black people
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Black Journalist Launches Newsletter to Keep Black People Informed About the Coronavirus Pandemic
It’s important to have news platforms that are specifically tailored to fit the needs of black people who wish to stay informed. This is more true now than ever before, as the current global health crisis has proven to infect and kill black people disproportionately in the U.S. Thankfully, one black journalist was innovative enough…
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Beyoncé Spits Facts on How Coronavirus Affects Black Americans During Global Citizen Event
As if her skin tone and the themes on her Lemonade album weren’t dead giveaways, we’re here to remind you that Beyoncé is black. On Saturday the Grammy-winning musician and entertainer was featured on Global Citizen’s live-streamed event One World: Together at Home, where she used her brief camera time to thank essential workers and…
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Surgeon General Jerome Adams Tells Black People to Lay Off Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs to Prevent COVID-19 Deaths: 'Do It for Your Big Mama'
It didn’t take long for U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams to dip into personal responsibility talking points—and some other questionable rhetoric—in remarks given to the press today about the disproportionate impact the novel coronavirus has had on black communities and other communities of color. Adams’ comments were shared by PBS White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor…
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New Study Reveals That the Only Thing Longer Than a Black Church Sermon Is a CVS Receipt
I believe the phrase is “life is not a sprint, it’s a marathon”—and if that’s the case, then what would you call Sunday service at a black church? A triathlon? Maybe the Tour de France? As anyone who’s had the misfortune of enduring a Sunday sermon from their friendly neighborhood black-ass pastor knows, that sanctified…
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10 Thoughts on What the Popeye’s Chicken Sandwich Craze Says About Black People and Our Misplaced Priorities
1. Zip 2. Zilch 3. Zippo 4. Zero 5. Nada 6. Nathan 7. Nothing 8. Naw 9. Naught 10. Nigga?
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What Our Reactions to the H&M Child Model’s Hair Really Said About Our Feelings About Black Hair
Any black person who has embarked on a natural hair journey can inform you that afro-textured hair is work. After going natural over five years ago, I’ve spent countless hours experimenting with everything from DIY avocado and banana hair smoothies to handheld hair steamers. I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time considering the merits of…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Some Rules and Reminders for People Who Read The Root
It’s the Friday before a major holiday, and the regular writer of the Clapback Mailbag, Michael Harriot, has decided to take the day off for whatever it is he does when he is not pulling white people by their taint hairs on The Root. Before he took off the other day, he asked me if…
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Maybe We Should Stop Wishing We Could Do What the Worst White People Do
Although black people wanting to get away with the things that white people seem to be able to do will always leave a bitter taste, I’d get it if the black people who do/did this sort of thing were a tad more ambitious. I’d be inclined to grant their whataboutisms more sympathy if they made…
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Bill Cosby Hates You
We can conclude, with much evidence and without much doubt, that Bill Cosby hates women. When a person has been deemed by a judge a “sexually violent predator” and said person’s prey happens to be women—dozens of women—using hate to describe the predator’s feelings towards them is such a common sense encapsulation that it might…
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Has Valerie Scogin, the Teacher Who Said Black People Should Go Back to Africa, Ever Taken a DNA Test? Because, Well …
There have been and will continue to be calls for Valerie Scogin — the Louisiana school teacher who essentially called black people lazy animals who should go back to Africa—to be suspended and/or fired. These demands have merit, because not only is Scogin racist, she got her “facts” from a MAGA fortune cookie. And since…