3/31/2010 - My April Fool's Day Wakeup Call

3/31/2010 - Doing the Right Thing?

3/31/2010 - Dallas PD Not Exactly Thrilled with Badu's Latest Video

3/31/2010 - Chocolate reduces heart risk? Be afraid. Be very afraid.

3/31/2010 - The Ripper Strikes Back: Fox News to Cut LL Cool J from Palin Show

3/31/2010 - 'Treme' Writer David Mills Dies of Brain Aneurysm

3/31/2010 - Spelling Bee Kid Gets a Toughie

3/31/2010 - Check It Out: A Nice Flash Mob

3/31/2010 - Four Dead in DC Shooting

3/31/2010 - Obama to Allow Offshore Drilling Off Virginia Coast

3/31/2010 - Going Home To Help Haiti

3/31/2010 - Why Michael Steele Will Stay

3/31/2010 - Haiti in U.S. History: A Timeline

3/30/2010 - Haiti's Private Sector Proposes a New Social Contract

3/30/2010 - Michelle Bachmann Says There's No Proof Black Lawmakers Were Harassed

3/30/2010 - Sometimes the Best Advice Comes from You, the Reader

3/30/2010 - Court Says Tasing Pregnant Woman Was OK

3/30/2010 - Raymond v. Raymond: The Return of a Champ?

3/30/2010 - The Face of (Dis)Interest

3/30/2010 - President Obama Signs Reconciliation Bill

3/30/2010 - Semenya Barred from Meet in South Africa

3/30/2010 - Costa Chica, A Corner of the Diaspora

3/30/2010 - Creating a National Broadband Strategy for All Americans

3/30/2010 - Check It Out: A Sneak Peek at 'Treme'

3/30/2010 - What Social Media Ad Type Works the Best?

3/30/2010 - Sour Green: Donors Call for Steele's Resignation

3/30/2010 - Black Mothers Less Likely to Breast Feed

3/30/2010 - Freeing the Black Woman’s Body

3/30/2010 - Why So Few Blacks Join Immigration Rallies

3/30/2010 - Shirley Franklin Helps Close the Broadband Divide

3/29/2010 - All This Pain is Supposedly a Good Thing. (Yeah, Right.)

3/29/2010 - Brooklyn Lawmaker: Hey Kids! Pull Up Your Pants. You Look Ridiculous.

3/29/2010 - Check It Out: Erykah Badu's "Window Seat"

3/29/2010 - Steele's Spending a Matter of Concern for Some in GOP

3/29/2010 - Caller Respectfully Critiques C-SPAN's Abundance of Black Callers

3/29/2010 - Settlement for Black Farmers Not Set In Stone

3/29/2010 - Census Bureau Director Apologizes for 'Negro'

3/29/2010 - State Dinner Clowns Cast on 'Real Housewives of DC'

3/29/2010 - President Obama's Black Agenda

3/28/2010 - Obama Goes to Afghanistan to Lecture Karzai

3/27/2010 - Keep Recruits Out of the South Carolina Trustees Fight

3/27/2010 - Hail Obama the Conqueror

3/27/2010 - Your Take: Who Lost on Health Care?

3/26/2010 - An AOL Interview, Motivation and Keeping Things Positive

3/26/2010 - Your Take: No Compromise on Sentencing Disparities

3/26/2010 - Want a Black Doctor? There's a Site for That

3/26/2010 - The Confab -- Mar. 26, 2010

3/26/2010 - Family Affair: "Africa's Cyber WMD"

3/26/2010 - Pssst...Haiti Is Still Really Messed Up

3/26/2010 - Read/React: Harvard Doesn't Need Ethnic Studies

3/26/2010 - College Aid Given Boost By Congress

3/26/2010 - Single-Minded: Growing Up Is Hard To Do

3/26/2010 - Why Butt Fat Beats Belly Fat

3/25/2010 - Health Care Reform is Now Complete

3/25/2010 - I've Already Broken 9 of the 10 (Weight-Loss) Commandments

3/25/2010 - Tech's Ten Most Influential Women

3/25/2010 - Viola Davis To Co-Star in 'Eat, Pray, Love'

3/25/2010 - Former Inmate Gets 15 Years for Prison Break-in

3/25/2010 - Philly Doesn't Do Flash Mobs

3/25/2010 - TPM's Ten Most Ridiculous Health Care Amendments

3/25/2010 - Congress Considers Restoring Voting Rights of Ex-Felons

3/25/2010 - Obama, Russian Prez Finalizing Arms Reduction Pact

3/25/2010 - New Harlem Runners: Rodney Capel and Basil Smikle

3/25/2010 - Bush Wipes Hand on Clinton's Shirt

3/25/2010 - Mardi Gras 'Indians' Want in on Profits

3/25/2010 - Urban League Calls for $168B in Job Spending

3/25/2010 - The New Monster That Controls Concerts

3/25/2010 - When Health Care Gets Ugly

3/24/2010 - Self-Esteem 2.0: The Awake Version

3/24/2010 - Trailer: Gabourey Sidibe in 'The Big C'

3/24/2010 - Jamie Foxx Writing Laverne and Shirley Movie

3/24/2010 - The Caucus Member Who Said No to Health Care Reform

3/24/2010 - Great Cast for 'Colored Girls'

3/24/2010 - Lee Daniels Recruits Cedric the Entertainer, Liam Neeson for 'Selma'

3/24/2010 - It's Not What You Say, It's Where You Say It

3/24/2010 - Morehouse Celebrates Gay Pride in Silence

3/24/2010 - New York Times Admits Errors in ACORN Coverage

3/24/2010 - The Kilpatrick Conundrum

3/24/2010 - Our Maternal Health Care Crisis

3/24/2010 - Abortion Debaters Agree on One Thing

3/24/2010 - Jobs Vanish for African Americans

3/24/2010 - Cleaning Up the Health Care Bill

3/23/2010 - Witness Says Michael Jackson's Doctor Delayed CPR

3/23/2010 - Chapter 2: Sleep is Vital to Self-Esteem. Who Knew?

3/23/2010 - Yes He Did

3/23/2010 - Who Will Star in Tyler Perry's Version of 'For Colored Girls ...'

3/23/2010 - Critics of Baby Einstein Evicted

3/23/2010 - First Lady Makes a Cameo on the Simpsons

3/23/2010 - Tweets Call for Obama's Assassination

3/23/2010 - Def Financial Jam?

3/23/2010 - Clyburn Receives Racist Faxes With Nooses

3/23/2010 - Racially Skewed School Suspensions Spark Lawsuit

3/23/2010 - The Truth About White Masters, Black Mistresses and Touré

3/23/2010 - The Clumsiness of Suzan-Lori Parks’ 'The Book of Grace'

3/22/2010 - Somebody Give Glenn Beck a History Lesson!

3/22/2010 - Texas Lawmaker Behind 'Baby Killer' Outburst Revealed

3/22/2010 - Catch-22: Nothing Fits, But I Don’t Want to Buy Anything That Does

3/22/2010 - Couples Renew Vows for Black Marriage Day

3/22/2010 - The Mandelas, Obama, Tavis and Black Expectations

3/22/2010 - Kwame Kilpatrick's Dad at Center of Federal Probe

3/22/2010 - 'What Change Looks Like': Health Care Bill Passes House

3/22/2010 - Alice Walker on War, Disappointment and Anger

3/21/2010 - Health Care Reform Will Become Law

3/21/2010 - VIDEO: Jesse Jackson Sr. Laughs at Tea Party Protesters

3/21/2010 - Voices From Smiley's Black Agenda Summit

3/21/2010 - Tea Partiers Spit on Black Lawmaker, Yell N-Word

3/20/2010 - Does Your Lawmaker Need a Call From You?

3/20/2010 - ACORN Plans To File for Bankruptcy

3/20/2010 - Evolving from Agendas to Action Items

3/19/2010 - Paris Noir

3/19/2010 - See Tavis Smiley's 'We Count!' Summit Live

3/19/2010 - Michelle Obama, Home Cooking and Obesity

3/19/2010 - The Carolina Chocolate Drops and Southern Fried Bluegrass

3/19/2010 - Malcolm X's Killer Will Be Released From Prison

3/19/2010 - The Confab -- Mar. 19, 2010

3/19/2010 - A Senseless Sail for Amistad?

3/19/2010 - 3 Tips For Michael Jordan, Bobcats Owner

3/19/2010 - Paterson Claims He Leaked Story To Media

3/19/2010 - Letter From Jamaica

3/19/2010 - Don’t Play for a Pro Team. Own One.

3/19/2010 - Single-Minded: John Edwards, Rielle Hunter and Why Telling All Is Never a Good Idea

3/19/2010 - Smileypalooza: Right Message, Wrong Messenger

3/18/2010 - Your Take: Avoiding the Black-Brown Conflict on Immigration

3/18/2010 - Don’t Play for a Pro Team. Own It.

3/18/2010 - As a Victim of Sexual Abuse, Weight Loss Can Be Scary

3/18/2010 - South Park Skewers TMZ Tiger

3/18/2010 - Obama Tells Fox News He Will Be 'Vindicated'

3/18/2010 - Book: Baltimore Newspaper Aided Segregation

3/18/2010 - The Root Interview: Why Tavis Smiley "Cannot Be Silent"

3/18/2010 - A Life in Paris

3/18/2010 - Surviving the 'Black Bernie Madoff'

3/17/2010 - An Inbox Full of Eating Triggers

3/17/2010 - Attention, Black Walmart Shoppers

3/17/2010 - Mikki Taylor: The Exit Interview

3/17/2010 - Doubting Ginni Thomas

3/17/2010 - NEWS STAND: Ebony's Blown Chance, Rev. Al's Low-Key Power Play

3/17/2010 - Not All Americans Have Enough Access to Water

3/17/2010 - The Divide Between Blacks and the Irish

3/17/2010 - Who's Your (Irish) Daddy?

3/16/2010 - Tiger Woods Is Still in Charge

3/16/2010 - A Rather Inelegant Entree into the World of Zumba

3/16/2010 - Tiger's Back!

3/16/2010 - Casting Call: Lee Daniels' 'Selma'

3/16/2010 - NEWS STAND: Is Obama's Stimulus Program Shortchanging Minorities?

3/16/2010 - The Root Goes Mobile

3/16/2010 - A Bit of Light Reading: Obama's Education Reform Blueprint

3/16/2010 - Earthquake Hits Southern California

3/16/2010 - Dodd Bill Supports New Consumer Finance Watchdog

3/16/2010 - Black Barbie Talks

3/16/2010 - It 'Helps' to Be White

3/15/2010 - DC High School Hires Female Head Coach

3/15/2010 - Some Black Pro-Lifers Say Abortion Is Genocide

3/15/2010 - Final Analysis: I’m Allergic to Exercise

3/15/2010 - Latina Artist's Mural Causes Stir in Times Square

3/15/2010 - African Americans Get Few Heart-Protecting Drugs

3/15/2010 - NEWS STAND: Reverend Wright Defends Obama

3/15/2010 - Twitter Makes Bad TV Awesome

3/15/2010 - Get Over It, Supremes!

3/15/2010 - Family Affair: "Black Like Whom?"

3/15/2010 - Citing Labor Law, DC Exotic Dancer Sues Club Over Wages

3/15/2010 - Listen Up! "Why Making Healthful Food Cheaper Isn't Enough"

3/15/2010 - Check It Out: A Hop into the Time Machine

3/15/2010 - The Root Interview: Rebecca Skloot

3/15/2010 - Torii Hunter Was Right About Baseball

3/15/2010 - Marion Jones: New Life in the WNBA

3/15/2010 - Closing the Racial Wealth Gap

3/15/2010 - Marion Jones' WNBA Comeback

3/14/2010 - Black Leaders Through the Looking Glass

3/14/2010 - Black Leaders Through the Looking Glass

3/13/2010 - The Return of Blackface

3/13/2010 - Fugees Video Director Faces Unspeakable Charges

3/13/2010 - Obama and the 'Nuclear Option' in Congress

3/12/2010 - Smoking Gun, Gawker PWN Yele and Wyclef Again

3/12/2010 - James Brown's Body Has Not Been Moved from Crypt

3/12/2010 - 15 Pounds and Underestimating Self-Esteem

3/12/2010 - The Confab -- Mar. 12, 2010

3/12/2010 - Leader Defends Agency Response to Toyota Fiasco

3/12/2010 - Pardons Sought for Those Who Help Slaves Escape to Freedom

3/12/2010 - Obama Trial Gets Underway

3/12/2010 - Bloggingheads: The Crisis in Nigeria

3/12/2010 - Check It Out: 10-Year-Old Lobbies for Health Care Reform

3/12/2010 - Monica Conyers Receives 3 Years for Guilty Plea, Looking to Appeal

3/12/2010 - Single-Minded: So Now We're Sexual Terrorists?

3/12/2010 - The Story Behind the Alarming Herpes Numbers

3/12/2010 - Detroit School Leader Otis Mathis Can't Write

3/12/2010 - The Road From Selma to Montgomery, Revisited

3/12/2010 - Henrietta Lacks and Her Cancer Cells

3/12/2010 - The Root Interview: Spike Lee, Part Two

3/11/2010 - Getting Smoked at the Gym by a Senior Citizen

3/11/2010 - President Donates Peace Prize Money

3/11/2010 - CBC Says Obama Isn't Listening

3/11/2010 - Nicholas Kristof Wants Teach for America and the Peace Corps to Have a Baby

3/11/2010 - Oldest African American Dies at 113 in Detroit

3/11/2010 - Tiger Hires Ari Fleischer to Rehabilitate Image

3/11/2010 - Letter From Sierra Leone

3/11/2010 - Read/React: "Durbin's Bid to End Sentencing Disparity"

3/11/2010 - Pioneering South Carolina Legislator Freezes to Death Alone

3/11/2010 - Af-Am Museum Gets 39 Harriet Tubman Artifacts

3/11/2010 - Your Take: Job Creation Begins at Home

3/11/2010 - The Root Interview: Spike Lee

3/11/2010 - Coping With 'The Help'

3/10/2010 - Dear Dan, "Obama" and "Watermelon" Rarely Works Out Well

3/10/2010 - Chuck Norris is Adorable, Thinks Obama Should Face Impeachment

3/10/2010 - No, I Would Not Like a $200 Pair of Magic Underwear

3/10/2010 - KJ to Marry DC School Chancellor Michelle Rhee, Dunks on Olajuwon Again

3/10/2010 - World's Longest Marriage

3/10/2010 - US Military Will Try to Hand Out Dirt Naps in Somalia Again

3/10/2010 - A Few Thoughts on Freaknik: The Musical

3/10/2010 - Marion Jones Returns to the Hardwood after Roughly 13,000 Years

3/10/2010 - HuffPo Gets Best of Massa and Beck Interview

3/10/2010 - Howard Stern Goes In On Gabourey Sidibe

3/10/2010 - Tomorrow's Crop of Black Women Leaders

3/10/2010 - Basketball's Forgotten (Black) History

3/10/2010 - FBI Shuts Down Civil Rights Era Investigations

3/9/2010 - A Biggest Loser Challenge? Absolutely

3/9/2010 - Gabourey Sidibe's Next Role

3/9/2010 - Ed Gordon Returns to BET News

3/9/2010 - Nearly Half of Black Women Have Herpes

3/9/2010 - Obama's Fighting Weight

3/9/2010 - Will Biggie's Murder Remain Unsolved?

3/9/2010 - Limbaugh Vows to Leave Country If Health Care Reform Passes

3/9/2010 - Oh Snap! A 'We Are the World' Remake Where Everyone Can Sing!

3/9/2010 - Two Charged with First-Degree Murder in Chicago Arson Case

3/9/2010 - Read/React: "The Selective Crusade Against Black Abortion"

3/9/2010 - The Root Interview: Carol Moseley Braun

3/9/2010 - First Same-Sex Marriages Celebrated in D.C.

3/9/2010 - Why Are There So Few Black Women Politicians?

3/9/2010 - Happy Birthday, Ornette Coleman!

3/9/2010 - The Root Interview: The Former President of Ghana Speaks Bluntly

3/8/2010 - Walking in a Splinter Wonderland

3/8/2010 - Anti-Gay Senator Admits What We Kinda Figured

3/8/2010 - As a Child, Palins Loved America (Less than Canadian Health Care)

3/8/2010 - 'Freaknik: The Musical': Bourgies, Beware

3/8/2010 - The Story Behind Lady Kanye

3/8/2010 - Obama Busts Out His Cosby Sweater: The President's Fatherhood Agenda

3/8/2010 - Read/React: Recent Scandals Bruise Harlem's Political Heart

3/8/2010 - US Troops Withdrawing from Haiti

3/8/2010 - Duncan to Walk Pettus Bridge, Vows Civil Rights Reform in Schools

3/8/2010 - No Surprises at the Oscars

3/8/2010 - Who You Calling a Bitch?

3/7/2010 - Oscar Night Highlights

3/7/2010 - Dear Academy: Give Richard Pryor the Lifetime Achievement Oscar

3/7/2010 - Top Black Women Leaders, Past and Present

3/6/2010 - Why Quentin Tarantino Will Not Win an Oscar

3/5/2010 - The Curious Case of Gabourey Sidibe

3/5/2010 - How Black Women Became Powerful

3/5/2010 - RuPaul and O.J. Have Nothing in Common

3/5/2010 - Pay Up, Kwame

3/5/2010 - LIVE TWEET: The Oscars!

3/5/2010 - Freaknik: The Musical. There Is No Punchline.

3/5/2010 - Garrett Oliver: The Black Man Who Knows What’s on Tap

3/5/2010 - John McWhorter Has His Own Black Expulsion List

3/5/2010 - Apple Announces iPad Release Date

3/5/2010 - Gunman in Pentagon Shooting Acted Alone

3/5/2010 - White House May Reverse Field on KSM Trial

3/5/2010 - Baylor Star Mollywhops Player on Court

3/5/2010 - The Root Interview: Michael C. Martin and 'Brooklyn’s Finest'

3/5/2010 - Understanding Beer Talk

3/5/2010 - Single-Minded: When Every Man Seems ‘Suspect’

3/5/2010 - A Bigger Blunder Than Jim Bunning's Filibuster

3/4/2010 - Time Will Tell If David Paterson Resigns, But Not Yet

3/4/2010 - At the Gym, Proper Coverage is Everything

3/4/2010 - Dramatics Lead Singer Passes Away at 58

3/4/2010 - BREAKING: Paterson Convenes Emergency Staff Meeting

3/4/2010 - Check It Out: Family that Fled Haiti Present for Quake in Chile

3/4/2010 - Black Leaders to Hold Paterson Referendum in NYC

3/4/2010 - The Oscars and Why We Can’t All Be Sidney Poitier

3/4/2010 - Jay-Z Gets to White House Before Tavis Smiley

3/4/2010 - Three LA Teachers Suspended for Being Rascals

3/4/2010 - Smithsonian Not Interested in O.J.'s Acquittal Suit

3/4/2010 - Boston Globe Sports Desk Gets More Colorful

3/4/2010 - RNC Document Mocks Base, Donors

3/4/2010 - Check It Out: Obama's Health Care Speech

3/4/2010 - Nigeria and Democracy Inaction

3/4/2010 - Why Google Buzz Is a Bust—Especially for Black Folks

3/4/2010 - KKK-Style Hood Found on Statue at UCSD

3/3/2010 - The Perils of Black Power

3/3/2010 - Brown Bag Test: Whatcha Got for Lunch?

3/3/2010 - A Quick Breakdown of Obama's Health Care Speech

3/3/2010 - 20 Years Later: Hank Gathers

3/3/2010 - Naomi on the Lam! Supermodel Wanted for Questioning in Assault Case

3/3/2010 - Read/React: Obama, Congress Lets Surveillance Abuses Slide

3/3/2010 - Homemade Explosive Goes Off in Detroit School

3/3/2010 - GM, Nissan Recall Over 1M Vehicles

3/3/2010 - Check It Out: Sharpton and Watkins Discuss Black Agenda and President

3/3/2010 - Paterson Remains Defiant as Scandal Grows

3/3/2010 - Rangel Steps Aside from Key Chairmanship

3/3/2010 - Why Mitt Romney Is Like Barack Obama

3/3/2010 - Nina Simone’s Tragic Rise and Fall

3/2/2010 - Marion Barry Stripped of Chairmanship

3/2/2010 - Sometimes, Loss of Appetite is a Good Thing

3/2/2010 - The Best Gabourey Sidibe Interview So Far

3/2/2010 - Blog Noir: "Mixed Kids Are Not Prettier"

3/2/2010 - Quick Clips: Jim Bunning Isn't Winning Prom King This Year

3/2/2010 - NOW Wants Paterson to Resign

3/2/2010 - Blacks in Tech Getting Set for SXSW

3/2/2010 - Rahm Emanuel Doesn't Suffer from "Let's Hug It Out" Syndrome

3/2/2010 - Desiree Rogers Sets the Record Straight

3/2/2010 - Kwame Kilpatrick Still Living Rather Comfortably

3/2/2010 - The (Poor) State of Black Families

3/2/2010 - What Do the Taliban and Our Youth Have in Common?

3/2/2010 - Hometown Crowd Sticks By Desiree Rogers

3/2/2010 - It’s Hard To Be Mocked, Harder To Stay Focused

3/2/2010 - The Root's Favorite Female Anthems

3/1/2010 - Harold Ford Jr Won't Run For Senate in NY

3/1/2010 - FBI To Close Most of Its Civil Rights Cold Cases

3/1/2010 - ‘Fat’ is the new ‘N’ Word. Seriously?

3/1/2010 - A Video Postscript to Black History Month

3/1/2010 - Farrakhan: White Right Wants Obama To Be One-Term President

3/1/2010 - The Root Interview: Lynn Nottage on ‘Ruined’ Beauty

3/1/2010 - Bybee, Yoo and America’s Tortured Soul