(The Root) — “I just didn’t realize the extent of your grandfather’s illness because I was so busy taking caring of Mommy,” my mother has a habit of saying. In 2009 my grandmother Olevia died of interstitial lung disease, and her passing has been extremely hard on my mother. Three years later she’s still grieving,…

(The Root) — The 64th-annual Emmy Awards complemented the new fall television season while celebrating the medium’s greatest actors, directors and more on Sunday at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles. Late-night talk show host and comedian Jimmy Kimmel helmed the show and had promised an unexpected prank during the ceremonies. Unfortunately, that twist turned out simply…

Barriers continue to be broken in the publishing industry thanks to Keija Minor, recently announced as the new editor-in-chief of Brides magazine, owned by Condé Nast Publications. Minor is the first person of color to head a magazine in the house’s cluster of media, according to the Huffington Post. CNP, the privately owned company that…

During this weekend’s Congressional Black Caucus festivities in Washington, D.C., black women gathered from states like Ohio to fight voter suppression. Instead of waiting for someone else to make sure they were registered and possessed the proper ID to vote in November, according to the Associated Press, these women took to the streets to register…

(The Root) — In Brooklyn, N.Y., press, local politicians, investors and curious onlookers got their first glimpse of the completed Barclays Center on Friday. While Brooklyn Nets minority share investor Jay-Z wasn’t on hand to personally cut the opening-ceremony ribbon, Bruce Ratner, chairman and CEO of Forest City Ratner Companies, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Nets Owner…