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50 Cent already warned us, he becomes enemies with people as a business strategy. So it should come as no surprise that the “In Da Club” rapper did his part to continue his feud with T.I. over social media last night. It started with Tip reigniting his feud with Fiddy …

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, …

Tiffany Haddish attends Black Girls Rock! 2017 at NJPAC on August 5, 2017 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for BET) Tiffany Haddish landed an exclusive interview with esteemed immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci for her YouTube channel. In the video posted late August, the comedienne went one-on-one …

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 …

Following the shocking death of actor Chadwick Boseman who passed away on August 28th at the age of 43 following a private four-year battle with colon cancer, his native South Carolina is remembering Black Panther’s King T’Challa as a hometown hero.  The city of Anderson paid tribute to Boseman during …

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 …