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Homicide Charges Filed Weeks after Cleveland Woman’s Disappearance. What Took So Long?
The family filed a missing persons report weeks ago.
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Tulsa Race Massacre Victims Cemetery Search Concludes With Additional Graves Found [Update]
32 additional caskets of alleged Black Wall Street victims were found at Tulsa’s Oaklawn Cemetery last Friday.
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“Till” Director Chinonye Chukwu Hopes The Film Will Inspire Change
The Root spoke to director, Chinonye Chukwu about her film, Till, based on the tragic story of Emmett Till’s death and his mother, Mamie’s heroic activism.
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Tennessee Man Beaten by Officers, Speaks Out After Incident [Update]
Brandon Calloway was chased and beaten in his own home after allegedly evading an arrest.
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Kyrie Irving Tells Biden To ‘Do His Job’ And Free Brittney Griner
His impassioned plea follows Steph Curry’s remarks about the athlete being detained in Russia.
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Brittney Griner Spends Her Thirty-Second Birthday In A Russian Jail Cell
The stakes remain high for the WNBA star, who is days away from fighting for an appeal to her nine-year sentence.



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