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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'Obamacare' Slur Turned on Its Head
“I Do Care, That’s Right. . . . Why Don’t You Care?” For more than a year, Republicans have taken to calling President Obama’s health care reform legislation “Obamacare” in an effort to disparage it. No Republican presidential candidates debate is complete without numerous uses of the term, and like “death tax” for “estate tax”…
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Many in Africa Relieved by Qaddafi's Demise
Some Reports Keep Focus on Plight of Black Libyans Many African journalists reacted with relief Thursday at the killing of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, according to early reports. Some were focusing on the plight of black and dark-skinned Libyans who had been harassed and tortured by the victorious rebels because they had been or…
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Melody Barnes on Leaving White House
Oct. 21, Washington, D.C. — Yesterday, White House Domestic Policy Council Director Melody Barnes announced that she would be stepping down at the end of the year. During an “Open for Questions” Q&A session moderated by The Root at the White House, our Washington reporter, Cynthia Gordy, asked Barnes to weigh in on the legacy…
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VIDEO: White House 'Open for Questions' Q&A
The White House was “Open for Questions” Thursday, Oct. 20, when senior White House officials Valerie Jarrett and Melody Barnes sat down with The Root’s Cynthia Gordy to answer questions from audience members and our Twitter followers and Facebook fans about the American Jobs Act and what the president is doing to combat poverty. Find…
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There Is Diversity at Occupy Wall Street
Filmmaker Obatala Mawusi said that the days he spent documenting the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City were “eye-opening.” In particular, the diversity he saw among the protesters belied the images of the movement in mainstream media. In early October 2011, Mawusi spoke to some of the black participants about why the Occupy…
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VIDEO: Exclusive MLK Dedication Footage
After Hurricane Irene derailed plans for an August ceremony, the dedication for the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., finally took place on Oct. 16. A series of luminaries — including Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), Andrew Young, Cicely Tyson and President Barack Obama — spoke, and singers such as…
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Live From the Black Girls Rock! Awards
The 2011 Black Girls Rock! award show, hosted by Tracee Ellis Ross and Regina King at the Paradise Theatre in the Bronx, N.Y., Saturday night, celebrated the work and contributions of black women in the arts, business, activism and philanthropy. Shirley Caesar, Taraji P. Henson, Tatyana Ali and the incomparable Angela Davis were among the…
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Keith Clinkscales to Leave ESPN
Keith Clinkscales, who had supervised ESPN’s publications and a media incubator that produced such prize-winning movies and specials as “30 for 30,” is leaving the network after six years, an ESPN spokesman confirmed Friday. Crystal Howard, a spokeswoman for Clinkscales, said it was his decision, citing Clinkscales’ entrepreneurial temperament. Clinkscales, 47, was president and CEO…
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Catching Up With Books for the Fall
Amy Alexander Mervin Aubespin Howard Bryant Ellis Cose Belva Davis John W. Fountain Juan González and Joseph Torres Michele Norris Rochelle Riley Eugene Robinson Carole Simpson Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan Mark N. Trahant Isabel Wilkerson Two new books on race and the news media — Amy Alexander’s “Uncovering Race: A Black Journalist’s Story of Reporting and…
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Unity Smoothly Integrates Gay Journos
NABJ Is Gone, but Some Influence Will Remain The Unity: Journalists of Color, Inc., board of directors met face-to-face for the first time this weekend without the National Association of Black Journalists as a partner and with the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association as a new member. The group smoothly integrated the NLGJA members…