black friday
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Black Friday Deals Are on Deck, So Grab Some Good-Ass Games at Their Best-Ass Prices
Happy Friday-ass Wednesday, y’all! This Thanksgiving is going to be kinda meh as a result of the pandemic limiting our ability to gather. You know what isn’t meh though? Saving money on video games. As a result of the pandemic, most sites have already launched their Black Friday deals, which means there are bangers on…
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So Basically Every Game Is on Sale in This Week’s Good-Ass Games at Good-Ass Prices
Trying to make this week’s list was a lot, y’all. As a result of the pandemic making it wildly irresponsible to gather in our yearly show of mass consumerism, most Black Friday deals have already gone live. I don’t have nearly the space to go through all the bangers on sale right now, so I’m…
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What's Good? We've Got Your Black—and Beautiful—Friday Deals Right Here!
By now, your stomach has hopefully settled from that third plate you insisted on having on Thanksgiving—and if you refrained from lining up outside of a big box store last night, you’re now ready to burn off some of those calories taking advantage of all the Black Friday deals. (Yes, pacing around your house between…
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Black Friday: A Special Rite of Passage With My Black Family
I’m not always the fondest of turkey, but I always look forward to shopping on Black Friday. Although the day after Thanksgiving is often reduced to “capitalist consumption for the un-woke masses,” it has become a favorite family tradition of time spent with two women I love, my mom and aunt. It always includes a…
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Home Shopping Heaven: It's Cyber Monday. Do You Know Where Your Deals Are? (We Do.)
If you’re anything like me, coming back to work after a four-and-a-half day weekend was a struggle, to say the least (and that’s saying a lot, since my morning commute is approximately three feet). How to ease back into a day spent in front of my laptop, after so many days blissfully spent doing nothing?…
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Take That Selfie Thing to the Next Level: The 2018 Root Self-Care Gift Guide on Black (AF) Friday
Last year we did a gift guide on being woke; this year, we desperately want to awaken from this nightmare of the Trump administration and its hell-bent mission of disenfranchising and subjugating those who are not rich, straight, white, male, and morally bankrupt. Fear not—we have a balm, a safe space, some product (this being…
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President Price Hike Is Ruining Black Friday
This may be your last chance at a 12-pack of flat-screen televisions, thanks to Donald Trump. With a slew of tariffs on foreign goods announced in the first two years of his tenure in the office formerly reserved for Presidents, Trump has touted his international trade strategy as a necessary tool in the administration’s geopolitical…
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Frank’s Hot Sauce and 9 Other Black Thanksgiving Faux Pas That Will Earn You a Side Dish of Side Eye
I have a complicated relationship with Thanksgiving. It has historically been framed as a day, every year, when we are gluttonous to celebrate the fact that white people were saved by Native Americans. Therefore, it is only fitting that Thanksgiving, like the word “n—ga,” has become one of the blackest things in America. As with…