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Lip Reader Decodes What Trump And Obama Discussed At President Carter’s Funeral, Internet Drags Husband Of GOP Senator Who Disrespected VP Harris, Trump Plans To Rename Gulf Of Mexico, Black America Reacts To Trump’s ‘Hush Money’ Case Sentencing And More

The Root’s most politically charged stories from the week.

By

Candace McDuffie

Published

January 11, 2025
Politics, Politics

Updated: Lip Reader Claims Trump Said This to Obama at President Carter’s Funeral, And Here’s Our Take. You Decide.

We don’t have any audio from the event, so we had lots of fun guessing what the two were talking about.

By

Angela Johnson

Published

January 10, 2025
Politics

Trump, Obama Seen Laughing Together At Jimmy Carter’s Funeral, and the Internet is More Than Confused About it

After birth certificate conspiracies and years of name-calling, the two former presidents were able to put differences aside.

By

Phenix S Halley

Published

January 9, 2025
News

Black America’s Reaction to Former President Jimmy Carter’s Death, Carter’s Complicated Relationship With Black America, A Collection of Photos of Carter’s Impact on the Black Community, The Former President is Related to What Black Music Mogul?

As the nation pauses for a National Day of Mourning for its oldest living president, “The Root” looks at Jimmy Carter’s relationship to the Black community.

By

Angela Johnson

Published

January 9, 2025
Politics, Politics

Trump Wants to Change the Gulf Of Mexico to the ‘Gulf Of America,’ But Can He Actually Do That??

The President-elect floated the idea around at a news conference Tuesday.

By

Candace McDuffie

Published

January 7, 2025
News, Obituary

Jimmy Carter’s Strange and Complicated Legacy With Black America

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, died Sunday in Plains, Georgia. He was 100.

By

Jessica Washington

Published

December 29, 2024
Culture, Race Matters

Barefoot Angelina Jolie, Barefaced Pamela Anderson, Other White Celebs Doing Things Black Celebs Could Never Do

Angelina Jolie can show up to an televised interview barefoot, but oh, let a Black person do the same thing…

By

Phenix S Halley

Published

December 23, 2024
Culture, Technology

ChatGPT Predicts Emerging Trends for Black America in 2025

Before you dive head first into the new year, take a look at key predictions on core Black issues.

By

Phenix S Halley

Published

December 19, 2024
Politics

Black Twitter Goes Off On TIME Magazine’s ‘Person of the Year,’ How Bad Things Will Get For Black People During the Next Four Years? Biden Made a Huge Number of Black Women Judges and More Political News

A collection of the Root’s best posts of the week in politics

By

Tatsha Robertson

Published

December 15, 2024
Politics

Trump Named TIME Magazine’s ‘Person of the Year,’ and Boy Does Black Twitter Have Thoughts…

This year marks the second time the president-elect has been awarded the honor.

By

Phenix S Halley

Published

December 12, 2024