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Judge Acquits Officers for Covering Up Laquan McDonald Murder
By Michael Harriot, The Root Again. Two months after a jury found Officer Jason Van Dyke guilty of second-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, a judge decided that the police officers whose remarkably similar false accounts of the incident delayed justice for more than four years were not guilty of trying to…
Read MoreTexas man confesses to shooting and killing his three young children and wounding their mother with gunshot to the head
A Texas man named Junaid Hashim Mehmood killed his three children and shot the mother of the children, Kimaria Nelson, in the head. He turned himself in shortly after.
Read MoreFlorida Secretary of State Resigns After Blackface Photos Surface
By Adeel Hassan, New York Times The newly installed official who oversees elections in the critical swing state of Florida resigned on Thursday after a newspaper obtained photos of him dressed in blackface at a 2005 Halloween party. The official, Michael Ertel, a Republican who had served as Florida’s secretary of state for only two…
Read MoreSpeaking Black Dialect in Courtrooms Can Have Striking Consequences
In and out of the courtroom, speaking a black dialect can have far reaching consequences.
Read MoreCabs wouldn’t pick her up. She became an award-winning journalist anyway.
On the first day of Black History Month 2019, Natasha S. Alford brings the tremendous accomplishments of award-winning African-American journalist Dorothy Butler Gilliam back into the public eye. As the first African-American woman to write for the Washington Post, Gilliam championed “the great things about black culture” when few other African-American women had such an opportunity on that scale. Despite the incredible obstacles in her way, Gilliam overcame, providing an extraordinary model for how all of us who call ourselves every-day-Americans can make a difference.
Read MoreMajority of Black Clemson football players opted out of White House visit and Trump’s ‘Hamberders’
By Kia Morgan-Smith After the fallout from the now infamous White House “hamberder” feast that was fed to the Clemson championship football team, we now know that most of the Black football players sat out the trip to meet Trump. According to The Root, a Black football player who spoke on the condition of anonymity said that many players…
Read MoreHousing market racism persists despite ‘fair housing’ laws
It will take more than Fair Housing Laws to end racism in housing.
Read MorePopular and Pervasive Stereotypes of African Americans
African American stereotypes and caricatures are alive and well in the 21st century and contribute to discrimination against Blacks.
Read MoreCovington Catholic Students In Blackface Underline Race Issues At Private School
Covington Catholic High School students receive backlash for incident during MLK weekend. Further allegations arise as videos of students in blackface at a basketball game emerge.
Read More#BlackGirlMagic: Black-ish Star Marsai Martin Set to Become Youngest Executive Producer in Hollywood History
Marsai Martin, a star from Black-ish, will become the youngest executive producer in a major motion picture film in Hollywood history. Her film Little, in which she co-stars and produced, will allow her to hold this record.
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