Jason Johnson

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…

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…