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Good News for Bernie Bros: Bernie Sanders Leads in Iowa Just Weeks Before Caucuses
The Des Moines Register reported a bit of good news for “Bernie Bros” on Friday. For the first time in either of his two runs for the Democratic presidential nomination, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont leads the Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom Iowa Poll. It notes: The senator from Vermont is the top choice of 20%…
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Steve King Asks Why He Keeps Getting Called ‘White Nationalist’: A Question That Answers Itself
On today’s episode of “White Men With Weird Persecution Complexes,” I give you Iowa Rep. Steve King. On Friday, King spoke on the house floor to decry the term “white nationalist” as a totally unfair term created and weaponized by “the left” to smear good conservatives such as himself. “It’s one of their weaponized terms…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: A Salute to the ‘Good Ones’
For too long, the writers at The Root have ignored the plight of those whose labor goes unrecognized and unheralded. In our fight for equality and justice, we have forgotten one outstanding group of Americans who are willing to lay their lives on the line. But that ends today. Today’s Clapback Mailbag is dedicated to…
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The Mother of Atatiana Jefferson Has Died
A tragic story has taken yet another sad turn. The Dallas Morning News reports that Yolanda Carr, the mother of Atatiana Jefferson, has died at 55. A cause of death has yet to be released but she had been battling illness. Before her death, Jefferson had moved in with her mother to be her caretaker.…
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New York Teacher Compares Black Students to Monkeys in Photo
It seems as though a week can’t go by without a racist incident occurring in an American classroom. NBC News reports that the parents of four black students at Longwood High School in Long Island are planning to sue the school district for $12 million. They filed a notice of claim after a teacher displayed…
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Maybe Meghan Markle Was Just Tired of Eating Baked Beans and Eggs on Toast for Breakfast
Any list of the pleasant surprises from the months of book-related touring, talks, events, and appearances in 2019 would include the week I spent in London in May. It was my first time in England—a place I never had any desire to visit. (I’ve seen Closer seven times, which I figured was enough London for…
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NYPD Doesn't Punish People for Jaywalking—Unless You Live in the Blackest Borough in New York
New York is built for the tough, the impatient, the bold, the ones who live to take risks. Basically, it’s a city built for jaywalkers. It’s a great unifier: people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, races, ages, and creeds united in their disdain for the city’s cars, bikers, and assigned crosswalks. And for the most part,…
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'We Got on Gayle King as Stupid as Can Be': Azriel Clary Reveals She and Joycelyn Savage Lied for R. Kelly
Following the explosive second chapter of the Surviving R. Kelly series, there has been an alarming turn of events involving Robert “R” Kelly’s girlfriends/alleged sex slaves. According to USA Today, Azriel Clary, 22, and Joycelyn Savage, 24, engaged in a verbal and “physical altercation” at Kelly’s Trump Tower condo on Wednesday, which happened to be…
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How to Be a Better White Person in 2020
Occasionally The Root will interrupt our coverage of black news, opinions, politics, and culture to openly address our white readership. In 2020, we’d like to finally have that oft-discussed “conversation about race” we hear you guys mention so often. To be clear, white people need to have a conversation about race. Black people in America…
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Lindsey Graham’s Democratic Challenger Jaime Harrison Raises $3.5 Million in 3 Months
South Carolina Democrat and 2019 Root 100 honoree Jaime Harrison is running to oust Senator/human Muppet Lindsey Graham from the seat he’s held for three terms. Recent fundraising numbers show he just might have a shot. The Hill reports that Harrison raised over $3.5 million over the last three months. Harrison’s campaign has touted that this…