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2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner: The Red Carpet
The Root was on the red carpet at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and Anji Corley chatted with Gayle King, Russell Simmons, Cee-Lo and the butt of the night’s jokes — Donald Trump himself. See what he had to say when asked if he really has designs on Obama’s job.
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Black in Latin America: Cuba's Racism Problem
Institutional racism in Cuba has been outlawed for decades, but in this installment of The Root Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates’ PBS special, it’s clear that “racism of the heart” is still very much alive. Find out how the struggle against it is being waged under a system in which, as Gates notes, “Declaring that racism…
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Melvin Van Peebles: The Baadasssss Interview
In 1971, filmmaker-musician-dramatist-commodities trader Melvin Van Peebles launched a movie revolution with his über-low-budget, highly political indie flick, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song. Sweetback was the largest-grossing independent film of its time, featuring cinema’s first ghetto hero, played by Van Peebles himself. Today he’s written a graphic novel, Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-Itchyfooted Mutha, and plays regular…
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Black in Latin America: Peru, Mexico, Haiti and Santo Domingo
More blacks were transported as slaves to Mexico and Peru than to the United States. Afro-Peruvians have staged a cultural revival, but Afro-Mexicans are much more reticent about their origins. Haitians are proudly black, but brown-skinned Dominicans prefer the term “Indio.” These are just a few of the findings in Black in Latin America, the new…
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Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
