Exclusive: ACLU Animator Dishes on New Series That Educates Kids on Their Constitutional Rights
The Gut-Wrenching Crisis of Deed Theft in New York, Snatching Black Families from the Homes They’ve Owned for Generations
This 82-Year-Old Black Fitness Influencer’s Workout Routine Will Shock You
Black Woman Changes Her Race on Hinge and the Results Reveal a Startling Truth
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Does Charlamagne tha God Hate Black Women?
Tomi Lahren is a certified troll. Our friend Damon Young of Very Smart Brothas stuck “Darth” in front of her name to truly capture the essence of her evil. She’s like Donald Trump in Becky’s clothing. So when radio personality, author and all-around professional under-your-skin dweller Charlamagne tha God was not only spotted with Lahren…
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Where Are the Black and Brown Journalists Probing Trump?
‘Not Enough’ Investigative Reporters of Color Wilkins Recalled as Father Confessor, Go-To Guy . . . ‘Tried to Educate’ Washington Post Editor 3 More File Discrimination Complaints Against Fox Trump News Overwhelming Famine Crisis Richmond Paper to Neo-Confederates: Surrender Sinclair Could Reach 7 of 10 Americans Black, Latino Voter Turnout Declined in ’16 Morgan State…
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Watch: Remembering Black Radical Women Who Used Art to Start a Revolution
“We think of artists usually in history as European, as male, as being trained in a certain way,” said Rujeko Hockley, co-curator of “We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85,” an exhibition currently on display at the Brooklyn Museum. “We don’t necessarily think of black women making quilts as artists in the South in…
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Watch: The Root’s Young, Fabulous and Female and manCODE Chicago Completely Redefined Success
Big house + big job = great life? Maybe, but maybe not. Maybe it’s time to take a different look at what success really means for us, personally and professionally. In our joint Young, Fabulous and Female and manCODEevents Tuesday, May 16, in Chicago’s Zhou B Art Center, we did just that. The Root and…
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Co-Host of Fox’s The Five Fired Over Racist Remark
Beckel Couldn’t Get Employee to Pull Complaint Trump Reaping What He Sowed. Sad. Media Writers Called Out on Diversity Coverage Photographers to Conduct Racial Census ‘. . . Same Concerns Today as in the ’80s’ Black Journalists Not Creating Local Websites South Asians a Bigger Part of ‘Asian Americans’ Ron Thomas to Receive NABJ Legacy…
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Watch: The Notorious B.I.G. Quiz: How Well Does Brooklyn, NY, Know Biggie’s Music?
Things done changed in Bed-Stuy. It’s now one of the most gentrified areas in Brooklyn, N.Y., affecting everything from voting to schooling. Fancy coffee, avocado toast and almond croissants are on every corner. It’s an everyday struggle for longtime residents to pay the unbelievable rents. The Root hit the streets of Bedford-Stuyvesant without warning to…
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Watch: I Made It to 21. Mike Brown Didn’t
Mike Brown was 18. Jordan Edwards was 15. Tamir Rice was 12. Aiyana Stanley-Jones was 7. Too many black children have not lived to celebrate the tender age of 21. Instead, their families are forced to live with memories of what was and dreams of what could have been. How many more black children have…
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Watch: Our World in Malcolm X’s Words
Very seldom does one encounter a leader as valiant, sharp and fearless as Malcolm X (aka el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz), born May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Neb., as Malcolm Little. He and his family were terrorized by white supremacists (who would eventually kill his father). During time in jail, Malcolm joined the Nation of Islam and…
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Lawyer: Roger Ailes’ Death Boosts Accusers’ Case
Fox CEO’s Apprentice Program Also Promoted Diversity Dixie Statues Fight More Racial Than Ever: La. Black Legislators Walk Out After Backlash Trump Suggests Locking Up Reporters Trump, Turkish Autocrat in Cozy Meeting Mexican Journalists Demonstrate After Slaying 50 Percent at Gizmodo Group Are of Color Cosby Disputes Old Show-Biz Saying Sides to African Culture Lost…
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Trump Enabling Jailers of Journalists
President Meets Trifecta of Free-Press Violators Washington Post Russia Scoop Sets Record Staff Slips ‘Fake News’ Into Trump’s Media Diet ‘Malicious, Unprecedented’ Effort Against Haitians Coverage of Trayvon Martin Still at Issue Rachel Swarns Leaving N.Y. Times for NYU Salinas to Address Harvard Latinx Graduation Grangenois In, Steiner Out at Morgan State Radio Mexican Journalist…