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Generosity Helps Spelman-Bound Student Whose Mom's Student Loan Debt Almost Prevented Her From Enrolling
We love happy endings at The Root. On Saturday, we posted a story about the struggle college freshman Nayaa Martinique and her family were having after arriving at Spelman College only to learn that Nayaa was unable to enroll. Her mom, Tjai Downs, a teacher and a veteran, attempted to take out a loan to…
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Rep. Keith Ellison Denies Domestic Violence Claims Made by Former Girlfriend and Her Son
U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) is a darling of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. He’s the deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee. He’s young, charismatic and was the first Muslim to be elected to Congress. He is a frontrunner to become his state’s attorney general, but all of that may come to…
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Omarosa's Got Receipts: New Audio Reveals Trump Was Unaware That His Favorite Black Had Been Fired
Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman and Kanye West have a lot in common. They are both black, they both love, or loved, in Omarosa’s case, Donald Trump and they both have an odd schedule of releasing fire tracks. During an appearance on Meet the Press, Omarosa released a recording of White House chief…
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Cops Encouraged Not to Buy Miami Dolphins Tickets Because Police Hate Free-Thinking Black Men
Well, it looks like America is continuing its long-held tradition of being on the wrong side of black protest as South Florida police officers have been encouraged not to buy tickets to Miami Dolphins games after two players kneeled during the national anthem. According to CBS Sports, the Broward County Police Benevolent Association, much like…
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Omarosa Claims Trump Wants to Start Race War, Trump Responds by Calling Omarosa a 'Low-Life'
On the latest episode of The Real Housewives of the Beverly Hillbillies, former White House worker and leader of the “Wobble” during executive functions, Omarosa Manigault-Newman, told TMZ that Trump’s dustup with NBA superstar LeBron James is part of the president’s plan to start a race war. Sidenote, never forget that it was Omarosa, the…
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Trump Reportedly Ate Notes After Meeting With Michael Cohen: Report
Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman continues to keep her name in the mix of Love and Hip Hop: White House, now claiming that your boy, President AssHandles Von BackAcne ate paper allegedly filled with notes after meeting with then-lawyer Michael Cohen. Omarosa claims in her new book “Look at Me, I’m Inside My…
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Well This is Awkward: Black GOP Candidate Claims She Can Win Because People Don't Want to Vote for 'Old White Men'
The Republican Party, aka the party of old white men, has a new black firecracker with an interesting platform: Vote for me because people don’t want to vote for old white men! According to The Sun-Sentinel, Carla Spalding, who is Caribbean-American, spoke during an Americans For Trump-Broward meeting in Florida. Nothing says old white men…
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Mom's Student Loan Debt Prevents Daughter From Enrolling in Spelman College
Nayaa Martinique and her family took the eight-hour drive from Indianapolis to Atlanta so the college freshman could start her journey as a Spelman woman. “I was just excited to move in and go to college,” Nayaa told Fox 59. But once the family arrived, there was a slight problem. It turned out that Nayaa…
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Omarosa Confirms What We All Suspected: Trump's a Racist Who Uses the N-Word
Omarosa Manigault-Newman, the former best black friend to the president, has a new book, Unhinged, which sadly is not an autobiography but a memoir about her time inside the Big House White House. According to the Daily Beast, Omarosa writes that she felt a “growing realization that Donald Trump was indeed a racist, a bigot,…
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Several NFL Players Protested During National Anthem, So You Know Who Didn't Like It and Tweeted About It
President VomitFace Von CatUrine is tweeting again. We all know that the one thing he hates more than KFC not having the easy-to-use trough handles for his bucket of original recipe, is black men with independent minds who don’t cower to white supremacy. On Thursday, the NFL started a full slate of preseason games that…
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