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  • The Blame Game Has Already Started: The Myth of the Depressed Black Turnout

    Apparently, the fate of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, if not the American republic, falls on the shoulders of African-American voters. This week, CNN rang the alarm bells with an article stating that the black vote was declining, with 24 million early votes cast. Politico followed suit with a story about how weak African-American turnout in Florida…

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    Jason Johnson

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  • #GentrifiedGreens: Neiman Marcus Is Selling $66 Collard Greens

    Move over, Grandma’s greens and Glory greens; we don’t need your greens any more. I mean, why should we, when there are Neiman Marcus collard greens? Yes, you read that correctly. Über-fancy Neiman Marcus is now selling collard greens. For just $66 plus $15 in shipping, you can get some greens with bacon bits that will…

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    Yesha Callahan

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  • African-American Chemist, Inventor Dies in Md. House Fire

    A famed African-American chemist and inventor died Friday in a fire at his Oxon Hill, Md., home, the Washington Post reports. George Nauflett, 84, earned more than two dozen patents for his inventions while working in a U.S. Navy government laboratory for more than four decades. His son, Derrick Nauflett, told the Post in an interview…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Another Jury Finds Link Between Baby Powder and Cancer

    For the third time this month, pharmaceutical conglomerate Johnson & Johnson has been hit with a multimillion-dollar jury verdict over whether the talc in its baby powder causes ovarian cancer. The Associated Press reports that a St. Louis jury awarded $70.1 million to Deborah Giannecchini of Modesto, Calif., who was diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer…

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    The Root Staff

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  • FBI Director James Comey Manufactures an October Surprise for Hillary Clinton

    America had such nice plans for the weekend. Most people were getting ready for some World Series baseball, looking through Party City for that last slutty Ninja Turtle costume, maybe even spending a few hours in line for early voting. The last thing most Americans expected this Friday afternoon was a shameless unprofessional and utterly…

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    Jason Johnson

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  • #GenForward: Obama’s Popularity Helps Clinton With Black Millennials

    Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has cobbled together a multiracial coalition of young voters who agree that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s supporters are a “basket of deplorables,” but fewer black millennials support Clinton than supported President Barack Obama in 2008, according to a new GenForward survey. “Overall, the level of youth support for Hillary Clinton looks…

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    Kirsten West Savali

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  • The Miseducation of the White Man: How Our Education System Failed White Voters

    My first job after college was teaching kindergarten. For a decade I worked as a kindergarten teacher and then as an elementary school principal. Now I am a professor charged with preparing teachers and administrators. The 2016 presidential election is the first time that every one of my approximately 2,000 former K-12 students are of…

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    The Root Staff

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  • Civil Rights Groups Ready to Stand Up to Voter Intimidation

    Gabrielle Gray is a little busy these days. The 26-year-old doctoral student in political science at Howard University is coordinating the school’s 2016 Presidential General Election Voter Protection Project. It involves putting together teams of students from HBCUs around the nation to keep voters of color from being intimidated at the polls on Election Day.…

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    Allison Keyes

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  • The Unfinished Business of The First Black President

    There’s a huge difference between having a President that’s Black and having a Black President.  With Barack, we thought we hit the jackpot and were finally gonna get both, but boy were we wrong. Almost eight years into the Obama Era and we’ve still not grappled with some of the vexing issues of negritude and…

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    Corey Richardson

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  • The Unfinished Business of the Black President

    There’s a huge difference between having a president who’s black and having a Black President. With Barack Obama, we thought we hit the jackpot and we were finally gonna get both, but boy, were we wrong. Almost eight years into the Obama era, and we’ve still not grappled with some of the vexing issues of…

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    Corey Richardson

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