culture
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Dennis Rodman: Russia’s President Is ‘Actually Cool’
Former NBA star Dennis Rodman has already raised eyebrows with his unprecedented friendship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Now the Hall of Famer has had the opportunity to meet with the leader of another country that has a less-then-favorable relationship with the United States. While attending a recent charity event in Moscow, organized…
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Rikers Island Guard Charged With Lying After Inmate ‘Baked to Death’ in Hot Cell
The New York City correction officer accused of leaving her post while a mentally ill inmate “baked to death” in a cell measuring more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit has been criminally charged, the New York Daily News reports. Carol Lackner has been indicted on charges of falsifying business records, filing a false instrument and official…
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Exploring the City of the Mind Through African Art
The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art opened in late October 2014 in Cambridge, Mass., its exterior walls serving as both real and metaphoric grounding for the Hutchins Center for African and American Research at Harvard University (of which The Root’s editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., is director). A handsome, angled entry…
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Boston—With Its Turbulent Racial History—Has Awakened With the #BlackLivesMatter Movement
Boston: This city has witnessed an extraordinary awakening and outpouring of #BlackLivesMatter political demonstrations over the past week and a half by a new generation of activists who are determined to change the very face of a city not known as a bastion of racial justice. In the days before Thanksgiving, upwards of 2,000 protesters…
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2 Storied Black Sororities—AKA and Delta—Won’t Let Their Members Protest While Wearing Greek Letters
Collectively known as the Divine Nine, black fraternities and sororities have long been central to the African-American college experience—standing as vanguards of social justice, community service, black excellence and achievement. So it has been surprising and, to many members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., disappointing that they’ve been…
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Houston Woman Found Dead; Amber Alert Issued for 11-Month-Old Son
Investigators are searching for an 11-month-old baby, and have issued an Amber Alert, after the child’s mother was found dead and stuffed inside a refrigerator in a Southwest Houston apartment, KHOU 11 reports. The woman’s husband, Patrick Lambert, 38, is a person of interest in the case. Neither Lambert nor his baby son, Achilles, has…
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Guidance Counselor Said to Warn: If My Child Can’t Make Eagles Game, I Will Shoot Protesters!
A school official in Pennsylvania’s Central Bucks School District has been placed on paid leave after allegedly posting a threatening message on Facebook, according to NBC10. Marykate Blankenburg allegedly wrote, “If my child cannot get to the Eagles game due to protesters, I will personally SHOOT every one of them. You’ve been warned idiots!!” The post…
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Fla. Deputy Shoots and Seriously Injures Unarmed Black Man
A Florida man is in critical condition after being shot by a sheriff’s deputy, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed, WESH 2 reports. According to authorities, deputies were responding to a stolen-vehicle report when they found two men getting inside the car, the news station notes. Authorities told the men to get out, but…
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Survey: Michael Brown and Eric Garner Cases Show Deep Racial Divide
While most black adults believe that race played a major factor in the Eric Garner and Michael Brown cases, their white counterparts are less inclined to believe so. In fact, a new national survey by the Pew Research Center and USA Today reveals that a majority of white America believes that race was “not a factor…