Thank you for writing this - I was so dissapointed when I watched the trailer. I commend you for how wonderfully you held your platform while speaking (and listen, your face was mine while watching the interview 😂).

Thank you Ashley - you’re always covering what is so important 💛. I watched these things happen out of Ferguson, and honestly felt powerless until mutual aid networks were easier to find after 2020. I’m so angry and frustrated about all of these vultures, because I wanted to believe a different story. It’s hard to…

I woulda just loved a cut out tho 🥺

Yuck 🤮 and also what is wrong with people 🤬

This poor family. My god, RIP to this little boy 🙏🏾😢. The story itself isnt complicated, but the cover up that they have been trying to do is. Thanks for writing.

He literally looks like he wakes up and dies every day. -@southernjawn

I’m weak 😭😭😭😭😭😭

🎯🎯🎯 as always Rich! For those of us who were young, at that time and remember this as popular culture, this isn’t news, and we never swept it under the rug. The information is there, plain as day, like anything else from that time.

My god - love is such a beautiful thing. Chadwick loved so much and so hard. And clearly, he was loved right back.  What a soul. Let's hold Logan up with strength 🖤🖤🖤

Tonja- this is so beautiful. Thank you. I still don’t know what to do with my spare thinking time. It’s so sad.

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It took the breath right out of me. I went to sleep crying and I wake up crying. He was a gift. I hope he felt the love we gifted back to him.

I’m so broken. He loved us so much. I am so grateful too. But it’s been over 24 hrs, and my heart still breaks. Rest in eternal power king 🙏🏾💔😢

If you’re tired of the conversation, imagine the lives experience of the people who suffer from it within thier community and outside of it. It’s exhausting and dehumanizing. You seemed to take issue with somone questioning a person’s blackness which is an integral part of this discussion. Because of the history, you…

They must of thought they had fire sex and this song just made them realize that this is because they have a dry ass sick plus a dry ass pussy. And I’m specifically fucking mad at the STI comment... not because there is something wrong with having one but because of the fact that dr’s like this idiot who hate women…

Listen- all of this. It’s always been a problem for me, but now it’s an even bigger one. 😒

Ashley coming in for the win 🤾🏾‍♀️! Amazing article - thank you so much for diving into this the way you did, and offering a form a legitimization for what we all experience at times.

That’s not what she said and that’s not the basis of colourism. Are you aware that you are speaking about a person that has been subjected to colourism for their entire life? This isn’t a sour grapes scenario. Don’t repeat and amplify this. If you’re really interested, read up on it. Ashley has linked enough articles…

Amazing article - this show is really hard to put into words , and tbh... it’s going to take a few extra watches from me.

The Root delivers as always, but I came here to express my shock at seeing this content referenced in a tweet from Taylor Swift? 😯