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5 Reasons I Really Wanted Justin Bieber to Get His Ass Kicked
I don’t listen to the Biebs. He’s not my age group and I’m not his target audience, so therefore our paths have never crossed. But I totally get him as an archetype. He’s the newest white guy doing all the black-guy stuff. You know: the black-guy dancing, the black-vibrato singing, the black-guy swag. I get…
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Kimbo Slice and the Inglorious Path of Fleeting Glory
Kimbo Slice’s story was bound to end this way because America has always boxed with black men while wearing loaded gloves. Even when you’re bigger, faster, stronger and punching twice as hard, there’s always the risk of your Dickensian rise from poverty ending in tragedy because the American design, for many black people, is filled…
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Trump Watch: BuzzFeed Would Rather Be $1,300,000 Poorer Than Support Donald Trump
What’s going on inside #TeamTrump? Hell If Donald Trump knows! Clearly the presumptive Republican nominee won’t back down from anything, including his own racist comments against a federal judge with Mexican ancestry who is overseeing cases against Trump University. During what has been reported as a “chaotic” conference call Monday, Trump told surrogates to continue…
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The Illuminati Probably Didn’t Do It … Probably … and 4 Other Prince-Related Conspiracy Theories
In honor of Prince’s life, we here at The Root believe that the best gift we can give the late Purple One for his birthday, June 7, is to make sure his legacy doesn’t get tarnished. We don’t want Prince to become black Elvis, so we sent out a crack forensic team of investigators (me)…
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#WhitePrivilegeMuch: College Rapist Gets Light Sentence Because Prison Would Be Bad for Him
There is nothing scarier than a white man losing his power. Good thing Brock Turner won’t have to face the full weight of what that really means. If you haven’t already heard, Turner is the young white ex-Stanford University swimmer whose dreams are more precious than the woman he raped. On Jan. 17, 2015, Turner…
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Memphis Teen Sold Newspapers for 5 Years so His Single Mom Wouldn’t Have to Pay His College Tuition
When 17-year-old Kevuntez King was just a preteen, he decided that not only was he going to college, but his mother, a single parent, wasn’t going to pay for it. “She just taught me how to be independent like she had it, [and] she just wanted me to go get it myself,” Kevuntez told Fox…
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Report: 2 NYC Teen Girls Detained After Allegedly Beating Woman, 78
Two New York City teenage girls were detained Friday, a day after, police say, they attacked a 78-year-old woman on a Brooklyn subway platform after the woman asked one of the teens to move her feet so that she could sit down. Police released screenshots of both teens to the media after the attack. The…
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NYC Man, 28, Allegedly Kills Another Man Over Air Jordans
A New York City man named Donald Proudfoot is reportedly so obsessed with sneakers that he allegedly shot a man to death over a pair of Air Jordans. And police told the New York Post that this isn’t the first time Proudfoot has been involved in a sneaker scuffle. Authorities are now looking for the…
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Watch: Victim’s Father Lunges at Ohio Serial Killer Who Murdered His Daughter
The Ohio serial killer had already been sentenced to death, but that didn’t stop the father of one of his victims from diving over a table to try to hurt the man who killed his daughter. “How are you doing, your honor? My name is Van Terry, father of Shirellda Terry,” he said from a…
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Miss. Woman’s Stillborn Daughter’s Remains Go Missing From Graveyard
Nine years ago, Amanda Reed gave birth to a stillborn child. She named her daughter Heaven Sent Reed before burying her in a Tunica County, Miss., graveyard. For nine years, Reed has visited the site where her daughter is buried; sometimes she cleans the site, and other times she brings flowers. Sometimes she does both.…
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