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Sources: George Floyd Family's Visit to White House Will Be More Than a Meet & Greet
When Joe Biden meets with the family of George Floyd on Tuesday to acknowledge the one-year anniversary of the day former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdered Floyd in broad daylight, it will not be a perfunctory photo op. Instead, the president will use the visit as an opportunity to push for the passage of…
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Dr. Anthony Fauci Speaks to The Root About the COVID-19 Vaccines
For Black people, medical care in this country has been fraught with a tangled history of lack of access and an inherent mistrust in a system that has both experimented on Black bodies and at times ignored the pleas and complaints of Black people who have had varying experiences with medical professionals who either don’t…
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White House to Host George Floyd's Family on Anniversary of His Death, but Will Miss Floyd Police Reform Bill Deadline
This Tuesday will mark the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death. Two things were supposed to happen on or by that date: Floyd’s family was to be hosted at the White House, and a federal police reform bill named for Floyd was supposed to be on President Joe Biden’s desk. Unfortunately, it looks like only…
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Jill Biden Told Supporters on Call 'Go Fuck Yourself' After Joe's Heated Moment on Race With Kamala Harris During 2019 Debate, Book Claims
I know it’s painful to look back at 2019, but let’s take a trip down memory lane, shall we? It was the Democratic presidential debate and current Vice President Kamala Harris had decided to go for then-nominee Joe Biden’s jugular. Training her gaze directly at the former VP, Harris said: “I do not believe that…
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Mask Off: Dr. Fauci Says CDC Guidance on Indoor Mask Wearing Will Loosen as More People Get Vaccinated
I’ve been all about masks during the pandemic. Honestly, wearing my mask and glasses is the closest thing I’ll ever have to a secret identity, so I’ve had some fun with it. That said, now that I’m fully vaccinated and back to doing hoodrat shit with my friends (within reason, of course), I’m looking forward…
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Symone Sanders Tackled a Protester to Save Biden and Still Didn’t Get the Press Secretary Gig. She’s Got a Right to Be Upset
Symone Sanders, a senior adviser to Vice President Harris, put her reputation and her life on the line trying to propel then-candidate Joe Biden into the White House, so the least he could’ve done was throw her the White House press secretary job. But that job ended up going to a white woman, Jen Psaki,…
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Department of Homeland Security to Launch Internal Review of Domestic Extremism
I guess all it took was lawmakers, current and former service members, as well as members of law enforcement to attempt an insurrection for white people to realize that crazy, racist assholes exist in all fields of work. The Department of Homeland Security announced on Monday that it would begin an internal review to assess…
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Tucker Carlson: Call Child Protective Services If You See a Child Wearing a Mask Outdoors
On Sunday, Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious diseases expert and the most-hated doctor by Republicans who don’t believe in flossing their single tooth, noted that people can minimize mask use outdoors. “I think it’s pretty common sense now that outdoor risk is really, really quite low, particularly—I mean, if you are a vaccinated person, wearing…