Why Staying Up Late at Night Can Be No Good For Black Folks
RHOP’s Karen Huger Reveals Explosive Details About What Led Up to DUI Arrest and Jail Sentence
Internet Unveils the Real Reason Nicki Minaj Suddenly Turned MAGA
Louisiana School Counselor Charged With Inappropriately Texting 14-Year-Old Student Meets a Shocking Fate
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How to Play Black Spades, Part 2: The Glossary
Welcome back to The Root University’s tutorial on how to play spades. As we discussed earlier, this guide will not make you a great spades player. Its intended purpose is to introduce you to the basic structure of the game and prevent your relatives at the next family reunion from looking at you like you…
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How to Be a Successful Writer in 2020
It’s a question I’m asked during book talks, while signing books after said talks, on panels, in emails, through DMs, at happy hours, and even once in between games at LA Fitness. I try to be as transparent as possible, but the honest answer (“I can tell you what worked for me, but there’s no…
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Hospitals Face Possibility of Instituting Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders for Patients Infected With Coronavirus
At this point, it should be no secret that the U.S. wasn’t ready to deal with a global pandemic. Between nationwide shortfalls in testing for the coronavirus to a shortage of medical supplies, it has been a mess. Now, these issues are causing medical professionals to consider one of the hardest, most heartbreaking things they’ve…
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3.3 Million Americans Filed for Unemployment Benefits. Here's What That Means for Black People
For many economic experts, it was not a matter of if a recession would hit once the coronavirus became a pandemic, but how bad it would be when it did. On Thursday morning, the numbers from the Department of Labor were even worse than what many had initially predicted: 3.3 million Americans filed for unemployment…
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To the Rescue: D-Nice, Michelle Obama Join Forces for Voter Registration 'Couch Party'
While he has yet to make his auspicious debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, DJ D-Nice is a whole ass superhero. For real. Since launching his virtual block parties, dubbed “Homeschool,” on Instagram Live last week, the former Boogie Down Productions rapper has quite literally provided the soundtrack to self-quarantine and graduated into a global…
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The President Is a Pandemic-Sized Asshole and When He’s Called on It, He Attacks the Media
In the president’s world, everything—the global pandemic, deaths, fear, the lack of toilet paper—all of it is solely about his election and the attempts by the “LameStream media” to keep him from being elected. So the president has decided that he’s going to show everyone—scientists, the media, people who didn’t vote for him and even…
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Rep. Matt Gaetz Is Big Mad That Howard University Is Getting Stimulus Money. Kamala Harris Calls Him Out
On Wednesday, Congress reached an agreement on a $2 trillion stimulus deal to relieve businesses and individuals affected financially by the coronavirus outbreak, and as usual, certain people are mad at all the wrong things. Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Republican, loyal Trump supporter and all-around loud and wrong white man, took to Twitter after…
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Gun Stores Labeled Non-Essential in Los Angeles and Must Close
In recent weeks, the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in people hoarding toilet paper and guns because this is America, dammit. In Los Angeles, though, one of those things has been taken off the board. CNN reports that Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva has labeled gun stores as a non-essential service and is ordering them to…