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Entertainment, Television

‘This Should Not Have Happened’: HBO Responds to Lovecraft Country Extra’s Claim That Her Skin Was Darkened to Fit a Role

HBO, the network behind the popular Jonathan Majors and Jurnee Smollett-Bell-led horror drama Lovecraft Country, is speaking out following a recent claim from an onset extra that her skin was darkened to fit a role. Per The Hollywood Reporter, actress Kelli Amirah posted a video to TikTok last month recalling her time as an extra…

By

Shanelle Genai

Published

March 10, 2021
Culture, Health

The Journal for America's Largest Medical Association Tweeted: 'No Physician Is Racist.' The Lie Detector Determined…

While everyone is applauding the scientists who figured out how to trick our immune systems into murdering coronaviruses, one of the biggest medical breakthroughs in history has gone undetected by many. We finally figured out how to cure racism. Apparently, the Journal of American Medical Association, an independent arm of the American Medical Association, the…

By

Michael Harriot

Published

March 9, 2021
News, Race Matters

Gun Store Owner Orders Customer to Leave Store Over 'Marxist' and 'Fascist' Black Lives Matter Face Mask

Years ago, I wrote a lengthy essay for the Washington Post in which I explained that I see no value in expending even a drop of energy or emotional/ intellectual labor on arguing with wilfully obtuse white people about systemic racism, Black Lives Matter or literally anything else related to social justice. Nearly every day…

By

Zack Linly

Published

March 7, 2021
Education, News

A Florida School Decided to Confront Complaints of Racism…Until a Diversity Curriculum Caused 'Angst'

It’s called the “Caucasian Corollary.” Most social, economic, political or even theoretical problems can be solved by addressing the situation, figuring it out, and implementing a strategy to solve the dilemma. If you’re sick, you find out what’s ailing you and you take medicine. To find the answer to 128 divided by 17, you ask…

By

Michael Harriot

Published

March 5, 2021
Clapback/Mailbag, News, Opinion

The Root's Clapback Mailbag: The Blacker the Content, the Whiter the Tears

The Clapback Mailbag was never supposed to be about me. When we first came up with this idea, I assumed every writer at The Root received damp emails, DMs and tweets soaked with the tears of white clowns. In my view, if you can’t make white people mad, are you even trying? (Sometimes, I am…

By

Michael Harriot

Published

March 5, 2021
Environmental Justice, Politics

United Nations Human Rights Officials Release Report Calling for an End to the Environmental Racism of Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’

The more I learn about how horrific the nooks and crannies of this country are, the less I understand how anyone can proudly declare we’re the best in the world. If this country is best at anything, it’s managing to embed racism in just about every facet of American life, including the goddamn environment. A…

By

Joe Jurado

Published

March 5, 2021
News, Race Matters

Fight Breaks Out After Oklahoma High School Students Engage in 'Racist Taunting' of Black Basketball Players on Opposing Team

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: A lot of people need to get it out of their heads that racism will go away once older generations of white people die off. The fact is, those generations of white people raised children and a lot of those children are turning out to be…

By

Zack Linly

Published

March 3, 2021
News, Opinion, Some Thoughts

Creighton's Greg McDermott Told His Team to 'Stay on the Plantation' Like That's a Normal Thing People Say and I Can't Stop Laughing About It

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By

Damon Young

Published

March 3, 2021
Politics

Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley Said Systemic Racism is Fake and America 'Liberated Slaves'. I Translated His White Fragility Speech for You

So, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley is out here pretending that he’s not the Meg Griffin of the Republican party again. On Friday, the clout-chaser-in-lying-about-antifa-attacks delivered a speech during Republican PornHub Live, aka the American Conservative Union’s annual CPAC conference in Orlando, Fla. Hawley gave a rousing speech about the future of the Republican party and…

By

Zack Linly

Published

February 28, 2021
Criminal Justice, News, Social Justice

Why Does LeBron James Have to Keep Telling White People He Will Not Shut Up and Dribble? This Time, It's a Fellow Athlete

It’s been more than three years since Fox News white supremacy-wench Laura Ingraham went full KKK-Karen on her show and told NBA superstar LeBron James to stay away from the social and political commentary game and to just “shut up and dribble” for the game that he knows. James responded by not only refusing to…

By

Zack Linly

Published

February 27, 2021