Sports
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NFL Cheerleader Takes Knee During National Anthem
A San Francisco 49ers cheerleader took a knee during the national anthem before Colin Kaepernick’s former team took on the Oakland Raiders Thursday night. We must identify this woman before it’s too late. NFL cheerleaders are not a coddled bunch like the men they cheer for. Many of those women have their weight constantly monitored,…
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Univ. of Maryland Football Player Jordan McNair Died and No One Has Been Held Accountable
On May 29, University of Maryland offensive lineman Jordan McNair was exhausted. He and the team were running 110-yard sprints in the hot sun during offseason conditioning drills. Maryland is not a football school. It never has been. Despite a few good seasons in the past which included some national rankings and low-level bowl games,…
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Gymnast Simone Biles Is Made of Vibranium; Leads Team USA to Gold With a Kidney Stone
If you want proof that black women are the strongest people on the planet, look no further than 11-time world champion and four-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles, who not only lead the USA women to a World Gymnastics Championship in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday, she did so with a kidney stone! “We had to…
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Undefeated Youth Football Team Believes They’ve Been Banned From the Playoffs Because of Race
An undefeated youth football team from Maryland won’t be going to the playoffs despite being damn near unbeatable because the executive branch of its youth football league has decided to sideline the predominately black team without warning. Marquita Melvin, the president of the Reisterstown Mustangs, thinks she has a pretty good reason why, in Trump’s…
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Golden State Warriors Deliver Perfect Response to Josh Duhamel’s Call for Draymond Green to Apologize to Fergie
This is why the expression “Don’t start none, won’t be none” exists. On Thursday, Josh Duhamel, during an interview with sports network FS1, called out Golden State Warriors’ forward Draymond Green for laughing while his ex-wife, Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas, performed that wretched version of “The Star-Spangled Banner” during the NBA All-Star Game…
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Kobe Bryant Cut From Film Festival Jury After Blowback From 2003 Rape Case
Looks like that 2003 rape allegation has caught up to Kobe Bryant after all these years. Variety reports that the former five-time NBA world champion was cut by the Animation Is Film Festival jury last week, as a result of fallout from over his 15-year-old rape charge. Bryant won an Academy Award this year for his…
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Eric Reid vs. Malcolm Jenkins Is What Happens When Black Lives Matters Confronts All Lives Matter
To place Philadelphia Eagles Malcolm Jenkins in the proper historical context, just call him the Ralph Abernathy to Colin Kaepernick’s Martin Luther King Jr. Sure, Jenkins didn’t help the FBI in its attempts to discredit King’s voice by confirming King had extramarital affairs, which is what Abernathy did to King. But Jenkins caught the coattails…
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Rae Carruth, the Devil’s Favorite Wide Receiver, Is Released From Prison After 18 Years
There are certain people who just aren’t redeemable: Osama Bin Laden; Chrisette Michele; Dylann Roof and, undoubtedly, Rae Carruth. Carruth is the first black man the Coalition for Black People would argue didn’t get a long enough sentence for his role in masterminding the death of the mother of his unborn child. The shooting left…
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Why They Kneel: New York City and Atlanta Prove Everything You Know About Jim Crow Is Wrong
To examine the injustice and inequality that prompted some NFL players to protest during the national anthem, each week, for the remainder of the NFL season, The Root will explore the data behind racial disparities in the two cities represented in the National Football League’s premiere matchup—Monday Night Football. Tonight, the New York Giants travel…
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Breakthough: Steph Curry Shoots His Hollywood Shot With New Film, Set to Drop in 2019
NBA star Stephen “Steph Curry with the Shot” Curry has wasted no time after founding his Unanimous Media company earlier this year. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Curry will executive produce a faith-based drama set to hit theatres in April of next year. Starring Topher Grace (BlacKkKlansman), Josh Lucas (Glory Road) and Chrissy Metz (This…