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  • Election 2016: Do Black Lives Matter to 3rd-Party Options?

    On June 22, I attended CNN’s Libertarian Party town hall featuring Govs. Gary Johnson and Bell Weld. I was hesitant to attend because I am exhausted by this election. Chatter that privileges certain voices, monetizes certain platforms and disparages those who can recognize the bulls—t is the white noise that my black ears refuse. Black…

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    The Root Staff

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  • A Short List of the Smartest Things Donald Trump Has Ever Said

    Donald Trump is an idiot. I mean, he has to be, right? The amount of vitriol that has spewed out of this man’s sorry excuse for lips over the course of his run for the White House is the thing of legend. Trump has offended Mexicans, “the Blacks,” Muslims, women, our intelligence and entire countries,…

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    Anslem Samuel Rocque

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  • Donald Trump Accused of Raping 13-Year-Old in Federal Lawsuit

    In a new federal lawsuit filed by a New York City woman, Donald Trump is being accused of having raped her in 1994 when she was 13 years old. The woman, known only as Jane Doe in the lawsuit, said she met Trump at parties thrown by an investor. According to Gothamist, the lawsuit alleges that Trump…

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    Yesha Callahan

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  • Politricks: Hillary Clinton Leans Into Her White Womanhood; Obama Had to Transcend Race

    Hillary Clinton has officially secured enough delegates to become the presumptive Democratic nominee for president. Many celebrated this as proof of progress in a society that has made violence against women and their exclusion from any important decision-making processes defining features. Following in the footsteps of President Barack Obama, America’s first black commander in chief, would be…

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    The Root Staff

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  • Why Black Voters Are the Most Rational Voters of 2016

    Let’s face it. Black voters are about the only folks in 2016 who haven’t lost their damn minds. Contrary to some nimble-minded pop-culture notions that either we’re not politically sharp or we don’t care about elections or we just vote for people who look like us, black voters (for the most part) are a rather…

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    Charles D. Ellison

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