It’s definitely struggling to live up to the marketing.
It’s definitely struggling to live up to the marketing.
You just whitesplained Jim Jones, the Jonestown massacre of Black folk and Kool-aid to Black folk on a website for Black folk.
A few years ago, while covering a story on Republican New Hampshire legislator Werner Horn, I summoned the best and…
Racism is the reason those kids can’t read.
I should begin with the hole in my sister’s face.
Quawan Charles was a high school sophomore who looked younger than his decade-and-a-half age. Although this tragedy…
I don't think Michael was suggesting an actual third party, that's why he brought up the "tea party". They didn't leave the Republican party, they went and found people they wanted to vote for, and convinced those people to compete as Republicans. At most the tea party was estimated to be about 10-15% of white people,…
One day, during a meeting on journalistic legal policies, a very sincere attorney suggested that, instead of calling…
You left out The Boston Busing riots of the 70's. The death and injury of two men in December of 1986 at Howard Beach NY at the hands of a mob of white teenagers. The Central Park Five’s bullshit conviction in 1989 and a certain Editorial by a fat, repulsive, sexual predator in The NY Times. The murder of Yusef…
“If a white person said that...”
What we have here is a whole lotta people that have heard No too little. Oh, I’m sure they think they’ve heard no, but they just haven’t had to live with the nos that they have been told.
This story shows how well-respected and beloved Former President Barack Obama remains among people who don’t believe…
If you are a regular reader of The Root (or any of the G/O Media sites), then you might be familiar with the ghetto…
Unless we have 100 million test kits, millions of extra masks, gloves, hundreds of thousands extra ventilators, millions of open hospital beds and free personnel, the idea of reopening the country is ludicrous. Many places are already reaching capacity WITH the lockdowns. Experts can’t even make informed decisions…
Maryland state senators voted to send more than a half-billion dollars to four majority-black institutions of higher…
Low key, “Down on the Corner” slaps.
Still, I think Michael might be wrong when he relates this to turnout:
“I am not white and I am not black, what I am is a mixed race person of many races”