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Lawd, have mercy upon us! There’s not a religious bone in my body, but the field of Republican presidential candidates has me crying out to Jesus for relief. If the Creator intends to punish America for its multiple transgressions, it might be by inflicting one of these bozos upon us. That would truly be a…

Racists have officially lost their minds. In recent weeks, the venom spewed at President Barack Obama would leave one to believe that we are in the midst of a racist renaissance. “A dick,” “jackass,” “tar baby, “your boy” — you name it and the president has been called it. For some reason, some people are…

Sheryl Huggins Salomon is senior editor-at-large of The Root and a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based editorial consultant. Follow her on Twitter.

The New York Post is reporting that President Barack Obama traveled to Dover Air Force Base Tuesday to attend a ceremony honoring the returning bodies of 30 US service members killed when their helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan over the weekend. Two cargo planes — carrying the remains of the 22 Navy SEALs, three…

NEWS Jobs are Offered, and Thousands Turn Up The 4,000 job seekers who showed up at a Cleveland State University job fair didn’t need to watch the bloodletting on Wall Street Monday to know what they wanted: jobs. Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) hosted the fair, and afterward, she and other members of the Congressional Black…

So the Tea Party got what it wanted. The holdouts against the debt-limit deal indicated they didn’t care if the U.S. defaulted and couldn’t pay its bills. They didn’t believe Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s warnings that a credit default would be disastrous. And they didn’t want to give President Obama a victory. So they held…

The grandmother of a 13-year-old boy, whom she says was wrongfully shot and wounded by Chicago police officers, needs help obtaining legal assistance. Another man, who works with ex-offenders, simply wants help bridging the gap between grassroots organizers and African-American business owners and leaders, whom he calls “elitist Negroes.” The two were among hundreds of…

On July 30, at 3:00 a.m., five young, African-American lesbians were attacked outside the Columbia Heights Metro station in Washington, D.C. According to a police report filed by the victims, two men threatened them after one of the women declined their romantic advances by explaining that she was with her girlfriend. That girlfriend, Yazzmen Morse,…

By Ylan Q. Mui Black lawmakers are embarking on a monthlong campaign Monday to address the staggering unemployment rate among African Americans, an issue that has become a growing source of tension between members of the Congressional Black Caucus and the Obama administration. Lawmakers have met with the administration three times this year seeking support…