I used to eff with Fabolous, but after he was caught acting a total psycho abusive ass on video recently, he can go…

Those of us who study black history have always heard rumors of an alleged relationship between Martin Luther King…

If Tyler Perry was able to get his Boondock’s episode scrubbed from every crack of the interwebs, it is entirely…

Updated Saturday, March 31, 2018, 9 p.m. EDT: Hours before a Sacramento Kings vs. Golden State Warriors game on…

We here at The Root love it when young black folk defy all of the low expectations, irrational fears and systemic…

The Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell, senior pastor of Windsor Village United Methodist Church, a megachurch of more than…

This week, between that Heineken ad, Roseanne’s nonacting ass being back on TV (notably on the same network…

It’s clear that President Donald Trump has left shame way back in the place where his top hairs used to be—the…

This 2020 census business is getting messy—and tricky. Not only are at least a dozen states and the NAACP suing the…

On Monday, former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote an op-ed in that most venerable paper of record, the…

Sorry if I am not head over heels happy that Nevest Coleman has his old job back after spending more than two…

As the opioid epidemic continues to wreak havoc on the nation, we are sad to say that it looks like singer Prince is…

If you are like most of us, after all of this news dropped about the Facebook-user-information breach, you have been…

Perhaps New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was talking about a particular man of the Hebrew faith when he joked that Jews…

She was and continues to be our Moses. Harriet Tubman, the ultimate freedom fighter and warrior woman—before we even…

In a surprise treat just days before the release of the highly anticipated Disney flick A Wrinkle in Time, producer…

As if the police weren’t scary enough.

Given the state of the world today, and being a black woman in America, I’m rarely shocked, especially when it comes…

Biniam Bizuneh moved from Indiana to Los Angeles six years ago to pursue comedy. Since then he’s made a good go of…

Black Twitter, the “social media subculture” that has morphed into a thing unto itself, not only shines a light on…