FBI Investigating Fire and Spray Painted Slur at Black Indiana City Councilman’s Home

The days of fires and vandalism perpetrated by racists at Black family homes are not long behind us.

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Reverend Jesse Jackson Hospitalized After Fall at Howard University

Rev. Jesse Jackson was hospitalized after he fell and hit his head during a visit at Howard University in Washington, D.C. on Monday. The 80-year-old civil rights icon was set to attend a town hall with the university’s president Wayne A.I. Frederick and the students who have been protesting their living conditions on…

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Alabama May Consider Wiping the Arrest Records Clean for Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks

Last week, The Root reported that 82 year-old Claudette Colvin asked a court to expunge her record. She was arrested at 15 years old after refusing to get up from a bus seat in 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks did the same. Colvin’s motion sparked interest in clearing the records for Parks, King and others arrested…

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Mic Drop: New Month, New Music

October wrapped up with new music that was, let’s face it, a bit all over the place. Not necessarily in a bad way—but we have a new disco joint, Alicia Keys in a white gown that looks suspiciously like a wedding dress, and Megan Thee Stallion in some devil’s horn telling you to “Eat It.”

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Apparently, the Lincoln Project Believes White Supremacists Wear Uniforms

Anyone who wanted to understand white supremacy could simply look in the Merriam-Webster dictionary for the definition that simply defines white supremacy as “the belief that the white race is inherently superior to other races and that white people should have control over people of other races.” If they were more…

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