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  • Unique Views Podcast, Episode 17: #GentrifiedGreens and Fried Lil Wayne Brain

    In the spirit of A Tribe Called Quest’s album announcement, we got our original band back together. That’s right—we got The Root Senior Editor Yesha Callahan, aka Michelle (Destiny’s Child), aka half of the Podcast Pips (who was never going to play the background because she’s larger than life), to sit in for the whole…

  • Melania Trump Wants to Stop Cyberbullying as First Lady; She Should Start With Her Husband

    As first lady, Melania Trump would like to be an advocate for women and young people. Her first act would be to stop cyberbullying. “It is never OK when a 12-year-old girl or boy is mocked, bullied or attacked. It is terrible when it happens on the playground, and it is absolutely unacceptable when it…

  • Melania Trump Signed Up to Be a Rich Man’s Wife, Not First Lady

    Last weekend, at the Tidal X 1015 concert in Brooklyn, N.Y., Nicki Minaj delivered a pointed critique that echoed a sentiment that quite a few share about Melania Trump. After reciting lyrics from “Win Again,” she said: “It’s O motherf—king K, ’cause Barack needed a Michelle, bitch, and Bill needed a motherf—king Hillary, bitch; you…

  • Melania Trump: Donald Was ‘Egged on’ to Say ‘Dirty and Bad Stuff’

    Melania Trump says she has never heard her husband use the kind of language he is heard using in a 2005 video, and she questions the integrity of the women who have come forward to accuse him of sexual misconduct. “I believe my husband. I believe my husband,” she said in an interview with CNN’s…

  • To Conservatives Outraged Over Nude Photos of Melania Trump: Where Were You When Michelle Obama Faced Racist Attacks?

    Some say the New York Post went too far. The Sunday cover of the newspaper, which had endorsed Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in the New York primary, featured a controversial image of his wife. Under the headline “Melania Trump Like You’ve Never Seen Her Before” (NSFW), she was shown completely nude, save for a…

  • #Election2016: Trump Ain't New, and Clinton Ain't Savior

    “To not vote for Hillary is to vote for Trump” is a refrain that liberals have championed this election season. It often rears its ugly head when leftists or black radicals denounce the two-party system, raising significant concerns about Hillary Clinton’s neoliberal tactics alongside Donald Trump’s rabid racism. It also appears when folks deeply question…

  • Melania Trump’s Official Website Disappears Amid Questions About Her College Degree

    The official website of Melania Trump has seemingly vanished into thin air after questions recently arose about whether the site’s claim that she has a college degree is indeed a fact, People magazine reports. MelaniaTrump.com now reroutes to the Trump Organization’s website home page. In addition, the biography page does not mention Donald Trump’s wife at…

  • 9 Hilarious RNC Memes

    Thursday night will mark the official end to the Republican National Convention, and it has been quite a show in Cleveland.  From New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie—“Mr. Bridgegate” himself—lecturing Americans on ethics, to Dr. Ben Carson likening Hillary Clinton to Lucifer, to former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s vitriolic speech (because spewing vitriol seems…

  • Trump Staffer Takes the Fall for Plagiarism in Melania Trump’s Speech

    An employee with the Trump Organization has taken the fall for the apparent plagiarism of Michelle Obama’s 2008 Democratic National Convention speech, Talking Points Memo reports. Accusations of plagiarism started making the rounds following Monday night’s Republican National Convention, where Melania Trump, the wife of Donald Trump, spoke. The similarities between her speech and Michelle…

  • My Little Pony: The Trump Campaign Is Magic … and Lazy

    Donald Trump’s run for president might be the most bootleg, shoestring, lazy effort by any candidate in the history of the presidency. Maybe it’s because of the racist, xenophobic stink that permeates everything he touches and, in turn, pushes any self-respecting Republican far away from his candidacy. At this point, he might as well be…