I wasn’t going to write about the white women wearing their white T-shirts to promote the white film about white feminism, but my black feminism wouldn’t allow me to ignore it. Meryl Streep stars as British suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst in the film Suffragette, which is set to premiere in the United States later this…

Miscellaneous-daytime-drama actress Nancy Lee Grahn wants the world to know that the Emmys are no place to discuss the marginalization of black actresses in Hollywood, because all women are discriminated against, and “dramatic” race talk distracts from the bigger picture. As previously reported by The Root, Grahn made these ridiculously racist statements on Twitter in…

About a year and a half ago, I launched a petition against D.L. Hughley for his deplorable and misogynist remarks about victims of domestic violence. Now another washed-up comedian is making waves, this time for willfully ignorant and dangerous remarks about rape victims. In an appearance on 105.1’s The Breakfast Club on Friday, Damon Wayans…

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, black New Orleanians quickly scattered across the country—a sister’s house here, a cousin’s couch there, a college roommate’s spare room. More than 175,000 black residents left New Orleans in the year following the storm, according to FiveThirtyEight. Even though the city’s total population has returned to 70 percent of…

In part 1 of our series on post-Katrina New Orleans’ public education and charter school systems, “‘Like Another Katrina’: The Charter School Debate Fractures New Orleans Along Lines of Race and Class,” The Root took a comprehensive look at the educational, cultural and racial effects of the charter school system, which rapidly expanded in the…

Katrina. The mere mention of the Category 5 monster of a hurricane that barreled down the Gulf Coast and made landfall in the early-morning hours of Aug. 29, 2005, as a Category 3 is enough to retraumatize New Orleans natives who were forced to flee their homes in search of shelter. “The Storm,” as it’s…

Straight Outta Compton, the F. Gary Gray biopic about legendary hip-hop pioneers N.W.A, may have defied expectations, with an astounding $59 million at the box office expected its opening weekend, but moviegoers were still treated like “Niggaz Wit Attitudes.” Amid a swiftly growing Black Lives Matter movement—which has ramped up protests as the political cycle…