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  • Movement for Black Lives Coalition Lobbies on Capitol Hill 

    After all the criticism around “not having a plan” or specific demands, black millennial activists landed on Capitol Hill Wednesday morning to further the work laid out clearly in the Vision for Black Lives, a detailed plan of action created in collaboration with multiple social-justice organizations and community advocacy groups. The young freedom fighters and policy influencers—primarily…

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    Lauren Victoria Burke

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  • CBC Week: Black People Are Hurt by Climate Change, but It’s Not on the Agenda

    It’s no secret: The climate is changing, and black communities are on the front lines. From the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans to the Rockaways in New York City and westward to San Francisco’s East Bay, African Americans are bearing the brunt of climate impacts. Black people contribute much less to the problem (pdf)…

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    The Root Staff

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  • What's Really in Hillary Clinton's Health Report?

    Speculation about Hillary Clinton’s health has once again sparked contentious debate across the political aisle since the Democratic presidential nominee collapsed after, aides say, overheating from dehydration during a memorial service to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Her doctor, Lisa Bardack, director of internal medicine at Mount Sinai Health System at CareMount Medical, released…

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    Kirsten West Savali

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  • As the Race Tightens, Hillary Clinton Knows #BlackVotesMatter

    The week after Labor Day is the official beginning of the campaign to be president of the United States of America. Commercials and news coverage will fool you into thinking that the campaign has been going on for the last two years, but effectively, most Americans don’t tune in until the last burger has been…

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    Jason Johnson

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  • Obama Cancels Meeting With Philippine President After Being Called 'Son of a Bitch'

    President Barack Obama canceled a meeting with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte after Duterte called him a “son of a bitch,” Reuters reports. According to CNN, the White House had said that Obama planned to ask Duterte about his country’s handling of drug dealers, which has included a wave of extrajudicial killings. Duterte slammed Obama on…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • ‘I Wanted to Be a Part of History’: What It Means to Work for the 1st Black President

    When he was a teenager, Gregory Lorjuste didn’t dream of working in the White House someday. “Politics wasn’t discussed at our kitchen table when I was growing up,” he said in a recent interview. “We talked about work and putting food on the table.” Until the latter years of high school, he didn’t have college…

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    The Root Staff

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  • Making Democracy the Real Promise of Labor Day for All Workers

    Labor Day is not a day off. It is a day on. A day to focus our collective efforts on the American dream of a safe place to live, work and raise a family in dignity. The democratic dream of fair opportunity is the promise of America I dreamed of when I fled from oppression…

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    The Root Staff

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  • Donna Brazile: Stronger Together on Labor Day

    After serving in the military overseas, my father returned home and worked in construction to support our family. But when an accident with a construction crane left him with a severely injured back, it took him a year and a half to recover—without workers’ compensation. As one of his nine children, I remember how badly…

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    The Root Staff

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  • Donald Trump Meets With Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, and the Joke Is on All of Us

    You could not come up with a more desperate pair of political leaders than GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. Trump has dug himself into a huge hole in the polls, and his pivot to African Americans has all the skill and grace of the new guy at the YMCA.…

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    Jason Johnson

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  • Donald Trump’s Factory of Ignorant Black Surrogates

    So you’re chilling on the couch, sipping on a cold glass of red Kool-Aid, and you decide to turn on cable news. Maybe it’s MSNBC, CNN or, God forbid, Fox News, but all you want is an honest discussion of the presidential election. Just a bit of information you can repurpose as a Facebook post…

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    Lawrence Ross

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