Diddy Celebrates This Surprising Legal Win in Less Than a Week After His Verdict
The Woman Attacked and Saved By Strangers on NYC Subway Platform, Speaks Out
Wheelchair-Bound Drive-By Shooting Survivor Falls Victim to This Unbelievable Tragedy in Philly
We Finally Know Why Trump and Obama Were Laughing it Up at Jimmy Carter’s Funeral…
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Derion Vence Allegedly Confesses to Dumping Body of Maleah Davis; Police Find Human Remains [Corrected]
Houston-based activist Quanell X, leader of the New Black Panther Nation, claims in a report by KHOU that while visiting Derion Vence in jail Friday morning, Vence allegedly confessed to dumping five-year-old Maleah Davis’ body on the side of a road about 20 miles outside of Hope, Ark. Police later found human remains in the…
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Good Eating? Beef Jerky, Stuffed Olives and Spray Cheese Would Count As Staples for Food Stamp Recipients Under Trump Proposal
In what one may expect from an administration headed by someone who’s tried to make haute cuisine out of McDonald’s, Burger King and Wendy’s and has an apparent love affair with KFC, the Trump administration is proposing adding “foods” like spray-can cheese, beef jerky and stuffed olives to the list of nutritious staples people can…
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Missouri’s Last Abortion Provider Can Remain Open for Business — for Now
Missouri’s only abortion clinic — The. Only. One. In. The. Entire. State. — has dodged the bullet and will remain open, at least for now. Despite protests from Missouri health officials, St. Louis Circuit Judge Michael Stelzer issued an order Friday that will allow Planned Parenthood’s St. Louis clinic to continue performing abortions open even…
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What’s Pimpin’, Pippen? NBA Great Scottie Pippen’s Suing a 5-Year-Old and Her Parents in Dispute Over Damages to His $10,000,000 Mansion
It’s a damn shame when you put up folks in your home and they — literally — piss all over it. That’s the charge NBA great Scottie Pippen is making in a lawsuit he’s filed against lawyer-turned-standup comic Lindsay Glazer Woloshin and her family — including her 5-year-old — whom he accuses of trashing his…
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Woman Charged With Killing a Man After Chasing Him Down Following a Hit-and-Run Gets $100,000 Bail
In a case that conjures up portions of the George Zimmerman case, a woman who faces murder charges after police say she fatally shot a 62-year-old driver in the stomach after confronting him following a hit-and-run has been given a $100,000 bond. Hannah Payne, 21, of Fayetteville, Ga., is accused of ignoring 911 dispatchers’ directives…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Dream a Little Dream
Fourscore and 12 Fridays ago, our writers brought forth, upon this website, a new weekly feature—The Clapback Mailbag. Nearly two years after this momentous decision, the mailbag proves, every single week, that the Caucasian still lives on a comfortable island of delusion in the midst of a vast ocean of truth. So we come, each…
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Teacher Placed on Administrative Leave After Being Accused of Selling Black Students in Mock Slave Auction
I’ve never participated in a mock slave auction, but I would imagine a fourth-grade classroom isn’t the ideal place to have one—especially in 2019. Yet here we are, admonishing another teacher for contaminating their learning environment with racist bullshit. On Thursday, a Watertown, NY, teacher was placed on administrative leave after being accused of making…
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To Protect and Serve or to Terrorize Children? Sacramento Police Department Under Fire Again
In the 14 months that have passed since Officers Terrence Mercadal and Jared Robinet gunned down 22-year-old Stephon Clark in the backyard of his grandparents’ home, the Sacramento Police Department has not managed to stay out of the headlines with negative news stories. Chief Daniel Hahn was purported to be ushering in a new day…
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'I Want to Own My Part In it': Lena Waithe Officially Speaks On Jason Mitchell Allegations
For the first time, Lena Waithe is speaking thoroughly on the allegations against actor Jason Mitchell in regard to his alleged misconduct on the set of The Chi. And it seems she wants to set the record straight on some things. The screenwriter, producer and actress called into popular morning show The Breakfast Club on…
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Unsealed Documents in Jussie Smollett Case Reveal Cops Were Told in Advance a Deal Was in the Works
Chicago prosecutors told police a deal with Jussie Smollett was probable about a month before all charges against him were formally dropped, according to documents found within hundreds of pages of investigative records released to the public by Chicago police Thursday. The docu-dump comes a week after a judge ordered records in Smollett’s case unsealed.…