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Bernie Sanders, Ted Cruz Win Big in Wis.
Big night for the underdogs. With 42 delegates at stake on the Republican side, Ted Cruz has snatched the state of Wisconsin from GOP front-runner Donald Trump, while Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has beat Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, also winning Wisconsin, according to projections by NBC. With 34 percent of the precincts in as of…
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Super Tuesday 2: Donald Trump Prepares to Burn GOP to the Ground
Itâs the ides of March, but Donald Trump, cast as a bloviating, bellicose Julius Caesar in this political play, isnât facing his doom. Instead, to borrow from another bit of Caesarâs life, heâs crossing the Rubicon to victory, preparing to send his rivals scattering to the hinterlands of our republic to desperately plot a downfall…
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Super Tuesday Results: Clinton Sweeps the South Plus Mass.; Sanders Takes Colo., Vt., Okla. and Minn.
Updated Tuesday, March 2, 12:30 a.m. EST: Donald Trump is the apparent winner in Vermont, beating out Ohio Gov. John Kasich in a close race, according to the Associated Press. It is Trumpâs seventh Super Tuesday win. As of the time of publication, Trump had won Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia. Also winning…
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âItâs About Revolutionâ: Underground Gets Real About Escaping Slavery
Why another slavery narrative? One TV show cast is asking, âWhy not?â That was the sentiment of the stars, writers and producers of the new slavery-based TV show Underground, premiering March 9Â on WGN. The cast and crew, who were in Washington, D.C., last week to promote the series, spoke with The Root about the need…
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52 Vile, Racist Tweets 1 Writer Received From Trump Supporters
Editorâs note: This article contains social media posts that some may find offensive. It all started with a column in the Washington Post. On Feb. 21, Harvard professor Danielle Allen penned a piece entitled “The Moment of Truth: We Must Stop Trump.” It was a “prompt for the trolls,” she said, speaking to The Root,…
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Kanye West Doesnât Need Another Think Piece; He Needs Therapy
Kanye West doesnât need what Iâm about to write. Mostly because heâs not going to see it anyway. (Or read it. Or care.) But someone else who is going through a Kanye-esque moment might read it and finally get the help he or she needs, so here it goes. A long time ago, before I…
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Rep. John Lewis Wants to See Bernie Sandersâ Civil Rights Receipts
Rep. John Lewis, civil rights icon, lawmaker and Hillary Clinton supporter, intentionally or unintentionally called out Vermont Sen. Bernie Sandersâ civil rights bona fides Thursday. Lewis, who was among several members of the Congressional Black Caucus to endorse Clintonâs presidential bid, was asked whether Sandersâ involvement in the civil rights movement swayed him. It did…
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BeyoncĂ© Drops âFormationâ for the People, the Black People
Well, that was black. Cornbread and collard greens black. âHot sauce in my bagâ black. Southern black. Dirty South black. Your grandma telling you to go cut down a switch black. Did you know BeyoncĂ©Â was black? If you didnât know, if you thought she was some ethereal, raceless, colorless transformative nymph who could doo-wop pop…
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Hey, PWIs! Diversity Is Great, but Inclusion Is Better
In Lawrence Rossâ new book, Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on Americaâs Campuses, he highlights Americaâs little mythology problem. âFor the past 400 years, African Americans tried to assist white Americans in recording a memory of racism, often to no avail,â Ross writes. âWhite America clings stubbornly to a collective narrative, what Gore…
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The Real Housewives of Potomac Is a Show That âBravelyâ Asks, âWho Is Black in America?â
A long time ago, back when everyone I knew personally was black and my world was much smaller, everyone was embarrassingly blunt about their colorism because they were 9 years old and had no filters. I knew the girls who were bullied because they were dark. I knew the girls who were bullied because they…
