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'It Feels as if Impurities are Being Lifted Out of Your Face': A Product Review of ILERA Apothecary
I love anything from Detroit. If it’s made there, it is simply better than everything else. If you want your hair did have it styled by a Detroiter at least once. A pair of gators? Detroit’s got you. Even Biggie, may he rest in peace, knew that. But because Detroit is the biggest Black city…
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A Veteran Wants to Restore Faith In America—And Protect Black People While Doing It
One of the key elements of Pam Keith’s message as she runs for the Democratic nomination for Florida’s 18th Congressional District seat is restoring the integrity of American institutions and making it work for Black Americans who are often left out of the process of justice. A labor lawyer by training and Navy veteran with…
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In the Midwest, a Candidate Makes Her Case for Voting Down the Ballot
When you think about Missouri, you think of Middle America, a section of the country that lacks national media exposure—a red state that a lot of folks don’t believe can be flipped. Consequently, we dismiss a lot of the upstarts who could generate the traction of an Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Phyllis…
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Virginia Gubernatorial Candidate Sen. Jennifer McClellan Joins The Root on Instagram Live
Virginia State Sen. Jennifer McClellan is entering Virginia’s gubernatorial race as her state and the rest of the country endures uprisings stemming from the police killings of Black men and women and a pandemic that has killed more than 130,00 people in the United States. In Richmond, her state’s capital, Black residents made up more…
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How U.S. Senate Candidate Mike Espy Plans to Win in Mississippi
Mike Espy is ready to win this time. That’s the main thing he wants you to know about why his 2020 U.S. Senate race out of Mississippi will be different from his last go-around in 2018. He said that when he threw his hat into the special election that year to replace outgoing-Senator Thad Cochran,…
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Georgia U.S. Senate Candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock Explains How Trump's Presidency Challenges His Faith
As pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, Rev. Raphael Warnock often gets asked what it is like to preach in the same pulpit as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his response is always the same: “I don’t know what it’s like to fill his shoes because I’ve never tried.” But one person’s shoes Warnock…
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Defund the Police, Explained…for the Last Time
There are a lot of misconceptions about what defunding the police means, which, at its simplest definition, is a reallocation of resources. Everyday citizens assess their budgets on a regular basis to determine if they are wasting money and could spend their precious dollars more efficiently. As police officers continue to kill Black people across…
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Amy McGrath Wins Kentucky Democratic Primary, but the Establishment Is on Notice
After a week of nail biting over the tight U.S. Senate race in Kentucky, Amy McGrath has now been declared the winner. Kentucky state Sen. Charles Booker was leading the race with nearly 79 percent reporting last week, but the final tally has McGrath with 45.1 percent of the vote and Booker with 42 percent.…
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Minneapolis Council VP Andrea Jenkins Explains What It Means to Defund the Police and Legislate as a Black Trans Woman
Minneapolis City Council Vice President Andrea Jenkins told The Root in an Instagram Live interview what exactly she means when she and her fellow council members call for defunding the police. “Defunding the police means, in my mind, creating a new public safety mechanism that doesn’t require people with a gun to be able to…
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Now We Wait: With Mail-In Ballots Yet to be Counted, Here's What We Know So Far From Tuesday's Primary Races
It is very likely that former middle school principal Jamaal Bowman may have unseated 31-year-incumbent Democratic Rep. Eliot Engel in Tuesday’s New York primary, but the full results of the race will not be known for some days because mail-in ballots still need to be counted. Though Bowman delivered a victorious speech in Yonkers, N.Y.,…
