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The BET Awards Show Felt Like It Was on Forever, but I Had Chicken and Was Entertained
If I tried to review the entire BET Awards, which went on for a smooth four hours, I would be writing until Blue Ivy released her second greatest-hits collection. So in the interest of time, I’ll only cover where my prerogative leads me. Feel free to cue up select tracks from the catalog of the…
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If You’re Mad About the Black and Brown Stripes Added to the Rainbow Flag, You’re Probably White Nonsense
Who could be bothered to debate the merits of adding two additional colors to the rainbow flag, a symbol of pride for members of the LGBTQ community Evidently, quite a few folks across Al Gore’s internet who meet one of the following descriptors: bored out of their minds; insensitive to the plight of even more…
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Megyn Kelly’s Interview With Alex Jones Was a Waste of Everyone’s Time
Megyn Kelly is full of shit. If there’s anyone who knows that in today’s media climate, simply seeking to “expose” a propagandist is typically a fool’s errand, it would be the former host of a Fox News prime-time show. So when Kelly released a statement in response to criticism over her choice to interview the…
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All Eyez on a Flop
When I saw the trailer for All Eyez on Me, the film about the life of the late Tupac Shakur, I thought it looked like a big-budget version of the movies Lifetime made about Aaliyah and Whitney Houston. That is not a compliment. In fact, Aaliyah and Nippy are probably high-fiving each other in heaven…
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It’s Not the Blacks, Tinashe, It’s You
When your name is “Tinashe,” black folks don’t need Scooby Doo or a member of the Mystery Machine to guess that race. Yet the singer-songwriter-dancer is arguing that the lot of us don’t completely embrace her, a mixed-race woman, even though she considers herself to be a black woman. It was one of the more…
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The Root Is Live-Blogging Jeff Sessions' Testimony to Congress Because We Hate Ourselves
Hello, y’all. I’m Michael Arceneaux, contributor to The Root and perpetual masochist. As the headline suggests, I’m here to live blog Attorney General Segregation Now, Segregation Forever Jeff Sessions’ testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee as part of its investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election. I’m surprised Sessions’ testimony is starting late given…
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James Comey Is My New Favorite Real Housewife
Hell hath no fury like a self-righteous messy bitch who lives for the drama of being scorned. In what has rightly been sold as the most anticipated congressional hearing in modern political history, former FBI Director James Comey appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee to publicly contradict various claims by President Donald Trump Sweet Potato…
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Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly Is What Happens When Mediocrity and Whiteness Come Together
The most frustrating thing about Megyn Kelly’s new NBC show is that it exists. In the promos leading up to the premiere of Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly, the former Fox News propagandist reveals five things we can look forward to on the show. We’re supposed to forget that while at FOX News, she was…
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Videos of Racists Being Racist Go Viral, and Then What?
Roses are red, violets are blue, America is full of racists, what else is new? That was my initial feeling when recently greeted by two videos floating around Al Gore’s Internet featuring two separate instances of overt racism. The other was curiosity over how that loudmouthed woman in Walmart or that wheelchair-bound man who reminded…
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Unlike Most of Y’all, I Like Katy Perry’s New Songs, but …
When I heard Katy Perry’s Migos-featuring single, “Bon Appétit,” I was too busy body rolling to join a lot of y’all in the latest online protest. Likewise, I took a “Don’t nobody bring me no bad news” stance when it came to reports about Perry making jokes about former President Barack Obama. In Saddle Tan…
