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Fifth-Grade Student Asked to Portray a Slave for Class Assignment
It’s starting to feel like schools really need to examine how they teach slavery because damn, y’all. This is the second story of this nature to break within just the last month. NBC News reports that a black fifth-grader was asked to portray a slave during a lesson on the Civil War and Reconstruction at…
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Alex Jones to Pay $100k Legal Fees of Sandy Hook Victim He Slandered
Yesterday, CNN Business reported that conspiracy theorist and delusional blowhard Alex Jones and Free Speech Systems, the parent company of his website for fellow right-wing crazies InfoWars, has been ordered to pay around $100,000 in legal expenses related to a defamation lawsuit filed in April 2018 by Neil Heslin, whose 6-year-old son Jesse was killed in…
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Racist Cop Who Kicked in Black Woman's Door Is Still a Cop: But Why Though?
You may remember reports of New York City police officer Michael J. Reynolds landing in Nashville, Tenn. in July 2018, according to court records. Reynolds was attending a 3-day bachelor party with six other men, two of whom were also identified as NYC officers. Reynolds was staying in an Airbnb, one door down from a…
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Bloomberg Plays Clueless When Questioned About Central Park 5
I’m thinking former New York City mayor and new presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg must not have gotten the memo that Democratic candidates are supposed to be wooing the black vote. Either that or he just forgot, apparently, along with his entire stance on his city’s handling of the Central Park Five. Because, on Monday, this…
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Good News Everyone: Illinois Governor Clears Over 11,000 Marijuana Convictions
Seeing as this may be the last story you read this year why don’t we close the night out with some positive news? NBC News reports that the Governor of Illinois granted over 11,000 pardons for low-level marijuana convictions. This is only the first step as thousands more expungements are anticipated a new law legalizing…
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Alabama Police Poses With 'Quilt' Made from Signs of the Homeless
Another day, another example of police officers just being straight trash. I really don’t have any other way to put it. CBS News reports that the 4th Precinct in Mobile, Alabama is under fire after two of it’s officers posted a picture on Facebook posing with a “quilt” made from the signs of the homeless…
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Florida Teen's Train Death Ruled a Suicide
Seventeen-year-old football star Bryce Gowdy, who was set to attend Georgia Tech, died early Monday after he was struck by a freight train in his hometown, Deerfield Beach, Florida. Today, the Broward County Medical Examiner’s office ruled his death a suicide, CNN reports. The county sheriff’s office said it “responded at about 4 a.m. to…
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Here We Go Again: Buttigieg Getting Dragged for Saying Constitution Signers Didn't Know Slavery Was Bad
Once again, South Bend, Ind. mayor and presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg finds himself under the microscope and under fire for recently unearthed video of him saying something trash. You may remember that last month, The Root’s own Michael Harriot blasted Buttigieg over past comments about why black kids fail in school so often, saying, “Kids need…
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Rev. Al Sharpton Denounces Anti-Semitism in New York Attacks
Rev. Al Sharpton denounced anti-Semitism Monday after 37-year-old Grafton Thomas from Orange County, New York, was charged with a federal hate crime in the Dec. 28 stabbing of five Jewish people during a Hanukkah celebration. Sharpton spoke at a press conference at the National Action Network in New York, alongside Black and Jewish leaders, ABC…
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'Don't Put Your Race Before Being Christian': Pastor Assures Parishioners That Trump Visit Won't Cause ICE Raids
Pastor Guillermo Maldonado of King Jesus International Ministry Church in Miami addressed the concerns of hundreds of parishioners in a Spanish-language service on Sunday. Maldonado’s megachurch will host President Trump’s “Evangelicals for Trump Coalition Launch” rally on Friday and he made a promise to his worried congregation that undocumented immigrants will not be at risk…