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  • The Root’s Guide to the 10 Blackest Experiences of the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival

    If Beyoncé can bring Wakanda to Coachella, we’re going to do the same for Tribeca, the annual film festival that reps the grit and greatness of New York City. As with last year, we here at The Root are here to give it to you, racks on racks of that beautiful black (except, perhaps, No. 5).…

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  • Brittney Cooper Talks Beyoncé, White Feminists and Black Women’s Oh-So-Eloquent Rage

    The anger of black girls is potent. And given what we deal with, it’s sometimes masked. Or internalized and regurgitated in harmful ways. But Brittney Cooper—Professor Crunk to you, sir— is here to tell y’all all about it. Her book Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower is about how we can use rage to…

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  • President Signs Executive Order Mandating That Poor People Work or Lose ‘Welfare’

    Without much fanfare (totally apropos, given what’s been happening in the world of the White House in the last 72 hours), President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that will force recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, Medicaid and low-income housing subsidies to find work or lose their assistance. Trump quietly signed the…

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  • California Police Balk as Calls Grow Louder for LAPD to Change Its Use-of-Force Policy 

    As more people look to the Los Angeles Police Department to change its use-of-force policy, a throng of police chiefs in Northern California came together on Monday to denounce proposed legislation that would raise the standard for legal review of such action—after the fact. The Mercury News reports that police chiefs gathered in Fairfield, Calif.,…

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  • Howard Students End Protest, Win Concessions From University

    After nine days of occupying the campus Administration Building (renamed the Kwame Ture Student Center during the protest), Howard University students have ended their #HUSitIn, having reached a consensus with the trustees and university president. On Friday the board of trustees released a statement of commitments addressing student concerns, many of which were first outlined…

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  • Matt Barnes Announces Scholarships for #StephonClark’s Sons at Sacramento, Calif., Rally 

    Updated Saturday, March 31, 2018, 9 p.m. EDT: Hours before a Sacramento Kings vs. Golden State Warriors game on Saturday, former King Matt Barnes held a rally “for unity and action” around the March 18 police execution of 22-year-old Stephon Clark. The last two Kings’ games were blocked by protesters who descended on the downtown…

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  • US Supreme Court Rules Dreamers Are Safe … for Now

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to immediately review lower-court decisions that keep the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program from going kaput, in what has to be a huge relief to DACA recipients, and is yet another blow to the Trump administration. The DACA program gives at least 700,000 young immigrants a path…

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  • In the Face of Incontrovertible Evidence, Trump Backpedals on Russia and Blames the Black Guy

    For the millionth time, we ask of this president: Are you clinically insane, or just so much of a liar that you believe your own lies? No matter, Donald Trump has done it again, just making shit up and sticking it to former President Barack Obama while he’s at it. A day after blaming the…

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  • 17 Reported Dead in Fatal Florida High School Shooting; More Injured 

    Updated Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, 6:40 p.m. EST: The Washington Post reports that at least 17 people are said to be dead in the Wednesday-afternoon shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel told reporters that 12 people were killed inside the school, three more died outside and…

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  • Black Unemployment Is Back Up. Way Up. What Will Trump Have to Say Now? 

    Well, that was fast. The black unemployment rate in the United States, which fell to a record low in December, something President Donald Trump gleefully took credit for, has made its biggest jump upward since 2012. Now run tell that. According to the Labor Department’s monthly employment report, released Friday, joblessness among black Americans rose…

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Ms. Bronner Helm is the Senior Editorial Director at Colorlines. Mouthy Black Girl. Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Fellow. Shea Butter Feminist. Virgo Sun, Aries Moon.


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