
By Phillip Smith / AlterNet Photo Credit: Schmidt_Alex / Shutterstock.com With 2016 now behind us, it’s time for some year-end accounting, and when it comes to fatalities related to drug…
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By Phillip Smith / AlterNet Photo Credit: Schmidt_Alex / Shutterstock.com With 2016 now behind us, it’s time for some year-end accounting, and when it comes to fatalities related to drug…
By: Lawrence Ross Generic image. iStock So The Root asked me, “Hey L, do your best and think about what’s gonna happen in 2017.” And I was like, “Bet!”…
By: Michael Arceneaux Kanye West and President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York Dec. 13, 2016 TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images If I squint with my good eye…
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By William A. Darity Jr. Bill Frakes / AP Born in 1953, I am a child of the waning years of legal segregation in the United States. My parents, on…
By: Preston Mitchum Donald Trump Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images We know that President-elect Trump is a racist—or, at the very least, racist-adjacent. Like no other before him, Trump won the…
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Jim Brown “I fell in love with him because he really talks about helping black people.” The “he” is President-elect Donald Trump. The man that…
By Murray Dobbin Image: Adbusters/flickr All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters…
By Lillian Guerra A football game in session in Sans Souci Palace in Haiti, in the room where King Henri Christophe is supposed to have killed himself. Residents of…
by Graydon Carter Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter has spent more than 30 years observing Donald Trump’s orange-tinted antics. November 11, 2016 – vanityfair.com God, I love this country….
By Karen Jordan John Henry Jordan, the first black doctor in Coweta County, Georgia, with his wife, Mollie, and his son, Edward Courtesy of Karen Jordan Around 1906, a…