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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. On August 25, 2017, The Root changed the world when it began a feature called the Clapback Mailbag. Back then …

This versatility and talent made an entire industry take notice. When Boseman was promoting Get On Up, he got a call from Marvel Studios—they were preparing to introduce the character of Black Panther into their byzantine cinematic universe, and there was only one person they wanted. “You hear people say …

UPDATE [12:08 P.M.]: The extradition hearing for Kyle Rittenhouse, who is charged with two fatal shootings and the wounding of another man during the Kenosha, Wisconsin protests has now been postponed for a month while his family hires a private attorney.  Chicago Sun-Times confirmed that the Illinois judge will see …

Photo: OverHope.STP (Shutterstock) On Tuesday, Twitter removed two fake accounts that spammed tweets about Black people leaving the Democratic Party. According to NBC News, the fake accounts used pictures of Black men as their profile pictures to create the illusion they were run by Black people. One of the accounts, …

Writers have already begun responding to the uncertainty of this pandemic era in their work, but sometimes we need to turn to the past to help make sense of the present. Recently, we’ve been publishing poetry from archival issues of The Atlantic, short pieces that can serve as lyrical salves …

The final evening for the 2020 Republican National Convention is underway and there’s controversy before the event even begins. The African American daughters of David Dorn, the late St. Louis Police Sergeant killed during the rioting following George Floyd’s death, are speaking out about their step mother’s participation in tonight’s display. In a compeling speech, …

Photo: TIMOTHY A. CLARY (Getty Images) A group of lawmakers in Elizabeth, N.J., authorized plans to build a monument to transgender civil rights activist Marsha P. Johnson. According to Union County officials, this would make Johnson the first transgender person in the country to be honored with a monument. ABC …

“Accepting the uncertainty inherent in life—particularly pandemic life—is better than fighting a constant battle against it, one we are bound to lose, the Stoics would say,” says Eric Weiner, who writes about philosophy. Embrace a principle borrowed from Alcoholics Anonymous: Take it one day at a time. Molly Jong-Fast, a …

During the final night of the 2020 Republican National Convention, Alice Marie Johnson took the stage to talk about the man who opened the doors to freedom for her in 2018. After serving nearly 22 years in prison as part of a life sentence for her involvement in a million-dollar …

Photo: Shutterstock (Shutterstock) It’s been a week in America. After another shooting of a Black person at the hands of police—7 times in the back, no less—everybody reached a new level of over it. Athletes in several of the major sports either postponed, cancelled or walked out of games or …