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#NoDAPL: Arrest Warrants Issued for Green Party’s Stein, Baraka for Standing With Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and Green Party vice presidential candidate Ajamu Baraka have both been charged with misdemeanor counts of criminal trespass and criminal mischief for protesting with the Standing Rock Sioux tribe against the Dakota Access Pipeline, CBS News reports. Arrest warrants for Stein and Baraka have been issued. Stein and Baraka…

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Kirsten West Savali

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September 10, 2016
Politics

#GenForward: Majority of White Millennials Believe Black Lives Matter Encourages Violence Against Police

The majority of black millennials in the United States wanted Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to be their next president, but since he’s out of the race, 60 percent of black millennials said they would vote for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton if the general election were held today. Why? Because 78 percent of black millennials believe Clinton to be qualified to hold…

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Kirsten West Savali

Published

September 8, 2016
Politics

#NoDAPL: DOJ Temporarily Halts Construction of Dakota Access Pipeline in Wake of Standing Rock Protests

Updated Friday, Sept. 9, 2016, 5:30 p.m. EDT: In the wake of the brave and unrelenting actions of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and water protectors, joined by other First Nations and nonnative allies, the Department of Justice, the Department of the Army and the Department of the Interior released a joint statement announcing the halt…

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Kirsten West Savali

Published

September 8, 2016
News

Watch: Donald Trump Visits Black Church in Detroit With Omarosa and Dr. Ben Carson

African Americans seem to be the belle of the ball this election season, and so Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump made his call to a mostly black Detroit congregation Saturday. The Detroit Free Press reports that Trump mostly stuck to a prepared script as he spoke at the Great Faith Ministries Church in the Motor…

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The Root Staff

Published

September 4, 2016
News

Trump Surrogate Pastor Mark Burns Be Lyin’ and Gets Caught on Camera

There is a name used in the South about unscrupulous men of the cloth: “jackleg preachers.” Given the evidence, it looks as if Pastor Mark Burns fits the bill. Burns, who came into national prominence this year as an unabashed Donald Trump surrogate and supporter who spoke at the Republican National Convention, was caught in…

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The Root Staff

Published

September 3, 2016
News

Donald Trump Meets With Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, and the Joke Is on All of Us

You could not come up with a more desperate pair of political leaders than GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. Trump has dug himself into a huge hole in the polls, and his pivot to African Americans has all the skill and grace of the new guy at the YMCA.…

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Jason Johnson

Published

September 1, 2016
Politics

MSNBC's O'Donnell on #DAPL: US Was Founded on Dishonesty and Genocide

In about four minutes, MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell reminded liberal white America that it has the blood of indigenous people on their hands. In a riveting segment on Aug. 26, O’Donnell called what is happening in North Dakota to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe a “morally embarrassing reminder” of the genocide that Europeans committed in the…

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Kirsten West Savali

Published

September 1, 2016
'No, You’re a Racist Bigot!': Clinton and Trump's Insulting Race War Is Ridiculous

The 2016 election cycle always promised to have more questions than answers. Would expectations be higher or lower for the nation’s 44th white commander in chief than they were for President Barack Obama? What would black voters demand—or settle for—as revolutionary fire continued to burn through the streets? Would Ben Carson ever admit that he resides somewhere over…

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Kirsten West Savali

Published

September 1, 2016
Very Smart Brothas

Hey Y’all, I Think My Mother Is Voting For Donald Trump

First things first, I PJ, would like to state up front that I can talk about my mama, but the rest of you people cannot. Cool? Cool. Also, I am lucky enough to have two mothers: this piece speaks of my mother in Michigan, who is originally from France. And white. And awesome so put…

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Panama Jackson

Published

August 30, 2016
Donald Trump to Visit Black Church in Detroit

Donald Trump is moving forward with his plans to reach out to African-American voters, making what the Detroit Free Press is calling his “first foray” into black churches by visiting the Great Faith Ministries Church in Detroit on Saturday. According to the report, Trump will also tape an interview with the church’s bishop, Wayne T.…

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Breanna Edwards

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August 29, 2016