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Veteran Journalist Gwen Ifill Dies at 61
Gwen Ifill, the legendary and beloved journalist who provided a blueprint for many black women in media, has died after a hard-fought battle with cancer, PBS NewsHour has confirmed; she was 61: Ifill was co-managing editor of PBS NewsHour and managing editor of Washington Week. In February, Ifill moderated a debate between Democratic presidential nominees…
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Prediction: The Democratic Party Will Shift Further Right to Regain Power
President-elect Donald J. Trump is what happens when a nation lies to itself about the depth of its character. And as the hand-wringing “How did this happen” hysteria reaches full force, that has never been more apparent than in this moment. Since August of last year, it has been clear that a Trump presidency was…
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Maybe if the Black Left Were Trump Supporters, Democrats Would Put Some Respect on Their Names
Over the course of this farce of a presidential campaign, we have seen mainstream media outlets and politicians seek to analyze and understand white people who support Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. What drives them? What incites them? What brings them to the polls and why? We’re all expected to be so fascinated, as if…
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#GenForward: Obama’s Popularity Helps Clinton With Black Millennials
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has cobbled together a multiracial coalition of young voters who agree that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s supporters are a “basket of deplorables,” but fewer black millennials support Clinton than supported President Barack Obama in 2008, according to a new GenForward survey. “Overall, the level of youth support for Hillary Clinton looks…
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#FitTheDescription: The White Privilege Behind Drug Crimes [Retracted]
RETRACTED (6/12/18): This story has been removed because we have discovered it was in breach of our editorial standards. If you’d like to know more, you can read an editor’s note here. A cached version of the story is available here for transparency.
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Watch: Leaked Stevie Wonder Song Destroys Donald Trump
Updated Thursday, Oct. 27, 4:17 p.m. EDT: A video for the remix, produced by R. Ray Barnes and Tony Coleman, has now been released on the Hidden Beach YouTube channel. Watch it below: Earlier: Stevie Wonder—the man, the myth, the legend—is responsible for the election anthem of 2016, and he doesn’t even know it yet.…
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#FitTheDescription: The Dehumanizing Brutality of Mass Incarceration
Mass incarceration is a crisis. It is a capitalist and racist endeavor that has purposely targeted black and Latinx communities through discriminatory policing, bigotry framed as legislation, and a deep-seated fear of blackness and “otherness.” This system is, in large part, fueled by mainstream media for the sole purpose of pathologizing black and Latinx people until trapping them…
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NBA Veteran and Drug-Policy Advocate Al Harrington: 'Marijuana Healed My Grandmother' [Retracted]
RETRACTED (6/12/18): This story has been removed because we have discovered it was in breach of our editorial standards. If you’d like to know more, you can read an editor’s note here. A cached version of the story is available here for transparency.
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Green Party VP Nominee Ajamu Baraka: We Must Disrupt Our Relationship to Democratic Party
When Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein tapped Ajamu Baraka to be her running mate back in August, there was a flurry of news stories. Most tried to paint him as the anti-Obama—too radical, too intense, too left to occupy the space just a heartbeat away from the Oval Office. All of these characterizations of Baraka amounted to attempts…
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On Justice Ginsburg's 'Arrogant' Opinion on National Anthem Protest
Updated Friday, Oct. 14, 4:50 p.m. EDT: Justice Ginsburg did not respond to The Root’s interview request to discuss her comments about Kaepernick and the national anthem protest, but she released the following statement: “Some of you have inquired about a book interview in which I was asked how I felt about Colin Kaepernick and other NFL players…
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