Any self-respecting churchgoer knows Easter Sunday is basically the Beyoncé of Sundays. Ushers in formation, hats on hats on hats, and Church Mothers wishing a nigga would sit in their pew; it’s a big deal, and rightfully so. Jesus was dead, chilled for a second, said hell nah, Xmen’d a stone, waved bye to his haters…
I shall not pretend to be a big fan of Migos. In fact, I’ve spent more time being confounded by their inability to disappear into the hip-hop ether than I have enjoying their trapcoctions. Also, the fact that these are some “trappers” from Gwinnett County – aka "the North, that way" aka where you move to in Atlanta…
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Newly acquired Utah Jazz point guard George Hill was on a walk one day when he saw a group of homeless men, women and children. Moved by the sight, he walked to a local Wendy's and purchased bags of burgers and fries and bottled water and walked back to the location, where he handed out his purchases. He sat and…
My maternal second great-grandmother was named Sarah Riddick, born around 1862 in Washington County, N.C. Records show that she worked as a servant for L.B. Davis and his wife, Annie E. Davis. I would like to know if Riddick was a slave and where she came from. The 1880 U.S. census shows she had three children and no…
After “who made the potato salad” and “what had happened was”, Black love is one of the most ubiquitous topics of discussion within 21st century Negronia. Over the years, there have been many couples that come to mind that have embodied the concept - Cliff and Claire Huxtable, Denzel and Pauletta, Cam and Juju, Oscar…
Let’s face it; what you drive is an extension of you, your personality and your aura.
A few weeks back, I wrote a post entitled, "Dear Netflix, You Are A Liar". In this post, I spoke about the Black movies that Netflix was alleging were popular that I found hard to believe. Now, as a cultural arbiter of Blackness, Black movies are my bag, baby, but still, lies are lies. Well, in this post I mentioned…
Harriette Cole is the author of the book of meditations 108 Stitches: Words We Live By and a contributing editor at The Root. Follow her on Twitter.
Wendy Williams may prefer bigger breasts over a bigger booty as her plastic surgery procedure of choice, but many black women just don’t feel her on that. Instead, some have been literally dying to get the derriere that Sir Mix-a-Lot boasts about in that “Baby Got Back” sample featured on Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda.”
Nearly one-half of the oldest Baby Boomers are at risk of not having enough retirement resources to pay for basic expenses and uninsured health care costs, while 44 percent of Generation Xers have the same predicament, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
Harriette Cole is the author of the book of meditations 108 Stitches: Words We Live By and a contributing editor at The Root. Follow her on Twitter.
Election-year politics are set to take center stage on a limited congressional agenda as lawmakers return to work on Monday after the winter recess, the Associated Press reports.
Kid president needs our help.
Oh, sure, 2013 started on an optimistic note. President Obama, having won re-election by a landslide, was sworn in at the beginning of the year, setting the stage for his second term with soaring, progressive rhetoric filled with big vision and big promises. (And a lip-synching Beyoncé.)
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Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly isn't comfortable with the idea of a black Santa and wants to make a few things clear, especially to kids: Santa Claus is white and so was Jesus.
George Zimmerman will walk again, since his girlfriend decided she will not pursue domestic violence charges, Associated Press reports via Yahoo!.
For me, 30 years was way too long to wait for a smart, competent, beautiful and powerful black woman as the main character in a TV drama. So I’m about to go into Scandal withdrawal again after the last episode of the year airs tonight.
In the midst of the worldwide media coverage surrounding the death of human rights hero Nelson Mandela, another big news story was deemed worthy of ample coverage on international news sites and blogs. Apparently a major celebrity is pregnant, and she decided to unveil the identity of the father as a press announcement
