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Melissa Harris-Perry Recalls Being Threatened During Iowa Caucus by Man Mumbling About Nazi Germany
Melissa Harris-Perry had a harrowing experience during her stay at a hotel for the Iowa caucus Monday. The MSNBC host was attending the caucus with students from her Wake Forest University politics class when she was approached by a white supremacist. In a blog post, she described what happened while she was waiting in her…
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Since When Does 3rd Equal 1st? Deconstructing Marco Rubio’s Iowa ‘Win’
If you listen very, very quietly, you can almost hear it buzzing just below the surface of the post-Iowa caucus coverage. It’s not quite the howling of a newborn calf or the chirping of a baby bird cracking out of its eggshell, but the sound of a new political narrative being born has a distinct…
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Live Update From Iowa: They’re All Running Against the Same Guy
Editor’s note: All day Monday The Root will be publishing short dispatches from our politics editor, Jason Johnson, in Iowa, where he is following the action ahead of tonight’s caucus. Follow this story for updates. You can also follow his caucus reporting on Twitter. Des Moines, Iowa, Sun., Jan. 31: Different Faces, Different Views, Same Opponent…
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Imagine How Different Our Country Will Be When We Collectively Honor Black Excellence
Imagine how different our children would be if they were aware of the many contributions that black people have made to improve the world throughout history. Imagine, for a second, how different our country will be when we, collectively, honor black excellence, beyond the month of February, a time designed to reflect upon black history.…
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The 3 Big Takeaways From the Trumpless, Final Debate Before Iowa
Even when you know a show is about an ensemble cast, there are still those who stand out. And when they’re not there, the entire show suffers. When Simon left American Idol; when Nene Leakes left Real Housewives of Atlanta; even way back when Toni left Girlfriends, you just knew the show wouldn’t be the…
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Donald Trump: Politician or Comic Book Supervillain?
There are a lot of ways you could describe Donald Trump: Business man. Reality-television star. Republican front-runner. Vehement racist. Comic book supervillain? Yes, the Donald may not don the garish costumes and makeup of the Joker (although one could debate about his hairpiece), but much of what he says does sound as if it could…
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Drops the Mic on B.o.B’s Flat-Earth Claims: ‘The World Isn’t F–king Flat’
Neil deGrasse Tyson once again schooled B.o.B when it comes to the rapper’s flat-Earth claims. Over the last couple of days, the rapper has been challenging Tyson with his truther theories about the earth being flat. There were even diss tracks made in the process. Yes, diss tracks. But hopefully, after Tyson’s appearance on The…
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Rapper B.o.B Says the Earth Is Flat; Neil deGrasse Tyson Says ‘Nah.’ Then They Battle It Out Over Diss Tracks
Over the last three days, either rapper B.o.B was really bored or he was smoking something interesting. Because this dude really, sincerely thinks the Earth is flat. B.o.B is a flat-Earth truther. People tried to convince him otherwise during his Twitter rant, but he wouldn’t let go of his side of the Earth, I mean…
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Quiz: Exactly How Hotep Are You?
Earlier today, B.o.B. submitted a first-ballot entry into the Hotep Hall-of-Fame with a diss track directed towards Neil Degrasse Tyson where the Atlanta “rapper” doubled down on his assertion that the world is, in fact, flat and not round. (And yes, this means he also believes Earth has an actual edge. Like a cliff. And you…
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Feeling Anxious About the 2016 Election? You Should Be … It’ll Make You Smarter
News outlets across America are talking about how anxious the American voter is heading into the 2016 election. We’re anxious about the economy, anxious about national security, anxious about criminal justice; the whole country just seems like a bundle of nerves looking over its collective shoulders at every new drip of news. Generally, this anxiety…