Jamal Bryant Responds After White Pastor Disrupts His Church Service
Detroit Judge Allegedly Embezzles $300K From the City’s Poor — Here’s What She Bought With It, Feds Say
Trump Wants to ‘Nationalize’ Elections Before Midterms, Here’s Why You Should Worry
Project 2025 Creators are Ready to Control Your Marriage and Childbirth — and It’s Scary
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Uh-Oh: The U.K. Has a New Strain of COVID-19 and Is in Lockdown Again
I can’t lie y’all—I’m sick and tired of the global nightmare that is the coronavirus, which is why I’m not one of the people who feels squeamish about taking a COVID-19 vaccine. But it sounds like coronavirus might not yet be sick of us. Scientists in the United Kingdom announced this weekend that a new…
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Family of Man Who Was in Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment Say They Will Take COVID-19 Vaccine
The relatives of one of the men who were in the Tuskegee syphilis study say they will take the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as they can get it. During the study, which researchers from the Public Health Service and Tuskegee Health Institute ran from 1932 to 1972, hundreds of Black men who were told they…
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Boston Cop Seen on Body-Cam Footage Bragging About Driving Into Protestors During Police Brutality Demonstrations
In the midst this year’s national protests against the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and numerous other Black Americans, video clips posted by reporters and other people on social media showed police across the country responding to the protests with violence that exhibited much of the brutality that had brought people out in…
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FDA Gives Authorization to Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine, Allowing for Doses to Be Distributed Across Country
The Federal Drug Administration has authorized a second COVID-19 vaccine, opening the door for more people to receive doses against the virus which brought the country to a halt this year and continues to rack up deaths. On Friday, the FDA announced that it has issued emergency use authorization for a vaccine developed by Moderna,…
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Investigation Report Says NYPD's 'Excessive Enforcement' Contributed to Violence During George Floyd Protests
Conservative America would have you believe that Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization and that every BLM protest is a stage for violence, looting and assaults on police officers—despite the fact that a strong majority of protests against systemic racism in policing aren’t violent at all. What anti-BLM people will likely never accept is…
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Black Family Has Cars Set on Fire and ‘Trump 2020’ Spray-Painted on Their Home
In further proof that Trump supporters are the worst kind of trash, a Black family in Texas had their cars set ablaze and “Trump 2020” spray-painted on their garage door. NBC News reports that 36-year-old Jayla Gipson said her adult son was using the restroom shortly after midnight last Wednesday when he noticed the smell…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: The Unreasonable Black Man
I believe most people are reasonable. In fact, there is an objective legal test called the “reasonable man” theory. Basically, when a judge or jury is trying to determine whether or not someone is guilty of a crime—especially negligence—the judge or jury must ask themselves if a reasonable man would act this way. If the…
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Auntie Unfiltered Catches Up With the Legendary MC Lyte
Hey nieces and nephews! Have I got a treat for you this week. How many of you are fans of hip-hop? I mean real fans, like you know the history and who came when and that type of stuff? I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Ms. Lana Michelle Moorer, known the world…
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Black Man Serving Life Sentence for $20 Marijuana Sale Released From Prison
A Black man in Louisiana who was serving a life sentence over two bags of weed worth only $20 has finally been freed from prison after 12 years. I didn’t need any further proof that the American justice system is far from just, but a life sentence? For what may have barely been an eighth?…
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New York Passes Law Banning Confederate Flags, Hate Symbols From Being Sold on State Property
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill into law on Tuesday that would ban hate symbols from being sold on state property. According to ABC News, the law describes hate symbols specifically as “symbols of white supremacist and neo-Nazi ideology or the Battle Flag of the Confederacy.” The law will allow for certain exceptions.…