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Jay-Z Called Your President a ‘Superbug,’ and Trump Responded With Black Unemployment Figures
President Donald Trump didn’t have much to say to rapper Eminem, who has been excoriating him on wax (wait—do people even say “wax” anymore?) who has been ethering him in the cloud for a minute, but, again, Trump hasn’t responded. But perhaps because it is rumored that the current POTUS only watches television, he did…
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Set It Off! FBI Hunts for the ‘Freedom Fighter Bandit’ Who Says She Robs Banks for a Cause
This story is just too juicy: Authorities say that a young black woman has robbed at least nine banks à la Set It Off-style, and now the federales are in hot pursuit. WSB-TV 2 reports that authorities suspect that 25-year-old Nilsa Marie Urena is the woman police have dubbed the “Freedom Fighter Bandit” since, according…
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13-Year-Old Maryland Boy Miraculously Survives Fall Where 6-Inch Nail Pierces His Brain
There must’ve been an angel by this kid’s side … because somehow he survived a fall in which a nail attached to a board went through his skull and pierced his brain. In fact, Darius Foreman not only survived but was able to go home on Thursday—his 13th birthday—after a dangerous and delicate neurosurgery at…
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16-Year-Old Virginia Girl’s Body Found 2 Weeks After She Went Missing. Her Parents Say Police Treated Her Like a ‘Runaway’
The body of a 16-year-old from Alexandria, Va., was found Friday less than a mile from her home. Jholie Moussa had been missing for about two weeks when police found her body covered in leaves in Woodlawn Park in Fairfax County, the second time police say they searched the park. On the day Jholie went…
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Running Slaloms on ’Em: Kenyan Skier Sabrina Simader Makes It to 1st Winter Games
Although the Winter Olympics used to be a lily-white affair, or what The Root Senior Editor Stephen A. Crockett called “the privileged Olympics,” slowly but surely, the blacks are coming to eat. And black women are looking to dominate. In addition to a nice Nigerian bobsled team, not one, but two black women qualified for…
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White High Schoolers Get So Racist at Basketball Game, All They Were Missing Were a Few Tiki Torches
When the overwhelmingly white Spencer Tigers hosted the mostly minority Storm Lake Tornadoes for a Jan. 19 basketball game, they were as hospitable as a Ku Klux Klan rally welcoming a Black Lives Matter group. According to U.S. News & World Report, Spencer High School in Iowa is 91 percent white, while nearby Storm Lake…
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Supreme Court Asked to Intervene in Case of 16-Year-Old Sentenced to Die in Prison
The American Civil Liberties Union, a nonprofit law firm and 26 former judges and prosecutors have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in the case of a man sentenced to 241 years for being an accomplice to a robbery when he was a juvenile. The St. Louis American reports that in 1995, Bobby Bostic…
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NFL Star Faces Felony Robbery Charges Over $15 Phone Charger
A Baltimore Ravens player was arrested and jailed Thursday after an Uber driver accused the NFL star of masterminding a whirlwind heist of a $15 cellphone charger. The criminal plot began Jan. 13 in Tuscaloosa, Ala., a city known for its glamour and wealth. Defensive back Marlon Humphrey was there allegedly visiting the University of…
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Survey Finds Men of Color Are More Likely to Say Sexual Assault Is a ‘Serious Problem’ Than White Women … for Real
A new Washington Post-ABC poll surveying Americans’ attitudes toward sexual harassment found that women of color were more likely than other groups to say that sexual harassment in the workplace was a “serious problem.” Among those surveyed, 86 percent of nonwhite women said that workplace sexual harassment was a serious problem. That was considerably more…