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Florida Man Who Accused Home Depot of Firing Him Because of Upcoming Surgery Speaks Out

Roy Hall loved Home Depot. He was employed at the home improvement retail company for about five years and thought that was where he would earn his retirement. That all changed on June 22nd, when he was suddenly fired from his job at a St. Petersburg, Fla. location. His employers, Hall said, claimed he was…

By

Breanna Edwards

Published

July 23, 2018
Criminal Justice, News, Social Justice

NYC Releases Thousands of Documents on the Central Park Five Case, Prosecutor In Case Says the Five Weren't 'Deserving' of Settlement

On Thursday night New York City released several thousand documents, recordings and other materials detailing the notorious Central Park Five case. The story of the Central Park Five should be a stranger to no one. It was only decades after their initial conviction that defendants Kharey Wise, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana and Yusef…

By

Breanna Edwards

Published

July 20, 2018
Criminal Justice, News, Social Justice

Is This a Youth Diversion Program or School-to-Prison Pipeline Feeder System?

Prior to a few years ago, I had never heard of a preschool student being suspended from school. The idea made no sense to me. How could a 3-, 4-, or 5-year-old child who is still learning the basics of sitting still for more than five minutes at a time possibly learn anything from such…

By

Monique Judge

Published

July 10, 2018
Criminal Justice, News, Social Justice

‘I Believe If My Daughter Was a White Girl, They Would Have Taken All My Leads Seriously’: Mother of Missing 16-Year-Old

A 16-year-old Wisconsin girl who was missing for over a month has finally been tracked down. After a Facebook video surfaced of Armoni Chambers of Milwaukee being sexually assaulted, local activists were able to track her down. On May 17, Armoni went missing and her mother, Bonnie Bruno, had been searching for her ever since.…

By

Montana Couser

Published

July 5, 2018
Criminal Justice, News, Social Justice

Woman Arrested on 4th of July After Climbing the Base of the Statue of Liberty in Protest of Migrant Family Separations

A protester was arrested on the 4th of July following a standoff with police after she scaled up the base of the Statue of Liberty in protest of migrant children being separated from their guardians and/or parents. The woman, identified by CNN as Therese Patricia Okoumou, stayed there for almost three hours as she walked…

By

Breanna Edwards

Published

July 5, 2018
Criminal Justice, News, Social Justice

Watch: 1st Trailer for Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story Released

Paramount just dropped the first trailer for Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story, the six-part documentary centered around the life and death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin that is being produced by Jay-Z. The docuseries, which is based off the book Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin, written by Trayvon’s parents, premieres…

By

Breanna Edwards

Published

July 3, 2018
Criminal Justice, News, Social Justice

Tessa Thompson Loves Janelle Monáe, Came Out as Bisexual in Latest Interview

Tessa Thompson’s sexual identity is no longer a secret. Thompson, known for her roles in Thor: Regnarok and Creed, has come out as bisexual in a cover feature for Net-a-Porter. The 34-year-old actress addressed the rumors regarding whether or not she was with singer and songwriter Janelle Monáe. Thompson was in the Pynk music video…

By

Montana Couser

Published

June 29, 2018
Criminal Justice, News, Social Justice

3 Black Trans Women Fatally Shot in Florida; Work of a Serial Killer Feared: Report

Three transgender women have been killed in Jacksonville, Fla., since the beginning of the year, and local activists fear that the slayings may be linked. “The transgender community in Jacksonville is frightened,” Gina Duncan, a transgender-rights advocate with Equality Florida, said in a statement Tuesday. “They fear this could be a serial killer or orchestrated…

By

Montana Couser

Published

June 27, 2018
Criminal Justice, News

3 of the Central Park Five Finally Celebrate Their High School Graduation, Receive Honorary Diplomas

It’s been decades in the making, but on Monday three of the Central Park Five finally got the opportunity to celebrate their high school graduation and received honorary degrees after they were robbed of their futures when they were wrongly imprisoned and later wrongly convicted for the 1989 rape of a woman who was jogging…

By

Breanna Edwards

Published

June 27, 2017
Criminal Justice, News

Donald Trump Still Believes Central Park Five Are Guilty

Donald Trump continues to prove what a misguided and miserable president he would make after insisting that the Central Park Five were guilty, despite their being exonerated by DNA in New York City’s horrific 1989 Central Park jogger rape case. “They admitted they were guilty,” Trump said to CNN in a statement. “The police doing…

By

The Root Staff

Published

October 7, 2016