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Turns Out the Nearly $90,000,000 Donation to Prove the NFL Cares About Social Justice Is Bullshit
On Thursday, The Root staff writer Michael Harriot and I argued as to whether the agreement reached between NFL owners to donate some $90 million to various social justice causes as an answer to players’ protests was good business or just hush money to silence a movement. I posited that protest had sprouted a monetary…
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Michael Flynn Releases Statement After Pleading Guilty to Lying to the FBI; James Comey Responds With Epic Subtweet
Updated Friday, Dec. 1, 2017, 1:03 p.m. EST: After pleading guilty Friday to lying to the FBI about conversations he had with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, Michael Flynn released the following statement accepting responsibility for his actions: Statement by Lt. General Michael T. Flynn (Ret.) After over 33 years of military service to our country,…
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Judy Reyher Hates the Obamas, Blacks and Muslims. Colorado Republicans’ Response? You’re Hired!
A Colorado woman whose Facebook page insinuated that former President Barack Obama faked his birth certificate, said that author Toni Morrison hated white people, wondered why Muslims come to “our country,” and called Michelle Obama “evil personified” and “one of the biggest racist ever to live” was recently punished for her views by … wait…
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Philadelphia Eagles Player Fletcher Cox Seduced a Married Woman and Now Her Husband Is Suing Him: Report
Philadelphia Eagles defensive lineman Fletcher Cox has gotten himself involved in all kinds of drama. Cox has been accused of running college-sophomore-level game on a married North Carolina woman, and her husband is suing the star defensive player, claiming that Cox’s macking has led to substantial emotional distress. Yes, it’s legal to sue someone for…
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Family Searching for Answers After Young, Aspiring NYC Model Is Killed in the Country of Jamaica
The mother of a 26-year-old aspiring model is searching for answers after her daughter was found brutally killed in the country of Jamaica. According to CBS New York, Desiree Gibbon, whose father is from Jamaica, had traveled in October from the Hollis section of New York City’s Queens borough to Montego Bay, where she was…
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Racist Shopper Tells Mother to ‘Go Back to Mexico’
A young Latina mother is still shaken up following a racist confrontation in a home improvement store last week. City Pages reports that Guadeloupe Castillo was shopping with her three children at a Menards in West St. Paul, Minn., when she caught some bad vibes from a couple shopping in the same area. According to…
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Indiana High School Employee Is Being Fired After Participating in Game of Hangman That Used Racial Slur: Report
A Kokomo (Ind.) High School employee is facing the music after he was recorded on cellphone video playing a game of hangman that used the n-word. As the Kokomo Tribune reports, the eight-second video shows a student and Greg Ostapa, a paraprofessional at the high school, playing the easily recognized game on a tablet. The…
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Conservative Black Pastor Has Come-to-Jesus Moment, Parts Ways With GOP and Trump
The Rev. O’Neal Dozier has had enough of Donald Trump’s racism, he says. The 30-year “faithful and dedicated member” of the Republican Party wrote an op-ed for the South Florida Times on Thursday announcing that he is leaving the GOP to become an independent. “One of the main reasons I have decided to leave the…
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Conservatives Want to #BoycottSanFrancisco After Undocumented Immigrant Acquitted in Death of Kate Steinle
No justice, no San Francisco. Those are the sentiments of conservatives after Jose Ines Garcia Zarate was found not guilty in the death of Kate Steinle, a white woman who was shot and killed in 2015 on a pier in San Francisco, which is a sanctuary city when it comes to undocumented immigrants like Zarate.…
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15-Year-Old Girl Stabbed 80 Times, Set on Fire by Man She Met on Facebook, Police Say
The brutalized body of a 15-year-old girl was discovered late Tuesday morning in Philadelphia. Police say the girl, identified as Sabriya McLean of New Castle, Del., was stabbed approximately 80 times before being set on fire by a man she met on Facebook. According to WPVI-TV, Sabriya met with the suspect, 23-year-old Cole Swaringer-Herring, Monday…