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8 Years a President: Thoughts on 2 Terms of a Black President and Black First Family

It’s a tall task to assess the entirety of President Barack Obama’s two terms in office, to cull an ultimate judgment from all the success and missteps of his administration, and then measure that against the unprecedented obstructions it faced. One can point to the decline in deficit and the growth of gross domestic product,…

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The Root Staff

Published

November 1, 2016
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‘I Wanted to Be a Part of History’: What It Means to Work for the 1st Black President

When he was a teenager, Gregory Lorjuste didn’t dream of working in the White House someday. “Politics wasn’t discussed at our kitchen table when I was growing up,” he said in a recent interview. “We talked about work and putting food on the table.” Until the latter years of high school, he didn’t have college…

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The Root Staff

Published

September 6, 2016
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Underestimated on Foreign Policy, Obama Has Left Opponents ‘Sucking Wind’

Barack Obama’s foreign policy should not be reduced to a simple bumper sticker phrase. Not even one as pithy as the “Don’t do stupid s—t” mantra that is now being bandied about. Proof of this can be found in Susan Rice’s hands-down rejection of that term as the fulcrum of the Obama administration’s foreign policy…

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The Root Staff

Published

July 28, 2016
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‘1st Gay President’? No. But Is Barack Obama an LGBT Ally? A Resounding Yes

Far too often, we are collectively thrilled with people conveying basic human decency or, in other cases, simply acknowledging the marginalized in ways typically not done by anyone who is a part of the majority. When I was a child, of all things I remember about Bill Clinton, one that sticks out most is this…

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Michael Arceneaux

Published

June 15, 2016