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The Root's One-on-One With Barack Obama
Because he’s been pretty low-key about it, you might not be aware that a promising politician that we’ve been keeping an eye on released A Promised Land on Tuesday—a book that offers a firsthand account of Barack Obama’s journey to becoming America’s first Black president. When The Root discovered this information, we thought we’d help…
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FBI Report: 2019 Was a Great Year for Racist Murderers
While Donald Trump has repeatedly taken credit for rises in the stock market, Black employment and administration officials who didn’t die from the coronavirus, newly released hate crime data also shows steady growth in the white supremacist murder industry, which has been booming under his leadership. On Monday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released its…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: The Answer to All Your Questions Is 'Wally'
“The answer to all your questions is money” — Don Ohlmeyer Who is Don Ohlmeyer? Everyone knows that Don Ohlmeyer is a genius who will go down in history as one of the television industry’s greatest men. He produced and directed two Super Bowls and three Olympic Games, including the one in Munich. He ran…
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White People Will Believe Anything…Except Facts
The Democrats stole the election for Joe Biden. It’s becoming painfully obvious that the Democratic Party somehow convinced the Republican legislatures of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to throw the elections in their respective states. And, after bellyaching for five years about Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, obstruction and three stolen Supreme Court seats, for…
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What Happened to Quawan Charles?
Quawan Charles was a high school sophomore who looked younger than his decade-and-a-half age. Although this tragedy is spreading across social media posts as the story of “Bobby” Charles, only his mother and close family members called him by that nickname before he disappeared. But if Quawan had just disappeared, he would be known as…
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Unity Is for White People: Why Joe Biden Can't Unite the Country
At the dusk of America’s bloodiest war, a political debate swept across America about how this country should handle the white supremacist traitors who decided to take up arms against their own country to preserve the right to rape, torture and kill their human chattel. Democrats, moderate Republicans and Abraham Lincoln urged unity. According to…
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They Can't Kill Us and We Won't Die
Twenty-nine presidents ago, America kicked the state of Georgia out of the United States for killing Black elected officials and the Black voters who put them in office. Ten presidents ago, this country was still killing Black voters. This morning, an entire country sat in suspended animation waiting to see if there were enough Black…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Things That Never Happened
Did anything interesting happen this week? This weekly column doesn’t focus on sports, so I ignored the letters about Black people doing something incredible in Wisconsin, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Georgia. No one cares about the Packers, Falcons, Cardinals and the Steelers winning football games. We don’t cover amateur sports, so I also disregarded all of…
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Dear White America: You're Welcome
Dearest all white people, First, I’d like you to note how I included that three-letter modifier when I addressed talking to every single white person—the unsoaped-leg Lauras and the bath cloth-resistant Beckies. Those still lingering in flip-flop season because you barbecued your Nikes and broke a strap on your Birkenstocks boogieing to Jimmy Buffet at…
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America Hates Us
I look at it and cuss. There are few human beings on the planet who enjoy receiving an injection with a needle. My sister—a grown-ass-woman who pushed babies out of her body and once fought a mugger who was armed with a kitchen knife — still gets anxiety attacks every time a doctor or nurse…
