Politics
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Jenifer Lewis Calls on Cardi B and Nicki Minaj to Get Out the Vote!
She’s the straight-talking grandmother on black-ish and the self-proclaimed “Mother of Black Hollywood,” but “Auntie” Jenifer Lewis also has issues. Political issues, that is. Just ahead of the highly-anticipated New York primaries on Thursday, Lewis made another in her ongoing series of musical social media posts, encouraging millennials to “get woke” and “get out and…
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This Donald Trump Story Reveals the True Power of Whiteness
Buried among the mountain of tales in Bob Woodward’s excavation of Donald Trump’s Hogwarts Acadamy for Grand Wizards, is a story that reveals the ineptitude of Donald Trump and the brazen supremacy of whiteness. According to Business Insider, Woodward’s new book, Fear, contains an anecdote about Donald Trump that boggles the mind. It details a…
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As Hurricane Florence Approaches, Trump Trapped in Tornado of Lies
At The Root, we don’t employ a psychologist or a psychiatrist (although Michael Harriot serves as the senior wypipoloigist on staff), so we are unable to assess the president’s mental health. Therefore no one on The Root staff can currently say whether or not the president suffers from some narcissist personality disorder. However, as someone…
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Here's What's Going to Happen at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's 48th Annual Conference
Ask U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.), chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, what’s on his mind for 2018 and he’ll get directly to the point: 218 seats. That’s the number of seats the Democrats need to really throw its weight around to do the things its members want to achieve over the next two years.…
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Can Letitia James Win the NY Attorney General's Race and Make History?
Light rain fell on Sunday as Letitia James and her two campaign aides hurried into St. Paul’s Community Church in East New York in Brooklyn. It’s the type of day pastors fear will keep their flocks from filling the pews. That morning, projections that Hurricane Florence would hit the East Coast before Thursday’s New York…
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President Trump Doesn't Understand That 9/11 Was a Tragedy
The president of the United States of White America shouldn’t need a crash course on arguably the most horrific tragedy in American history in the past 50 years (followed closely the Russian assist that gave this president the White House), yet, here we are. On the seventeenth year anniversary of the day the world stood…
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Omarosa’s Latest Mixtape Drop Is a Doozy
Omarosa Manigault Newman released two more secret recordings Monday, and Donald Trump is heard on tape discussing among other things Hillary Clinton, the Steele dossier and the deadly Niger ambush in which four U.S. service members were killed in October 2017. The first recording—which was initially released on The View and then later aired on…
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Omarosa Claims White House Staff Joked About Removing Trump From Office So Much They Had A Hashtag
Omarosa Manigault Newman, who once worked in the White House under the official title of mixologist of the crew, is back on her mixtape grind and while she didn’t drop another secretly recorded gem, she’s been speculating on who wrote the hit New York Times op-ed and confirming that many White House staffers actually considered…
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America’s Biggest Conspiracy Theory Is Real: The Racist Truth Behind the Myth of Voter Fraud
Whether it is Benghazi, birth certificates, Bigfoot, the Illuminati or an unseen VHS tape of Russian sex workers emptying vodka-filled bladders onto a marmalade-colored man who would eventually become the president of the United States, America loves a good conspiracy theory. Anna Merlan, a reporter at Gizmodo Media Group’s special projects desk and author of…
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During Black Girls Rock, Michelle Obama Had a Special Message to Black Women
During a star-studded celebration of black girlhood and womanhood, our #foreverandeverandeverFLOTUS Michelle Obama premiered a new PSA for her voting initiative, When We All Vote. “We’ve all seen the difference we can make when we choose to cast our ballots. And we’ve all seen the consequences when we don’t bother to show up to the…