Kendrick Lamar Called Drake a ‘Colonizer’ and Forced Black America to Face a Hard Truth
The beef forced Black America to look deeply in 2025 and ask hard questions about who gets to represent our culture on a global stage.
Professor: Why Have Black Women Stayed Silent About Diddy, Other Men For So Long?
The Diddy docuseries does more than expose Sean Combs’s misdeeds. It shows how Black women sometimes hurt themselves in their attempt to protect Black men.
What Blueface’s Tweet About Having Sex With His Mother Actually Says About Black Mothers…
OPINION: Blueface’s tweet about his mother sleeping with him is inelegant, but that doesn’t mean he’s wrong.
The New Owner Of The Root Asked A Question We All Must Answer: ‘What Is Your Assignment?’ Don’t Have An Answer? Here’s Some Help.
We all have an assignment. But finding it will not be the same for everyone.
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Boosie BadAzz’s Reason for Walking Out of ‘The Color Purple’ Will Make You Wonder Why He’s Even a Thing in 2024
It’s just the latest in a long and distinguished list of stupidity from the Louisiana rapper.
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Sex, Lies and Viral Videos: Why Black Folk Listen to Trash-Talking ‘Influencers’ such as Tasha K, Jaguar Wright and DJ Akademiks
With all the controversy that they court, should the gossipers have a place in our culture?
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By Not Revealing His Abuser, Did Christian Keyes Allow Innocent Men To Be Thrown Under the Bus?
His approach to managing claims he made in a Dec. 15 video is proving extremely divisive.
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13 Things (And People) We Need to Leave in 2023 for the New Year
New year, new opportunity for a fresh start. These things can take time off forever.
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Why Black America Is Coming For The Black Super Rich
Oprah, Tyler Perry, T.D. Jakes and Diddy, powerful Black people are being scrutinized (fair or not) by other Black folks to a degree we’ve never have before.
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We’re Winning, but the Maga Republicans Are Ready To Snatch it Away
Progress isn’t a gift. You earned it. What will you do to protect it?