Auntie Gladys, not like this.

Sherrell Dorsey is a data and technology journalist who is putting more black techies on the map. The Root talked to Dorsey at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, where she delivered a keynote discussion about the rise of “smart” cities. Dorsey also created “The Plug” and “BLKTECHCLT,” platforms…

When was the first time you realized your black mama was a superhero?

Have you ever noticed how when Donald Trump is on camera talking, a whole lot of words are coming out of his mouth, but none of them are really making sense?

The mayor of a Texas town and the mayor pro-tem announced they were both “becoming” unemployed after they were accused of using more than $1,000 of the city’s funds to attend Michelle Obama’s book tour, prompting some residents of the north Texas town to defend the officials with the untested legal defense of:

A new California law that went into effect on Jan. 1 makes it possible for the public to get records on law enforcement officers that up until now were kept secret by their departments. Now that those agencies are required to give that information up, the American Civil Liberties Union is taking full…

When Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) sent the president a note telling him to stick his State of the Union speech in a bottle and throw that shit in the Potomac, she had to expect that something was coming. The president has shown that he doesn’t play kindly when people put him in his place.

Again.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of the House of Congress, The Unscathed, Queen of the Bronx, Torcher of Twitter, Breaker of Boat Shoes, and Mother of Dragging, just made her inaugural speech on the House floor and torched President Trump over his ongoing government shutdown to get money for the wall that Mexico was…

A Georgia middle school is moving forward with its suspension of a black honor roll student who unintentionally used a counterfeit $20 to pay for his lunch last week. Christian Philon, a 12-year-old Austin Road Middle School student, received the fake bill from his parents, who in turn received it as change from a…

If you live under a (non-cocaine) rock, there’s a better than 100 percent chance that you were confused as to why Soulja Boy (is it still Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em?) was all over your social media timelines on Wednesday. It is the year of our lord 2019—why in West Hell would that lil “Superman dat ho” nigga be taking up…

Michelle Obama is many things: mother, wife, daughter, sister, former forever first lady, record-breaking bestselling author, #bodygoals and fictional mentor/best friend/auntie/big sister in the heads of more folks than she can probably imagine. And today, our inspirational icon turns 55, with plenty of reasons to…

Before reading this any further, allow me to inform you that this is not one of those cases that can be whitesplained away by people who purchase their motor oil and clothing from the same place. It wasn’t a “simple misunderstanding.” These people were not “set in their ways.” These were old-school, “we don’t like negr…

Last November, a lawsuit was filed that alleged General Motors’ transmission plant in Toledo, Ohio had become a hotbed of racism. After enduring nooses hung in public spaces and “whites only” bathroom signs, several black workers teamed up to sue GM. Now, more information has come to light as former supervisors allege…