April Fools is a white holiday and I hate it.
So there’s an unpopular opinion prompt thing going around Facebook—where you’re asked to list 10 things everyone…
Today’s mailbag is dedicated to the people who are laughed at, made fun of and dismissed as a joke. Every day, the…
Welcome back to The Root University’s tutorial on how to play spades.
It’s a question I’m asked during book talks, while signing books after said talks, on panels, in emails, through…
Wikipedia calls spades a “trick-taking card game devised in the United States in the 1930s” but that’s definitely…
If you’re the type of person who believes, for instance, that AIDS can be cured with paprika, your belief is…
In light of this global pandemic, we’ve decided to come forward and admit that our claim that we respond to our…
When I was a little girl growing up in Jamaica, my schoolteachers frequently recited the phrase: “No man is an…
If you know me, it shouldn’t be a shock to you that this social distancing thing feels specifically tailored for…
I think we’re alone now. There doesn’t seem to be anyone around.
Each week, as I read the emails, tweets, DMs and comments for Friday’s Clapback Mailbag, I find something that makes…
In just the past 24 hours, the NBA suspended its season, the NCAA suspended most conference tournaments (and, by the…
I’m not quite sure when exactly it happened, but at some point in the past week my coronavirus-related anxiety…
When I was a child watching reruns of Star Trek, one of the things I always wondered was … where did all the black…
The Root hates Bernie Sanders.
A wise man (I think it was Rakim...or maybe my cousin Geet) once said: “Patriotism is the last refuge of a…
“What do you call a black man in first class?” I asked the gate agent, as I stood first in the first-class line, so…