(The Root) — A 25-year-old man known to the cyberworld as Peejet is taking the Internet by storm with his Instagram account. His feed features pictures of celebrity scenes that he has hilariously photoshopped himself into. More than 73,000 followers yuk it up over pictures of Peejet spotting Drake at the gym, photobombing Halle Berry…

(The Root) — It’s not rare that popular Twitter and Tumblr accounts soon graduate to bookstore shelves and, in some cases, the small screen. But how does it happen? Is it as easy as waking up to an offer in your email inbox one day? Yes — and no. With more than 200,000 followers, the…

(The Root) — While you were showing your Instagram followers your new pair of plaid socks, Oprah Winfrey was quietly rubbing your nose in something most of us have never seen in person before: a Harvard degree. Winfrey was awarded an honorary degree from the Ivy League institution, and Instagrammed it, on Thursday. I’d imagine…

(The Root) — Mashable, a go-to website for news about innovation in social media and the digital world, is working with other organizations to foster global relationships to bring about social change via the Internet. The website has linked with the United Nations Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the UNDP, the 92Y and…

(The Root) — As much as I loved reading it, Akoto Ofori-Atta‘s piece “19 Things Every HBCU Grad Knows” made me very uncomfortable. It’s a feeling that engulfs me whenever I hear anyone look back fondly on their collegiate years, but heavily so when the school in question is an HBCU. This is mostly because…

(The Root) — Since its inception, NPR’s CodeSwitch blog has facilitated some very engrossing, enlightening discussions about race on Twitter. A recent conversation, inspired by a post on AskReddit, earned a bevy of responses. CodeSwitch asked its Twitter followers, “What’s the most ridiculous question you’ve been asked (about race)?” Using the hashtag #TheyAsked, hundreds of…

(The Root) — A judge sentenced a 22-year-old North Carolina man to six months in prison for threatening, via Twitter, to assassinate President Obama. During the 2012 Democratic National Convention, Donte Jamar Sims sent a series of tweets outlining specifically how he planned to kill President Obama. Sims now claims that he was high on…

(The Root) — I went to a very white school for undergrad. Out of a campus of 1,000, there were roughly 20 black people, myself included. One of my most vivid memories is sitting and talking with a couple of friends, all black, in one of the campus lobbies. That’s it. Just talking. Across the…

(The Root) — Rapper Andre Benjamin, aka Andre 3000, of the group Outkast has suffered a devastating loss. His mother was found dead on Tuesday, Billboard has confirmed — one day after his birthday. Benjamin’s mother, Sharon Benjamin-Hodo, was the founder of the Starlight Camp in Georgia, a program for underprivileged children. The family has…

(The Root) — Thousands of tweets and emails appear to have paid off for members of a coalition of women’s organizations. Spearheaded by the Everyday Sexism Project; Women, Action, & the Media; and writer Soraya Chemaly, a campaign was launched to press Facebook to take a more proactive approach to dealing with shared content that…