5/31/2009 - Does Real Housewife NeNe Leakes Deserve a Book Deal? And Other Lit-Related Questions

5/31/2009 - Obama Speaks on Murder of Kansas Abortion Doctor

5/30/2009 - Newark Mayor Doesn't Want to Be Race Transcendant

5/30/2009 - When Ice = Avant Garde

5/29/2009 - King Casting Call

5/29/2009 - Black Cop Gunned Down—By His Colleague

5/29/2009 - Video: A Gathering Storm...of Gays!

5/29/2009 - Vitamin D Deficiency Puts Black Women at Risk

5/29/2009 - The Confab -- May 29, 2009

5/29/2009 - Teach for America: Missionaries or TrueBlue Educators?

5/29/2009 - NYPD Cop Killed by Fellow Officer

5/29/2009 - Short Grain Brown Rice with Coconut Flakes

5/29/2009 - Asparagus and Sweet Potato Curry

5/29/2009 - South Asian Supper

5/29/2009 - The Dance That Could Save Kingston

5/29/2009 - Eminem's Stunted Growth

5/29/2009 - Ref, Are You Blind?

5/29/2009 - I Wouldn't Leave, But I Know Why Some Would

5/28/2009 - Quiet as Kept, the Stimulus Package is Helping Americans

5/28/2009 - Woman Clocks Rapper: The Charles Hamilton Question

5/28/2009 - Sotomayor, Ricci, and the Politics of Affirmative Action

5/28/2009 - Video: Need a Black Friend?

5/28/2009 - LAPD Violates One of Their Own

5/28/2009 - Staying Flu-Free This Summer

5/28/2009 - L.A. Teachers Begin Hunger Strike

5/28/2009 - Your Computer is Killing the Congo

5/28/2009 - I'll Take the Sub-Sahara Over America

5/27/2009 - Gays: Out of the Courts, Into the Streets

5/27/2009 - What Black Leaders Think About Sotomayor

5/27/2009 - Why Exercise is Not Child's Play

5/27/2009 - Roland Burris: 'I Ain't Do It!'

5/27/2009 - Cleveland Cavaliers: I Believe

5/27/2009 - New England's First Black Mayor Dies

5/27/2009 - The Health Care Story You Should Read Today

5/27/2009 - Should Blacks Be Disappointed About Sotomayor?

5/27/2009 - Burris and Blago's Bro Caught Being Buddy Buddy on Wiretap

5/27/2009 - The Judge They Feared

5/27/2009 - Why Can’t Black Women and White Women Talk to Each Other?

5/27/2009 - Coretta's Reading Rainbow

5/27/2009 - Exodus Tyson's Bizarre and Tragic Accident

5/27/2009 - Black Radio Doesn't Deserve Our Help

5/27/2009 - Fake Rhymes, Even Faker Chains

5/26/2009 - Mike Tyson's Daughter Succumbs to Injuries

5/26/2009 - Sonia Sotomayor Supreme

5/26/2009 - Reading List: The Catch-Up Edition

5/26/2009 - CA Supreme Court Upholds Prop 8

5/26/2009 - Pulpit Pimps?

5/26/2009 - Shaft Who? Common is "Dow Jones"

5/26/2009 - Mike Tyson's Daughter in Critical Condition after Accident

5/26/2009 - Nothing to Be Cavalier About Tonight

5/26/2009 - Judge Sonia Sotomayor is Not a "Latina Single Mother"

5/26/2009 - Judge Sonia Sotomayor Nominated for Supreme Court

5/26/2009 - Misogyny and the Anti-Christ at Cannes

5/26/2009 - Sotomayor is President's Choice for Supreme Court

5/26/2009 - Obama Stumps GOP With Sotomayor

5/26/2009 - Shots Fired in Chicago

5/26/2009 - African Reverie

5/26/2009 - Is That Your Mama At The Bar?

5/25/2009 - The Parent Trap

5/25/2009 - Last of the Cold Warriors Take Each Other On --Diktats and All

5/25/2009 - Cheap Tickets, But at What Price?

5/25/2009 - A Soldier's Letters To His Son

5/25/2009 - Hit the Road, Black!

5/22/2009 - Immortalizing a King

5/22/2009 - The Coretta Scott King Book Awards: 40 Years of Excellence

5/22/2009 - Books on The Root -- May 22, 2009

5/22/2009 - Citigroup Exec Goes Knucklehead Route, Has Child with Mistress

5/22/2009 - Congress' Foreclosure Fix Helps ONE Person, Gets an F MINUS

5/22/2009 - Terrorist Plot Puts Stress on NYC Blacks

5/22/2009 - Nike's New LeBron/Kobe Puppet Commercials = Basically Amazing

5/22/2009 - 555-Pound Teen Taken into Custody, Mom Arrested for Medical Neglect

5/22/2009 - What's Up Down There?

5/22/2009 - Barack Is Not Spock

5/22/2009 - Keeping the Faith

5/21/2009 - At Morehouse, Giving Better than Receiving: Student Shooter to get Degree

5/21/2009 - Can Texas Hold 'Em?

5/21/2009 - Your Own Intimate Ceremony

5/21/2009 - Nigeria: Hundreds Feared Dead in Military Action

5/21/2009 - Interracial America

5/21/2009 - Obama Takes on Guantanamo, Torture, and Dick Cheney at National Archives

5/21/2009 - Domestic Terror Plot Thwarted in New York

5/21/2009 - 10 Years of Black TV Ends at the CW

5/21/2009 - The Missing Voices of Torture

5/21/2009 - The Art of Politics Noir

5/21/2009 - Kobe’s Beautiful Game

5/21/2009 - Spam: What's For Dinner

5/20/2009 - Black Hipster = Urban Dandy

5/20/2009 - Obama's America: Is there too much Black?

5/20/2009 - Comedian Jay Mohr Takes Michelle Obama's Name in Vain!

5/20/2009 - The Return of Leela James

5/20/2009 - A New Way to See Old Congo

5/20/2009 - Going My Way?

5/20/2009 - Steele Trippin'

5/20/2009 - End Racism, End The Recession?

5/19/2009 - A New Way to See the Old Congo

5/19/2009 - Photo of the Day—Tiny Tot Inspects Presidential 'Do

5/19/2009 - Your Invitation Got Lost in the Mail?

5/19/2009 - Harrison Flips off Obama

5/19/2009 - President Obama Bows Down Yet Again

5/19/2009 - Sherri Sheperd Brings Laughs to Lifetime

5/19/2009 - Is the Coretta Scott King Book Award Racist?

5/19/2009 - Guns Kill, But Poverty’s the Trigger

5/19/2009 - There Is No Michelle Effect

5/19/2009 - The Rise of the Black Hipster

5/19/2009 - There Ain't Nothing Going On But The Rent

5/18/2009 - Steele Shank: RNC Chair Draws First Blood

5/18/2009 - Brown v. Board in Middle Age

5/18/2009 - Black Hipsters Unite!

5/18/2009 - No Joke: The Rise of States' Rights in Today's Politics

5/18/2009 - Cleveland Tourism Video: WTF?

5/18/2009 - Pair of Twins Have Two Different Dads; Octomom's Uterus Threatens Rival

5/18/2009 - Wedding Belles, Bridezillas, The Presents of Your Company

5/18/2009 - Obama Digs at Boehner about his Tan

5/18/2009 - Lakers Done in Six

5/18/2009 - Obama's Slow Go on Cities

5/18/2009 - Pulpit Pimps?

5/18/2009 - Despite Talk of Peak Unemployment Still Rising

5/17/2009 - President Obama Talks Faith, Makes Nice with Abortion Opponents at Notre Dame

5/16/2009 - That’s Whassup!

5/16/2009 - Fasting for Darfur and Haiti and Chicago

5/15/2009 - Too Many ‘Limits,’ Not Enough Drama

5/15/2009 - Obama’s Health Watchdog—Visionary or Bully?

5/15/2009 - The Confab -- May 15, 2009

5/15/2009 - Farrah Fawcett and Her Celebrity Illness

5/15/2009 - Drug Czar Wants to End the ‘War'—Will He?

5/15/2009 - 05.15.09 Headlines: Bring the Beat(ings) Back! Obama Revives Gitmo Tribunals

5/15/2009 - True Grits

5/15/2009 - Quarterback Draw

5/15/2009 - Playing Hardball With Affirmative Action

5/15/2009 - Will Cities Start Using College Students for a Bailout?

5/14/2009 - The Root's Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Wins Prestigious Public Television Award

5/14/2009 - Foreclosure Plan Shines, Unless You Look too Close

5/14/2009 - Silly Boys, Naked Girls and TMZ Leaks

5/14/2009 - Rwandan Rapper Wows 'Idol' Guests With a Worthy Cause

5/14/2009 - Rashida Jones and the Hollywood Shuffle

5/14/2009 - 05.14.09 Headlines: Limbaugh Turns Over New Leaf on Race, Looks, Returns to Old Leaf

5/14/2009 - Job Hunting With Dad

5/14/2009 - Unemployment, the New Bonding Experience

5/14/2009 - When Weight Loss Makes You Fat

5/14/2009 - Hanging Up On Fearful Spending

5/13/2009 - Say Word the White House Likes Slam Poetry

5/13/2009 - Wife Goes on Sex Strike, Man Sues

5/13/2009 - More Proof Blacks Are Losing the Most Homes

5/13/2009 - VIDEO: The First Lady Makes Her Rapping Debut

5/13/2009 - 05.13.09 Headlines: Finger Snappin' and Incense: FLOTUS Gets Her 'Love Jones' on in East Room

5/13/2009 - Michael Savage Banned from the UK

5/13/2009 - A Race Czar for Black Farmers

5/13/2009 - Slaves to Denial

5/13/2009 - The Recessionary Arts

5/13/2009 - Why Sex Makes Lousy Diplomacy

5/13/2009 - Tattoo Therapy

5/12/2009 - Is Kenya's Sex Strike a Problem for Congress?

5/12/2009 - Is the White House's Poetry Jam Good for Poetry?

5/12/2009 - Putting It Out There, Alllll Out There

5/12/2009 - “A Definition of Hell” in Sri Lanka

5/12/2009 - Former NPR Host Farai Chideya Kisses the Sky

5/12/2009 - 05.12.09 Headlines: Sri Lanka Shells Hospital in War Zone, Says 'We Don't Know Nothin' about That'

5/12/2009 - John Lennon and the Bloody Clothes Exhibit

5/12/2009 - M.I.A.'s Latest Hit: Save Sri Lanka

5/12/2009 - Goodbye Beaches, Hello Sofas

5/11/2009 - Check Up on The Shack-Ups

5/11/2009 - Whose Stimulus is It?

5/11/2009 - The Case of the Black Vulcan

5/11/2009 - BOOKMARK: Walter Mosley

5/11/2009 - Watching May 11, 2009

5/11/2009 - A Cartoonist Says a Million Words

5/11/2009 - "My Bad?" "You're Fired!"

5/11/2009 - Houston, You Are a Problem

5/11/2009 - Tyler Perry in Star Trek - No!!!

5/11/2009 - Monday's Headlines

5/11/2009 - The New Integration Crusade

5/11/2009 - Talking the Talk About Money

5/11/2009 - Want To Invest? Don't Head For The Department Store

5/10/2009 - Wanda Sykes is Sorry For No Marion Barry Jokes

5/10/2009 - Magazine Roundtable Tries "Following Souter"

5/10/2009 - Sunday Brunch: The Week in Review

5/8/2009 - Calling All Trekkies

5/8/2009 - The Confab -- May 8, 2009

5/8/2009 - Mom, You Win, You Always Do

5/8/2009 - In Washington's Power Corridors, Is Ignorance Bliss?

5/8/2009 - Mother's Day Meditation

5/8/2009 - A Daughter Only

5/8/2009 - Mother's Play

5/8/2009 - Daily Show to Marion Barry: "What Are You, On Crack?"

5/8/2009 - Friday's Headlines

5/8/2009 - 30s Rock

5/8/2009 - Mother’s Day Remix

5/8/2009 - Losing a Mother, Being a Mother

5/8/2009 - The New 50s

5/8/2009 - The CEO Track to Motherhood

5/8/2009 - How to Avoid the Seven Biggest Weight Loss Mistakes

5/8/2009 - My Mother, the Stealth Feminist

5/8/2009 - Honoring Mom--On HER Terms

5/8/2009 - Message to the Class of 2009

5/7/2009 - Nollywood Confidential

5/7/2009 - Um, Chocolate City is More Gay-Friendly than You Think

5/7/2009 - National Prayer Day - Not So Fast

5/7/2009 - First Mother-In-Law Likes To Party

5/7/2009 - Three Problems with the New Kindle

5/7/2009 - Thursday's Headlines

5/7/2009 - Where Does Ciara Fit In?

5/7/2009 - Don’t Sign That Document, Fool!

5/7/2009 - Zuma Rising

5/7/2009 - Welcome To The World of Freelancing

5/6/2009 - Hey Marion: Since When Don't Minorities Deserve Rights?

5/6/2009 - David Simon Takes "The Wire" to the Big Easy

5/6/2009 - Touching Taboos

5/6/2009 - Economy Fails, Legalize Marijuana

5/6/2009 - Wednesday's Headlines

5/6/2009 - E-Race Literature

5/6/2009 - Foreclosure Follies

5/6/2009 - Why Are Black Folks Leaving San Francisco?

5/6/2009 - The King of the Lindy

5/6/2009 - Word to Your Mother

5/6/2009 - Can a Psychic Point You To Prosperity?

5/5/2009 - Word to Your Mother

5/5/2009 - White Hip-Hoppers

5/5/2009 - What Does it Mean For America to be "Tolerant" Again?

5/5/2009 - Cinco de Mayo Goes Black

5/5/2009 - Animated Black TV or Real Black TV - Which is more Profitable?

5/5/2009 - Remembering Mama

5/5/2009 - Forget Cashing Cans, I'm Selling Sperm

5/5/2009 - Tuesday's Headlines

5/5/2009 - Marion Jones, Role Model?

5/5/2009 - D for Detroit

5/5/2009 - Creating in the Shadows: A Talk with Nelson George

5/4/2009 - A Museum of African-American History

5/4/2009 - Eye on the Ball

5/4/2009 - Condi Will Even Spin a 4th Grader

5/4/2009 - Monday's Headlines

5/4/2009 - Pacquiao/Hatton: 25 Bucks a Round

5/4/2009 - Jack Kemp—The Reason I Became a Republican

5/4/2009 - Kitchen Beauticians

5/4/2009 - When Bullying Leads to Suicide

5/4/2009 - Vlogging While Black

5/4/2009 - Why You Need To Accept Your Losses & Move Forward

5/1/2009 - A Belated Farewell to Painter Ernie Barnes

5/1/2009 - Vlogging While Black

5/1/2009 - Sex and Politics in Kenya

5/1/2009 - The Confab -- May 1, 2009

5/1/2009 - Who The Supreme Court Needs Now

5/1/2009 - Friday's Headlines

5/1/2009 - Staceyann Chin Talks The Other Side of Paradise

5/1/2009 - The Great African Booty Strike

5/1/2009 - Workers of the World, Eat Right!

5/1/2009 - Justice David Souter Hangs a VACANCY Sign on the Court

5/1/2009 - What Are You Doing This Summer?

5/1/2009 - Am I Too Qualified To Take A $9-an-hour Job At A Casino??