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  • Black Folks Seem to Be OK With Clinton’s VP Pick, But Sanders’ Peeps Not Pleased With Email Leak

    Hillary Clinton announced her vice presidential pick Friday, and though many didn’t seem to know much about Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, most black folks seem OK with her choice. Bernie Sanders’ supporters, however, are fuming over a hacker breach of the Democratic National Convention server, which threatens to disturb the tenuous peace between them…

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  • Dear Mr. President: Black America Deserves Better

    Dear President Obama: As a black man, I have cried more times than I care to admit in the past week, particularly after hearing the audiotape of Diamond Reynolds’ live Facebook video following the killing of her fiance, Philando Castile, in Falcon Heights, Minn. My heart wept as she showed profound resilience and calm in the face…

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  • Loretta Lynch Officially Announces That DOJ Will Not Press Charges Against Hillary Clinton 

    Hillary Clinton will not face charges in the email scandal, Attorney General Loretta Lynch officially announced Wednesday evening, USA Today reports. The announcement came a day after FBI Director James Comey announced that while Clinton, the former secretary of state, and other State Department employees had been “extremely careless” in handling classified materials, there was…

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  • FBI Director Recommends No Criminal Charges Against Hillary Clinton in Private-Email Use

    FBI Director James Comey announced Tuesday that his office will not recommend that prosecutors bring charges against Hillary Clinton for mishandling classified information in emails on her private servers. “Although the Department of Justice makes final decisions on matters like this, we are expressing to Justice our view that no charges are appropriate in this…

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  • Cory Booker Vetted as Hillary Clinton’s Running Mate, but Dems Need His Senate Seat

    New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker is no longer flat out denying that he is being vetted as a potential running mate for Hillary Clinton, a change from just weeks ago. He is now referring questions of the sort to “the Clinton campaign.” On Sunday, speaking on CNN’s State of the Union, Booker now says, “I’m just…

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  • Poll: Donald Trump Has 1 Percent of Black-Voter Support

    Surprise! Donald Trump isn’t faring well with African-American voters. A new Quinnipiac University poll shows that Hillary Clinton is doing extraordinarily well with African-American voters and has a commanding 91 percent-to-1 percent lead over the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. But despite Clinton’s enormous lead with African-American voters, the poll also shows that the race to the…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • New York Times Book Review Publishes New Short Story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    A new short story by your fave, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is slated to run on the cover of the New York Times Book Review’s July 4 weekend issue, according to a press release. Adichie, an award-winning writer—known for her works Americanah, Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun, to name a select few—was commissioned to write the…

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    Breanna Edwards

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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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  • President Barack Obama Endorses Hillary Clinton for President

    President Barack Obama has officially weighed in on the 2016 presidential election, appearing in a video announcing his support for presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. In the video, which Clinton posted to her campaign website and YouTube page, the president praises Clinton for her hard work and dedication. “I know how hard this job can…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Hillary Clinton Claims Victory as 1st Woman to Claim Presidential Nomination of Major Party

    Hillary Clinton has officially staked her claim as the presumptive presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, taking her place in history as the first woman to claim the presidential nomination of a major U.S. party after capturing primary victories in California, New Mexico, South Dakota and New Jersey Tuesday, Al-Jazeera reports. “Thanks to you, we’ve reached…

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    Breanna Edwards

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