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Deputy Editor of TheRoot.com

Terence Samuel is deputy editor of TheRoot.com, an online magazine aimed at African-American readers. Samuel is a former senior editor at U.S. News and World Report and was once a New York-based national correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He has been the director of news programming at AOL Black Voices and is a political columnist for the online edition of The American Prospect, where he has written mostly about Congress.

From 2000 to 2005, he was the chief congressional correspondent for U.S. News, where he covered the historic 50-50 Senate of 2000, the Jim Jeffords defection, the demise of Trent Lott and the dissolution of the Republican Revolution. He has appeared on PBS's Washington Week, “Hardball” on MSNBC, CNN International and Fox News, as well as on international media outlets including the BBC and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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	Deputy Editor of TheRoot.com Terence Samuel is deputy editor of TheRoot.com, an online magazine aimed at African-American readers. Samuel is a former senior editor at U.S. News and World Report and was once a New York-based national correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He has been the director of news programming at AOL Black Voices and is a political columnist for the online edition of The American Prospect, where he has written mostly about Congress. From 2000 to 2005, he was the chief congressional correspondent for U.S. News, where he covered the historic 50-50 Senate of 2000, the Jim Jeffords defection, the demise of Trent Lott and the dissolution of the Republican Revolution. He has appeared on PBS's Washington Week, “Hardball” on MSNBC, CNN International and Fox News, as well as on international media outlets including the BBC and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.