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I was prepared to dislike Kara Brown’s Jezebel article, “I’m So Damn Tired of Slave Movies,” based on the title alone. That sentiment has been popular lately, given all the attention garnered at the Sundance Film Festival for actor-turned-director-producer-screenwriter Nate Parker’s upcoming film, The Birth of a Nation. Reports from Utah say the movie—a biography of Nat Turner’s life and the slave revolt he led through Southampton County, Va., in 1831—received a standing ovation after its debut screening. Читать дальше...

Virginia police arrested a mother Tuesday after she reportedly punched an assistant principal, knocking the woman unconscious, during a meeting at her child's elementary school.

A South Carolina judge has ordered a jury pool of 600 people summoned for the trial of Dylann Roof, who is charged with murder in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church shooting that took place last summer, The Guardian reports.

A Chicago police officer who shot and killed a black teenager is planning to sue the teen's estate, claiming that the teen attacked him, CBS Chicago reports. 

Election cycle 2016 has kicked into high gear, and the unrelenting battle for political power between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party has taken center stage.

Like a lot of people, Spike Lee first fell in love with Michael Jackson as a little boy watching the Jackson 5 on television.

It was supposed to have been a discussion about racial sensitivity during a meeting with members of the community after a group of Phoenix high school students used their T-shirts to spell out the n-word. Shortly after the meeting let out last week, 77-year-old attorney and civil rights leader Don Harris, who is white and also the president of the Maricopa County, Ariz., chapter of the NAACP, stole the show after he was heard commenting about a reporter's breasts, the Huffington Post reports.

The Ferguson (Mo.) Police Department and the Justice Department have reached a tentative agreement to overhaul training, policies and practices in the wake of a federal investigation following the 2014 fatal police shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown that uncovered unconstitutional and discriminatory practices.

A top-ranking Georgia Department of Education official has been fired after making a racially charged comment on his personal Facebook page, 11 Alive reports, the latest in a spate of homophobic and anti-Muslim posts made from the account. 

Aliya’s turn:

Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-Fla.) statements on the Black Lives Matter movement surprised many last year. But how far will he go in addressing the disparities in the criminal-justice system? The Root’s Meet the Candidates series continues its exploration of where presidential candidates stand on some of the most pressing issues for African Americans. Previously we discussed Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Now let’s take a closer look at Rubio.

Condola Rashad is making a name for herself. The young actress, who turns 30 this year, has largely made her mark in theater. For her debut, she nabbed a starring role in Lynn Nottage’s 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Ruined, and earned a Drama Desk nomination. Subsequent roles in the Kenny Leon-directed Stick Fly and The Trip to Bountiful with the legendary Cicely Tyson have resulted in two Tony nominations.

A long time ago, back when everyone I knew personally was black and my world was much smaller, everyone was embarrassingly blunt about their colorism because they were 9 years old and had no filters.