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Entertainment, Music

Beyoncé’s Feminist Anthem “Run the World (Girls)” A Decade Later

We’d be remiss this Women’s History Month if UR FAV TRAK didn’t highlight Beyoncé’s genre-bending hit song about women’s empowerment.

By

Noah A. McGee

Published

March 30, 2023
News, The Root Interview

T.D. Jakes: Not All Black Churches Embraced Martin Luther King

T.D. Jakes discusses the church’s role in the fight for civil rights.

By

Kalyn Womack

Published

March 5, 2023
Entertainment, Music

Making Love Songs: The Story Behind Dionne Warwick’s “I Say A Little Prayer”

The Burt Bacharach written melody was intended to be another kind of love song. Here’s the story.

By

Vanessa De Luca

Published

February 14, 2023
Education, News

Students in Viral Blackface Video Get Booted from School [Updated]

St. Hubert Catholic High School has verified that it was their students in the video.

By

Kalyn Womack

Published

February 8, 2023
Amen Corner, Culture

Black Mary and Jesus Posters Used To Help Promote Racial Healing

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales hopes a new series of posters will encourage “reflection on how we are all made in the image of God.”

By

Angela Johnson

Published

February 7, 2023
Events, The Root 100, The Root 100 2022

How Black Non-Profit Leaders are Empowering the Next Generation

Watch to learn how three NYC change-makers are redefining charity as freedom, healing through local change, and finding joy in justice

By

Arielle Dachille

Published

January 30, 2023
Entertainment, Television

Criminal Minds: Evolution & Archer’s Aisha Tyler Plays That’s So Random

Tyler dishes on what makes her laugh, favorite superheroes, being Black on Friends, politics, and sings the song she can’t help but sing out loud.

By

Adriano Contreras

Published

January 26, 2023
Black Excellence, Culture

With T.D. Jakes Passing the Torch, We Look At Black Religious Leaders Then and Now

The Black church has a plethora of men and women who have changed the nation

By

Amira Castilla

Published

January 23, 2023
Criminal Justice, News, Reproductive Justice

Faith Leaders And Organizers Unite On Reproductive Freedom For Roe’s 50th Anniversary

Organizers say; “for too long the country has allowed a small but loud group from the religious right to dominate the narrative around abortion and religion.”

By

Jessica Washington

Published

January 22, 2023
Very Smart Brothas

Texas’ Trifling Gov. Was Wrong to do that to Kamala and Those Immigrants

Gov. Greg Abbott won re-election last month. To celebrate, he did a most un-Christ-like thing to 130 people on Christmas Eve

By

Keith Reed

Published

December 26, 2022