The world’s fastest man extended his speedy 6-foot frame to its fullest on Sunday in a 4×100-meter relay race and led his Jamaican team to a win in world record time. On Saturday, Usain Bolt confirmed his dominance of the sprints when he picked up a gold medal in the 200 meters at the 13th…

It’s not like us to gush at The Root, but we can’t resist it this one time. Beyoncé Knowles used the red carpet for Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards to proclaim that she and husband Jay-Z are with child. “I have a surprise!” she teased as she posed in a scarlet Lanvin gown with…

If silence is golden, maybe blabbing is platinum. Two of the men who received out-of-court settlement payments for their sexual-coercion lawsuit against Bishop Eddie Long and suburban Atlanta’s New Birth Missionary Baptist Church appear willing to risk their civil-lawsuit awards in order to speak out. Spencer LeGrande and Jamal Parris — along with other men…

The civil rights community has lost Howard Creecy Jr., the Atlanta pastor who stepped up to lead the Southern Christian Leadership Conference after Bernice King — daughter of SCLC co-founder Martin Luther King Jr. — declined to lead the civil rights organization (link). The Associated Press received confirmation from the Atlanta-based civil rights organization’s national…

One of the four young men who accused Bishop Eddie Long of sexual coercion has emerged from the shadows in the wake of an out-of-court settlement of the case. MyFoxAtlanta TV news is reporting that Jamal Parris, 24, was arrested this week in Miami and charged with felony drug possession with intent to distribute, as…

The scandalized New Birth Missionary Baptist Church has just issued a press release stating that the marriage between Bishop Eddie Long and his wife, Vanessa, remains intact. All of Atlanta’s major news outlets are now broadcasting an official denial from the church about strife between the spouses, who married in 1990. Last month the mega-church…

In one of the worst-possible cases of black-on-black crime imaginable, a suburban Atlanta woman has been convicted for enslaving two young women from Nigeria. It reportedly took a federal jury just over an hour on June 10 to find Bidemi Bello, 41, guilty of luring women into bondage after promising them attractive employment as nannies…

If all goes according to plan, critics won’t have ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to kick around much longer. Instead, according to the Associated Press, the scandal-plagued politician hopes to rebrand himself as a guru for those seeking public office. Unlike infamous former Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry, Kilpatrick doesn’t plan a return to any campaign…

Bernice King, the youngest daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., is expected to resign her post as an elder minister at Lithonia, Ga.’s New Birth Missionary Baptist Church on Tuesday in the wake of a sexual-coercion scandal involving Bishop Eddie Long, according to news reports. Last Friday it was announced that Long had reached an out-of-court…

A sizable collection of pornographic material was among the array of evidence seized during the raid that resulted in terrorist leader Osama bin Laden’s death in Pakistan. According to Reuters, anonymous U.S. officials confirmed that Navy SEALS who conducted the “capture or kill” operation seized a box that was filled with “modern, electronically recorded video”…