Politics
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Best Part of Congressional Black Caucus Week? Exclusive Footage of Marvel’s Black Panther
These are some of the things the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Legislative Conference is known for: policy talk for the black community, mixed in with big parties, behind-the-scenes shenanigans and profilin’ outfits. This year was the same, with one huge exception : The panel put together by first-term Rep. Val Demmings (from Florida’s 10th…
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An Annotated Translation of the Greatest Clapback of All Time
The text of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s response to Donald Trump’s United Nations speech will go down as one of the pettiest incidents in the annals of international shade throwing. To highlight the cataclysmic clapback of this piece of art, we assembled a group of world-renowned pettyologists from Atlanta; Compton, Calif.; and Brooklyn,…
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5 Times Donald Trump Proved to Be a Dotard
There are very few times that I’ve ever found myself agreeing with the rhetoric of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. But Kim’s clapback after President Nooshi von BackWash screamed on him on a world stage (talking shit about a world leader during the United Nations General Assembly is the political equivalent of screaming on…
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More Black Women Are Realizing That the Democratic Party Is Full of Shit, New Poll Finds
The Democratic Party has experienced an 11 percent drop in support from black women, while “the percentage of black women who said neither party represents them jumped from 13 percent in 2016 to 21 percent in 2017,” according to the 2017 Power of the Sister Vote poll, conducted by the Black Women’s Roundtable, an intergenerational…
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Does Donald Trump Struggle With Reading? An Investigation
People across social media made fun of Donald Trump on Wednesday when he referred to the African country of Namibia as “Nambia.” Everyone laughed but me. Even though I am well-known for the sensitivity and politically correct tactfulness that I display on a regular basis (hey, don’t laugh!), there is another reason that I didn’t…
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Sean Spicer’s Latest Lie: I ‘Have Not Knowingly’ Lied to America
Former White House press secretary Sean “Spicy Facts” Spicer is such a liar that he really believes that he didn’t “knowingly” lie to America. In an interview with Good Morning America on Thursday, his first since his “Normalizing-Hate World Tour” appearance at the Emmys, in which he joked about his lie regarding inauguration attendance, Spicer…
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Melania Trump Wants the Next Generation to Live by the Golden Rule, but What About Her Husband?
During a speech before the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, first lady Melania Trump (damn, that was hard to type) called on world leaders to teach young people the importance of living by the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. The theme of Trump’s speech seemed to…
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Minority Firms Getting Few (if Any) Federal Asset-Management Contracts
More than $70 trillion in federal dollars are managed by registered asset-management firms in the United States, but less than 1 percent of those dollars are handled by minority- or women-owed (MWO) firms, according to a new report released Wednesday by the U.S. Government Accountability Office. The report (pdf), exclusively provided to The Root, reviewed…
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Thirsty Republicans Slide Into America’s DMs for Obamacare Repeal … Again
Republicans are trying to repeal Obamacare again. At this point, the efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act have passed the point of political failure and have become embarrassing. Republicans are like the creepy guy who keeps shooting his shot even though he keeps getting curved. The Republican Party is now stalking us.…