4/30/2014 - My #hybridlife: With Stacy Henderson

4/30/2014 - Columbus Short Ransacked Home, Wife Claims

4/30/2014 - Seriously, D.L. Hughley, You’re Telling Columbus Short’s Wife to Shut Up?

4/30/2014 - Black Organizations Blocked by New My Brother’s Keeper Rule?

4/30/2014 - Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight and Natalie Cole to Star in After Midnight

4/30/2014 - Florida State Heisman Trophy Winner Jameis Winston Cited for Shoplifting

4/30/2014 - Oprah’s Name Floated as Possible New Clippers Owner

4/30/2014 - NJ Councilwoman Has Her Own Alleged Racist Rant on Tape

4/30/2014 - Oklahoma Inmate Dies After Botched Execution Is Halted 

4/30/2014 - Donald Sterling Memes Are the Greatest Things on the Internet

4/30/2014 - UCLA Declines $3 Million From Donald Sterling

4/30/2014 - Man Gets 23 Years for Killing Another After Weave Beef Gets Hairy

4/30/2014 - Beyoncé Causes Teenage Pregnancy? Bill O’Reilly Thinks So

4/30/2014 - Floyd Mayweather Jr. Wants to Buy the LA Clippers

4/30/2014 - There’s Still Bias Out There, and We Still Need Affirmative Action

4/30/2014 - The Black Congressional Budget No One Ever Talks About

4/29/2014 - Players Threatened Boycott if NBA Failed to Act

4/29/2014 - NBA Commissioner Adam Silver’s Powerful Statement on Donald Sterling

4/29/2014 - 14-Year-Old Chicago Girl Killed by Female Classmate 

4/29/2014 - Social Media Erupts With Reactions to Donald Sterling’s Lifetime NBA Ban

4/29/2014 - Obama’s Biggest Regret

4/29/2014 - 10 People Who Publicly Dislike Donald Sterling

4/29/2014 - Don’t Knock V. Stiviano’s Gold-Digging Hustle

4/29/2014 - Lincoln or Cheyney: Which Was the First HBCU?

4/29/2014 - 2014 Tony Nominees Include Audra McDonald, Sophie Okonedo, Anika Noni Rose, LaTanya Richardson

4/29/2014 - Get a Grip, America. Don Sterling’s Racist Rant Isn’t Anything New

4/29/2014 - NBA: Donald Sterling Is Banned for Life From LA Clippers and the League

4/29/2014 - Nigerian Women to Stage Million Woman March for Abducted Schoolgirls

4/29/2014 - Rutgers Students to Protest Condoleezza Rice Speech

4/29/2014 - Mark Jackson Calls for Game 5 Boycott as Clippers Sponsors Continue to Flee

4/29/2014 - Brazilian Soccer Player Dani Alves’ Epic Response to Banana Thrown at Him 

4/29/2014 - Black Success Can’t Change Warped Views Like Donald Sterling’s

4/29/2014 - The Black Saint Who Embodied Christianity for the African Masses

4/29/2014 - Donald Sterling vs. Systemic Racism: It’s OK, We Can Talk About Both

4/29/2014 - 10 Jaw-Dropping Instances of Racism in Professional Sports

4/29/2014 - Iconic Jazz Club Is Reborn in Harlem

4/28/2014 - 5 Weird Facts About the Donald Sterling Fiasco

4/28/2014 - Shaquille O’Neal and Others Mock Michigan Man With Rare Disorder  

4/28/2014 - Twitter Pays Tribute to DJ E-Z Rock

4/28/2014 - Cliven Bundy’s Black ‘Bodyguard’ and the Black-Friend Defense

4/28/2014 - Donald Trump Goes After ‘Very, Very Bad Girlfriend’ for ‘Baiting’ Donald Sterling

4/28/2014 - ‘Waterboarding Is How We’d Baptize Terrorists’ if Sarah Palin Were President

4/28/2014 - Egypt Mass Trial: Judge Sentences 683 to Death

4/28/2014 - Beyoncé and Jay Z Announce Summer Tour 

4/28/2014 - NBA Enabled LA Clippers’ Owner and Now Must Oust Him

4/28/2014 - Chicago House Music Icon DJ Rashad Found Dead in His Apartment 

4/28/2014 - LA Clippers Stage Silent Protest Against Owner’s Alleged Racist Remarks  

4/28/2014 - A Raisin Still in the Sun  

4/28/2014 - Maybe White Girls Should Play With Black Dolls

4/28/2014 - Columbus Short Needs to Clean Up His Act to Save His Career

4/27/2014 - Donald Sterling’s Long History of Racism and Offensive Remarks

4/27/2014 - Obama Remarks on Alleged Racist Rant by LA Clippers' Owner

4/27/2014 - Bill Urges Schools to Teach Racial Import of Obama Election

4/27/2014 - Chicago Anti-Violence Advocate Fatally Gunned Down

4/27/2014 - LA Clippers Owner Apologizes After Backlash

4/27/2014 - There Is No Room in America for Donald Sterling

4/27/2014 - What Happened After a 16-year-old Chose FAMU Over Harvard

4/26/2014 - LA Clippers Owner Allegedly on Tape in Racist Rant

4/26/2014 - Holder to Stay in Office Through Midterms

4/26/2014 - New Date for First Lady’s Kansas Graduation Speech

4/26/2014 - Teacher Accused of Performing Lap Dance for 15-Year-old Student

4/26/2014 - Photographer George Hallett Captures the ‘Dignity’ of Apartheid

4/26/2014 - The Ultimate Performance-Enhancing Drug? Sleep

4/25/2014 - Columbus Short Leaves Scandal

4/25/2014 - Cliven Bundy Doubles Down on His Racism and Blames Martin Luther King Jr.

4/25/2014 - Catana Starks, the True Story Behind From the Rough

4/25/2014 - Chicago to Name High School After President Obama

4/25/2014 - Teen Charged With Attempted Murder After She Poisoned Easter Collards 

4/25/2014 - DC-Area Triplets Deciding Between Ivy League Schools 

4/25/2014 - #BringBackOurGirls Aims to Draw Attention to Nigerian Schoolgirl Abductions

4/25/2014 - Pregnant Woman Loses Baby After Shooting Over Facebook Beef

4/25/2014 - NBA Superstar Joakim Noah Sues Le Coq Sportif for Making Crappy Shoes 

4/25/2014 - Ex-Soldier, Guilty of Murdering 5-Year–Old Daughter, Could Face Death Penalty

4/25/2014 - 10-Year-Old Girl Gives Michelle Obama Unemployed Dad’s Résumé

4/25/2014 - 5 Things to Know About Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala 

4/25/2014 - 11 Black Entrepreneurs Share Advice on How to Get Wealthy

4/25/2014 - Arkansas Cop Goes Unpunished for Killing Black Teen

4/25/2014 - Finding Creative Tools to Reach Black Girls

4/25/2014 - Not Even a ‘Jenious’ Can Trace My Family Name. Help!

4/24/2014 - NYPD’s Use of Social Media Becomes Public Relations Disaster

4/24/2014 - RNC Chair Priebus Denounces Rancher Bundy’s ‘Negro’ Rant, but GOP’s Race Problems Continue

4/24/2014 - Puff Daddy Creates #DiddySpeechHU for Help Writing Howard Commencement Speech

4/24/2014 - Cliven Bundy May be Today’s Least Popular Person On Twitter

4/24/2014 - Haters Need to Stop Criticizing Beyoncé’s Time Magazine Cover

4/24/2014 - Plainclothes Cops Shoot Philly Pizza Delivery Guy Wearing Hoodie 

4/24/2014 - Shaquille O’Neal Has a LinkedIn Page ... and It’s Great

4/24/2014 - North Carolina High School Student Accepted by 7 Ivy League Schools

4/24/2014 - School Daze: White Privilege Still Trumps Affirmative Action

4/24/2014 - NYPD Commissioner Unfazed by #myNYPD Backfire

4/24/2014 - Dad: Stowaway Teen Missed Africa

4/24/2014 - Guess What, Cliven Bundy? Your Nevada Ranch Is Also Getting a ‘Government Subsidy’

4/24/2014 - Beyoncé Makes Time’s Cover as One of Its 100 Most Influential

4/24/2014 - 5 NY Hasidic Men Arrested in the Beating of a Black Gay Man 

4/24/2014 - Richard Sherman, NFL Players School Harvard Students on Race            

4/24/2014 - Nonviolent Criminals in Prison 10 Years Encouraged to Apply for Early Release

4/24/2014 - The KKK’s Recent Comeback Means That They Think They’re Losing

4/24/2014 - Black CEO: Do More Than Save if You Want to Be Wealthy

4/23/2014 - Chris Brown’s Bodyguard Denied Immunity; Trial Delayed

4/23/2014 - Elderly Grandmother Tied Up by Police During Raid

4/23/2014 - RHOA Smackdown Should Serve as a Wake-Up Call

4/23/2014 - Twitter Creates #AshyLarryBoyBands in Response to Lupita Backlash

4/23/2014 - NYC Mayor Slams Emergency-Response Delay in Fire That Killed 2 Children

4/23/2014 - How a Man’s Love for Hunting Led to a Kidney Donation

4/23/2014 - Kidnapper Releases Gospel-Singing Child  

4/23/2014 - No, After the Schuette Case, Affirmative Action Isn’t Going to Be OK

4/23/2014 - 5 Things You May Not Know About James Baldwin

4/23/2014 - Lupita Nyong’o Named People’s Most Beautiful Woman

4/23/2014 - The Man Police Forgot to Lock Up for 13 Years Now Wants to Be Set Free

4/23/2014 - You Won’t Believe What Oprah’s Ex-Stepmom Has to Say About Her

4/23/2014 - Jon Bon Jovi Helps Open Low-Income Housing in Philly  

4/23/2014 - Tufts Conference Examines Barack Obama and American Democracy

4/23/2014 - Living It Up: 10 Affluent Black Neighborhoods

4/23/2014 - Does a Diverse Wedding Reception Require a DJ Who’ll Play More Than Rap and R&B?

4/22/2014 - Hispanics Scoff at Suggestion They’ll Identify as White in the Future

4/22/2014 - NYPD Asks for Photos With Hashtag #myNYPD: Black Twitter’s Brutally Funny Response

4/22/2014 - Barack and Michelle Obama Honor Frankie Knuckles 

4/22/2014 - Mitzi Miller Named Editor-in-Chief of Ebony Magazine

4/22/2014 - Paul Ryan to Meet With CBC After Remarks Called Racially Insensitive

4/22/2014 - Former Producer Attempts to Extort Jay Z for $100,000

4/22/2014 - KKK Launching Neighborhood Watch in Pennsylvania 

4/22/2014 - Mom Charged After Tossing Newborn in Trash

4/22/2014 - Stowaway Teen Prompts Serious Review of Airport Security 

4/22/2014 - Thousands of Prisoners Could Qualify for Clemency

4/22/2014 - Supreme Court Upholds Michigan’s Ban on Affirmative Action

4/22/2014 - The Boondocks Returns, With Mixed Reactions

4/22/2014 - Chris Brown’s Bodyguard Guilty of Assault

4/22/2014 - 4 Men Charged With Attempted Murder in Mob Beating of Detroit Motorist

4/22/2014 - The Inkwell: Where Are They Now?

4/22/2014 - 6 Steps to Move From College Debt to Financial Success

4/22/2014 - A Woman’s Search for Family History Leads to Singer Nat King Cole

4/22/2014 - In Greek Theater, a Black Mask Plays an Important Role

4/22/2014 - Sen. Cory Booker Is an Optimist—but Can He Break Senate Gridlock?

4/21/2014 - Texas Boy Gives Up PlayStation 4 Money to Buy Smoke Detectors 

4/21/2014 - Distraught Mom Questions EMT Response to Fatal Fire

4/21/2014 - Keyshawn Johnson Arrested in Domestic Dispute

4/21/2014 - Shonda Rhimes to Deliver 2014 Dartmouth Commencement Address

4/21/2014 - Teen Shot in Bid to Buy $250 Nike ‘Yeezy’ Sneakers

4/21/2014 - American Meb Keflezighi Wins 118th Boston Marathon

4/21/2014 - Mike Woodson Fired as Knicks Coach

4/21/2014 - Black Student Protests After Being Rejected From University of Michigan

4/21/2014 - Racist Easter Eggs Alarm Virginia Parents

4/21/2014 - Real Housewives of Atlanta Reunion: Weaves Fly and Charges Are Filed

4/21/2014 - What’s the Matter With Kansas? School Cuts, Not Michelle Obama

4/21/2014 - First Lady to Guest-Star on Nashville

4/21/2014 - Prince Settles 18-Year Battle Over Music

4/21/2014 - Teen Hides in Plane’s Wheel Well, Survives 5-Hour Flight

4/21/2014 - 15 Black Environmentalists Show Why You Should Care About Earth Day

4/21/2014 - What I Want Black People to Understand About Suicide and Depression

4/21/2014 - How to Make Sure a Helping Hand Doesn’t Make You Go Broke

4/20/2014 - Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter Dies at 76

4/20/2014 - KKK Leader Condemns Kansas City Hate-Crime Shooting

4/20/2014 - Watch: ‘I Can’t Spend my Life in Prison,’ Gang Member Sobs at Sentencing

4/20/2014 - Michelle Obama’s Kansas Graduation Speech Stirs Debate

4/20/2014 - Boondocks Set to Return Monday Without Aaron McGruder

4/20/2014 - Discovering an Enslaved Artist and His Masterpiece

4/19/2014 - Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick Criticizes Federal Shutdown of Black FM Station

4/19/2014 - Chris Brown’s Assault Trial Set to Begin Monday

4/19/2014 - Report: Over 100 Hate-Crime Murders Linked to White Nationalist Website

4/19/2014 - Ole Miss Frat Chapter Closed Over Noose Incident

4/19/2014 - Shanesha Taylor Faces 8 Years for Leaving Kids in Car

4/19/2014 - How the Griot of the Hood Became a Rap Storyteller for the Ages

4/19/2014 - The Diverse Ways They Each Coped With Child Abuse 

4/18/2014 - Hats That Should Have Been Saved for Easter Sunday

4/18/2014 - Idris Elba Welcomes Baby Boy

4/18/2014 - Scandal Recap: In Search of a Soul

4/18/2014 - This Inmate’s Conviction Was Overturned in 1980 ... but He’s Still in Prison 

4/18/2014 - Ohio Teacher Fired for Telling Student ‘We Don’t Need Another Black President’

4/18/2014 - Black America Needs a ‘Let’s Move’ Campaign Against Smoking

4/18/2014 - Was a Slave-Owning Politician My Ancestor?

4/18/2014 - DC Arts Patron Helping Student Attend Summer Ivy League Program

4/18/2014 - Whoopi Goldberg Debuts as Weed Columnist 

4/18/2014 - Columbus Short: ‘Don’t Believe Everything You Read’

4/18/2014 - NJ High School Wrestlers Who Posed for Lynching Photo Won’t Face Criminal Charges

4/18/2014 - Man Free for 13 Years Because of Error Is Now in Prison

4/18/2014 - First Lady Michelle Obama and Bow Wow Surprise Howard

4/18/2014 - Former NFL Quarterback Donovan McNabb Serves 1 Day in Jail for DUI Arrest

4/18/2014 - 20 Years After Illmatic, Nas Says American Gun Culture Needs a Remix

4/18/2014 - Don’t Like Your BFF’s ‘Ratchet’ Fiance? You Should Still Be a Bridesmaid

4/17/2014 - NYPD Disbands Muslim-Spying Unit

4/17/2014 - Wisconsin: Worst State in Nation for Black Children

4/17/2014 - PETA Goes After Michelle Obama on Easter Egg Roll

4/17/2014 - Think of Beyoncé as a Contemporary Mami Wata

4/17/2014 - B. Scott Loses Discrimination Lawsuit Against BET

4/17/2014 - Long Island High School Students Indefinitely Suspended for Wearing Confederate Flag

4/17/2014 - Study Shows Startling Race Gap in Exposure to Air Pollution 

4/17/2014 - Rapper Andre Johnson Severs Penis, Jumps From Building

4/17/2014 - Report Finds a Resurgence of Segregation 60 Years After Brown v. Board of Education

4/17/2014 - Scandal’s Columbus Short Allegedly Threatened Wife With Murder-Suicide

4/17/2014 - Savvy Single Mom

4/17/2014 - Biden Celebrates Joining Instagram With a Selfie With Obama

4/17/2014 - Police Botched Rape Case Against Heisman Winner, Times Says; Republicans Backpedal on Obamacare

4/17/2014 - DNA Matching Ex-NFL Player Darren Sharper Found on Rape Victim

4/17/2014 - Warrant Issued for Air Force Officer Weeks After Run-in With Police at His Home

4/17/2014 - Elderly ‘Homesick’ Bank Robber to Be Sentenced

4/17/2014 - Children’s Fantasy Fiction Needs More Characters of Color

4/17/2014 - Note to Democrats: If You Lose in November, Don’t Blame Black Voters

4/17/2014 - 25 Alternatives to Pharrell (or Any Other Celeb) for Insights Into ‘the New Black’  

4/17/2014 - 10 Famous Black Men Who Took Drastic Measures to Improve Their Health 

4/16/2014 - Baseball Legend Hank Aaron Gets Racist Hate Mail After Likening Obama Opponents to KKK

4/16/2014 - Western Washington University Asks How to Be Less White

4/16/2014 - Puff Daddy’s Howard Commencement Speech Ignites Debate

4/16/2014 - Hometown Heroes: Common and Kanye Team Up to Create 1,000 Jobs for Chicago Youths

4/16/2014 - Beyoncé and Jay Z to Tour Together

4/16/2014 - Scared to Invest? Get Over It

4/16/2014 - Black Girl to Star in DreamWorks’ New 3D Animated Feature 

4/16/2014 - SNL Alumna Maya Rudolph Returning to NBC With Variety Show

4/16/2014 - 13-Year-Old Brooklyn Boy Struck by Stray Bullet

4/16/2014 - Family of Woman Killed at Detroit Officer’s Party Still Seeks Answers

4/16/2014 - Harvard’s Hutchins Center Announces 2nd Class of Fellows

4/16/2014 - Analyzing American Democracy In the Age of Obama

4/16/2014 - Black Men Are More Likely to Deal With Erectile Dysfunction—Here’s What to Do About It

4/16/2014 - Are ‘a Whole Bunch of White People’ Adopting Black Kids? Here’s What’s More Important

4/15/2014 - Detroit Journalist Wins Pulitzer Prize for Commentary on City’s Financial Crisis

4/15/2014 - Kansas Shooting Suspect Could Face Death Penalty

4/15/2014 - Kids of Color Less Likely to Have Good Teachers

4/15/2014 - Pharrell Cries ‘Happy’ Tears

4/15/2014 - Scared to Start Investing? Watch The Root Live Now

4/15/2014 - Homeless Man Gets 7 Years for Firebombing Texas State Sen. Wendy Davis’ Office

4/15/2014 - NJ Fire Kills Children’s-Book Author and 8-Year-Old Son

4/15/2014 - Ala. Vet Who Tried to Hire KKK to Kill Black Neighbor Gets Lenient Sentence

4/15/2014 - Retired Major League Baseball Player Racially Profiled in His Driveway

4/15/2014 - Mimi’s Sex Tape: The Most Confusing Moments

4/15/2014 - The Rev. Jesse Jackson Denounces Attack on Detroit Driver

4/15/2014 - Queens Man Sues NYPD for Alleged Pepper Spray Attack

4/15/2014 - ‘Suit & Tie’: Young Black Men Use Music Video to Combat Stereotypes

4/15/2014 - Celestial Twins—1 Black, 1 White—Are a Symbol of Harmony

4/15/2014 - Winning Big Again: Pro Athletes Turned Entrepreneurs

4/14/2014 - US Airways Tweets NSFW Photo in Response to Customer’s Complaints

4/14/2014 - Americans Say Obama’s Not Black? How Pew Got This Wrong

4/14/2014 - Wheel of Fortune: Spinning the Politics of Racial Shame

4/14/2014 - #ManCrushMonday: These Men Are Definitely Crush-Worthy

4/14/2014 - San Francisco 49ers Linebacker Arrested for LAX Bomb Threat

4/14/2014 - Derrick Deacon, Falsely Imprisoned for 25 Years, Sues State for $25 Million

4/14/2014 - $1,000,000 Wheel of Fortune Fail: Student Says, ‘I Did My Best’

4/14/2014 - Harvard Accepts Record Percentage of Black Students

4/14/2014 - Joe Madison Arrested in NY Protest Against Injustice in South Sudan

4/14/2014 - Michael Eric Dyson Returns Fire at Cornel West; Limbaugh Is Right About Colbert

4/14/2014 - Resolve Amid the Financial Adversity

4/14/2014 - Teleka Patrick Drowned, 2nd Autopsy Confirms

4/14/2014 - Belafonte, MLK Estate Settle Document Suit

4/14/2014 - Kansas Shooting Suspect ID’d as Former KKK Leader

4/14/2014 - LaShanda Armstrong: A Horrible Act, but Not a Horrible Person

4/14/2014 - ‘Regular Black’ vs. ‘Ethnic Black’: Why the Divide?

4/14/2014 - How an HBCU Prepared Me for Harvard

4/14/2014 - Why the Sudden Rush Into Africa? It’s the Oil

4/14/2014 - The ‘Black’ Witch of Salem?

4/13/2014 - Quilted Map Memorializes Chicago Homicide Victims

4/13/2014 - Man in Superman Hoodie Helps Save Baby From East Dallas Fire

4/13/2014 - Newly Engaged Couple Among Those Killed in Bus Crash

4/13/2014 - T.D. Jakes’ Daughter Talks Teen Pregnancy, Dropping Out of College and Divorce in New Book

4/12/2014 - Guild: Gender, Race Pay Gaps Nearly Vanish in Newsrooms

4/12/2014 - Marijuana Arrests and Potential Ban on Menthol: Jim Crow Revisited?

4/12/2014 - Watch: Outkast Reunion at Coachella

4/12/2014 - Watch: John Legend’s ‘All of Me’ Helps Student to Woo Prom Date

4/12/2014 - Colin Kaepernick Denies Misconduct

4/12/2014 - Obamas Hit Broadway, Attend A Raisin in the Sun

4/12/2014 - Jermaine Jones Joins Racial Discrimination Suit Against American Idol

4/12/2014 - Al Sharpton: The Teflon Preacher With 99 Lives—at Least

4/12/2014 - Don’t Let Friend’s Unhappy Relationship Ruin Your Friendship

4/12/2014 - Marian Anderson: The Voice That Refused to Be Silenced

4/11/2014 - At Sharpton Convention, Obama Slams Republicans for Restricting Voting

4/11/2014 - Chicago’s Urban Prep Does It Again: 100 Percent College Acceptance

4/11/2014 - Creator of For Brown Girls Blog Reportedly Commits Suicide at Age 22

4/11/2014 - NYPD Accused of Rendering Brooklyn Teen Quadriplegic 

4/11/2014 - Black Couple Strip-Searched for $3 Earrings 

4/11/2014 - Black Congresswomen Want Army to Reconsider Rules on Twists and Braids

4/11/2014 - Google Honors Chemist Percy Lavon Julian

4/11/2014 - Scandal Recap: Let’s Look at the Bright Side

4/11/2014 - 10 Killed in Calif. Bus-and-Truck Crash

4/11/2014 - Lolo Jones Slams Drake and Rihanna on Twitter 

4/11/2014 - Shoe Thrown at Hillary Clinton During Speech

4/11/2014 - Kaepernick Being Investigated Over ‘Incident’ in Miami 

4/11/2014 - Top Black Ad Men and Women You Won’t See on Mad Men

4/11/2014 - Should I Post Controversial Family Tree Info Online?

4/11/2014 - How Nikki Giovanni Linked Aretha Franklin to the Black Arts Movement

4/11/2014 - Actually, Obama’s Record Compares Just Fine With LBJ’s

4/11/2014 - Obama Could Stand to Be a Little More Like LBJ

4/10/2014 - The Media Sensationalizes Al Sharpton’s Work With the FBI  

4/10/2014 - Dear Disgruntled Dater: We’re Sorry. Don’t Quit

4/10/2014 - President Obama: ‘I Have Lived Out the Promise of LBJ’s Efforts’

4/10/2014 - Study: White Americans Who Fear Minority Status More Likely to Shift Right

4/10/2014 - Detroit Teen Charged With Hate Crime in Brutal Mob Beating of Motorist

4/10/2014 - Charlie Rangel: Confederate Flag Always ‘There With’ Obama Opponents

4/10/2014 - Obama to Speak at LBJ Civil Rights Summit 

4/10/2014 - The Latest From the National Action Network Convention

4/10/2014 - Equal-Pay Bill Fails; Petition Against Michael Vick Gains Momentum

4/10/2014 - MSU Fan Lacey Holsworth Dies of Cancer at Age 8

4/10/2014 - Mother, 2 Others Arrested in Boy’s Beating Posted as Facebook Video

4/10/2014 - Sir Mix-a-Lot to Perform With Seattle Symphony 

4/10/2014 - Determined Young Men Refused to Stop Looking for Missing 9-Year-Old

4/10/2014 - Writer Pearl Cleage Tells the Messy Stories of Her Life

4/10/2014 - The First Ones: 17 African Americans Who Broke Barriers

4/9/2014 - Barack Obama's Aunt, Zeituni Onyango, Dies at 61 

4/9/2014 - Petition Wants Michael Vick Banned From Jets Practice Site

4/9/2014 - UMass Basketball Player Becomes 1st Openly Gay NCAA Division I Athlete 

4/9/2014 - Iowa GOP Senate Candidate: Race Is the Reason Obama Isn’t Being Impeached

4/9/2014 - Body Pulled From Indiana Lake Positively Identified as Teleka Patrick

4/9/2014 - Baseball Legend Hank Aaron Likens GOP to KKK

4/9/2014 - Rapper 50 Cent Ordered to Pay $16 Million in Headphone Settlement

4/9/2014 - GM to Invest $449 Million in Detroit-Area Auto Plants

4/9/2014 - Nursing Home Faces Lawsuit for Strip Show

4/9/2014 - Belle: A Lesson About British Slavery Buried in a Love Story

4/9/2014 - Should a Black Writer Write White Characters?

4/9/2014 - Protect Our Communities From Predatory Payday Lenders

4/9/2014 - Man Who Hates Wife’s Natural Hair: Cut Him Some Slack

4/8/2014 - Media Covers Syrian Crisis but Ignores the Central African Republic and South Sudan

4/8/2014 - Young Ballerinas Awarded Scholarships

4/8/2014 - Oakland Teen Wows With 5.0 GPA and 2100 SAT Score  

4/8/2014 - Detroit Woman Who Killed Daughter Gets 23-Year Sentence

4/8/2014 - Innocent Brooklyn Man to Walk Free After Almost Completing 25-Year Sentence 

4/8/2014 - Learning to Love Tax Season: Watch The Root Live Today at 11am  

4/8/2014 - New Mayor Named in Charlotte After Bribery Scandal

4/8/2014 - Jesse Jackson Jr. Moved to Alabama Prison After Dispute

4/8/2014 - Sharpton Was FBI Mob Informant, Report Says

4/8/2014 - Rap Goes to Court: When Lyrics Become Evidence In a Trial

4/8/2014 - Why These Slave Women in an Asian Setting Were Important to Dutch Trade 

4/8/2014 - Hank Aaron’s Home Run Record Meant Everything 40 Years Ago. It Still Does

4/8/2014 - The Friendly Cold War Between 'Regular Blacks' and 'Ethnic Blacks' at the Nation's Elite Colleges

4/7/2014 - White Army Vet Viciously Beaten and Called a ‘N--ger Lover’

4/7/2014 - Jay Z Sparks Controversy With ‘5 Percent Nation’ Medallion

4/7/2014 - White House May Be Done With Selfies

4/7/2014 - Obama Uses His Pen to Enforce Equal Pay for Women and Minorities

4/7/2014 - Honey Maid Sticks It to the Haters With Love

4/7/2014 - Library of Congress Musical List Ignores Rap

4/7/2014 - 11-Year-Old West Philly Girl Killed by Gun Fired by 2-Year-Old Brother

4/7/2014 - Body Found in Lake May Be Missing Doctor Teleka Patrick

4/7/2014 - NBA Player Dante Cunningham Arrested for 2nd Time in 3 Days

4/7/2014 - Chiwetel Ejiofor—the Next Bond Villain?

4/7/2014 - Women Are Expected to Buy Men Drinks Now? I Quit

4/7/2014 - How Race Factors Into Recent Supreme Court Rulings on Elections

4/7/2014 - Who Is Black America’s Patron Saint?

4/6/2014 - Pharrell Williams ‘Happy’ on Saturday Night Live

4/6/2014 - Missing 8-Year-Old Relisha Rudd Yearned to Leave DC Homeless Shelter

4/6/2014 - Revamped National Civil Rights Museum Reopens

4/6/2014 - 2 Teens Arrested in Beating of Detroit Driver 

4/6/2014 - Survey: African Americans Still Optimistic Despite Racism

4/5/2014 - Legendary Journalist Chuck Stone Dies at 89

4/5/2014 - Scandal's Norm Lewis Tapped as Broadway’s 1st Black Phantom

4/5/2014 - Names of Jurors in George Zimmerman Trial Released

4/5/2014 - Paula Deen Abruptly Closes Seafood Eatery 

4/5/2014 - Lupita Nyong’o to Feature in Lancôme Advertising

4/4/2014 - Ben Carson Tells Roland Martin He Doesn’t Like Political ‘Boxes or Labels’

4/4/2014 - Anthony Mackie: Playing Iconic Black Superhero Is a Dream Come True

4/4/2014 - DNA Does Not Lie, and Neither Did Aunt Peachy

4/4/2014 - Black Boys Go Ivy League: Haters Emerge

4/4/2014 - My #hybridlife: With Laz Alonso

4/4/2014 - Scandal Recap: Better Save Yourself

4/4/2014 - How the X-Men Reflected the Fight for Civil Rights

4/4/2014 - Kent State Student Arrested in Shooting That Caused Campus Lockdown

4/4/2014 - 11-Year-Old Forced to Clean School Toilets During Detention

4/4/2014 - Mob Beats Detroit Driver Who Stopped to Check on Boy He Hit

4/4/2014 - Introducing Beverly Bond’s Rock! Like a Girl

4/4/2014 - President Obama to Headline Sharpton’s NAN Convention

4/4/2014 - How to Find the Art of Cool in North Carolina

4/4/2014 - MLK’s Last Crusade Was the Poor People’s Campaign Against Poverty

4/3/2014 - 2014 Peabody Winners Reflect the Lives and Work of People of Color

4/3/2014 - New Orleans Man’s Confrontation With Cop Caught on Tape 

4/3/2014 - Underemployment Plagues African Americans

4/3/2014 - 5th-Grader Claims Police Officer Pointed Gun in His Face

4/3/2014 - Atlanta Archbishop Likely to Sell $2,200,000 Mansion 

4/3/2014 - Defense Signals It Will Question Detroit Shooting Victim’s Past

4/3/2014 - GOP’s Obamacare Fix; Petition to Stop Army’s Hair Rules

4/3/2014 - Prison Ordered to Resume Transgender Inmate’s Hormone Treatments

4/3/2014 - Exchange Student Eats Pot Cookie, Jumps to His Death in Colorado

4/3/2014 - Fort Hood Shooting: Attacker Slays 3, Injures More Than a Dozen, Kills Self

4/3/2014 - Can NY Create Economic Development With TV Diversity?

4/3/2014 - The Hip-Hop Fellow: Producer 9th Wonder Schools Harvard

4/3/2014 - Black Heroism Illustrated

4/2/2014 - Coping With Job Loss: A Step-By-Step Guide to Getting Back on Track

4/2/2014 - Black Twitter Schools Marie Claire on Cornrows

4/2/2014 - Teen Who Sued Parents Gets $56K Scholarship 

4/2/2014 - What Is Nick Cannon Thinking?

4/2/2014 - DC Mayor Vince Gray Defeated by Muriel Bowser in Democratic Primary

4/2/2014 - Exclusive: NYPD’s William Bratton Vows to Win Back the Black Community’s Trust

4/2/2014 - The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross Wins Peabody Award

4/2/2014 - Reports: Michael Strahan Expected to Join Good Morning America

4/2/2014 - 911 Operator Helps Save Her Father’s Life on Her 1st Day on the Job

4/2/2014 - Venezuelan Tourist Cleared in Macy's Shoplifting Arrest 

4/2/2014 - ‘I, Too, Am Harvard’ Campaign Raises Alumnae Concern

4/2/2014 - Are White Men Allowed to Laugh at Black Men’s Expense?

4/2/2014 - Congress to Unemployed: Maybe You Should Move to the Ukraine

4/1/2014 - FCC Vote Encourages Diversity in Broadcast Ownership

4/1/2014 - President Obama: ‘The Affordable Care Act Is Here to Stay’

4/1/2014 - The 1st Black Emojis Are Here ... and They Don’t Come From Apple 

4/1/2014 - RIP, Frankie Knuckles

4/1/2014 - Is This Vanderbilt Mural Racist?

4/1/2014 - Jury: Officers Wrongly Arrested Black Teen but Did Not Use Excessive Force

4/1/2014 - Find Ways to Pay for College: The Root Live Today at 11 a.m.

4/1/2014 - NY Teen Accepted at All 8 Ivy League Institutions

4/1/2014 - Body of Abduction Suspect Found, Search Continues for Missing DC Girl 

4/1/2014 - New Michael Jackson Album, Xscape, to Be Released in May

4/1/2014 - For Spring Break, Howard Students Choose Service

4/1/2014 - 4 Lessons From a Homeless Mother’s Tragic Dilemma 

4/1/2014 - Why a Black Preacher’s Fiery Sermon at a White Church Received a Lasting Tribute

4/1/2014 - ‘I Understand Shanesha Taylor’s Story All Too Well’

4/1/2014 - College Promoting Diversity Names Confederacy Lover as President