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Across the country, people suffering from mental health crises often find themselves confronted with an armed police…
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Terrell Jermaine Starr is a senior reporter at The Root. He is currently writing a book proposal that analyzes US-Russia relations from a black perspective.
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Apr 21
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Less than a day after Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd, the U.S. Department of Justice…
Apr 21
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Tuesday, Black people celebrated the conviction of Derek Chauvin as jubilantly as they’d rejoice in their favorite…
Apr 20
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A coalition of Black faith leaders across Georgia are calling for a boycott of Home Depot in response to the…
Apr 20
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A Michigan father was outraged after his 7-year-old biracial daughter told him that her teacher and a classmate had…
Apr 20
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a very undemocratic bill into law Monday that strengthens the power of law…
Apr 19
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I guess the pig had it coming—literally.
Apr 19
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Another bloody weekend in America has renewed calls for gun reform out of Washington, after at least six mass…
Apr 19
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A Colorado judge has resigned after telling her colleagues “all lives matter” and repeatedly using the n-word, among…
Apr 16
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The Army staff sergeant who is seen in a viral video harassing a Black man on the street in a South Carolina suburb…
Apr 16
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Kimberly Potter, the ex-Brooklyn Center, Minn., police officer who shot and killed Daunte Wright, appeared at a…
Apr 16
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The city of Chicago released bodycam footage of 13-year-old Adam Toledo’s March 29 shooting in which the officer…
Apr 15
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Cmdr. Robert Glover of Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department was severely outnumbered on Jan. 6, when…
Apr 15
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Republicans in Arkansas are following the lead of their pals in Georgia, Texas, Michigan and other GOP-controlled…
Apr 15
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In Historic Move, House Panel Advances Reparations Legislation to Study Impact of Slavery and Racism
After decades of trying to get America to start the process of reckoning with its history of slavery and its…
Apr 14
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A 43-year-old Black man is suing the Detroit Police Department after he was wrongfully arrested and identified as a…
Apr 14
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In March, Marvin Scott III was arrested in Allen, Texas, for possessing less than two ounces of marijuana—a…
Apr 14
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A Black former police officer in the Buffalo Police Department who was fired in 2008 after she stopped a white cop…
Apr 13
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Students at a school in Northern Texas were disciplined after they set up a slave auction game on social media…
Apr 13
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will stop using the…