The company behind a widely used neighborhood networking app has responded to claims of rampant racial profiling and…
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Shortly after Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) finished her cool-down exercises after forcing the former Pinky to Barack…
Welcome to 2019: Where our president is racist, our college campuses aren’t far behind, and black people are…
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Every Friday, when I wade through the emails, tweets and direct messages received from the readers of The Root, I…
Nothing says, “Take me seriously” like grown men calling themselves “boys” while wearing matching black and yellow…
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Before an orange-tinged carnival barker began waging a war with the news media and Russian troll farms began spewing…
Last month, the 92nd Scripps National Spelling Bee somehow concluded in a historic eight-way tie. Its eight winners…
Police officers and departments across the nation have been accused of having implicit bias against and racist views…
Ah, karma. The ousted director of a West Virginia nonprofit who got the boot after referring to then (and always)…
Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and holder of a top-level security clearance as an adviser to Trump,…
I’ve never participated in a mock slave auction, but I would imagine a fourth-grade classroom isn’t the ideal place…
Just when I was about to treat myself to a sumptuous “It’s Okay to Be White” T-shirt as an early birthday gift,…
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