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It’s so funny to see the police rage about a black man getting off for lying, when they get off for murdering unarmed black men everyday.
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While the conversations surrounding the newly uncovered college cheating scandal have focused on the advantages of…
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At a press conference, Monday, Vermont’s chief law enforcement officer almost completed one of the greatest…
A hostage negotiation is often a literal matter of life and death, so the experts trained to handle them really…
There’s a saying, “To be African American is to be African without history and American without privilege.”
We are stuck with Brett Kavanaugh for the rest of his life. This is a fact, despite Christine Blasey Ford’s harrowing
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A white Illinois man called the police and told them a black man had stolen his car with a baby inside. Spoiler…
“All this goes to show that people are (to some degree) ok with the status quo as long as it doesn’t impede their personal safezones. These people will tell you to be happy with what safezone you have and to be thankful to America for giving it to you. These people are willfully ignorant, and the animosity they put…
It’s been a hell of a week to talk about male artists, sexual assault and the courtesies and praise they do or do…
On Tuesday, Jazmine Headley, her family, and her advocates received some much-needed good news: the 23-year-old…
On Tuesday, conservative rag The Federalist—a website perhaps best known for its endorsement of statutory rape and…
If you’re reading this, you likely already know that, here at The Root, Black Lives Matter every day. That said,…
Black people usually recoil when we hear a white person say, “I don’t see color,” and with good reason. It usually…
I don't know what to do with good white people.