Timothy Loehmann is the man who shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice less than two seconds after arriving on the scene of a…
Timothy Loehmann is the man who shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice less than two seconds after arriving on the scene of a…
Five black students and their parents who filed a civil rights lawsuit alleging that a Pittsburgh-area school…
As Donald Trump and his abused Keebler elf in the Justice Department, Jeff Sessions, work double time to pander to…
King (Lebron) James apparently lives up to the name by doing things the Biblical way, including having his youngins…
You can call Cardi B lots of things—stripper, ghetto bird, reality TV heaux—but what you’re not gonna do is question…
For those of us still reeling from the closure of Harlem’s iconic Lenox Lounge, coincidentally, a place where the…
We here at The Root always come with receipts, as hard as they may be to bear. Last week, writer Michael Harriot…
Gov. Phil Bryant, head of the state which ranks second to last in education in all 50 of these United States; a man…
In the words of that sage of Hollywood, Robert Downey Jr., a hero is not a noun it’s a verb.
Although we know that genius drips from our very pores—from the magic of hip-hop to the delicacies of soul food—it’s…
Much has (deservedly) been made of Tyler Mitchell, the 23-year-old photographer seemingly whisked from obscurity…
Although that headline is indeed snarky, at this point, we’ll take it how we can get it.
Like everything else in this hypercapitalist country, even breast cancer awareness has been commodified (there’s…
I need your help. I’ll tell you what kind at the end of this piece.
Broken Windows, the now-debunked criminal justice theory that provided what many deem an academic justification for…
Only a month after announcing she would not be running for re-election due to ongoing racial intimidation, Ruqaiyah…
On top of making devils cower to the Caucus mountains, the mighty Wu-Tang Clan is also backing a new vegan burger…
Murder was the case that they gave him, and days before his trial was slated to begin, the man who many (and by…
Whatever feelings you have about the Chicklet-toothed “relationship expert” who sold the Now & Later-colored Easter…
Mere hours after a mass shooting at an office complex in Middleton, Wis., and another one in Masontown, Penn., law…