5/31/2014 - Black Men Urge Obama to Add Females to My Brother’s Keeper

5/31/2014 - Dispatcher Suspended for Comments About Oprah During Maya Angelou 911 Call

5/31/2014 - When a ‘Gentleman’ Is Linked to Mass Murder

5/31/2014 - Chicago Teacher Killed by Stray Bullet

5/31/2014 - Trayvon Martin’s Friend Rachel Jeantel Graduates From High School

5/31/2014 - Donald Sterling Sues NBA for Over $1,000,000,000

5/31/2014 - CBS Cancels The Arsenio Hall Show Amid Ratings Struggle

5/31/2014 - First Daughter Malia Obama Attends Prom

5/30/2014 - My Brother’s Keeper Sets Its Sights on Mentoring, With Help From Magic Johnson

5/30/2014 - Lance Stephenson Memes Are the Funniest Thing on the Internet

5/30/2014 - Texas Women Subjected to Full Body Cavity Search on Highway

5/30/2014 - VA Secretary Eric Shinseki Resigns Amid Heath Care Scandal 

5/30/2014 - Mass. Men Sentenced to Life as Juveniles Plead for a 2nd Chance

5/30/2014 - Tiffany & Co. Sued for Racial Bias

5/30/2014 - Lupita Nyong’o Options Film Rights to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah

5/30/2014 - Disabled Man’s Family Sent $11.67 Million Bill After He Died in State Care

5/30/2014 - 4-Year-Old Boy Calls 911 After Mom Passes Out

5/30/2014 - Shelly Sterling to Sell LA Clippers to Ex-Microsoft CEO for Record Sum

5/30/2014 - Your Ex Has Moved On and Can’t Be Friends? Get Over It

5/30/2014 - Why Google Should Call Some Black Friends

5/30/2014 - Are Slave Narratives Useful to My Family Tree Research?

5/29/2014 - That Time Maya Angelou Worked as a Journalist in Egypt

5/29/2014 - When Bad Hashtags Happen: Redskins Ask Fans to Tweet Their #RedskinsPride

5/29/2014 - Don’t Get It Twisted: There Is an Obama Doctrine

5/29/2014 - Bobbi Kristina: I Should Play Whitney Houston

5/29/2014 - Google Exposes Its Lack of Diversity

5/29/2014 - Texas Mom Drives Into Lake With 6-Month-Old in Backseat

5/29/2014 - NJ Father Who Drowned Toddler in Car Seat Gets Life Sentence

5/29/2014 - Aretha Franklin Receives Honorary Doctorate From Harvard

5/29/2014 - Va. 10th-Grader Brutally Murders Parents Over Punishments 

5/29/2014 - Dancer Claims She Was Asked to Leave African Festival Because She Is White   

5/29/2014 - Rutgers University Beyoncé Class Is in Session

5/29/2014 - LeVar Burton Asked for Help Reviving Reading Rainbow, and the People Responded

5/29/2014 - How to Have a Sane Black Celeb Wedding: These Stars Did It

5/29/2014 - California Shooter’s Sexism Is More Common Than We Care to Admit

5/28/2014 - How Well Do You Know Maya Angelou?

5/28/2014 - Oprah Winfrey Remembers Maya Angelou

5/28/2014 - Texas Dad Accused of Attacking Daughter Who Chose Black Dance Partner

5/28/2014 - Watch: 50 Cent Throws a Foul Ball, Possibly the Worst Pitch Ever

5/28/2014 - Obama Remembers Maya Angelou, ‘a Truly Phenomenal Woman’

5/28/2014 - Maya Angelou’s Words That Spoke to All Our Lives

5/28/2014 - #MayaTaughtMe: The Lessons Learned From Maya Angelou

5/28/2014 - Venus and Serena Williams Upset in the French Open

5/28/2014 - Myrtle Beach Mayor Slams Recent Outbreak of Violence

5/28/2014 - Ga. Dad Charged With Child Cruelty for Making Son Carry 23-Pound Stone

5/28/2014 - Reactions to Kara Walker’s A Subtlety Prove a Black Woman Will Be Sexualized, Even in Art

5/28/2014 - Maya Angelou: A Phenomenal Woman Passes On

5/28/2014 - 14 Moral Mondays Protesters Arrested at NC Republican House Speaker’s Office

5/28/2014 - Groups Want NFL Players to Join Battle Over Washington Redskins Team Name

5/28/2014 - Black Republican Claims Cliven Bundy Not ‘Racist at All’

5/28/2014 - Report: Shelly Sterling Close to Selling LA Clippers

5/28/2014 - Comparing Black People to Apes: It’s Worse Than You Thought

5/28/2014 - Cicely Tyson: 6 Career-Defining Roles

5/28/2014 - ‘Case for Reparations’ Explains How America Must Come to Terms With Its History

5/27/2014 - Mark Cuban’s Remarks on Race Made for Good TV

5/27/2014 - New Study Shows We’re Not Post-Racial When It Comes to Hiring Decisions

5/27/2014 - Kanye West Is Now a Married Man

5/27/2014 - Watch: Cops Blast KRS-One’s ‘Sound of Da Police’  

5/27/2014 - Georgia Teen Killed and 2 Injured in Hit-and-Run

5/27/2014 - Whitney Houston’s Family Furious Over Lifetime Movie

5/27/2014 - Report: Miss. Judge Smacks Mentally Disabled Black Man, Tells Him ‘Run, N--ger, Run’

5/27/2014 - Brothers’ Fight Over Clothes Leads to Murder-Suicide 

5/27/2014 - Nigerian Official: Kidnapped Girls Located but Not Rescued  

5/27/2014 - Ending Bondage With a Display of Humanity

5/27/2014 - ‘Unpopular Black Opinion’ Confessions

5/27/2014 - The Root’s Summer Reading List

5/27/2014 - A More Diverse Medical Profession Means Better Care for a Diverse America

5/27/2014 - Miles Davis Way Unveiled in New York City

5/26/2014 - The Black Roots of Memorial Day

5/26/2014 - Environmental Justice Requires MLK’s Fierce Urgency of Now

5/26/2014 - Can We Please Get Some Black Gay Male Couples on TV?

5/26/2014 - For Memorial Day, Obama Should Stand Up for All Who’ve Served and Sacrificed

5/26/2014 - Tight Bathing Suit? Check. Welcome to Memorial Day! 

5/25/2014 - Sharpton Hits NYPD Over Teen Reportedly Shoved Through Window

5/25/2014 - Watch: Ben Carson Slams Administration Over Veterans Scandal

5/25/2014 - Houston Unveils MLK Memorial Statue, Ending Decades of Drama

5/25/2014 - Obama: US Must Work Harder for Veterans

5/25/2014 - Mali Music Returns With a New Album: Mali Is ...

5/25/2014 - Old-School Beefs Revisited

5/24/2014 - Spotlight on Atlantic Magazine’s Reparations Cover Story

5/24/2014 - $1,000,000 Suit Filed in Red Lobster Racist Receipt Flap

5/24/2014 - Ariz. Mom Who Left Kids in Car Is Granted Visits

5/24/2014 - NBA Vote on Forcing Sale of Clippers Still On

5/24/2014 - Court Puts Conyers Back on Michigan Ballot

5/24/2014 - Old-Schooled: 8 Classic Hip-Hop Hits Worth Teaching to Students

5/24/2014 - ‘The Case for Reparations’ Reignited an Important and Long-Standing Debate

5/23/2014 - We Should Be Thanking Mark Cuban

5/23/2014 - Ravens Running Back Ray Rice Apologizes During Press Conference

5/23/2014 - Why It’s Not Worth Throwing Dirt on an Ex

5/23/2014 - Martin Lawrence Returns to TV in New Comedy Series

5/23/2014 - What Were Tupac Shakur's Dying Words?

5/23/2014 - Angela Bassett to Direct Movie About Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown

5/23/2014 - Tenn. Gov. Signs Bill Reinstating Electric Chair for Death Penalty

5/23/2014 - Mos Def’s U.S. Tour Canceled Over Immigration Issues

5/23/2014 - Half of Senate Demands Redskins Change Name

5/23/2014 - Mark Cuban Says Sorry for ‘Black Kid’ Remark

5/23/2014 - High School Grants Dying Teen’s Wish

5/23/2014 - How Can I Get the Most Out of Online Genealogy Sites?

5/23/2014 - Letter to My Daughter: I’m Not the Father I Should Have Been

5/23/2014 - What if Du Bois’ Talented Tenth Replaced Isolation With Hope?

5/22/2014 - Was Tell Me More NPR’s Last Attempt to Target Blacks?

5/22/2014 - Charlie Sheen Calls Rihanna a Village Idiot on Twitter After Restaurant Snub

5/22/2014 - Actor Michael Jace Charged With Wife’s Murder

5/22/2014 - Quincy Jones Isn't Feeling the New Michael Jackson Album 

5/22/2014 - New Virus Threatens Caribbean 

5/22/2014 - Friends of Oscar Grant Settle With Bay Area Rapid Transit 

5/22/2014 - Mark Cuban: If I See a Black Guy in a Hoodie I Cross the Street

5/22/2014 - How Mike Myers Felt Being the Guy Next to Kanye West

5/22/2014 - Columbus Short Accused of Violating Wife’s Restraining Order 

5/22/2014 - Mom: Cop Slams Handcuffed Teen Through Plate-Glass Window 

5/22/2014 - Quvenzhané Wallis Named Face of Armani Junior

5/22/2014 - In the Face of New Violence, Nigerians Are Hopeful That Their Missing Girls Will Return

5/22/2014 - We’re Still Living With the Specter of Sam Greenlee’s Spook Who Sat by the Door

5/22/2014 - We’re Dreaming if We Think We’ve Dealt With Racism

5/21/2014 - US Deploys Troops to Help Find Abducted Nigerian Schoolgirls

5/21/2014 - Iranian Authorities Jail Singers for Being ‘Happy’

5/21/2014 - 5-Year-Old Girl Allegedly Beaten and Forced to Smoke Pot

5/21/2014 - Lawsuit: NFL Gave Former Players Risky Drugs to Mask Severe Injuries

5/21/2014 - Obama ‘Will Not Stand’ for Veterans Affairs Scandal

5/21/2014 - Here’s the Deal on Nigeria

5/21/2014 - Emory University Taps Erika Hayes James as Business School’s New Dean

5/21/2014 - Kevin Hart Vents About Ex-Wife Torrei Hart on Twitter

5/21/2014 - NY Legislator Asked to Resign Over Alleged Racially Charged Comments

5/21/2014 - NPR Cancels Multicultural Program Tell Me More

5/21/2014 - Senior’s Clever Yearbook Quote Causes Controversy 

5/21/2014 - Ciara and Future Welcome a Baby Boy

5/21/2014 - Oakland Teen Headed to Yale Gets Shopping Spree From Raiders

5/21/2014 - Ray Rice to Enter Pretrial Program, Avoids Jail Time

5/21/2014 - A Bittersweet Tribute to Black Womanhood

5/21/2014 - Is Using Lotion a Black Thing?

5/21/2014 - Malcolm X Always Spoke Truth to Power, No Matter the Cost

5/21/2014 - Meet the Black Officer Who Went Undercover as a KKK Member

5/20/2014 - Sam Greenlee, Spook Who Sat by the Door Author, Dies at 83 

5/20/2014 - Report: Will and Jada Under Investigation by Children and Family Services

5/20/2014 - NBA’s Charles Barkley Earns Ire of San Antonio Women

5/20/2014 - Forbes Crowns Iggy Azalea the Next Big Thing in Hip-Hop and Should Never Write About Hip-Hop Again

5/20/2014 - Peabody Awards Celebrate Stories in Different Media 

5/20/2014 - Bipartisan Backlash Against Police Commissioner’s N-Bomb Shows There’s Still Hope for America

5/20/2014 - NYC Mayor Demands Apology From City Tabloids 

5/20/2014 - Actor Michael Jace Arrested in Wife’s Shooting Death

5/20/2014 - Two Men Arrested for Sagging Pants in South Carolina Waffle House

5/20/2014 - NBA Issues Charges Against Donald Sterling, Vote Set for June 3  

5/20/2014 - Michael Jackson’s High Musical Standards Still Resonate on Xscape

5/20/2014 - Sherri Shepherd’s Divorce: Is It a Wake-Up Call for Women?

5/20/2014 - PTSD in the Inner City Needs a Name That Respects Its Victims

5/19/2014 - About Dean Baquet Not Having a College Degree

5/19/2014 - Police Commissioner Who Called Obama the N-Word Resigns

5/19/2014 - Ray J Offers Sex-Tape Profits to Kanye West and Kim Kardashian as Wedding Gift

5/19/2014 - 12 Years A Mannequin: Store Displays Slave Outfit With DVD

5/19/2014 - Next Season, Let’s See SNL Do Better at Portraying Black Women

5/19/2014 - Fines for Sagging Pants in Tennessee

5/19/2014 - New Documentary Recalls Nat King Cole’s Racist Neighbors

5/19/2014 - John Conyers’ Last Chance to Get Back on the Ballot

5/19/2014 - Paralyzed Eric LeGrand Delivers Graduation Speech After Controversy 

5/19/2014 - Chris Brown and James DeBarge Have Been Collaborating Behind Bars

5/19/2014 - Cellphone Broken by Rihanna Fetches Staggering Price on EBay

5/19/2014 - Michael Jackson Is ‘Resurrected’ for the Billboard Music Awards

5/19/2014 - Michigan Man Beaten by Mob Released From Hospital 6 Weeks After Attack

5/19/2014 - When Affirmative Action Was White

5/19/2014 - A Sex-Trafficking Survivor’s Perspective on the Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolgirls

5/19/2014 - Ben Carson Is More Pundit Than President—but You Should Read His Book Anyway

5/18/2014 - Watch: Jay Z and Beyonce Release Steamy Short Film

5/18/2014 - NY Times Publisher Strikes Back Against Claims About Ousted Editor

5/18/2014 - Eric Holder: Systemic, Subtle Racism Far Worse Than Rants

5/18/2014 - SNL Parodies Solange and Jay Z Elevator Fight

5/18/2014 - Oprah’s Network to Hold Michael Sam Docuseries

5/18/2014 - Veteran’s Death in Hot Jail Cell Exposes National Problem

5/18/2014 - School Closures: A New Version of Separate and Unequal

5/18/2014 - How US Evangelicals Inflame Hatred of Gays in Africa

5/17/2014 - NH Pols Join Push for Ouster of Racist Police Commissioner

5/17/2014 - Obama on Brown v. Board: The 1st Major Step in Ending ‘Separate but Equal’

5/17/2014 - The Root Interview With NAACP's New President Cornell William Brooks

5/17/2014 - Michelle Obama Warns of Growing School Resegregation

5/17/2014 - 6 Lesser-Known Facts About Brown v. Board

5/17/2014 - The Doll Test for Racial Self-Hate: Did It Ever Make Sense?

5/16/2014 - NAACP LDF Honors the 60th Anniversary of Brown v. Board

5/16/2014 - GOP’s 19-Year-Old ‘Rising Star’ Says School Choice Will Help Close Achievement Gap

5/16/2014 - NFL Player Charged With Beating Girlfriend Over Previous Ties to Nelly

5/16/2014 - Md. Man Arrested After Giving Son, 3, Deadly Amount of Cocaine 

5/16/2014 - Was My Ancestor the Only Civilian Killed at Appomattox?

5/16/2014 - Va. Mom Scared to Go Home After 5-Year-Old Son Shot on Mother’s Day

5/16/2014 - Watch: Florida State QB Scrambles Out of Grocery Store With Crab Legs

5/16/2014 - When a Police Commissioner Calls Obama the N-Word, It’s Time for Mandatory Diversity Training

5/16/2014 - Jill Scott Receives Honorary Doctorate From Temple University

5/16/2014 - Reports: Donald Sterling Won’t Pay Fine, Threatens Lawsuit Against NBA

5/16/2014 - Former Scandal Star Columbus Short Pleads Not Guilty in Bar Assault

5/16/2014 - Police Commissioner Calls Obama N-Word and Refuses to Apologize 

5/16/2014 - Va. High School Students Challenged Segregation and Helped Pave the Way for Brown

5/16/2014 - Post-Mandela South Africa Is a Nation on Edge

5/15/2014 - New York Times Picks 1st Black Executive Editor

5/15/2014 - Beyoncé, Jay Z and Solange: We’ve Put This Behind Us and So Should You

5/15/2014 - Here’s Why That School Principal Tells Young Black Men to Wear Ties

5/15/2014 - Meet Leela James, R&B Divas: LA’s Newest Star

5/15/2014 - Aaron Hernandez Indicted Again—This Time for 2012 Double Murder

5/15/2014 - Texas High School Sophomore Turns Out to Be 31-Year-Old Woman

5/15/2014 - Why Newark Turned From Booker to Baraka

5/15/2014 - Nina Simone Biopic Premieres at Cannes Amid Lawsuit and Photo Controversy 

5/15/2014 - Rihanna Accidentally Smashes Police Chief’s Phone, Donates $25K to His Charity

5/15/2014 - Georgia High School Seniors Declare, ‘N--ga We Made It!’

5/15/2014 - 4 Reasons President Obama Will Regret Tapping a Conservative Judge

5/15/2014 - Standard Hotel Employee Fired in Leak of ‘Solange vs. Jay Z’ Video

5/15/2014 - Nigerian Soldiers Clash With Militants Near Village Where Girls Were Kidnapped 

5/15/2014 - Pair Who Stole Luggage After Fatal Plane Crash Headed to Jail

5/15/2014 - Oprah’s Network to Produce Michael Sam Docuseries 

5/15/2014 - Mother and Sons Earn College Degrees in the Same Week

5/15/2014 - Brown v. Board: With Resegregation, the Struggle Continues

5/15/2014 - When Racism Slips Into Everyday Speech

5/14/2014 - ‘PromBat’ Teen Who Dressed as Rihanna for Prom Speaks Out

5/14/2014 - Who Is Dean Baquet? 6 Facts About the New York Times’ 1st Black Executive Editor

5/14/2014 - Dean Baquet Named 1st African-American Executive Editor at the New York Times

5/14/2014 - Whoopi Goldberg Believes a Man Should Be Able to Hit a Woman Back

5/14/2014 - Man Who Planned to Kill President Obama Sentenced to Death 

5/14/2014 - Watch: Fla. Officer Kicks Handcuffed Teen Who Disobeyed Bus Driver

5/14/2014 - Ras Baraka Elected Mayor of Newark

5/14/2014 - New Donald Sterling Rant Leaked: Claims V. Stiviano Is the Real Racist

5/14/2014 - Beyoncé and Jay Z’s Solange-Photo-Posting Spree on Instagram

5/14/2014 - Michael Sam’s Jersey 2nd-Highest Seller Among Rookies

5/14/2014 - 11-Year-Old Shoots Grandmother After Getting Into Trouble at School

5/14/2014 - Magic Johnson Responds to Donald Sterling Backlash 

5/14/2014 - What’s With the Fixation on Putting Black Boys in Ties?

5/14/2014 - 60 Years After Brown v. Board, Education Is Still the Civil Rights Issue of Our Time

5/14/2014 - How the Black Press Covered Brown v. Board of Education

5/13/2014 - Firsthand Reporting of Nigeria’s Abducted Schoolgirls

5/13/2014 - Jameis Winston’s Dad Wants Around-the-Clock Security for Son

5/13/2014 - Fla. Prison Guard’s Sexual Assault by Inmates Went Unreported

5/13/2014 - Coming This Fall to ABC: ‘All Shonda Rhimes’ Thursday

5/13/2014 - Former NBA Star Gilbert Arenas ‘Forgives’ Donald Sterling

5/13/2014 - Dear Donald Sterling: Just Shut Up, Already

5/13/2014 - The Film Adaptation of Half of a Yellow Sun Comes Full Circle 

5/13/2014 - Donald Sterling, Here Are a Few Things Magic Johnson Has Done for Minorities

5/13/2014 - US Intelligence Aircraft Flies Over Nigeria in Search of Missing Girls

5/13/2014 - Openly Gay NFL Player Michael Sam’s Boyfriend Has Mob Relations

5/13/2014 - Solange vs. Jay Z and Rachel Roy? 

5/13/2014 - Donald Sterling on Magic Johnson: ‘He’s Got AIDS!’

5/13/2014 - Cracks in Jay and Bey’s Picture-Perfect Facade? Not Really

5/13/2014 - It’s Time to End Profiling of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People of Color

5/13/2014 - Why Coins With a Black Man’s Face Were Valued

5/13/2014 - New Orleans Teachers and Students Wrestle With Racial Tension

5/12/2014 - Beyoncé and Solange Hop a Plane to Costa Rica After Jay Z Elevator Fight

5/12/2014 - 15-Year-Old Chicago Boy Killed on Mother’s Day in Suspected Drive-by

5/12/2014 - Allen West: US Interest in Nigeria and Boko Haram Is ‘Fishy’

5/12/2014 - Solange Knowles Attacks Jay Z in Elevator After Met Gala

5/12/2014 - Donald Trump Criticizes ‘Double Standard’ for Michael Sam and Tim Tebow

5/12/2014 - Boko Haram Releases New Video Allegedly Showing Missing Nigerian Schoolgirls

5/12/2014 - Derrick Ward Had an Issue With Michael Sam Kissing His Boyfriend

5/12/2014 - The NFL Is Not Ready for Michael Sam: His Kiss Disgusts Fellow Player

5/12/2014 - Nigerian President Refused Immediate Help to Find Missing Girls

5/12/2014 - Donald Sterling Slams Magic Johnson in Interview

5/12/2014 - NYC Cop Involved in Fatal Shooting of Black Teen Named Cop of the Year 

5/12/2014 - Why I Can’t Get Behind #BringBackOurGirls

5/12/2014 - Beyond Biracial: When Blackness Is a Small, Nearly Invisible Fraction

5/12/2014 - Michael Sam: What He Means to Young Gay Black Men

5/12/2014 - Who Was Black America’s 1st Investigative Journalist?

5/11/2014 - Cyber-Stalker Forces St. Louis News-Anchor Off the Air

5/11/2014 - Doors Shuttered at Nation’s Oldest Black Bookstore

5/11/2014 - Search Continues for DC Child Relisha Rudd

5/11/2014 - Saving Our Sons, And Our Daughters Too

5/11/2014 - They’re Moms to Black America

5/11/2014 - A Mother’s Love: Stories of Struggle, Sacrifice, Love and Wisdom

5/11/2014 - Dutchman: Black Men and White Women, Controversial Onstage—and, Still, in Real Life?

5/10/2014 - Obama Congratulates Michael Sam, 1st Openly Gay Player Drafted by NFL

5/10/2014 - Songs For Mama: Mother’s Day Playlist 

5/10/2014 - New NPR Chief Has Blueprint for Diversity

5/10/2014 - Donald Sterling Reportedly ‘Jealous’ of ‘Black Guys’

5/10/2014 - The Daily Show’s Larry Wilmore to Replace Stephen Colbert

5/10/2014 - Dr. Dre Poised to Become Hip-Hop’s 1st Billionaire With $3,200,000,000 Apple Deal

5/10/2014 - Short Films Soar at the African Film Festival

5/10/2014 - Chris Brown Sentenced to 131 Days in Jail

5/10/2014 - Mother’s Day: The Resilience of Black Breast-Feeding

5/10/2014 - Meet the 19-Year-Old Whose Racism Prank Fooled the Net

5/9/2014 - Dick Parsons Appointed Interim CEO of Los Angeles Clippers 

5/9/2014 - Okla. Death Row Inmate Gets 6-Month Stay After Botched Execution

5/9/2014 - Shonda Rhimes and Viola Davis Team Up for New Legal Thriller

5/9/2014 - Arrest of 9-Year-Old Girl Sparks Push For Policy Change 

5/9/2014 - How One Woman Attempted To Hijack #BringBackOurGirls

5/9/2014 - Report: Dr. Dre to Sell Beats Electronics to Apple

5/9/2014 - 93-Year-Old Woman Shot Dead by Texas Police 

5/9/2014 - Nigeria Offers $310,000 Reward for Return of Girls Feared Taken Across Border

5/9/2014 - Downbeat Diplomacy for Black Musicians at International Jazz Day

5/9/2014 - Why We Need More Black Women as News Decision-Makers

5/9/2014 - Global Citizens Are Driving the Search for Nigeria’s Abducted Girls

5/9/2014 - Why Would My Former Slave Ancestor Move South?

5/8/2014 - Jet Magazine Goes 100 Percent Digital 

5/8/2014 - bell hooks Calls Beyoncé a Terrorist 

5/8/2014 - GabiFresh Recreates Beyoncé Video To Promote Body Positivity 

5/8/2014 - #TBT: Our Favorite Moments From Black Family Sitcoms

5/8/2014 - Maryland Teenager Raped in High School

5/8/2014 - Arson Suspected at Ex-Tennis Pro James Blake’s Florida Home; 4 Dead

5/8/2014 - Do We Really Want Another Sterling as a Clippers Owner?           

5/8/2014 - Monica Lewinsky in Vanity Fair: The 5 Most Fascinating Revelations

5/8/2014 - Donald Sterling Insists He’s Not Racist in New Recording

5/8/2014 - Jada Pinkett Smith: Everyone Is Acting Like ‘Covert Pedophiles’ Over Willow Photo

5/8/2014 - Benghazi Panel: A Path to President Obama’s Impeachment?

5/8/2014 - Members of the Congressional Black Caucus Speak Out for Nigerian Girls

5/8/2014 - De Blasio Daughter Talks Depression and Addiction 

5/8/2014 - Teen Paralyzed in ‘Affluenza’ Case Receives Settlement 

5/8/2014 - Islamist Terrorists Blamed for Violent Attack in Nigeria That Kills Hundreds

5/8/2014 - Our Favorite Jet Magazine Covers

5/8/2014 - 5 Good Things and 5 Bad Things That Happened After Brown v. Board

5/8/2014 - Mother’s Day Gifts: Ideas for Every Type of Mom

5/8/2014 - Honor the Freedom Riders by Completing Their Work Today

5/7/2014 - Shonda Rhimes Smacks Down Harrison Casting Rumors

5/7/2014 - When Blackness Is Nearly Invisible: Photos

5/7/2014 - Mimi Faust and Nikko Open Up About Their Porn Debut

5/7/2014 - ‘Dear Abby’ Is Now the Go-to Expert on Twerking: What’s Next?

5/7/2014 - Chicago Teen Saved by Nurse on Basketball Court Has Died

5/7/2014 - Former Fla. Governor Left GOP Because of Race-Based Hostility Toward Obama

5/7/2014 - Willow Smith, 13, Photographed in Bed With a Man: Cool or Nah?

5/7/2014 - Jet Magazine to Stop Print Publication and Go Digital 

5/7/2014 - Watch Kevin Durant’s Emotional MVP Speech to His Mother

5/7/2014 - Porsha Williams Apologizes for Preaching That Hookers, Drug Dealers, Gays and Lesbians Need to Be Saved

5/7/2014 - V. Stiviano Adopting Two Black Teens and Facing Extortion Probe: Reports

5/7/2014 - Jameis Winston and the Case of the Concealed Crab Legs Continues

5/7/2014 - Nigeria Defends Its Actions as More Girls Abducted

5/7/2014 - Ebony: ‘Not Your Grandmother’s Magazine Anymore’

5/7/2014 - These Celebrity Men Need to Get a Grip

5/7/2014 - Help! My Boss Thinks All Black Hairstyles Are Unprofessional

5/7/2014 - Despite Apathy Among Millennials of Color, Dems Aren’t Going to Concede 2014

5/6/2014 - Millions Changed Their Race on the 2010 Census

5/6/2014 - Mogul to Model: A CEO with Style

5/6/2014 - Monica Lewinsky Wants to Give Beyoncé Grammar Lessons 

5/6/2014 - Man Imprisoned 13 Years After He’s Convicted Is Set Free

5/6/2014 - US Sending Advisory Team to Nigeria to Help Locate Abducted Schoolgirls

5/6/2014 - Meet the 16-Year-Old Who Graduated From College Before High School

5/6/2014 - Lights, Camera, Action! Black Female Directors

5/6/2014 - Virginia Boy, 8, Fondly Remembered by Mom as ‘Man of the House’

5/6/2014 - Boko Haram Suspected Of Kidnapping 8 More Nigerian Girls

5/6/2014 - Rutgers Offers Paralyzed Player Commencement Speech and Then Takes Back Offer 

5/6/2014 - Cops Keep Raiding Home Looking for Man Who Died 8 Years Ago

5/6/2014 - Upstate New York Comptroller’s Tweet to Melissa Harris-Perry Called Racist

5/6/2014 - 2014 Met Gala’s Fashion Hits and Misses

5/6/2014 - Jada Pinkett Smith to Return to TV

5/6/2014 - Woman Saves Boy at Basketball Game: ‘I Did What Any Parent Would Do’

5/6/2014 - Donald Sterling Searching for Lawyers to Fight NBA Sanctions

5/6/2014 - Is This Black Soldier the Inspiration for The Count of Monte Cristo?

5/6/2014 - Where Was All of This Leslie Jones Haterade When Chris Rock Did His Slavery Joke?

5/6/2014 - Can the US Play a Role in Rescuing the Missing Nigerian Schoolgirls?

5/6/2014 - Richard Williams: Driven to Make Tennis History

5/5/2014 - Abducted Nigerian Schoolgirls’ Names Have Been Released

5/5/2014 - Ariz. Teacher Sues High School for Racial Discrimination

5/5/2014 - What Kerry Washington Can Teach Beyoncé and Kim Kardashian

5/5/2014 - 9-Year-Old Brooklyn Girl Killed in Car Crash 

5/5/2014 - Nigerian President: Location of Kidnapped Schoolgirls Unknown 

5/5/2014 - Report: Oregon State Fires Head Coach Craig Robinson

5/5/2014 - White House Press Corps Pays Homage to Black Journalist Harry McAlpin

5/5/2014 - Why We Need to Hear From Condoleezza Rice 

5/5/2014 - Study: US Teachers Don’t Reflect the Diversity of Students

5/5/2014 - Teen Arrested in Killing of Boy Trying to Protect His Sister

5/5/2014 - Father Fatally Shoots Teen Son by Accident

5/5/2014 - Leslie Jones’ ‘Weekend Update’ Slave Jokes on SNL Spark Outrage 

5/5/2014 - I Was Walking Home When the War on Women Got Personal

5/4/2014 - Condi Rice Backs Out of Rutgers Commencement Address

5/4/2014 - Pregnant Chicago Woman Allegedly Kills Boyfriend Over Failure to Buy Gift

5/4/2014 - SNL Spoofs Donald Sterling Debacle

5/4/2014 - Donald Sterling Case Underscores Whiteness of Press

5/4/2014 - Pregnant Chicago Woman Allegedly Kills Boyfriend Over Failure to Buy Gift

5/4/2014 - Obama Mocks ‘Stellar 2013’ at White House Correspondents’ Dinner

5/4/2014 - Queen Njinga Stood Up to the Portuguese Invaders of Angola

5/4/2014 - The Racist Roots of the Black Comic Book Villain

5/3/2014 - Chris ‘Mad Dog’ Russo Walks Back Racist Remarks on Twitter

5/3/2014 - Black Jobless Rate Still Nation’s Highest

5/3/2014 - V. Stiviano to Barbara Walters: Sterling Should Apologize

5/3/2014 - Puff Daddy: Revolt TV to Be Next ESPN

5/3/2014 - Marvin Sapp Addresses Teleka Patrick Case

5/3/2014 - 15 Things You Don’t Know About James Brown

5/3/2014 - Old-School Bigotry? We Need to Fight 21st-Century Racism

5/2/2014 - Sports-Talk Legend: Blacks Can’t Cut It in Sports Radio

5/2/2014 - Kerry Washington and Nnamdi Asomugha Welcome Baby Girl

5/2/2014 - Florida Man Found Guilty of Dousing Puppy With Hot Sauce

5/2/2014 - Leon Jenkins Gets the Roast of a Lifetime Courtesy of Twitter

5/2/2014 - Virginia Boy Killed After Defending Big Sister From Assault 

5/2/2014 - Not Enough Drugs Entered Inmate’s Veins in Botched Okla. Execution

5/2/2014 - Report: Donald Sterling Fighting Cancer

5/2/2014 - Michael Jackson’s New Song ‘Love Never Felt So Good’ Debuts Online

5/2/2014 - NBA Owners Plan to Move Quickly to Boot Clippers Owner

5/2/2014 - Meek Mill Loses Case Against Philadelphia Police Over Traffic Stop

5/2/2014 - Los Angeles NAACP President Resigns Amid Sterling Scandal

5/2/2014 - Girl’s Shooting In Alleged Facebook Dispute Puts Spotlight Back on Chicago Crime

5/2/2014 - Belle Director Wanted to Make a Different Type of Drama

5/2/2014 - Are You a 2-Minute Man? You’re Not Alone

5/1/2014 - Nigerian Schoolgirl Abductions: Here’s What We Know

5/1/2014 - D.L. Hughley Apologizes for Domestic Violence Comments

5/1/2014 - Report: Award to Sterling Wasn’t the First Questionable Move for LA’s NAACP President

5/1/2014 - KKK Neighborhood Watch in Pa. Township Unnerving—and Unnecessary

5/1/2014 - Ray Rice Pleads Not Guilty to Aggravated Assault

5/1/2014 - In Meeting With Paul Ryan, the CBC Was Killing It Softly

5/1/2014 - V. Stiviano for President?

5/1/2014 - Instagram Gone Wrong: Floyd Mayweather Posts Ex-Fiancee’s Sonogram

5/1/2014 - Pentagon Will Review Grooming Guidelines Said to Be Racially Biased

5/1/2014 - The Donald Sterlings of America Make It Too Easy for Us

5/1/2014 - Shaq Apologizes to Detroit Man With Rare Disorder

5/1/2014 - NY Teen Who Got Into All 8 Ivies Makes Choice

5/1/2014 - Gas Explosion in Florida Jail Kills 2

5/1/2014 - Woman Says BART Police Handcuffed and Beat Her in Train Station

5/1/2014 - The Root Is Looking for Summer Interns

5/1/2014 - Belle: Did a Biracial Woman Help End Slavery in England?

5/1/2014 - Audra McDonald Soars as the Legendary Billie Holiday

5/1/2014 - President Obama’s Awesomely ‘Dad’ Sense of Humor