The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks premieres April 22 at 8 p.m. ET on HBO, and I’ll be tuned in because it’s that…
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks premieres April 22 at 8 p.m. ET on HBO, and I’ll be tuned in because it’s that…
Writers tell stories in hopes that not only are they read but they also come to life. This is what has happened to…
Earlier this week, journalists were called to a swanky hotel in New York City to sit with the (majority-black) cast…
Imagine it: It’s 1970s Minneapolis. A 15-year-old Morris Day is skipping school to go hang out with this band his…
April 21, 2017, marks the one-year anniversary of Prince’s death. Yeah, I can’t believe it, either. It’s been an…
Hashtags have defined pop culture. You spot them all over social media, and now many of them have become popular…
The 559th installment in the Fast and the Furious movie series is upon us, and it’s called The Fate of the Furious.…
Stephen A. Crockett Jr. and I finally did something we never do: No, we didn’t get along. We’ll never do that. We…
Hashtags have defined pop culture. You spot them all over social media, and now many of them have become popular…
I was obsessed with Chance the Rapper after watching him live his unapologetic best life at the 2016 Video Music…
The reason I allow my pod mate, Stephen A. Crockett Jr. the third, to write the posts for The Root’s podcast…
Morgan Freeman, Alan Arkin and Michael Caine star in Zach Braff’s latest film, Going in Style, in which they all…
We’re living in a DIY culture, and there’s no one more do-it-yourself than bloggers. Blogging is a means of…
Hashtags have defined pop culture. You spot them all over social media, and now many of them have become popular…
Myles Loftin is a 19-year-old artist with heart and a yearning to see himself represented in media as a young black…
We’re living in a DIY culture, and there’s no one more DIY than bloggers. Blogging is a means of communication,…
When you’re given the chance to see living rap legend Lil Wayne perform live at Stubb’s, one of Austin, Texas’ famed…
For Black History Month, The Root is celebrating blackness in a new The Root TV series called I Love My Blackness.…
When I first watched the trailer for comedian Jordan Peele’s Get Out, I knew that I had to see it, and I wasn’t…