Politics
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Nancy Pelosi on Stacey Abrams, Black Lives Matter and Standing Up to Trump
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is known as the woman who tells Donald Trump “no” and continues to be the backbone of the Democratic Party. Her leadership was long-questioned during the midterms until her chamber enjoyed a record-setting blue wave of progressive, ethnically diverse freshman congresswomen. Pelosi spent a few minutes with The Root sharing her…
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Sen. Cory Booker Has a Girlfriend. Now Can We Stop Talking About His Dating Life?
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) has a girlfriend. Also, Sen. Cory Booker is not gay. We know this because Sen. Cory Booker has mentioned both several times and not because he wanted to address the issue of his sexuality or who he’s dating; it just keeps coming up. Over and over again. “I’m heterosexual,” Booker said…
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Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris to Visit Early Primary States Later This Month
After announcing her decision to run for president in front of 20,000 of her closest friends in her hometown of Oakland, Calif., Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris will visit all four early primary states over the next month to meet voters and share her vision for the country. The former California attorney general will campaign in…
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White Tax Tears: Trump Voters Are Now Realizing They've Been Had
Americans with a full set of teeth and a healthy disdain for Liam Neeson tried to warn the rest of the massive amount of dummies that Trump wasn’t for y’all, either. Of course, that didn’t stop the midwestern MAGAts from running to the polls to vote for the reality TV charlatan who had no foreign…
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Republicans Oppose Proposed Law That Would Fight White Supremacy, Restore Democracy and Empower Black Voters
Democrats have proposed H.R. 1, a bill that would make our democracy more equitable, improved access for vulnerable groups to have a real say in how we are governed, and roll back voting restrictions that have disproportionately harmed people of color. That’s why it is the first bill of the new Democratic House majority—and likely…
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Trump: Hey Blacks, Look at These Unemployment Rates and Criminal Justice Reform. We Good?
On Sunday, Trump sat down with Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan to slosh his way through a number of topics including: football, troops in Afghanistan, his dumb-ass border wall and race. While most of his answers were a massive word gumbo, his answers on race may have been the most telling. Whenever Trump talks…
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A List of Lightskints Who Ain’t Running for President
1. Shemar Moore 2. Don Lemon 3. Raven Symone 4. Allen Payne 5. That one nigga whose name I won’t google who played Nia Long’s douchey ex-boyfriend in Soul Food 6. Drake 7. Natalie Degraffinried 8. Ayesha Curry 9. Beyoncé 10. Giancarlo Esposito 11. Keegan-Michael Key 12. Prison Bae 13. Blu Cantrell 14. Ginuwine 15.…
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Major Leak Proves That Lazy Thot President Spends About 60 Percent of His Day in ‘Executive Time’
The White House is in full panic mode after a major leak confirmed that the president of the United States spends most of his day doing absolutely nothing. Of course, his schedule doesn’t say that he’s doing absolutely nothing, but that is, in fact, what he’s doing—nothing. According to leaked schedules obtained by Axios, the…
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Instead of Just Saying 'Wowwwww' Like the Rest of Us Men When We Get Caught Lying, Gov. Ralph Northam Refuses to Resign After Racist Picture Surfaces [Updated]
Remember that whole KKK/Blackface/white people white-peopling yearbook photo thing that Va. Governor Ralph Northam got himself caught up in when he broke the Internet on Friday? Now he’s claiming the picture in question—a yearbook photo in which an upstanding citizen in blackface is flanked by another dressed in his finest Ku Klux Klan garments—isn’t him.…
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Va. Governor Ralph Northam Needs To Come Explain This Blackface and KKK Yearbook Photo ASAP [Updated]
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam got some ‘splaining to do after a Virginia newspaper obtained a yearbook photo of the then medical student and two men, one in blackface and the other in a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood, on the same page as Northam. The photo comes from the Eastern Virginia Medical School’s 1984…