friendship

  • Watch: Magic Johnson and Isiah Thomas Rekindle Their Friendship After 25 Years of Pettiness 

    Decades before LeBron James and Dwyane Wade straddled a floating banana to become this generation’s poster children for BFFs, Magic Johnson and Isiah Thomas donned their Daisy Dukes to kiss at half-court before each of their iconic NBA duels. Not only were the two men considered the best point guards of their era (sorry, John…

  • I Played 2-Hand Touch Football This Weekend. I’m Probably Not Doing That Shit Again

    On Saturday, Sept. 30, 2017, I engaged in a lighthearted game of two-on-two touch football with a couple of my closest friends and the 11-year-old son of one of them. We played to a tie (we were playing to 2). One of my friends is in phenomenal shape; he’s contemplating competing in USA Track &…

  • 7 Truisms Creatives Will Appreciate

    Are you a creative? Do you create shit for a living? If you answered “yes” to either of those questions, you are a creative. If you are a creative (you answered “yes” to either of the two aforementioned questions), then I’d bet you a plum nickel that while people are happy for you and your…

  • Watch: I Love My Black Friendships

    For Black History Month, The Root is celebrating blackness in a new The Root TV series called I Love My Blackness. In the series, we celebrate black skin, black style, black friendship and black love. Our first video of the series celebrated our love of our black skin and the understanding that black is gold.…

  • Football Player Travis Rudolph Has Another Surprise for His New Little Friend

    Travis Rudolph, the Florida State University football player who befriended Bo Paske, an 11-year-old boy with autism, gifted the young man with an honorary jersey and free game tickets, according to a report by Time magazine. Last week their friendship went viral when Rudolph joined Bo for lunch at his middle school after Rudolph saw that…

  • 7 Great Reasons To Be A Petty Motherfucker

    Between Meek Mill, Cornel West, and general niggadry everywhere, pettiness is having the best week ever. Oh, and me too. Let me tell you how. So recently on Twitter, somebody that I know but barely interact with was RTd into my timeline. That’s retweeted for you old people. Which means somebody tweeted something, and somebody…