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Entertainment, Hot Tea

Cardi B Just Gave A Very Hot Take on Gay People and Homosexuality. Does She Have a Point?

Her musings were spawned by the new Netflix series ‘Baby Reindeer.’

By

Shanelle Genai

Published

April 24, 2024
Black History Month, Culture

Our Favorite Black Memoirs of All Time

These books are deeply personal, beautifully written and impossible to put down.

By

Angela Johnson

Published

February 9, 2024
Politics

Congressman Maxwell Frost Asks This Karen to Stop Showing Nude Photos…

And more from the movers, shakers and policymakers from around the country and both sides of the aisle in politics.

By

The Root Bot

Published

January 13, 2024
News

Claudine Gay Wasn’t the Only Person Who Had a Really Bad Week

Bigotry get’s a Vietnam vet fired, a judge get’s jumped, and Hollywood is catching strays from the unsealed Epstein files in our best posts of the week in news.

By

The Root Staff

Published

January 6, 2024
News, Race Matters

Former Harvard President Claudine Gay Has a Warning For Us

In a New York Times op-ed, Gay says that the forces have much bigger aims than the ousting of one University president.

By

Jessica Washington

Published

January 4, 2024
Opinion, Opinion

Claudine Gay Is Proof That Being A Black First Comes With A Hell Of A Fight …Just Ask Barack Obama

Gay’s resignation as Harvard president shows that trailblazing comes with backlash.

By

Candace McDuffie

Published

January 3, 2024
Education, News

Black Scholars React To Harvard President Claudine Gay Resignation

Former Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned after a tumultuous last several weeks. Here’s what her fellow Black academics had to say.

By

Jessica Washington

Published

January 3, 2024
Opinion, Some Thoughts

Y’all Know Plagiarism Was An Excuse to Get Rid of Harvard President Claudine Gay. But What’s the Real Reason?

The Powers That Be needed a way to get her out, so they grabbed low-hanging fruit.

By

Dustin J. Seibert

Published

January 3, 2024
A Word, Opinion

Why Isn’t The Ouster of Harvard’s First Black President Going Viral Among Black Folks? Maybe Because Claudine Gay Doesn’t Feel Like She’s One of Us.

Outrage for the former Harvard University president’s treatment over the last month has been minimal on Black social media.

By

Dustin J. Seibert

Published

January 2, 2024
Education, News

Black Twitter Reacts to the Sudden Resignation of Harvard University’s President Claudine Gay

Claudine Gay’s tenure is the shortest tenure in the University’s history.

By

Kalyn Womack

Published

January 2, 2024