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Alabama Election: 1 Black Voter’s Experience at the Polls
Tuesday’s special election in Alabama is monumental for the people who live in the state as well as for the rest of us across the United States. Of the two men vying to take the seat vacated by Jeff Sessions in February when he resigned to accept his new job as U.S. attorney general, one…
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D.C. Police Reunite Toddler With Her Parents
Updated Tuesday Dec. 12, 2017, 5:29 p.m. EST: The parents of the toddler D.C., police found wandering alone Tuesday morning have been located. Police announced around 4 p.m. that the parents had been found, according to NBC Washington. The child wandered away while her mother was inside their home sleeping. No charges are expected in…
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Is He Playing With Your Emotions and Wasting Your Time?
Sometimes we want someone so badly, we overlook all the warning signs and red flags that should send us running in the opposite direction. Other times, we are already waist-deep in emotions and feelings before we realize that the dude has no intentions toward us, accepts no accountability for his actions and is really just…
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‘Mammy’ Calendar Distributed to Residents at North Carolina Assisted Living Facility
The year is 2017, and an employee at an assisted living facility in Wilmington, N.C., that houses mostly white residents thought it would be a good idea to include a picture of a mammylike character in the December calendar of activities because white and unabashed racism is still alive and well in this country, whether…
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Letting Him Back In: Why Are We Unable to Let Go of Our Problematic Exes?
It could all be so simpleBut you’d rather make it hardLoving you is like a battleAnd we both end up with scarsTell me who I have to beTo get some reciprocitySee, no one loves you more than me And no one ever will. I can’t count how many times I played Lauryn Hill’s “Ex-Factor,” singing…
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Rep. Steve King Might Be a Racist, and This Tweet Proves It
On Thursday I wrote about Roy Moore waxing nostalgic about the days of slavery. And every day, The Root covers something crazy that the current sitting president has said. This current regime is not attempting to hide its racist overtones, and this latest incident is no exception: A Republican congressman from Iowa tweeted from his…
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#Flint: Michigan May Reconsider Program for Free Bottled Water
Friday marks 1,323 days that the people of Flint, Mich., have been without clean water. Although the water is reportedly testing below the federal-action threshold, pipe replacement and infrastructure changes in the city have left residents relying on bottled water and filters for clean drinking water. The state-supplied bottled water may soon come to an…
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A Woman-to-Woman Conversation About a Man Is Not Always the Move
“Hello? May I speak to Barbara? Barbara, this is Shirley.” So begins a classic R&B song where one sista reaches out to another to have a woman-to-woman conversation about the man they are unwittingly sharing. Shirley found Barbara’s number in her man’s pockets and decided to call Barbara to break the news to her. But…
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Roy Moore Thinks America Was Better When Slavery Was in Place
Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore has been accused of a lot of things. He’s referred to Asian Americans and Native Americans as “yellows” and “reds” like they’re fucking M&M’s. Multiple allegations have come forth suggesting that he has a predilection for underage girls. The man is seriously problematic, and for some reason, many in…
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Rep. John Lewis Is Boycotting Trump’s Visit to the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Opening
Reps. John Lewis (D-Ga.) and Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) announced Thursday that they will be skipping Saturday’s opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson because Donald Trump will be in attendance—something they consider to be “an insult” to the black heroes commemorated there. Thompson and Lewis issued a joint statement that said, “President Trump’s…
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