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  • Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Claims He Always Wins—but at What Cost?

    Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel spoke Monday at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and laid out his thoughts on the Democratic Party and its prospects for taking back national power again, saying that it needs to take a “chill pill” because the return to power won’t happen anytime soon. “It ain’t gonna happen in 2018,” Emanuel…

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    Monique Judge

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  • Trump Accuses Media of Covering Up Terrorist Attacks

    The presidential hyperbole train continued its run through America Monday when President Donald Trump, speaking to the U.S. Central Command, claimed that the media was intentionally covering up reports of terrorist attacks. According to the Washington Post, Trump went off his prepared remarks to make his claim. “You’ve seen what happened in Paris and Nice.…

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    Monique Judge

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  • Maxine Waters Says Trump Is Leading Himself to Impeachment

    After tweeting last week that her “greatest desire was to lead Donald Trump right into impeachment,” Maxine Waters said Monday that Trump’s actions are leading him to possible impeachment. CNN reports that the California Democrat made her remarks to reporters at a news conference. “I have not called for the impeachment yet. He’s doing it…

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    Monique Judge

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  • Calif. Sheriff’s Deputy Caught on Video Threatening to ‘Create’ Charges and Send Man to Jail

    Authorities in California are investigating after a video surfaced showing a San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy threatening to create charges and throw a man in jail. Duncan Hicks went into the Victorville sheriff’s station Jan. 20 around 11 a.m. to file an incident report regarding a child custody issue. He told the Los Angeles Times…

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    Monique Judge

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  • Attending College Doesn’t Close Wage Gap, and Other Myths Exposed in New Report

    Since the first iteration of slavery transformed into its more contemporary forms—Jim Crow, mass incarceration, redlining, employment and education discrimination—the toxic myth that black people can bootstrap their way to success and safety in a country that thrives on their subjugation has continued to thrive. In a new report, “Asset Value of Whiteness,” Demos and the…

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    Kirsten West Savali

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  • Breaking News: Donald Trump Tells the Truth

    We interrupt your Facebook scrolling, Candy Crush game, tweets or whatever you were doing (although we can’t imagine what you’d be doing on the internet besides reading The Root) to bring you this important announcement: News agencies across the country are reporting the collective, nationwide shock at the unthinkable incident that happened on Fox News…

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    Michael Harriot

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  • NYC Restaurant Prints ‘Immigrants Make America Great’ on Receipts in Response to Trump’s Travel Ban

    Sometimes it’s the little things that cause the biggest ripples, and one Brooklyn, N.Y., restaurant’s message of solidarity with immigrants is creating quite a stir online after an image of a receipt that read, “Immigrants make America great” started circulating online. According to DNAinfo New York, the tweet showing the receipt from Kiwiana Restaurant in…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • The Trap House vs. the White House: Why Black America Needed the Falcons to Win

    The New England Patriots are racist-adjacent. Their owner and quarterback kick it with the racist-in-chief, who not only openly opposes anything not white and male but openly loves the New England Patriots. So the New England Patriots are racist-related. While they can’t be considered straight-up racist, their helmet emblem is of a white man wearing…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • Police Arrest Man in Fatal Accidental Shooting of 5-Year-Old Fla. Girl 

    Police have arrested 34-year-old Maurice Antonio Mobley in connection with the fatal accidental shooting of a 5-year-old girl over the weekend, Action News Jax reports. Mobley is facing charges of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, the Jacksonville, Fla., Sheriff’s Office confirmed. He is the boyfriend of the mother of 5-year-old Serenity Allen,…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Mr. Dalvin Confirms Jodeci Biopic Is Coming

    On the heels of the success of BET’s New Edition miniseries, The New Edition Story, it looks like its parent company, Viacom, sees that R&B biopics are the way to go when it comes to ratings. According to Jodeci member Mr. Dalvin, a Jodeci biopic is in the works and will air on BET’s sister…

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    Yesha Callahan

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