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  • I Want to Sell My Home. Why Is He Mad?

    (The Root) — “My fiance is mad because I’m putting my house that we live in on the market, simply because I bought it, and I would like us to buy something together. Yet I can tell he’s crazy insecure with it being mine. I feel I can’t win. Advice?” —R.T. Ma’am, your fiance has…

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  • 'Nation of Immigrants' Mantra Doesn't Really Work for Blacks

    It’s important to remember how most African Americans’ ancestors actually came to this country, Maya Rupert writes at the Huffington Post. For a phrase designed to inspire feelings of inclusion and acceptance, the familiar mantra “we are a nation of immigrants” makes many in the black community feel excluded and uncomfortable. And now that efforts…

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  • Adam Serwer: Success Is Not Your Own

    (The Root) — At last year’s The Root 100 gala, Mother Jones reporter and 2012 The Root 100 honoree Adam Serwer told us that he owes his success to the African Americans who came before him. “Your success is not your own. Someone put in the work to help make you who you are,” he…

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  • Supreme Court: Pop the Champagne; Racism Is Over?

    In a piece for Mother Jones reflecting on the treatment of race and racism in today’s Supreme Court arguments, Adam Serwer says that in the eyes of the high court’s conservatives,  states — not minorities — are the ones that are still victimized by discrimination. That’s the view behind what will likely be their efforts…

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  • Ready for a Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle Comedy Tour?

    Audience members at a small New York City comedy club got the treat of a lifetime Tuesday night, Vulture reports. According to the Comic’s Comic, comedy legends Chris Rock and the elusive Dave Chappelle joined each other onstage — where they texted Jay-Z, left voicemails for Arsenio Hall and Lenny Kravitz and dissected Seth MacFarlane’s Academy Awards…

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  • Setting Scalia Straight on 'Racial Entitlement'

    (The Root) — During Wednesday’s Supreme Court oral arguments in Shelby County v. Holder, Justice Antonin Scalia reportedly called the renewal of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act — which is designed to prevent discriminatory state voting laws by requiring them to be cleared by the Department of Justice — “the perpetuation of racial…

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  • Race and Gender Satire? Better Be Funny

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  • Is America Ready for a Black Bachelorette?

    So far, every single star of ABC’s The Bachelorette has been white. Misee Harris, a 28-year-old pediatric dentist from Tennessee, is using a social media campaign to change that. She hopes to become the first black star of the reality dating program, Jezebel reports today.  The Bachelor franchise has already been sued for racial discrimination…

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  • Supreme Court Hears Voting Rights Act Arguments

    Supreme Court justices are hearing arguments today in a challenge to the part of the Voting Rights Act that forces parts of the country with a history of discrimination, mainly in the Deep South, to obtain federal approval for any changes to their election laws, the Associated Press reports. Those responsible for the lawsuit argue…

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  • Save Our Endangered Voting Rights

    (Special to The Root) — In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act and called it a “triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield.” But this past election season we were back on the battlefield, waging a nonviolent struggle against the greatest wave…

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