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Customer Pulls Gun on Black Barber After A Messed Up Haircare… and That’s Not All
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Racists Have Finally Gone Too Far: Tina Turner Mural Defaced With ‘Swastika’
Police in Asheville, N.C., are investigating a truly heinous crime. The most abominable of offenses. The most dastardly of evil deeds. Some Nazi bigot vandal has spray-painted an off-brand “swastika” over a mural of none other than legendary “Queen Of Rock and Roll” Tina Turner. That’s right, some cowardly, bologna smelling, stiff line-dancing, clapping on…
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Tiffany Haddish Defends Blueface for Making It Rain on Homeless on Skid Row in L.A.
Oh, Tiffany Haddish. She’s riding a wave as a mainstream media darling with a white-hot Hollywood career that’s showing no signs of slowing down. But The Last Black Unicorn author can’t avoid controversy. Haddish has come to the defense of trash rap idol Blueface—who was lambasted on social media for making it rain as he…
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Federal Judge Allows Georgia Law to Continue Voter Purge
Fair Fight Action, a voting rights group founded by Stacy Abrams to address voter suppression, led a noble effort to restore 98,000 voters who were removed from the state’s voter rolls due to nonparticipation in any recent elections. Unfortunately, they were unsuccessful. U.S. District Judge Steve Jones made a ruling in federal court, upholding the…
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Don Imus Died…but Anyway, What Y’all Having for Breakfast?
When George Bush Sr. died, I posted to Facebook, “R.I.P. George… Jefferson.” I have a number of witty, inappropriate jokes saved in my phone for when David Duke or Eric Cartman’s absentee father, Rush Limbaugh, kick the bucket. I feel no obligation to be kind or respectful to bigots or those who have done harm…
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Slave Cemetery Discovered Under Florida Golf Club. So How About Stop Playing Golf There?
A huge spotlight has recently been put on the Capital City Country Club, in Tallahassee, Fla., after it was discovered that the seventh fairway of its golf course sits on top of at least 40 graves of long-deceased victims of American slavery. According to an article published by the Associated Press, “The rumors swirled for…
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Judge Orders Alabama City to Pay $850,000 in Legal Fees for School Segregation Plot Gone Wrong
Gardendale, Ala., is an interesting place. I’ll allow The Root Senior Writer Michael Harriot to do the honor of explaining why that is, at least in part, as previously reported here: A judge told a mostly white suburb near one of the blackest cities in the country that—after reviewing all of the facts—she believed the…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Keep That Same Energy, Wypipo
For the last mailbag of 2019, we chose an email, a tweet, a DM and a comment that all ask the same question: Why are we so racist? How can we use the slur “wypipo” while condemning their use of the n-word? How can we make jokes about our Caucasian constituency? Wouldn’t we call them…
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Un-Settled: Record Company Takes Kanye West Back to Court Over Publishing Rights Dispute
While Kanye West may have salvaged his relationship with King Jesus this year, the same cannot be said about his tenuous agreement with EMI, the record label that has owned the publishing rights to West’s music since 2003. A tentative resolution forged between West and the British-based conglomerate in September recently fell apart, causing EMI…
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New Virginia School Policy Excuses Students From School to Protest
Beginning Jan. 27, students in seventh through 12th grades in Fairfax County Public Schools in Northern Virginia will be excused one absence every school year to participate in “civic engagement activities,” says school system spokeswoman Lucy Caldwell. Activities like sit-ins, marches, and lobbying state legislators are included, the Washington Post reports. “I think we’re setting…
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City of Dallas Dismissed From Botham Jean's Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Amber Guyger is a murderer. It took a jury of 12 less than 24 hours of deliberation to determine that yes, Guyger stole an innocent black man’s life and she deserves to squander her own behind bars. Prior to the verdict, the family of Botham Jean filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Guyger and the…