It’s that time of year again when we get a little sad. Football is over (I was right; the team with the black…

Genre conventions are all the rage in America. There is Walker Stalker Con for he Walking Dead, IDCon for true-crime…

I should cosplay as the characters from Undercover Brother or The Spook Who Sat by the Door. I have parachuted in to…

On Tuesday, Donald Trump’s equivocation on the Charlottesville, Va., white supremacist rallies that plunged into…

White House Negress token black woman director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison Omarosa Manigault…

Jason Johnson, our political editor at The Root and an in-real-life close and personal friend of mine, wrote this…

Justin Fairfax is one of only a handful of African Americans seeking statewide office in the 2017 election cycle,…

On Wednesday morning The Root’s political editor, Jason Johnson, appeared on MSNBC Live, as he often does, alongside…

I am a recovering hidden Hotep. Mind you, not the ankh-wearing, incense-selling, lecture-women-about-their…

Earlier this week I wrote an article on my site about the superficial critiques coming from naysayers over Zendaya’s…