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  • Henry Louis Gates Jr. Receives duPont Award for The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

    The Root’s editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., was one of 14 recipients Tuesday night of an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, with Gates honored for his PBS series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. The six-part documentary explores the evolution of the African-American people, as well as the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies,…

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  • Watch: Director Ava DuVernay and The Root Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates Jr. Discuss Selma

    Selma director Ava DuVernay is over the Academy Awards snub heard ’round the world. In fact, the reaction she gave to The Root’s editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., following a screening of her movie, which charts Martin Luther King Jr.’s march for equal voting rights, was, “So what.” She admitted to the Sommerville, Mass., crowd…

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  • Police Looking for 3 White Men Who Reportedly Set Homeless Black Man on Fire 

    Ventura, Calif., police are looking for three white men who reportedly poured lighter fluid on a homeless African-American man and set him ablaze.  According to ABC 7 Los Angeles, around 11 p.m. Saturday, the three men approached John Frazier, 58, who was sleeping inside a sleeping bag in Ventura’s Pierpont neighborhood. The men reportedly poured lighter…

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  • Off-Duty, Drunken Ky. Cop Found Not Guilty in Shooting of Unarmed Man

    Chauncey Carthan, a former detective with the Louisville Metro Police in Kentucky, had been drinking brandy at a friend’s house Sept. 4, 2012, before he hit the road in his unmarked police car. During his drive, he spotted a speeding Ishmael Gough, 24, and decided to pull him over. According to reports, the situation at that stop…

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  • Who’s Joining the First Lady for the State of the Union Address? 

    On Tuesday the president will deliver his State of the Union address, and some special guests will have a front-row seat from first lady Michelle Obama’s box. The White House released the invite-only list on Monday; the special invited guests include the Maryland Senate majority leader, a mother saved by surgery received through the Affordable…

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  • CBS Suspends Sports Analyst Greg Anthony After Arrest

    Updated Sunday, Jan. 18, 9:16 a.m. EST: CBS has suspended sports basketball analyst Greg Anthony indefinitely, a representative said Saturday, a day after he was arrested in Washington, D.C., on a charge of soliciting prostitution, according to Reuters. “Greg Anthony will not be working again for CBS this season,” the rep said in an email.…

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  • Judge Tells Ga. Mom of 5 She Can’t See Her 2 Surviving Kids After Fire Kills 3

    A Georgia woman charged with three counts of felony murder and five counts of cruelty to children has been ordered to stay away from her two surviving children while she awaits her fate. Prosecutor Mirna Andrews argued that on Dec. 12, Rockell Coleman, 28, left her kids alone while she went to dinner with friends.…

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  • Woman Shocked to See Brother’s Mug Shot Used as Police Target Practice

    The North Miami Beach, Fla., Police Department is under fire after a woman discovered that not only were police using actual mug shots of African-American men as shooting targets at a firing range, but one of the men in the photos, bearing bullet holes from a police pistol, was the woman’s brother. On Saturday, Sgt.…

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  • Selma’s Oscar Snub a Complete Injustice

    Academy Award nominations were announced Thursday morning, and noticeably absent from almost every major category was the civil rights biopic Selma, which tells the story of Martin Luther King Jr.’s march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., for equal voting rights. It has been adored by movie critics and moviegoers alike—not to mention the grassroots movement…

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  • It’s On, Floyd: Manny Pacquiao Agrees to Terms to Fight Mayweather

    The mega-fight that the world has been waiting for inches closer to becoming a reality now that Manny “Pacquiao and his promoter Top Rank have agreed to terms for a May 2 bout” with Floyd Mayweather Jr., according to ESPN.com. The deal is still being hammered out, ESPN notes, and Mayweather has not yet agreed…

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