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NFL Miraculously Gets Protest-Free Super Bowl
After a tumultuous season that featured a decline in ratings partially blamed on National Football League players protesting injustice and inequality during the national anthem, America will get to enjoy a Super Bowl devoid of ungrateful players insulting the mythical “troops” and the long-dead corpse of Francis Scott Key by kneeling during “The Star-Spangled Banner.”…
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Watch: War Hero Sen. Tammy Duckworth Calls Trump ‘Draft Dodger’ and ‘Cadet Bone Spurs’
In 2004, while on deployment in Iraq, the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter that Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) was co-piloting was hit by a rocket grenade launcher. Duckworth would lose her right leg near the hip and her left leg below the knee from injuries she suffered in the attack. So you can imagine how much…
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Why Was NASA Astronaut Jeanette Epps Removed From International Space Station Mission? Racism, Her Brother Says
Last summer, it was announced that NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps would become the first African-American International Space Station crew member, after she was chosen to go on the June 2018 mission. Of course, we now know that those plans have changed, with news breaking last week that NASA had decided to pull Epps off the…
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Video of Hero Cop Body-Slamming Unarmed, Handcuffed Teenage Girl Somehow Angers People
Citizens and community leaders are applauding the selfless actions of a California police officer following the cop’s heroic takedown of an unarmed, already restrained teenage girl after the girl threatened the safety and well-being of an entire school body by standing still and talking. According to a Los Angeles Times report, an instructor at Helix…
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Minnesota High School Apologizes After Editing ‘Deport Racists’ Off Student’s Shirt in Photo
A Minnesota high school is apologizing after it decided to edit the slogan “Deport Racists” off a student’s T-shirt in a school photo. According to the Star Tribune, the incident started Thursday when Fridley High School tweeted out a photo of a group of students congratulating them on their art and writing awards. Normally, there…
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Planned Parenthood President to White Women: Do Better; Black Women Can’t Keep Saving the Country
Whether it’s been saving Congress from Roy Moore’s disgusting ass, or Oprah’s inspiring speech during the Golden Globes that led to social media chants of #Oprah2020, or Beyoncé just being Beyoncé, black women are clearly the backbone of the American conscience. We at The Root have been trying to tell America that black women are…
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2 Explosive Devices Detonated in Florida Mall; No Injuries Reported
A Florida mall was evacuated Sunday evening after two improvised explosive devices were detonated inside a service corridor. According to ABC News, the blast from the IEDs caused damage to a drop ceiling at the Eagle Ridge Mall in Lake Wales, Fla., as well as structural damage to an area along the corridor wall of…
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Michael Jackson Said It Best, Black People: ‘You Can’t Win’
Sometimes, when I’m feeling a special kind of cynical, I put on Michael Jackson’s “You Can’t Win” from The Wiz and wallow in its bluesy refrain. Being black in the U.S. of A., if you watch the news, or think too hard about the daunting odds of America living up to its promise of parity,…
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Descendants of 272 Slaves Sold by Georgetown Say They Want Reparation$$$ Now!
As reported by The Root when the story first broke, the storied academic institution of Georgetown owes its entire existence to the sale of enslaved black men, women and children. In 1838 the sale of these humans by Jesuit priests saved the school from bankruptcy; to this day, it remains a thriving academic institution, thick…
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Former Kentucky Cop Told Recruit to Shoot Black Teens if He Caught Them Smoking Weed
In a case that just bolsters my theory that law enforcement has become a haven for virulent white supremacists, a former Prospect, Ky., assistant police chief told a Louisville Metro Police Department recruit that if he caught juveniles smoking marijuana, he should “shoot them” if they were black. And worse. According to documents released Friday,…