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Deion Sanders Blasts Athletes Who Are Opting-Out of Playing This Year Because of COVID-19: 'The Game Will Go On Without You'
Thereâs something especially disgusting about a Black person who eagerly jumps at any opportunity to publicly tell Black people they are expendable and that their value is determined by how much they can provide and perform for white people. As The Root reported, 66 NFL playersâmany of them Black men and/or fathersâannounced their decision to…
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H&M Group Apologizes Again for Racial Insensitivity, This Time Involving The N-Word and a Beanie
Corporations just canât seem to stop doing racist things, despite all the flowery statements and promises of change that have come from them this year and other times before. The H&M Group is now apologizing to its employees and the public for a photo it recently discovered in the internal systems of one of its…
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Rumored VP Candidate Rep. Karen Bass Explains Video of Her Praising Church of Scientology, Denounces Fidel Castro
Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) is doing plenty of walking back this weekend after increased media scrutiny into her past statements, amid reports that she is one of a few Black women under consideration for Joe Bidenâs running mate position. On Saturday, the Congresswoman responded to a video recently unearthed by The Daily Caller which shows…
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Amazing Artists From Africa I Learned About From Watching Africans Celebrate Them In Beyoncé's Black Is King
I love BeyoncĂ©. But more importantly, I really love when members of the global Black diaspora connect with each other. It brings me joy to listen to Afrobeat, the genre that dominates the soundtrack for The Lion King which turned into the visual album Black Is King that BeyoncĂ© released on Friday. I remember the…
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Michigan Appeals Court Grants Release of Black Girl Who Was Detained After Not Doing Online Homework
A 15-year-old Black girl who was being detained in a juvenile facility in Detroit for failing to complete online schoolwork has been granted release by the Michigan Court of Appeals. The teenage girl in question, referred to as Grace to protect her privacy, had been held in detention at the Childrenâs Village center for 78…
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Protests Planned in St. Louis, Mo. After New Prosecutor Says He Won't Make Criminal Charges in Police Killing of Michael Brown
Protests are scheduled to happen in St. Louis, Missouri this Sunday in response to Prosecuting Attorney for the County, Wesley Bellâs recent announcement that he will not file criminal charges against former Police Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown. Two weeks of riots and unrest took place on the streets of…
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Jamaica's Supreme Court Rules That School Can Ban Child With Dreadlocks (No, We're Not Kidding)
If youâve ever heard the statement âanti-Blackness is globalâ and wondered what it truly meant, consider this news: the Supreme Court in Jamaica, an island whose population is around 80 percent Black people, has ruled in favor of a school that said a seven-year-old could not attend their classes unless she cut her dreadlocks. âI…
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Florida's Youngest to Die From COVID-19 Is a Little Black Girl
Health officials in Florida say that a 9-year-old girl is the youngest person in the state to die from COVID-19. Kimora âKimmieâ Lynum from Gainesville died from coronavirus complications on July 17. According to a GoFundMe created by her family to cover medical bills and funeral expenses, Kimmie was taken to hospital with a high…
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Body-Cam Footage Shows Unarmed Man in Austin, Texas Begging 'Don't Shoot' Before Police Shot and Killed Him
The Austin Police Department has released bodycam footage and the 911 call from a fatal encounter between its officers and Michael Ramos, an unarmed 42-year-old man, in April of this year. According to a report from Buzzfeed, police approached Ramosâwho is Afro-Latinoâin response to a 911 call that he was allegedly taking drugs with a…
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Black Leaders, We Need You to Tell the Full Story When Talking About Black Crimeâand Black Humanity
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has acceded to the presence of federal police in her cityâthe same federal officers who have been tear-gassing and beating men, mothers, and Navy veterans in Portland, Ore.âas part of President Trumpâs ridiculously and ominously termed âOperation Legend.â The decision from the mayor, the cityâs first who is a Black woman,…
