Newark Mayor Cory Booker Tops The Root 100

The Root has released its list of the 100 most influential African-Americans under the age of 45. The Root 100 includes a wide range of personalities including politicians, entertainers, and business execs.

“To identify and rank The Root 100, we developed a formula that defines influence as the marriage of reach and substance,” said Omar Wasow, contributing editor for The Root who devised the ranking formula. More detail about that is here. This is the first year that the list was ranked, but the third year for the list.

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