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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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  • Hey, Katrina Pierson: When It Comes to Utter Stupidity, That’s Donald Trump’s Job!

    In Soul Food, Big Mama had to come to the realization that all those Sunday dinners had led her to develop what many of us refer to as “the sugar,” and ultimately she had to submit to doctor’s orders to have her leg amputated. In Old Yeller, Travis realizes that after his beloved pet contracts…

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    Michael Arceneaux

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  • Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand White People

    After a year and a half of dog-whistling so loud that even Blue Dog Democrats held their ears, Republican nominee Donald Trump has switched gears. First he was going to “Make America great”; then he was going to “Make America safe”; and now he’s pitching “What have you got to lose?” to African-American and Latino…

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    Jason Johnson

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  • Some Advice for the Blacks Trying to Get Blacks to Vote for Donald Trump

    Last week Donald J. Trump, the present reigning champ of white male mediocrity, continued to benefit from the media’s bigotry of low expectations. Trump was largely celebrated for expressing “regret” over some of the offensive statements he’s made since the start of his presidential campaign. Of course, noting regret is not the same as an…

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    Michael Arceneaux

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  • Black Women Were Too Lazy to Find Work and 4 Other Myths of Welfare Reform

    Welfare reform is 20 years old. On Aug. 22, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, “ending welfare as we know it.” Strategically placed next to him for the photo was Lillie Harden, an African-American mother from Little Rock, Ark., who had spent two years on welfare but now had…

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    The Root Staff

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