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  • Filmmaker Out to Prove That Black Superheroes Can Be Leading Characters

    Editor’s note: This short-film series is a collaboration between The Root and El Rey Network to support, elevate and promote African-American filmmakers throughout Black History Month via on-air, digital and editorial platforms. Filmmakers were contacted and recruited through film festivals and industry partnerships in December, with finalists selected by both El Rey Network and The…

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  • Jennifer Hudson’s Convicted Brother-in-Law Says He Had Nothing to Do With Her Family’s Murders

    William Balfour, the 27-year-old estranged husband of Jennifer Hudson’s sister, was sentenced in 2012 to three life sentences without parole for the murders of Hudson’s mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew. Balfour gave his first interview since his sentencing to ABC 7 and insisted that he’s innocent, saying that he had nothing to do with the…

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  • Russell Simmons Is Creating His Own Movie-Award Show and Will Honor Will Smith

    Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons is doing something that black Americans have been talking about doing for some time, especially recently, in light of the #OscarsSoWhite issue: not paying the mainstream award shows any mind and continuing to support and create our own platforms to honor black artists. According to Page Six, Simmons has created the All…

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  • Aww, Shucks. Tampa, Fla., Police Tweet That They’re in ‘Formation’ for the Beyhive 

    Never mind the reports saying that off-duty Tampa, Fla., police officers weren’t signing up to work Beyoncé’s concert—allegedly because they were upset about her Super Bowl performance, which some people found to be anti-cop. The Tampa Police Department responded to all of that chatter with the cutest tweet: What?! @TampaPD officers have been in #formation…

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  • Black Contestants on The Bachelor and Bachelorette Reveal What It Was Like Being ‘the Token’

    Fusion rounded up most of the black people who were contestants on ABC’s The Bachelor and The Bachelorette to find out what it was like being one of a handful of black people—if not the only black person—in a particular season of the two popular ABC reality shows about finding love. Another black man had a moment…

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  • Is Sex With an Uncircumcised Man Really Better?

    I am a 28-year-old married man and I am about to have a son. When we were told that we were having a boy, my wife and I discussed whether he should be circumcised or not. It brought up a touchy subject. I’m circumcised, but my wife has often said that she has experienced more…

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  • Why Is My White Ancestor Listed as Black in the Census?

    Growing up, I saw a picture of my great-great-grandparents, and it has fascinated me. My great-great-grandfather John Dow was a white man born in Arkansas. He left Arkansas around age 11 in search of his father, Samuel Ward, in Mississippi. He eventually married Eddie Smith, a black woman, and had 10 children. I can’t find…

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  • Must-Watch: Steve Harvey Gives the Lecture of a Lifetime to a Young Woman Who Sexts Too Much

    Steve Harvey wants women to know their worth and that they can train men (whom they deem worthy of training) to treat them like the ladies they are. During a segment of his show that addressed the topic of sexting—engaging in sexual talk over text—Harvey lectured a young lady about her value. It was a…

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  • Rachel Dolezal Named Her New Baby Boy Langston

    Rachel Dolezal has named her new baby boy Langston Attickus Dolezal, according to TMZ.  Dolezal apparently put up a photo of her son—her third—on Instagram. Dolezal didn’t reveal the identity, or the ethnicity, of the baby’s father.  It’s not a stretch to presume that Langston might have been named after the African-American poet and writer…

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  • No, Sexism Is Not the Main Reason Beyoncé Was Criticized and Kendrick Lamar Wasn’t

    It’s been almost a full three days since Kendrick Lamar unleashed holy blackness on the Grammy stage, performing “The Blacker the Berry,” “Alright” and a verse from an untitled song that didn’t make the final cut of his Grammy-winning album, To Pimp a Butterfly. It was a powerful, defiant statement about the state of black…

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