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Virginia Military Institute Removes Monument to White Supremacy
A Confederate statue on the campus of one of Virginia’s oldest institutions is finally being removed after Black students spoke out about a campus culture that literally and figuratively worshipped the graven image of white supremacy. Construction crews gathered at Virginia Military Institute on Monday to begin the process of removing the statue of Confederate…
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Armed Thugs Showed Up at the House of Michigan's Secretary of State Shouting 'Stop the Steal'
The baseless election conspiracy rhetoric that the outgoing president has been irresponsibly pushing drove a crowd of disgruntled and radicalized white people to gather with guns outside the home of Michigan’s chief election official over the weekend. “As my four year old son and I were finishing up decorating the house for Christmas on Saturday…
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20 Spoiler-Filled Questions After Finally Watching HBO's The Undoing
I watched HBO’s The Undoing, and I have questions. 1. Why would he try to burn the murder thing in a janky outdoor fire pit when the whole ass ocean is literally right there? 2. Do rich whites (“the wich”) just not have ceilings in their homes? 3. Is there a ceiling-less house level of…
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NBA Player Karl-Anthony Towns Reveals He's Lost 7 Family Members to COVID-19
As the death toll of COVID-19 continues to accumulate, some families are bearing an especially horrific share of the pain. Minnesota Timberwolves’ basketball player Karl-Anthony Towns, who lost his mother earlier this year due to complications from the coronavirus, revealed this weekend that an additional six members of his family have died from COVID-19. “Last…
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Family Disputes Official Story in Police Killing of Casey Goodson Jr. in Columbus, Ohio
Police shot and killed a 23-year-old man in Columbus, Ohio over the weekend, claiming they shot him after he drove by them in a car while waving a weapon. According to a report from The Columbus Dispatch, the Franklin County Sheriff’s office in Ohio said its SWAT team had been unsuccessfully searching for a fugitive…
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CDC's New Numbers Show Black Americans and Other People of Color Dying at Higher Rates From COVID-19 Than It Previously Reported
After initially saying that Black Americans are dying at about two times the rate of their white counterparts from COVID-19, the CDC has updated its publicly reported figures to show that the racial disparity in deaths from the disease is even wider. An adjusted data report published by the agency this week now shows that…
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Judge Orders Restoration of DACA, Obama-Era Program for Undocumented Immigrants Brought to the US as Children
When Donald Trump took office as President, his administration began implementing policies driven by bigotry and a seeming desire to target all initiatives put in place by the Obama White House. That was the background of the government’s move to suspend Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the program put in place by former President…
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Report Finds Louisville Metro Police Disproportionately Targeted Black People With No-Knock Warrants
Oh, look, yet another thing that disproportionately affects Black people. A new study shows that Black people in Louisville, Ky., were overwhelmingly the subjects of no-knock warrants issued over the last two years. According to a report from the Courier Journal, the Louisville Metro Police received court approval for at least 27 no-knock warrants from…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Because They Said So
“Because I said so…” Growing up in predominately Black skin, I heard that phrase a lot. My grandmother, aunts, uncles and friends’ parents used it all the time. But my mother was always careful to never use it. She had this weird thing about wanting us to know why we did things. My grandfather owned…
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Black Google Employee Said She Was Fired for Calling Out the Company's Treatment of Minority Employees
A Black woman known as a “rare voice of public criticism” at Google has been fired by the tech company after sending an internal email calling out the company’s treatment of minority employees—and in particular, those who are Black and female. Timnit Gebru, who co-led the Ethical Artificial Intelligence team at Google, is considered a…