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  • President Obama Grants 79 More Commutations to Nonviolent Drug Offenders

    President Barack Obama granted 79 more commutations Tuesday, bringing his total to more than 1,000 during his time in office, the Washington Post reports. The president has granted commutations to more prisoners, the majority of whom were nonviolent drug offenders, than the last 11 presidents combined. Obama has committed to using the tools at his…

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    Monique Judge

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  • Trump Effect: Some NBA Players Think Champs Won't Want to Visit the White House

    On Thursday, President Barack Obama welcomed 2016 NBA champions the Cleveland Cavaliers to the White House. While the team and the president reportedly avoided politics, a few folks said they believe that the Cavs may be the last team to visit the White House as long as President-elect Donald Trump is in office. According to…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • Why I'm Comfortable Being an Angry Black Man

    I was first called an angry black man while a student in college. We were in African-American History, and our professor, a white member of Omega Psi Phi (I say this only because in all my years of Greekdom, I have never come across another old-head Omega who was white; I can only imagine what…

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    Lawrence Ware

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  • #NoDAPL: Obama Says Army Corps Is Considering Rerouting Dakota Access Pipeline

    As Native American groups continue to protest the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline in Cannon Ball, N.D., President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the Army Corps is considering ways to “reroute” the pipeline, according to an interview with NowThis, NPR reports. The $3.8 billion, nearly 1,200-mile pipeline is expected to cross under a section…

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    Monique Judge

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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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  • President Obama Grants Another 98 Commutations for October

    President Barack Obama made a commitment to use his clemency authority through the remainder of his time in office, and on Thursday he honored that commitment by granting another 98 commutations. Combined with the 102 commutations he granted at the beginning of October, that brings his total for the month to 200, and his total…

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    Monique Judge

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  • President Obama Lifts All Limits on Cuban Cigars and Rum

    Time to throw up your Cohibas! The Obama administration announced Friday new measures to further ease trade, travel and financial restrictions on Cuba as President Barack Obama seeks to make open relations with the island nation “irreversible” before he leaves office, Reuters reports. “Today, I approved a Presidential Policy Directive that takes another major step forward…

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    The Root Staff

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  • Michelle Obama Is The Best Thing About America

    A few weeks from now, the country will decide if Donald Trump — a unabashed bigot, racist, misogynist, xenophobe, charlatan, and chickenhawk — will be our next President; the person we choose to be America’s representative to the rest of the world; essentially the most important motherfucker on Earth. He will probably (hopefully) lose the election.…

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    Damon Young

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  • For Colored Folk Who Have Considered Suicide When This Election Was Too Much

    There is not a lot of joy this election season. Everyone knows that we probably won’t live to see another ridiculously upbeat campaign season like 2008, when it was literally “cool” to go out and vote for then-Sen. Barack Obama, but 2016 has been an emotional letdown nonetheless. The choice between Hillary Clinton, with her…

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    Jason Johnson

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  • Update: Hurricane Matthew Leaves at Least 283 Dead in Haiti, Heads Toward Fla. 

    Updated Thursday, Oct. 6, 9 p.m. EDT: The New York Times is reporting that the death toll in Haiti is at least 283, after officials there drastically raised the number following lower initial reports. They say the number of deaths is likely to rise as international organizations begin to reach the worst-affected areas of the country. Earlier:…

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    The Root Staff

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