Texas Mother’s Reasoning for Allegedly Boiling Her Baby Will Make You Cry
After Dissing Black Americans For Years, African Immigrants Want Us To Care As Trump Tries to Deport Them. A Professor Explains What We should Do
This Alabama City’s First-Ever Black Councilwoman Receives Letter Calling Her N-Word, and That’s Not All
New Development for White Michigan Karen Who Lied and Said Two Black Men Assaulted Her
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The Jobs Are Coming Back—But Are They Black?
The employment statistics for January are out—and the jobless rate for America now sits at 9.7 percent. While the country lost 20,000 jobs last month, this figure is a slight improvement over December’s rate of 10 percent, and a five month low. The United States gross domestic product grew by a healthy 5.7 percent in…
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Obama May Be Our Last Chance
This is it. The election of Barack Obama may be the last, best chance for America to salvage our mortally wounded political system. Most rational politicians and commentators from both parties know that the legitimacy of the American political system is at a dangerously low ebb in the eyes of most of the public. Pressured…
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Thoughts on a Black Female "Living Legend": Mikki Taylor of Essence Magazine
You’ve heard the term “living legend”—it simply means someone fabulous that we are fortunate enough to still have in our midst, but who we all fully expect to be a “legend” long after they (and we) are gone from this life. My sisterfriend, mentor, and 2nd mom Mikki Taylor is one of those people. Mikki…
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Must Read: An Epic and Thorough Madea Takedown
Joe Mande of Videogum crushes Madea and Tyler Perry after seeing Perry’s recent theatrical effort. We’re going to post a blurb, but you really need to read the entire article. Then Madea enters (to thunderous applause) and the first thing he/she does is break the fourth wall, running up to the front of the stage…
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Haitian Women's Groups Need Supplies for Women and Girls
Haitian women’s groups are sending out a desperate call for sanitary supplies for women and girls. From RH Reality Check In a letter of appeal sent to colleagues in the international women’s movement, Sergia Galvan and Mayra Tavarez of Colectiva Mujeres Y Salud/CAFRA in the Dominican Republic write: As with most other natural disasters, the…
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Twit News: Md. Governor Declares State of Emergency
Maryland’s governor has declared a state of emergency according to @BaltimoreSun. If you’re in the snow-driven areas, get home soon and safely!
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Our New Commenting System
As some of you have already noticed, we have installed a new system on The Root to manage reader comments. It should make it easier for you to log in and to comment on articles that appear on the site. You will be able to log into The Root with either your Root log-in or…
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Blog Noir: "Do Black Women's Reproductive Rights Even Matter?"
In the wake of the Tebow Super Bowl ad controversy, Womanist Musings wants to know where the outrage is over an ATL billboard At the same time that this battle is being waged, another is going quite unnoticed. An anti-abortion group in Atlanta is targeting Black women by putting up billboards stating that Black children…
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Read/React: Tom Tancredo on Obama Election
Tom Tancredo knows why Barack Obama was elected and he told the Tea Party Convention in Nashville last night The opening-night speaker at first ever National Tea Party Convention ripped into President Obama, Sen. John McCain and “the cult of multiculturalism,” asserting that Obama was elected because “we do not have a civics, literacy test…
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Eric Holder and the Battle for New York
There are a great many people who do not wish to see Khalid Sheikh Mohammed tried in New York City and Attorney General Eric Holder is in the middle of a fight trying to determine the best course of action. Those that oppose an in-city trial are vocal and spirited Greg Manning, whose wife, Laura,…