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#NoDAPL: Arrest Warrants Issued for Green Party’s Stein, Baraka for Standing With Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and Green Party vice presidential candidate Ajamu Baraka have both been charged with misdemeanor counts of criminal trespass and criminal mischief for protesting with the Standing Rock Sioux tribe against the Dakota Access Pipeline, CBS News reports. Arrest warrants for Stein and Baraka have been issued. Stein and Baraka…

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Kirsten West Savali

Published

September 10, 2016
Politics

#GenForward: Majority of White Millennials Believe Black Lives Matter Encourages Violence Against Police

The majority of black millennials in the United States wanted Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to be their next president, but since he’s out of the race, 60 percent of black millennials said they would vote for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton if the general election were held today. Why? Because 78 percent of black millennials believe Clinton to be qualified to hold…

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Kirsten West Savali

Published

September 8, 2016
Politics

#NoDAPL: DOJ Temporarily Halts Construction of Dakota Access Pipeline in Wake of Standing Rock Protests

Updated Friday, Sept. 9, 2016, 5:30 p.m. EDT: In the wake of the brave and unrelenting actions of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and water protectors, joined by other First Nations and nonnative allies, the Department of Justice, the Department of the Army and the Department of the Interior released a joint statement announcing the halt…

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Kirsten West Savali

Published

September 8, 2016
Politics

MSNBC's O'Donnell on #DAPL: US Was Founded on Dishonesty and Genocide

In about four minutes, MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell reminded liberal white America that it has the blood of indigenous people on their hands. In a riveting segment on Aug. 26, O’Donnell called what is happening in North Dakota to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe a “morally embarrassing reminder” of the genocide that Europeans committed in the…

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Kirsten West Savali

Published

September 1, 2016
News

'We Need Real Democracy': On the Choice of Stein-Baraka This Fall

I’ll say this about Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein: She may have tried real hard during Wednesday night’s first-ever Green Party town hall on CNN to get mainstream Bernie Sanders voters into the party fold, but she did not stop her running mate, Ajamu Baraka, from saying what he really feels about America. Barack…

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Todd Steven Burroughs

Published

August 18, 2016
Very Smart Brothas

A Vote For Jill Stein Is A Vote In The Trash

Cornel West recently continued down his long, winding road to breaking my heart. He returned to his recurring role as a panelist on Real Time with Bill Maher, where he was even more overbearing than usual. He battled with Barney Frank and barely let my future second wife Alex Wagner get a word in edgewise;…

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Dustin J. Seibert

Published

August 11, 2016
Marc Lamont Hill on Voting Green, Not Being Afraid of Trump: 'We Can Afford to Lose an Election; We Can't Afford to Lose Our Values'

Marc Lamont Hill—Morehouse College Distinguished Professor of African-American Studies, New York Times best-selling author of Nobody, VH1 talk show host and a much-sought-after political and cultural commentator—swung by 105.1’s The Breakfast Club to chop it up with D.J. Envy, Charlamagne tha God and Angela Yee. Hill not only talked about his road to success—from dropping out…

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Kirsten West Savali

Published

August 7, 2016
Dear Centrists: The Left Has Something to Say Whether You Like It or Not [Retracted]

RETRACTED (6/12/18): This story has been removed because we have discovered it was in breach of our editorial standards. If you’d like to know more, you can read an editor’s note here. A cached version of the story is available here for transparency.

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Kirsten West Savali

Published

August 3, 2016
Green Alert: Presidential Hopeful Dr. Jill Stein Taps Human Rights Activist Ajamu Baraka as Her VP Pick

Green Party presidential hopeful Dr. Jill Stein has tapped Ajamu Baraka as her vice presidential pick for the upcoming 2016 election. Read more about Baraka below via Stein’s campaign website: Ajamu Baraka is a powerful, eloquent spokesperson for the transformative, radical agenda whose time has com—an agenda of economic, social, racial, gender, climate, indigenous and immigrant justice.…

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Kirsten West Savali

Published

August 2, 2016
Politics

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

Published

June 24, 2016