Just when you thought blackface had been relegated to old college yearbooks, a California teacher provided the…

Is Halloween The Glow Up’s favorite holiday? Well, we do love to play dress-up, so we’ll let you deduce that for…

It’s Halloween so we thought we’d do something fun. But then, Editor-in-Chief Danielle Belton strictly forbade me…

When I was 10, I was forced to give my life to Christ.

Yeah, yeah...we know there’s no such thing as Halloween wishes (or the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown), but if we…

California knows how to party—and when your birthday falls two days before Halloween, it’s bound to be a costume…

On the “Things I Happen To Hate” spectrum—which, unfortunately, seems to be lengthening as I age—Halloween is…

No, we don’t mean a reprisal of their genius Jackson 5 family costume (above). This year, the fictional family we…

I’m all for works of art being subjective but this so-called artist maybe should’ve re-thunk this particular…

It’s no secret that Tyler, The Creator likes to play dress-up; after all, the musician is also a designer, as…

Blaming her decision to wear blackface on ignorance and the media while offering up her own albino child as an…

We’ve been absolutely overwhelmed with the incredible Halloween costumes we saw this week, but this one stole our…

We called it. Proving, once again, that too much is never enough when it comes to Halloween, Beyoncé debuted a…

Who doesn’t love Halloween? Okay, plenty of people—including The Root’s beloved editor-in-chief, Danielle Belton…

I have never been a big Halloween person. As a kid, I went trick-or-treating because that what everyone else and…

As we’ve covered here at The Root before (just yesterday, in fact), it’s that time of year when a certain class of…

’Tis the season. The Jack-o-Lanterns are glowing on porches; the smell of hot apple cider wafts through the crisp…

Fun fact: I’ve been low-key lobbying for us, just once, to turn The Root 100 into a costume party, where all of the…

It’s almost Halloween, the time of year when sadists pretend that candy corn is not Satan’s butt plug and masochists…

Can somebody keep Megyn Kelly from weighing in on holidays? After all, this is the woman who, while an anchor at Fox…