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Fake Christmas Trees Are the Bhad Bhabie of Christmas Trees
I was at my grandmother’s house when I first saw the TurboGrafx-16 of Christmas trees. My mother had explained that my grandparents were older and they didn’t have the time nor the energy to fuss over a real tree. I was probably around eight and I was excited to see a fake tree since the…
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Family Demands Justice in Officer-Involved Shooting in Kansas City, Mo.
An investigation is underway as another black man has lost his life as the result of an officer-related shooting. From the Kansas City Star: The incident began Tuesday afternoon when a disturbance between two vehicles was reported near 35th Street and College Avenue. A police helicopter tracked one of the vehicles, which pulled behind a…
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Report: Rapper Juice Wrld Dies at 21 After Seizure at Chicago Airport
Earlier today, rapper Juice Wrld died at the age of 21 after suffering a seizure at a Chicago airport. According to TMZ, Juice Wrld, born Jarad Anthony Higgins, was walking through Midway Airport when he suffered the fatal episode after just landing in The Windy City. Law enforcement sources told the celebrity gossip site that…
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The Obamas Buy Martha’s Vineyard Estate from Boston Celtics Owner for $11.75 Million
Life will be a beach for Black America’s Forever First Family. Barack Hussein Obama and his wife Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama are the proud new owners of a sprawling property on Martha’s Vineyard, a tony enclave on the coast of Massachusetts. According to the Vineyard Gazette, sale of 6,892-square-foot house situated on 29.3 secluded acres,…
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Papa John’s Founder Blames His Use of the N-Word on Kanye and Colonel Sanders
The founder of the restaurant chain known for delivering pizzas that taste like the cover of a Presbyterian hymnal covered in ketchup and heated in an E-Z Bake Oven, filed a lawsuit blaming his use of a racial slur on Colonel Sanders, Kanye West and—most importantly—the people who recorded him using the epitaph. On Thursday,…
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Revisionist History X: Nikki Haley Claims Dylann Roof ‘Hijacked’ Meaning of Confederate Flag
For the better part of this year, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley was blessedly irrelevant. That changed Friday, after a clip of a recent interview with Glenn Beck went viral. In the snippet, Haley appears to suggest the Confederate flag was not a symbol of racism until Dylann Roof made it so.…
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Study Shows Link Between Police Shootings of Unarmed Black People and Health of Black Babies
Fatal police encounters are devastating for the communities in which they occur: families are irreparably ripped apart; trauma spreads through neighborhood institutions like schools and churches; and trust between the community and law enforcement (and, oftentimes, other branches of local government) is broken. Any one of these problems present tremendous challenges to the health and…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Major League Clapback
Each Friday, we wade through our emails, tweets, comments and DMs to respond to readers who are searching for feedback, validation or someone at whom they can scream the n-word without being slapped like they stole something. But not this week. When the pair of articles about Mayor Pete Buttigieg came out last week, there…
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Virginia Department of Corrections Apologizes After Subjecting 8-Year-Old to Unauthorized Strip Search
The Virginia Department of Corrections has publicly apologized after it’s been revealed that an 8-year-old visiting her father at a state prison was subjected to a strip search. The Washington Post reports that on Nov. 24, Diamond Peerman drove her boyfriend’s daughter to visit him at the Buckingham Correctional Center in Dillwyn, Va. Upon their…
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R. Kelly Charged With Taking Bribes For a Fake ID to Marry Aaliyah When She Was 15
Robert “R.” Kelly’s illegal chickens are absolutely coming home to roost. According to the New York Times, the 52-year-old singer has been charged for bribing an Illinois government employee in 1994 so that he could obtain a fake I.D. in order to marry Aaliyah Haughton (identified in the indictment as Jane Doe #1), who was…