2021
News, Race Matters

Creighton Basketball Coach Greg McDermott Suspended for Telling Players to 'Stay on the Plantation'

It’s often said that pain and laughter have a symbiotic relationship. And if anybody knows about using humor to anesthetize the bullshit we endure on a daily basis, it’s Black folks. That’s why all I could do was laugh out loud when I heard about what white-ass Creighton basketball coach Greg McDermott said to his…

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Jay Connor

Published

March 5, 2021