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Watch: Freed After 20 Years in Prison, but Now the Government Wants to Send Him Back
Matthew Charles was released in 2016 after being incarcerated for more than 20 years. But now the Justice Department wants to send him back to prison. In 1996 he was sentenced to 35 years to life for distribution of crack cocaine and possession of a firearm. After the Obama administration reduced the sentencing disparity between…
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Oprah Winfrey Is Not Running for President, so Stop Making Those Bootleg T-Shirts and Mugs
We can all let go of the idea of Gayle King as vice president, Ava DuVernay as the secretary of education and, unfortunately for diplomatic relations, Iyanla Vanzant as ambassador to the United Nations. Sadly, middle-American white women, who all wore pink pussy hats during the recent Women’s Marches and yet secretly voted for Donald…
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Watch: Wait—Is the Women’s March for Women of Color, Too?
Women showed up and made their voices heard again at Women’s Marches across the country over the weekend. But The Root wanted to know whether the movement was truly inclusive. What brought young women of color out to the second annual Women’s March in Washington, D.C.? View some of the attendee responses in our video, above.
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Watch: The Chi Brings Black Joy, Says Actress Tiffany Boone
Actress Tiffany Boone gets satisfaction from showing the humanity of Chicagoans. “I think people think of Chicago as a super-dangerous place. These are human beings. Nobody wants to kill someone just to kill someone,” the up-and-coming actress told The Root. Boone plays Jerrika, a natural-hair beauty from the “right” side of the tracks, in Lena…
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Watch: What Would You Do for a Seat on Oprah’s Cabinet?
There’s been a lot of talk about Oprah Winfrey running for office in 2020. We really don’t deserve a presidency from Oprah or our forever FLOTUS, Michelle Obama, but we can always dream. What would you do for an Oprah presidency? These stars let us know. Watch above.
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Trap Kitchen: Street Smarts Keep One of Los Angeles’ Most Popular Underground Restaurants Thriving
What happens when you decide to stop trapping in the streets and start trapping in the kitchen instead? From illegal drugs to an underground restaurant, Los Angeles’ Trap Kitchen is an example of how street smarts built a business from the ground up.
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Watch: There’s a New Meghan in Town … and She’s an Animal
Move over, Meghan Markle … there’s a new Meghan in town. But this Meghan is an animal—an okapi, to be exact. Meghan the baby okapi was born at a London zoo in December after a 30-minute labor. Sources say that approximately 25,000 okapis remain in the wild. And the zoo says that naming the animal…
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Watch: Symone Sanders Says This Isn’t the 1st Time We’ve Had a Racist President
Your president, Donald Trump, allegedly made a few unsavory (read: racist) comments regarding Haiti, African countries and pretty much any immigrant of color, calling their home countries “shithole countries.” While many people were shocked by his blatant racism, there are more of us who already knew of his racism. And, even further, there are people…
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Watch: Kamala Harris Had Time for the Homeland Security Secretary
Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen may have thought she was ready … but she wasn’t. She appeared in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee and claimed she did not know that Norway was predominantly white, and tried to save President Donald Trump’s statement about wanting more immigrants from there. She had the gall to…
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H&M Hires ‘Diversity Leader’ After Global Backlash to the Racist Monkey Hoodie
Fashion retailer H&M, more than a week after a photo of a black boy in a “coolest monkey in the jungle” hoodie caused an international backlash, announced Wednesday that the company has appointed a diversity leader. The Swedish-based company announced its decision on its Facebook page: The recent incident was entirely unintentional, but it demonstrates…