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  • Making Babies, Breaking Taboos Is Goal of Black Fertility Agency

    Infertility is a disease. And National Infertility Week is dedicated to raising awareness of reproductive health. This year the week kicked off April 24. Let’s admit it—using fertility clinics, freezing eggs and even surrogacy are still somewhat taboo in the black community. Even as we hear more and more about reproductive health from celebrities—Tyra Banks,…

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  • My Boyfriend Claims He Won’t Display My Picture at His Job Because That’s Something Only Husbands Do. WTF?

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  • Superheroes and Comic Characters Give Life to Concepts of Afrofuturism

    In part 3 of The Root’s video series on Afrofuturism, we get inside the creative mind of John Jennings, a professor of graphic design at the University at Buffalo, as well as an award-winning cartoonist, illustrator and graphic novelist. He was pulled into Afrofuturism as a method of investigating and debating topics of black agency,…

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  • My Year on the Road With Prince

    I first saw Prince as an audience member back in 1981, when I was on a first date. My proper Bermudian beau and I had dressed in our Sunday best. We awkwardly sat front and center in orchestra seats watching this superhuman little being gyrate across the stage performing music that defied anything I had…

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  • Prince Sells More Than 1,100,000 Songs the Day After His Death

    Days after the tragic death of Prince at age 57, the pop legend’s music is predictably swelling in sales. USA Today reports that on the day he was pronounced dead, Prince sold a total of 231,800 albums—a staggering jump from the 4,300 sold during the week preceding it. His greatest-hits album The Very Best of…

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  • Harriet Tubman’s NY Home to Be Turned Into National Park

    Now that our very own Moses, Harriet Tubman, has been confirmed to appear on the $20 bill, her home in upstate New York is one step closer to becoming a National Historical Park, reports the Associated Press.  After the Civil War, Tubman retired to her home in Auburn, N.Y., the site of the proposed National…

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  • Is Rachel Roy ‘Becky’ From Beyoncé’s Lemonade?

    Now, there has been a long-standing rumor that the reason Beyoncé’s sister Solange opened up a can of whup-ass on Bey’s husband Jay Z in that elevator two years ago was that he was getting a little too close to designer Rachel Roy, who also happened to be his ex-business partner Dame Dash’s ex-wife. Well…

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  • Lemonade: A Searing Ode to Grown Black Womanness

    Well, if anyone could move the conversation away from the tragic death of Prince this weekend, it’s Beyoncé, once a pop princess, now a fully grown queen who dropped her 12-track visual album, Lemonade, on HBO Saturday night (now available on Tidal). And far from being a “cool, refreshing drink,” Bey’s lemonade was a hot…

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  • 9 Unforgettable Moments From Beyoncé's Lemonade

    Beyoncé took her fans on an emotional journey Saturday night, through the rage and betrayal of a troubled marriage, the disappointment of a father’s daughter, the anguish of a mother who has lost a child to violence, and finally the redemption and healing of a black woman. Her so-called visual album, a collection of music…

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  • Prince Cremated Before Private Service at Paisley Park: Reports

    Prince Rogers Nelson’s body was cremated Friday, hours after his body was released from the coroner’s office, according to several reports. The Daily Mirror says that a source close to the late singer, who died Thursday at age 57, said that Prince had “very precise ideas” of how he wanted to be laid to rest,…

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