culture
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Chicago Teen Saved by Nurse on Basketball Court Has Died
On Tuesday the mother of a Chicago teen who collapsed on the basketball court during a game over the weekend made the most difficult decision a parent hopes never to have to make: Tarcia Patton decided to take her son, Jermaine Cullum, off life support, WLS-Chicago reports. “It was so hard, I couldn’t think…
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Jet Magazine to Stop Print Publication and Go Digital
Jet magazine will be bidding farewell to the newsstand, for the most part, moving forward with plans to transition into a digital magazine—available as an app—at the end of June, Johnson Publishing Co. announced Wednesday. The black magazine, founded in the early 1950s as a popular news source for black people to get information about…
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Watch Kevin Durant’s Emotional MVP Speech to His Mother
Just last week, Oklahoma City Thunder star Kevin Durant’s basketball hometown paper called him “Mr. Unreliable,” and on Tuesday he was crowned the NBA’s Most Valuable Player. A normally subdued Durant couldn’t fight back the emotion as he recalled the tireless effort his mother put forth in raising the family. “We weren’t supposed to be here,” he…
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V. Stiviano Adopting Two Black Teens and Facing Extortion Probe: Reports
V. Stiviano, the woman thrust into the national spotlight as the person on the other end of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s racist rant, is reportedly in the final stages of adopting two African-American teenage boys, according to RadarOnline.com. “V fostered two young African-American boys for several years,” a source told RadarOnline. “She had…
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Jameis Winston and the Case of the Concealed Crab Legs Continues
The case of the Heisman Trophy winner and the stolen crab legs just got more interesting, thanks to video footage that, according to the Associated Press, appears to show Florida State University football and baseball star Jameis Winston pausing briefly to avoid a police deputy before leaving a supermarket without paying for crab legs and…
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Nigeria Defends Its Actions as More Girls Abducted
On the heels of heavily armed suspected Boko Haram gunmen storming into a northeastern Nigeria village Tuesday night and kidnapping eight more girls, Nigeria’s government is defending what many have criticized as an ineffective response. “The president and the government [are] not taking this as easy as people all over the world think,” Doyin Okupe,…
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Ebony: ‘Not Your Grandmother’s Magazine Anymore’
Just departed Ebony Editor-in-Chief Amy DuBois Barnett wanted to “put some hot sauce” on her final issue of the magazine. So she spiced up June’s tribute to Black Music Month with four iconic covers featuring Beyoncé, Jay Z, Kanye West and Rihanna. Barnett spoke with The Root about what went into the cover choices, the…
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These Celebrity Men Need to Get a Grip
Many months ago I was having a conversation with a group of women about whether women could be good leaders. Yes, I know. Yes, in 2013. Anyway, I, of course, said yes, women can lead. Another woman said no, in fact, women would not make good leaders because they are too emotional (because of PMS).…
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Help! My Boss Thinks All Black Hairstyles Are Unprofessional
I’m a store manager for a major national clothing retailer. Several of my employees are African-American women who wear their hair in a variety of styles—Bantu knots, twist-outs, Afros, Marley braids. I think they look great and have no problem with them (I’m black). But the last few times my regional manager (white) has made…