Dining while black can be a frustrating experience. There’s always that nagging suspicion that being on the…

There is a widely held belief that no matter what you’re doing, doing it while black automatically makes it a…

A black delivery driver was trapped for more than an hour in a gated community in Oklahoma City earlier this week by…

The “clip of a person killed while doing a thing while black” phenomenon is such a part of our national zeitgeist…

Two black women who had the cops called on them at a Pennsylvania golf course in 2018 for allegedly playing “too…

In today’s edition of #ExistingWhileBlack, we learn that something as innocuous as leaving your apartment building…

Deputy constable Daryl Jones has been fired after a viral video surfaced in which he was seen harassing a pair of…

Far too often, police force black people to audition for their humanity. This is one of those times.

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In what serves as the latest example of #ExistingWhileBlack, I present 20-year-old Devin Meyers, who was stopped by…

After being accused of racially profiling a black couple during their wedding proposal, several Angry Orchard…

The pistol-packing, 70-year-old sentient packet of Mississippi sour cream known as Ruby Howell was arrested on…

A college student’s quest for late-night leftovers turned into a racially charged episode where the student was…

It’s a shame there isn’t a tag for stories on The Root called “dumbassery on your tax dollars,” because I promise…

A black Colorado man was doing the suspicious work of cleaning his yard when he was confronted by police who wanted…

We can add reciting Jay-Z lyrics to the growing list of things black people must refrain from doing after a…

In a perfect world, black people wouldn’t face incessant discrimination over our choice of dress, dialect,…

My mother called it “cruising for a bruising.” Some places refer to it as “begging for a butt-whipping.” In my South…

#LivingWhileBlack is tough. It seems that just by living our black-ass lives and minding our black-ass business, we…

A key feature of burglaries is that people typically try to remove items from a home, rather than move them in. This…