elizabeth warren
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Oprah’s Gift Is Her Presence, Storm Has Iridescence and Kaepernick Will Keep You Guessing: 2020 Presidential Black Power Rankings, Week 22
The best things about Christmas (also Kwanzaa and Hanukkah) heading into New Year’s week are the gifts and the promises. Yes, there is a slew of wonderful viral videos about grandmas crying at Christmas and Instagram thirst trap posts masquerading as New Year’s workout resolutions, but in the end, it’s a week of gifts and…
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Warren Uses the Force, Klobuchar Beats a Dead Horse and Buttigieg Needs to Change Course: 2020 Presidential Black Power Rankings, Week 21
In a galaxy far, far away, on a planet teeming with life but suffering from global warming, dirty oceans and way too many streaming services there, existed the early stages of an empire. Oh, they didn’t know it was an empire yet; there were no stormtroopers marching down the street, only a curious proliferation of…
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Hey Did You Know There Was a Debate on Tonight? Me Either. But Here’s Everything You Need to Know
So it turns out the League of Extraordinarily Lame Democratic candidates is gearing up for their final debate of the year, and what’s way more interesting than the group that will be on stage, Thursday, is the folks who won’t. Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, who has been in as many debates…
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Labor Dispute Results in Possible Boycott at Democratic Debate
Each of the seven candidates who have qualified for this week’s Democratic presidential debate has agreed to boycott the event as a result of a union protest at Loyola Marymount University where the event is scheduled to take place. CBS News reports that Unite Here Local 11, a union comprised of food service workers, has…
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Warren Takes a Tumble, Biden Is Ready to Rumble and Patrick Continues to Bumble: 2020 Presidential Black Power Rankings, Week 20
I’m here with you, but I’m not here FOR you… No truer words in politics have ever been said, according to Marcus Ferrell, fellow permanent Black Power Rankings judge (and former head of African American Outreach for Bernie Sanders 2016). We talked about this concept of who we’re with versus who we’re for after he…
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Harris Was Good in Theory, Buttigieg Makes Us Weary and Biden Sees Things Clearly: 2020 Presidential Black Power Rankings, Week 19
“Kamala Harris is dropping out but Pete Buttigieg is still in?” I got about a million incredulous texts just like this from black folks I know when Senator Kamala Harris dropped out of the 2020 campaign earlier this week. I got so many texts from black people about Harris I thought Tom Steyer was going…
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Elizabeth Warren Tells The Root How Capitalism Can Exist Without Racism
Summerton, S.C.—Sen. Elizabeth Warren is something of a MacGyver on the campaign trail. She has that rare ability to seamlessly break down the most complex policy challenges and not leave you feeling like an idiot. It has been this intellectual range—not to mention those hourslong selfie lines—that has elevated her to the top of the…
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Elizabeth Warren Had a Hard Time Naming Prominent Black People—On Two Occasions
Just when we thought she was on the right track, the leading lady of the Democratic presidential frontrunners may need new people. Elizabeth Ann Warren didn’t seem to be prepared to talk black folks during recent interviews with black folks. As noted by Tommy Christopher on Mediaite Saturday, the Massachusetts Senator was asked, TWICE, to…