About a year and a half ago, I was at a crossroads.

This is the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it—and not because we’re one day closer to…

“Practice?! We talking bout Practice!”

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is sorry.

Whether or not we’ll see fans in attendance this season at NFL games has yet to be determined. But one thing we won’t…

Contrary to popular belief, the national anthem and professional sports haven’t always held hands and sucked face in…

Black people aren’t stupid.

When NFL owners, conservative pundits and generic, store-brand white people denigrate NFL protesters for using their…

Well another NFL season has passed and another team owned by a white man has successfully won another Super Bowl cham…

In the ongoing debate about the NFL player protests during the national anthem, The Root has obtained an exclusive…

President Donald Trump knows how to light a tiki torch, doesn’t he? Shortly after news broke that the NFL had…

If you don’t believe that former San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick is being whiteballed by the NFL, then…

If you know like I know, bow your heads.

I pray that when my infant son is old enough to attend college, there are courses devoted to the historical lineage…

There was a man who tried to tell Marshawn Lynch what to do. That man is no longer with us. Because no one—I repeat,…

Now that former San Francisco 49er Colin Kaepernick’s protest has been gentrified by arm locking, kneeling before…

All of this is making my head hurt, but apparently, it is a thing for right-winged zealots who are so upset that…

Dearest Ray,

A Lake Ozark, Mo., bar owner is under scrutiny after a passerby called out his makeshift doormat as racist.

I know that it’s insane to want President Donald Trump to act presidential. I know that it’s insane to want him to…