You could almost hear the glass shatter when Ebony magazine’s November “Family Issue(s)” cover exploded across social media Thursday, shards of conflicting emotions piercing the soul of black America. Front and center is the Huxtable family, minus Sandra, frozen as many of us remember them: happy, beautiful and black. The smiling face of patriarch Cliff Huxtable is distorted…

Basketball fans around the world are anxiously awaiting more information about the condition of beloved former Los Angeles Laker Lamar Odom, who reportedly overdosed Tuesday afternoon at Love Ranch, a legal brothel in Nevada. But all mainstream media seem to be concerned with, when not busy making the story as tawdry and sensationalistic as possible, are…

Love & Basketball and Beyond the Lights director Gina Prince-Bythewood is set to tackle police brutality in a new Fox miniseries starring Sanaa Lathan, Deadline reports. Prince-Bythewood and her husband, Reggie Rock Bythewood, share writer credits and will also share executive-producer credits with Empire Executive Producer Brian Grazer and Imagine Studio’s Francie Calfo. The project, tentatively…

In a moment of peak whiteness, professional Twitter troll Piers Morgan responded to Campaign Zero activist DeRay Mckesson’s tweet of his signature “I love my blackness. And yours” by saying that he loved his whiteness. Peak. Whiteness. Black Twitter’s clap-back to the British media personality’s initial tweet and his subsequent disingenuous and inflammatory replies was…

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…

While I was scrolling through Facebook posts Tuesday, between pudgy, dancing babies and the latest political debate, one status stopped me cold. According to the post, in response to a woman who shared that she had recently been date-raped, a man decided to explain the mind of an alleged rapist by detailing how he had…

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…