-
Watch: NYC Cop Loses Badge for Punching, Drawing Gun on Bystanders During Violent Arrest
As warmer weather heats up in the streets of Harlem, young men on dirt bikes and ATVs take to the streets in loud, boisterous fashion, annoying and thrilling residents of the rapidly gentrifying community. On Thursday, an enraged plainclothes officer arrested one of these dirt bikers, and whipped out his handgun on bystanders who were…
-
Ex-NBA Baller Blows Up Racist Woman on Amtrak
Social media has morphed from a cute little platform for sharing funny pics and links to a truth-telling device that confirms that racism is alive and well in America. Ask ex-Washington Wizard player Etan Thomas; he knows how to use it to his advantage. Thomas, a universally accepted all-around great guy, adoring father, and advocate…
-
The Root 100 2016: Time to Nominate Your Choices
We are looking for the exciting, innovative, creative, passionate leaders in the African-American community who have caught your attention in the past year. In a few months, we will announce The Root 100 for 2016 and celebrate the 25- to 45-year-olds who exemplify excellence in the fields of social justice, politics, entertainment, business, the arts,…
-
Mothers of Black Fla. Teens Who Drowned After a Police Chase Speak Out
“They painted her as a criminal, despite the fact that she’s 15 years old and lost her life,” says Natasha Winkler, mother of Laniya Miller. Her daughter was one of three teens who died early on the morning of March 31 after a police chase. “Before I was notified that of her passing away, [police] had…
-
O.J.: Made in America Paints a Complex Picture of a Sports Icon-Turned-Pariah
Even if you were one of the millions who watched the white-Bronco chase live and followed the subsequent murder trial, or got hooked on The People v. O.J. Simpson, FX’s recent dramatized account of the behind-the-scenes ego-tripping of the legal “Dream Team,” you will be enlightened, fascinated and heartbroken by O.J.: Made in America, ESPN’s…
-
My Boyfriend Wants Me to Pay My Share on a Trip, but Why Should I Chip In When He Makes More Than I Do?
Dear Demetria: My boyfriend of two years wants to go to the Maldives and asked how much I would be able to cover. I told him I’m not paying. He told me how his exes paid half for trips, but I’m like, why chip in if he makes more than double my income? The conversation…
-
Am I Related to Black Nationalist Martin R. Delany?
According to my family’s oral history, the abolitionist Major Martin R. Delany is my great-great-great-grandfather, father to my great-great-grandfather Dennis Dollary DeLaney, who was born in South Carolina in 1836. According to the daughter of my second great-uncle, the Rev. William Y.D. DeLaney (Dennis Dollary’s grandson), an original lithograph of Martin R. Delany has hung…
-
There’s More Than 1 Kind of Black: HBCUs Celebrate the Diversity of the Diaspora
It was definitely a major coup for Johnson C. Smith University, one of the nation’s HBCUs, to snag Oprah Winfrey as its commencement speaker. And she certainly delivered with down-to earth wisdom, her own inspirational stories and lessons from leaders from Martin Luther King Jr. to Maya Angelou. On a sunny Sunday morning, Winfrey told…
-
Watch: Willing & Able Gives Insight Into Transgender Job Discrimination
The 2011 National Transgender Discrimination survey found that, as compared with the population at large, the 700,000 transgender or gender-nonconforming citizens of the United States are four times as likely to earn less than $10,000 a year (pdf); they’re twice as likely to be unemployed; 47 percent of them were fired, not hired, or were denied…
-
Are You Young, Fabulous and Female in the NYC Area?
Attention, all the young, black and fabulous women in the New York City area: The Root is bringing it home with an event you won’t want to miss. Young, Fabulous and Female: New York City will be held Wednesday, May 25, and include a powerhouse panel featuring actress MaameYaa Boafo; Tricia Clarke-Stone, co-founder and CEO…
Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
