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The 2016 List of People We Don’t Mess With Anymore
Last year we debuted the list of people to whom black America gave the collective side eye. As 2016 winds to a close, once again we document the people we’ve disinvited from the cookout. Since the apostles got together to talk to Judas in December of the year 1, black people have used this month…
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The Winners of 2016
Flatly, 2016 as a staff, record label and as a motherf—king crew has collectively sucked. Far too many people have died, and a spoiled, mango-colored racist man surrounded by a bunch of like-minded bigots and sycophants will soon make life hell for many who have survived. However, as draining as this year has felt for…
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Unique Views Podcast, Episode 23: It's Family Time With Omar Gooding and Angell Conwell
This is the second time that the pod squad—myself, Ms. Patti LaDanielle, and The Root Senior Editor Stephen A. Crockett Jr.—have had something to do with Bounce TV. So excuse us if we’re feeling ourselves a bit. OK, so maybe I am feeling myself, by myself, but that’s because Stephen doesn’t deserve to feel himself.…
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Man Kicked Off JetBlue Flight for Harassing Ivanka Trump: ‘Your Father Is Ruining the Country’
On Thursday a man was removed from a JetBlue flight at New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport after he reportedly berated President-elect Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and her family shortly before takeoff. According to TMZ, the man began heckling Ivanka Trump and her three children on the Florida-bound flight. “Your father is…
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Kim Kardashian Should Not Be Blamed for the F–kery of Kanye West
When Kanye “He’ll leave your ass for a white girl” West and Kim Kardashian married in May 2014, the world knew that it would be a match made in heaven: two egos finally becoming one in holy matrimony. Kanye West, a man who has had an infatuation with stereotypically beautiful women—read: women who have a…
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‘Go Back Wherever the F–k You Came From’: Ky. Woman Caught in Racist Rant Against Hispanic Shoppers
The Jefferson Mall in Louisville, Ky., is planning to ban a woman who was caught on video hurling racist remarks at two Hispanic customers, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports. The video, which was originally posted on Facebook by Renee Buckner on Tuesday night, showed the unidentified white woman verbally blasting the Hispanic women in line at a…
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'5 N–gers a Day': Video Shows Ore. High School Students Ranting About Black-Student Enrollment
The Oregon City School District is investigating after a Snapchat video emerged over the weekend of two students blasting racial slurs in a rant directed at Tom Lovell, the principal of Oregon City High School, KATU reports. According to the report, the video emerged on Twitter over the weekend. “What about n—gers?” someone can be…
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Things That Should Be Left in 2016? Social Media Has a Few Suggestions
As the year slowly comes to an end, it seems as if every other day gets a little more bleak when you realize what could be in store for us in 2017, when Cheetos-elect takes office. On Thursday night, social media sounded off on things it felt should be left in 2016; and sure, some…
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Telling Our Truth in the Age of Trump
Brian Stelter, television critic for CNN Money, isn’t the only journalist sounding an alarm. “A question I asked on Sunday’s ‘Reliable Sources:’ he wrote in his email newsletter Sunday. “Is this a national emergency? And are journalists afraid to say so because they’re afraid they’ll sound partisan?” “Consider: A U.S. intelligence community conclusion that Russia…
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La. Sheriff Seems Real Happy to Say 'Nigga' in Public
I am going to need these white men in positions of power to grow up. I’m going to need them to stop acting like teenagers whose feelings get hurt on Twitter. I’m going to need them to log off and do their jobs. To date, the president-elect and the Jefferson Parish Sheriff investigating a murder…