According to the Atlantic‘s Conor Friedersdorf, this is just one of 14 explanations circulating for the sparse coverage of the abortion provider charged with killing babies and neglecting women in his care. Journalists, news junkies, and casual news consumers are all offering theories of what drives the media. Wildly divergent theories. And every last one…

(The Root) — I have a friend who looks similar to Tyrese. He has the same complexion and chiseled features, and a fondness for wearing plaid shirts, which Ty wore in a pivotal scene as Jody in John Singleton’s Baby Boy. Last year, that friend and I were standing backstage at a music festival when…

(The Root) — This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. Within the multitude of pages contained within an early modern prayer book is found a powerful image of inclusion,…

Colorlines‘ Jamilah King points out that the baseball legend’s fight for racial justice was always tempered by a degree of pessimism about the realities faced by black people in America. Almost 66 years to the day that Robinson made his Major League Baseball debut, the new biopic, “42,” offers an opportunity to examine the racial…

(The Root) — In the wake of Roland Martin’s firing and CNN’s announcement of new hire Jake Tapper as “the face” of the network, there’s been plenty of conversation about the network’s diversity (or lack thereof).  But sometimes a picture — like this “Allow us to reintroduce ourselves” ad — is worth a thousand words.