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Photo: Marie Kanger Born (Shutterstock) In another tacit admission that he believes American equates to whiteness, President Trump has ordered the cease and desist of any government funding for anti-racism federal training programs because they are “anti-American propaganda.” The edict was delivered by Russel Vought, director of the White House’s …

If you’re planning on going to the pool … It’s a similar deal to the beach, except staying apart may be a bit trickier. Olga Khazan warned of the challenges around poolside distancing back in May. If you’re planning on camping … “I keep saying we need positive examples of …

Delta Air Lines is receiving praise after it upgraded the seat of a Black customer after she was reportedly harassed by a white woman during a flight last week. Demetria Poe says she was seated next to a white woman who purposefully switched up her American flag face mask for …

Image: Nickelodeon Press Nickelodeon will be removing a new animated Nick Jr. show, Made By Maddie, from its schedule to look further into the “creative journey” of its development, after releasing a trailer for it this week that left Black Twitter clocking many similarities to Matthew A. Cherry’s Oscar-winning short Hair …

Read: ‘Hustlers’ and the rise of the stripper ensemble film Hall, who serves as the showrunner and staffed her directing team exclusively with women, trains the lens of the southern gothic on a group that rarely gets such aesthetic treatment: Black women strippers in the “Dirty Delta.” P-Valley is lush, …

Curtis Flowers is finally a free man. Prosecutors in Mississippi dropped murder charges against Flowers on Friday, ending a more than two-decade-long ordeal that began when he was charged in 1996 for the murders of four people at a furniture store in Winona, Miss. – murders he consistently maintained he …

Illustration: Oscar Bustamante Clapback MailbagEach Friday, we select the best (or worst) emails, tweets, DMs and comments from our readers and respond to them in the The Root’s Clapback Mailbag. I’m going to stop being so offensive. From now on, I promise to respond to the violence, theft and downright …

Moving to New York a few years into the job helped, but it didn’t totally solve the problem—I was still the girl on her laptop in her bedroom, trying to make people from Twitter like me enough to meet a stranger for an after-hours drink. After you’ve left the ready-made …

Tyler Perry’s The Oval Is Just Getting Started Look back at the scandals, greed, lies and cover-ups from the first half of the season, then get ready as new episodes of Tyler Perry’s The Oval kick off May 6 at 9/8c. Source link

Photo: Emma McIntyre (Getty Images) Usher once sang “if you want it, scream ‘yeah’”—and it looks like fans of his live shows are going to be screaming “yeah!” next year. Rolling Stone announced that Usher is taking his decades-long career and performing talents to Las Vegas. He will have his …