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Mike Tyson Goes From Feared Heavyweight to Trump’s Hype Man, and Fans Aren’t Letting Him Live Down His Fall to Political ‘Prop’
Mike Tyson has bragged about his political friendship since meeting Donald Trump in the 1980s, when both men gave women...
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The Root’s Best Political Stories From Week of April 11
Photo: Win McNamee (Getty Images)If we’re keeping a list of worrisome moves by President Donald Trump, his latest might crawl...
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HBCU News – Lionel Richie undergoes heart procedure, will ‘take some time off’
Lionel Richie underwent a heart procedure leading to the postponement of at least three shows and casting doubt on an...
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Why HBCUs are not in the game
When EA Sports’ long-awaited NCAA Football series returns with College Football 26, there is one glaring omission. Historically Black Colleges...
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Morgan State football is doing something it hasn’t done in nearly two decades. And the HBCU program in Baltimore is finding...
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Mike Tyson has bragged about his political friendship since meeting Donald Trump in the 1980s, when both men gave women...
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One of the seven men named in the lawsuit filed by a former Cornell University student who alleges that she...
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HOUSTON, Texas — Mississippi Valley State was picked to finish last in the Southwestern Athletic Conference preseason standings. Six games...
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