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NYC Student Wants to Put His Namesake Malcolm X’s Name on His Senior Sweater, but His School Thinks It’s Inappropriate
His name is Malcolm Xavier Combs. He was named for the iconic black activist Malcolm X. And yet when Malcolm wanted to put the moniker of his namesake (and thus a shortened form of his own name) on his senior sweater, school officials deemed it inappropriate. “I don’t understand it,” Mychelle Combs, Malcolm’s mother, told…
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Mike Pence Doesn’t Bat an Eye Bashing North Korea’s Military Parade While Praising Donald Trump’s Parade
Vice President Mike Pence refuses to admit that President Donald Trump’s call for a military parade is really just a dick-measuring contest of presidential proportions. Since Russian oligarchs all but awarded Trump the presidency, he’s been engaging in a game of chicken with arguably one of the world’s most unstable leaders, dictator Kim Jong Un.…
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Maryland Governor Tries to Settle HBCUs’ Lawsuit With $100 Million; Schools Say ‘What Else You Got?’
Years ago, The Root Editor-in-Chief Danielle Belton and I were having a conversation about America’s jacked-up relationship with black people. We were enslaved for more than 200 years, lived under American apartheid for another century, and then finally, in the last 50 years or so, America has made a half-hearted attempt to erase its terrible…
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Utah School Renamed in Honor of NASA’s 1st Black Female Engineer
Jackson Elementary School in Salt Lake City will remain Jackson Elementary school, but the name will now have a very different meaning. According to KSK-TV, the name of NASA engineer Mary Jackson, the first black woman to become an engineer at the esteemed space agency, and one of the subjects of the book and movie…
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Texas Woman, Who Was Possibly Living at Fitness Center, Found Nearly Drowned in Pool
A Texas woman is on life support after she was found floating in the swimming pool of a Grapevine, Texas, Life Time Fitness studio, where friends say she may have been living for more than two weeks. According to CBS DFW, Jamila Hashim is being treated at the Baylor Scott & White Medical Center after…
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#NetNeutrality: Virginia Lawmakers Vote Against Creating Open Internet Protections for Their State
Another move in a long line of maneuvers to protect net neutrality at the state level was smashed down when a Virginia bill that would have prevented internet service providers from prioritizing or blocking web content was killed by a state House subcommittee Tuesday. The Associated Press reports that the House Commerce and Labor Subcommittee…
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Omarosa Still Believes She Has Redeeming Qualities, Cries While Telling Big Brother Castmate Her Time at the White House Was a ‘Call to Duty’
Well, it looks as if Omarosa Manigault Trump IV is on her Chrisette Michele “Welcome me back, black America, because I didn’t know what I was doing” tour, and the first stop is Celebrity Big Brother, where Omarosa, the former director of communications for the White House Office of Public Liaison, proved that she is…
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Young Teacher Adopts 12-Year-Old Student Who Almost Caused Her to Quit
An unlikely duo have formed a mother-and-son bond, changing their lives for the better. Chelsea Haley, 24, appeared in fourth-grader Jerome Robinson’s life as a teacher at his elementary school in Baton Rouge, La., through Teach for America, hoping to make a difference in a low-income school. But there were times when Jerome’s behavior tested…