Jul 13
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Fundamentally, I’m a begrudging optimist. Pessimism just seems counterproductive so, no matter how awful things…
Aug 2 2019
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A woman in Oklahoma repeatedly refused being given a traffic ticket, authorities say, apparently going so far as to…
Jul 3 2019
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Leonard Pitts Jr., a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Miami Herald, was laying in his bed in Bowie, Md.,…
May 14 2019
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It’s just one of the ways Valerie Castile is upholding her son’s legacy.
Apr 30 2019
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As a black person in America, we’ve all been there.
Jun 25 2018
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Editor’s note: For Pride Month, The Root and Jezebel are teaming up once again for JezeRoot, with content by writers…
Apr 13 2018
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When Wyatt Cenac unveiled his new late-night show, Problem Areas, at HBO’s New York City headquarters in midtown…
Apr 6 2018
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If you had to make a list of the top 10 people whose opinions on Martin Luther King Jr. you could have gone the rest…
Apr 5 2018
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Minneapolis police are searching for the gunman who fatally shot a community activist just outside his mother’s home.
Feb 23 2018
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Following Wayne LaPierre’s rigorous commitment to arming educators in the wake of yet another school shooting,…
Nov 30 2017
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I’m rarely shocked by racism. It often angers me. But knowing you live in a world co-existing alongside such evil…
Nov 29 2017
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Diamond Reynolds, Girlfriend of Philando Castile, Reaches Settlement With City of St. Anthony, Minn.
It’s been more than a year since Philando Castile was shot and killed in St. Anthony, Minn., mere seconds after…
Oct 17 2017
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A fundraising campaign that was started to honor the memory of school-cafeteria supervisor Philando Castile has…
Oct 6 2017
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On Thursday they told us once again that what we saw with our very own eyes is not what happened. They switched the…
Aug 31 2017
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Philando Castile was known as a caring man at the St. Paul, Minn., school where he worked as a cafeteria supervisor.…
Aug 11 2017
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White House Negress token black woman director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison Omarosa Manigault…
Aug 1 2017
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In an 8-2 vote on Thursday, the Minnesota peace officer training board declined to name a police training fund after…
Jul 11 2017
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It’s been some three-and-a-half weeks since a jury acquitted a St. Anthony, Minn., police officer in the death of…
Jul 10 2017
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Just three weeks after he was acquitted of all charges connected to the shooting death of Philando Castile, St.…
Jul 7 2017
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