Politics
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'I Can't Wait to Call Her My President': Ayanna Pressley Backs Elizabeth Warren
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) will be hitting the campaign trail in support of Sen. Elizabeth Warren today, following her endorsement of the presidential front-runner on Wednesday. “I have seen Ms. Warren in small church basements and in packed gymnasiums,” Pressley said in the video announcement. “And she is consistent. She never loses sight of the…
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The Results Are In: Daniel Cameron Becomes First Black Attorney General in Kentucky
So election night has come and gone, and while we still have to wait a year—or less, if we’re lucky—to rid ourselves of President Untailored Suit, Tuesday night was still rather eventful. In Kentucky, Daniel Cameron became the first African American to be elected attorney general in the state. Of additional note, he also became…
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Is Donald Trump Planning to Invade Mexico?
After punking out on the Kurds like Joffrey in the Battle of Blackwater, Commander in Chief and yellow-bellied bone spur sufferer Donald Trump has offered the services of the U.S. Armed forces to help Mexico defend its dwindling supply of white people. On Monday, nine members of a prominent American-Mexican family, including three women and…
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Buckhead Bound: Trump and Pence Will Try to Kiss Up to Black Voters in Atlanta
Donald “I have a great relationship with the blacks” Trump will put that theory to the test this Friday when he heads down to downtown Atlanta to launch a new black voter initiative. That’s right, Trump and Vice President Mike Pence are headed to Buckhead. No, this apparently isn’t the premise for a white supremacist-endorsed…
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Scarface Says It’s Time for the Hood to Represent Houston’s 3rd Ward on City Council
HOUSTON—I had no idea what to expect when I agreed to interview hip-hop legend Scarface back in September. A child of the 1980s, I was a keen listener of the Geto Boys and their hood tales of trappin’ in Houston, getting women (to put it mildly) and pullin’ out the chrome on niggas who stepped…
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Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish: Trump Bids Adieu to Longtime Hometown; New York Political Heavyweights Rejoice
Poor POTUS done up and abandoned his longtime hometown. But no one in power there seems to be shedding any white tears about his duplicitous departure. As a matter of fact, soon after The New York Times broke the news of how Donald John officially changed his residency from New York City to Palm Beach…
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Democratic Party Leader Maya Rockeymoore Cummings Mulls Run for Her Late Husband’s Congressional Seat
Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, head of Maryland’s Democratic Party, says she’s considering running for the 7th Congressional District seat that was held by her late husband, Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings. “I love Baltimore city, the counties of the 7th Congressional District, and the state of Maryland,” Rockeymoore Cummings said Thursday in her first public comments about…
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Beto, His Campaign Pockets Light and His Poll Numbers Low, Bows Out of His Run for the Oval Office
Former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke on Friday took himself out of the running for the Democratic presidential nomination, bowing to low campaign coffers and even lower poll numbers. The once-darling of the Democratic Party, who won acclaim last year when he came within mere points of beating Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in historically red Texas,…
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Beto Battles the Undead, Booker Said What He SAID and Mayor Pete’s Been Left on Read: 2020 Presidential Black Power Rankings, Week 16 [Updated]
The committee absolutely loves Halloween—and by the committee, I mean me (Dr. Johnson, politics editor of The Root), because other committee members have said they hate haunted houses and sexy nurse costumes (not to mention this ongoing battle on The Root Slack about the evils of candy corn). For political purposes, we love Halloween because…
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Democrats Emerge Victorious as House Passes Resolution on Impeachment Inquiry Rules
After years of torment and global embarrassment, we finally live in a world in which our resident Idiot-in-Chief may actually be impeached. The New York Times reports that on Thursday morning, the U.S. House voted 232-196 in favor of a resolution that lays out the rules for the impeachment inquiry into the laundry list of…