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  • President Obama Announces Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients 

    President Barack Obama named 21 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the nation, on Wednesday, according to a White House press release.   The awards, which will be presented in a ceremony at the White House on Nov. 22, honor “individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the…

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  • #NoDAPL: Demonstrations Take Place Around the World on Planned Day of Action

    Demonstrations against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline took place across the country Tuesday as part of the #NoDAPL planned day of action. “Indigenous leaders are calling on us to take to the streets and disrupt ‘business as usual’ one week after the election to demand that President Obama’s Army Corps of Engineers and…

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  • Republicans Unanimously Pick Paul Ryan to Remain Speaker of the House

    Republicans in the House of Representatives unanimously agreed Tuesday that Paul D. Ryan should remain speaker and serve as the chief legislative partner to President-elect Donald Trump. The Washington Post reports that ahead of Tuesday’s vote, Ryan told reporters, “Welcome to the dawn of a new unified Republican government.” The next step is for Ryan…

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  • Black Lives Matter Issues Official Statement on Donald Trump’s Election

    The national leaders of the Black Lives Matter Global Network said Tuesday that their mandate remains unchanged in the wake of “the election of a white supremacist to the highest office in American government.” In a statement released exclusively to Mic, BLM said that it will continue to organize and work to end all state-sanctioned…

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  • Library Fine of $10 Lands Mother of Southside With You Actress in Jail

    Can overdue library books land you in jail? They can in Johnston County, N.C., according to one actress who says her mother was arrested Monday for a library fine. Actress Tika Sumpter, 36, who portrayed first lady Michelle Obama in the movie Southside With You, took to Twitter Monday afternoon to blast the Public Library…

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  • Los Angeles Police Chief: Trump Won’t Change Department's Immigration Policy

    Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck announced Monday that the city’s Police Department will not change its stance on immigration enforcement even as President-elect Donald Trump has promised to be tougher on immigration and deport criminal immigrants, the Los Angeles Times reports. A special order instituted by former LAPD Chief Daryl Gates in 1979 prohibits…

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  • Safety Pins Identify Allies Standing in Solidarity With Marginalized Groups

    People who want to show that they stand in solidarity with the marginalized groups of people who now live in fear of an uncertain future for them and their loved ones in the wake of Tuesday’s election have a special and simple way of doing so. In the days since Donald Trump was declared the…

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  • Black Freshmen at UPenn Targeted by Racist Social Media Group

    Black students at the University of Pennsylvania awoke Friday to racist messages and graphic images posted to a social media group that they were added to without their permission. The Daily Pennsylvanian reports that several black freshmen were added to a GroupMe message labeled “Mud Men” that was full of racially explicit content. A member…

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  • #NoDAPL: Stanford Students Rally and March in Support of Standing Rock

    Students at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., took part in a rally and a march Thursday in a show of solidarity for Native Americans fighting against construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. As previously reported on The Root, resistance to the $3.8 billion pipeline has been strong from the beginning. The Standing Rock Sioux…

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  • #WalterScott: Testimony in Cop's Trial for Murder Focused on Aftermath of Shooting

    Testimony continued this week in the trial of a white former North Charleston, S.C., police officer charged with shooting and killing an unarmed black motorist. It focused on the moments immediately following the shooting and the investigation thereafter. As previously reported on The Root, Michael Slager, 34, is on trial for the April 2015 shooting…

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