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Why Are You Like This? Far Right Cooks Up Conspiracy Theories, Bullies Survivors of Parkland, Fla., Shooting Seeking Gun Reform
The far right doesn’t want you to “politicize” recurring national tragedies like the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting. They just prefer that you make up a bunch of wild-ass garbage about those tragedies. Survivors of last week’s school shooting in Parkland, Fla., one of the deadliest in modern American history, have said that…
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Family, Police Desperately Search for CDC Employee Who Vanished Without a Trace
Atlanta police are searching for a doctor working for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who disappeared last week without a trace. Timothy Cunningham, a 35-year-old alumnus of Morehouse and Harvard, was recently promoted to commander under the U.S. Health Service Corps at the CDC, people close to him told Fox 5 Atlanta. Cunningham…
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Charges Dropped Against All Durham, NC, Confederate-Statue Protesters
There were 12 defendants charged in connection with the Aug. 14, 2017, toppling of a Confederate statue in Durham, N.C., and by Tuesday afternoon, the charges had been dropped against all of them, ending what one local attorney described as “a waste of taxpayer money in the name of the Confederacy, of all things.” The…
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Republican Florida Lawmakers Care More About Guns Than They Do About Children
If you needed further proof that the lawmakers in this country care more about their damn guns than they do about the children who keep getting killed by them, read this story. Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., have made it their mission to lobby lawmakers in their state to change…
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#MuteRKelly: Activists Plan a Protest at Singer’s Detroit Show
As the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements wage on, the time when any accused sexual predator could get a pass is long gone. Any and everyone is being called out, including those who may have once been allowed to slide because of the love people have for their music. You know, like R. Kelly. The Detroit…
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Clarence Thomas Sexual Harassment Accuser Wants Him Impeached
Angela Wright-Shannon accused Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment in the 1980s, and now, in a scathing op-ed, she’s calling for his impeachment and removal from the bench. Wright-Shannon, a former Charlotte Observer editor, wrote in her HuffPost essay published Monday that she and several other women, including Anita Hill, accused Thomas of…
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Chicago Blackhawks Ban 4 Fans From Home Games After They Chanted ‘Basketball’ at Black NHL Player
The Chicago Blackhawks have barred four fans from their home games after the Washington Capitals’ Devante Smith-Pelly was subjected to racist chants while playing in Chicago over the weekend. Smith-Pelly is, unfortunately, no stranger to racism on the ice and immediately knew what was going on when a few fans started chanting, “Basketball, basketball, basketball”…
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Trump Takes to Twitter to Bash Sexual Assault Accuser Because He’s Trash
When 53 percent of white women vote against their self-interests to elect a reality star to the highest office in the land, then no one can be surprised at the drama that ensues. Once again, President TinyFingers von GrabHands is back to bashing his accusers on social media because that’s really presidential. On Sunday, the…
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On What Happens When Folks Are Denied Their Fried Chicken
Climate change is real, the political discourse is trash, and people in the U.S. and U.K. just want some damn fried chicken to soothe their souls. Which is why we at The Root have not one, but two #TodayInChicken stories to share with you. Let’s begin on the American side of the pond in Marietta,…
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Places Where Rae Carruth Can Go, Starting With Hell
Rae Carruth could cure cancer, reduce the price of cable to under $20 a month, end homelessness and discover an ancient vibranium shield proving that Wakanda is real, and it will now and forever be fuck Rae Carruth. For those too young to know, or those too old to care to remember how Carruth earned…