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‘See How It Feels to Be a Slave?’: NYC Teacher Steps on Student’s Back to Simulate Horrors of Slavery

For the students at Middle School 118 in New York City’s Bronx borough, it was an immersive lesson gone way too far. Teacher Patricia Cummings is catching heat from students and parents after a social studies lesson she delivered about the Middle Passage—one that involved her stepping on her students’ backs. The New York Daily…

By

Anne Branigin

Published

February 2, 2018
NYC Teen Charged in Fatal Stabbing of Classmate Thanks Gay Community for Helping Post $250,000 Bail

A Bronx, N.Y., teen charged with fatally stabbing his 15-year-old classmate in September will be able to spend the holidays with his family. Abel Cedeno, 18, was released Wednesday on a $250,000 bond. As WABC-TV reports, a judge had lowered Cedeno’s bail from $500,000 on his manslaughter charges in the death of classmate Matthew McCree.…

By

Anne Branigin

Published

November 30, 2017
Entertainment

From Now On, I Only Want My News and Weather From Cardi B

If you’re like me, you can’t stand how the mainstream news has devolved into a series of 45-second “hot takes.” “Unfair and mentally imbalanced” Fox News might as well rename itself the Orange News Network because it is basically a 24-hour cycle of spray-tanned white people high on hair gel fellating Donald Trump. So I’m…

By

Michael Harriot

Published

November 28, 2017
NYC Teen Indicted on Manslaughter Charges in Classroom Stabbing of 2 Fellow Students

A Bronx, N.Y., teen who allegedly stabbed two fellow classmates with a switchblade, one fatally, was indicted on manslaughter charges Tuesday by a grand jury. Abel Cedeno, 18, was originally charged with murder in the death of 15-year-old Matthew McCree in an attack that took place Sept. 27 at the Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation…

By

Monique Judge

Published

October 17, 2017
Stabbing at NYC High School Leaves 15-Year-Old Dead, 16-Year-Old Critically Injured

A school in New York City’s Bronx borough went into lockdown Wednesday morning after a stabbing that left one 15-year-old student dead and another student, 16, critically injured, in what police say was the culmination of weeks of dispute. According to the New York Times, the attack occurred in a building that houses two schools:…

By

Breanna Edwards

Published

September 28, 2017
Grand Jury Will Not Indict Teen Charged With Choking Mom’s Abusive Ex-Boyfriend to Death

A grand jury has declined to indict a Bronx, N.Y., teen who was facing manslaughter charges in the death of his mother’s ex-boyfriend. Luis Moux, 18, told police that he was acting to save his mother’s life when he put 43-year-old Stanley Washington in a choke hold, which ended the older man’s life. As reported…

By

Angela Helm

Published

September 26, 2017
Culture

Exclusive: Pastor Jamal Bryant Spills on Dropped Stalking Case, ‘Being Messy’ and Redemption

Pastor Jamal Bryant told The Root in an exclusive interview that a Bronx, N.Y., judge dismissed a case Thursday in which a New York City woman accused him of online stalking. Media outlet Rolling Out reported this summer that Jennifer Wright filed a restraining order against Bryant after alleging that he stalked her online. Wright…

By

Terrell Jermaine Starr

Published

September 15, 2017
Deaths of NYC Toddlers Ruled Homicides Following Autopsy

The deaths of a 2-year-old girl and her 3-year-old brother are being investigated as homicides after an autopsy revealed the siblings were beaten to death. According to the New York Times, the death of the siblings from New York City’s Bronx borough, Olivia and Micah Gee, both of whom died minutes apart, immediately caught the…

By

Breanna Edwards

Published

July 12, 2017
The Doctor Who Shot Up the Hospital in NYC? Yeah, He Was Black. Damn

As my little bio in at the end of this post notes, I am not into “respectability politics”—that is, giving a fuck about what white folks think about my choices, whether speaking “black English” (loudly, of course), giving my children black-ass names or tamping myself down in any way to fit into some vague notion…

By

Angela Helm

Published

July 1, 2017
Politics

NYC Police Officer Arrested for Shooting Death of Mentally Ill Black Woman: Report

Law-enforcement officials say that a New York City police sergeant was arrested Wednesday in the shooting death of an elderly, mentally ill woman inside her Bronx apartment in October. The New York Times reports that the arrest of the police supervisor, Sgt. Hugh Barry, comes after months of investigations into the deadly encounter with 66-year-old…

By

Breanna Edwards

Published

May 31, 2017