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  • America Didn’t Deserve Michelle Obama

    I forgot exactly where we were in Pittsburgh. Maybe driving from the Target in East Liberty to the YMCA in the Mexican War Streets. Or, perhaps, at my wife’s grandmother’s house in the Hill District, eating smothered turkey burgers with smoked kale greens and washing them down with Pineapple Faygo. But I do remember who…

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    Damon Young

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  • So, When Is It OK to Meet With Trump?

    Donald Trump is going to be president of the United States, and therefore people are going to have to talk with him. Some of those people will be black and will disagree with Trump, some of those people will be black and agree with everything Trump says, and some of those people will be black…

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    Jason Johnson

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  • Mandarin Orange Mugabe Isn’t Distracting Us; He’s Really That Frail

    If I had a dollar for every headline our president-elect generates in a single day, let alone an entire campaign season, I would probably have enough money to pay off both my student loans and at least half of the debt his lying ass pretends not to have. As someone who can see, hear, read…

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    Michael Arceneaux

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  • D.L. Hughley to Donald Trump: ‘F–k You Now and F–k You Forever’

    Comedian D.L. Hughley is letting President-elect Donald Trump know how he really feels in a Facebook Live video posted to his page Friday night. Hughley basically pulled a post-Katrina Kanye and said that Trump doesn’t care about black people. From the nomination of Alabama good ol’ boy Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III to his racist Birtherism…

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    The Root Staff

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  • Did Donald Trump Just Come for John Lewis During MLK Weekend?

    As if he’s physically addicted to controversy (or attention), President-elect Donald Trump attacked civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) during the Martin Luther King Day weekend. And the fallout has exploded all over social media.  The brouhaha started yesterday when Lewis, who actually organized with King and was brutally beaten by police in Selma,…

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    Angela Helm

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  • Rep. John Lewis Doesn’t See Trump as a Legitimate President 

    Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) says he doesn’t see Donald Trump as a legitimate president, and he will not be attending next week’s inauguration. In an exclusive interview with NBC News’ Meet the Press, Lewis was asked by Chuck Todd if he would try to forge a relationship with the president-elect. “I believe in forgiveness; I…

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    Monique Judge

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  • Steve Harvey Sits Down to Talk About Changing the Inner City With Donald Trump and Ben Carson

    TV Host Steve Harvey met with President-elect Donald Trump for a meeting at Trump Tower in New York City on Friday and took to Twitter to explain why. The host of Family Feud and The Steve Harvey Show said in his Twitter statement that he was asked by President Barack Obama to meet with Trump…

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    Monique Judge

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  • All the People (Who Aren’t Doing Anything) Trump Should Ask to His Inauguration

    Let’s be honest with each other. There’s way too much hateration in this dance soiree (yes, that is what Mary J. Blige was trying to sing to us). This land of the free and home of the brave that we’ve found ourselves living in is taking a turn for the worse. Like, Jennifer Holliday, who…

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    Danielle Young

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  • Shut Up, Bernie Sanders

    If hubris and the successful pursuit of headlines were genuine indicators of political aptitude, perhaps Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) would actually be the Svengali he’s presently being sold as. Of course, Sanders, like our president-elect, the Marigold Manchurian Candidate, can rightly lay claim to scoring huge, albeit majorly melanin-deficient, crowds that found kinship in campaigns…

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    Michael Arceneaux

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  • Talladega College Ballin’ After Appearance on Fox News

    Want to know how you know you’re on the wrong side of history if you’re an HBCU president? First you agree for your school, Talladega College, to play at the incoming president’s inauguration—a gig so despised, the lineup includes a 16-year-old second-place reality-show contestant, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (because nothing says hotness like a tabernacle…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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