Black America Breaking News for the African American Community

It sincerely amazes me how specific you can get on Shutterstock. Photo: Kemedo (Shutterstock) Happy 4/20 folks! As you hopefully know, I’m the resident gamer person at The Root. In addition to playing quite a few video games, I also smoke quite a bit of weed. For obvious reasons, the …

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The Home Depot’s Retool Your School initiative recently awarded 30 different HBCUs with funds toward restoration projects. Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi, came in first place and received $120,000 and the Campaign of the Year award, according to the press release. Recipients of the funds are divided into three clusters …

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Home DepotPhoto: NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP (Getty Images) A coalition of Black faith leaders across Georgia are calling for a boycott of Home Depot in response to the corporation’s lack of urgency to pressure Republicans in the state to reverse its anti-Democratic voter suppression laws. Leading the charge is Bishop Reginald T. …

It started, as so many of life’s journeys do, at IKEA. We went one day a few years ago to get bookshelves. We left with some Hemnes and a leafy impulse buy: a giant Dracaena fragrans. A couple of months later, delighted that we had managed to keep it alive, …

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Tiffany Cartwright, founder & CEO of Amarra Products, is the epitome of bouncing back despite extreme adversity. The former assistant attorney general and former administrative law judge for the State of Michigan was laid off in 2012 without notice due to state budget cuts. The unexpected and sudden job loss …