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Issa Rae, Maxine Waters, Solange and More Honored at Black Girls Rock!
Melanin was poppin’ during Tuesday night’s airing of Black Girls Rock! on BET. U.S Rep. Auntie Maxine Waters, Issa Rae, Solange Knowles and Yara Shahidi were among the women celebrated for their achievements at the annual award show created by Beverly Bond. Waters, being the showstopper that she is, delivered a standing-ovation-causing speech after she…
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Donald Trump Looked Directly Into the Eclipse and Unfortunately Did Not Spontaneously Combust
If there was one thing I wished to happen during all of this eclipse hoopla, it was for Donald Trump to somehow spontaneously combust after looking at it directly. Little did I realize that the president, like many other people, would be dumb enough to look directly at the eclipse without eye protection. But, of…
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Color of Climate: How Black Activists Are Preparing South Fla. Residents to Weather the Storm of Climate Gentrification
Phalange Brutus never thought that joining a Facebook group could change his life. When the 36-year-old joined Outdoor Afro-Miami in January, he didn’t expect to see a post about climate change that would pique his interest. Outdoor Afro encourages black people to spend time in nature together and change the face of leadership in the…
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Michael Bennett Sat During the National Anthem Because He Loves America
My mother loves Michael Harriot. I know this, not because she has told me thousands of times, but because she has loved me. She kisses me on my cheek. She hugs me tighter than Young Thug wears his skinny jeans. We have long, meandering phone conversations. She praises me for every little thing I do…
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The Root 100 No. 1s: Melissa Harris-Perry Lets the World Know She Is Not Your Mammy
The indomitable Melissa Harris-Perry, once the voice of the weekends through her two-hour show on MSNBC—at once ritual before brunch or church or work and a much-needed respite from the unceasing whiteness of political punditry—gave us #Nerdland, that delicious slice of TV that wasn’t white-centered, wasn’t male-centered and was here for all the blerds who…
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Color of Climate: Meet a Power Player in Miami’s Fight Against Climate Gentrification
Valencia Gunder loves the 305. However, there’s one nickname she says she’s never used for her hometown of Miami—the Magic City. Though she’s lived there her whole life, the 33-year-old resident of Liberty City, a predominantly black and working-class neighborhood in northwest Miami, told The Root, “Maybe where I grew up at, it was never…
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How Russia Used Racism to Hack White Voters
It’s easy to blame Russian President Vladimir Putin and the various intelligence agencies he oversees for the political discord hemorrhaging Washington, D.C., and the rest of the country. The intelligence community determined (pdf) in January that the Kremlin deployed a bevy of tactics to sway public opinion in favor of Donald Trump. Recent reports found…
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The 10 Best Booty Songs, Ranked
Before we get going, let me preface this entire piece with two words: Fight me. Ahem. Ass anthems. Booty songs. Shake jams. Butt bumpers. No matter what you call them, they all bring the same thing to the table: They put asses on the floor, both literally and figuratively. Songs dedicated to the derriere have…
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7 Journalists of Color Leaving Houston Chronicle
Paper’s Staffing Out of Step With Diverse Region ‘Diversity’ Said to Miss Point of Affirmative Action Media See Threat to Freedoms in Leak Crackdown Immigration Plan: ‘Make America White Again’ Overlooked: Trump Appointments to Federal Courts Alternative-Media Group to Take Diversity Census After 9 Years, U.S. Refuses Mexican Ex-Journalist Maria Elena Salinas to Leave Univision…
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Working From Home Just Might Be That Bullshit
I have no science at all to back up this claim, but I’m just going to pretend like there are various studies supporting a recent conclusion I came to: working from home (on a regular basis) is some bullshit. Of course, like all things in life, its contextual. See, I have chirrens, little chirrens at…