Black America Breaking News for the African American Community

With the Black community reeling under the weight of the coronavirus, historic unemployment and a president who tweets, “When the looting starts, the shooting starts,” Killer Mike believes a possible remedy is for African-Americans to embrace the second amendment and arm themselves. Mike wrote in an op-ed for Colorlines, “I …

The New York Police Department is being criticized for how terribly they are handling the police protests currently taking place in honor of George Floyd. With protests spreading throughout the country and making their way in big cities like Los Angeles and NYC, police continue to use violence against …

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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Things are getting so heated in Atlanta that the Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has called on the National Guard for help. What started off as a peaceful protest quickly turned to chaos and has left parts of the city in flames. Protesters angry over the killing of George Floyd …

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 …

The wife of the former Minneapolis police officer who was arrested for the murder of George Floyd says she’s “devastated” by the killing and is filing for divorce. “This evening, I spoke with Kellie Chauvin and her family,” read a statement from Sekula Law Offices Friday evening (May 29) …

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. …

This is the face of a murderer. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s mugshot was released Friday night (May 29) just hours after the killer cop was arrested for murder in the death of George Floyd. Minnesota Department of Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington said that Chauvin, 44, of …

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 …