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Black Women Who Bag Rich Men, Keith Lee Drama, Black Nepo Babies in Sports and More Culture News

Catching up on The Roots top Culture news from the week of Dec. 16

By

The Root Bot

Published

December 16, 2023
Culture, Culture

Sherrilyn Ifill Wants No Part of X Now That This Man is Back

The prominent civil rights attorney deactivated her account after Elon Musk reinstated the controversial conspiracy theorist.

By

Angela Johnson

Published

December 11, 2023
Politics

Former NAACP-LDF President Calls Out Republican Louie Gohmert’s ‘Anti-Lynching’ Comments

Sherrilyn Ifill–the former leader of the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund–took to Twitter to blast Gohmert’s ignorant remarks.

By

Candace McDuffie

Published

April 28, 2022
News, Obituary

Lani Guinier, Legal Scholar and Civil Rights Champion, Dies at 71

A Republican-driven attack on her views on voting rights led President Clinton to rescind his nomination to appoint her as assistant attorney general in 1993.

By

Vanessa De Luca

Published

January 8, 2022
News

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Wants Justice Department to Suspend Police Grants Amid Investigation Into Policing Practices

After former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the U.S. Justice Department has launched an investigation into the city’s police department to determine whether it “engages in a pattern or practice of unconstitutional or unlawful policing.” While the investigation might seem to be a…

By

Zack Linly

Published

April 30, 2021
Entertainment, It’s Lit

Four Hundred Souls: A Landmark Anthology Announces a Star-Studded Audiobook Cast

When The 1619 Project debuted in 2019, it shed much-needed perspective on the history of African descendants in America—and our birthright to a country founded upon the labor of our ancestors. In February, that history will be explored in even more depth with the publication of Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America,…

By

Maiysha Kai

Published

January 25, 2021