Why Y'all Need to Give Gayle King a Break For the Blue Origin FlightKing has caught a significant amount of static for her April 14 trip...and she clapped back accordingly.B.Kadijat Towolawi
Trump Is Race Baiting Black America For Hopes of Violence, But Here's Why We Won't Take the BaitLawrence Ware
Why Deion Sanders is to Blame For His Son Shedeur's NFL Draft FiascoWhen you look at the big picture, Sanders' shocking draft mess all traces back to his famous dad.Brandon Pope
MAGA is Dragging the Texas Teen Stabbing Suspect Because He's a Black Boy, Here are 3 Reasons to Ignore ThemConservatives are taking a biased approach to covering the tragedy, and you already know what direction they're in.Lawrence Ware
How Trump's Sympathy For White South Africans Underlines His Trash Behavior Toward Black AmericansTo our president, America should probably be a safe haven for all white minorities.Madison J. Gray
Why Democrats Are Considering A Tea Party ... Or Should BeThe dems are getting spanked so hard by Trump and the MAGA Republicans that it's hard to watchLawrence Ware
Why Netflix’s Atrocious ‘Pop The Balloon Live’ Proves Some Things Need to Stay Black and RatchetThe new, polished version of the popular YouTube show never looked to be very good, but it’s actually so much worse than expected.Dustin J. Seibert
Why Trump's 'Liberation Day' Tariffs Will Shackle Black Folks Harder Than Everyone ElseThe unholy combination of Black unemployment and cost of hoods will rock us in ways we might not anticipate.Lawrence Ware
Miss Kamala Yet? Black America Has Much to Say About MAGA Republicans Scary Leak of War TextsRepublicans are shamelessly hypocritical in their outrage against Dems while they fail to protect all of our business.Lawrence Ware
The Powerful Reason Why White Folks Are Afraid of A Possible American Dystopia, But Black Folks Say 'Bring It On!'Black people have proven that we can, and will, thrive anywhere.Lawrence Ware
18 Places You Might Find a Karen Causing a Ruckus this SummerBlack people raise your cellphones in the air, it's Karen season. Not even your own home is safe from a Karen tantrum.Kalyn Womack
If Lift Every Voice Has Got to Go, Then So Do TheseWhy, during Black History Month no less, are white people still insisting there should only be ONE National Anthem?Whitney Roberts
By Sending Migrants North, DeSantis & Abbott Are Wannabe George WallacesThe two governors may seem like cartoon villains, but they're actually something far more insidious.Keith Reed
A Karen Found His Way Into My Voicemail. Here's What Happened NextThere's something about writing specifically for a Black audience that triggers entitled people.Keith Reed
The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Was It Something I Said?Each Friday, we clap back at readers' emails, DMs, tweets and messages. We do it because we care.Michael Harriot
The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Respectfully...Each Friday, we clap back at readers' emails, DMs, tweets and messages. We do it because we care.Michael Harriot
The Root's Clapback Mailbag: I'll Try It Your WayEach Friday, we clap back at readers' emails, DMs, tweets and messages. We do it because we care.Michael Harriot
We Outside: Who Says Off-Road Racing and Black People Don't Mix?If this pandemic has taught us anything, it's to venture outside of our comfort zones and live our best lives—racial stereotypes be damned.Jay Connor
Fani Willis Can't Make Mistakes as a Professional Black Woman, But Trump Should be President?Trump is nursing 91 felony counts and four prosecutions, and he's still a front runner for the White House next year.Dustin J. Seibert
