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Court TV Relaunches in the Black Lives Matter Era, With Activist Lawyer Yodit Tewolde at the Helm
Back in the mid-’90s, when game shows had finally fallen out of favor and the talk show wars had devastated Montel, Maury and Sally Jesse Raphael, leaving Oprah on the Iron Throne, there was one mainstay for your middle-aged aunts, grandmas and housewives to get their daytime TV drama fix: Court TV. Blowing up with…
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What Would Black America Be Like Under President Pete? Ask South Bend
“I’m going to Dyngus Day,” said Kareemah Fowler, city clerk for South Bend, Ind., when I called her for an interview. “What’s a Dyngus?” I asked, desperately trying not to giggle like a 7th grader. Fowler explained that Dyngus Day is a big festival for South Bend’s Polish community, a chance for state and local…
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Attention Black People: It’s Your Fault Should Donald Trump Get Re-Elected in 2020
I have made an amazing discovery over the course of 2019 that has never occurred to me despite voting in elections for years. I am the most powerful person in the American electorate. Me, only me. Or at least I think so. I come to this conclusion after months and months on Twitter and other…
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Grand Theft Airport: Republicans Are Trying to Snatch the Busiest Airport in America From Black Leadership
I love a good heist movie—Now You See Me, Dead Presidents, all of those Oceans movies. I can even enjoy really terrible heist movies like Widows and Takers. The key to a good heist story is the thieves have to kind of be the good guys and the crime has to make some kind of…
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The Only Captain Marvel I Acknowledge is Monica Rambeau, So Maybe I'm Not the Best Person For This Review
Editor’s Note: semi-spoilers in this review; you’ve been warned. When the credits ended at the Captain Marvel screening there was dead silence, no applause, no whistling and no cheers. It was a good 90 seconds before I heard anybody clapping and that petered out quickly. I’ve screened just about every single superhero movie to come…
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Georgia Is One Vote Away From Stealing Elections for the Next 20 Years
When writer Ian Fleming created super spy James Bond, he knew a good villain was just as important as the hero of the story. Fleming based many of Bond’s villains on actual people, because let’s be honest, regular people do some pretty horrible things. Wholesale evil schemes don’t have to come from the mind of…
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Chance the Rapper, Cops and the Chicago Way: Talking the Windy City Mayoral Race With Amara Enyia
Chicago has had a rough couple of weeks when it comes to the American news cycle. The Night King decided to make the city his vacation spot, Jussie Smollett and the Chicago Police Department have been in a fight to see who sounds the least credible, and R. Kelly’s latest arrest is a reminder of…
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Exclusive: Virginia Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax Speaks Out on Sexual Assault Allegations and His Future in Virginia [Updated]
The top three elected Democrats in the state of Virginia have been mired in controversy for the last week. On Friday, Feb. 1, a medical school yearbook pictures from 1984 surfaced showing two people in blackface and a Ku Klux Klan uniform on Gov. Ralph Northam’s page, as well as showing a racist nickname in…
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Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Super Bowl Preparedness, Kamala Harris and Her Non-Misdemeanor Mac and Cheese
Last week, The Root caught up with Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms at the United States Conference of Mayors annual convention in Washington D.C. Mayor Bottoms shared her thoughts on the impact of the government shutdown; on Atlanta’s Superbowl preparedness; how the 2020 election runs through Georgia and why readers of The Root need to…
