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The Obamas 1st Netflix Project Could Be a Series About How Inept the Trump Administration Truly Is
In the latest chess move by the Obamas, the former president and first lady—arguably the best to ever sit in the White House—have licensed a book about the Trump White House which could be crafted into a series that shows just how incompetent the Trump administration really is. While nothing has gotten a green light…
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Yeezy Taught Him: A Theory on How the Yeezy Mauve’s Poor Sales May Have Rescued Kanye From the Sunken Place
At The Root we loves us a good conspiracy theory. All conspiracy theories. On the tame side, we absolutely believe that Russian bots stole the election through deception and Russian prostitution pee pee blackmail. And on the aluminum foil Kangol side, we believe that Tupac may or may not be living in a Cuban flat…
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A Formal Request for Hillary Clinton to Go Sit Her Ass Down Somewhere: [Updated]
Hillary Clinton is doing it again. You know the coy thing that politicians do when they are teasing whether or not they should run for office. The thing where they walk out into a crowd of people cheering their name and act like they want it to stop but secretly love the adoration. Two-time loser—I…
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Univ. of Maryland Football Player Jordan McNair Died and No One Has Been Held Accountable
On May 29, University of Maryland offensive lineman Jordan McNair was exhausted. He and the team were running 110-yard sprints in the hot sun during offseason conditioning drills. Maryland is not a football school. It never has been. Despite a few good seasons in the past which included some national rankings and low-level bowl games,…
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Oprah Winfrey to Join Stacey Abrams on Her Historic Campaign to Become the First Black Woman Governor
With less than a week to go before Georgia decides if Democrat Stacey Abrams will become the country’s first black woman governor, Abrams just received a huge endorsement from black America’s second favorite first lady, Oprah Winfrey. The television talk show host turned television mogul has joined sides to help battle the fuck boy shit…
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#CrosswalkCathy Calls Police on Black Man Because She Didn’t Like The Way He Parked
Another day and another white woman is becoming an Internet sensation for calling the police on a black man who parked his car too far into the crosswalk for her liking. I miss the old days when passive aggressive white women wrote notes and left them on your windshield. Portland, Ore., couple Rashsaan Muhammad and…
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Top Congressional Leaders on Both Sides Passed on Visiting Pittsburgh With Trump Because He’s Trash
Top Congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle declined to join the president on his trip to Pittsburgh on Tuesday, in the wake of the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue, which left 11 people dead and several others injured. According to the Hill, “House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Senate Majority Leader…
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Gymnast Simone Biles Is Made of Vibranium; Leads Team USA to Gold With a Kidney Stone
If you want proof that black women are the strongest people on the planet, look no further than 11-time world champion and four-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles, who not only lead the USA women to a World Gymnastics Championship in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday, she did so with a kidney stone! “We had to…
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Trump Wants to End Birthright Citizenship. Here’s Why That’s Not Happening
President Donald Trump believes, like most white nationalists, that America is his country. Not sure how this belief came to be, but it’s certainly at the core of white nationalist rhetoric. By now everyone has seen footage of some exasperated racists shouting, “Get out of my country!” to some unsuspecting person who is trying to…
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Undefeated Youth Football Team Believes They’ve Been Banned From the Playoffs Because of Race
An undefeated youth football team from Maryland won’t be going to the playoffs despite being damn near unbeatable because the executive branch of its youth football league has decided to sideline the predominately black team without warning. Marquita Melvin, the president of the Reisterstown Mustangs, thinks she has a pretty good reason why, in Trump’s…
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