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Georgia’s attorney general will reportedly appoint a new prosecutor in the case of Ahmaud Arbery’s shooting death, after calls for the current prosecutor to recuse himself. Atlanta station WSB-TV reports that an official announcement is expected Monday (May 11) that will name Cobb County district attorney Joyette Holmes, who is African American, to handle the …

Many black women consider their hair to be their crowns. Beyond length, style, or texture—the way that women are in relationship to their hair can be looked at as a radical act of self-love. There’s also the flip side of that as well. For all of the reasons that black …

Photo: Shutterstock For some inexplicable reason, white people have responded to the pandemic by going full-racist. Between the xenophobic rhetoric directed towards Asian-Americans, busting out Confederate flags at anti-lockdown rallies, and trying to make Obamagate a thing, the 2A crowd has really been on one. Last week, The Root reported …

On Monday, Cuomo defended his conservative approach to reopening the state. “We’re not the first to reopen. And that’s a good thing, because you can look around and learn,” he said at his daily briefing, referring to both states and countries that have arguably moved too quickly. The governor’s senior …

Khloe Kardashian is catching major heat for being wasteful and tone deaf during the coronavirus pandemic, after the reality star flaunted the way she wasted a resource that’s been in short supply for many. RELATED: Hospital Workers Warn Of ‘Doomed’ System To Deal With Coronavirus “So I haven’t had this …

Denise Woodard never imagined that her daughter’s food allergies would lead her down a pathway toward entrepreneurship. Back in 2016, she was a corporate executive at The Coca-Cola Co. when a peanut and corn snack almost took her daughter Vivienne’s life when she was just a year old. “My daughter …

(L-R): Oprah Winfrey, left; Jasmine Arbery, sister of Ahmaud Arbery, right, and Wanda Cooper-Jones, Ahmaud’s mother, comfort one another while people gather to honor Ahmaud on May 9, 2020, in Brunswick, Georgia. Photo: Jemal Countess (Getty Images for Statue Of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation), Sean Rayford (Getty Images) Ahmaud Arbery’s mother …

Meanwhile, a faction of fiscal conservatives, reportedly led by new White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and budget chief Russ Vought, has suddenly discovered the concern for deficits that Republicans displayed throughout the Obama presidency and abandoned completely when Trump became president. They’ve returned to the theme at the …

If actor Mahdi Cocci looks hella familiar it’s because you’ve likely glimpsed him on television before. The Minneapolis born actor has  popped up in guest roles in a number of shows in recent years – perhaps most notably in HBO’s television adaptation of the legendary graphic novel Watchmen (although he …