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  • Omarosa Manigault Is in Donald Trump's Army, but Who Is She Fighting For?

    On Tuesday, a typical, but no less still unnecessarily combative, Omarosa Manigault spoke with MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts about her role in the orgy of audacious idiocy and political amateurism known as the Donald J. Trump for President campaign. As Omarosa spoke very seriously about an unserious person, I noticed that she was listed as the…

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    Michael Arceneaux

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  • Politricks: Hillary Clinton Leans Into Her White Womanhood; Obama Had to Transcend Race

    Hillary Clinton has officially secured enough delegates to become the presumptive Democratic nominee for president. Many celebrated this as proof of progress in a society that has made violence against women and their exclusion from any important decision-making processes defining features. Following in the footsteps of President Barack Obama, America’s first black commander in chief, would be…

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    The Root Staff

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  • It’s Not Now, nor Was It Ever, President Obama’s Job to Cure Racism

    In the coming weeks and months and, surely, the years after President Barack Obama actually leaves office, much time will be spent examining his political legacy from all angles. Already, writers like me are examining the Obama record on LGBT issues, while others concentrate on his record on the economy, foreign policy and the environment.…

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    Michael Arceneaux

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  • Michelle Obama’s Advice for Women: ‘Get to Know Ourselves’

    Woman, know thyself. That was the advice first lady Michelle Obama had for women as she spoke with Oprah Winfrey during the White House’s first United State of Women summit this week. During an afternoon session at the Washington Convention Center, Oprah Winfrey talked to the first lady about issues of self-esteem, saying, “I’ve interviewed thousands…

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    Lauren Victoria Burke

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  • Weiner: The Saddest Sex Scandal of Them All

    With a name like Anthony Weiner, a sex scandal was bound to happen.  At least that was the reaction of most Americans to the Weiner sex debacle in 2011 when New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner came to national attention as the center of America’s first social media sex scandal. However, in the new Sundance…

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    Jason Johnson

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  • ‘1st Gay President’? No. But Is Barack Obama an LGBT Ally? A Resounding Yes

    Far too often, we are collectively thrilled with people conveying basic human decency or, in other cases, simply acknowledging the marginalized in ways typically not done by anyone who is a part of the majority. When I was a child, of all things I remember about Bill Clinton, one that sticks out most is this…

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    Michael Arceneaux

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  • It Finally Happened: Donald Trump Jumped the Shark

    You heard it here first: Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has officially jumped the shark. Or, if you want to put it in more modern terms, his political campaign has “pulled a Richonne” or “put Cookie in a cage.” No matter how you put it, when Trump loses to Hillary Clinton in the November election, we…

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    Jason Johnson

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  • Frances O. Thompson, 1st African-American Councilwoman of Hudson County, NJ, Dead at 74

    Hudson County, N.J.’s first African-American councilwoman, Frances O. Thompson, died Sunday after battling cancer, NJ.com reports. She was 74. Thompson, who was director of the Hudson County Office of Minority and Women Business Enterprise, was first pushed into the public arena in 1985 after she was elected to represent Ward F as councilwoman, making her…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Bill Clinton Speaking at Muhammad Ali’s Funeral Is the Corporate Co-Optation of an Icon

    In life, and now in death, Muhammad Ali cut a swashbuckling, larger-than-life figure. Three days of celebration for Ali will culminate in a public funeral service led by former President Bill Clinton on Friday in Louisville, Ky., representing an ironic high point in the nation’s relationship with black radicalism. A black power icon and anti-war…

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    The Root Staff

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  • 5 Things We Know Obama and Bernie Sanders Didn’t Talk About at Their White House Meeting

    Bernie Sanders and President Barack Obama held a meeting in the White House Thursday morning that virtually signaled the end of Sanders’ campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. After Sanders’ crushing defeat in Tuesday’s primaries, especially California’s, the White House meeting was the first in a likely series of talks to ease tensions and egos…

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    Jason Johnson

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