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  • #2017WeMadeIt: What The Root’s Top 25 Stories of the Year Say About 2017

    #2017WeMadeIt: What The Root’s Top 25 Stories of the Year Say About 2017

    Donald Trump became president. White supremacy became normalized. Black women had to strap on their work boots to prevent an alleged pedophile from becoming a U.S. senator. We discovered that men everywhere were sexually harassing women. The Atlanta Falcons blew a 25-point halftime lead in the Super Bowl … Let’s face it: 2017 sucked. And…