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Blockedpunch, if you are iffy about folks taking a defunct publication and claiming it’s legacy as their own, what do you say about a ship full of England’s criminals who took this land from the Indigenous Peoples of this land and Black Peoples from Africa that they enslaved and claims this land to be theirs and Black …

All of this banning of facts about this nations history begs the question what are White people so afraid of?  Are they afraid that their grandchildren will see them as the racists who spit on children integrating an elementary school, becoming a mob and lynching defenseless Black people?  Are they afraid that their…

Isn’t it always the ones who hold themselves up as untouchable that end up being the law breakers?  I bet if there were an indepth investigation into police around the country, you would find that they are the real criminals!  So sad that these are the folks that police the Black community and protect the White…

White cops are far too trigger happy when the person confronted is Black! From where I sit as a Black person and a Black woman at that, the only threats when confronted by White police, are the White police who seem to still be operating on “slave patrol” protocol!  This simply must cease for they kill us with…

I agree with you Sis! I love my beautiful melanin filled complexion and do not need anyone’s approval of me or my beautiful skin color!

What gives Wells Fargo or any banking institution to attempt to take guardianship over MS William's funds?  Something sounds shady about Wells Fargo as involvement in this.  Glad she has people around her to advocate for her.

I wonder if the real culprit is White? Since their name was not mentioned it makes me suspicious. I am especially suspicious because if the alleged perpetrator is Black, they cannot wait to broadcast our names. Did the police also arrest the real culprit? This is another violation of us living while Black.

Yes she does!  Again, let us see what she does before we take her to task.

I know what I stated earlier, however, I am willing to give her the benefit of the doubt and allow her to show and prove her approach to managing the most racist police department next to the LAPD!  Whites have always been given the benefit of the doubt even when we all knew they were following the slave patrol laws! …

Only if that is your approach to your role as a police officer!  Sadly, the ones who try to do their jobs with the correct mindset are so quiet about the ones that don’t that they all get lumped in together!

Absolutely and some of them treat other Black people just as badly and sometimes worse than their White counterparts!  It is the mindset that need/must change about us as human beings and not as thugs, criminals and threats!

Amen!  Well said, very well said indeed!  Coming from Nassau County, I wonder just how radically she will address the systemic racism that has always permeated the NYPD?

From someone who worked in the Child Protection system for eighteen years, much of what occurs in situation as described I believe is a case of seeing color and culture rather than seeking an answer/solution for the distress of the children. Historically, Black children are much more likely to be placed in foster care…

I too have not heard of this seemingly amazing Sister.  I pray that her family is comforted by our Lord and Savior during this time of her transition.  I too have to look more into her as an artist for quite possibly all of us have loved music penned by Sister Andrea yet never knew it was hers.  Thanks Root Newsletter…

I welcome the opportunity for us to tell us for us and by us rather than have to swallow the made up version of us that is palatable for that other culture!  Thank all of you who thought of this and put it together for us to celebrate who we are with each of us as an excellent group of human beings!  That is not to…

If his job had not been at stake, I doubt very seriously if this individual who has been making these kind of statements throughout his career would have issued this backwards apology. It is sad to see a member of an ethnic group who is constantly put upon by the same kind of things he said about Mr. Ohtani (I hope I…

Yet another of our icons gone on to glory.  Ms. Douglas will surely be missed.  She always exuded confidence and calm in the films I was blessed to see her in. The notable of those films where she stood out was Tap with Gregory Hines!  Rest in perfect peace our beautiful sister!  You will live on in our hearts and…

I continue to state that the police departments around the nation in their present state must be dismantled and re-populated with a different mindset and culture that includes all who call this nation home.  For far too long Whites have ruled this nation with cruelty, evil and viciousness too heinous for anyone to…

Speak! Just know that those who follow after sensualism will still capitalize off of the Cosby issue. Don’t get me started on the ones who want to show White America how much they have their backs by making Dr. Cosby out to be more of a scumbag than the White ones who were pardoned by the scumbag that occupied the…