Why Black Women Face Higher Infertility Rates And What Real, Affordable Options Are Within Reach
In This ‘Red Pill Era,’ One Black Man Is Becoming the Positive Role Model Every Young Boy Needs
Expert Tips to Help Black Families Navigate Dementia Care
Why Millions are Risking AI Medical Advice Despite Fading Trust
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Jemele Hill’s Regret on ‘Supremacist’ Tweet
Trump Spokeswoman: ESPN Host Should Be Fired 800 Invited Guests Pay Tribute to Jim Vance Omarosa Reportedly Isolated in White House Photographers of Color Let Editors Know They Exist Nina Garcia Named Editor of Elle Magazine Columnist Says ‘NFL Doesn’t Respect Humanity’ Mike Hodge Dies, Activist on TV, in Newsroom Lowery Book on Police Relations…
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Rush Limbaugh Flees Hurricane He Dismissed
Roker Scolded Radio Host for Calling Storm ‘Hype’ NAHJ Report Sees Little Progress on Evening News Eric Bolling Out, Charles Payne Back at Fox 38 Ebony Freelancers Seek $70,000 in Back Pay UNC Editor: DACA Students Still Welcome on Staff ‘Additional Hoops’ Asian American Journalists Face Editorials Debate Statues of Rizzo, Foster, Columbus Sessions Wrong…
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Watch: Listen to Grandma, Y’all
Did Grandma ever tell you to lie on the floor and cut off the TV during a thunderstorm so you wouldn’t get struck by lightning? We can’t be the only ones. It’s National Grandparents Day, and we got together to honor the leading ladies in our lives—because everything we need to know, we learned from…
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Watch: Harlem’s Fashion Row Celebrates 10 Years of Being a Major Platform for Designers of Color
In 2007, Brandice Daniel founded Harlem’s Fashion Row to challenge the lack of diversity in the fashion industry. The annual event serves as a major platform for black designers to get their work in front of key players in the business. Along with the runway show, there’s also the Style Awards. This year’s honorees were…
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Judge of Characters: Jason Whitlock Refuses to Stand for Something, so He Falls for Anything
This week, we’re all as weary as the entire world is; no really, like, the actual planet Earth is exhausted and ready to self-destruct. And all I can say is, same sis, same. We’ve got people in the world like Jason Whitlock, who can’t seem to keep Colin Kaepernick’s name out his mouth, and there’s…
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Ta-Nehisi Coates Calls Out ‘The First White President’
Claim: Racism Made Trump; the Left Won’t Say It Blacks, Hispanics Are Third of Radio Audience NAHJ to Review Partnership With Calif. Group DACA Revocation Unpopular With Editorial Boards Omarosa Laughs Off Worries About Access to Trump ‘Jason Whitlock Doesn’t Care About Black People’ Back to ‘Explaining Indians to White People’ Slaying in India an…
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Watch: Breaking Down the School-to-Prison Pipeline
School is back in session, and it’s time to learn about a system that funnels black and brown kids from schools into our criminal-justice system. It’s called the school-to-prison pipeline, and it’s affecting black children as early as preschool. Watch above. Tune in to The Root on Friday for a Facebook Live panel discussion on…
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Top Native American News Site on ‘Hiatus’
‘Alternative Business Models’ Under Consideration DACA Repeal Could Mean Journalist Deportations Reporter on Harvey Helps Deliver a Baby Omarosa’s Access to Trump Curtailed, Report Says Peter Bhatia Named Editor of Detroit Free Press 300 Readers Pledge Intolerance of Hate, Racism Philly Columnist Wants Rizzo Statue Gone Sheridan Broadcasting Cuts News, Sports Division N. Korea Gives…
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Watch: America’s Racist History of Labor
News flash: The history of labor in America is racist AF. Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894 after a railroad strike led by the American Railway Union known as the Pullman Strike. This was a turning point in the labor movement, though it didn’t benefit all American workers. Black Pullman porters weren’t allowed…
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Watch: Police Kill Another Person With Mental Illness, This Time in Ind.
Editor’s note: Warning: The video contains graphic content. On Tuesday, Ricky Ard was fatally shot multiple times by an Indiana police officer. The incident occurred outside a federal courthouse in Evansville after he smashed windows with a baseball bat. The Vanderburgh County coroner reported that Ard was in the midst of a schizophrenic episode and…