For all the people who criticize The Root for our lack of coverage of Black-on-Black crime, we present MSNBC host…

At the dusk of America’s bloodiest war, a political debate swept across America about how this country should handle…

As I write this Kinja post, my Haitian mother walks over and sees the thumbnail of Yamiche Alcindor’s face.

Tonight, Gwen Ifill and my grandmother will be watching Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Chicago Mayor Lori…

After four years hosting the weekend talk show AM Joy on MSNBC, journalist Joy Reid will now take over a coveted…

There is an interesting political conversation going on that was prompted by someone who few people expected to have…

Saturday during journalist Alicia Menendez’s broadcast on MSNBC, The Root’s Editor-in-Chief Danielle Belton (meeeeee!

Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning journalist Trymaine Lee has one agenda—to find the truth.

This is why you can’t just let anyone appear on your network: the classism (and underlying racism) might just jump…

Merriam Webster defines “identity politics” as:

Shortly after Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) finished her cool-down exercises after forcing the former Pinky to Barack…

In an interview with MSNBC’s Craig Melvin this week, outgoing South Carolina Congressman Mark Sanford said he wasn’t…

On Wednesday night, some of our favorite media stars gathered at Columbia University’s Low Memorial Library for Harle…

Omarosa Manigault Newman, who once worked in the White House under the official title of mixologist of the crew, is…

Updated: Thursday, June 28, 2018, 5:32 p.m. EDT: Attorneys for both Russell Simmons and A.J. Calloway have sent…

MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid is apologizing (once again) for inflammatory posts unearthed from her now-defunct blog, the…

On Saturday morning’s AM Joy, the brilliant host of the MSNBC weekend staple, Joy-Ann Reid, began her segment…

After screenshots of blog posts by Joy Reid surfaced last week, everyone, including me, shot the MSNBC host a…

• Writer Hears Speech as Call to the Rest of Us. . .

The Today show is a-searching for someone to take up the space that longtime host Matt Lauer was rightly booted off…