Michelle Obama On How That Famous 2008 New Yorker ‘Fist Bump’ Magazine Cover Changed Everything
Atlanta Nightlife Insiders Respond to 21 Savage’s Claim That the City’s Club Scene ‘Grooms’ Children
The Root’s Ultimate Guide to Holiday Dos and Don’ts
How to Show Up For Someone Who Is Grieving This Holiday Season
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Tupac’s Godfather, Jamal Joseph, on His Journey From Panther to Political Prisoner to Film Director
Writer, director and activist Jamal Joseph was a member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. At 16 years old, he was arrested in the Panther 21 case along with Afeni Shakur, the mother of rapper Tupac Shakur. The Panther 21 case was designed to wipe out the New York Black Panther…
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Tenants Call Trump’s Son-in-Law a Slumlord
Reporter Examines Kushner’s Md. Properties Trump Budget a ‘Crackdown on the Neediest’ . . . Public Broadcasting Funds Would Be Slashed Hannity, Pushing Conspiracy, Loses Advertisers David Louie Still Chases Stories After 45 Years Coates’ ‘Black Panther’ Comic Spinoff Canceled Univision, Telemundo Accused of Defamation Journal-isms Inc. Gains Tax-Exempt Status Chicago Radio Raises Funds for…
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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…