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Jamahri Sydnor, 17, was hit in the head by a stray bullet as she passed through a Northeast Washington intersection. (Courtesy of A’Mee Barnes) Chris French headed into the intensive-care unit at Washington Hospital Center last August to visit his mother, who had just had surgery. He was wearing a visor that said FAMU. A…
Graphic: Michael Harriot (The Root; photo via iStock) Every so often a new phrase emerges that encapsulates the cunning Caucasian ability to keep power and dominance within their clutches by painting themselves as the oppressed class. Whether it is “reverse racism,” “Make America great again” or “separate but equal,” coining catchphrases as a means of…
With the Roseanne revival dominating headlines and ratings, we’d all be crazy not to expect more new seasons of old shows in the future. Considering Roseanne’s specific record-breaking success, ABC has to be eyeing their other blue collar, mega-blockbuster ’90s sitcom starring an outspoken Hollywood conservative: Home Improvement. The show’s leading man Tim Allen has expressed interest in strapping…
My first job in journalism was at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a venerable, century-old newswire which provides coverage to Jewish papers around the world. As a jack-of-all trades intern, one of my jobs was to monitor our web traffic. To my surprise, I found that one of our top referrers was frequently Stormfront.org, a neo-Nazi…
Monster Hunter and the Mainstream By Rob Rich • April 9th, 2018 This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #101. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price. ——— Here’s the Thing is where Rob dumps his random thoughts and…
Graphic: Elena Scotti (GMG), photos: AP, Getty Images When political commentator Sally Kohn sent Aminatou Sow, host of the podcast Call Your Girlfriend, a passage from her forthcoming book The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity in which she is quoted, Sow was confused. The quote harkened back to a night…
close story-meta Photo Kenyatta Johnson, a Philadelphia city councilman, outside the Starbucks store in the city where two black men were arrested last week. Credit Mark Makela/Reuters Starbucks said on Tuesday that it would close its more than 8,000 stores in the United States for one day to conduct anti-bias training after two African-American men…
Today BuzzFeed News is making public one of the New York Police Department’s most fiercely guarded secrets: a database of disciplinary findings for about 1,800 NYPD employees who faced departmental misconduct charges between 2011 and 2015. This information has been closely guarded for years, and completely off-limits since 2016, when the NYPD removed them from…
Native advertising and “content discovery” platform Taboola has an ambitious plan to help people discover even more content, specifically “news.” The company, which is best known for enabling brands to scale native advertising across the open Web, has struck a deal to operate a news feed app on people’s phones. “It’s like Apple News,” boasts…
For Richard Nixon, the “Saturday Night Massacre” was the beginning of the end. The nation finally turned against the embattled president after he forced out — on Oct. 20, 1973 — the attorney general and his deputy who refused to get rid of the special prosecutor investigating him. A week later, for the first time,…