Inside the Explosive Delineation Debate Picking Apart Black Folk’s Identity, History, and Who ‘Belongs’
The Root’s Ultimate Guide to Holiday Dos and Don’ts!
Forget What JD Vance Said — Here are 13 Times White Folks Never Apologized For Bad Behavior
NFL Might Tax Steelers’ DK Metcalf’s This Eye-Watering Sum For His Sideline Move
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Black Cop’s Tale of Infiltrating KKK Is a Hit at Cannes
New Spike Lee Joint Gets Standing Ovation Israeli Drone With Tear Gas Targets Journalists Chinita Anderson, Playwright, NPR Staffer, Dies Hundreds Arrested in New Poor People’s Campaign Baquet to Be Honored by Press Freedom Group Pot Arrest Rate Higher for Blacks, Latinos Offensive Mascots a Disqualifier, Foundation Says Ex-Radio Manager at Morgan State Alleges Fraud…
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For Many Moms, ‘Life Ain’t Been No Crystal Stair’
Media Remind Us of Those Not on Holiday Cards Citizens See Journalists as Powerful in Own Right Critics Target April Ryan After Melania Comment Does ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ Apply to Food Media? Philly Responds to Report on Housing Bias N.C. Paper Says Let Public Decide on R. Kelly Dallas to Memorialize 1910 Lynching Victim Congress…
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White Woman Calls Police on Bob Marley’s Granddaughter After She Didn’t Smile. Now the Filmmaker Wants Justice
After someone called the police, seven cop cars rolled up on a group of black filmmakers, including the granddaughter of Bob Marley, Donisha Prendergast. The group was renting an Airbnb in Rialto, Calif. Now they want justice. Prendergast recently spoke out at a New York press conference. “Just because I wasn’t bowed and handcuffed against…
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Judge of Characters: Black Men, White Wives … This Is America
Donald Glover basically broke the internet when he released his video for “This Is America,” a disturbing visual with enough interpretable art all up and through it. Even the biggest art intellectual likely needed to go back and watch it 47 times. I know I did. But that’s a testament to good art, right? You…
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Henrietta Lacks: The Immortal Mother of Modern Medicine Will Be Honored in the Smithsonian
Here’s a fitting Mother’s Day tribute: A portrait of the woman responsible for some of the greatest research of the 20th and 21st centuries—including polio and in vitro fertilization—will now be featured in the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. Henrietta Lacks was a Virginia woman who was diagnosed with and died of aggressive cervical cancer in…
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This Dancer Gave Birth Weeks Before Performing in Beyoncé’s Historic Coachella Set. This Is How She Snapped Back
Dnay Baptiste has an impressive work résumé. The New York native has performed with big names like N.E.R.D and Jennifer Lopez—oh, and she’s been one of Beyoncé’s principal dancers for over five years. Baptiste, 30, has danced in some of Beyoncé’s most memorable performances, including the 2017 Grammys, where Bey beautifully revealed her second pregnancy.…
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Misty Copeland on How She Ended Up in Drake’s ‘Nice for What’ Video
Misty Copeland is making boss moves. In 2015 she charmed the world as the first black woman to become a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre. She won the hearts of little black girls as the Firebird Barbie. And the ballerina made her foray into fashion four years ago when she partnered with athletic…
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Univision Bosses Incompetent, Staffers Write
Critical Report Appears on Own Websites USA Today Has Its First Publisher of Color Sun-Times Wants R. Kelly to ‘Pay the Price’ From Coates: ‘I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye’ Latest Falsehood: Black Support for Trump Doubled Cox Names Sharon Wilmore Editor in Ohio Elias Lopez Gets International Opinions Post Fatal Police Shootings of Unarmed Citizens…
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‘Street Talk’ From Huckabee Sanders?
Ryan Offended by ‘You Don’t Know Much About Me’ Coates: I Didn’t Have the Luxury of Avoiding Racists Camille Cosby: Media Too Easily Believed Accusers Reporters Link Some White Nationalists to Military Hostility Toward Press Found Worsening in U.S. Pair Create Positive Space for Black Millennials Coping Advice Offered for Career Women of Color Sun-Times…
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3 Times American Slaves Did Rebel
There’s been a lot of talk about slavery lately, and sadly, some of it is wildly misinformed. For the record, enslaved black folks didn’t choose to be shackled, torn from their families, then bought and sold in the U.S., only to be tortured by slave owners. And some of them fought back.At minimum, there were…