In 1951, the great American poet Langston Hughes, in his poem, “Harlem,” asked:
Now this is a story all about how
Every Friday, I turn white smiles upside down
I’d like to take a second...Maybe a…
For too long, the writers at The Root have ignored the plight of those whose labor goes unrecognized and unheralded.…
For the last mailbag of 2019, we chose an email, a tweet, a DM and a comment that all ask the same question:
Whenever someone asks if writing the weekly Clapback Mailbag ever gets old, I tell them that receiving and reading…
Each Friday, we wade through our emails, tweets, comments and DMs to respond to readers who are searching for…
I don’t know if you heard about it, but I wrote something pretty controversial this week.
What happens to a race hustle, deferred?
Does it get whipped
Like a slave in the sun?
Or shot,
Like a suspect who…
Time for your weekly edition of the Clapback Mailbag. Got something on your mind? Email the bag of fun.
It has been a tough week here at The Root and all of G/O Media.
I feel sorry for white people.
White people are smart.
Today’s mailbag consists of people who called us out about our egregious errors. The writers at The Root often use…
Today’s mailbag is all about white allies.
Each and every Friday, The Root sorts through the emails, tweets, direct messages and comments we received that week…
When I sort through the emails, tweets, direct messages and comments for the mailbag every Friday, I am always…