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Will Driverless Vehicles Put Black People Out of Work?
Driving while black in America has always been fraught with peril. During the Jim Crow era, African Americans traveled the highways by night to avoid harassment by law enforcement and packed extra fuel and food because they could not stop at gas stations and restaurants that served only whites. Today, encounters with police that are…
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Six Tips For Everyone Who's Ever Emailed Me For Advice On How To Start A Blog Or How To Write For A Living
1. Perhaps, because I’ve managed to create a popular blog and etch out a career where people pay me money to write words about things on a computer screen so that people can read them, you’ve assumed that I have unique insights to offer. This is understandable, as you’re not the first and will not…
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What Journalist Jimmy Breslin Taught Us, or Didn’t, About Diversity
Jimmy Breslin, who died Sunday at 88, was described by the Associated Press as “the Pulitzer Prize-winning chronicler of wise guys and underdogs who became the brash embodiment of the old-time, street smart New Yorker.” Others hailed his shoe-leather reporting from what seems like another era, and some used the adjective “white” before “working class”…
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Donna Brazile Flatly Denies Giving Questions to Hillary Clinton
Donna Brazile, the veteran Democratic political strategist who parted ways with CNN last year amid WikiLeaks revelations appearing to show that she provided the Hillary Clinton campaign with questions she would be asked in a televised CNN town hall, flatly denied Saturday that she had done so. “At no time did I receive or participate…
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The Root’s Divine 9 Members Watched Burning Sands and We Have Some Thoughts
If Netflix’s Burning Sands were about drug addiction instead of hazing, would people be talking about it? (Seriously, the main character smells, has all sorts of mysterious injuries, and starts falling off in his schoolwork and personal life, destroying his relationships … pledging a frat that hazes is just like taking up a crack habit!)…
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TLC Will Headline ‘I Love the 90’s’ Tour
The sequel to the hit “I Love the 90’s Tour” will kick off this summer with TLC as its headliner. The tour will begin July 7 in Everett, Wash., and crisscross the country until it ends in Chicago on Sept. 16. The “I Love the 90’s Tour: The Party Continues” will mark TLC’s first tour…
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Community Calls for Boycott of Beauty Supply Store After Owner Is Seen on Video Kicking, Choking Black Woman
A community is outraged about cellphone footage going viral on social media that shows a Charlotte, N.C., beauty supply store owner constraining a black woman in a choke hold after accusing her of stealing. Community leaders and customers are now calling for a boycott of the store. According to WBTV, the incident started when Sung…
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Does Anyone Care About DC’s Missing Black and Latinx Teens?
Updated Monday, March 13, 2017, 2:04 p.m. EDT: Updated Monday, March 13, 2017 7 a.m. EDT: Earlier: Over the last week, my timeline on Twitter has been inundated with retweets from the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., with photos of missing black and Latinx teens. Within the last week, 10 teens have gone missing…
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St. Louis Mayoral Candidate Ran Against Editorial Board—and Surprised Everyone
A St. Louis mayoral candidate who accused the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of being part of “the systemic racism that pervades almost every public and private institution” in the region placed a surprising second in Tuesday’s Democratic primary. The candidate, Tishaura Jones, the city treasurer, also noted the lack of African Americans on the five-member Post-Dispatch…
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Day-Glo Donald’s Secret Fake-News Meeting
Although Donald Trump continues to call legitimate news organizations like CNN, the New York Times and the Washington Post “fake news,” even temporarily barring them from White House press briefings, apparently there is one news source Donald Trump trusts: TMZ. The New York Times reports that Harvey Levin, the founder of the multimedia celebrity-gossip rag…