Former East Pittsburgh police officer Michael Rosfeld was forced out of his job as a University of Pittsburgh cop in…
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Every single day, I encounter people who project their unresolved trauma out on everyone else each time they open…
In an Instagram post on Labor Day, Dr. Umar Johnson lamented that he would be able to build multiple schools for…
You saw the title. I would like to speak with the motherfucking manager.
I’m going to stop being so offensive.
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I keep coming back to resilience. And how I hate how we consider it to be an essential and inherent and invaluable…
On August 25, 2017, The Root changed the world when it began a feature called the Clapback Mailbag.
It finally dawned on me yesterday, after reading that Van Jones said Jared Kushner has “the dopest job in the world.”
If you ever find yourself walking around downtown Pittsburgh on a Friday afternoon in the early fall—when the…
So it’s not so much that working while naked is a thing I need to do. I’m anemic, so I get cold easily. (I am the…