This is by far one of the strangest weeks in the history of The Root Presidential Black Power Rankings. We had a…
The Root 2020 Presidential Black Power Rankings take a one-week snapshot of the campaign season and imagine, using ju…
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HOUSTON—Will Kamala Harris drag Joe Biden up to high heaven before her colored brethren at Texas Southern…
We made it. After eight full weeks of Twitter spats, campaign gossip, polls and memes, we’ve reached our first bye…
We’re still struggling to reconcile historic trauma with the black experience in America. After years of systemic…
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Beto Goes Blue, Warren Wilts and Harris Goes O.G. AG: 2020 Presidential Black Power Rankings, Week 6
Mass shootings hit in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas; the stock market crashes; and Toni Morrison passes away. Why…
Before you read The Root’s 2020 Presidential Black Power Rankings for Week 5, we want you to close your eyes and use…
DETROIT—Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was supposed to come to Detroit and prove to this mostly black city why its…
DETROIT—Here in the Motor City, locals are looking for Democratic candidates to prove one thing: Can you beat Donald…
This week’s Root 2020 Presidential Black Power Rankings is full of surprises. We have a new No. 1 after several…
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren raised $19.1 million in campaign cash over the past three…
Welcome back to The Root’s 2020 Presidential Black Power Rankings, where our select committee of activists,…
U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) came for Vice President Joe Biden’s neck Thursday night over his lack of support…
Welcome to The Root’s Black Power Rankings, where we assess the eleventy-billion Democrats currently running for the…
Through the early days of the 2020 presidential campaign, Pete Buttigieg, Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has had…
With more than 20 (at last count) Democrats in the running to win the party’s presidential nomination, it’s probably…
Americans know a mediocre thing when they see one, and they’re warming up to warming up 2015’s leftovers for the…
President Trump is in bed with Fox News, so he’s jealous and showing it because Fox News keeps pretending they’re…