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  • Supreme Court Rules That Disenfranchising Voters Is OK … as Long as It Isn’t Racist

    The U.S. Supreme Court issued a devastating blow to race-based gerrymandering Monday when it ruled that North Carolina’s Legislature used racial considerations in redrawing two of the state’s voting districts. That’s the lead you’re likely to read as news outlets everywhere report on the high court’s 5-3 decision declaring that North Carolina’s Republican-controlled Legislature relied…

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    Michael Harriot

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  • ‘Sessions Must Go’ Projected on Justice Department Headquarters, FBI Building 

    In a righteous act of artistic resistance and rebellion, an image of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions wearing a Ku Klux Klan costume, along with various hashtags, was projected on Department of Justice headquarters as well as the FBI building in Washington, D.C., on Thursday night. USA Today reports that Robin Bell took credit for…

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    Monique Judge

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  • Former FBI Director James Comey Will Testify in Open Hearing Before Senate Intelligence Committee

    Former FBI Director James Comey has agreed to testify in an open hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee to discuss his role in the investigation probing Russia’s involvement in the 2016 presidential election. NPR reports that the hearing will be scheduled for after Memorial Day. “The committee looks forward to receiving testimony from the former…

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    Monique Judge

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  • Report: White House Lawyers Researching Impeachment

    White House lawyers have begun researching impeachment in the unlikely event that Donald Trump is forced to go through proceedings aimed at removing him from office, according to CNN. From CNN: White House counsel’s office have consulted experts in impeachment during the past week and have begun collecting information on how such proceedings would work,…

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    Kirsten West Savali

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  • Stop Playing: Impeachment Is Not a Black Political Strategy

    Since the election of President Donald Trump, black political leaders have seemingly led the charge as public Democratic Party surrogates calling for impeachment. When everyone else couldn’t quite fathom Trump as a real-life Manchurian candidate, the black political and pundit class (to its credit) was already gnawing strong at the Trump-Putin link while vigorously questioning…

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    Charles D. Ellison

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  • Jeff Sessions’ Senate Replacement Will Probably Be More Racist Than Jeff Sessions

    When Donald Trump nominated Jeff Sessions—the love child of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and the Keebler elf—as attorney general of the United States, it was a bittersweet moment. On one hand, the Vulcan-eared bigot who once, according to sworn testimony, called a white civil rights attorney a “disgrace to his race” and the NAACP an “un-American”…

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    Michael Harriot

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  • The Root Presents On the Run: 2017 Campaign Edition

    Tired of punching at the sky, yelling at the television and unfriending folks from high school because of politics? Of course you are! The current administration’s steady commitment to incompetence, corruption and white nationalists has gotten the American people, especially African Americans, riled up in ways not seen since Chaka Khan performed at the Republican…

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    Jason Johnson

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  • Y’all’s President Is a Lazier Thot Than I Thought

    While I knew y’all’s president was one vacationing-ass bitch, I had no idea how much of a lazy thot he truly was. Among the ever-increasing number of frightening things the Washington Post is reporting this week about President Saddle Tan Nixon, I can’t shake his apparent attitude about exercise. In the book Trump Revealed, it…

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    Michael Arceneaux

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  • If This Latest Russia Report Doesn’t Get Trump Impeached, I Don’t Know What Will

    I don’t have to comb through years of President TrumPutin’s taxes or real estate dealings to point out collusion between the worst president in American history and Mother Russia, aka our play cousin. Let’s just look at the past week. On May 9, unbeknownst to members of his own team, Trump fired FBI Director James…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • The Troubling History of ‘the Most Racist Politician in America’

    He goes by many names. The director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Voting Rights Project refers to him as “the king of voter suppression.” Kansas’ state Senate minority leader called him “the most racist politician in America today.” Until the newly written Muslim ban goes into effect, he still holds the title of “architect…

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    Michael Harriot

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