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  • How Racism Goes Unchecked

    Writing at Salon, Roxane Gay explores modern-day racism and dismisses exhortations by whites that blacks simply “get over” it. She asks how this implausible request can be accomplished when racism is flourishing and silently condoned by some whites. A couple of weeks ago, I was in the Dallas Fort Worth airport with a long layover.…

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  • Read Details of Kanye's Suit Against YouTube Founder

    (The Root) — So much Kanye West news. He’s making up nicely for lost time. Earlier last week, we learned that West was suing YouTube creator Chad Hurley for allegedly uploading an unauthorized photo of West’s ritzy engagement to Kim Kardashian to his new celebrity video startup, MixBit. Here’s my first thought, as I’m sure…

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  • Dear Jay Z: Don't Dodge the Barneys Thing

    (The Root) — Dear Shawn Carter: I just read your heated blog posting about “negligent, erroneous reports and attacks on my character, intentions, and the spirit of this collaboration” with the retailer Barneys, with whom you are partnering. Barneys, of course, is the store where a young man was arrested for quite legally buying a…

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  • 'Scandal' Recap: 5 Best Quotes About Olivia

    (The Root) — Turns out Mellie got it wrong. “Flyovers” and “trailer trash” aren’t the only ones who fall for a push-up bra and a mic. Olivia Pope’s a sucker, too. Stuff the president in a penguin suit, put him in front of a podium and the girl’s a goner.   In this week’s episode…

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  • Black Women's Problem With Feministing

    Editor’s note: This post has been updated to reflect the fact that Feministing did not organize the panel in question, and as such it did not use the #solidarityisforwhitewomen in promotional materials for that panel. The original version of this post also attributed “criticism of a nonapology” to Feministing, but the criticism was intended for…

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  • The Kids Always Win Halloween

    If you want to see what’s hot on black Twitter, check out The Chatterati.Akoto Ofori-Atta is the editor of The Grapevine. Like her Facebook page and follow her on Twitter. 

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  • From Which Port Was Slave Ancestor Sold?

    (The Root) — “I’ve completed the African Ancestry paternal lineage test and it says that I have Angolan heritage. I would like to find information about the ports that people from Angola were sold from to the United States — and where they landed —- in hopes of pinpointing where my Angolan ancestors came from. My…

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  • Success for Kentucky's Copy of Obamacare

    (The Root) — From its initial inception to the official launch, members of the GOP and conservative talking heads have fought the Affordable Care Act. But millions of impoverished Americans and the working poor do not have and cannot afford health insurance coverage. This is especially the case in the 26 states that opted out…

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  • Quote of the Day: Mary McLeod Bethune on Assets

    Read how the quote is referenced here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is also the editor-in-chief of The Root. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.

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  • Let's Celebrate Howard University

    Is it Howard University’s job to pave the way for its own obsolescence? That’s one of the questions The Atlantic‘s Ta-Nehisi Coates explores as he takes a colorful trip down memory lane at his alma mater and laments the challenges that HBCUs now face. His son is 13 years old and just starting to think…

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