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  • Sex Trafficking's Black and Brown Victims

    (The Root) — “He’d take wooden bats and hit me. I thought he loved me, but he’d turn around and beat me and all the girls in his house. But you just can’t get up and leave. He would threaten me about my family… I was afraid of getting hurt, so I just stayed.” The…

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  • Who Was the 1st Black Poet?

    Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an homage. (The Root) — Amazing Fact About the…

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  • 'Scandal': 10 Questions We Want Answered

    (The Root) — It’s almost Scandal time again, and those of us who survived the withdrawal are already planning our wine-and-popcorn parties for the premiere on Oct. 3. Last season’s finale left us with tons of burning questions with which we’ve had to suffer for months. Now, with Scandal’s return a mere 10 days away,…

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  • Quote of the Day: Malcolm X on the Search for the 'Negro'

    Read the quote in its full context here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute 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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  • Emmy Awards 2013: Stars on the Red Carpet

    The 65th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards celebration was held at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. The Root has a recap of the hottest black stars to walk the red carpet.  Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.  

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  • Claire Danes Wins Best Actress Drama Emmy

    Claire Danes won the Emmy Award on Sunday for best drama series actress for her role as a troubled CIA agent on Homeland, beating out Kerry Washington for top actress honors, the Associated Press reports.  Fans of ABC’s Scandal had hoped Washington would win for her role as Olivia Pope. Indeed, it would have been a historic…

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  • Hip-Hop: Is There a Double Standard in America?

    Howard professor Gilbert Newman Perkins, in a piece at the Washington Post, tackles America’s foundering perceptions about hip-hop, arguing that it’s largely pundits who know nothing about the art — or how to groove to it! — who shape opinion about it. If I were a betting man, I’d wager that neither Bill O’Reilly nor…

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  • Brad Paisley, the Confederate Flag and the Politics of Offense

    In a piece at the Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates argues that what Brad Paisley, of “Accidental Racist” fame, fails to understand about blacks and the Confederate flag is that it is far worse than “offensive.” He tackles the politics of offense and offense-taking. New York’s Jody Rosen has an interview up with Brad Paisley that’s worth checking out. When…

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  • Limbaugh Compares Obamacare to Slavery

    (The Root) — There’s a saying in the news business: Dog bites man is not news. Man bites dog is. By that metric, Rush Limbaugh saying something outrageous or racially inflammatory is not necessarily shocking news. But the fact that his recent outrageous and racially inflammatory statement about Obamacare is not the most outrageous thing…

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  • How to Talk to Kids About Race

    Parents in Hartford, Conn., should be applauded for complaining about a school system’s American history lesson that forced middle schoolers to re-enact slavery scenes, writes Gene Denby at NPR‘s blog Code Switch. But it does raise the question, he says, of how parents should talk to children about race. The parents are suing the school,…

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