(The Root) — By now, surely you’ve been privy to the many discussions, petitions and open complaining over the image of black women on reality TV. There’s been an ongoing discussion about this topic ever since Omarosa Manigault stiletto-heel-clicked into Donald Trump’s boardroom for The Apprentice in 2004. Either she, the producers or both milked…

(The Root) — Federal mediators and public school administrators in Meridian, Miss., have reached a landmark agreement to launch a rewards-based disciplinary plan, aimed at keeping in the classroom more black students who routinely received harsher disciplinary action when accused of relatively minor infractions. The March 22 consent decree outlined by the U.S. Department of…

A week after he was locked out of his WDAS-FM station after failed contract negotiations, and days after he bid fans goodbye in a Facebook post, talk-radio host Michael Baisden’s departure from the airwaves is still causing a buzz.   That announcement he posted on the program’s last day on the air has nearly 1,000…

(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. The Deposition of Christ is a theme often commissioned for altars, and one that is especially appropriate for Easter…

(The Root) — Who would have thunk it? Set It Off — the 1996 heist film starring Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox, Jada Pinkett Smith and Kimberly Elise — beat out Dead Presidents, Superfly and Django Unchained in our March Movie Madness bracket. Color us clueless, but in our office pool, we had no idea…