There exists a misplaced assumption that the recent focus on inclusion is a quasi-benevolent gift to Black people.…
It’s been nearly two months since Megan Thee Stallion was shot and subsequently hospitalized after a night out in…
A Black Lady Sketch Show’s Quinta Brunson is heading to ABC. According to Deadline, the 30-year-old is creating and…
We’re about to get a true blue “Ice Cream Paint Job” thanks to RZA and Good Humor. The Wu-Tang superstar partnered…
Ryan Breaux, the 18-year-old brother of singer-songwriter Frank Ocean, was reportedly killed in a single-vehicle car…
Legendary rapper, beatboxer and DJ Biz Markie has reportedly been in the hospital for weeks being treated for an…
Tonight, Gwen Ifill and my grandmother will be watching Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Chicago Mayor Lori…
Thanks to a circulated screenshot from the website The Concordian, Twitter has been abuzz since Wednesday night with…
At least four police officers are under investigation after multiple women came forward with stories concerning…
In a major setback to entertainment mogul Byron Allen’s discrimination suit against Comcast, America’s highest court…
With stories and constant updates regarding the coronavirus pandemic continuing to spread across media, it has…
When news first broke about the pending pandemic that was the coronavirus, we had jokes. (To be fair, nobody asked…
News of the coronavirus has spread faster and wider than the virus itself, it seems. Now we’re seeing reports that…
When I was 16, my mother and my next-door neighbor, who we called “Crow,” dropped me off for my first year of…
The Root’s Michael Harriot once asked a simple yet profound question: “Where are the good cops?”
If you were a Kobe fan as much as I was, then you know that both he and Michael Jordan often repeated the now-famous…
As news broke about the tragic and untimely death of NBA icon Kobe Bryant in a helicopter crash in California on…
A white secretary for Pittsburgh Public Schools is alleging she’s the victim of reverse racism.
In an exclusive conversation with The Root, the mayor of America’s third-blackest city announced his endorsement of…