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Role Call

Role Call: Chinonye Chukwu Highlights the Resilience of Mamie Till-Mobley in the Upcoming Film <i>Till </i>and<i> </i>Tupac, Biggie and Suge Knight's Documentary Hits the Big Screen

Role Call: Chinonye Chukwu Highlights the Resilience of Mamie Till-Mobley in the Upcoming Film Till and Tupac, Biggie and Suge Kni...

Role Call: Lester Holt Is the 'Anchor for America' for the Tokyo Olympics, a New Series on Malcolm X and More

Role Call: Lester Holt Is the 'Anchor for America' for the Tokyo Olympics, a New Series on Malcolm X and More

Role Call: Meghan and Harry's Emmy-Nominated Interview, Shonda's New Deal, and More

Role Call: Meghan and Harry's Emmy-Nominated Interview, Shonda's New Deal, and More

Music

'Skate': Silk Sonic Debuts New Single and Music Video to Help Us Glide Into the Summertime

'Skate': Silk Sonic Debuts New Single and Music Video to Help Us Glide Into the Summertime

Silk Sonic Is Inviting Us All to a ‘Summertime Jam’ This Friday, But All I Wanna Know Is: Will the Album Be There?

Silk Sonic Is Inviting Us All to a ‘Summertime Jam’ This Friday, But All I Wanna Know Is: Will the Album Be There?

‘C.R.E.A.M.’: U.S. Government Sells One-of-a-Kind Wu-Tang Clan Album That Once Belonged to Martin Shkreli to Help Cover Debts

‘C.R.E.A.M.’: U.S. Government Sells One-of-a-Kind Wu-Tang Clan Album That Once Belonged to Martin Shkreli to Help Cover Debts

Social Media

DaBaby Pretends Not to Know Who Questlove Is After Being Called Out for His Homophobia

DaBaby Pretends Not to Know Who Questlove Is After Being Called Out for His Homophobia

Michael Che Comes Under Fire for Repulsive Jokes About Simone Biles

Michael Che Comes Under Fire for Repulsive Jokes About Simone Biles

Here's Your Reminder That Halle Bailey Will Go Over and Under the Sea for Her Big Sis Chloe—So Don't Try Her

Here's Your Reminder That Halle Bailey Will Go Over and Under the Sea for Her Big Sis Chloe—So Don't Try Her

Television

AAFCA TV Honors 2021: Barry Jenkins, Jurnee Smollett, Jonathan Majors Among Winners

AAFCA TV Honors 2021: Barry Jenkins, Jurnee Smollett, Jonathan Majors Among Winners

Exclusive Clip: <i>Grown-ish</i> Will Tackle Police Brutality, BLM Uprisings, Looting and White Fragility

Exclusive Clip: Grown-ish Will Tackle Police Brutality, BLM Uprisings, Looting and White Fragility

Designing Black Women: Raven-Symone, Retta, Marsai Martin and Egypt Sherrod All Tapped for New Shows on HGTV and Discovery+

Designing Black Women: Raven-Symone, Retta, Marsai Martin and Egypt Sherrod All Tapped for New Shows on HGTV and Discovery+

Movies

<i>King Richard </i>Trailer: Watch Will Smith Embody the Father of Tennis Superstars Venus and Serena Williams

King Richard Trailer: Watch Will Smith Embody the Father of Tennis Superstars Venus and Serena Williams

Please Inject This 'Malice at the Palace' Documentary Directly Into My Veins

Please Inject This 'Malice at the Palace' Documentary Directly Into My Veins

Regé-Jean Page Tapped as Lead for Upcoming Reboot of Adventure-Thriller <i>The Saint</i>

Regé-Jean Page Tapped as Lead for Upcoming Reboot of Adventure-Thriller The Saint

The Grapevine

Kevin Hart Was Like, 'It's About to Go Down' and Posted Frequent Father Nick Cannon's Phone Number on a Billboard

Kevin Hart Was Like, 'It's About to Go Down' and Posted Frequent Father Nick Cannon's Phone Number on a Billboard

Celebrity Skee-Wee: Meet the New Honorary Members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

Celebrity Skee-Wee: Meet the New Honorary Members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

Thieves Broke Into Jodie Turner-Smith's Cannes Hotel Room and Stole Jewelry, Including Her Mother's Wedding Ring

Thieves Broke Into Jodie Turner-Smith's Cannes Hotel Room and Stole Jewelry, Including Her Mother's Wedding Ring

Events

That Ain’t DaBaby, That’s My Adida: Let’s Get Into Rolling Loud Miami 2021, Shall We?

That Ain’t DaBaby, That’s My Adida: Let’s Get Into Rolling Loud Miami 2021, Shall We?

Emmys 2021 Noms: Michaela Coel, Mj Rodriguez, Misha Green, and...<i>The Root</i>'s Michael Harriot Are Coming for Their Things

Emmys 2021 Noms: Michaela Coel, Mj Rodriguez, Misha Green, and...The Root's Michael Harriot Are Coming for Their Things

Put Your Hands Together for Cedric the Emmys Entertainer, Actor-Comedian Will Host 2021 Ceremony

Put Your Hands Together for Cedric the Emmys Entertainer, Actor-Comedian Will Host 2021 Ceremony

Joystick

A Love Letter to All the Games That Have Gotten Me Through the Pandemic

A Love Letter to All the Games That Have Gotten Me Through the Pandemic

The Backlog: <i>Gravity Rush 2</i> Is the PlayStation Exclusive You Need to Stop Sleeping On

The Backlog: Gravity Rush 2 Is the PlayStation Exclusive You Need to Stop Sleeping On

Good-Ass Games: An Entire Decade Later, <i>Vanquish</i> Is Still One of the Best Action Games to Ever Do the Damn Thing

Good-Ass Games: An Entire Decade Later, Vanquish Is Still One of the Best Action Games to Ever Do the Damn Thing

Entertainment

Dr. Dre Ordered to Pay Nearly $300,000 a Month in Spousal Support to Ex-Wife Nicole Young

Dr. Dre Ordered to Pay Nearly $300,000 a Month in Spousal Support to Ex-Wife Nicole Young

The Obama Cinematic Universe Continues With New HBO Docuseries and Book

The Obama Cinematic Universe Continues With New HBO Docuseries and Book

Berry Gordy to Be Celebrated at 44th Annual Kennedy Center Honors

Berry Gordy to Be Celebrated at 44th Annual Kennedy Center Honors

Media

Queen Latifah Will Grab the Mic in First-Look Podcast Deal With Audible

Queen Latifah Will Grab the Mic in First-Look Podcast Deal With Audible

<i>Geto Boys Reloaded </i>Proves That Yes, Rap <i>Can</i> Age Gracefully

Geto Boys Reloaded Proves That Yes, Rap Can Age Gracefully

Malcolm Spellman Deconstructs Challenges of Being Black in Hollywood: 'Racism Is Coming From People Who Truly Don’t Want to Be Racist'

Malcolm Spellman Deconstructs Challenges of Being Black in Hollywood: 'Racism Is Coming From People Who Truly Don’t Want to Be Rac...

Blerds United

Hey Y’all, I’m Like 95 Percent Certain <i>Loki</i> Just Set Up the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Next Thanos-Level Threat

Hey Y’all, I’m Like 95 Percent Certain Loki Just Set Up the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Next Thanos-Level Threat

Black Excellence: As the Hellfire Gala Comes to a Close, Ororo Munroe, a.k.a Storm, Makes History by Becoming the First Regent of the Solar System

Black Excellence: As the Hellfire Gala Comes to a Close, Ororo Munroe, a.k.a Storm, Makes History by Becoming the First Regent of ...

Summer of Milestone: Writer Vita Ayala and Artist Nikolas Draper-Ivey on Turning <i>Static: Season One </i>Into a Certified Banger

Summer of Milestone: Writer Vita Ayala and Artist Nikolas Draper-Ivey on Turning Static: Season One Into a Certified Banger

Hot Tea

Chrissy Teigen 'Feels Lost' After Being Away From Twitter for So Long, and 'All of Me' Is Trying to Figure Out Why

Chrissy Teigen 'Feels Lost' After Being Away From Twitter for So Long, and 'All of Me' Is Trying to Figure Out Why

Is Ramona Singer the Meghan McCain of the <i>Real Housewives</i> Franchise?

Is Ramona Singer the Meghan McCain of the Real Housewives Franchise?

Meghan and Harry's Son Archie May Never Be a Prince, but Thanks to His Parents, He Also Won't Be 'Earl of Dumbarton' [Updated]

Meghan and Harry's Son Archie May Never Be a Prince, but Thanks to His Parents, He Also Won't Be 'Earl of Dumbarton' [Updated]

It's Lit

Take a Look, It's in a MasterClass Book—LeVar Burton's Storytelling Rainbow!

Take a Look, It's in a MasterClass Book—LeVar Burton's Storytelling Rainbow!

Will Smith Is Releasing a Memoir, and He Sat at the Red Table to Talk <i>Fatherhood</i> With Kevin Hart

Will Smith Is Releasing a Memoir, and He Sat at the Red Table to Talk Fatherhood With Kevin Hart

Things to Read and Watch to Celebrate and Honor Juneteenth

Things to Read and Watch to Celebrate and Honor Juneteenth

Black and Bingeing

<i>The Circle</i> of Lockdown Life: My Favorite Pandemic-Era Escape Is Back

The Circle of Lockdown Life: My Favorite Pandemic-Era Escape Is Back

<i>P-Valley</i>—and the 'P' Stands for Prosper While Bingeing This Endearingly Turnt Series

P-Valley—and the 'P' Stands for Prosper While Bingeing This Endearingly Turnt Series

There Are <i>Little Fires Everywhere—</i>and Tiffany Boone Has Been Set Ablaze

There Are Little Fires Everywhere—and Tiffany Boone Has Been Set Ablaze

Hustle and Glow

Oprah Gives Sound Advice on Failure During 'Some Good News' Appearance

Oprah Gives Sound Advice on Failure During 'Some Good News' Appearance

New Schmoney: Cardi B and Offset Close Deal on Multimillion-Dollar Atlanta Mansion With Wine Cellar, Plans for Steel-Encased Gun Range

New Schmoney: Cardi B and Offset Close Deal on Multimillion-Dollar Atlanta Mansion With Wine Cellar, Plans for Steel-Encased Gun R...

Social Studies

Is Outkast Better Than the Beatles? A Scientific Analysis

Is Outkast Better Than the Beatles? A Scientific Analysis

Booger Says a Beautiful Thing

Booger Says a Beautiful Thing

A White Woman Admits She's Been Rachel Dolezal-ing Us for Years—and I Feel Fine

A White Woman Admits She's Been Rachel Dolezal-ing Us for Years—and I Feel Fine

The Root Reviews

Sundance 2021: Questlove's Directorial Debut <i>Summer of Soul</i> Is a Televised and Reminiscent Revolution [Updated]

Sundance 2021: Questlove's Directorial Debut Summer of Soul Is a Televised and Reminiscent Revolution [Updated]

<em>Tenet</em>: It’s Ambitious, Glossy and the Black James Bond We’ve Been Waiting For

Tenet: It’s Ambitious, Glossy and the Black James Bond We’ve Been Waiting For

In <i>The Scheme</i>, a Basketball Mastermind Provides the Perfect Playbook to the NCAA's Biggest Scandal <i></i>

In The Scheme, a Basketball Mastermind Provides the Perfect Playbook to the NCAA's Biggest Scandal

Comic Sans

These Comics Will Help Get You Through the Superhero Drought

These Comics Will Help Get You Through the Superhero Drought

Color Creatives

Kadir Nelson Puts Iconic Moments in Black History on Canvas

Kadir Nelson Puts Iconic Moments in Black History on Canvas

This Producer Helped Craft Ariana Grande's Sound and He's Working With Your Other Faves, Too

This Producer Helped Craft Ariana Grande's Sound and He's Working With Your Other Faves, Too

The Story Behind the Music of <i>Black-ish’</i>s Most Talked About Episode

The Story Behind the Music of Black-ish’s Most Talked About Episode

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