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With the 2020 presidential elections less than 80 days away, Kanye West has now qualified to appear on Utah’s ballot this November.  Running under a third party, reportedly confirmed as the Birthday Party, Utah’s State Elections Director Justin Lee says that the Yeezus rapper and his campaign successfully gathered the …

0 Former President Barack Obama (Image: Flickr/Gage Skidmore) The Trump administration has come under heavy scrutiny as the United States Postal Service (USPS) continues to pull back on services and workers ahead of the upcoming election where mail-in ballots will play an important role in light of the current COVID-19, …

Cook County State Attorney Kim Foxx is accused of ‘abuses’ in the Jussie Smollett case, according to Special Prosecutor Dan Webb. According to ABC, in a report released on Monday, Webb found evidence of “substantial abuses of discretion and operational failures” from Foxx’s office “in prosecuting and resolving the initial …

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Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices (2020)Photo: Courtesy of Netflix It’s Lit!It’s Lit!Where all things literary live on The Root Turn the page and get into this news! Netflix has announced it will debut Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices, a new young children and family series hosted by author and activist Marley Dias! …

During last year’s Democratic primary, former Saturday Night Live star Maya Rudolph returned to the popular show for her hilarious Senator Kamala Harris impressions.  Now, it appears Rudolph might be a fixture on the show, at least until the general election in November and, hopefully, for the next four to eight years.  …

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Illustrations by Charlotte Fos A blush-colored square filled with the all-caps advice SHOW UP EVERY DAY FOR SOMETHING YOU BELIEVE IN belongs to one of the least remarkable categories of Instagram content: visually unchallenging, impossible to disagree with, pink. Even if people do not exactly know how to show up …

Season seven of Black-ish is scheduled to premiere in the fall  and Tracee Ellis Ross and Anthony Anderson recently opened up about what fans can expect. During  Deadline’s Contenders Television: The Nominees all-day event, Ross revealed the cast recently sat down for their first table read via Zoom. “There’s a …

Former First Lady Michelle Obama anchored the opening night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention by sending a clear message that President Donald Trump is “clearly in over his head,” that defeating him is of tantamount importance and that Democratic candidate Joe Biden “has served this nation his entire life …