9/30/2014 - Tech- and Gadget-Savvy Journo Group Sees Increased Diversity at Convention

9/30/2014 - Ebola Is In America Now. So Yeah. Fuck This, I'm Moving To Canada

9/30/2014 - The Zimmerman Family: Everything You Didn’t Want to Know

9/30/2014 - Congress Interrogates Secret Service Director About White House Invasion

9/30/2014 - Girlfriends Returns to TV as Creator Hints About Possible Movie

9/30/2014 - Mumia Abu-Jamal to Give Vermont’s Goddard College Commencement Speech

9/30/2014 - Paging Dr. Ben Carson: Based on That Fox News Interview, You Need a Political Tuneup—Stat

9/30/2014 - Report: Whoopi Goldberg to Rosie O’Donnell: ‘I’m Really Sick of Your S--t!’

9/30/2014 - New Study Seeks to ‘Unlock Opportunity for African-American Girls’

9/30/2014 - Man Accused of Beheading Co-Worker Is Charged With Murder; May Face Death Penalty

9/30/2014 - The NFL Doesn’t Know What Non-Christian Prayers Look Like

9/30/2014 - Can Crowdfunding Finance Your Dream?

9/30/2014 - NYPD Cop Charged in Drunken Assault of Woman After Breaking Into Her Home 

9/30/2014 - Thug Kitchen: A Recipe in Blackface

9/30/2014 - Love & Hip Hop Hollywood Ep. 3 Recap: Common Sense Ain't That Common

9/30/2014 - Attorney General: Who’s Got Next?

9/30/2014 - Aretha Franklin Shows Adele How It’s Done in Cover of ‘Rolling in the Deep’

9/30/2014 - Armed Intruder Made It Deep Inside the White House: Report

9/30/2014 - More Cops Required to Wear Body Cameras

9/30/2014 - More Africans Immigrated to the US in the 2000s Than Came by Slave Ship

9/30/2014 - Secret Service: You Can’t Slip Up With This President

9/30/2014 - Why Is a Black Monk Seated So Prominently Next to Paul the Apostle?

9/30/2014 - Thug Kitchen's Brand Of Technicolor Blackness

9/29/2014 - English Singer FKA Twigs Responds to Racist Trolls About Dating Robert Pattinson

9/29/2014 - We Need to Focus on Strategies for Building Generational Wealth

9/29/2014 - 13-Year-Old Boy Shot Dead in Chicago

9/29/2014 - GoFundMe Threatens to Sue Civil Rights Organization ColorOfChange.org

9/29/2014 - The One Great Thing About Moving? Getting Rid Of Old Shit

9/29/2014 - Pa. Family Sues Cops Who Charged Into Home to Take Cellphone

9/29/2014 - Ben Carson Likely to Run for President

9/29/2014 - When Did Miles Per Gallon Become So Sexy?

9/29/2014 - REMINISCE | Saturday, October 4th

9/29/2014 - Grandmother Arrested After Leaving Baby in Car to Watch Movie

9/29/2014 - Is Kelly Rowland Vying for the Role of Donna Summer in Spike Lee’s New Flick?

9/29/2014 - Cops Looking for 1 Suspect in Ferguson Police Shooting as Story Changes

9/29/2014 - Who Were the 1st Black Federal Court Judges?

9/29/2014 - Meet 24 Black TV Writers Who Are Changing the Face of Television

9/29/2014 - How a Black Gay Mormon Kid Lost His Faith 

9/28/2014 - Ga. Woman Arrested After Claiming $94,000,000 Tax Refund

9/28/2014 - New Policy to Ban Profiling by Federal Agencies

9/28/2014 - 2 Wanted in Shooting of Ferguson Police Officer

9/28/2014 - Obama Says Mistrust of Police Is Corrosive to America

9/28/2014 - Gone With the Wind and Its Pernicious Place in History

9/27/2014 - Professor Accuses US of Spreading Ebola in Africa

9/27/2014 - ‘You’re Going to Die,’ Suspect Allegedly Says Before Girlfriend Is Shot

9/27/2014 - Ferguson Police Told to Stop Wearing ‘Darren Wilson’ Bracelets

9/27/2014 - Help Needed to Bury Fla. Girls Slain and Dumped

9/27/2014 - From Slavery to Ferguson: America’s History of Violence Toward Blacks

9/27/2014 - HistoryMakers, Like Roz Abrams, Inspire Students With Stories of Achievement

9/27/2014 - The Root 100 Adds a People’s Choice Award, Voted on by Readers

9/26/2014 - Ferguson Police Chief Videotapes Apology to Michael Brown’s Family

9/26/2014 - 3 Theories on Holder: Why Is America’s 1st Black Attorney General Rolling Out?

9/26/2014 - Okla. Man Beheads Co-Worker After He Is Fired From Job: Report

9/26/2014 - Celebrity Chefs Gina and Pat Neely File for Divorce

9/26/2014 - The Definitive List Of The 10 Most Under-Appreciated Black People

9/26/2014 - Viola Davis Responds to Being Called ‘Less Classically Beautiful’: ‘You Define You’

9/26/2014 - Eric Holder to CBC: My Commitment Will Never Waver

9/26/2014 - Scandal Recap: Olivia Pope Couldn’t Stay Gone for Long

9/26/2014 - Watch: Father Tased While Trying to Pray Over Dead Stepson

9/26/2014 - US to Pay $554M to the Navajo Nation

9/26/2014 - 2 Children Dead in Unlicensed Day Care Fire

9/26/2014 - People Magazine Showed Its Whiteness With Offensive Viola Davis and Scandal Tweets

9/26/2014 - The Hair ‘Down There’: How to Ask a Woman to ‘Trim the Hedges’

9/26/2014 - Viola Davis’ Debut in How to Get Away With Murder Stuns in Satisfying ShondaLand Fashion

9/26/2014 - GOP Backs Early Voting—Just Not for Blacks

9/26/2014 - Growing To Appreciate Steve Harvey’s Shuckey Jivey Charm On Family Feud

9/25/2014 - NY Times’ Executive Editor Says ‘Angry Black Woman’ Story Was Supposed to Debunk Stereotypes 

9/25/2014 - Eric Holder’s Resignation Brings Shock, Disappointment

9/25/2014 - Columbus Short Throws Scandal Viewing Party Even Though He Was Fired

9/25/2014 - Fla. Mom Put Baby in Trunk to Avoid a Ticket for Not Having a Car Seat

9/25/2014 - First Lady: Don’t Forget What Obama Has Meant for Race and Same-Sex Marriage

9/25/2014 - Watch: High School Football Player’s Interview Goes Viral and Will Have You Believing You Can Accomplish Anything

9/25/2014 - On Believing In "Black Love" But Not Really Liking Black People

9/25/2014 - Attorney General Eric Holder to Resign

9/25/2014 - Watch: SC Highway Patrol Trooper Shoots Man Going for His License

9/25/2014 - Homeless Great-Grandmother Beaten by Calif. Cop Reaches Settlement

9/25/2014 - Obama Gave Marine Guards a Coffee-Handed Salute and It Pissed Off His Haters

9/25/2014 - Bishop T.D. Jakes Plans to Take Legal Action Against Rappers Young Jeezy and Kendrick Lamar

9/25/2014 - Alaska Reporter Who Quit on Air Allegedly Harassed Neighbors With Her Marijuana Habits

9/25/2014 - Here’s Some History Behind That ‘Angry Black Woman’ Riff the NY Times Tossed Around

9/25/2014 - Scandal Returns: 10 Things to Remember Before the Season Premiere

9/25/2014 - Prime-Time TV Inches Closer to Living Color

9/25/2014 - CBC Week: Don’t Think Congress Can Get Any Worse? Think Again

9/24/2014 - VSB Meets Key & Peele

9/24/2014 - Surveillance Video Released of Wal-Mart Toy-Gun Police Shooting

9/24/2014 - 100 Years Later, a New Black Film Emerges

9/24/2014 - ABC’s New Black-ish Strives to Keep It Real While Keeping It Funny

9/24/2014 - Obama Mentions Ferguson in Address to the UN General Assembly

9/24/2014 - Watch: Pregnant Woman Thrown to the Ground Belly-First by NYPD Officer

9/24/2014 - Grand Jury: No Indictment for Cops in John Crawford III Wal-Mart Shooting

9/24/2014 - Leading Ladies of the Law: Black Actresses Who Have Played Attorneys

9/24/2014 - Love & Hip Hop Hollywood Ep. 2: The Cast Members You Don't Care About

9/24/2014 - NY Times Culture Editor: Shonda Rhimes Story Reminds Us of Our Blind Spots

9/24/2014 - 14-Year-Old Louisiana Boy Fatally Shot by Police

9/24/2014 - Protests in Ferguson After Michael Brown Memorial Burned 

9/24/2014 - Wal-Mart Institutes New Dress Code Workers Say They Can’t Afford

9/24/2014 - Ray Rice Scandal Causes NBA to Review Its Domestic Violence Policies

9/24/2014 - Actor Omari Hardwick Has a Few Choice Words for People Calling His Wife Ugly

9/24/2014 - Bigen: The Black Magic ‘Solution’ for Male Baldness

9/24/2014 - Know Your Rights When Confronted by the Police

9/24/2014 - Why Every Black Man Needs to Read Charles Blow’s ‘Up From Pain’

9/24/2014 - My Week at the CBC Convention

9/24/2014 - Shit Bougie Black People Love: 22. Questlove

9/23/2014 - Why You Don't Want To Be Dale Decker: The Guy Who Can't Stop Having Orgasms

9/23/2014 - I Bought A Mountain Dew. Here's How It Happened. Don't Buy Mountain Dew.

9/23/2014 - 1.4M Threatened by Ebola Infection by 2015 if Epidemic Continues, CDC Says 

9/23/2014 - The Definitive List Of The 10 Least Likable Black People

9/23/2014 - White House Intruders: Remembering Miriam Carey and How She Died

9/23/2014 - NY Times Editor Says Shonda Rhimes Article Was ‘Condescending’ and ‘Out of Touch’

9/23/2014 - Michael Brown Memorial in Ferguson Destroyed in Fire

9/23/2014 - Tamar Braxton and Adrienne Bailon Talk About Keeping It Real on The Real

9/23/2014 - J. California Cooper, Author and Playwright, Dies at 82

9/23/2014 - How Not to Go Broke Getting a College Education

9/23/2014 - Man Wrongly Imprisoned for 13 Years Sues New York City

9/23/2014 - Ancient Egyptian Women Buried With Weaves and Shoulder-Length Box Braids

9/23/2014 - Obama Launches Campaign to Prevent Sexual Assault on College Campuses

9/23/2014 - Jada Pinkett Smith Joins the Cast of Magic Mike XXL; Gotham’s Premiere Is a Social Media Hit

9/23/2014 - Is the Black Vote Hillary Clinton’s for the Taking?

9/23/2014 - Honoring the African Slaves of Peru With a Dance

9/23/2014 - Everything You Were Afraid to Ask About Love

9/23/2014 - Charles Blow on the Complexity of the Black Male Experience

9/23/2014 - Selma’s Director Wants Audience to See the Real MLK

9/23/2014 - Skinny Jeans And Jordans And...A Gray Hair? Wait...Am I Having A Mid-Life Crisis?

9/22/2014 - Tyler Perry Expecting Human Baby: Written, Directed, Produced By And Starring Tyler Perry

9/22/2014 - Police Search for Clues as Friends and Family Remember Dead Fla. Teens

9/22/2014 - Jury Selection Begins for Michael Dunn Retrial in Jordan Davis Killing

9/22/2014 - More Famous People Are Naked On The Internet. What Does It All Mean?

9/22/2014 - Love And Hip Hop Presents: Bow Wow And Erica Mena Are Engaged For Some Reason

9/22/2014 - Ferguson-Inspired Police Course Promises: You Can ‘Win With the Media’!

9/22/2014 - Why Charlo Greene Quitting Her Job On Air Is The Blackest Thing We've Ever Seen This Week

9/22/2014 - Meagan Good on Leaked Nudes: ‘You Should Be Ashamed’

9/22/2014 - Stephen King, Courtney B. Vance and Gloria Reuben Featured in Tuesday’s Season Premiere of Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

9/22/2014 - Beyonce Derangement Hyperbole Syndrome

9/22/2014 - Watch This Woman Fulfill Every Unhappy Employee’s Dream 

9/22/2014 - Adrian Peterson Believes He Will Play Again With Vikings: Report

9/22/2014 - Meet the 11-Year-Old Who Could Change Ferguson and Possibly the World

9/22/2014 - Ray Lewis: There’s Some Things You Can Cover Up, Some Things You Can’t

9/22/2014 - Judge Faith Is Coming to a Television Near You

9/22/2014 - My Sister’s Convicted Killer Was Innocent; 23 Years Later, I’m Still Waiting for Justice

9/21/2014 - NY Times TV Critic Defends ‘Angry Black Woman’ Story

9/21/2014 - Family: Repeated Bullying Drove Fla. Teen to Suicide

9/21/2014 - 3-Day Ebola Lockdown in Sierra Leone Incites Fear, Conflict

9/21/2014 - Ohio Man Lands in Jail Over $4 Pizza Dispute

9/21/2014 - Obama Backs Secret Service Amid 2 Security Breaches

9/21/2014 - How HBCUs Respond to a Call for Inclusion of LGBT Students

9/21/2014 - Courtney B. Vance Discovers a Rebellious Slave in His Family Tree

9/21/2014 - SCLC Revisits Berlin and Martin Luther King Jr.’s Speech on Nonviolence

9/20/2014 - White House Intrusion Again Shines Spotlight on Secret Service

9/20/2014 - Sierra Leone on 3-Day Lockdown in Ebola Battle

9/20/2014 - Police: Killer Thought 9-Year-Old Was Lookout

9/20/2014 - Chicago Backtracks on Naming School for Obama

9/20/2014 - How The Cosby Show Changed the Game for Blacks on TV

9/19/2014 - NY Times, Check Your Stereotypes at the Door When Discussing Shonda Rhimes’ Work

9/19/2014 - 2 Florida Teens Found Dead and Tied Together on Roadside

9/19/2014 - The 25 Best Booties Not Named On The Original List Of The 25 Best Booties

9/19/2014 - Hillary Clinton’s Iowa Visit Spurs Speculation About a 2016 Presidential Run

9/19/2014 - Chicago Man Confesses to Killing Girlfriend’s Mother in Bali

9/19/2014 - The Root 100 People's Choice Awards

9/19/2014 - Cher Sued: Choreographer Claims Singer Made Racist Remarks

9/19/2014 - The Beyhive’s Hysteria Over News of a Possible Beyoncé and Jay Z Album

9/19/2014 - He Wants to Go to a House Party on a 1st Date? Just Say No

9/19/2014 - Once He Put His Hands on Me, I Never Went Back

9/19/2014 - Can You Help This ‘Brown Baby’ Find Her White Mom?

9/19/2014 - The Cosby Show: Where Are They Now?

9/19/2014 - Facts About Blacks: The Concert I Just Attended Edition

9/19/2014 - The Root 100 People's Choice Awards  

9/18/2014 - Blacks and Hispanics Say Digital Media Coverage Neglects Them

9/18/2014 - Watch: NYC Police Officer Kicks Street Vendor During Altercation  

9/18/2014 - Arizona Cardinals Running Back Broke Wife’s Nose, Hit Son With Shoe: Report

9/18/2014 - Wrongly Convicted Texas Inmate Who Died in Prison Gets Statue

9/18/2014 - Report: Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson Has Testified Before Grand Jury

9/18/2014 - Texas Executes Woman Found Guilty of Torturing 9-Year-Old to Death

9/18/2014 - Arizona Cardinals Running Back Arrested in Domestic Assault 

9/18/2014 - Local Wis. GOP Candidate Withdraws From Race Over Racist, Homophobic Social Media Messages

9/18/2014 - Jesse Jackson Chides the NFL for Hiring an All-White Team of Domestic Violence Advisers 

9/18/2014 - 12 Life Lessons We Learned From Cliff Huxtable

9/18/2014 - Why More Black Americans Should Run for Elected Office

9/18/2014 - 4 Black People Receive the MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant

9/17/2014 - The Definitive List Of The 20 Best Times To Be Black

9/17/2014 - Why Michael Brown’s Body Was Left on the Street for So Long

9/17/2014 - Lolo Jones: ‘I’m So Tired of Feeling Embarrassed’

9/17/2014 - Chris Brown’s New Album Is a Trip Inside the Mind of an Abuser

9/17/2014 - NJ High School Football Players Subjected to Racist Prank, Team Claims

9/17/2014 - The 1st Live Whitney Houston Album Will Be Released in November

9/17/2014 - New Photos Show Django Actress Who Claimed Police Harassment Reportedly Engaged in Lewd Acts

9/17/2014 - US Will Send 3,000 Military Officers to West Africa to Slow Ebola Catastrophe 

9/17/2014 - Smart Students From Low-Income Families Lock Down 4-Year, Tuition-Free Rides 

9/17/2014 - Minnesota Vikings Ban Adrian Peterson From All Team Activities 

9/17/2014 - Police Arrest Man Wanted in Death of 3-Year-Old 

9/17/2014 - Watch: Kerry Washington’s Public Service Announcement on Financial Abuse in Relationships

9/17/2014 - How Africans Could Determine the Fate of Scottish Independence

9/17/2014 - Beyond the Lights Opens Urbanworld Film Festival

9/17/2014 - When Black Men Mess Up, Do We All Feel the Shame?

9/17/2014 - What I Learned From Writing Race Manners

9/16/2014 - After 45 Years, Sesame Street Continues to Teach Black Kids to Love the Skin They’re In

9/16/2014 - Ferguson Grand Jury Has Until January to Decide Whether to Charge Officer  

9/16/2014 - Officer Who Fatally Shot Rekia Boyd to Stand Trial

9/16/2014 - Watch: SC Sheriff’s Deputy Uses Taser Twice on Handcuffed Man

9/16/2014 - Actor Malik Yoba Shares the Roots of His Social Consciousness

9/16/2014 - White House Voices Support of Police Body Cameras

9/16/2014 - Historic Unveiling of Frederick Douglass Portrait at Governor’s Mansion in Md.

9/16/2014 - Rihanna Gives CBS Sports the Middle Finger for Pulling Her Song

9/16/2014 - CNN Reporter Grills Django Unchained Actress on Why She Didn’t Show Identification

9/16/2014 - Report: Adrian Peterson Accused of Beating Another 4-Year-Old Son in 2013 

9/16/2014 - CoverGirl Photo Altered With Bruised Eye to Blast NFL’s Response to Ray Rice

9/16/2014 - Climate Activists Warn Obama About His Pro-Gas Views

9/16/2014 - Lawyer and Teachers Say NYC Hotel Employee Accused Them of Being Prostitutes

9/16/2014 - Kanye West to the Media: ‘I’m a Married, Christian Man ... Pick Another Target’

9/16/2014 - In a Vision of the Apocalypse, What Fate Awaits the People of Africa?

9/16/2014 - Bill Cosby Has Tried to Teach Whites About Blacks

9/15/2014 - Love & Hip Hop Hollywood Ep. 1: Here's What Happens To Dreams Defferred

9/15/2014 - Shit Bougie Black People Love: 21. Panels, Conferences, And Conventions

9/15/2014 - Dems Roll Out New 7-Figure Ad Campaign Ahead of Midterms

9/15/2014 - Don’t Rush to Judge Parents Who Use a Switch to Discipline Kids

9/15/2014 - Report: Ray Rice Expected to Appeal Indefinite Suspension From the NFL

9/15/2014 - Congressman Suggests ‘Sexting’ as Political Tool

9/15/2014 - Robin Thicke Admits to Being High on Vicodin and Alcohol While Making ‘Blurred Lines’

9/15/2014 - Minnesota Vikings Reinstate Adrian Peterson Amid Child-Abuse Charges

9/15/2014 - Actress Arrested For...Kissing While Black

9/15/2014 - Social Media Is Confused About How Ray Lewis Can Speak on Ray Rice

9/15/2014 - 2nd Trial Set for Detroit Cop Who Killed 7-Year-Old in Raid While Filming TV Show

9/15/2014 - How a Football Show Became a News Segment on Domestic Violence and Child Abuse

9/15/2014 - Poussey Too Bomb: Orange Is The New Black Writer Divorces Husband; Dates Samira Wiley

9/15/2014 - Darrien Hunt: Mom Believes Her Son Was Shot by Police Because He Was Black

9/15/2014 - Someone Needs to Explain Ableism to Kanye West

9/15/2014 - New Book Says Bill Cosby’s Jokes Masked Pain

9/15/2014 - We Have Fergusons in France—but the French Media Looks Away

9/15/2014 - My White Husband Does Not Define Me

9/15/2014 - In Whose Garden Did the Harlem Renaissance Grow?

9/15/2014 - What Makes a TV Show ‘Black’? 

9/15/2014 - The 50 Greatest Black TV Shows of All Time

9/15/2014 - Spare The Rod, Spoil The Child. Or Nah?

9/14/2014 - Idris Elba and Taraji Henson’s No Good Deed Is a Box Office Hit

9/14/2014 - Tavis Smiley Knocks President Obama Again

9/14/2014 - Ray Rice Welcomed at HS Alma Mater Football Game

9/14/2014 - LAPD Mistakes Black Actress for Prostitute

9/13/2014 - Memphis Departure Highlights Decline in Black Columnists

9/13/2014 - Lawyer for Michael Brown’s Family Slams St. Louis Paper for ‘Racist Speculation’

9/13/2014 - Death of Ex-Marine in Hot Jail Cell Ruled Accidental

9/13/2014 - George Zimmerman Accused in Fla. Road Rage Incident

9/13/2014 - Vikings’ Peterson Booked and Released in Child-Injury Case

9/13/2014 - Education: By Any Means Necessary

9/13/2014 - Watch: What Are the 50 Greatest Black TV Shows of All Time?

9/13/2014 - Meet Michael Che, the 1st Black Co-Host on SNL’s ‘Weekend Update’

9/13/2014 - Howard vs. Morehouse: A Rivalry for the Ages

9/12/2014 - ‘Straightwashed’ No More: Black LGBT Influencers Are in the Spotlight 

9/12/2014 - We Can’t Let Star Athletes Like Oscar Pistorius and Ray Rice Off the Hook

9/12/2014 - The Whitest Thing We've Seen This Week: The Palin Family Snow Mobile Party Brawl

9/12/2014 - Postponed Immigration Reform Has Latinos Nonchalant About Midterm Elections

9/12/2014 - Pastor in SC Gets Jail Time for Praising the Lord

9/12/2014 - Someone Is Putting Drake’s Face on Wheelchair Signs in Toronto

9/12/2014 - Musiq Soulchild Is A Rapper Now And I'm Annoyed

9/12/2014 - Black Is Beautiful: In Memory of Bantu Stephen Biko

9/12/2014 - SNL Will Have Its 1st Black Anchor on ‘Weekend Update’

9/12/2014 - Ray Rice Told Roger Goodell That He Punched His Then-Fiancee: Report

9/12/2014 - Oscar Pistorius Found Guilty of Homicide

9/12/2014 - Missouri Mandates 72-Hour Waiting Period Before Abortion

9/12/2014 - Nicki Minaj Wanted to Speak at Former High School, But Says Her Request Was Denied

9/12/2014 - Paul George Apologizes for Insensitive Ray Rice Tweets

9/12/2014 - Bill Cosby: Blacks Must Prepare to Fight Voter Suppression

9/12/2014 - How Do I Find Descendants of My Ancestor’s Slaves?

9/12/2014 - The Definitive List Of The 25 Best Booties Of All-Time

9/11/2014 - Beheadings of US Journalists Helped Obama Sell His Military Plan to the Public

9/11/2014 - Stevie Wonder Announces Songs in the Key of Life Tour

9/11/2014 - Ga. State Senator Is Outraged at Voting Location in Mall Popular With Blacks  

9/11/2014 - NJ Day Care Rushes Some 30 Kids to Hospital After They Accidentally Drink Bleach

9/11/2014 - This Time, Mr. President, You Didn’t Make a Very Good Case for More War

9/11/2014 - TV Shows Test  

9/11/2014 - Meet the Black Female Judge Who Is Deciding Oscar Pistorius’ Fate 

9/11/2014 - Report: Ray Rice Blames It on the Alcohol

9/11/2014 - NFL Hires Ex-FBI Director to Investigate Ray Rice Case

9/11/2014 - Accused Shoplifter Uses Wal-Mart Motorized Wheelchair Cart to Take Off With Goods

9/11/2014 - Paul George Got On Twitter This Morning. He Shouldn't Have.

9/11/2014 - 7 Other Things The NFL Is Probably Lying About

9/11/2014 - It’s Been Harder Than Obama Thought to End Our Middle East Wars

9/11/2014 - Contractors Who Witnessed Michael Brown Shooting Say the Teen Had His Hands Up

9/11/2014 - Actor Terry Crews Relives Childhood of Domestic Violence With Ray Rice Scandal 

9/11/2014 - Pharrell Williams Talks With CNN’s Don Lemon About Michael Brown

9/11/2014 - Ebola Relief Workers: US, We Want Your Aid, Not Your Troops

9/11/2014 - Mike Tyson Goes Mike Tyson on a Reporter After ‘Convicted Rapist’ Remark

9/11/2014 - If We Want Diverse Books, We Need Diverse MFA Programs

9/11/2014 - Dear Vogue: A Big Booty Is Not A Fashion Trend

9/10/2014 - Ray Rice Video Sent to NFL in April, Law-Enforcement Official Says

9/10/2014 - Jersey of Bengals Player Whose Daughter Is Battling Cancer Becomes Fastest Seller

9/10/2014 - Wendy Williams Thinks Aaliyah’s Family Might Be a Little Misguided

9/10/2014 - The Blackest Thing We've Seen This Week

9/10/2014 - Ferguson Residents Demand Answers From City Council in Heated Open Meeting

9/10/2014 - Before Social Media, Black Celebs Could Avoid the Ray Rice Treatment

9/10/2014 - Vogue Magazine Just Realized Big Butts Are a ‘Thing’ and Credits White People

9/10/2014 - Why Roger Goodell Is Not Getting Fired Any Time Soon

9/10/2014 - Cinema Bun Podcast Episode 12 featuring Panama Jackson - Baby Boy

9/10/2014 - Chicago Police Commander Sued for Allegedly Putting Gun in Man’s Mouth 

9/10/2014 - Experts Fear Boko Haram Will Split Nigeria in 2

9/10/2014 - Watch: ‘Hey White People: A Kinda Awkward Note to America by #Ferguson Kids’

9/10/2014 - World Leaders Beg Nations to Legalize Drug Use and Regulate Its Production

9/10/2014 - It’s Time for a Recall Election in Ferguson

9/10/2014 - Ta-Nehisi Coates Tops The Root 100 List of Black Influencers

9/10/2014 - The Root 100 2014

9/9/2014 - The Media Is Just as Culpable as the NFL in Initially Coddling Ray Rice 

9/9/2014 - Ray Rice Breaks Silence, Says He Has to Be Strong for His Wife

9/9/2014 - I Don’t Know Janay Rice’s Whole Story, but I Understand

9/9/2014 - Shaquille O’Neal May Become Officer Shaq

9/9/2014 - Ray Rice Dumped by Nike and EA Sports

9/9/2014 - NY Man Drowns While Saving Child From Hudson River

9/9/2014 - Leaked: More Danny Ferry NBA Scouting Reports

9/9/2014 - Fashion Week Event Kicks Off The Root Live: Bring It to the Table

9/9/2014 - 3 of the Worst Responses to the Ray Rice Video  

9/9/2014 - Defending Ray Rice Is Just The Same As Defending George Zimmerman

9/9/2014 - Witness in John Crawford III Shooting Changes Story

9/9/2014 - #ThatSo90s: Jodeci - Stay

9/9/2014 - Arrests Made After Video of Teens Assaulting Mentally Disabled Man Goes Viral

9/9/2014 - Janay Rice Breaks Her Silence With an Instagram Post

9/9/2014 - New High-Def Version of Ray Rice Assault Reveals Obscenities and Spitting 

9/9/2014 - ESPN First Take Host Says if Michael Vick Can Make a Comeback, So Can Ray Rice

9/9/2014 - Ebola Infection Growing Rapidly in Liberia

9/9/2014 - US-Sponsored African Coalition Is Accused of Raping Somali Women and Girls

9/9/2014 - America’s Unspoken Education Issue: Black Kids Need Black Teachers

9/9/2014 - Why Nubian Skin Lingerie Matters for Women of Color

9/9/2014 - The Month After Michael Brown’s Death: A Ferguson Timeline  

9/9/2014 - The Octoroon: A Tragic Mulatto Enslaved by 1 Drop

9/8/2014 - The Root Live Round 2

9/8/2014 - Four Questions After Watching The Ray Rice Video

9/8/2014 - Sherri Shepherd’s Husband Denies Having Explicit Photos

9/8/2014 - Ravens Cut Ray Rice After Footage of Running Back Punching Then-Fiancee Is Released

9/8/2014 - Exactly How Racist Was Atlanta Hawks Owner Bruce Levenson's Email?

9/8/2014 - For Those Still Saying ‘Don’t Judge Ray Rice’: Get Your Head Checked

9/8/2014 - Chicago Fire Kills 4 Children, Injures 2 Adults

9/8/2014 - Denzel Washington Wants to Be the 1st Black James Bond

9/8/2014 - Mitt Romney Thinks He Would Have Been a Better President Than Obama

9/8/2014 - Backroom Racism: Why Atlanta Hawks Owner’s Email Is Worse Than Sterling’s Rant

9/8/2014 - Explaining the Underwhelming Reaction When Black Women’s Nude Pics Are Stolen

9/8/2014 - Ray Rice And The "Well, Actually..." People

9/8/2014 - TMZ Releases Elevator Video of Ray Rice Punching Janay Palmer

9/8/2014 - Texas Teacher Who Gave Student Lap Dance Pleads Guilty 

9/8/2014 - Momma Dee Gave a Tooth-Flying Performance in Atlanta

9/8/2014 - Maybe My Weird Version of Blackness Isn’t That Weird

9/8/2014 - An Educator’s Perspective: It’s Too Easy to Blame Parents When Kids Can’t Read 

9/8/2014 - Who Was the 1st Black Rhodes Scholar?

9/8/2014 - Youth Groups Working for Ferguson’s Future

9/8/2014 - Adult R&B Isn't Dead. It's Just Having A Mid-Life Crisis (And So Am I)

9/7/2014 - ‘Offensive’ Email Prompts Atlanta Hawks Co-Owner to Sell Stake

9/7/2014 - New Cosby Bio Looks Like a Best-Seller

9/7/2014 - Congress Vows to Act to Avoid Shutdown

9/7/2014 - Sierra Leone Ebola ‘Lockdown’ Raises Concerns

9/7/2014 - Another Witness Says Michael Brown’s Hands Were Up

9/7/2014 - The Root TV: Whose Race Legacy Will Reign Supreme: Obama’s or Holder’s?

9/6/2014 - Judge Signs $41,000,000 Central Park Five Settlement

9/6/2014 - Louisiana Cop Quits After Racist Texts Released

9/6/2014 - Black Women Hit Hard by Unemployment

9/6/2014 - DC Could Not Have Prevented Disappearance of Relisha Rudd, City Report Says

9/6/2014 - A Video Survey of Police Interactions: Inequality in Black and White

9/6/2014 - I’m a Young, Black Woman Running for Office. And I’m a Proud Democrat

9/5/2014 - New Reality Show Chronicling Ja Rule’s Family Life Is Coming to MTV 

9/5/2014 - Chris Brown: ‘I Am Not Perfect; No One Is’

9/5/2014 - Obama Doubles Down on Vow to Eradicate ISIS

9/5/2014 - Former Patients of Gynecologist Who Secretly Recorded Them Not Happy With Settlement

9/5/2014 - VSB Roundtable: The Blackest Thing You've Ever Seen

9/5/2014 - REMINISCE - Saturday, September 6 | Washington, DC

9/5/2014 - Ga. Kindergarten Teacher Arrested for Allegedly Dragging Student by Ankle

9/5/2014 - CeeLo Green Dropped From Military-Organized Music Festival

9/5/2014 - United Negro College Fund President Taunted ‘Koch Scholars’ Critics at Retreat

9/5/2014 - Floyd Mayweather’s Former Fiancee Files Suit, Claiming Abuse

9/5/2014 - Pam Oliver Says She Was Humiliated After Being Demoted

9/5/2014 - Class Act: Cincinnati Bengals Keep Player to Help With Daughter’s Cancer  

9/5/2014 - Leaders of the New School: Hip-Hop Classes Across the Country

9/5/2014 - I Found the Ship My Slave Ancestors Were On. What Now?

9/5/2014 - No, You Don’t Have to Buy Dinner for Your Date’s Kids, and She Shouldn’t Have Asked

9/5/2014 - Black America Needs Its Own President

9/5/2014 - Questioning the Deaths Dubbed ‘Houdini Handcuff Suicides’

9/5/2014 - The Dos And Don'ts Of Sending And Receiving Nude Pics

9/4/2014 - How Media Have Shaped Our Perception of Race and Crime

9/4/2014 - The Root’s Readers #DefineRacism

9/4/2014 - Pa. Teen in KKK Hood Arrested for Yelling Racial Slur at University Student 

9/4/2014 - Proof That God Really Does Exist: Carlton Banks Is On Dancing With The Stars

9/4/2014 - Season 19 of Dancing With the Stars Includes Lolo Jones, Tavis Smiley and Alfonso Ribeiro

9/4/2014 - School Security Guard Poses Black Boy in Frisk Position in Photo as a Joke 

9/4/2014 - A Peek Into The Secret Club Of Assumed Racism

9/4/2014 - What’s in a Name? Man Changes Name From ‘José’ to ‘Joe,’ Gains Job Interviews

9/4/2014 - Holder Confirms Justice Department Will Investigate Ferguson’s Police Practices

9/4/2014 - Black Students Expelled From Suburban School Over Rap Videos, Parents Claim

9/4/2014 - Calif. Firefighter Claims Officer Racially Profiled Him and Young Sons 

9/4/2014 - Jill Scott Addresses Hacked Partially Nude Photos

9/4/2014 - Ferguson Is a Starting Point for a National Conversation on Race

9/4/2014 - Black Is the New Face of American Comic Book Heroes

9/4/2014 - After Ferguson, We Need a Working Definition of Racism

9/3/2014 - 10 Things I Learned From My Labor Day Spelunking Adventure

9/3/2014 - USC’s Black Twitter Study Draws Criticism

9/3/2014 - DNA Evidence Clears Mentally Disabled Half Brothers in NC of 1983 Rape and Murder

9/3/2014 - Judge Considering Media Requests Regarding Michael Brown’s Possible Juvenile Records 

9/3/2014 - Keli Goff Leaves The Root to Join the Writing Staff of BET’s Being Mary Jane

9/3/2014 - 10 Thoughts I Had While Watching VH1's "ATL Rise" Rock Doc

9/3/2014 - Theodore Wafer Sentenced to at Least 17 Years for Renisha McBride’s Death

9/3/2014 - Kanye West Didn’t Find Jay Pharoah’s VMA Impersonation Funny

9/3/2014 - Michael Sam Signs With New NFL Team

9/3/2014 - Family of Strangled, Burned Teen Wants Justice  

9/3/2014 - 2nd Black American Fighting for ISIS in Syria Is Reportedly Killed

9/3/2014 - Ferguson Police Now Equipped With Body Cameras 

9/3/2014 - TBS Cancels CeeLo Green’s Good Life and He Apologizes for ‘Idiotic’ Tweets

9/3/2014 - Madam C.J. Walker’s Restored Estate Recaptures a Grand History

9/3/2014 - Remember When Black TV Programs Were Angry and Unapologetic?

9/3/2014 - Learning Racial Literacy Shouldn’t Be Punishment

9/2/2014 - Michael Sam, And The Black (And Gay) Politics Of Being "Twice As Good"

9/2/2014 - Would a Black Editor Have Caught the ‘No Angel’ Line About Michael Brown? 

9/2/2014 - Miss. Kindergartner Brutally Attacked by Child at School Playground, Mom Says

9/2/2014 - Atlanta Cop Accused of Killing Woman He Met on the Internet

9/2/2014 - Even Hollywood Knows the Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nothing ta F--k Wit

9/2/2014 - Human Trial to Start for Ebola Vaccine

9/2/2014 - #IStandWithJoseline: Why Part 2 of the Love and Hip Hop Reunion Was a Trifling Mess

9/2/2014 - 32 Teens Escape Tenn. Detention Center; About 9 Still on the Run

9/2/2014 - Abducted Ga. Couple Found Shot; Man Dies, Fiancee Fighting for Life  

9/2/2014 - Chris Brown Pleads Guilty to Misdemeanor Assault

9/2/2014 - Rosa Parks Artifacts Sold to Warren Buffett’s Son 

9/2/2014 - Man Who Reportedly Killed 3 Relatives Is Hit by Truck While Running From Scene 

9/2/2014 - Officer Charged With Raping 8 Black Women Finds Support Online

9/2/2014 - CeeLo Green: People Who Have Really Been Raped Remember

9/2/2014 - Do’s and Don’ts for Teaching About Ferguson 

9/2/2014 - With a Statue to Frederick Douglass, Blacks Have Their Say in What Freedom Means

9/2/2014 - Black New Yorkers Want Increased Policing Despite Eric Garner’s Death?

9/2/2014 - 5 Unauthorized Behind The Scenes Movies I'd Like To See

9/1/2014 - Five Things Hackers Need To Do Instead Of Hacking Celebrity Nude Pictures

9/1/2014 - The Black Workforce by the Numbers

9/1/2014 - I Allowed People to Mispronounce My African Name for 25 Years

9/1/2014 - Why Labor Day Should Be a Moral Monday

9/1/2014 - Why Are There So Many Black Athletes?

9/1/2014 - 10 Ridiculous Rap Names From The Era We All Love