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Post-Debate Analysis: Kamala Harris Did a Good Thing and Elizabeth Warren Held It Down
“Dude got to go,” Sen. Kamala Harris said at last night’s debate in Ohio when asked about Donald Trump and his mishandling of Syria and Turkey. “What Donald Trump has done because of that phone call with Erdogan is basically giving 10,000 ISIS fighters a get-out-of-jail-free card,” Harris said. “And you know who the winner…
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Live Blog: The Democratic Debate at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio
Greetings from The Root! Senior reporter Terrell Jermaine Starr will be live blogging the Democratic debate tonight from New York City. Please watch with us as Starr gives his observations about the candidates and how people on Twitter are reacting to them. For a pre-debate analysis, please go to Starr’s post here.
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HUD Has a Ridiculous Legal Argument for Turning Trans People Away From Federally Funded Shelters
The Trump administration has spared no minority group its vitriol and hate, but transgender people have been especially targeted and maligned by the president and his cabinet. It started with his efforts to ban trans people from serving in the military and denying trans people access to medical care. His latest attack carried out by…
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Pre-Debate Analysis: Don’t Fall for Trump’s Conspiracy Theories on Ukraine
Tonight’s debate will potentially be a make-or-break moment for former Vice President Joe Biden, depending on how well he handles questions concerning his diplomacy in Ukraine as well as his son’s past business dealings in the country. ABC News broadcast an interview with Hunter Biden this morning where he admitted his decision to join the…
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White Domestic Terrorism as a National Security Threat Presents Challenges for 2020 Presidential Candidates
U.S. national security conversations have traditionally focused on perceived foreign threats, such as a nuclear-ready Iran or North Korea. The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, have resulted in discrimination against brown people of Middle Eastern descent with law enforcement subjecting them to intense—and often illegal—surveillance. But recent mass shootings carried out by white supremacists…
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Malik Yoba Storms Off Set After Being Pressed on Allegations of Soliciting Sex From a Minor
Actor Malik Yoba stormed off the set during an on-camera interview with The Root Friday after being asked about allegations that he solicited sex from a minor who engaged in survival sex work in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The walkout was also seemingly triggered by questions about his motives for publishing an Instagram…
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Joy-Ann Reid: Everything About Donald Trump Is a Con
Joy-Ann Reid sees Donald Trump in very clear and simple terms: a con man. Trump, as Reid explains in her op-ed video with The Root, is a con man with a track record of screwing over people with his various failed business deals who ended up convincing enough Americans that his mediocrity, masked as entrepreneurial…
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Post-Debate Analysis: Joe Biden Is a White Man, the Media Are Racist Against Julián Castro and Black People Are Out of Their Goddamn Minds
HOUSTON—Let’s get straight to the point: Joe Biden showed his ass on the debate stage last night and there is no way in hell he should have the support from black voters that he has. Much of this has to do with a mainstream, white punditry establishment and press corps that treats him like an…
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Live Blog: From Houston, the Democratic Debate at Texas Southern University
HOUSTON—Will Kamala Harris drag Joe Biden up to high heaven before her colored brethren at Texas Southern University? I don’t know if white men have edges, but I am sure the Senator from California will try and snatch Biden’s for sure. And will Cory Booker make another Kool-Aid reference? The youngins love Bernie Sanders, so…
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The Democrats Are Debating on an HBCU Campus. Will They Take Advantage of the Opportunity?
HOUSTON—Montgomery Morris expressed optimism that one of the 10 candidates who will appear on his campus at Texas Southern University tonight can beat Donald Trump, but that they all will need to focus squarely on black issues that will turn out support in the primaries next year. “Making it easier for people of my color…
