A Peek Inside Travis Hunter’s New Jacksonville Mansion
In Minnesota Assassination Attempt, Wife’s Split-Second Decision is a Testament to a Mother’s Love
KWN, ‘The Female Version of Chris Brown’ Got Black Men Worried And For Good Reason
Oklahoma Black Man Hit By Patrol Car During Jaywalking Arrest, and That’s Not Even the Most Infuriating Part
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Politico Had a Black Reporter. Now They Don't.
Politico’s only Black reporter is pulling up stakes for the Washington Post Nia-Malika Henderson, the only African American reporter at Politico, the buzz-creating Washington Web site and newspaper, is leaving for the Washington Post, the Post announced to staffers on Thursday. “Nia will focus her reporting on the First Family, and mine the intersection of…
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From Rubble, A Bit of Normalcy Returns to Haiti
A nice bit of morning inspiration from the New York Times op-ed pages. Despite disaster, a little bit of day-to-day normalcy can be found in Haiti. Below is an excerpt AT 8 o’clock on Easter morning, the preacher at the Reformed Baptist church near my house was back to exhorting the young people not to…
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Down in the 'Treme': Ain't Nothin' Goin' On … Yet
It was torture watching the first episode of Treme. It was like sitting through a one-hour-too-long movie, with no real plot line and too many characters. I hate that I didn’t like the first episode. But I can’t say I’m surprised (or that I wasn’t warned by Natalie Hopkinson’s review). I didn’t like The Wire…
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Welcome to the Treme Blog
Welcome to The Root’s first television show blog, where we will be following David Simon’s new HBO show, Treme. Treme follows several musicians and residents of New Orleans who are trying to put together their lives after Hurricane Katrina. The show’s been highly anticipated, as Simon (creator of The Wire, The Corner and Homicide: Life…
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'The New Jim Crow'
Copyright © 2009 by Michelle Alexander. This excerpt originally appeared in The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, published by The New Press. Reprinted here with permission. Jarvious Cotton cannot vote. Like his father, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather, he has been denied the right to participate in our electoral democracy. Cotton’s…
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Black Girls Are Still Enslaved
This Saturday, mogul Russell Simmons and civil rights leader Al Sharpton are expected to deliver speeches at the “Stop the Violence” rally in Trenton, N.J. This rally is a direct response to the revolting news that seven men, ranging in age from 13 to 20 years old sexually assaulted a 7-year-old girl in Trenton’s Rowan…
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Happy Birthday, Clef Club!
Virginia Woolf famously wrote that on or about December 1910 human character changed. Another important change happened in 1910, when on April 11, the Clef Club was founded over a dinner of possum at the Marshall Hotel in Manhattan. Shortly thereafter, the way black popular musicians in New York City were treated and viewed nationwide…
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Obama on the Offensive
President Obama upset his base last week with his announcement that off-shore drilling would be explored. He riled them up even further with his continued support for drone attacks on terror cells overseas. And although the political left will not go so far as to call the president a war criminal—as they did President Bush…
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I Want Michelle Obama Arms
Like I said, I want this to be my first sleeveless summer, ever. Maybe I was sleeveless as a little kid. I don’t recall, so that doesn’t count. As an adult, though, I’ve never been sleeveless. Here in the South, people take their right to bare arms seriously. It just gets so freakin’ hot, you…