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Surprising Celebrities We’d Totally Invite to the 4th of July Summer Cookout
Melissa McCarthy, Tom Holland and Brie Larson are just some of the interesting names we’d give an invitation to.
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Megan Rapinoe Honors Brittney Griner While Accepting Presidential Medal Of Freedom
The soccer star wore a suit embroidered with the initials 'BG' during the ceremony.
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Denzel Washington Tests Positive for COVID, Forced to Miss White House Awards Ceremony
"I’ll be giving him this award at a later date when he’s able to get here,” said President Biden at the ceremony
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Simone Biles, Denzel Washington Among New Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients
Nurse Sandra Lindsay, civil rights activists Diane Nash and Fred Gray will also be honored.
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The Sports World Reacts to the Breonna Taylor Verdict: 'We Will Not Be Silent and Accept State Sanctioned Murder'
We knew it was going to happen. Yet despite having months to mentally prepare ourselves for the inevitable, it still rattled almost every last one of us to our core: there would be no justice for Breonna Taylor. As previously reported at The Root: On Wednesday, a grand jury indicted former Louisville Metro police officer…
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Russell Wilson, Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe Deliver Powerful Black Lives Matter Message at 2020 ESPYs
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic ensured that this year’s ESPYs would be radically different than any of its predecessors. And to the surprise of no one, there was no red carpet, no gaudy venue or lengthy monologue taking unsolicited jabs at some of the biggest names in sports. But for what it lacked in tradition, it…
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Crystal Dunn Was Afraid She'd Lose Her Career If She Kneeled With Megan Rapinoe
In recent years, when a black athlete takes a political stance they’re typically met with some variation of “shut up and dribble,” from media pundits and pressed white fans. It’s understandable that American soccer player Crystal Dunn had complicated emotions when her teammate Megan Rapinoe decided to kneel. Dunn said she had a fear that…
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'We Have to Do More': Champion Ally Megan Rapinoe Thanked Kaepernick, Tarana Burke and Black Lives Matter in 'Woman of the Year' Speech
If you follow The Root on a regular basis, you know white women warrant a surprising amount of our coverage. This is not because this is a site for or about white women (quite to the contrary). It’s because some white women’s interactions with and responses to blackness have consistently proven dangerous to the people…