Politics
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In an Interview With The Root, Julián Castro Calls for Reparations for Black People
Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro is willing to consider a plan that would lead to reparations for black Americans. The presidential candidate made that revelation during his interview with The Root. He also expressed his views about Donald Trump’s xenophobia, how he would address police brutality (and how he dealt with the…
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Justin Fairfax's Second Accuser Reaffirms Offer to Testify in Public
Meredith Watson, the second woman to accuse Virginia Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax of sexual assault, penned an op-ed for the Washington Post, which the paper released Monday. In it, she repeated her offer to testify publicly in front of state lawmakers. Late last month, Watson alleged Fairfax raped her while they were both students at…
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Deal Reached in Principle to Avoid Second Government Shutdown
House and Senate negotiators have reached an “agreement in principle” to avoid a second government shutdown. Though the four leading bipartisan negotiators declined to provide specifics on the nature of the agreement, Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard Shelby told reporters that both sides “got an agreement on all of it” when asked if the deal included…
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Kurtis Blow Responds to Va. Attorney General's Apology for 80's Blackface Photo
While the Commonwealth of Virginia awaits the resolution of a series of scandals involving its Governor and Lieutenant Governor, there remains the matter of Attorney General Mark R. Herring, who apologized for wearing blackface styled after rap legend Kurtis Blow at a costume party in 1980, while he was 19. While national Democrats push for…
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Trump Worries As House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff Hires Former White House Employees
If Trump starts keeping his potential enemies any closer, we may learn of a California King bed in the West Wing. After House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff hired Abigail Grace, a former career official at the National Security Council, Trump is worried Schiff is assembling a team of White House employees to gain an edge…
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Democrats Call Trump's Bluff 12 Hours After Investigation Threat
Trump wants it to be one way. He may soon learn it’s the other way. Less than 12 hours after Trump debuted his rhyming threat, ripped from the dialogue of a straight-to-television mob movie, Democrats have asked Trump to walk it like he recently talked it. “If there is going to be peace and legislation,…
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Undocumented Former Trump Employee to Attend State of the Union Address
Victorina Morales, a Guatemalan woman who spent years working for the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. before revealing her status as an undocumented worker to the New York Times in December, has accepted an invitation to attend Donald Trump’s State of the Union address next week. Morales, who was terminated from her job…
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I Don't Know How We're Going to Make It Through This Campaign Season Y'all
I’m typically a pretty optimistic person. For instance, I believe the children are our future. I believe in miracles. I even believe in magic. Despite my penchant for seeing a glass half-full, I’m not sure we gon’ make it through this campaign season y’all. When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said “I may not get…
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The Gangsta Rapper President
Now this is a story all about howWhite America got tricked, turned upside downI’d like to take a minute, so sit right thereI’ll tell you why Trump’s a gangsta rapper who stole Ice T’s hair. Ever since Donald Trump became America’s 45th president, I have had a sense of nigga vu about him. Wait. You’ve…
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Sheila Jackson Lee Leaves Judiciary Committee After Former Staffer Alleges She Was Fired for Reporting Sexual Assault
Longtime Democratic Representative Sheila Jackson Lee has announced plans to resign as chair of the Congressional Black Caucus’ nonprofit operation, after she was named in a lawsuit alleging she fired a young woman who planned to press charges after an alleged sexual assault by a former Congressional Black Congress Foundation employee. Jackson Lee also vacated…