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  • Cory Booker for the Win: NJ Senator Introduces Bill to Legalize Weed Nationwide

    If anyone can beat the evil Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his hatred for marijuana, it’s the young, charming Democratic senator from New Jersey, Cory Booker. On Tuesday, Booker introduced, via Facebook Live, legislation to legalize marijuana on a federal level. Booker’s bill would decriminalize marijuana as a Schedule I drug and retroactively remove the…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 1, 2017
  • Please, Black Jesus, Let This Be True: Is Former Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick Eyeing a 2020 Run for the White House? 

    It sounds as if the team of former President—and black America’s president on a rent-to-own basis—Barack Obama is pushing for Obama’s friend former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick to run for president in 2020. According to Politico, Obama and close adviser Valerie Jarrett have encouraged Patrick to consider a run for office. Jarrett was also quoted as…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 1, 2017
  • 3 Possible Reasons Anthony Scaramucci Mane Sleeps With the Fishes

    It was a glorious 10 days. In only 10 days at the White House as the communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, aka Scaramucci Mane, took over for Sean “Spicy Facts” Spicer (who, assuming that big baby Jesus is listening, could be back any day); got Reince Priebus fired; and then was subsequently fired by his replacement.…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 1, 2017
  • RIP, Anthony Scaramucci Mane: July 2017-July 2017

    RIP, Anthony Scaramucci Mane: July 2017-July 2017

    Anthony Scaramucci, aka Scaramucci Mane, aka Mucci Mane—the Wall Street businessman who had an embattled first week as the White House communications director—is now out of the job. Mucci Mane, who replaced White House press secretary Sean Spicer and was instrumental in the firing of White House chief of staff (and reported Mucci Mane nemesis)…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    July 31, 2017
  • Baltimore Ravens Owner Asks Man Accused of Double Murder Whether He Should Sign Colin Kaepernick

    Baltimore Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti said Sunday that the team is still weighing its options at quarterback; he mentioned winning, and then he mentioned Colin Kaepernick. “We do want to win games, and I’m not sure he is going to help us do that,” Bisciotti said of Kaepernick, ESPN reports. “We’re monitoring Joe [Flacco and…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    July 31, 2017
  • Sweep the Nachos: Chris Christie Couldn’t Put His Food Down Before He Confronted Fan at Baseball Game

    When New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie confronts you while holding nachos, you sweep the nachos! You can’t, under any circumstances, hit the governor of New Jersey, especially when he has armed guards with him, but nothing says that you can’t sweep the nachos when he gets all up in your face. Because Christie spends almost…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    July 31, 2017
  • Scaramucci Mane: Reince Priebus Sleeps With the Fishes (OK, He Didn’t Die, but He’s Out of the White House)

    Well, who didn’t see this coming? Seriously, when the newly hired White House communications director makes a drunken call (who’s knows if Anthony Scaramucci Mane had been drinking, but if he hadn’t been, it’s worse) to a New Yorker reporter in which he hates on the president’s chief of staff, then you know heads are…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    July 28, 2017
  • The President Just Told a Room Full of White Cops That He’s Cool With Police Brutality. Here’s Why I’m Not Bothered

    The president of dividing the United States is at again. If he isn’t on Twitter sending out transphobic, racist, sexist or xenophobic tweets, he’s holding speeches in front of hordes of like-minded followers. On Friday the president of white-American hatred delivered a speech to law-enforcement officers on Long Island, N.Y., during which he encouraged police…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    July 28, 2017
  • How James Harden Became the Real MVP of a Houston Strip Club

    As the old folks say, James Harden has more money than God after signing the largest contract extension in NBA history earlier this summer. The extension will make Harden a Houston Rocket until the 2022-2023 season, and that likely makes Houston strippers happy, considering that Harden is reportedly one of their best customers. According to…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    July 28, 2017
  • Sen. John McCain Came Through and Laid That ‘No’ Down Like … : A Story Told in GIFs

    Early Friday morning, the seven-year effort by Republicans to repeal Obamacare came to a thundering end—at least for now—when Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) came through and dropped that no vote down like: McCain’s unexpected no vote came against the GOP’s “skinny repeal” plan—basically a hodgepodge version of earlier Republican proposals to replace Obamacare—and, as I…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    July 28, 2017
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