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DES MOINES, IOWA—Greetings from the Hawkeye State! The Root will be here in the capital covering the caucuses live…

IOWA CITY, IOWA—Bruce Teague and Mazahir Salih are two unique representations of Iowa’s political power: a…

DES MOINES, IOWA—Barbara Smith, founding member of the black feminist Combahee River Collective that coined the term…

During the 1976 presidential election, Jimmy Carter was a little-known governor from Georgia with faint name…

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For the past two years, Diamond Stylz and her podcast co-hosts Mia Sloan and Zahir Alexander have been providing…

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