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Your Racism Is Showing: Coronavirus and the Racist History of Pandemics
“There are some members of the Trump administration who continue to refer to [COVID-19] as the ‘Wuhan virus,’ and I think this continues to perpetuate this very strong link between Asian people more generally or Chinese people more generally and the virus itself…And this tendency to kind of shift it, to reduce it to this…
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Bernie Sanders' Path to Victory Looks Mighty Slim
DETROIT—Bernie got his ass kicked and it’s not looking any better moving forward. There really is no better way to slice or dice. it. Super Tuesday II was supposed to be the day Sanders closed his delegate gap with Joe Biden, but it only widened—in the former VP’s favor. Outside of winning North Dakota, Sanders…
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Marc Lamont Hill Breaks Down Why Black People Should Care About Palestine
There is a saying in journalism that “all politics are local.” The same can be said about white supremacy and the oppression it deploys against people of color across the word. All oppression is local. And that is probably why it is so easy for many of us, particularly black people, to lose sight of…
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'We Can Control Our Destiny': Michael B. Jordan, H.E.R. and More Reflect on the Power of the Black Vote
“We can control our destiny. We can control our circumstances. We just have to educate ourselves and get out there and do something about it. Don’t feel like you as an individual don’t have the power to make a change, because you do.” —Michael B. Jordan text It’s Super Tuesday, y’all! Why is Tuesday so…
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NJ Superintendent Says He Has 'No Problem' With Racist Teachers. When Black Parents Speak Out, District Calls Cops
Parents in a New Jersey school district began calling for the resignation of an interim superintendent after the school board official allegedly said he doesn’t mind racist teachers. When the superintendent further offended residents by whitesplaining that he was not racist because his family employed black farmworkers, the school found a novel solution to the…
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The President Can’t Be Bothered With a Possible Pandemic While He’s Busy Bragging About His Accomplishments
President Trump is nothing if not consistent. From the time that he was born up until Russia stole the 2016 election and handed it to their favorite spy, the president has been consumed with himself. Literally, his tweets, his speeches, his appearances, his entire life has been a set of thumbs pointing back at this…
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Confronting A Legacy, and Creating Her Own: Meet The First Black Rhodes, Truman, and Udall Scholar
Like many 21 year olds, Wanjiku “Wawa” Gatheru is on Twitter. And on Nov. 24, 2019, one of the University of Connecticut senior environmental studies major’s tweets went viral. No, Wawa didn’t absolutely body the latest TikTok dance craze, nor did she create a top-trending hashtag. Instead, she tweeted out news that would earn her…
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Black to the Future: This Scientist May Hold the Key to Time Travel
Imagine if we could send information back to ourselves to warn ourselves of natural disasters, anomalies, earthquakes, the thousands of lives you can save, or even on a more personal level, to try to change our own destiny by sending information back, perhaps to warn loved ones to stay out of situations that might lead…
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The Ancestry Trap: This Geneticist Wants to Shift the Focus From DNA Testing to Black Futures
Dr. Janina Jeff can tell you just about anything you want to know about genetics testing: How does it work? What can it tell you? How do you spell mitochondria again? But Jeff herself has never taken a DNA test. “It still sits on my shelf,” she told The Root in a recent interview. A…
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The Furious Fight for Alabama’s Senate Seat Is Crazier and More Racist Than Ever
In Alabama’s 2018 special elections, black women saved their state from sending an alleged teenage dating connoisseur to the U.S Senate. Instead, Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) won the empty seat vacated by former MAGA Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, whose voting record is just as racist as his name. This time won’t be that…