New AI TikTok Trend Has Gorillas Posing as Black Women, and Folks are Pissed
‘Hey Google’ and Other Voice Assistants Are Terrifying Children and Confusing Bemused Parents
Take a Peek Inside Diddy’s $50 Million Miami Mansion He Offered Up As Collateral
Flint’s Water Crisis Ends With A Major Development
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WWE Superstar Bianca Belair Can't Wait to Perform in Front of Fans for the 1st Time in Over a Year at Wrestlemania 37
In case you haven’t heard, Wrestlemania is back in business; both literally and figuratively, considering that’s the actual tagline for this year’s much-anticipated event. As a child, I have vivid memories of watching cultural phenomenons like the Ultimate Warrior—who was later revealed to be the Ultimate Dick Head—and Hulk Hogan—who describes himself as “racist to…
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Businessman Notoriously Criticized for Exploiting Black Music Artists Calls Out Corporations for Exploiting Black Community
Diddy is dabbling in an interesting (and dangerous) game of “This you??” on Black Twitter. In a letter addressed to General Motors published via his Revolt TV website on Thursday, Diddy (born Sean Combs) critiqued the corporation that “exploited our culture, undermined our power, and excluded Black entrepreneurs from participating in the value created by…
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Kevin Durant Returns From 23-Game Absence Just to Remind Everyone the NBA Finals Are Over Before They Even Begin
Kevin Durant, who was last seen getting fined $50,000 for calling some attention-starved white boy a “pale pasty cum guzzling bitch,” made his triumphant return to the court last night. Did you hear? After missing the last 23 games with the left hamstring strain from hell, KD came off the bench in the second quarter…
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WWE Superstar Sasha Banks Just Can’t Stop Making History
Mercedes Varnado a.k.a, WWE Superstar “The Legit Boss” Sasha Banks has seemingly done it all. Over the last decade she’s become one of the first women to main event an NXT Takeover; she was one half of the first women’s tag team champions; she’s a five-time Raw Women’s Champion, the current SmackDown Women’s champion, and…
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Is It Friday? Because Paul Pierce Managed to Get Fired on His Day Off
Paul Pierce has had a week, and it’s only Tuesday. The former NBA star turned heads over the weekend when he went live on Instagram to document a night of twerking, neck massages, and general debauchery. Apparently, the sports analyst forgot he worked for the House of Mouse, and on Monday night it was announced…
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'You've Left an Indelible Mark on The Root': Giving Danielle Belton Her Flowers
The first time Danielle Belton and I chatted by phone was in 2017. At the time, I was still working in Miami at Univision when she, Genetta Adams, and The Root approached me to write a three-part series for the website about climate gentrification and its effects on Black, low-income neighborhoods in my hometown. Obviously,…
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Kevin Durant Fined $50k for 'Offensive and Derogatory' Language…But Also Because Michael Rapaport Is Out Here Twitter Snitchin'
I agree with The Root’s Jay Connor’s advice to Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant on how to handle online taunts and criticism from every Tom, Dick and Michael Rapaport: Don’t. As we previously reported, Rapaport—aka if “I’m too pale to be wishing I was Black this bad” was a person—posted screenshots on Twitter recently revealing…
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Major League Baseball Moves 2021 All-Star Game From Atlanta in Response to Voter Suppression Law
Major League Baseball will move its signature midseason event out of Atlanta because…How the hell could they spend a whole weekend talking about All-Star voting in a state that doesn’t allow people to vote? MLB’s 2021 All-Star weekend was expected to bring tens of millions of dollars to Georgia’s booming wing industry, while probably boosting…
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I Think My Kids Tried to End Me (Again) Yesterday: Another Requiem
I have four children—a daughter and three boys. My daughter is 12 and the youngest boy is almost 6 months old. The two in the middle are 6 and 4; the 4-year-old will turn 5 in May. They are a duo of precocious little scamps. They play all day long, turning various rooms in our…