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6 Dangerous Health Conditions Affecting Black America and What To Do

6 Dangerous Health Conditions Affecting Black America and What To Do

Health issues in Black communities are shaped by social, environmental, and genetic factors. Understanding and managing these conditions is key to staying healthy.

Tokyo Toni's Shocking Statement That Brought the FBI to Her Door

Tokyo Toni’s Shocking Statement That Brought the FBI to Her Door

A viral video captures the moment federal agents confront Tokyo Toni over alarming comments about

Why Chicago Inmates Are Dying Over Scraps of Paper

Why Chicago Inmates Are Dying Over Scraps of Paper

After lethal drug-laced paper claimed multiple lives in a Chicago jail, authorities say the invisible

The Genius Strategy Behind Zendaya’s 'The Drama' Press Tour Outfits

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The Genius Strategy Behind Zendaya’s ‘The Drama’ Press Tour Outfits

Let’s take a deep dive into all of the phenomenal looks from “The Drama” promotional

News, Race Matters

Inauguration Poet Amanda Gorman Tweets About Recent Racial Profiling Experience With Security Guard Outside her Apartment

National Youth Poet Laureate, inauguration show-stealer and 2019 honoree for The Root’s Young Futurists (yes, that was a humble brag) Amanda Gorman knows that her new-found fame won’t protect her from the ramifications of being Black in America. What’s the old saying? “Perform for the new president on Monday, earn a modeling career on Tuesday,…

By

Zack Linly

Published

March 7, 2021
News, Race Matters

Black Middle School Student Allegedly Shot With BB Guns, Called Racial Slurs and Made to Drink Urine During Texas Sleepover

Police officials and the Plano Independent School District of Plano, Texas, are investigating allegations made by a Black middle school student and his family involving bullying, racism and unbelievable cruelty. The family alleges that a group of students at Haggard Middle School invited 13-year-old SeMarion Humphrey to a sleepover, only to force him to drink…

By

Zack Linly

Published

March 6, 2021
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…

By

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