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NYPD Detective Caught Shoplifting, Trump’s Plan for Black People, Black High School Volleyball Player Collapses, Jay-Z and Tony Buzbee Exchange Statements and More Viral News Stories
Wondering what you missed. The Root’s top news posts of the week.
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Meagan Good’s Viral Mansion, Samuel L. Jackson’s Homes Through the Years, New York Detective Arrested for Shoplifting, Jay-Z’s Awkward ‘Mufasa’ Moment, and More Viral News You Missed
Potentially losing your job as a detective over cough medicine is not what we expected.
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Haters Trying to Put Kamala Harris on Blast for Work She Did in College
But most people just wanted to know why The Free Beacon was trying to make news out of something so trivial.
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Here’s Why Black Internet is Dragging T. D. Jakes, Despite His Denials of Salacious Rumors
Black pastors aren’t receiving the same degree of love and respect that they historically have from the Black community. See Exhibit A: Bishop T.D. Jakes.
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What In The Actual Hell: CVS Abortion Med Mixup Led To Black Woman’s IVF Termination
Timika Thomas has spoken out about the harrowing experience.
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I Took Two of My Kids to Get Their COVID (and Flu) Shots by Myself: A Discourse on Parental Decision-Making
Two kids, two shots, one parent? Easily one of the worst decisions I’ve made at my big age.
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For Parents Whose Blood Pressure Gets Raised Because of Product Recalls When ’Tussin and Wine Ain’t Enough
I was driving my daughter to school this morning, gleefully coasting across the Washington, D.C., area’s Woodrow Wilson Bridge, named after possibly the most racist president of all time, a true accomplishment considering that several presidents actually owned slaves, when my phone buzzed. Like many folks, I get an alarming (no pun intended) number of…
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‘Coupon Carl’ Calls Cops on Black Woman at CVS for Allegedly Using a Forged Coupon, But Was Busted Himself for Forgery Less Than 2 Years Ago
Yes, this is yet another story of a sorry white person calling the police on a black person for something trivial —his moniker? “Coupon Carl”—but it’s also a cautionary tale of the blowback of such actions; or, as my mama says, “When you point a finger, there are three pointing back at you.” Morry Matson,…
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The Complexity of Not Calling the Police While Black
The news has lately been inundated with examples of white folks (and even some nonwhite folks) doing the ultimate white-folkin’ of calling the police for no reason on black folks who were doing nothing but existing and living their everyday lives. From Starbucks to walking in the park with our own children or trying to…
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Real Beauty: Is Truth in Advertising Finally Here?
“For my entire life, I’ve been sold the seduction of my inadequacy.” —Lupita Nyong’o Those are the words of a woman many consider one of the most beautiful in the world, who grew up, like many black and brown girls everywhere, not seeing images in the media that reflected herself and validated her beauty. Seth…