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Why This Family Is Being Forced to Keep a Pregnant Brain-Dead Woman Alive Will Infuriate You
Adriana Smith's doctors are legally obligated to keep her alive...and that's not all.
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Black Celebs Who Died Too Young in 2024
From Erica Ash to Rich Homie Quan, we say one final goodbye to those we lost too early this year.
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Keke Palmer, Trippie Redd, More Celebrities Mourn Late Rapper Chris King
King passed away from gunshot wounds from a shooting in Nashville.
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Funeral Homes Reported to Families That Loved Ones’ Organs Were Missing. It Gets Worse
Five lawsuits allege the Alabama Department of Corrections returned inmate remains without their organs.
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Black Lawmakers To Highlight Victims of Police Brutality At State of The Union Address
The Rootspoke exclusively with Rep. Gwen Moore and Milwaukee Bucks' player Sterling Brown about why we must keep shining a light on police brutality.
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The Best Black Fiction of 2022 for Readers of All Ages [UPDATED]
Before the year is out, we wanted to show even more love to some of our favorite works of Black fiction.
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Man Dies in Custody after London Police Call His Cries for Help a “Load of Nonsense”
The man was asthmatic and suffered from chronic pulmonary disease.
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White Man In Connecticut Arrested After Pushing 11-Year-Old Black Boy Off Bike
After police saw video footage of the disgusting attack, they arrested the man
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Feds Open Probe into Louisiana State Police following Ronald Greene 2019 death coverup
Louisiana troopers have a history of covering up beatings of Black people