Don’t come for me Beyonce fans, but before there was Queen Bey, there was that Queen Bitch—Brooklyn spitta, down-ass…
An Ohio minister is in jail for having sex with a girl starting when she was a 14-year-old, and encouraged two other…
The irony that Andre “Dr. Dre” Young and another integral part of hip-hop culture, Dee Barnes, host of ’90s TV show P…
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A fired San Antonio, Texas, police officer, who was ratted out by fellow cops for giving a homeless man a sandwich…
When we got word Papa John’s Pizza got a new (black) face, Shaquille O’Neal, the crew at The Root had a field day.…
Police have killed yet another black person in mental health distress, this time in State College, Pa. The most…
Baltimore, a city that has some serious disparities in almost every measure but remains a beautiful black city…
Guided by a coalition of 40 New York City social justice organizations, dozens of students, parents and advocates…
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On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the appeal of Lee Boyd Malvo, who participated in one of the most…