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Sacramento Man Forced to Resign From California Republican Assembly After Boasting About Capitol Coup Involvement
It appears that ever since the Jan. 6 siege at the U.S. Capitol, we’ve gone from telling Trump supporters, “Don’t let your little president get your ass whooped,” to “Don’t let your little president get you locked up or cost you your job.” The latter doesn’t exactly have the same punch (pun intended) to it,…
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Would Charles Barkley Just STFU Already?
As anyone with a TV set or access to Blu Ivy’s internet is acutely aware of by now, Charles Barkley lives to say stupid things. Whether it’s joining forces with Candace Owens to be loud and wrong about defunding the police, threatening women with physical violence, or just making painfully obtuse observations about race, it’s…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Whitenotes
The Clapback Mailbag will often search through the emails, tweets, DMs and comments to find a common theme from our perturbed readers. Sometimes they are upset about one thing. Occasionally, we will receive a spate of responses that all have the same “whataboutism.” But not this week. This week’s letters feature a mishmash of all…
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White Man Convicted of Killing Black Army Lt. Richard Collins III Sentenced to Life in Prison
The white man who stabbed and killed a Black U.S. Army lieutenant at a bus stop in 2017 has been sentenced to life in prison. Sean Urbanski stabbed Richard Collins III as Collins stood at a bus stop on the campus of the University of Maryland in College Park with friends around 3 a.m. on…
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Auntie Unfiltered Spreads Black Girl Magic With CaShawn Thompson
Dear Black women and girls: You are magic. There is magic in everything you do, from the way you can create a week’s worth of meals from a pound of spaghetti, two pounds of ground beef and three cans of tomato sauce to the way you slayed those baby hairs this morning. It’s the way…
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Unarmed Black Man Fatally Shot by Texas Police Officer Responding to Mental Health Check
Over the weekend, an unarmed Black man was fatally shot by a police officer in Killeen, Texas, after the officer responded to a call for a mental health check. Part of the confrontation that led to the shooting, as well as the family’s devastating reaction to it, was recorded by the Ring camera on the…
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Black Americans Are 'Glad Their Ancestors Were Brought Here as Slaves,' Says North Dakota Legislator
In today’s episode of White People Who Can’t Even Be Anti-Race Without Being Racist, a North Dakota lawmaker has introduced a bill that would require agencies to list “American” as a race option on official government documents. It’s a ridiculous proposal that has all the hallmarks of fragile white people taking an “I don’t see…
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Federal Watchdogs Launch Investigations After Lackluster Defense Against Capitol Attack
The accountability hammer is hopefully about to drop on the federal agencies who allowed a mass of white supremacists to take over the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 with a surprising absence of the kind of forceful pushback from law enforcement that we know this country can bring to bear. Inspectors general at the Justice…
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Some Capitol Insurgents Were on a Terrorist Watch List, and Trump’s Extremists Are Planning to Keep Up the Violence in the Lead Up to Inauguration Day
The saga of the attack on the Capitol is far from finished—as is the long-present white supremacist beast that Trump let fully loose in this country. According to a report from the Washington Post, dozens of the violent racist insurgents who broke into the Capitol on Jan. 6 were already known by the FBI because…
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After Decades of Crime TV Shows, It’s Time We Shift the Narrative
Some of the most popular crime shows are returning with new seasons in the next few weeks, and it’s time to have an honest, serious conversation about how they are going to impact our society as so many people consume these stories about police and the criminal justice system. These addicting and familiar shows will…