Why Black Folks Should Participant in the Black Census Project
New Study Links ‘Everywhere Chemicals’ Found in Plastics to 2 Million Premature Births
NBA Player Fired Over Anti-LGBTQ Pride Month Comments Sparks Free Speech Debate
Black Virginia Family Finds Army Discharge Papers That Unlock a Mother’s Secret WWII Legacy
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The Vine: Thelma Golden on Art and the Black Community
Thelma Golden, the director and chief curator of New York’s Studio Museum in Harlem, spoke to The Root recently for the Vine video series on African-American leaders. She told Omar Wasow that art might not seem very important when you take into account some of the serious issues facing the black community, but “the ability…
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Media Cite Alleged Malcolm X Killer Via Marable Book
Death of Malcolm X Biographer Manning Marable on Eve of Biography’s Release Gave Opportunity Media Have Long Resisted. The mainstream media long resisted identifying the man believed to have pulled the trigger in the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X, but found its opportunity with Monday’s publication of the late scholar Manning Marable’s new biography, “Malcolm…
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Malcolm X Scholar Dies on Eve of Revelations
Noted African American historian Manning Marable died in New York on Friday, three days before his long-awaited book containing revelations about Malcolm X is to be published, his publicist confirmed. He was 60.A prolific writer, Marable directed the Institute for the Research in African American Studies at Columbia University and for years wrote the column…
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Black Journalists Want Larger Voice in Minority 'Unity' Group
President Notes Association Is “the Largest Partner” The National Association of Black Journalists is seeking a larger voice within Unity: Journalists of Color, an organization that gives each of its four partner organizations the same number of votes, NABJ President Kathy Y. Times told members in a message Tuesday night. “All four journalism organizations that…
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The Vine: Marcus Samuelsson's Melting Pot
As part of the Vine series on leadership, The Root’s Omar Wasow interviewed the Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised celebrity chef about code switching, the difference between eating expensively and eating well, and the unique role of today’s African-American leaders. “Being able to be in many different worlds is really an opportunity,” he says. “I can talk to…
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Bob Herbert Writes Final N.Y. Times Column
Bob Herbert, the first African American op-ed columnist at the New York Times, is leaving the paper after 18 years, the Times said on Friday. His last column appeared on Saturday. “I have been writing a column for 25 years, nearly 18 at The New York Times,” Herbert said in a note to the Times…
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Elizabeth Taylor Tributes Touch on Race
Story Includes “Cleopatra,” Civil Rights, Michael Jackson “I did a short story on her when she held a news conference in D.C. to promote the play, ‘The Little Foxes’ that she was starring in at the Warner Theater,” Brenda Wilson, then reporting for NPR, recalled for Journal-isms on Wednesday. “The then Mrs. Warner was a…
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The Vine: Is Cory Booker the First Twitter Mayor?
The Newark mayor tells The Root, “I have an audience of over 1 million followers on Twitter — that’s bigger than my state’s largest newspaper.” In the latest installment of our Vine series, he talks with Omar Wasow about his building dynamic coalitions and managing his message in the digital age.
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Black Reporter Clive Myrie Reports in Japan
Black reporters have not been prominent in coverage of the Japan earthquake and tsunami tragedy, though if you tune in to the BBC, you might see Clive Myrie toiling amid the muck. Born in Greater Manchester, he delivers his reports with a British accent. Myrie filed reports this week from a refugee center in Yamagata,…
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AOL Denied Any Layoff Impact, but 2 Exit Black Voices
Despite a statement from an AOL spokesman that AOL’s $315 million purchase of Huffington Post would have “no impact at all” on AOL Black Voices and AOL Latino, two employees of Black Voices had sent farewell e-mails to colleagues the day before. The two are Alexis Garrett Stodghill, programming manager who supervised the Money division,…