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Students Ask Not To Be Called African-American; Teacher Allegedly Calls Them N-Word
A substitute teacher’s response to Black students asking not to be called African American was to use a racial slur multiple times.
Braving Ebola
Photographs and interviews by DANIEL BEREHULAK, nytimes.com The patients arrive, at first fearful of the people in spacesuits whose faces they cannot see. They wait for test results, for the next medical rounds, for symptoms to appear or retreat. They watch for who recovers to sit in the courtyard shade and who does not. They…
Chadwick Boseman Is Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’
BY: YESHA CALLAHAN, theroot.com On the heels of his breakthrough performance as James Brown in Get on Up, Chadwick Boseman has been cast as Marvel Studios’ first solo lead of color (not to be confused with Blade, which was co-produced with New Line Cinema). He will take on the role of T’Challa, the head of…
Search Resumes in DC for Missing 8-Year-Old Relisha Rudd
BY: LYNETTE HOLLOWAY, theroot.com Volunteers resumed searching Saturday for 8-year-old Relisha Rudd, who went missing seven months ago after her mother entrusted her in the care of a janitor, who worked at the homeless shelter where the family lived in Washington, D.C. Four teams scoured three areas near Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens in Northeast D.C. for…
Black Teen with White Parents Mistaken for Burglar, Assaulted by Cops in His Home
Police respond to neighbor’s call about black teen entering a home in a white neighborhood. They attempt to arrest him for burglary and pepper-spray him. He was in his own home.
NAACP and Family Lawyers Are Looking Into Lennon Lacy’s Hanging Death
BY: DION RABOUIN, theroot.com On Monday night, lawyers Al McSurely and Allen Rogers met with Claudia Lacy and Larry Walton to discuss the next step in the investigation into what McSurely called “the probable murder” of Lacy and Walton’s 17-year-old son, Lennon Lacy. While the parents of boys like Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis waged…
Man gets life without parole for murdering Florida teen over loud music
By Ray Sanchez, CNN A Florida judge Friday sentenced Michael Dunn to life in prison without parole for the 2012 shooting death of 17-year-old Jordan Davis. The sentence, imposed nearly two years after Dunn shot and killed Davis during an argument over loud music, also carries an additional 90 years for three convictions of attempted…
I raised my sons to be racially neutral
Two mixed-race boys, one lighter skinned than the other. Their black mother asks, “Did I make a mistake telling them they were the same?”
Quvenzhané Wallis Looks Forward To (Hopefully) Being Nominated For An Oscar Again
By Leigh Blickley, huffingtonpost.com Quvenzhané Wallis has accomplished more than most kids her age. At 9 years old, she became a household name as the youngest actress ever to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her role as Hushpuppy in the 2013 film, “Beasts of the Southern Wild.” Now, at age 11, she’s set…
South Africans Battle To Overturn Apartheid Evictions
Many South Africans are still fighting to reclaim land taken away from them during apartheid. The BBC’s Sophie Ribstein spoke to a family about its ordeal.
Ferguson Has Awakened a Larger Struggle for Racial and Economic Justice in America
By Peniel E. Joseph, The Root There’s a social-justice movement taking hold across the nation. Michael Brown’s death, which turned Ferguson, Mo., into a battleground this past summer, has helped catalyze a larger struggle for racial and economic justice in America. And St. Louis, where 18-year-old Vonderrit Myers Jr. was shot and killed by an…
Today: Crowd-Funding Campaign Launched to Publish “A Time of Terror: A Survivor’s Story”
Dr. James Cameron’s memoir of his lynching, “A Time of Terror: A Survivor’s Story,” will be republished through a crowd-funding campaign.
White Woman Comes to Black Man’s Aid, Tells Police to Leave
Jody Westby was working from home when she saw police harassing her friend so she ran outside to confront the police.
Parents Claim No Choice, No Voice, in Children’s Education
The U.S. Department of Education is investigating claims in three school districts—New Orleans, Newark and Chicago—that black children are facing discrimination and segregation in school-enrollment programs.
118 Black Men Tortured On His Watch–Less Than 4 Years of Jailtime
Chicago police commander Jon Burge oversaw brutal torture of black men in custody, extracting false confessions that resulted in them spending decades in prison.
Cell Phone Video Captures Police Smashing Window, Using Stun Gun During Traffic Stop
A firsthand recording of the excessive display of force shown by the Hammond Police during a traffic stop.
Oscar-winning filmmaker premieres film at Milwaukee Film Festival
John Ridley chose his hometown of Milwaukee WI as the place to premiere his new film, JIMI: All Is By My Side. Over 1000 movie-goers packed the sold-out theater.
New York Is Cataloging, and Returning, Bloody Relics of 1971 Attica Assault
By SAM ROBERTS, newyorktimes.com Forty-three years later, it remains a grisly benchmark: Aside from the Indian massacres of the late 19th century and an infamous 1921 race riot in Tulsa, the State Police assault that quelled the four-day uprising at Attica prison in upstate New York in 1971 was, investigators concluded, “the bloodiest one-day encounter between Americans since the Civil…
