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Anna Diop; Starfire Image: Warner Bros. TV If you thought being a regular old black person in America was tough, try being a black superhero, or a black person from the future, or even worse, a black alien from a galaxy far, far away. You’d have to deal with Thanos, inter-dimensional threats, and you still…
Director L. Francis Cissna of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House on December 12, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Photo: Mark Wilson (Getty Images) There’s government pork and then there’s just swine. Our posturing president, who is wasting colossal amounts of money to appeal to…
White House chief of staff John Kelly and White House press secretary Sarah Sanders listen during a Roosevelt Room event Oct. 31, 2017, at the White House in Washington, D.C. Photo: Alex Wong (Getty Images) I thought white people were evil. I was wrong. Whenever anyone mentions the historical atrocity of chattel slavery, white people…
Photo: Mark Wilson (Getty Images) Does Betsy DeVos care more about furthering the xenophobic and racist policies of this administration than she does about educating the children of this country? The education secretary’s latest statement would lead us to believe that is indeed the case, since she basically told schools to call the police on…
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…
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), announcing that he will not seek re-election for another term in Congress, during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on April 11, 2018 Photo: Mark Wilson (Getty Images) On Wednesday, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) announced that he would not be seeking re-election and would retire…
Police monitor activity as protestors demonstrate outside a Center City Starbucks on April 15, 2018, in Philadelphia. Police arrested two black men who were waiting inside the Starbucks, which prompted an apology from the company’s CEO. Photo: Mark Makela (Getty Images) “Don’t you fucking walk away! Don’t fucking walk away from me!” the 20-something-year-old woman…
Photo: iStock I recently went on the world’s longest first date. It was in Vegas, it lasted 48 hours and it was magnificent. He treated me like a queen and never said no to anything I asked. I’ll tell you about the date in a separate column, because it warrants its own space, but the…
President Donald Trump shakes hands with James Comey, then director of the FBI, in the Blue Room of the White House on Jan. 22, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Photo: Andrew Harrer-Pool (Getty Images) Apparently, Michael Cohen isn’t the only person Donald Trump tried to get to act as a fixer for him. In his upcoming…
@wcnc via Twitter screenshot In today’s example of how the American justice system treats black bodies, we take a look at Ramad Chatman, a 24-year-old man who was found not guilty by a jury of his peers but will serve seven years in prison because … Come on, you know why. Read the first two…