White Olympic Figure Skater Praised For a Dangerous Backflip — That a Black Woman Was Penalized For Decades Ago
Kendrick Lamar Set the Super Bowl Halftime Show Bar, Bad Bunny Just Raised It
Professor: How Bad Bunny Became Famous By Gentrifying Black Music
Professor: Why Black People Should Skip The Super Bowl This Year
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Michael Harriot Ruins Everything
It’s been a wild ride. Stephen A. Crockett Jr. is leaving The Root—and Michael Harriot even wrote a better goodbye letter.
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Should Kamala Harris feel ‘Underused’ as Vice President? No.
Vice President Kamala Harris says she knows the assignment and that she and President Biden are ‘getting things done.’
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8 Kinds of Karens
Despite the trend to label every entitled white woman as a Karen, research indicates these privileged princesses fall into a much wider range of categories.
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We Need to Talk About the Values of the White Community
It’s time to have a conversation about the culture that increasingly rejects the value of education, civility and law and order
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An Open Letter From the Woke Mob to Aaron Rodgers
Aaron Rodgers is just the latest celebrity to accuse an invisible group of ‘canceling’ him—and now it’s time to respond.
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Black Ad Agencies Matter
So does Hyundai’s recent campaign targeting Black women
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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.
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18 Months After George Floyd’s Murder, Minneapolis to Vote on an Expanded Public Safety System
#YesOn2 provides a public health approach to public safety.