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Antoinette Hodge fought back against Uniontown, Pennsylvania after she accused the city of racism because officials refused to swear her in as the City Treasurer, even though she won the primary and general election. After a federal lawsuit was filed, which accused a City Council Member and a City Clerk …

Photo: Jefferson’s Family (Associated Press) A tragic story has taken yet another sad turn. The Dallas Morning News reports that Yolanda Carr, the mother of Atatiana Jefferson, has died at 55. A cause of death has yet to be released but she had been battling illness. Before her death, Jefferson …

Graphic novels will make it to the small screen as well, with Netflix taking on Cursed, a series fronted by 13 Reasons Why’s Katherine Langford and developed from a Frank Miller and Tom Wheeler book reimagining the legend of King Arthur. Finally, FX’s Y—about a dystopian world in which men …

Cyntoia Brown was released from prison five months ago after spending 15 years incarcerated for killing a man who she was afraid would kill her while she was a teenage victim of sex trafficking. Now, she wants to help another teenager in a similar situation. Nineteen-year-old Chrystul Kizer confessed to …

Photo: Stacy Revere (Getty Images) In this installment of Freudian slips that make you go “Damn,” we turn to the Cleveland Cavaliers. ESPN reports that during a film session on Wednesday night, first year coach John Beilein told the players that they were no longer playing “like a bunch of …

Yet the United States cannot shove all blame on Iran for the human disaster of Flight 752. Nobody intended for civilians to die. That’s the way it is with unintended consequences—and why governments are supposed to weigh carefully the decision to employ deadly force. The Trump administration is telling an …

Stacey Abrams literally had the Georgia governor race stolen from her by Brian Kemp. In 2018, 560,000 Georgians had been removed from voter rolls all because of weak voting laws. Abrams has been fighting to change that, so that all Americans can exercise their right to vote. This Friday, Abrams’ …

Photo: Shutterstock Occasionally The Root will interrupt our coverage of black news, opinions, politics and culture to openly address our white readership. In 2020, we’d like to finally have that oft-discussed “conversation about race” we hear you guys mention so often. To be clear, white people need to have a …

Read: Inside the collapse of Trump’s Korea policy These dismal circumstances follow substantial advances in halting the spread of nuclear weapons. In the ’60s, the decade in which the most new nuclear states emerged (France, China, and unofficially Israel), John F. Kennedy predicted that there would be “15 or 20” …

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