Who remembers the 1990s PBS children’s show Gullah Gullah Island? For many of us, watching or hearing about the show…
Who remembers the 1990s PBS children’s show Gullah Gullah Island? For many of us, watching or hearing about the show…
The Bay Area is mourning one of its pioneers, DJ Pam the Funkstress of the seminal political rap collective the…
In his continued attempt to leave some kind of legacy before he’s dragged out of the Oval Office because of the…
With reminders of the tragic death of Aiyana Stanley-Jones, the 7-year-old shot down as Detroit police stormed her…
It goes against type when an alleged pedophile is a woman; and when we continually read the stories of adult women…
As a result of Cornel West’s public criticism of Ta-Nehisi Coates in the New York Times last month, we at The Root…
You would have missed it if you weren’t listening carefully. On Sunday’s 60 Minutes, the second segment of the night…
The city of Pasadena, Calif., recently released bodycam footage of an early November police stop at a gas station…
There’s more news on the tragic death of 25-year-old Sgt. La David T. Johnson, the circumstances around which have…
Well-known white supremacist troll Chuck C. Johnson somehow found himself on a plane with Rep. Maxine Waters…
Our favorite gingy, Prince Harry (well, my favorite, after Jidenna, Malcolm X and Jade McKnight) of England, sat…
We ’bout to see all the #BlackGirlMagic during the Winter Olympics in South Korea, now that a 17-year-old from…
Less than 20 years ago, back when when Erykah Badu was still the love of Common’s life, it would have seemed…
You may call folks shrill for saying that the country under President Donald Trump is sliding into fascism, but in a…
There are two trains of thought on displaying America’s historically racist trinkets and statues—well, a lot more,…
We know that the third stanza of “The Star-Spangled Banner” is racist, and the children’s song “Eeny, Meeny, Miny,…
Hannibal Buress, who made his celeb bones by bringing Bill Cosby’s predatory behavior to light, was locked up in…
A black woman suffered severe dog bites to her extremities in September after St. Paul, Minn., police mistakenly…
Comedian Marsha Warfield weighed in on Patti LaBelle’s recent disclosure that Luther Vandross was gay and the black…
Yet another pedophile has been arrested for molesting the world’s poorest and most vulnerable. This time it was a…