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  • 3 White Men Leave Black DC Waitress $450 Tip With Note: ‘Not Race. Not Gender. Just American’

    A black Washington, D.C., waitress received a pleasant surprise Monday while working her usual shift at Busboys and Poets, a Washington restaurant that has its own distinct social-justice mission, the Washington Post reports. Rosalynd Harris went into work still in a great mood from Saturday’s Women’s March on Washington. The optimism of her customers over…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Ain’t I a Woman: Marching Forward—What Now?

    They came. They saw. They marched. Did you? Full disclosure: I didn’t—primarily for logistical reasons—but I watched in awe last Saturday as my social media feeds became a sea of pink pussy hats and cleverly worded signs, courtesy of friends and family attending women’s marches worldwide. As promised and in overwhelming numbers, on the first…

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    Maiysha Kai

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  • How Obama Ruined Race Relations

    One of my favorite true-life parables is the story of Hungarian Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis. In the mid-1800s, Semmelweis worked in a maternity clinic where a large number of women died during childbirth. He believed that the problem was neither the medicine nor their treatments. Semmelweis believed that there were tiny little creatures living on the…

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    Michael Harriot

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  • Woman in Viral Photo From Women’s March to White Female Allies: ‘Listen to a Black Woman’

    Angela Peoples did not come to the Women’s March on Washington to play. The 30-year-old co-director of the LGBTQ equality organization GetEqual came to Saturday’s massive protest against Donald Trump to tell the truth. Marching in a sea of white women, Peoples wore a hat that read, “Stop Killing Black People,” and carried a sign…

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    Brooke Obie

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  • Obama’s Letter to Trump

    It is a tradition for the outgoing president to leave a letter to the incoming commander in chief. George W. Bush left a touching note for Barack Obama after Obama’s election, as did Bill Clinton for Bush after Bush became the 43rd president of the United States. Because the Thousand Island-dressing-colored grand dragon has routinely…

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    Michael Harriot

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  • About Putin and His New Boo

    Now that doomsday has happened, there are certain things to which we can look forward. For one, there will be pain. Lots and lots of pain. Unfortunately, it won’t be like a Betty Wright track in which said pain will yield some gain. It will just hurt. There will also be plenty of stupidity because…

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    Michael Arceneaux

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  • About the Blacks the Marigold Manchurian Candidate Has Been Meeting

    For as long as he is president, there will be debate over whether or not black people should be meeting with the Marigold Manchurian Candidate. It’s a question The Root’s political editor, Jason Johnson, recently tackled in the piece “So, When Is It OK to Meet With Trump?” While we are in accord with the…

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    Michael Arceneaux

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  • Women’s March: Massive Crowds Take Over DC and Cities Around the Country

    Singer-actress Janelle Monáe said a prayer with her fellow performers before taking the stage to raucous cheers at Saturday’s Women’s March, which drew a gargantuan crowd that packed the National Mall from the streets east of the U.S. Capitol all the way west past 17th Street. “I want to remind you that it was woman…

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    Allison Keyes

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  • Trump’s 1st Executive Order Sounds Death Knell for Obamacare

    Donald Trump’s very first executive order as president promised “to seek the prompt repeal” of the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama’s signature health care law. Within hours of assuming the office of the presidency Friday—between his swearing-in and before leaving for his inaugural balls—Trump signed the executive order, which did not give specifics on…

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    Angela Helm

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  • Million Hoodies Movement for Justice Issues Inauguration Day Video Statement on Incoming Administration

    Members of the Million Hoodies Movement for Justice released an Inauguration Day video statement Friday to “send a message about what’s at stake for the next four years with an administration that has promised to harm our communities.” “It is incumbent that young people find ways to get politically activated and involved to protect the…

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    Monique Judge

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