When it comes to Black history, the American education system has remained woefully underwhelming. Lessons about Black history are typically relegated exclusively to the month of February and only focus on Rosa Parks, MLK and maybe they’ll throw in the Ruby Bridges movie. The reckoning that arose from George Floyd’s…

Another day, another incident of taxpayers holding the bag for police officers who treat members of the public brutally and with impunity.

While Republican-led state legislatures across the country are ramming through measures to make it harder for people to vote, at least one southern state has passed legislation that will do the opposite.

I don’t pride myself on a lot of things, but aside from my mutant ability to consume an extraordinarily high volume of crab legs, I genuinely try to be kind.

There are certain things you just never expect that you need to explain to people. You shouldn’t need to tell adults not to drink shampoo, steer their cars with their feet or that, despite Kendrick Lamar’s advice, it’s not a good idea to fill your swimming pool up with liquor and then diiiiiiiiiive in it.

Diddy is dabbling in an interesting (and dangerous) game of “This you??” on Black Twitter.

There isn’t a dance floor, wedding, cookout, or Black person alive who isn’t familiar with The Gap Band’s signature hit, “You Dropped the Bomb on Me,” and its contagious bassline. And on the latest episode of ABC Audio’s Soul of a Nation: Tulsa’s Buried Truth balladeer Charlie Wilson reveals whether or not the 1982…

Congressman Matt Gaetz is being investigated by federal investigators to determine whether he was given trips to the Bahamas and women in exchange for political favors, according to CNN.

Alright, alright, alriiiiight. April is here and what better way to commemorate yet another month in this pandemic (booo) than by attending some fun (online) events! Though the seemingly unending nature of this panoramic continues to relegate our good times indoors, if there’s anything we’ve learned over this past…

Republicans are either desperate to hold on to any semblance of Trump, or they have nothing else to spend their stimulus money on, but somehow Marjorie Taylor Greene—the GOP Georgia representative that Republicans secretly hate, too—raise $3.2 million in three months.

Twenty-one years, twenty-one years…

Virginia is the first state in the South to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, the Associated Press reports.

President Joe Biden announced six actions Thursday that will aim to address the rising ride of mass shootings, according to ABC.

These are the exact type of stories I hate to hear about, let alone report on, but since The Root is in the business of news, here we go.

Republican SpankBang, aka Fox News, is known for its plethora of white men spouting lies to an audience of dunces.

In today’s episode of Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Hate Crime Charges, a Paradise, Calif., woman is facing hate crime charges after she allegedly plowed through a work zone in her SUV while drinking and shouting racial slurs at a Black worker who was holding up signs to control the pace of traffic. The worker said he…

On Tuesday, we told you about the eye-opening revelation that #BridgertonBae Regé-Jean Page was allegedly passed on for a role on Syfy’s Krypton due to the lackluster, unimaginative nature of former DC Entertainment exec Geoff Johns (whose problematic nature we’ve also been keeping you in the loop about in regard to…