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Audio Recording Catches Georgia School Superintendent Using N-Word Like It's 1799
Court documents featuring audio recordings of a Georgia school superintendent either exposes the administrator’s racist attitude toward black people or highlights his fine reenactment skills in his role as a plantation owner from the antebellum South who is displeased with his field hands’ cotton-picking efforts. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Buford School Superintendent Geye Hamby…
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White Man Accused of Urinating on 5-Year-Old Black Girl, Calling Her N-Word, Innocent of Allegations: Prosecutors [Updated]
Police took a Michigan man into custody on Wednesday evening after the parents of a five-year-old a girl accused the man of urinating on their daughter. According to the Associated Press, two 7-year-old children and a 5-year-old were in an alley near their home in Grand Rapids, Mich., when a man allegedly urinated on the…
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Kansas City Reporter Lisa Benson Says She Was Fired From TV Station for Sharing an Article About White Privilege
Earlier this year, Ruby Hamad wrote an article that struck a nerve. “How white women use strategic tears to silence women of colour,” published by the Guardian, delved into the ways white women weaponized their emotions against their women of color counterparts when they aired legitimate grievances. Many women of color shared the article, some…
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Forever and Ever You'll Stay in These Charts: Aretha Franklin Greatest Hits Album Reaches Billboard Top 10 Following Her Death
The Queen of Soul, true to form, is posthumously ruling the charts this week. Billboard reports that following Franklin’s death last week, her 30 Greatest Hits album hit the top 10 on the Billboard 200, which tracks album sales. Not only are sales for the album up an astounding 12,693 percent, this also marks the…
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NYPD Officer Allegedly Broke Into Nashville, Tenn., Family's Home, Hurled Racial Slurs
Nashville, Tenn., detectives are investigating an incident after a New York City police officer allegedly broke into a family’s home while he was in the Music City vacationing. The break-in, which occurred in the early morning hours of July 9, has left the family traumatized. The officer, who remains unidentified and who the family said…
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When Black Lives Are Under Attack, What Do We Do? Stand Up, Fight Back!
It seemed like the “alt-right” got the memo that spewing hateful rhetoric and inciting violence like we saw last year in Charlottesville, Va., only further marginalizes them. The few neo-Nazis, white nationalists and sympathizers who were present at the Unite the Right 2 March were completely dwarfed and drowned out by thousands of counter-protesters. Black…
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The Root is Live at Unite The Right 2: Nazi Boogaloo
Updated: Sunday, August 12, 2018, 6:06 p.m. EDT: Reports from Lafayette Square show a very underwhelming crowd. Not only do the number of anti-racists exceed the number of white supremacists, reports from the ground confirm that the potato salad at the counterprotest is far superior. Updated: Sunday, August 12, 2018, 2:56 p.m. EDT: According to…