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Auntie Unfiltered Chats with JP Morgan Chase VP, Monique Forward
Change is constant. If there is one mantra I live by, it is that we can be adaptable and use change, even when it’s constant, as a means of reinventing ourselves. Y’all know I am anti-ageism. I believe any Black woman at any age can harness the power to change her circumstances, lifestyle, career path…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Maybe Whiteness Is Not a Pandemic
Last week, a white man did white man things, which caused a lot of pain and heartache. Some people call Robert Aaron Long a “spree shooter,” while others call him a “mass murderer.” Because he went from location to location to kill people, he may technically be a serial killer or a hate criminal —…
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Sen. Tom Cotton Wants to Ban Critical Race Theory From the Military, Blames BLM for Mass Shootings. God, He's an Idiot
Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton—whose surname is probably not short of I-like-my-negroes-picking-Cotton, but you never know—is the most annoying kind of racist. Like white conservatives across the nation, Cotton is very careful not to drop any n-bombs on camera but he has no problem getting in front of a microphone and launching into Klan-ish diatribes that…
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This Equal Pay Day, Black Women Leaders Warn That Without Action, the Gender Pay Gap Will Only Deepen
In a year where conversations about equality have largely been centered around race and political equity, it might’ve been easy to forget the ongoing issue of the gender pay gap, even as recent reports have shown that women have been disproportionately affected by the economic fallout of the ongoing pandemic. In fact, an October 2020…
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China Quotes George Floyd in Report Calling Out America's Racism
The United States loves to position itself on the global stage as a bastion of freedom, justice and democracy with the authority to call out other nations for not sufficiently exhibiting those ideals. But on Wednesday, the Chinese government issued a 28-page report to the United Nations challenging America’s critique of the rising power in…
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NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Launches Commission to Address Systemic Racism and I’m Struggling Not to Be a Cynic
On Tuesday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that he is doing what a number of lawmakers and officials have been doing in order to at least appear interested in addressing the whole systemic racism in America thing: He launched a commission. Racial justice commissions seem odd to people who are looking to…
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California Becomes First State in America to Approve Statewide High School Ethnic Studies Curriculum
While Republican-run states like Florida are proposing statewide educational curricula that will “expressly exclude” critical race theory—because a lot of white people in power are fragile AF and that fragility will undoubtedly extend to the classrooms in their states—California has adopted the nation’s first statewide ethnic studies high school curriculum, and one that doesn’t shy…
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Declares That His New Civics Education Proposal Will 'Expressly Exclude' Critical Race Theory
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is engaging in the relatively new conservative practice of pretending to know the first damn thing about critical race theory. On Wednesday, the governor of voter suppression and making pandemics worse unveiled his proposal for a civics education curriculum for Florida schools, which he said will “expressly exclude” critical race theory. Before…
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Anti-Defamation League Report Says White Supremacist Propaganda Surged in 2020. No Word on Whether Water Is Still Wet, Though
According to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League, white supremacist propaganda surged across America last year. The report did not include any updates as to whether or not water is still wet, if the sky still turns less blue when the weather is bad or whether today is, in fact, Wednesday. OK, so obviously…
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Watch Whiteness Work: A White Man Kills 6 Asian Women, and a White Cop Says He 'Had a Bad Day'
It’s already been a heartbreaking and devastatingly unrelenting year of blatant, dehumanizing and violent acts of racism. It’s echoed four years of ever-escalating incidents in the same vein, not to mention centuries of a state of rotten affairs that is as American as apple pie. I don’t know about you, but I’m exhausted and completely…
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