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  • 6 Stages of Grief in the Last Days of Obama

    As we count down the last few weeks of the Obama presidency, many of us feel anxiety, fear or wistfulness about the prospect of living life without Michelle and Barack in the White House. To help you get through this process, we present to you “The 6 Stages of Grief Over the Obamas Leaving the…

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    Michael Harriot

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  • Trump’s Election Proves Obama Is a Dignified Man in an Undignified Time

    With less than a month left in office, President Barack Obama is flexing his executive muscle, but it all feels a little too late. Recently he granted clemency to 231 prisoners, and now he’s banning offshore drilling in areas of the Arctic and Atlantic indefinitely. I would have loved to see this flippant Obama in…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • From Russia With Blackness: Terrell J. Starr, Black America’s Russian Translator

    Terrell J. Starr has been Columbused by many in the mainstream media in the last several weeks. As the Russian hack on the 2016 election and President-elect Donald Trump’s relationship with Russian leader Vladimir Putin dominate the headlines, outlets are looking for a fresh take on Russian politics and American vulnerabilities. Terrell J. Starr—tall, black,…

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    Jason Johnson

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  • Are Politics More Divisive Than Race? Survey Says…GTFOH.

    Yesterday morning I read an article in the Washington Post’s “Express” mini-paper called “Political shopping lists” about how the most recent political campaign has increased divisiveness to the point of affecting people’s shopping choices as folks try to bubble inward with only similar beliefed and minded people. This article made mention of “Hamilton” (you all remember…

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    Panama Jackson

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  • Should Black People Meet With Donald Trump?

    If President-elect Donald J. Trump contacted you for a meeting, would you take it? Is any and every black person who acquiesces to meeting with Trump a sellout? Would you be a coon, would I be an Uncle Tom, for giving Trump my time? These questions have been floating around since a few of “the…

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    Jouelzy

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  • Obama Has Set a Record for Commuting Sentences, but Advocates Push for More Before Trump Takes Office

    President Barack Obama granted another round of commutations and pardons Monday, commuting the sentences of 153 people and pardoning 78 others. Among them is Kendrick Tyshawn Akins of Coppell, Texas, who was sentenced to life for conspiracy to manufacture, distribute or possess cocaine, cocaine base or marijuana. Obama commuted his sentence to 240 months of…

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    Allison Keyes

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  • Black Federal Workers in ‘Wait and See’ Mode Over Looming Trump Presidency

    Black federal workers in Washington, D.C., are used to working under Democratic administrations and Republican administrations, all while acknowledging that even if a president’s policies differ from their own, they have a duty to their agencies to keep the government humming along. But what if the new president is thought to be a racist, who…

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    Lawrence Ross

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  • Donald Trump, Racist-in-Chief: Here Are the 10 Most Racist Things He’s Done So Far

    We know that President-elect Trump is a racist—or, at the very least, racist-adjacent. Like no other before him, Trump won the 2016 presidential election because much of white America underestimated the level of white supremacy on which this country was founded. It is this supremacy that allowed Trump to claim that he didn’t know David…

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    Preston Mitchum

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  • Donald Trump’s Empathy Chip Is Missing, and That’s a Problem

    There’s a multitude of reasons that Donald Trump is not qualified to be president: He has zero foreign policy experience; he has repeatedly been accused of sexual assault; he has countless failed businesses and questionable business practices, and the temperament of an indignant 8-year-old. The list is endless. But for me, the reason is much…

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    The Root Staff

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  • Trump Has Threatened to Roll Back US Ties With Cuba, but Will He?

    Marla Recio Carbajal got her master’s degree in international business this year from the University of California, San Diego. But now she’s the founder and president of Havana Reverie, an upscale event-planning firm that caters to Americans visiting Cuba for everything from corporate events to weddings. She traveled from Havana to Washington, D.C., last week…

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    Allison Keyes

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