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Culture, Sports

The NFL’s Inspire Change Initiative Is Back to Wave More Performative Activism in Our Faces

The NFL wants to tout the same principles that it condemned Colin Kaepernick for on its own lackadaisical terms.

By

Jay Connor

Published

September 2, 2021
News

Hate Crimes in the U.S. Have Reached a New High, FBI Reports

African Americans are the most targeted racial group by a wide margin, according to the FBI’s new annual hate crime statistics.

By

Rachel Pilgrim

Published

August 31, 2021
Clapback/Mailbag, Opinion

The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: White Magic

Each Friday, we clap back at readers' emails, DMs, tweets and messages. We do it because we care.

By

Michael Harriot

Published

August 27, 2021
Clapback/Mailbag, Opinion

The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Free Dumb

Each Friday, we clap back at readers' emails, DMs, tweets and messages. We do it because we care.

By

Michael Harriot

Published

August 20, 2021
News, Race Matters

Survey Says Most Americans Think Discussing Race Is a Good Thing While School Districts Continue Attacks on Critical Race Theory

A new Pew Research Center poll says that 53 percent of Americans believe discussions around race are a good thing.

By

Terrell Jermaine Starr

Published

August 13, 2021
Clapback/Mailbag, Opinion

The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: …Which Proves My Point

Each Friday, we clap back at readers' emails, DMs, tweets and messages. We do it because we care.

By

Michael Harriot

Published

August 13, 2021
News

The Anti-MAGA Movement: Rev. William Barber’s Quest to Make America Great, For Once

The reverend's Poor People's Campaign is working to build an America that is the exact opposite of Donald Trump's immoral white nationalist oligarchy

By

Michael Harriot

Published

August 3, 2021
News

Study Finds That Job Applicants With ‘Distinctively Black’ Names Get Called Back Less For Interviews

The study is based on responses to more than 83,000 entry-level job applications sent to 108 Fortune 500 companies in America.

By

J.L. Cook

Published

July 31, 2021
News, Race Matters

Arizona Sen. Wendy Rogers Says She Likes Confederates but Doesn’t Like ‘Traitors Who Hate America.’ So Here’s the Thing…

The White Revisionist Guide to History must be one hell of a book.

By

Zack Linly

Published

July 26, 2021
News, Race Matters

White Parents Oppose Michigan School Board’s Anti-Racism Resolution Prompted by White Student’s Snapchat Slave Auction

They called the resolution Critical Race Theory because conservative propagandists have done an excellent job indoctrinating their people into idiocracy.

By

Zack Linly

Published

July 26, 2021