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Mother of Woman Killed by University of Alabama Basketball Player Alleges She Knows Why He Shot her Daughter
Darius Miles and Michael Lynn Davis were arrested and charged with capital murder for the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old woman, Jamea Jonae Harris.
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We Just Learned the Deeper Meaning Behind Jeremy Pope’s Met Gala ‘Fit, and—Whew
The theme was ‘In America: A Lexicon of Fashion’. Pope and his designers opted to reference America’s lexicon of enslavement and exploitation.
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Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton Is Not a Racist. He Just Plays One in Real Life
Here at The Root, we are very particular about how we label people. We know that labels can be damaging and unshakeable so we are careful not to brand a person a thing unless we are sure that they are in fact said thing. So, it’s with that in mind that I say Republican Arkansas…
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Pam Northam, Wife of Blackface Enthusiast Virginia Governor, Hands Cotton to Black Students During Tour of Governor’s Mansion
Behind every racist governor conducting state business amid calls for his ouster after his med school yearbook revealed him to be a die-hard shoe polish facial mask fan, is a woman fucking with a handful of little black kids for seemingly no reason at all. Pam Northam, wife of embattled Virginia governor and blackface enthusiast…
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I Paid Attention to the Cotton Fields of Alabama for the 1st Time
I’m a Southerner. Like most of my fellow military brats, I spent a considerable amount of my youth growing up in Europe (in my case, Frankfurt, Germany), but I was raised by two black Southerners—my father and stepmother—and during the summers, I split time between Michigan (where my birth mother lives; I hate making these…
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Students Suspended for ‘Picking Cotton’ Promposal That Family Says Was ‘Inside Joke’
Two white South Florida high school students have been suspended after a photo of a racist promposal went viral. You know the one, where they’re standing on either side of a black student with a sign that read, “You may be picking cotton but we’re picking you to go to prom with us.” The girls…