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  • Serena Williams Set to Return to Tennis for 1st Time Since Birth of Her Daughter

    The GOAT, aka Serena Williams, is set to play next Saturday at the Mubadala exhibition tennis event in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. It will be her first time playing tennis since giving birth and winning the Australian Open 11 months ago. As CNN reports, Williams’ last tournament win was even more legendary…

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  • Watch: Cornel West on Neoliberalism, Bernie Sanders and Why Donald Trump Is a ‘Gangsta’

    The Root spent an hour speaking to Cornel West on Dec. 8 on a wide range of issues, including former President Barack Obama, Sen. Bernie Sanders, neoliberalism, President Donald Trump and, of course, Ta-Nehisi Coates. Watch an edited version of our conversation above.

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  • Black Women in Alabama Saved Themselves Last Night

    If you’ve kept up with how black women roll in American politics, what happened in Alabama last night should hardly surprise you. Per usual, black women showed up and showed out at the ballot box, helping Doug Jones win Jeff Sessions’ vacated Senate seat in what was supposed to be a safe victory for Republican…

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  • Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State Would Only Make Trump’s Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Even Worse

    Last week the New York Times reported that President Donald Trump plans to replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, although Tillerson and Trump deny the reports. Pompeo would be a troubling choice as the nation’s top diplomat. His hawkish views on Islam are more likely to enable Trump’s Muslim-hating rhetoric,…

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  • Watch: Little Miss Flint: ‘The President Is A Bully And A Liar’

    The Root spent a day with 10-year-old Mari Copeny, also known as Little Miss Flint, to discuss her activism and why she’s not going to rest until her hometown of Flint, Mich., has clean drinking water. She had some sharp words for Donald Trump, too.

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  • My Interview With Donald Trump’s New Favorite British Xenophobe

    Jayda Fransen, deputy leader of far-right political party Britain First, told me that Donald Trump gave her and her party a much-needed morality boost. Fransen was virtually unknown outside of Britain (and, arguably, inside Britain) before the president retweeted three of her anti-Muslim tweets of unverified videos supposedly depicting Muslims attacking people on the streets.…

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  • Thank Gawd LaVar Ball Told Trump to Kiss His Black Ass 

    LaVar Ball doesn’t give a fuck. The sooner you understand that, the sooner you will grow accustomed to him not giving a fuck about what Donald Trump—or anyone else, for that matter—says about him. Giving a fuck is not how LaVar Ball became LaVar Ball. He is on everyone’s radar because he is the antithesis…

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  • Trump Is Making the GOP Look Like Fake Russia Hawks

    President Ronald Reagan may go down as the greatest Russia hawk in U.S. history. His tough stance against the Soviet Union’s expansionism and his efforts to support anti-Soviet movements in former communist-bloc states helped lead to the USSR’s fall in 1991. His “Tear down this wall” speech at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on June…

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  • Joe Biden Needs to Offer Anita Hill a Better Apology

    Given the severe identity crisis engulfing the Democratic Party, it makes sense that a Joe Biden 2020 run seems plausible. The party’s stubborn refusal to let go of white, working-class voters who voted for Donald Trump strengthens Biden’s candidacy for some party elites who can’t see that its future rests in the hands of women,…

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  • Bernie Sanders Is Not a Real Progressive

    America’s most marginalized people could use a real progressive politician who is fearless enough to take on the racist doctrine of Donald Trump. That person is not Sen. Bernie Sanders, and that is a pity. Black people and immigrants have been particularly singled out in Trump’s racist attacks. Besides his support of police brutality and attacks…

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Terrell Jermaine Starr is a senior reporter at The Root. He is currently writing a book proposal that analyzes US-Russia relations from a black perspective.


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