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On What Happens When Folks Are Denied Their Fried Chicken
Climate change is real, the political discourse is trash, and people in the U.S. and U.K. just want some damn fried chicken to soothe their souls. Which is why we at The Root have not one, but two #TodayInChicken stories to share with you. Let’s begin on the American side of the pond in Marietta,…
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KFC Has a Fried-Chicken-Scented Bath Bomb, and I Am Equal Parts Disgusted and Intrigued
I don’t know who requested a fried-chicken-scented bath bomb, or who thought it was such a good idea that it was worthy of production, but KFC is on it, and I really don’t know if I’m disturbed or curious. If you’ve ever quipped that you could bathe in fried chicken, now’s your time to show…
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KFC Has Published a Colonel Sanders Romance Novel in Honor of Mother’s Day and I Am Overwhelmed
So KFC has decided, all casual like, to drop a romance novel featuring the one and only Colonel Sanders in honor of Mother’s Day this year, and I am just staring at my computer with my mouth open, my eyes brimming with tears. I’m honestly overwhelmed, y’all. I have never been so horrified and yet…
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GOP Candidate Who Offered KFC, Kool-Aid and Watermelons Arrested in Connection WIth Alleged Rental Scam
Jon Girodes, a Republican New York state Senate candidate who made headlines after apparently planning to offer Kool-Aid, KFC and watermelons at a campaign event in historically black Harlem, has been arrested in connection to an alleged rental scam, NBC 4 New York reports. Girodes, who is vying for the 30th Senatorial District seat in the…
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GOP Candidate's Black Outreach: Kool-Aid, Watermelon and KFC
As many of us politicos have come to know, the Grand Old Party is overflowing with stupid white men. In this campaign season, though, Donald J. Trump has been sucking up so much of the election coverage, the rest of those of that dumb-dumb-diddy demo have been overlooked. That’s why I am so grateful to…
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Donald Trump Is Fat. And Yet He's Always Fat-Shaming Women
Donald Trump is fat. If Dennis the Menace grew up to be a racist real estate tycoon with a bad tan and a huge stomach, he would look exactly like Donald Trump. Trump hasn’t been anywhere close to thin since Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi Bears ended in 1991. And yet one of Trump’s favorite…