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  • Vice Presidential Verzuz Battle: Susan Rice vs. Kamala Harris

    After months of vetting, evaluating and probably texting “WYD” to Michelle Obama, sources say presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden has whittled down his choices of potential running mates to two Black women. Axios reports that more than a dozen people close to Biden (which sounds like they are not social distancing) have the same unanimous…

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  • Trump Campaign Ad Uses Altered Photos to Smear Biden's 'Radical' Belief in Science, Social Distancing and Prayer

    Donald Trump’s campaign has finally found a legitimate scandal to pin on Joe Biden. A new ad appealing to Trump’s base of racist, anti-mask, coronavirus-spreading conspiracy theorists contains altered photos of Joe Biden committing egregiously sensible acts like socially distancing, praying and acknowledging the value of Black life. On Wednesday, Donald Trump’s presidential campaign team…

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  • Conservatives Attack Oprah for Being Rich, Black and Believing in the White Privilege 'Conspiracy Theory'

    Conservatives Attack Oprah for Being Rich, Black and Believing in the White Privilege 'Conspiracy Theory'

    I’m calling it now: Oprah Winfrey is going to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Aside from becoming the first Black female billionaire, being the most successful talk show host in history and co-owning a successful nightclub with her husband Harpo, unbeknownst to many, Oprah recently angered conservatives and discovered the cure for white privilege: $2.6…

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  • It Is What It Is

    Tommy expected applause. Even though it was just a first draft, Tommy thought it was brilliant. Before reading his new piece of writing aloud to his captive audience, he believed his eloquent breakup letter could possibly change the future of everyone he knew. Of course, he also knew that he was smarter than all of…

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  • Black Church Bamboozled Into Hosting Blue Lives MAGA Rally Complete With Confederate Flags, Trump Signs

    Parishioners at a Texas church were shocked to discover their parking lot filled with crimson-necked, pickup-truck-driving, Confederate flag-waving MAGA cyclists who had hoodwinked the house of worship into hosting a Blue Lives Matter rally on Communion Sunday. Friendship-West Baptist Church (no relation to Kanye) in Dallas is not just a place where saints and sinners…

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  • 'Jesus Was White. Did He Have White Privilege?': Evangelical Author Roasted for Spreading the Gospel of Mayo Messiah

    'Jesus Was White. Did He Have White Privilege?': Evangelical Author Roasted for Spreading the Gospel of Mayo Messiah

    Biblical scholars, theologians and people who have common sense are dragging a right-wing celebrity you’ve never heard of who claimed that white privilege didn’t stop federal law enforcement officers from killing a popular protest organizer from Nazareth who died with his hands up after a confidential informant named Judas snitched on his fellow gang leader.…

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  • President Jim Crow: Donald Trump's White Supremacy Week

    We should stop referring to Donald Trump as a racist. Racism—the “belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities”—is a personal and individual principle that only exists in theory. Racism cannot be objectively measured or detected, as it is always subject to interpretation. Because of this, it is easily denied by…

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  • The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Errors and Omissions

    “There ain’t been a perfect person on earth since Jesus took to the sky; and there won’t be none until he comes back” — Aunt Earlene To be fair, my Aunt Earlene has been married to a Pentecostal preacher, my Uncle Otis, since the mid-196os, so she knows very little about Black Thought—who has never…

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  • Should Black Voters Form Their Own Party? Too Late, Someone Already Did

    “Aight, bet.” While that colloquialism may seem innocuous to many people, in Black communities across America, those two words are both a threat and a promise. It is the most acceptable answer to the question “What are you gonna do about it?” and is roughly translated as: “I can show you better than I can…

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  • Rapper Malik B., Founding Member of The Roots, Dead at 47

    As a superfan of the hip-hop group The Roots, I will always contend that “Water,” a raw and vulnerable tale of addiction and friendship. is the best song they ever made, and—along with Kendrick Lamar’s “Duckworth”—one of the greatest examples of hip-hop storytelling ever. Malik B., the talented rapper, longtime member of The Roots, and…

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