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‘You’re Fired’: Black Apprentices Urge Voters to Dump Trump
If there is any way to mathematically stop Donald Trump from having the most delegates at the Republican convention, it pretty much has to happen in New York. If the real estate mogul/reality-TV star/erstwhile Republican manages to get over 50 percent of the vote in every New York district, he’ll score almost 80 of the…
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Last Man Standing: Meet the New Head of African-American Outreach for the Republican Party
Telly Lovelace is not stepping into an easy job. Not that it’s ever been easy to work on African-American outreach for the Republican National Committee, but things haven’t been this bad for the Republican Party since Kanye West called out George W. Bush. Likely GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is anathema to African-American voters, the entire…
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Love, Duty and Politics: Ta-Nehisi Coates Takes on Marvel’s Black Panther
Last week the first issue of Marvel’s new Black Panther comic broke sales records and sold 300,000 issues in the first printing. Meaning that a comic book about a black superhero sold more copies than the daily circulation of the Baltimore Sun, Washington Times or Boston Globe. Why? It probably has a lot to do…
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GOP Exodus: Why Are Black Staffers Leaving the Republican National Committee?
Something unprecedented is happening at the Republican National Committee, and it’s a huge blow to the GOP’s African-American-outreach programs. The RNC is losing its black staffers. All of them. In the last six months, all four of the top black staff members at the RNC have left. These resignations have sparked every rumor from Donald…
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Sanders and Cruz Win in Wis., but Can They Win When the Black and Latino Vote Is in Play?
Tuesday night was a huge victory for two campaigns that were once insurgents and are now viable alternatives. Ted Cruz, mustering all the might of the evangelical Republican base and the desperate “anti-Trump” voters, won the Republican primary in Wisconsin with 49 percent of the vote and, so far, 36 out of a possible 42…
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Black Fraternity Memorial Defaced With ‘Trump 2016,’ Your Newest Racial Slur
Are you a neo-Nazi or are you a Dallas Cowboys fan? There is actually a difference (all jokes aside), but expressing support for Nazism or the Cowboys can be a tricky situation if you’re a sports fan, ignorant or racist. Millions of Americans know that Michael Irvin, the Hall of Fame Dallas Cowboys wide receiver,…
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In Search of the Church of Trump
I went to church in search of Donald Trump. To understand Scott, you have to understand Cleveland. I have lived in Cleveland, on and off, for the last 10 years and have seen the city go through a lot of change. From 2004 to 2016, Cleveland has gone from being the poorest big city in…
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Did Bill Clinton Attack President Obama’s ‘Awful Legacy’?
It’s no secret that former President Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama are more “frenemies” than political friends. Bill Clinton was his wife Hillary Clinton’s biggest attack dog in the 2008 Democratic presidential campaign, and both publicly and privately suggested that then-Sen. Obama wasn’t up to being commander in chief. Hillary Clinton and Obama have since…
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With Iron Fist, Marvel and Netflix Make a White Man Lord of the Urban Jungle
You know Tarzan was a bunch of garbage, right? The idea that some white guy got left in the middle of the jungle, was raised by apes, and somehow became the biggest, baddest, smartest guy in all of Africa is equal parts ridiculous and racist. But “white man who masters the culture, skills and talents…
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All He Does Is Not Win: Rubio Drops Out, and 3 Other Surprises From Super Tuesday 2
Last night was Super Tuesday, part 2, where really important things were bound to happen because there just aren’t as many states left for the candidates to fight over. On the Democratic side, it was another opportunity for Sen. Bernie Sanders to remind former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that he wasn’t quite dead yet,…
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