Michelle Obama has been doing a lot of reflecting as of late and says she’s “exhausted” over the mounting death toll of Black men and women in America . Taking to her social media, Mrs. Obama posted an illustration of George Floyd and relayed the sadness she and millions more …
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Dr. Anika Goodwin, a board-certified ophthalmologist with 15 years and 10,000 eye surgeries under her belt, has married her dual passions of looking good and seeing well to create OpulenceMD Beauty, an eye specific beauty brand that specializes in magnetic lashes. Goodwin knew from an early age that she wanted to …
Read More »Photo: Getty Images The family of George Floyd has asked a former New York City chief medical examiner to conduct an independent autopsy on the deceased man, after a report from from local officials said there were “no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation” in …
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Read: The perfect quarantine joke isn’t about quarantine In the first episode, Mark Naird (Carell) is a starchy general receiving his fourth star and hoping to be promoted to the head of the Air Force, when he’s tasked instead to lead the new Space Force by an erratic, unnamed POTUS …
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Read More »Young African American activist woman asking for change holding banner with message stressed with hand on head, shocked with shame and surprise face, angry and frustrated. ; close up of woman’s cupped hands showing euro coinsPhoto: Shutterstock Unrest—it’s a word I’ve read and heard used to describe the emotional state …
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The first act of The Vast of Night is told in long, unbroken shots, with actors barking rat-a-tat dialogue (including ’50s-sounding phrases such as “Tune out, man!” and “What’s the tale, nightingale?”) as they mill around a high-school gym. The setting is the fictional small town of Cayuga, New Mexico, …
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President Donald Trump remarked on the death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd, after video was released of Floyd being killed by a police officer who restrained him by pressing his knee into his neck for nine minutes and cut off his oxygen supply. The video sparked outrage across social media …
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On May 29 2018, two years ago, Starbucks Corp. shut down more than 8,000 company-operated stores to engage in racial bias training for roughly 175,000 “partners”—corporate parlance for employees—after the widely publicized wrongful arrest of two African American men at a Philadelphia location drew protests and calls for a boycott. …
Read More »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. Thanks, Caucasians! This week’s mailbag was mostly filled with white people offering advice to black people on how to protest, how to respond …
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