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  • The Swing State Strikes Out: Cleveland Loses the World Series and Ohio Politics May Never Be the Same

    The Cleveland Indians lost the World Series Wednesday to the Chicago Cubs, blowing a seemingly insurmountable 3-1 series lead. Even if you don’t like baseball, the game was a classic. Game-saving home runs, questionable manager decisions, a “God Hates Cleveland”-inspired, momentum-killing rain delay and extra innings that ran until almost 1 a.m. Of course, there…

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    Jason Johnson

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  • The Blame Game Has Already Started: The Myth of the Depressed Black Turnout

    Apparently, the fate of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, if not the American republic, falls on the shoulders of African-American voters. This week, CNN rang the alarm bells with an article stating that the black vote was declining, with 24 million early votes cast. Politico followed suit with a story about how weak African-American turnout in Florida…

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    Jason Johnson

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  • 4 Reasons Not #VotingWhileBlack Is Dangerous

    Parental discretion is advised, but imagine this a few months from now: the pained looks of fake composure and shock as the first black president, along with his illustrious first lady, stomach an inaugural ceremony for a guy who erected his white nationalist political empire on the false claim that said black president was born…

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    Charles D. Ellison

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  • Really, CNN? You're Hot With Donna Brazile, but Cool With Corey Lewandowski Being on Trump's Payroll?

    Donna Brazile responded to headlines regarding her resignation from CNN—in light of leaked emails showing her providing the Hillary Clinton campaign with debate questions—in familiar, black-auntie fashion. Brazile quoted Michelle Obama’s “When they go low, we go high.” She invoked Martin Luther King Jr. She thanked people for their prayers, in some instances, in a…

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    Michael Arceneaux

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  • 8 Years a President: Thoughts on 2 Terms of a Black President and Black First Family  

    It’s a tall task to assess the entirety of President Barack Obama’s two terms in office, to cull an ultimate judgment from all the success and missteps of his administration, and then measure that against the unprecedented obstructions it faced. One can point to the decline in deficit and the growth of gross domestic product,…

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    The Root Staff

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  • All That 'Rigged' Talk Overshadows the Very Real and Active Suppression of Black Votes

    Frantically saving himself from the rat-a-tat of queries from skeptical black journalists at a rushed “off record” session at the GOP headquarters months ago, Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus dropped the only mic he could think of to shut up the crowd: “I used to work for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.” Many in…

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    Charles D. Ellison

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  • Exclusive: Hillary Clinton Has Plan for HBCUs and Education. Trump? Not So Much, She Says

    This election may be the most important of our lifetimes. It will determine whether we build on President Barack Obama’s legacy to create a more just and equitable society, or let all the progress we’ve made get ripped away. Every issue we care about is effectively on the ballot. That includes education. I believe it’s…

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    The Root Staff

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  • Engaging Black Millennials 101

    The narrative that black millennials aren’t enthusiastic about the 2016 election is false. We understand the power of voting. We know what’s at stake for black communities. We understand the magnitude of the election. We are not ignorant of our history of struggle against systemic oppression and institutional racism. What we are is frustrated and…

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    The Root Staff

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  • Obama and the Congressional Black Caucus: Allies and Foes

    “If Bill Clinton had been in the White House and had failed to address this problem, we probably would be marching on the White House. There is a less-volatile reaction in the CBC because nobody wants to do anything that would empower the people who hate the president.” —Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), former chairman of…

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    Lauren Victoria Burke

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  • FBI Director James Comey Manufactures an October Surprise for Hillary Clinton

    America had such nice plans for the weekend. Most people were getting ready for some World Series baseball, looking through Party City for that last slutty Ninja Turtle costume, maybe even spending a few hours in line for early voting. The last thing most Americans expected this Friday afternoon was a shameless unprofessional and utterly…

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    Jason Johnson

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