White Influencer’s Bizarre Defense After She Was Caught Editing Her Face on Black Model’s Photo
Inside the Unnecessary Renovations Trump Is Making to the White House
New Study Links ‘Everywhere Chemicals’ Found in Plastics to 2 Million Premature Births
Black NJ Congresswoman Speaks On Facing 17 Years in Prison for Visiting ICE Detainees
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Mookie Betts Details MLB's Failures to Address Social Injustice, Become More Inclusive: They 'Did Not Do a Good Job'
I sure as hell ain’t the only Black person who works at The Root, but I’ve definitely had more of my fair share of being the only one in the room throughout the course of my life. So I can only imagine what MLB superstar Mookie Betts goes through every single day while playing baseball—one…
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Derek Chauvin’s Attorneys Want to Use 2019 George Floyd Arrest as Evidence That Floyd Caused His Own Death
Attorneys for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin are requesting that a jury be allowed to see evidence from a 2019 arrest of George Floyd, and they’re pretending they want this for any other reason outside of hopes that racism and hatred for those suffering from drug addiction will set their client free. OK, so,…
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Blue Lives Only Matter When They Are Killing Black People
The headline for this story is really the gotdamn point. Always. Every time a Black person has been killed extrajudicially by a police officer, the Blue Lives Matter crew comes out in full force to defend policing, which in and of itself is a power structure built and steeped in racism and white supremacy. You…
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Hey Cherokee County Sheriff Captain Jay Baker: Is This You?
Yo, believe me when I tell you: WHITE PEOPLE ARE FUCKING AMAZING. For those of you who have been working all day and may just be getting caught up, 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long of Woodstock, Georgia, allegedly went on a shooting spree in the Atlanta area that left a total of eight people dead—six of…
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Watch Whiteness Work: A White Man Kills 6 Asian Women, and a White Cop Says He 'Had a Bad Day'
It’s already been a heartbreaking and devastatingly unrelenting year of blatant, dehumanizing and violent acts of racism. It’s echoed four years of ever-escalating incidents in the same vein, not to mention centuries of a state of rotten affairs that is as American as apple pie. I don’t know about you, but I’m exhausted and completely…
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Tamir Rice’s Mother Calls Out Tamika Mallory, Then Shaun King Wades In, Exposing More Fractures in the Movement Against Police Brutality
A speech made by Until Freedom founder Tamika Mallory during a performance at the Grammys on Sunday has set off yet another wave of public dissension from people who’ve lost loved ones in high-profile cases of police brutality. Over the last year, Tamika Mallory and her group have been a notable presence leading protests, sit-ins…