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  • Former Rapper Luther Campbell Wants Black People to ‘Stop Hating on Each Other’

    Onetime Miami mayoral candidate Luther Campbell, who has written his memoir, The Book of Luke: My Fight for Truth, Justice and Liberty City, goes beyond his personal story (as a history-making rapper and artist) and addresses the ills of the African-American community and how unity and political engagement can alleviate them. He touches on everything from…

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  • From Raunchy Rap to a Political Awakening: The Book of Luke Tells the Tales

    Not many people who hear the name “Luther Campbell” think of a politically engaged community and youth advocate. Instead, the Southern hip-hop pioneer, whose group 2 Live Crew introduced its audience to bikini-clad women and the sexually charged Caribbean and Latin rhythms of Campbell’s native Miami, is more infamously known for yelling, “Don’t stop, get…

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  • Actor Joe Morton Talks Papa Pope and a Psychic Encounter

    Veteran actor Joe Morton was familiar to most of us before he ever hit Scandal. In addition to appearances on Broadway, he has appeared in several films, including the cult classic The Brother From Another Planet and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and on TV as Henry Deacon in Eureka, among other roles. The Root caught…

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  • Straight Outta History: Director F. Gary Gray Speaks on the Brotherhood, Impact and Legacy of N.W.A

    Straight Outta Compton, the story of Eric “Eazy-E” Wright, Andre “Dre” Young, O’Shea “Ice Cube” Jackson, Antoine “DJ Yella” Carraby and Lorenzo “MC Ren” Patterson, collectively known as N.W.A, is finally on the big screen. And unlike previous black music biopics, this one, because it digs deep and even creates a film that transports audiences…

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  • Unsung Hollywood Comes Clean About Car Wash

    “Imagine a movie about a car wash,” begins the latest installment of TV One’s Unsung Hollywood. That initial idea was the brainchild of white music-P.R. guy Gary Stromberg. Now imagine a studio head taking Car Wash seriously without a Stromberg. Another white guy, Joel Schumacher, who wrote Sparkle and The Wiz long before directing St.…

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  • Atlanta Plastic Surgeon Helping Black Women Fill Out Those Apple Bottom Jeans

    Wendy Williams may prefer bigger breasts over a bigger booty as her plastic surgery procedure of choice, but many black women just don’t feel her on that. Instead, some have been literally dying to get the derriere that Sir Mix-a-Lot boasts about in that “Baby Got Back” sample featured on Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda.” Enter Dr. Wright Jones.…

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  • 5 Songs You Need to Hear by Rising Reggae Star Kabaka Pyramid

    Bob Marley proved that music could move your body and your soul. But it’s been a while since a Jamaican artist truly captivated the masses with conscious music. Kabaka Pyramid is trying to change that. He got a little closer recently with an impressive Reggae Sumfest debut in his native Jamaica. The young lion from…

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  • Bernie Mac: A King of Comedy Who Wasn’t Afraid to Stay Unapologetically Black, Even if It Cost Him

    “Bernie Mac is the guy you don’t wanna follow. Ever,” Chris Rock says at the beginning of a new episode of Unsung Hollywood featuring comedian Bernie Mac. The TV One series kicks off its second season Wednesday. A titan among his peers, the Chicago comedian—born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough Oct. 5, 1957—is best-known today for his hit…

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  • Xscape: Unsung Highlights the Unraveling of a Sisterhood

    There’s probably never been an episode more true to its title than Unsung for Xscape. Despite three platinum albums fueled by countless chart-toppers, the Atlanta girl group never garnered the mainstream success it should have, and this Unsung episode explores the many reasons why. While it’s quite doubtful that those 30 and under even know…

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  • Hannibal Buress: More Than Just That Cosby Joke

    These days, comedian Hannibal Buress is probably most well-known to non-comedy fans for reminding everyone last year during a comedy routine that went viral about the allegations that Bill Cosby drugged women for sex. To date, more than 40 women have claimed that the onetime comedy icon sexually assaulted them, and this week, unsealed court documents…

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Ronda Racha Penrice is a freelance writer who resides in Atlanta. She is the author of “African American History for Dummies.”