The Root DC‘s Clinton Yates says that without the app, “one of the realities of being a brother is that hailing a cab is a nearly impossible task.” As a black man living in the city, I pray that the District doesn’t run Uber — the service that lets people reserve luxury-sedan rides via their…

The Root DC‘s Clinton Yates writes that he won’t spend time worrying about the recent incident in which students in blackface re-enacted a violent episode between Chris Brown and Rihanna because “there are just as many people out here representing us poorly without their faces painted.”  The examples are just too prevalent. Recently, reports surfaced of students…

The Root DC‘s Clinton Yates argues that the “blerd” label reinforces the ridiculous stereotype that black folks have nothing but cool to offer and that anything else is a departure from blackness. … [W]hile listening to NPR the other day (public radio nerd!) I came across something new to me: the black nerd. In the…

The Root DC‘s Clinton Yates says that the troubled comedian’s management company is doing him a disservice if it doesn’t end his tour right away and get him to the nearest available facility. Williams’s act has always revolved around pimping. His stage persona of drug use, sexual proclivities and racial observation has come to define…

Reflecting on the Connecticut school shooting, The Root DC‘s Clinton Yates argues that unraveling the culture of violence in the United States begins with making people understand that guns kill people. The Second Amendment is outdated, perversely interpreted and fashioned after an antiquated mind-set. The scariest part is that the alarmist bunker mentality that organizations…

The Root DC‘s Clinton Yates says that the annual acknowledgment of African-American contributions hasn’t lost its purpose, but it has lost its way. … And now that we’ve seen the United States’s first president of color sworn in for the second time and our first black gymnast win the women’s all-around competition at the Olympics,…

The Root DC‘s Clinton Yates says that he can’t wait to see what Shawn Carter puts his mind to when he finally sets the mic down for good. As a lifelong hip-hop fan, there are certain things that come with having been born in the 80s, being a kid in the 90s and as they…

It is incumbent upon Howard University’s administrators to be transparent following the abrupt resignation of theh school’s president, Sidney Ribeau, which comes at a time when Howard is struggling to survive financially, Clinton Yates writes at the Washington Post. On a sunny fall day following Howard University’s abrupt leadership change, much of the campus was still…