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  • Bad-Ass Mich. State Student, 22, Is Running for Mayor of Detroit

    In a continuing trend of millennials raising the bar and showing they have what it takes to help institute positive change in the world, a 22-year-old black woman has announced her candidacy for mayor of Detroit. Although Myya D. Jones has not graduated from college yet, the Michigan State University business-management major has already built…

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  • ‘White Privilege’ Essay Contest Offends Those With White Privilege in Overwhelmingly White Conn. Town

    When a committee in the town of Westport, Conn., announced an essay contest on the topic of white privilege, it did so in hopes that it would spark an important conversation in this wealthy coastal town of roughly 27,000 people, 85 percent of whom are white. Instead, the contest offended many of the residents. “In…

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  • African Union Rebukes US for ‘Taking Many of Our People as Slaves’ but Not Refugees

    On the heels of Donald Trump’s controversial executive order on immigration and refugees and a weekend filled with confusion and airport delays as travelers tried to make it back into the country, the head of the African Union has criticized the widely condemned ban on immigration from some Muslim-majority countries, saying that it presents “one…

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  • Trump’s Tall Tales, Lies and Exaggerations in His 1st 10 Days as President Debunked

    You have likely seen the phrase “alternative facts” circling around the internet and news stories since President Orange Foolius took office. Coined by Kellyanne Conway during an appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press, it describes the flat-out lies Trump and those in his administration have told, starting with the size of his inauguration crowd and…

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  • Donald Trump: Executive Order Bans Syrian Refugees and Muslims From 7 Countries

    Exactly one week after being sworn in as president of the United States, a country founded by refugees escaping a tyrant in their home country, Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday indefinitely banning Syrian refugees and temporarily suspending Muslims from seven countries from entering the country. According to the New York Times: Declaring the…

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  • Trump Strategist Steve Bannon Gives Media Advice He Should Be Giving to Orange Foolius

    Steve Bannon, chief strategist to President Donald Trump who also served as his campaign manager for the 2016 presidential election, gave a rare interview to the New York Times in which he continued his employer’s attacks on the media and described it as the “opposition party” to the current administration. “The media should be embarrassed…

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  • L.A. County District Attorney Target of Recall Effort After Not Filing Charges in Ezell Ford Killing

    Civil rights activists announced Monday that they will begin a recall effort against Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey after she failed to bring charges against the two police officers responsible for the shooting death of Ezell Ford. The Los Angeles Times reports that author and activist Earl Ofari Hutchinson said at a Los…

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  • The United States Is No Longer a Full Democracy

    The Economist Intelligence Unit has demoted the United States from a full democracy to a flawed democracy for the first time ever. Each year, EIU’s Democracy Index provides a snapshot of global democracy by scoring countries in five categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and political culture, CNBC…

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  • LAPD Officers Who Shot and Killed Ezell Ford Will Not Face Charges

    The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday that it will not be filing charges against the two police officers involved in the 2014 shooting death of Ezell Ford. In a 28-page report (pdf) with most of the officers’ statements redacted, the Justice System Integrity Division of the district attorney’s office determined that Officers…

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  • Flint, Mich., Left Wondering How Trump’s EPA Freeze Will Impact the $100,000,000 It Was Promised in Grant Aid 

    State officials in Michigan are wondering how the Trump administration’s freeze on Environmental Protection Agency grants and contracts will affect the $100 million in funds already allocated for the Flint water crisis. As previously reported on The Root, within hours of President Donald Trump’s swearing-in Friday, officials at the Environmental Protection Agency were barred from…

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