âI know white superheroes arenât your thing,â The Rootâs resident Suge Knight, also known as our deputy managing editor, Yesha Callahan, said to me as she tasked me with writing about Deadpool 2. No, white superheroes arenât my thing, but Ryan Reynolds is my thing, and even more so, Zazie Beetz as freakinâ Domino!
Over the weekend, Donald Glover, aka Childish Gambino, dropped a video for a new song called âThis Is America.â You are reading this, which means thereâs a better than 90 percent chance that youâve both seen the video and had a discussion about it already. Probably several.
If you were on Twitter this week, then surely you know that it was a messy tornado hellscape of âMake America Great Againâ hats and free thought and Bill Cosby apologistsâall of this on top of the nonreading Ye-holes that tend to dominate the site on a daily basis. (If this doesnât apply to you, can we switchâŚ
Spelman senior Amber Warren says she got the first hateful note at the announcement of Pride Week on campus.
It was a clear, dark night, a clear, white moon. I was born by the river, in a little tent. About 15 years later, I remember seeing a video for âCan U Get Wit Itâ by the oldest-acting teenager of all time. Yes, that teenager would be Usher Raymond, under the tutelage of Sean âPuffyâ Combs and with production byâŚ
Iâve often thought about making a list of TV and movie characters so beloved that the actors who play the roles become inextricably linked to the characters. Perhaps the greatest indicator of this phenomenon is when black audiences begin referring to actors by the roles they play.
Officials say theyâve found no signs of foul play in the death of Timothy Cunningham, a CDC employee who disappeared nearly two months ago. Cunninghamâs body was discovered Tuesday, pulled from the Chattahoochee River in Northwest Atlanta.
Atlanta police say a body pulled from the Chattahoochee River in Atlanta this week has been positively identified as Timothy Cunningham, an employee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who mysteriously vanished almost two months ago.
This week, between that Heineken ad, Roseanneâs nonacting ass being back on TV (notably on the same network pandering to âunheard white working-class Americaâ and yet nixing a Black-ish episode about NFL players kneeling) and now a minstrel show at an elementary school, I think wypipo are pranking us with overt racismâŚ
For the past five days, a mysterious group has been holding the city of Atlanta for ransom as federal authorities fight a computer attack that has crippled the city. Federal, local and state authorities are frantically trying to find a solution. More important, in the spirit of transparency, the city unwittinglyâŚ
Trigger warning: Before going any further, we feel it is our duty to forewarn our black readers that this story contains details some may find laughable and could be construed by our African-American audience as the simple reality of being a black person in corporate America. But this story is different. The acts areâŚ
During âSportinâ Waves,â the episode of Atlanta that aired Thursday night, Earn received a generous and unexpected payout from Dariusâ puppy-related investments in season 1. Armed with this unanticipated cash, the still-homeless and aggressively underemployed Earn invests it in a gift card scheme suggested by Tracy, aâŚ
If you were busting a gut over âFlorida Manâ in Atlantaâs season premiere, it turns out you had lots of good company.
Itâs been a minuteâa president agoâsince Atlantaâs first season entranced us. The show quickly became a career launching pad for its core cast: Far-out buddy Lakeith Stanfield traveled to the sunken place; sometimes-girlfriend Zazie Beetz is in surefire blockbuster Deadpool 2; upstart rapper Brian Tyree Henry got someâŚ
If, during one of the three times you caught Black Panther this weekend, you stayed through the end of the credits, you may have noticed a special shoutout to Donald Glover and his brother Stephen in the âSpecial Thanksâ section.
Atlanta police are searching for a doctor working for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who disappeared last week without a trace.
Atlanta is back Thursday, March 1, on FX. We were all reeling from excitement and wanted more when the new trailer for the show dropped recently; luckily, The Root has an exclusive clip in celebration of the highly awaited second season!
A little more than two weeks away from Atlantaâs highly anticipated second season, a new trailer for the FX dramedy is sure to whet the appetites of fans starving for âRobbinâ Season.â
New York Fashion Week is typically a flurry of edgy, ultraglamorous presentations from designers we love, daring us to push the envelopeâand our imaginationsâfurther. But rarely do the creations we admire on the runway translate to real life. At most, they are inspirationalâat least, aspirational.
Gina Conwell knows hair. You could say that the owner of high-end hair boutique Desired Extensions was born into the beauty industry: Her parents own All-in-1 Beauty Supply, an Atlanta beauty emporium that has served local residents for the past 40 years.
