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
The Four Black Women Coaches Who Took Their Teams to the Sweet Sixteen in the NCAA Women’s Tournament
-
Oprah Appoints Herself CEO of OWN
Move Indicates More Involvement With Daily Operations “Oprah Winfrey stood before cable company executives at an industry confab last month and admitted that the beginning of OWN, her cable channel, wasn’t going very well, in part because she had been focused on the end of her daytime talk show instead,” Brian Stelter reported Wednesday for…
-
Maya Angelou Discovers Her African Ancestry
In this episode of African American Lives 2 that aired on PBS in 2008, the poet discovers where her ancestors are from and explains why she knew it all along. Plus: Learn more about tracing your ancestry in our Roots section.
-
2 Black-Oriented Websites to Collaborate
NBC News’ theGrio.com and Interactive One’s NewsOne.com have decided to share news and resources in what the two companies are touting as “an expanded platform for African-American journalism.” Theoretically, each site will now have available the resources of NBC News, Radio One, TV One, Reach Media’s syndicated Tom Joyner radio show, theGrio.com, NewsOne.com, HelloBeautiful.com and theUrbanDaily.com.…
-
Color of Change's Rashad Robinson on Black Politicians
Color of Change’s newly minted executive director, Rashad Robinson, caught up with The Root at the 2011 Blogging While Brown Conference in Los Angeles. His online activism group hosted a panel on “Black Political Accountability in the Age of Obama” on July 9. The discussion included Jack and Jill Politics co-founder Cheryl Contee, Democratic National…
-
Concrete Loop's Angel Laws' Advice for Bloggers
Angel Laws, founder of the popular blog Concrete Loop, talks to The Root’s Sheryl Salomon about her new book at the 2011 Blogging While Brown Conference in Los Angeles.
-
Blogging While Brown 2011: Rene Syler Talks
At the 2011 Blogging While Brown conference in Los Angeles, The Root caught up with veteran journalist and blogger Rene Syler. Syler, co-host of CBS News’ The Early Show between 2002 and 2006, told us about the latest offerings on her parenting-advice blog, “Good Enough Mother.” Syler, who, with comedian Kim Coles, hosted the conference’s…
-
CNN: Can't Find Anyone of Color Qualified
CNN’s top executive has all but said that the on-air journalists of color it employs are not ready for prime time, and deployed Mark Whitaker, the former Newsweek editor who recently became a CNN news executive, to talk with the National Association of Black Journalists about finding more suitable ones. In a statement protesting CNN’s…
-
Morgan Freeman Learns About His Slave Ancestry
In an episode of the PBS series African American Lives 2 that aired in 2008, the actor uncovers shocking facts about his great-grandmother. Check out our Roots section for advice on exploring your family tree.
-
CNN Cancels Eliot Spitzer
CNN on Wednesday canceled the political talk show “In the Arena” with Eliot Spitzer, filling his 8 p.m. time slot with Anderson Cooper’s “AC360” and unveiling a fall lineup that includes a new general news program with Erin Burnett, formerly of CNBC. The lineup includes no journalists of color. When the former New York governor…
-
Media 'U-Turn' on Strauss-Kahn Hotel Maid
West African Accuser Loses Sympathetic Status The hotel maid who accuses Dominique Strauss-Kahn of forcing her into a sexual encounter has lost her status as a sympathetic figure in the American media as reporters and prosecutors say they have uncovered inconsistent statements and lies about her past. ” ‘Until today, it was white versus black,…