Marshawn Lynch is a goddamn national treasure.

For too long, the writers at The Root have ignored the plight of those whose labor goes unrecognized and unheralded.…

I know how to fix racism.

Occasionally The Root will interrupt our coverage of black news, opinions, politics, and culture to openly address…

Given the choice of superpowers, would you rather have the ability to fly or the power of invisibility?

Happy New Year!

A pickup truck-driving white woman who “backhanded” a car salesman was cleared of ethnic intimidation charges on…

A white Portland, Maine, man who claimed self-defense after shooting his sister’s unarmed black boyfriend in the…

For the last mailbag of 2019, we chose an email, a tweet, a DM and a comment that all ask the same question:

We’d like to welcome you to the fifth annual Wypipo Awards.

I was raised in a fundamentalist church that believed in the seventh-day Sabbath, tambourines and neverending,…

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“For 400 years, we have been told that black people are a problem. We are indoctrinated into this lie from the…

“The Clapback Song”:

Sometimes I take for granted how much God* has blessed me.

Curtis Flowers walked out of a Mississippi prison a free man for the first time in more than two decades. All it…

A bombastic, Trump-supporting mixed martial arts fighter is desperately hoping that doctors can make his jaw great…

In an exclusive conversation with The Root, the mayor of America’s third-blackest city announced his endorsement of…

If you woke up this morning and were shocked to discover that one of Black America’s favorite musical legends had…

Whenever someone asks if writing the weekly Clapback Mailbag ever gets old, I tell them that receiving and reading…