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There Is No Such Thing as the 'Black Vote'
Once, for about an hour, on a hot day in July 2007, I was not black. This was before people had music on their phones, but I had figured out a way to hook my iPod Shuffle up to my stereo system. After hearing my Uncle Junior play it, I fell in love with James…
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Weed Justice Is at the Top of Some California Voters' Minds on Super Tuesday
OAKLAND, Calif.—Chaney Turner has already voted in California’s primary and said that the person who got their vote was most likely to liberalize America’s federal marijuana policies to empower black cannabis entrepreneurs. Turner (whose pronouns are they/them/their) and I are in downtown Oakland at the Make Westing bar, which is located in an area where…
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Watch: Fox News Contributor Donna Brazile Tells RNC Chairwoman to ‘Go to Hell’ Live on the Air
Former interim Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile is a black woman. Yes, she is a black woman that works for Fox News but that doesn’t mean that Brazile doesn’t put her bonnet on one side at a time like the rest of black women. Well, some of Brazile’s edges came through Tuesday when she…
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Super Tuesday Is Really Just a Regular Tuesday in Leggings and Heels. Here’s Everything You Need to Know
It’s Super Tuesday, so you know what that means? It means that it’s a regular Tuesday that has a babysitter and is getting dressed up to go to the club with her girlfriends. It’s Tuesday in leggings and heels. It’s thotting and bopping Tuesday. It’s Tuesday saying “Ayeeee” while her homegirls dance in a roped…
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It Only Takes a Nation of Bernie Bros to Hold Us Back: Public Enemy Fires Flavor Flav for Fighting the Power
They’ve survived a prolonged feud with Def Jam Records, rampant substance abuse and alcoholism, accusations of antisemitism and that whole Flavor of Love phenomenon, but it would appear that the straw that finally broke Public Enemy’s back is…Bernie Sanders? As we reported this weekend, the iconic group announced its intention to perform on Sunday during…
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Public Enemy’s Flavor Flav Slams Bernie Sanders for ‘Deceptive Marketing,’ But Chuck D Has Papers On The Legendary Hip Hop Group
You just “Can’t Truss It.” Although Bernie Sanders’ camp has promoted that Public Enemy will perform at a rally in Los Angeles, one of the group’s most prominent members is trying to shut ‘em down. According to Spin, the legendary hip hop group’s co-founder Flavor Flav slapped the senator from Vermont with a cease-and-desist letter…
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Black South Carolinians to Joe Biden: You're Welcome
COLUMBIA, S.C.—Saturday in South Carolina went as expected. Joe Biden won the state in a landslide and black folk across all age brackets favored the former vice president over U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and the rest of the Democratic primary pack. Black voters made one thing very clear to The Root as I traveled the…
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NDAs Aren't Just a Bloomberg Thing: Bernie Sanders Campaign Group Handled Racial Discrimination Allegations With Nondisclosure Agreement
It’s been just about a week and a half since Sen. Elizabeth Warren went all the way in on former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg over his use of nondisclosure agreements in dealing with sexual harassment/assault allegations during the last Democratic primary debate. Well, it appears that Bloomberg’s isn’t the only campaign that uses NDA’s to…
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Trump Voters Big Mad at Garth Brooks Because They Can’t Tell NFL Great Barry Sanders and Bernie Sanders Apart
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve mistaken Bernie Sanders, the independent Vermont senator and arguably one the best running backs to ever do it, with Barry Sanders, the Hall of Fame socialist with three houses. But Trump voters, who are inherently more NFL knowledgeable and America loving than the rest of us, didn’t…
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Bernie Sanders to Mike Pence: Is the Coronavirus Going to Catch Your Prayer Hands Like the Last Epidemic You Faced?
Trump is either trying to use Vice President Mike Pence as a scapegoat or he honestly believes that Pence’s special connection to God will somehow save us all from the impending bad episode of 24 we are all trapped in by naming Pence the head of the coronavirus outbreak. Either way, we are all fucked.…