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885 Million Records Exposed Online: Bank Transactions, Social Security Numbers, and More

The big disaster of Cannes arrives, and it’s almost 4 mind- and ass-numbing hours of twerking

You’re Not Mapping Rats, You’re Mapping Gentrification

I Won an Award, but Who's the Real MVP?

How I Finally Learned to (Sort of) Stop Hitting Myself

The Ms. Foundation for Women Goes for a Welcome Laugh in Aggressively Unfunny Times

From Get-Out-the-Vote to Respectability Politics, Aretha Franklin's Homegoing Was a Dramatic, Political Affair

A List of Every Stress-Related Illness I’ve Ever Had, Ranked From Horrible to ‘I Think I’m Dying’

The Root Is at the 2018 BET Awards and All You're Getting Is This Liveblog

Marvel’s Luke Cage Premiere Party Was Cool and I Was Cool, Too, for Once

Our Hotel Is for the Birds (Literally). Cuh-CAAAAW!

The Root Is in Los Angeles for the BET Awards and Has No Idea What to Wear

Artist Nick Cave Teaches Me How to ‘Let Go’ at The Let Go

I Lost 10 Pounds and It All Went to My Head at Harlem Stage’s #Disrupters Gala

Kendrick Lamar Gets His Pulitzer, but It’s Pulitzer Administrator Dana Canedy Who Is a Prize

Queen Sugar and Ava DuVernay Had the Sweetest Garden Party in NYC

Once Upon Once on This Island With Tamyra Gray

How Physics Works and Other Things I Learned at All Star Code’s 5th-Anniversary Celebration

Never Bring Cicely Tyson Water in a Bottle, and Other Lessons From AT&T’s Humanity of Connection Event

Harlem Haberdashery’s 5th Annual Masquerade Ball Was ‘a Mood’

Once on This Island’s Opening Night Gives Me Jitters While I Consider Reginald F. Lewis’ Billion-Dollar Deal

SportsBalls and Benefit Galas: I Went to All These Things and Managed Not to Almost Kill Myself (Yet)

Tidal X Was an Epic 6-Hour Musical Marathon I Wasn’t Fit Enough to Run