depelsha mcgruder
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The Root Honored Black Excellence at The Apollo
The Root 100 Gala was a star-studded event celebrating the best of our culture.
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From Fear to Fortitude: One Woman’s Fight for Black Boys a Year Later
This time last year, I was curled up in a ball on my bed, in tears and feeling frustrated, angry and afraid. I was suffering from a condition I coined called “MOBB disorder,” the seemingly irrational fear of a mom of a black boy that he will be unfairly stopped, harassed, brutalized or killed by…