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  • An Elegy for Obama

    I am in mourning. As the presidency of Barack Obama draws to a close, I keep thinking about a piece I wrote for The Root eight years ago when he was sworn in for the first time. Back then, I couldn’t stop singing anthems of joy and patriotism, grounded in what now seems like a…

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  • America Didn’t Deserve Michelle Obama

    I forgot exactly where we were in Pittsburgh. Maybe driving from the Target in East Liberty to the YMCA in the Mexican War Streets. Or, perhaps, at my wife’s grandmother’s house in the Hill District, eating smothered turkey burgers with smoked kale greens and washing them down with Pineapple Faygo. But I do remember who…

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  • 26-Year-Old Becomes Stockton, Calif.’s 1st Black Mayor

    Even though Tuesday night didn’t give us the history-making moment we were all expecting, for Stockton Calif., City Councilman Michael Tubbs, election night was doubly historic. Not only did he become the city’s first black mayor, but he also becomes the youngest mayor in the city’s history, according to the Stockton Record. “I’m tired of…

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  • 7 Black Movies to See if You Can’t Bear to See Birth of a Nation (or Even if You Do)

    Ever since Nate Parker’s film The Birth of a Nation earned a record $17.5 million distribution deal and walked away with the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival back in January, the movie has been positioned as the film most likely to solve Hollywood’s #OscarsSoWhite problem. But Parker’s past…

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  • Federal Court Says It’s Totally Not Racist to Ban Dreadlocks at Work

    A federal appeals court ruled that employers who ban dreadlocks in the workplace are not engaging in racial discrimination, according to the Huffington Post. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 3-0 last week to uphold a lower court’s dismissal of a 2013 lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of Chastity…

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  • Our Highly Selective Guide to the Emmys Is All About the Black Nominees

    The 68th Primetime Emmy Awards arrive on Sunday (8 p.m. on ABC), and while some of my favorite shows, like Game of Thrones and Veep, are expected to walk away with a boatload of trophies, there are several nominated performances by African-American stars for whom I’m rooting. And because we all love to see black…

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  • 10 Things We Can’t Wait to See in the New TV Season

    Every year around this time, the big four broadcast networks­—ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox (I don’t count the CW, since it dropped Girlfriends)—make a big deal of trotting out their new shows for the fall TV season. And while many network executives seem to have gotten the memo about diversity­—except, apparently, CBS, whose president has…

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  • Randy Moss Gives Trent Dilfer the Stank Eye for Criticizing Colin Kaepernick

    If looks could kill … During ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown, former NFL wide receiver Randy Moss was shooting daggers at Trent Dilfer as he was criticizing San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick for protesting during the national anthem. Clearly, Moss was not really feeling Dilfer and his comments: As usual, Twitter had a few things…

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  • The 7 Most Outrageous and Racist Acts Found in DOJ’s Report on Baltimore Police Department

    The Department of Justice’s scathing report on the Baltimore Police Department spelled out in exacting detail how the BPD violated the constitutional rights of black residents through a series of brutal and abusive tactics that basically had a community under siege. Perusing the pages of the report is like reading some bizarro crime novel, where…

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  • MLK’s Daughter Calls Out Trump for His 2nd Amendment Comments

    Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who seems to be plagued by a permanent case of foot-in-mouth disease, dropped another doozy Tuesday in Wilmington, N.C. During a campaign speech, Trump suggested that if Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton were to win, she would appoint Supreme Court justices who would abolish the Second Amendment (Clinton has never…

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