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Trump Campaign Ad Uses Altered Photos to Smear Biden's 'Radical' Belief in Science, Social Distancing and Prayer
Donald Trump’s campaign has finally found a legitimate scandal to pin on Joe Biden. A new ad appealing to Trump’s base of racist, anti-mask, coronavirus-spreading conspiracy theorists contains altered photos of Joe Biden committing egregiously sensible acts like socially distancing, praying and acknowledging the value of Black life. On Wednesday, Donald Trump’s presidential campaign team…
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Who's Who at The Root Institute
The Root Institute Want to keep track of all the folks participating in The Root Institute virtual conference this year? Here’s a handy guide of the who’s-who joining in the conversations this year. Danielle C. Belton An award-winning journalist, Danielle Belton is the Editor-in-Chief of The Root. Before joining The Root, Belton was Editor-At-Large for…
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Should Black Voters Form Their Own Party? Too Late, Someone Already Did
“Aight, bet.” While that colloquialism may seem innocuous to many people, in Black communities across America, those two words are both a threat and a promise. It is the most acceptable answer to the question “What are you gonna do about it?” and is roughly translated as: “I can show you better than I can…
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How To Prepare Steak Exactly How I Like It, Since I Don't Give a Shit If You Like It, Too
There are places on TV, in magazines, and on the internet where you can find peer-and-eater-reviewed methods for preparing, cooking, and staging great steaks. Where the people who make the steaks promise that, if you follow their directions, step-by-step, you will have a delicious steak too. I am not one of those people. This is…
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Donald Trump Jr. Was Put in Twitter Jail for Posting False Information About COVID-19
Donald Trump Jr. is an idiot. That’s not a diss, that’s just a fact. If Donald Trump Jr. was taking an IQ test against a tractor-trailer tire and the fate of the world lay in the results, smart money would be to bet on the tire. On Tuesday, Trump Jr., aka Not Ivanka, was put…
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Surgeon General Jerome Adams Explains Government's Reversal on Wearing Face Masks by Comparing Them to…Cocaine
From the surgeon general who brought you “do it for your big momma” comes another profound moment in intellectual flatulence: that the government reversing its stance on face masks is kind of like when doctors gave cocaine as medicine. U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams, in an interview with CBS’ Face the Nation on Sunday, revisited…
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Trump’s Fight Against Common Sense Has Made Dr. Anthony Fauci Collateral Damage
President Trump is the Scott Baio of Chuck Woolerys. For some reason, the president does this thing where an expert in a field—literally, a person who has spent damn near his entire life becoming an expert in his respective field—tells the president what makes sense, and the president then spends his time discrediting the expert’s…
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Marsai Martin Partners With Urban School Food Alliance and Student Voice to Support Free School Meals for All K-12 Students
Marsai Martin believes all students should have access to free lunch. I do, too. The Black-ish actress has partnere with school nutrition leaders Urban School Food Alliance and the national student-led coalition Student Voice to make sure students aren’t denied access to lunch and to prevent families from going into debt due to accumulating unpaid…
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John Boyega and Jodie Turner-Smith to Star in 'Vengeance-Fueled Chase Movie,' Borderland
It looks like John Boyega and Jodie Turner-Smith will be adding to the Black British Invasion in Hollywood with their new project. The two actors will be co-starring in an upcoming “IRA thriller” called Borderland, along with Jack Reynor (Midsommar) and Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything). The film will be produced by Chris Coen…