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Boston Removes a Statue Depicting a Free Black Man Kneeling Before Abraham Lincoln, and It Only Took Them 150 Years!

Today I learned that a statue depicting a freed Black man kneeling before President Abraham Lincoln stood in Boston since 1879, further proving that America has had a white savior complex since before any of us were born. According to NBC Boston, the statue, a replica of the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.C., was finally…

By

Joe Jurado

Published

December 29, 2020
News, Race Matters

Jared Kushner Implies That 'Complaining' Black People Don't 'Want to Be Successful' Because We Don't Support Trump

Boooooy, when I tell you I can’t stand Trump or his minions. First, let me just state an unassailable fact: White people don’t know shit about the Black community. Certainly, there are white people who were raised in largely Black neighborhoods who have sat in some barber shops, picked up some AAVE, proved on the…

By

Zack Linly

Published

October 26, 2020
Entertainment

Lord, Save Us From Iggy Azalea

Here at The Root, we are regularly delighted, in the middle of an otherwise droll news day, to have some new music and visuals dropped upon us, as happened last week with Janelle Monáe’s double fantasy, or weeks before, when “All the Stars” further stoked our anticipation for Black Panther. And then there are drops…

By

Maiysha Kai

Published

March 1, 2018
White Pa. TV Anchor Fired After Racial Comments Files Federal Discrimination Lawsuit

A white Pittsburgh TV news anchor who was fired for racial comments she made in a Facebook post about a shooting she covered is now fighting back: She has filed a federal discrimination lawsuit saying that she would not have been fired for her remarks if she were black, the Washington Post reports. Back in…

By

Breanna Edwards

Published

June 21, 2016