We've seen white hipsters for years now—but what makes a "blipster" tick? The Root takes a look at blipster style throughout history.
Hip-hop has run out of ideas. And if you need proof, consider that Lil Wayne’s doing a rock album.
TV on the Radio's powerful new release can give us a new faith in music.
Oprah Winfrey recently announced plans for retirement in 2011. The talk show host may have a stronghold on white, suburban housewives, but The Root contributors remember moments when Oprah kept it real—black.
Forty years ago, Haywood became the first player to leave college early and go to the pros—proving that young players got game, too.
The murder of 5-year-old Shaniya Davis highlights a disturbing and growing trend in the U.S.: the trafficking of young girls into sexual slavery.
When it comes to appointing federal judges, President Obama shouldn’t try to play center. Centrist judges will not balance judges on the right. Left balances right.
Yinka Shonibare MBE’s career retrospective at the Smithsonian just goes to show how strange things get when the empire strikes black.
A new exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian traces black-Native American relations from the 1500s to the present.
During the Bush administration, 13,999 racial discrimination cases were swept under the rug at the Agriculture Department. What will Secretary Tom Vilsack do about it?
Def Jam is 25. "Rapper’s Delight" is 30. And Rakim is 41. But with his latest album, The Seventh Seal, hip-hop heads can remember the best of the golden age.
Sammy Sosa’s new vampire complexion is a jarring reminder that, from the Dominican Republic to Dakar to New Delhi, white is still right, yellow is still mellow and if you’re black, get back.
