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  • Watch: Chicago Youths Clash in Epic Roman Candle Street Battle

    In a scene that rivals any action movie, a West Side street in Chicago teemed recently with youths engaged in an epic Roman candle shootout that was captured on video camera as streaks of white light illuminated and crackled in the night sky. The viral YouTube video posted on June 2 shows scads of young…

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  • Watch: President Obama Delivers Emotional Eulogy for Joe Biden’s Son Beau

    Updated Saturday, June 6, 2015, 7 p.m. EDT: President Obama fought back tears while delivering the emotional eulogy for Beau Biden, the 46-year-old son of Vice President Joe Biden. Earlier: President Barack Obama will deliver the eulogy Saturday at a Catholic Mass for Beau Biden, the son of Vice President Joe Biden and former attorney…

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  • LAPD Clears 2 Officers in Fatal Shooting of Ezell Ford

    The Los Angeles Police Department has cleared officers Sharlton Wampler and Antonio Villegas in the shooting death of Ezell Ford on Aug. 11, 2014, calling the shooting “justified,” the Los Angeles Times reports. As ppreviously reported by The Root, Ford was shot three times, including once in the back at such close range that the…

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  • What?! Brittney Griner Seeks to Annul Her Marriage to Glory Johnson

    WNBA star Brittney Griner has announced that she has filed papers seeking to annul her marriage to fellow WNBA star Glory Johnson 28 days into the union, ESPN reports. The shocking news comes one day after Johnson announced on Instagram that she is expecting the couple’s first child. Both are 24. In a statement released…

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  • All Public School Students in Baltimore Will Get Free Breakfast and Lunch Regardless of Family Income

    Every single public school student in Baltimore will be offered free breakfast and lunch at school regardless of whether a student comes from a low-, middle- or upper-income family, the Baltimore Sun reports. The initiative is part of a federal program that did away with how public school districts would have some students—those from lower-income…

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  • ‘Female Viagra’ Pill Gets Green Light From Group Advising FDA 

    The drug aptly dubbed “female Viagra,” which will reportedly help women ramp up their sexual drive, may have inched its way closer to the marketplace. An advisory committee voted Thursday to recommend to the Food and Drug Administration that the drug be approved, the Washington Post reports. The FDA sometimes heeds the recommendations given it…

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  • Why Black Women Should Still Get a Mammogram Starting at Age 40, Not 50

    In April, the United States Preventive Services Task Force proposed new breast-cancer screening guidelines that advise women to get their first mammogram, the test that screens for breast cancer, at age 50 and then once every two years thereafter. These recommendations are at odds with long-standing advice from organizations like the American Cancer Society, the American…

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  • How Do I Trace an Ancestor Through a Name Change?

    The earliest record I have for my great-grandparents is a marriage license dated 1867. The marriage takes place in Shelby County, Ala. My great-grandmother Louvenia Pierce was born in Georgia. My great-grandfather Archie Brown was born in North Carolina. In 1900 they became Morrisons. I have used Ancestry.com, FamilySearch, MyHeritage and Fold3. Is there some local Alabama…

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  • Let’s Get 1 Thing Straight: How I Wear My Natural Hair Is None of Your Concern

    “I wonder what you would look like with straight hair,” a woman commented on my Instagram page. I’d just posted a picture from an event I was attending. It was a big deal—to me, anyway. I had two-strand-twisted my natural hair that morning, then sat under the dryer that afternoon so there’d be a chance…

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  • 4 Former CVS Employees Sue, Claiming They Were Forced to Racially Profile Black and Hispanic Shoppers

    Four former CVS employees—all of them African American—are suing the pharmacy chain because they say they were forced to racially profile customers as a way of preventing shoplifting, the New York Daily News reports. The employees also claim that they themselves were harassed because they are black. In their lawsuit, the four—Sheree Steele, Kerth Polock,…

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