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  • Carolina Panthers Running Back Mike Tolbert Might Be Super Petty

    Carolina Panthers running back Mike Tolbert might be the most passively aggressive petty person ever if you believe the owner of Motion Lab Tuning, an automotive company in Charlotte, N.C. According to automotive site Jalopnik, Tolbert took a vintage ride to Motion Lab to get a new engine. The owner says that because of Tolbert’s…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • How Censoring Facebook Affects the Fight for Black Lives

    Earlier this month, Baltimore County police tried to serve a black mother with an arrest warrant for failing to appear in court for a traffic violation. But the picture many saw told only one side of the story.  Police killed the woman, Korryn Gaines, and her 5-year-old son was wounded in the altercation. She had…

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    The Root Staff

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  • Dear People Who Created The Prisma App, You're The Real MVP.

    You may not know this about me, but in my soul, I’m an artist. At my core, I’m a musician, a photographer, a painter, a writer, a poet, etc. I’m all of the arts. Ain’t no art that I ain’t attempted to art. A thug even tried to scrapbook once until I realized that thugs don’t…

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    Panama Jackson

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  • Broadway Dancer Admits to Killing Boyfriend Via Facebook Post

    Marcus Bellamy, a 32-year-old dancer on the Broadway stage, allegedly murdered his boyfriend, Bernardo Almonte, in their walkup in the Bronx borough of New York City and then took to Facebook to confess, according to the New York Daily News. “Forgive me,” he wrote Friday after reportedly beating and strangling Almonte. “I did it for love.…

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    The Root Staff

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  • Dear Men Who Very Obviously Hate Women: Do Yourselves A Favor And Just Admit It!

    The idea that overt and unambiguous racism is preferable to subtler forms of prejudice is not a terribly uncommon one among Black people. Of course, like Tyga’s music and soft chicken wings, all racism is really bad. But if given the choice between clear racism and concealed and/or confusing racism, many of us (myself included) would choose…

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    Damon Young

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  • Spoilers (and Spoiler Alerts) In The Age of Social Media

    Spoiler Alert. There are spoilers in this post about spoilers. Be aware. That’s all I got for you. So Tommy killed Holly. About damn time. I can’t lie, I’ve been waiting for Holly to die since season one of Power, and as annoyed as I’ve been that she’s made it this long, I’ll take it.…

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    Panama Jackson

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  • Cincinnati Police Department Reviewing Black Cop's Facebook Post About White Officers

    A black Cincinnati police officer has found himself the center of attention after making a Facebook post saying that white officers are just “looking for a reason to kill a black man,” the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. The Cincinnati Police Department is reviewing the post under its “social media procedure and our rules and regulations,” Police…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Ohio Police Sgt. Suspended for Facebook Post About 'Monkeys' Swears He's Not Racist 

    A Shreve, Ohio, police sergeant says he wasn’t being racist after an inflammatory Facebook post landed him in trouble and on indefinite, unpaid suspension, News Net 5 reports. “Been at work for ONE HOUR and the monkeys have already exceeded their limit of snark I’m gonna take for the night. PUMP THE BRAKES, MONKEYS!” Sgt. Robert…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • What to Do if You Find Out That Pop-Pop Is a THOT

    Much like the instantaneous, fame-adjacent status he procured by being shown wearing trendy clothes that showed off his ankles on the internet, the older black gentleman known as “Mr. Steal Your Grandma” has hastily fallen from many folks’ good graces. Much of it has to do with a since-deleted Facebook status in which Irvin Randle…

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    Michael Arceneaux

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  • Chicago Man Captures Own Murder on Facebook Live

    A Chicago man’s last moments on earth were captured on video and posted live on Facebook, according to ABC7 Chicago. Antonio Perkins, 28, was found fatally shot in a North Lawndale neighborhood on Wednesday. Perkins, also known as Cicero Yayo, was taking a Facebook Live video of himself drinking tequila with friends, and the deadly altercation…

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    The Root Staff

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