Whoopi Goldberg Clears Up Epstein Files Confusion
‘We Were All Rooting For You’ ANTM Model Speaks Out!
Black Stars Who Slayed on the 2026 American Black Film Festival Honors Red Carpet
Why Lil Durk’s Music Will Play a Huge Role in His Murder-for-Hire Case
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'Black People Are America's True Founding Fathers': The Root Presents: It's Lit! Launches With 1619 Project Creator Nikole Hannah-Jones
“I just want people to know the date 1619,” is what New York Times investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones told her editor when pitching the journalistic opus we now know as The 1619 Project. Launched in August 2019, the landmark issue compiled some of the greatest writers and thought leaders of our time to commemorate the…
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Reggie Hayes Speaks on Battling Congestive Heart Failure and Girlfriends Being Undervalued
It’s been twenty years since the premiere of Girlfriends and one of its co-stars, Reggie Hayes, has some things to say. Though the series delightfully centered Black women, Hayes’ “William Jerrowme Dent, Esq.” was a recurring staple in the lives of Joan (Tracee Ellis Ross), Toni (Jill Marie Jones), Maya (Golden Brooks), and Lynn (Persia…
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Read, Write, Revolt: The Root Launches the It's Lit! Podcast With Inaugural Guest Nikole Hannah-Jones
Autumn has only just begun, but 2020 has already been a study in contrasts: Some of us have taken to the streets, but even more of us spent an unprecedented amount of our time at home this year. Our discourse has unimaginably become even more divided, but we are holding our loved ones and ideals…
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Megan Thee Stallion Is Performing on the SNL Premiere Hosted by Chris Rock—Oh, Did Something Else Happen? [Updated]
Megan Thee Stallion is having a stellar season. In addition to the huge success of “WAP” and her Revlon deal, this week alone was packed with flourishing news for Thee Stallion, including being named one of the Time 100 Most Influential People of 2020 (and rocking a fierce cover courtesy of 2020 Root 100 honoree…
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Black Spoken Word Artist Becomes 1st Ever Poet to Win America’s Got Talent
As a poet and spoken word artist myself, I can appreciate someone with a wicked pen game and great delivery. In fact, I am not the only spoken word artist and poet on The Root staff. Perhaps you’ve heard of Michael Harriot, our resident Wypipologist, master race-baiter and the last real Negus alive. Try not…
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With Spotify In His Rear View, Joe Budden Unveils The Joe Budden Network—With Black Women at the Forefront
Following Joe Budden’s ugly breakup with Spotify, the streets wanna know what the rapper-turned-culture commentator will do next. So on the heels of Charlemagne Tha God putting jaws on the floor with the recent unveiling of The Black Effect, a Blackity-Black-ass podcast network in partnership with iHeartMedia, Budden has shown his cards and announced plans…
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Is Above The Rim's Thomas 'Shep' Sheppard The GOAT Fictional Basketball Player? A Discussion
I love Above The Rim. Its soundtrack is always in the convo for the best Black movie soundtrack of all time, and Tupac Tupac’d the shit out of the movie. Then, you have Leon (I was today years old when I discovered his last name was Robinson) displaying another talent of his—a believable jump shot—to…
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Ray Fisher Is Getting More Screen Time in Zack Snyder's Justice League, New Scenes Will Be Shot in October
Justice League fans are going to be treated to more Cyborg—thanks to Zack Snyder’s cut. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Snyder is set to start shooting for Zack Snyder’s Justice League, a restored version of the 2017 film that he abruptly exited as director, due to a family tragedy. The film will be released as…
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Mariah Carey Opens Up About Tommy Mottola in New Memoir: 'He Tried to Wash the ‘Urban’ Off of Me'
We’re about to learn the “meaning” of Mariah Carey. At the time of this blog’s posting, the diva’s new memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey (co-written by Michaela Angela Davis) is set for wide release and will soon be in the hands of fans and curious onlookers alike. In a recent book review from Rich…
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Black Authors Will Be the Standouts at This Year’s (Virtual) National Book Festival
In 2001, when the Library of Congress’ inaugural National Book Festival kicked off in Washington, D.C., some 50 award-winning authors, illustrators and storytellers peopled the pop-up tents on the East Lawn of the U.S. Capitol to read excerpts of their work, sign their books and interact with fans. That was September 9. Two days later,…