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  • Critics: It Would 'Help' If You Saw It

    Ablene Cooper was saddened and dismayed to hear a Mississippi judge dismiss her lawsuit against author Kathryn Stockett for using her name (Aibileen, in the book The Help) and image. Sadly, she has only herself to blame. Cooper waited a year after receiving a copy of the book to read it and become offended —…

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  • Bound by 'The Denzel Principle'?

    Jimi Izrael, a longtime contributor to The Root, has never been shy about his expressing controversial opinions on this site and elsewhere about a wide range of topics, including the relationships between black men and women. Presuming that his fans can’t get enough, he has now translated his views on women into book form. The…

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  • The Decade in Race: WTF Was That?

    This has been a decade of racial progress and setbacks. From the curb, it may be hard to tell the difference. So as a public service, I give you…. 2000-2010: A Race Odyssey: • After the tragedy of 9/11, Arab American stereotypes morph from harmless convenient store owner to new American nigger. The Simpsons’ Apuh…

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  • Ten Things You Could Learn from Tiger Woods

    I don’t much believe in the cult of celebrity, but sometimes you learn a lot from watching how they live their lives. As a public service, I give you… 10 Things You Could Learn From Tiger Woods 1. Variety? Not the spice of life we thought it was. It’s weird for me to look at…

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  • Aunt Jemima and Politics in Darktown

    The big story leading the news all week around my way is about a caricature of local politico Nina Turner depicted as Aunt Jemima in the designated black newspaper, The Call and Post. The issue being debated isn’t whether Turner is right or wrong, but whether or not it’s racist to call her an Aunt…

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  • Why Tiger Woods’ Family Drama Is Our Business

    Tiger Woods got in a slow-speed crack-up over the weekend that would not have been notable if the facts weren’t in dispute. In one version of the first story, Woods’ wife is the hero, tending to her husband at the scene of an accident. In another, she’s a wife striking out because of tabloid reports…

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  • Meet The Parents

    The actual consuming of food is the easy part of holidays with her peeps. It’s the before and after that’ll get ya, when they are getting to know you…getting to know ALL about you. You are an idiot if you indulge it and an idiot if you dodge out of it. I just tried to…

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  • Heather Ellis: Not That Innocent

    People that know me will tell you I love a good media-manufactured brouhaha as much as the next media meatball, but the tempest behind the Heather Ellis case, with calls for you to take a day off your good job and go march or whatever, has come to a boil today. The Internet is outraged…

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  • College Education Is No Longer an Option … Is It?

    There used to be a time when you could crap out of high school, get a job at the local factory and bring home some really decent cheese. Then came a time when a  college degree was your entree into the midldle class and all that it had to offer. Now, they want you to…

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  • Hasan: Who Shot Ya?

    There seems to be some controversy as to who brought down Nidal Malki Hasan, the Fort Hood Shooter: the doe-faced white cop or the brother cop on-scene. Why is it that when you have two certified heroes — one black, the other one white — it always seems like we celebrate the white one first…

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