1. “Too Close” Next

“No, I don’t have any bottled water” was my reply, 12 years ago, when two women—one of whom I was dating; the other…

1. At least once a week, 50 Cent does or says a thing that makes you think “Yeah, I see why people want to kill…

While walking through some mud at Moraine State Park last weekend, I thought about how “mud” is one of those perfect…

“It is weird?” I asked, in a message I copied and pasted to several people through text, on Gchat, and in Facebook…

Did Wakanda have housing projects? Payday lenders? A Wakandan Dollar General?

So the NBA bubble thing is weird. And the social justice messaging on the jerseys is dumb. So dumb. SO DUMB. But I…

There are tens of thousands of Americans—nurses and uncles; bus drivers and doctors; aunties and baristas; grad…

There are places on TV, in magazines, and on the internet where you can find peer-and-eater-reviewed methods for…

Although we’re pretty much free to use whichever language we wish within the body of a piece here, headlines are…

“So,” the moderator asked, during a public (and socially distant) book talk last week—my first time being indoors…

So this morning after eating the 170,000th honey roasted peanut I’ve eaten since March OH IT WAS SO DELICIOUS THE…

There’s been a bit of a debate within The Root on how to cover Talib Kweli’s inexhaustible obsession with Maya Moody.…

THERE ARE TAXES AND FEES YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF SEWAGE FEES LAWN TAXES NEIGHBORHOOD FEES URINE TAXES EVERYTHING’S…

Book: Heavy

I was prepared to hate it. While in London last year, I was invited by Ebele Okobi—my host the week I was there—to…

Snoop Dogg has several iconic and hateful songs that many people know and love, and his upcoming Verzuz battle…

1. Terry Crews

Chance the Rapper is a rapper who raps about the sort of things you’d expect a rapper with “Rapper” in their rap…

There’s a scene in Gone Baby Gone where Patrick Kenzie (Casey Affleck) is deep in the white hoods of Boston, and he…