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Black Girl Trafficked for Her Skin, Eyes is Still Missing. You’ll Never Believe Who Sold Her Off
Police say Joshlin Smith, 6, didn't wander off, but was sold by the one person meant to love her the most.
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The Surprising Reason It Took More Than 30 Years to Arrest a Black Missouri Man For an Alleged Rape and Murder
Carmen Van Huss was found brutally murdered in her apartment in 1993
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Angela Davis’ Reaction To A Big Reveal Was the Most Priceless Thing We’ve Seen All Week
The activist found out she's a direct descendant of the Founding Fathers. We talked to the genealogist behind the shocking revelation.
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Twinenemy? Don Cheadle and Freddie Gibbs Trade Words on Social Media
The entertainers jokingly went back and forth over claims that they look alike.
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Lawsuit Claims NYPD Illegally Obtained DNA Samples of 32,000 people
The genetic material is stored in a “suspect index,” according to the federal lawsuit.
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Goddamnit, Joe. Not Like This: Biden Campaign Launches Battle Rap Ad
I hate when old people do this. You know the thing where they try to show that they are hip and not old and they wade into the hip waters and start throwing “jiggy” into their normal conversations except they pause right after they use the word for acknowledgment that they are in fact “cool.”…
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The Ancestry Trap: This Geneticist Wants to Shift the Focus From DNA Testing to Black Futures
Dr. Janina Jeff can tell you just about anything you want to know about genetics testing: How does it work? What can it tell you? How do you spell mitochondria again? But Jeff herself has never taken a DNA test. “It still sits on my shelf,” she told The Root in a recent interview. A…
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President Trump Asked to Provide DNA Sample in E. Jean Carroll Rape Case
Lawyers for a woman claiming that she was raped by President Trump in the 1990s are seeking a DNA sample to test against genetic material reportedly found on the dress she was wearing when the alleged incident occurred. According to an exclusive Associated Press report, lawyers for advice columnist E. Jean Carroll served Trump’s attorney…
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46 Chromosomes and a Mule: Falsely Romanticizing Our Complex Genetic Identities for Profit
Last Tuesday night, a friend sent me a video of a commercial framed as a short film titled “Inseparable.” It was set in America during chattel slavery and featured Abigail, an enslaved black woman, and her love interest, a white man who was seeking to entice her to run away with him to presumably engage…
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Elizabeth Warren May Not Be Native American, But She Might Be Black, Talking About 'I Got Some Indian In My Family'
Earlier this year, several folks in my family (including myself) did some variation of DNA testing. You know what I’m talking about; the tests where you send in your DNA and apparently, the government owns and can clone you, but you get to find out, especially if you’re black, that maybe your family originates from…