Don’t you know that you’re toxic?

There are literally too many things to go to in the fall. During that season in New York City, every charity group,…

I’m out of shape. It’s a reality. I just recently started working back out again because stairs were looking like…

Three weeks. That is how long I’ve been sick with an unknown virus (the thing doctors tell you when they don’t know…

I went natural before going natural was cool, back in 2000, 17 years ago, when curly-hair products for black hair…

First off, I didn’t realize check-in was at 7, not 8:30. It was just the beginning of a series of disasters that led…

Wow. I guess a hit dog will holler. When I wrote this on Sunday regarding the gaggle of white people online who…

I guess organizing a gathering of hateful bigots where a person was murdered is a ... bad thing? Huh? Who knew!

If you’re tempted to point out that you’re one of the good ones right now ... please don’t.

Last month the NAACP issued its first-ever travel advisory for a state—a whole entire state—for people of color.…

Jason Johnson, our political editor at The Root and an in-real-life close and personal friend of mine, wrote this…

True story: I’ve known the founders of VSB, aka the blog Very Smart Brothas, for a minute. They are my friends,…

I love any excuse for a cookout. My father is from Texas, lives in St. Louis (two places famous for ribs), and was…

Day, oh glorious day is here! Yes, tonight The Root is at the BET Awards trying not to be awkward! Our outfit…

That one is me. I used to be so good at faces, until suddenly I met so many faces, they all started to just blur…

In a recent post by Business Insider about all the drama going on around us, The Root was reported to have grown by…

Every year for the last nine years The Root usually gets lucky and gets one or two tickets (but usually just one) to…

Man, 2016 really took a weird turn after Prince died.

If Netflix’s Burning Sands were about drug addiction instead of hazing, would people be talking about it?

Abolitionist and women’s rights activist Sojourner Truth is famously attributed with asking, “Ain’t I a woman?”