Managing Editor Genetta Adams is off today, so I do not have to adhere to the usual format.

“There ain’t been a perfect person on earth since Jesus took to the sky; and there won’t be none until he comes…

Making our way in the world today
Takes all black people got.
Taking a break from wypipo
Sure would help a lot.

I was a shitty brother.

This mailbag is dedicated to all the ones who called the writers at The Root “racists”; to all the ones who wrote us…

The Root is a hate group.

This week’s Clapback Mailbag is about strawmen.

I have a dilemma:

Nigga, I ain’t shit
I just know how to rhyme a lil’ bit
I’m just trying to squeeze fit my fat ass in
wherever I can…

Thanks, Caucasians!

I’m not religious, and I know that thunder and lightning are caused by electrostatic charges superheating the air,…

“If a white person said that...”

Although Michael Harriot is on vacation this week, he still agreed to write our weekly Clapback Mailbag. However,…

I want to be wrong.

A Clapback Mailbag original song

If you are a regular reader of The Root (or any of the G/O Media sites), then you might be familiar with the ghetto…

No, hear me out...

Today’s mailbag is dedicated to the people who are laughed at, made fun of and dismissed as a joke. Every day, the…

In light of this global pandemic, we’ve decided to come forward and admit that our claim that we respond to our…

Each week, as I read the emails, tweets, DMs and comments for Friday’s Clapback Mailbag, I find something that makes…