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Planned Parenthood President to White Women: Do Better; Black Women Can’t Keep Saving the Country
Whether it’s been saving Congress from Roy Moore’s disgusting ass, or Oprah’s inspiring speech during the Golden Globes that led to social media chants of #Oprah2020, or Beyoncé just being Beyoncé, black women are clearly the backbone of the American conscience. We at The Root have been trying to tell America that black women are…
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Omarosa May Have Secretly Recorded Conversations in the White House. If True, This Would Be Peak Omarosa
If the rumors that former White House worker (or President Donald Trump’s personal Diet Coke getter) Omarosa Manigault Newman secretly recorded private conversations she had during her short White House stay, then I hate to say this—it actually pains me to say this—but Omarosa might be our only hope to bring down the White House.…
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Trump Appointee Resigns After Report Proves He’s Racist, Homophobic, Sexist Trash
Carl Higbie, an appointee in Donald Trump’s administration and the former chief of external affairs at the Corporation for National and Community Service, a federal government volunteer organization that oversees services like AmeriCorps and Senior Corps, resigned Thursday after CNN’s KFile unearthed some radio clips that have Higbie making racist, sexist, anti-Muslim and anti-LGBT statements.…
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Republican Lawmaker Claims Las Vegas White Terrorist Attack Was the Work of Islamic State Group
On Thursday, Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) appeared on whatever show it is that Tucker Carlson hosts for Fox News and proceeded to make several bold claims that the Islamic State group was the real perpetrator behind the Las Vegas massacre in October that left 58 people dead. “I smell a rat like a lot of…
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Funny Money: Trump’s Inauguration Fund Is Missing; Also, the FBI Is Looking Into the NRA’s Campaign Donation
Donald Trump’s inauguration committee raised a record-breaking $107 million to send him into office, and almost a year after the staggering amount of money was raised, no one seems to know what happened to the leftover funds. According to Newsweek, the Trump administration has disclosed very little information surrounding the large collective donation, which was…
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Trump’s Big Mad After Chief of Staff Contradicts His Stance on Border Wall and Calls Him ‘Uninformed’: Report
According to President Donald Trump, his position on the border wall to separate Mexico and the United States has never changed, despite what White House chief of staff John Kelly said in recent interviews, and despite Trump’s flip-flopping on the wall since running for president. On Wednesday, Kelly appeared on Fox News and said that…
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High School Principal Retires After 40 Years After Racist Rant Caught on Video
Jay Brennan, the principal of Bishop Hendricken High School for 40-years, announced his retirement after administrators of the Catholic all-boys school in Warwick, R.I., were given a video clip that showed him making racist and anti-Semitic slurs. A short video clip reportedly shows Brennan in his school office saying, “That way, I could take care…
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Trump Couldn’t Even Get His ‘Fake News Awards’ Right
I can’t believe that as a government shutdown looms, and the immigration deal that would save hundreds of thousands of people from deportation hangs in the balance of a dumbass border wall that only racists want, the president of Backwash, Miss., is busy announcing the winners for his “Fake News Awards.” In case you are…
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Matt Barnes Is Boycotting McNuggets After Learning That Shaq’s Son Didn’t Make the McDonald’s All-Star Team
Shareef O’Neal, son of NBA Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal, is one of the best high school players in the country and is headed to Arizona to play basketball. Yet he must not have impressed Mayor McCheese-and-nem enough to land in the prestigious McDonald’s All-American Game. And that has former NBA player Matt Barnes mad…
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Colin Kaepernick Has Done More for the 99 Percent Than the President of the United States
Other than keeping the few black and brown workers at KFC busy filling his order for a bucket of chicken and employing the once-great-and-now-fallen Dr. Ben Carson, what has President Supremacy von AgentOrangeFace done for black America—or, more importantly, for the black America that isn’t among the 1 percent? I’m actually not being facetious here;…
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