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  • Trump Fires Off Series of Delusional Tweets, Calls UN Just a Fun Club

    Donald Trump, the president-elect poised to take office in less than a month, believes that the United Nations is just a club for people to have a “good time.” After the U.N. Security Council voted to condemn Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, Trump tweeted Monday that the U.N. once had great…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • The Blackwashing of President Obama’s Legacy 

    There is a deeply embedded danger in the collective black American consciousness to defend the cultural and political blackness of President Barack Obama. On the surface, his very presence  in the Oval Office is an act of political revolution, an unprecedented response to this nation’s inherent anti-blackness. But when his destructive neoliberal politics prioritize white…

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    The Root Staff

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  • President Obama Says He Could Have Beaten Trump if He Had Run for 3rd Term

    In an interview released Monday, President Obama said that he could have beaten Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump “if I had run again.” Former Obama adviser and longtime friend David Axelrod, a CNN analyst, interviewed the outgoing president for his podcast The Axe Files, CNN reports. In the interview, Obama says that Hillary Clinton’s campaign…

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    Monique Judge

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  • 6 Stages of Grief in the Last Days of Obama

    As we count down the last few weeks of the Obama presidency, many of us feel anxiety, fear or wistfulness about the prospect of living life without Michelle and Barack in the White House. To help you get through this process, we present to you “The 6 Stages of Grief Over the Obamas Leaving the…

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    Michael Harriot

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  • Ain’t Nobody Going to Trump’s Inauguration, Including Former US Presidents

    Although we have more than a few living U.S. presidents, only one is confirmed to attend the inauguration ceremony of Donald J. Trump. Jimmy Carter is, thus far, the only former POTUS who will be attending the inaugural on Jan. 20, 2016. Carter, 92, is probably the sweetest of the U.S. presidents and has been away…

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    The Root Staff

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  • The 2016 Wypipo Awards

    We’d like to welcome you to the annual Wypipo Awards. For those of you attending for the first time, these awards are not focused on all white people. Instead, this is a ceremony that celebrates the subset of the Caucasian constituency constantly complaining that the BET Awards, the NAACP Awards and even the Soul Train…

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    Michael Harriot

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  • Trump's Winery Wants to Get Visas for Foreign Workers

    Turns out President-elect Donald Trump does want immigrants to stay in this country and work—as long as he and his family reap the benefits. Having run for president on a platform that included building a wall to keep immigrants out, Trump’s Virginia vineyard, owned by his son Eric, has applied for temporary work visas for…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • Trump’s Election Proves Obama Is a Dignified Man in an Undignified Time

    With less than a month left in office, President Barack Obama is flexing his executive muscle, but it all feels a little too late. Recently he granted clemency to 231 prisoners, and now he’s banning offshore drilling in areas of the Arctic and Atlantic indefinitely. I would have loved to see this flippant Obama in…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • Man Kicked Off JetBlue Flight for Harassing Ivanka Trump: ‘Your Father Is Ruining the Country’

    On Thursday a man was removed from a JetBlue flight at New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport after he reportedly berated President-elect Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and her family shortly before takeoff. According to TMZ, the man began heckling Ivanka Trump and her three children on the Florida-bound flight. “Your father is…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • ‘Trump Whisperer’ Kellyanne Conway Named Presidential Counselor

    In one of the least shocking moves since Donald Trump won the presidency, his transition team announced Thursday that the outspoken, and often misguided, Kellyanne Conway will join the president-elect’s most trusted inner circle as the counselor to the president. “Kellyanne Conway has been a trusted adviser and strategist who played a crucial role in…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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