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TV Judge Glenda Hatchett Calls Out Georgia Governor Brian Kemp After His former Sheriff Admitted to Groping Her
The former Sheriff who admitted to groping TV Judge Glenda Hatchett quit, but why didn’t Georgia Governor Brian Kemp push for his removal?
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The Times When Black Americans Rose-up In the Wake of Police Brutality
Michael Brown’s death helped spark a whole movement. The Root looks back at other incidents of police brutality that sparked racial justice protests.
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Black Gun-Rights Advocates Speak Out Following Amir Locke Shooting
Gun-rights advocates speak on Amir Locke’s death and how Black gun owners face dangers due to racism and implicit bias.
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Cops Furious They Won’t Be Able to Kill More Black People After Prosecutor Announces Not-So-Radical Police Reform
The Minnesota prosecutor who indicted the cop who killed Philando Castile announced a policy that protects and serves. So why are police so upset about it?
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'Don't Black People Have Second Amendment Rights?': The Root Presents: It’s Lit! and Carol Anderson Take Aim at the Fatal Inequality of The Second
The bestselling author of ‘White Rage’ turns her historian’s lens onto the anti-Blackness baked into the American right to keep and bear arms.