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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 …

Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox. SHUTTERSTOCK / THE ATLANTIC This week, two high-profile incidents laid bare America’s racial contract. Both found …

Derek Chauvin has been under heavy scrutiny from the public since he was revealed as the Minneapolis cop who killed George Floyd by pressing his knee on Floyd’s neck for several minutes. The tragic incident, which occurred Monday (May 25), was apparently not the first, second or third time Chauvin …

Women are often given societal cues on how they should live, show up in the world personally and professionally, and be in relationships with others. For those reasons and more, Aventer Gray, pastor, mentor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist is inspiring women to own their womanhood and power by living life unfiltered …

The roof! The roof! The roof is on fire! We don’t need no water; let that mother fucker burn! Nieces and nephews, the world is quite literally on fire. As if being under quarantine due to the coronavirus wasn’t enough, we as black people have the added strain and pressure …

📚 The Death of Jesus, by J. M. Coetzee Rewriting the “boy genius” “Caitlin Horrocks’s debut novel, The Vexations, a fictional dive into the early life of the French composer Erik Satie … creates a wrenching portrait of overconfidence as a destructive force.” 📚 The Vexations, by Caitlin Horrocks The …

“The stories are kinda like my slam dunks. Except, I’m dunking words. In your FACE!” – Jason Reynolds New York Times best-selling author, Jason Reynolds, has beautifully penned his way from cover to cover with original novels and poetry. As a National Book Award Finalist for Young People’s Literature for …

By Subrat Patnaik and Shubham Kalia (Reuters) – Twitter hid a tweet by U.S. President Donald Trump behind a warning on Friday, accusing him of breaking its rules by “glorifying violence” in a message that said looters at protests in Minneapolis would be shot. Twitter’s decision to step in escalates …

Photo: Omar Rawlings (Getty Images) As if the coronavirus hasn’t already ruined enough of our lives, now comes the news that another sports-related event has been postponed until 2021. From ESPN: Jerry Colangelo, the chairman of the board of governors for the Hall, told ESPN on Wednesday that enshrinement ceremonies …

Fred’s arc suggests an answer as simple as separating one’s own authentic desires from the fleeting demands of lust and social pressure. (Fred’s bolt of clarity in the book’s final pages: “What am I doing?”) A reader can also see—in Kramer’s sprawling diagrams of money, drugs, and bodies flowing as …