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  • Yeah, I Voted For Hillary Clinton Today, But #ImWithHer Forever

    In the 11 months since my daughter, The Feminist Octopus, decided to arrive on Earth, she’s served as my ultimate trump card. Any difficult decision I’ve wrestled with — career-based or socially; economically or spiritually — comes back to her and her future. How will it impact her life today, tomorrow, and (most importantly) 10 years…

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    Damon Young

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  • Herschel Walker Is Losing His Black Friends Over His Support for Trump

    Former Dallas Cowboys running back and Celebrity Apprentice contestant Herschel Walker is losing his black friends over his love for Donald Trump. According to TMZ Sports, Walker’s black friends aren’t cool with the fact that Walker has been Team Trump this election, and they’ve even resorted to calling Walker names. Walker says that his friendship…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • 107-Year-Old Daughter of a Slave Ready to Cast Her Vote Once More 

    Donella Wilson, at 107 years old, has never missed a local or national election since she cast her first vote in the 1940s. And Wilson, who was born in South Carolina to parents who were former slaves, says she is ready to cast her vote one more time and perhaps make history once again. “I…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Maybe if the Black Left Were Trump Supporters, Democrats Would Put Some Respect on Their Names

    Over the course of this farce of a presidential campaign, we have seen mainstream media outlets and politicians seek to analyze and understand white people who support Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. What drives them? What incites them? What brings them to the polls and why? We’re all expected to be so fascinated, as if…

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    Kirsten West Savali

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  • FBI Says There’s Nothing in Clinton’s Emails, but That Doesn’t Stop Trump

    Remember those new emails found by the FBI while it was investigating someone not named Hillary Clinton? Remember how the FBI director broke a respected long-standing agreement between the federal agency and the Department of Justice not to leak information regarding an ongoing investigation? Now it turns out that emails found on a computer used…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • This Election Comes Down to 1 Thing

    In one day, most of you will cast a vote for who you want to serve as the next president of the United States. By now you likely have been inundated with articles, commercials and personal appeals to do your part as both a citizen in this democracy and a beneficiary of the people who…

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    Michael Harriot

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  • So Basically FBI Director James Comey Just Trolled The Entire Country? (Fuck This Election, Man)

    I’m trying (and failing) to think of a good and succinct analogy for what the FBI has done this month. Which is, of course, announce two weeks before the election that they were reopening their investigation into a non-issue (Clinton’s emails — a clear and blatant political McGuffin). Which, of course, could potentially have a…

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    Damon Young

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  • The Movement for Black Lives Is Standing Up for HBCUs

    Of the 4,726 degree-granting institutions, 100 institutions educate and train almost 10 percent of black college students. Yet since their inception, HBCUs have been in a war for their very existence, whether facing Congress or state legislatures. HBCUs have even found themselves repeatedly at odds with President Barack Obama. As economist and author Julianne Malveaux,…

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    The Root Staff

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  • Judge Issues Restraining Order to Stop Voter Intimidation by Trump Campaign

    A U.S. district judge in Ohio issued a restraining order Friday that prevents anyone working on Donald Trump’s campaign from harassing and intimidating voters at the polls Tuesday. The judge’s ruling came after a two-hour hearing during which Trump’s lawyer was asked to justify the Republican presidential candidate’s inflammatory rhetoric about voter fraud, Mother Jones…

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    Monique Judge

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  • Unique Views Podcast, Episode 17: #GentrifiedGreens and Fried Lil Wayne Brain

    In the spirit of A Tribe Called Quest’s album announcement, we got our original band back together. That’s right—we got The Root Senior Editor Yesha Callahan, aka Michelle (Destiny’s Child), aka half of the Podcast Pips (who was never going to play the background because she’s larger than life), to sit in for the whole…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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