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2016 February
2/29/2016 - Stupid S--t Stacey Dash Has Said
2/29/2016 - The Sad State of Black Cinema
2/29/2016 - How Lil Wayne Became Hip-Hop's Most Underappreciated Legend
2/29/2016 - 52 Vile, Racist Tweets 1 Writer Received From Trump Supporters
2/29/2016 - NJ Woman Pleads Guilty to Burning Newborn Baby to Death in the Middle of a Road
2/29/2016 - Women, Stop Listening to Sexist Relationship ‘Experts’
2/29/2016 - Oscar Ratings Were the Lowest in 8 Years
2/29/2016 - Jay Z and Tidal Sued for $5,000,000 by Artist Who Says Tidal Isn’t Paying Proper Royalties
2/29/2016 - Justice Clarence Thomas Asks Question in Court, Ending 10-Year Silent Streak
2/29/2016 - KKK Members Involved in Calif. Brawl Acted in Self-Defense, Police Say
2/29/2016 - Black&Sexy TV Celebrates the Greatest of All Time in Black Cinema During the Oscars
2/29/2016 - Chris Rock Was Really Bad Last Night, And The #OscarsSoWhite Skits Were Even Worse
2/29/2016 - Ill. High School Apologizes for Slave Auction Skit
2/29/2016 - Memo to Bill Maher: Black Activists Aren’t ‘Idiots’ for Forcing Hillary Clinton to Sweat for the Black Vote
2/29/2016 - How Did a Calif. Couple on a Date End Up Fatally Shot by Police?
2/29/2016 - Ohio Pastor Shot Dead in Church; Brother Arrested in Slaying
2/29/2016 - NYC Woman Busted Trying to Smuggle Half-Pound of Cocaine in Her Vagina: Report
2/29/2016 - Raven-Symoné Vows to Move to Canada if Any Republican Gets ‘Nominated’
2/29/2016 - Beauty Site Mistakes Whoopi Goldberg for Oprah Winfrey
2/29/2016 - Chris Rock’s Hits and Misses as Host of the Oscars
2/29/2016 - Proud and Free in Spanish Fla.: Juan Bautista Whitten Led a Black Militia
2/29/2016 - David Duke Be Damned: When Will Donald Trump ‘Disavow’ the Klan?
2/29/2016 - Their Own Worst Enemies? The GOP’s Black Conservative Problem
2/28/2016 - Oscars Red Carpet: Black Stars Represent With Classy, Elegant Styles
2/28/2016 - MSNBC Confirms That It Is Cutting Ties With Melissa Harris-Perry
2/28/2016 - Steph Curry’s Shot Is All the NBA Could Talk About Last Night
2/28/2016 - 3rd-Degree ‘Bern’: Can Sanders Bounce Back From SC?
2/28/2016 - Teen Holding Broomstick Is Shot by Police in Salt Lake City, Sparks Protests
2/28/2016 - Spirit Awards Honor Black Actors, 1st Transgender Woman
2/28/2016 - 3 Stabbed at Calif. KKK March
2/28/2016 - MSNBC and Melissa Harris-Perry to Officially Part Ways: Report
2/28/2016 - Hillary Clinton’s SC Win Is All About the Power of the Black Vote
2/28/2016 - As Activists Continue to Use Technology to Fight for Justice, Access Matters
2/28/2016 - Black Skiers and Snowboarders Hit the Slopes in Japan at the 2016 Japow! Powder Party
2/27/2016 - Hillary Clinton Scores a Huge Win in South Carolina
2/27/2016 - Watch: The Black Lives Matter Activist Who Interrupted Hillary Clinton Explains Why
2/27/2016 - Google Gives $1,000,000 to Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative
2/27/2016 - Miss. Gov. Declares April ‘Confederacy Heritage Month’
2/27/2016 - Kan. Shooter’s Ex-Girlfriend Charged With Providing Guns to Him: Report
2/27/2016 - A Lifelong Lover of Books Breaks Ground Atop the Literary World
2/27/2016 - #OscarsSoWhite 2016: The History of Black Protest Against Hollywood
2/26/2016 - Why You Need To Care About What's Happening To Melissa Harris-Perry
2/26/2016 - Melissa Harris-Perry Refuses to Go on Her MSNBC Show Following Pre-Emptions
2/26/2016 - T.I. and Tiny Reveal the Gender of Their Upcoming Heir to the Grand Hustle Throne
2/26/2016 - The Root’s Young, Fabulous and Female Takes It to the Left Coast
2/26/2016 - Essence Honors Black Women in Hollywood
2/26/2016 - Mass. Teen Who Raped, Murdered Math Teacher Sentenced to Life
2/26/2016 - Donald Trump Proves You Can Do Anything You Put Your Mind to ... if You’re a Rich White Man
2/26/2016 - Black Twitter’s #TrapCover Songs Put a Spin on Tunes Sung by White Artists
2/26/2016 - Here’s What We Know About the Alleged Kan. Workplace Shooter
2/26/2016 - How To Be Unapologetically Black
2/26/2016 - Analysis: 20 Percent of Donald Trump’s Supporters Think Slaves Should Not Have Been Freed; 70 Percent Support Confederate Flag
2/26/2016 - SUNY Albany Students Who Claimed They Were Victims of Racial Attack to Be Charged With Assault
2/26/2016 - Elton John on Janet Jackson’s Recent Tour: ‘I’d Rather Go See a Drag Queen’
2/26/2016 - Scandal Recap: Sleeping With the Frenemy
2/26/2016 - Gladys Knight’s Atlanta Restaurant Failed a Health Inspection
2/26/2016 - First She Beat Cancer, Now Leah Still Is Designing Her Own Flower Girl Dress for Dad’s Wedding
2/26/2016 - Tony Burton, Apollo Creed’s Trainer From Rocky Films, Dies at 78
2/26/2016 - Underrated Moment In Black History: Redman Goes Peak Black On MTV Cribs
2/26/2016 - Watch: Empire’s Midseason Trailer Is Full of Drama
2/26/2016 - Library of Congress Puts Rosa Parks’ Archive Online
2/26/2016 - Ryan Coogler Developing TV Series About Kids in Juvenile Detention Centers
2/26/2016 - St. Louis Student, 9, Can’t Attend School Because He’s Black
2/26/2016 - Meryl Streep Clarifies ‘We’re All Africans’ Comment
2/26/2016 - Bill Cosby Temporarily Drops Defamation Lawsuit Against Beverly Johnson
2/26/2016 - SC: Bellwether for the Black Vote
2/26/2016 - Why Aren’t More African Americans Opening Up About Their Mental Health?
2/26/2016 - Is the Woman Who Inspired Beloved My Ancestor?
2/25/2016 - Multiple Deaths, Injuries in Kan. Workplace Shooting
2/25/2016 - Ajak Deng Chucks the Deuces to the Fashion Industry Because of the ‘Fakes and the Lies’
2/25/2016 - Lil Wayne Is an Underappreciated Rap Legend
2/25/2016 - Ryan Coogler and Jesse Williams Discuss Importance of #JusticeForFlint Event Being Held Sunday
2/25/2016 - Watch: BLM Activist Confronts Hillary Clinton During Fundraiser in SC
2/25/2016 - You Can Watch Creed and Straight Outta Compton Win on Oscar Night If You Watch the All Def Movie Awards
2/25/2016 - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Asks Employees to Stop Crossing Out ‘Black Lives Matters’ on Office Walls
2/25/2016 - Angela Bassett Plays 1st Black Woman to Head Secret Service in London Has Fallen
2/25/2016 - NJ Woman Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison for Throwing Dog Into Traffic
2/25/2016 - Basketball Players at Diverse Iowa High School Taunted With Chants of ‘Trump’
2/25/2016 - The Women of All-Female Black Cast of Broadway’s Eclipse on the Cover of Uptown
2/25/2016 - Five Ways Babies Are Basically Tiny Hoteps
2/25/2016 - Birth of a Nation Gets a Release Date That Sets It Up Nicely for Awards Season
2/25/2016 - Auburn University Football Player Peyton Barber Declares for NFL Draft to Help His Homeless Mother
2/25/2016 - SC Woman Died in Jail After Being ‘Deprived of Water,’ Lawyers Say
2/25/2016 - The Politics of Fear and Loathing in 2016
2/25/2016 - Lit. District. Chapter 2: #LOVE | Tuesday, March 1
2/25/2016 - Charges Dropped Against 5 Teens in Alleged NYC Park Gang Rape
2/25/2016 - Ohio Police Searching for Bald Suspect in $847 Rogaine Theft
2/25/2016 - Michelle Obama Announces Open E-Books Initiative
2/25/2016 - Johnson & Johnson to Pay $72,000,000 in Cancer Case Linked to Talcum Powder
2/25/2016 - Michael B. Jordan Will Star in The Thomas Crown Affair Remake
2/25/2016 - Angie Stone and Former Members of the Sequence Accuse Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson of Ripping Off Song
2/25/2016 - ‘The Academy Is Biased’: Flawed Voting, Stiff Rules Cause Blacks to Miss Out on Nominations
2/25/2016 - Hey, Hillary, Bernie, Even Trump: You Should Care About Black Students and College Loan Debt
2/24/2016 - 6 Steps Black Folks Need to Take to Drop the Pounds
2/24/2016 - Nine Thoughts On Rihanna's "Work" Vid From Someone Actually Qualified To Share Thoughts On It
2/24/2016 - Meet Carla Hayden, the President’s Nominee for Librarian of Congress
2/24/2016 - Minn. Officials Revoke ‘FMUSLMS’ Vanity License Plate
2/24/2016 - NYC Teen Drowned in Hotel Pool While Doing Missionary Work in Tanzania
2/24/2016 - Kanye’s Umpteenth Twitter Rant Is About an ‘Idiot’ Producer Who Shaded Ye’s Influence
2/24/2016 - Rihanna’s Video Director Clears Up Confusion About West Indian Dance Culture Depicted in ‘Work’
2/24/2016 - Obama Details Qualities He’s Looking for in Supreme Court Justice
2/24/2016 - After Scalia: A Single Supreme Court Justice Can Impede Progress, Influence Our Discourse
2/24/2016 - Kenyan MP Urges Women to Deny Husbands Sex Until They Register to Vote in 2017 Elections
2/24/2016 - When In Doubt, Trust Yourself (Unless You Make Bad Decisions As A Rule, Then Don't)
2/24/2016 - The Battle for the Blacks Continues: Hillary Clinton Visits Kerry Washington on Scandal Set
2/24/2016 - NY Woman Who Served 10 Years in Prison After Cop Falsified Confession is Exonerated
2/24/2016 - There’s Nothing More Adorable Than a Little-Known Black-History Lesson With This Father-Daughter Duo
2/24/2016 - Del. Cop Who Was Acquitted of Kicking Black Man in the Face Resigns
2/24/2016 - Cornel West Says Hillary Clinton Is the ‘Milli Vanilli of American Politics’
2/24/2016 - Hospital That Dispatched Paramedics and Treated Eric Garner to Pay Family $1,000,000
2/24/2016 - Cam Newton Hater Sends Sports Writer a Racist Letter and She Publishes It
2/24/2016 - Ava DuVernay Set to Direct Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time
2/24/2016 - All Skinfolk Ain’t Kinfolk: A Few Words on Ben Carson, Magical Negro
2/24/2016 - The People v. O.J. Simpson Recap: It’s a Black Thing
2/24/2016 - Cornelius Johnson and a Forgotten US Protest Against Hitler at the 1936 Olympics
2/23/2016 - Police: No Evidence of Hazing in Buffalo State Student’s Death
2/23/2016 - Ava DuVernay, Ryan Coogler, Janelle Monáe, Jesse Williams to Host Free Event in Flint, Mich., Oscar Night
2/23/2016 - Half of Black Gay or Bisexual Men Will Be Infected With HIV: New Study
2/23/2016 - Hundreds Celebrate Life of Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist and NABJ Co-Founder Acel Moore
2/23/2016 - Spike Lee Endorses Bernie Sanders in a Radio Ad: ‘Wake Up, South Carolina!’
2/23/2016 - Mich. YMCA Cancels Kids’ Underground Railroad Activity After Parent Upset by ‘Racially Insensitive Experience’
2/23/2016 - Flint, Mich., Residents to Receive $30 Million to Help Pay Their Water Bills
2/23/2016 - Watch: Rapper Trina Screams at and Hits a Man After a Club Outing
2/23/2016 - DC Metrobus Driver Chases Down Teens Who Attacked, Robbed Blind Woman
2/23/2016 - Want To "Make America Great Again!" But Don't Know How? Easy. Legalize White Slavery
2/23/2016 - 3 Men Arrested After Allegedly Assaulting Uber Driver With Beer Bottle
2/23/2016 - Learn to Trust Yourself
2/23/2016 - Watch: 106-Year-Old Woman Watches Viral Video of Her Gleeful Meeting With the Obamas
2/23/2016 - Girl, 12, Shot in Stomach During Militia Meeting in Idaho
2/23/2016 - Ben Carson: Obama Was ‘Raised White’
2/23/2016 - T.I. Signs Deal With Roc Nation and Signs on as an Artist-Owner of Tidal
2/23/2016 - 9 Thoughts on Rihanna’s ‘Work’ Videos
2/23/2016 - Courtney B. Vance Shows Out as Legal Legend Johnnie Cochran
2/23/2016 - Ask Agatha: "Help! I'm A Black Woman Who Struggles Making Friends With Black Women!"
2/23/2016 - Meet the Hero Mom Who Was Shot 3 Times Saving Children in the Kalamazoo, Mich., Shooting
2/23/2016 - Vote for Your America: The Root Joins Groundbreaking Voter-Engagement Campaign
2/23/2016 - 90-Year-Old Woman and Her 82-Year-Old Brother Shot While Waiting for Bus in Baltimore
2/23/2016 - Ga. Deputies Buy 9-Year-Old Bullied Because of Worn-Out Shoes Brand-New Air Jordans
2/23/2016 - Actress Elise Neal Quits Hollywood Divas
2/23/2016 - Morgan Freeman’s Voice Will Now Guide You to Your Destination
2/23/2016 - Louis Farrakhan Says Fruit of Islam Will Protect Beyoncé on Tour
2/23/2016 - Black-Owned Craft Beer Company Gets Premium Placement in Wal-Mart
2/23/2016 - Suge Knight Says His Rights Are Being Violated in Jail
2/23/2016 - Financial Planning: Paying Now so Your Family Doesn’t Owe Later
2/23/2016 - Obama’s Battle for Black Boys: My Brother’s Keeper, 2 Years Later
2/22/2016 - Kendrick Lamar Will Induct N.W.A Into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
2/22/2016 - Kweisi Mfume Endorses Hillary Clinton for President
2/22/2016 - Finding Delonte: Why the Former NBA Guard’s Words Scare Me More Than the Photo
2/22/2016 - Exclusive: A Leaked Email Exchange Between Drake And Kanye West From This Afternoon
2/22/2016 - Acccused Kalamazoo, Mich., Shooter Picked Up at Least 1 Fare as Uber Driver During Spree: Report
2/22/2016 - Ohio Teen Charged With Impersonating a Senator Speaks Out: ‘They Could Easily Have Googled Me’
2/22/2016 - Business-Savvy Ore. Girl Scout Sold Cookies Outside Marijuana Dispensary
2/22/2016 - Aliya S. King's True Hip-Hop Stories: That Time The Source Saved Me From Getting Shot
2/22/2016 - Jamaican Gynecologist Drops Dancehall Song to Educate About the Zika Virus
2/22/2016 - Coalition of Black Clergy to Call on Senate to Consider Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee
2/22/2016 - Rihanna Drops Video for ‘Work’—a Hotline Blashment?
2/22/2016 - Nev. Democratic Party at Fault for ‘English Only’ Controversy
2/22/2016 - Consent, Explained, for People Who Still Don’t Get It
2/22/2016 - American Girl Debuts African-American Doll From the Civil Rights Era
2/22/2016 - 106-Year-Old Virginia McLaurin Dancing With The Obamas Is The Blackest Thing That Ever Happened This Week
2/22/2016 - Kanye and Kim’s Saint Is Adorable
2/22/2016 - Who’s Going to Help Delonte West?
2/22/2016 - Report: Miami Woman Beaten Into Coma by Roommate She Found on Craigslist
2/22/2016 - Indianapolis Mom and Teen’s Homework Help Police Nab Alleged Shoplifter
2/22/2016 - 6-Year-Old Fla. Boy Shot Dead While Playing With Friends
2/22/2016 - Yona Roshen Knight-Wisdom Becomes 1st Jamaican Diver to Qualify for the Olympics
2/22/2016 - Shopper in Store’s Music Section Celebrates Black History Month in His Own Special Way
2/22/2016 - New Orleans Rapper Dee-1 Raps About Paying Off Sallie Mae Loans
2/22/2016 - Watch: Flossie Dickey Is 110 and Has Better Things to Do Than This Interview
2/22/2016 - Model Flawlessly Responds to Racist Instagram Comments About Her Lips
2/22/2016 - 106-Year-Old Woman’s Wish Granted When She Gets to Meet the Obamas
2/22/2016 - The Stono Slave Rebellion Was Nearly Erased From US History Books
2/22/2016 - Caught on Tape, Caught in a Lie: 5 Times Video Proved Police Were Lying
2/21/2016 - Journal-isms Column Is Latest to Bear Brunt of Media Industry’s Economic Woes
2/21/2016 - Duke Students Protest Annual Prison-Themed Party on Campus
2/21/2016 - 6 Dead, 2 Wounded After Gunman Opens Fire in Kalamazoo, Mich.
2/21/2016 - Buffalo, NY, Dad Dies After Saving His 3-Year-Old Son From Raging Fire
2/21/2016 - President Responds to Little Girl Who Cried Over His Leaving White House: ‘I’m Not Going Anywhere’
2/21/2016 - Democracy in Black: 3 Writers Wrestle With President Obama’s Blackness
2/21/2016 - Q&A: Patti LaBelle Drops Pearls on The Root
2/20/2016 - Hillary Clinton Wins Democratic Caucuses in Nev.
2/20/2016 - Last of Angola 3 Released After Being Kept in Solitary More Than 40 Years
2/20/2016 - After Flashing Dough on Instagram, 50 Cent Heads Back to Bankruptcy Court
2/20/2016 - Howard Becomes Only HBCU With Swim Team
2/20/2016 - MTV UK Renames Cornrows ‘Boxer Braids’ ... Because Appropriation
2/20/2016 - #ObamaAndKids Takes a Look at Best Photos of President Obama With His Biggest Pint-Size Fans
2/20/2016 - Dear Black People: These Are Things ‘They’ Want You to Stop Doing
2/20/2016 - Black Woman to Lead School of Public Health at Harvard
2/20/2016 - Va. Bill Would Be 1st in Nation to Keep Cops’ Names Secret
2/20/2016 - Review: Smart People Is an Intelligent Take on the Role of Race in Our Everyday Lives
2/20/2016 - Filmmaker Out to Prove That Black Superheroes Can Be Leading Characters
2/19/2016 - ‘I’m Not Being Exploited’: Sandra Bland’s Mother Talks Endorsing Hillary Clinton
2/19/2016 - Watch: Pookie Howser, M.D., Holds a Press Conference and Says Allegations Against Him Are Upsetting
2/19/2016 - Trump: ‘I Will Do More for the African-American People Than Barack Obama Has Ever Done’
2/19/2016 - Smokey Robinson Turned 76 Today, so The Root Is Celebrating With This Flashback Performance
2/19/2016 - Ky. High School Student Accused of Using Racial Slurs, Smashing Car With Confederate-Flag Pole
2/19/2016 - I Miss the Old Kanye
2/19/2016 - Calif. Woman Gives Birth in Subway Bathroom, Abandons Baby
2/19/2016 - Jennifer Hudson’s Convicted Brother-in-Law Says He Had Nothing to Do With Her Family’s Murders
2/19/2016 - ‘Affluenza’ Teen Ethan Couch to Be Tried as Adult
2/19/2016 - Ohio 18-Year-Old Indicted for Posing as Representative of State Senator
2/19/2016 - Russell Simmons Is Creating His Own Movie-Award Show and Will Honor Will Smith
2/19/2016 - Flint, Mich., Man’s Blood-Lead Level Is 5 Times What’s Toxic: Report
2/19/2016 - Chicago BLM Activist Declined White House Invitation to Event Preceding Black History Month Reception
2/19/2016 - Aww, Shucks. Tampa, Fla., Police Tweet That They’re in ‘Formation’ for the Beyhive
2/19/2016 - Watch: President Obama to White House Visitors: ‘We Know It Is Black History Month When ... ’
2/19/2016 - Watch: 5-foot-5 Wis. High School Guard Throws Down Nasty Dunk
2/19/2016 - Black Contestants on The Bachelor and Bachelorette Reveal What It Was Like Being ‘the Token’
2/19/2016 - Harper Lee, Author of To Kill a Mockingbird, Dies at 89
2/19/2016 - Underrated Moment In Black History: When Tyra Banks Taught White People How To Moisturize
2/19/2016 - Kleenex’s ‘Caring Chorus’ Commercial Will Have You in Tears
2/19/2016 - Md. Court Delays Officers’ Trials in Freddie Gray Case
2/19/2016 - Scandal Recap: Olivia and Mellie Become Besties
2/19/2016 - 5-Year-Old Leads Blind Grandmother Safely Out of Burning House
2/19/2016 - Watch: Monty Williams’ Heartbreaking Eulogy for Wife
2/19/2016 - Husband Believed Slain Escort Sold Hair Extensions, Not Sex
2/19/2016 - Texas School District Apologizes After 8-Year-Old Handcuffed
2/19/2016 - Watch: This Kid Is Using DJ Khaled’s Techniques to Coach His Dad
2/19/2016 - Move Over, Bond; We Got Idris Elba in Bastille Day
2/19/2016 - #FlashbackFriday: Watch Vonetta Flowers Become the 1st African American to Win a Gold Medal in the Winter Olympics
2/19/2016 - MAC Cosmetic’s Instagram Bombarded With Racist Comments After Posting Photo of Black Woman’s Lips
2/19/2016 - Bill Cosby Sues Accuser Andrea Constand and Her Mom for Cooperating With Authorities
2/19/2016 - Little Girl Cries After Learning Barack Obama’s Presidency Is Ending Soon
2/19/2016 - Is Sex With an Uncircumcised Man Really Better?
2/19/2016 - Why Is My White Ancestor Listed as Black in the Census?
2/18/2016 - Black&Sexy TV Presents: The Greatest Black Movies of All Time, to Be Debated Live on Oscar Night
2/18/2016 - Must-Watch: Steve Harvey Gives the Lecture of a Lifetime to a Young Woman Who Sexts Too Much
2/18/2016 - Rachel Dolezal Named Her New Baby Boy Langston
2/18/2016 - No, Sexism Is Not the Main Reason Beyoncé Was Criticized and Kendrick Lamar Wasn’t
2/18/2016 - Are You a Good Cuddler? If So, Infants Waiting for Adoption Need You
2/18/2016 - Shit Bougie Black People Love: 31. Unnecessary Hashtags
2/18/2016 - 2 Los Angeles Cops Charged With Raping Women on Duty
2/18/2016 - NJ Man Pleads Guilty to Killing Mom 2 Days After Finishing 30-Year Sentence for Another Murder
2/18/2016 - Everyone’s Trolling Kanye, Even the Philadelphia Police Department
2/18/2016 - Texas A&M Apologizes to Black High Schoolers Tormented by College Students
2/18/2016 - Minn. Cop Who Told Drivers to Run Over BLM Protesters Resigns
2/18/2016 - Tampa, Fla., Police Aren’t Signing Up to Work Beyoncé’s Concert
2/18/2016 - 5 Reasons You Should Be Obsessed With Audre Lorde
2/18/2016 - Toni Morrison Has Always Refused to Privilege White People in Her Writing
2/18/2016 - The Game Vows to Give Kanye $10,000,000 if He Comes to Dubai and Skydives With Him
2/18/2016 - Ark. Judicial Candidate Drops Out of Race After Calling Clerk a ‘Hair Lipped Niger Whore’
2/18/2016 - Tenn. Official Suggests Beyoncé’s Super Bowl Performance Is Inspiring Violence Against Cops
2/18/2016 - Obama to Make Historic Trip to Cuba Next Month
2/18/2016 - Shonda Rhimes Is a Titan and Her TED Talk Explains Why
2/18/2016 - Lessons In Blackness From Yale University's Black Solidarity Conference
2/18/2016 - 10 Toni Morrison Quotes to Live By
2/18/2016 - Woman Faces Multiple Charges in Attack on Wendy’s Worker Over Spicy Chicken Sandwiches
2/18/2016 - Kanye West’s SNL ‘Meltdown’ Happened After Unexpected Set Changes
2/18/2016 - Sophina DeJesus Performs Floor Routine on The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2/18/2016 - Watch: Morehouse’s Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Welcomes Bernie Sanders
2/18/2016 - Dear White People: Here’s a List of Things We’d Wish You’d Stop Doing
2/18/2016 - After Being Bullied About Her Weight, 10-Year-Old Creates Plus-Size Fashion Line
2/18/2016 - Watch: Charlamagne Flawlessly Takes Down Conservative Host Tomi Lahren
2/18/2016 - Mob Wives Star Big Ang Dies After Battling Brain and Lung Cancer
2/18/2016 - Should I Force My Daughter to Participate In Extracurricular Activities, Even if She Wants to Quit?
2/18/2016 - A Young Filmmaker Pursues His Dream With an Assist From Viola Davis
2/18/2016 - Judge Jane Bolin Battled Institutional Racism in NYC Courts for Decades
2/18/2016 - Leading From Behind: Obama Flinches on Supreme Court Pick
2/17/2016 - Jamaican Woman to Head All Home Depot Stores in US
2/17/2016 - Old- and New-School Leaders to Meet With President, Attorney General for Black History Month
2/17/2016 - Fashion Brand Tells Popular Black Blogger: ‘We Are Looking for a White Audience’
2/17/2016 - Nike Drops Manny Pacquiao After Anti-Gay Statements
2/17/2016 - Kendrick Lamar Is Not Who Kanye West Could Have Been
2/17/2016 - In Honor of Michael Jordan’s Birthday, We Celebrate the Tumblr That Asks, ‘WTF Is Mike Wearing?’
2/17/2016 - Channing Dungey Becomes 1st African-American Entertainment Chief of a Major Broadcast Network
2/17/2016 - Obama Will Not Be Attending Justice Scalia’s Funeral, White House Says
2/17/2016 - Pizza Hut Perfectly Trolls Kanye West
2/17/2016 - Watch: These Musicians Read Mean Tweets Sent to Them
2/17/2016 - Watch: Chess Grandmaster Schools Trash-Talking Chess Hustler
2/17/2016 - The Blackest Black History Month Continues: Prince’s New Passport Photo
2/17/2016 - 2 Chicago 911 Dispatchers Suspended Without Pay in Quintonio LeGrier Case
2/17/2016 - 3 Lessons in Blackness at the Black Solidarity Conference
2/17/2016 - #WCW: This Old Video of Lauryn Hill’s Miseducation Tour Stop Is a Great Fix for Her Grammy No-Show
2/17/2016 - 5 Things to Know About That Student Loan Arrest and How to Make Sure You’re Protected
2/17/2016 - Underrated Moments in Black History: When Tyra Banks Taught White People How to Moisturize
2/17/2016 - An Ode To SWV
2/17/2016 - Snoop Dogg Secures Deal With Canadian Weed Company
2/17/2016 - This Mother and Daughter Thought No One Could Tell Them Apart
2/17/2016 - Study Shows States Where Black Americans Are Most Politically Engaged
2/17/2016 - Photo Campaign Honors Black History Month With Images of the Past Portrayed by Innovators and Activists of the Present
2/17/2016 - Ask Agatha: The Debt-Related Danger Of Accepting Drinks From Men
2/17/2016 - Prince Paid Tribute to Vanity During Solo Australian Show
2/17/2016 - Fla. Teen Arrested on Charges He Posed as Doctor at His Own Medical Clinic
2/17/2016 - Ala. Cop Buys Teen Working in Grocery Store New Shoes
2/17/2016 - There’s a GoFundMe to Help Kanye West Get Out of Debt
2/17/2016 - Actor Joseph Fiennes Says Outrage Is Good When It Comes to Michael Jackson Movie
2/17/2016 - Original Good Times Cast Kickstarts New Movie
2/17/2016 - Why the 400 Years of African American History Act Is So Important
2/17/2016 - And After Many Days: A New Nigerian Novelist Publishes a Highly Anticipated Debut Work
2/17/2016 - People v. O.J. Simpson Recap: The Dream Team Gets Ready to Play the Race Card
2/16/2016 - Man Who Inspired Characters From The Wire Dies in Federal Prison
2/16/2016 - Bill Clinton Was Happy to Be a Stand-In for the 1st Black President, Says We’re All ‘Mixed-Raced People’
2/16/2016 - Things As "African" As Meryl Streep And Bill Clinton Are All Of A Sudden Claiming To Be
2/16/2016 - NY Judge Arrested, Charged With Driving Drunk to Court
2/16/2016 - Taylor Swift Claps Back at Kanye West During Her Grammy Acceptance Speech
2/16/2016 - Ex-NFL Players Sue Helmet Maker Riddell, Claim Company Knew About Concussion Risks
2/16/2016 - Manny Pacquiao Apologizes for Saying Gay People Are ‘Worse Than Animals’
2/16/2016 - NC Preemie, Born 14 Weeks Early, Finally Goes Home After 5 Months in Hospital
2/16/2016 - LL Cool J and Diddy Discover Shocking Family Secrets in Finding Your Roots
2/16/2016 - Social Media Reacts to President Obama Having Chance to Appoint Yet Another Justice to Supreme Court
2/16/2016 - VH1 Orders Hip-Hop Series Based on The Breaks Movie
2/16/2016 - Devon Franklin to Suggestion in Church That Wife Meagan Good Should Cover Up: ‘She’s Going to Wear What She Wants to Wear in the Name of Jesus’
2/16/2016 - The Root Went to the Anti-Anti-Beyoncé Rally and Here’s What Happened
2/16/2016 - Kendrick Confirms It: February 2016 Is The Blackest Black History Month Ever
2/16/2016 - Ind. Middle School Basketball Coach Suspended for Telling Players Not to ‘Act Black’
2/16/2016 - The New Yorker’s Cover Art Pays Homage to Harlem’s Schomburg Center
2/16/2016 - Black Panthers Documentary Airs Tuesday Night on PBS
2/16/2016 - News Anchor’s Beyoncé ‘Formation’ Video Goes Viral
2/16/2016 - Call a Thing a Thing: Scalia’s Judicial Terrorism Should Not Be Celebrated
2/16/2016 - Kanye West Doesn’t Need Another Think Piece; He Needs Therapy
2/16/2016 - US Marshals Are Arresting People Who Are Behind on Student Loans
2/16/2016 - Family, Friends Stunned After Va. Cop Fatally Shoots High School Senior, 19
2/16/2016 - Stevie Wonder Proves During Grammy Presentation That Inclusiveness Is Needed Everywhere
2/16/2016 - Twitter and Natalie Cole’s Family React to the Grammy Awards Not Giving the Singer a Musical Tribute
2/16/2016 - Fighting a Black ‘Genocide’ in Brazil
2/16/2016 - Stephan James on His Breakout Role as Jesse Owens in Race
2/16/2016 - When Your Loved Ones Aren’t Ready to Have ‘the Talk,’ What Do You Do?
2/16/2016 - Watch: Kendrick Lamar’s Performance Brought the Grammys to Life; White House Praises Him
2/15/2016 - Grammys Red Carpet: Stars Keep It Glamorous and Fabulous
2/15/2016 - Post-Valentine’s Day Prison Blues: How #Cut50 Is Trying to Bring Jailed Men Home to Their Families
2/15/2016 - Singer Vanity Dead at 57
2/15/2016 - The Worst People To Walk In On You Having Sex, Ranked
2/15/2016 - "The Life Of Pablo," Reviewed, By Someone Who Cannot Be Objective About Kanye West
2/15/2016 - Once a Slave, Then a Soldier in a Battle for Freedom and His Family
2/15/2016 - Guide to the Grammys: 4 Things You Need to Know About Music’s Big Night
2/14/2016 - Broadcast Journalist Gwen Ifill Sprinkled Black Girl Magic All Over the Democratic Debate
2/14/2016 - Ill. Governor to Shut Down Troubled Youth Detention Center
2/14/2016 - Haiti Gets a New President Today ... for Another 4 Months
2/14/2016 - Watch: SNL’s “The Day Beyoncé Turned Black” and How White America Went Nuts
2/14/2016 - Antonin Scalia’s Death Opens Up a Supreme Court Seat, and the Republicans Want to Keep It That Way
2/14/2016 - A White Journalist Discovers the Lie of Portugal’s Colonial Past
2/14/2016 - Ditch the Doomsayers: Black Love Is Real This Valentine’s Day, and Here Are 5 Facts to Prove It
2/14/2016 - #BaeWatch: It’s Time to Look for Love! Here Are 14 Ways to Find It This Valentine’s Day
2/14/2016 - Supreme Court: Time for a Black Woman?
2/13/2016 - Report: Obama to Name Successor to Antonin Scalia
2/13/2016 - Watch: Kevin Hart and Drake Act Up at All-Star Celebrity Basketball Game
2/13/2016 - Hampton Becomes 1st HBCU to Play Division I Lacrosse
2/13/2016 - Woman Travels From Nigeria to Brooklyn, NY, to Deliver Triplets
2/13/2016 - Commercial Test for Zika Virus Could Be Available in Weeks
2/13/2016 - They Were Young, Active and Suffering From Heart Failure
2/13/2016 - Books by Black Authors to Look Forward to in 2016
2/12/2016 - Here’s the Problem With That Steve Harvey Video That Shames Sisters for Wanting Attractive Men
2/12/2016 - 6 Things That Are as African as Meryl Streep
2/12/2016 - Wellesley College Appoints 1st African-American President
2/12/2016 - Watch: The Ellen DeGeneres Show Donates Tons of Resources to Detroit Public School in Need
2/12/2016 - Ciara on Abstinence With Russell Wilson: ‘We Hug and Kiss’
2/12/2016 - Memphis, Tenn., Police Launch Investigation After Arrest Caught on News Camera
2/12/2016 - Dear Black America: Be Prepared to Be Bernie’s and Hillary’s Token Black Friend for the Next 5 Months
2/12/2016 - Black Twitter Creates #CosmoHeadlines After Magazine Says Hair Parts Are a New Trend
2/12/2016 - Texas A&M Students Accused of Hurling Racial Slurs at Visiting Black High Schoolers
2/12/2016 - Jackie Robinson West Parents Sue Little League, ESPN and Stephen A. Smith
2/12/2016 - Rep. John Lewis Wants to See Bernie Sanders’ Civil Rights Receipts
2/12/2016 - Lamar Odom Makes His 1st Public Appearance at Kanye’s Fashion Show
2/12/2016 - Ohio Cop on Leave After Allegedly Commenting ‘Love a Happy Ending’ About BLM Activist MarShawn McCarrel II’s Suicide
2/12/2016 - Scandal Recap: New Alliances and New Betrayals
2/12/2016 - Knicks Great Anthony Mason Will Have NYC Street Named After Him
2/12/2016 - Movies That Make My Eyes Sweat Even Though I'm Super Hardbody Real and Stuff.
2/12/2016 - Cleveland Mayor Apologizes to Tamir Rice’s Family for Ambulance Charge
2/12/2016 - Report: NJ Teen Has Arm Dislocated by Cops Who Leave Him Without Medical Care
2/12/2016 - Kanye West Unveils T-Shirt and Video Game Dedicated to His Mother
2/12/2016 - High School Student Says Will Smith’s Concussion Film Led Him to Turn Down Football Scholarships
2/12/2016 - Toronto to Give Drake the Key to the City
2/12/2016 - About That Stump Speech, Bernie? Most Black Folks Haven’t Seen the Inside of a Jail
2/12/2016 - Why Does My Lebanese Dad Have African DNA, When I Don’t?
2/11/2016 - NYC Cop Peter Liang Found Guilty of Manslaughter in Death of Akai Gurley, Faces Up to 15 Years in Prison
2/11/2016 - On TV, Plenty of Women Are Covering Presidential Race, but Few of Them Are Black
2/11/2016 - Detroit Police Sergeant’s Facebook Post Comparing Beyoncé Dance Troupe to KKK Sparks Investigation
2/11/2016 - Underrated Moment in Black History: When Bobby & Whitney Set The Bar for Black Love
2/11/2016 - Kevin Hart’s Hyundai Commercial Wins USA Today’s Annual Poll of Best Super Bowl Ad
2/11/2016 - White Miss. Police Officer Files Lawsuit Claiming Racial Bias After Being Fired for Shooting Death of Black Man
2/11/2016 - Black Lives Matter Activists Got Beyoncé’s Dancers to Hold Up ‘Justice’ Sign They Snuck Into Super Bowl
2/11/2016 - NYC University Student Faces Backlash After Threatening Classmate Over Trump Sticker on Social Media: Report
2/11/2016 - Bernie and Hillary Want to Know: Who Would Trayvon Martin Vote For?
2/11/2016 - Complex’s “Best of” Lists Are Garbage
2/11/2016 - Ingrid Williams, Wife of NBA Coach Monty Williams, Dead at 44
2/11/2016 - Rihanna Is 1st and Only Artist to Surpass RIAA’s 100 Million Cumulative Singles Threshold
2/11/2016 - Meryl Streep Defends All-White Panel at the Berlin Film Festival: ‘We’re All Africans ... Really’
2/11/2016 - Why We Need To Raise the Minimum Wage To $15
2/11/2016 - ‘Insult to Homicide’: Cleveland Bills Tamir Rice’s Family $500 for Ambulance Ride
2/11/2016 - Taraji P. Henson to Play NASA Math Genius in New Film
2/11/2016 - Watch: Miami Heat's Martin Intro Parody is Hilarious
2/11/2016 - Tenn. Hospital Performs Surgery on Wrong Newborn
2/11/2016 - Mother’s Pleas for Justice in Death of Her Daughter, Killed by Virginia Beach Police, Goes Viral
2/11/2016 - Justice Department Sues Ferguson, Mo., to Force Police Reform
2/11/2016 - The Savagery of Apartheid Remembered in the Callous Destruction of District 6
2/11/2016 - How to Get Away With Murder Is Back, and We Have Questions
2/11/2016 - Should 18-Year-Olds Be Allowed to Use Curse Words in a Conversation With a Parent?
2/11/2016 - Scandal Returns: Here Are All the Storylines You Forgot
2/11/2016 - All Hail Trump: NH Primary Shatters GOP Establishment
2/11/2016 - Filmmaker Looks to Blaxploitation Classic to Craft Strong Black Characters for New Generation
2/10/2016 - An Ode to SWV
2/10/2016 - Watch: Md. Cop Pulls Gun on Pizza-Delivery Driver
2/10/2016 - 5 Reasons Maurice White Stayed Winnin'
2/10/2016 - Watch: Omari Hardwick Says Denzel Washington’s Family Looked Out for Him When He Was Homeless
2/10/2016 - Underrated Moments in Black History: When Bobby and Whitney Set the Bar for Black Love
2/10/2016 - Fla. Man Charged After Throwing Live Alligator Through Wendy’s Drive-Thru Window
2/10/2016 - Jada Pinkett Smith: The Academy’s Solution to #OscarsSoWhite Implies That Black People Only Vote Black
2/10/2016 - Md. School Volunteer Arrested, Charged With Making Child Porn: Report
2/10/2016 - A Primer On Bitchassness Courtesy of Love & Hip Hop New York
2/10/2016 - The Clinton Legacy Is Black Impoverishment—so Why Are We Still Voting for Hillary?
2/10/2016 - Pro-Beyoncé and Anti-Beyoncé Protesters to Face Off in Rally at NFL Headquarters in NYC
2/10/2016 - Aliya S. King's True Hip-Hop Stories: That Time I Almost Worked For Blaze Magazine
2/10/2016 - Al Sharpton and Bernie Sanders Have Breakfast at Sylvia’s in Harlem
2/10/2016 - Serena Williams Helps Build a School in Jamaica
2/10/2016 - Ghostface Killah and His Mother Ether ‘Pharma-Douche-Bro’ Martin Shkreli in Video
2/10/2016 - The People v. O.J. Simpson Recap: The Infamous Bronco Chase
2/10/2016 - Kanye Declares Bill Cosby Is Innocent; Internet Declares Official Start of #KanyeIsCancelledParty
2/10/2016 - Texas Police Fatally Shoot Naked, Unarmed Teen: Report
2/10/2016 - 2 Ky. Jail Staffers Fired in Probe of Death of Gynnya McMillen
2/10/2016 - Michael Jordan’s Rep Comments on Crying Meme
2/9/2016 - The Agony Of Being A Kanye West Fan In 2016
2/9/2016 - Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders Projected Winners in NH Primary
2/9/2016 - 7 Stages of Buying Beyoncé ‘Formation’ Tour Tickets
2/9/2016 - The 10 Blackest Things Michelle Obama Has Ever Done
2/9/2016 - Michael J. Feeney’s Harlem Funeral Draws Many Blacks in Media
2/9/2016 - Chicago Woman Faces Mandatory 6 Years in Prison for Kicking Sheriff’s Deputy’s Shin
2/9/2016 - DMX Resuscitated After Being Found Unconscious in Hotel Parking Lot: Report
2/9/2016 - Watch: Slack Was Voted Fastest-Rising Startup at Tech Award Show—and 4 of Its Black Female Engineers Accepted the Award
2/9/2016 - Ohio BLM Activist MarShawn McCarrel II Commits Suicide Outside Statehouse: Report
2/9/2016 - Beyoncé on ‘Formation’: ‘I Wanted People to Feel Proud and Have Love for Themselves’
2/9/2016 - Cam Newton on Post-Super Bowl Interview: ‘I’m Human. I Never Once Said That I Was Perfect’
2/9/2016 - Even Black 5-Year-Olds Are Not Safe From Racial Bias
2/9/2016 - Ask Agatha: "I Like Her, But She Says I'm Just A Friend" And Why "I'm Fine" Is Usually A Lie
2/9/2016 - Watch: Will Smith Says Janet Hubert Is Brilliant and He Loves What She Brought to Aunt Viv
2/9/2016 - Black Girls in Durham, NC, School Denied Right to Honor African Heritage
2/9/2016 - If Beyoncé Has Gone Full Black, I'm Here For It.
2/9/2016 - Ciara Files $15,000,000 Slander and Libel Lawsuit Against Future
2/9/2016 - Lakatriona Brunson, Star of South Beach Tow, Becomes 1st Female Head High School Football Coach in Fla. History
2/9/2016 - Outrage After Video Showing Pa. Teen With Cerebral Palsy Being Attacked by Student
2/9/2016 - Debbie Allen and Alvin Ailey Dancers Visit the White House for Black History Month Event
2/9/2016 - NC Students Plan Demonstration After Girls Told to Take Off African Head Wraps
2/9/2016 - Lupita Nyong’o and Ava DuVernay Could Be Teaming Up for Sci-Fi Thriller
2/9/2016 - UCLA Gymnast Sophina DeJesus Dabs and Nae Naes All Over Her Floor Routine
2/9/2016 - How a Family Legacy Is Built
2/9/2016 - When States Run Welfare, Black Children Are the Ones Who Get Hurt
2/9/2016 - Can Bernie Bash Obama’s Record and Still Win Black Votes?
2/8/2016 - 5 Reasons Maurice White Stayed Winnin’
2/8/2016 - The Knicks Give Derek Fisher His Walking Papers
2/8/2016 - How To Get Over Writer’s Block When The Rainbow Isn't Enuf
2/8/2016 - 5 Videos Pre-‘Formation’ That Big Up the Black Social-Justice Movement
2/8/2016 - Beyoncé Went Full Black, Apparently. I’m Here for It
2/8/2016 - 2 South African University Students Suspended for Apparent ‘Blackface’
2/8/2016 - Female NYC Correction Officer Charged With Raping Inmate, Conspiring to Traffic Marijuana
2/8/2016 - The Way We Talk When We Talk About Athletes Is Dumb As Fuck. Understandable, But Dumb As Fuck
2/8/2016 - Watch: Celebs Make Fun of the #OscarsSoWhite Diversity Issue at the NAACP Image Awards
2/8/2016 - NYC Man Researched Miscarriages Before Pregnant Girlfriend Was Attacked by Masked Men: Report
2/8/2016 - Running Back Marshawn Lynch Hasn’t Spent a Penny of His NFL Money
2/8/2016 - These Black Women All Have a Career in Common. Can You Guess What It Is?
2/8/2016 - Texas Tabloid Threatens to Publish Cops’ Addresses After Unarmed Black Man Fatally Shot
2/8/2016 - Super Bowl 50: Broncos Stun Panthers as Defense Turns Super Cam Into Clark Kent
2/8/2016 - If You’ve Never Questioned Tom Brady’s or Bill Belichick’s Lack of Humility, Don’t Question Cam Newton’s
2/8/2016 - Super Bowl 50: Twitter Reacts to Beyoncé and Bruno Mars’ Halftime Show
2/8/2016 - Bill Romanowski Apologizes for Calling Cam Newton ‘Boy’
2/8/2016 - How Police Violence Broke My Boyfriend and Ruined Our Relationship
2/8/2016 - Ralph Bunche: A Diplomat Who Would Not Negotiate on Race
2/7/2016 - Beyoncé Drops ‘Formation’ for the People, the Black People
2/7/2016 - Report: NYPD Uses Obscure Law to Kick People Out of Their Homes
2/7/2016 - Cam Newton Wins Pro Football’s MVP Award
2/7/2016 - Chicago Cop Who Fatally Shot Quintonio LeGrier Sues Teen’s Estate
2/7/2016 - White Supremacist Pleads Guilty in Plot to Attack Churches and Synagogues
2/7/2016 - Beyoncé Treats Fans to New Music Video
2/7/2016 - Father Pens Book to Explain Protest to Kids in the Time of Black Lives Matter
2/7/2016 - No Pork on His Fork, and 5 Other Things You Didn’t Know About Cam Newton
2/7/2016 - Hey, PWIs! Diversity Is Great, but Inclusion Is Better
2/6/2016 - Beyonce Is The New Black: The 10 Blackest Moments In Beyonce's "Formation" Video
2/6/2016 - It’s All About the Benjamins, Baby: Jealous Endorses Sanders, While Crump Backs Clinton
2/6/2016 - Solange Loses Her Wedding Ring on Mardi Gras Float
2/6/2016 - Federal Court Invalidates 2 NC Districts for Racial Gerrymandering
2/6/2016 - Jay Z’s Tidal Donates $1,500,000 to Black Lives Matter
2/6/2016 - Police Kill Unarmed Black Man in Texas; Say They Mistook Cellphone for Gun
2/6/2016 - ‘All the Awards Are Going to White People’: Why Black Award Shows Are Necessary
2/6/2016 - Baltimore Has a Mayor’s Race and It Just Heated Up
2/6/2016 - HBCU Football Stars Had a Coming-Out Party at Super Bowl I
2/6/2016 - My Son Is Gone Because Someone Deemed Him a Criminal and Not My Child
2/5/2016 - I’m a Grown Man, but I Still Don’t Cuss in Front of My Dad
2/5/2016 - Honorably Discharged Army Vet, 72, Deported to Mexico After Lifetime Spent in US
2/5/2016 - Fresh Prince Characters Other Than Will, Ranked, From Least To Most Important
2/5/2016 - How to Get Over Writer’s Block
2/5/2016 - Before Cam, There Was Clyde, a Model of Sartorial Splendor
2/5/2016 - Are Hair Extensions for Girls a Bit Too Much?
2/5/2016 - Chris Rock: Forget Jennifer Lawrence; Talk to a Black Actress About Hollywood’s Gender Income Gap
2/5/2016 - Confederate Groups Support Installation of Battle Flag Across From HBCU in Ala.
2/5/2016 - Super Bowl 50: Father of Denver Broncos Lineman Dies After Heart Surgery
2/5/2016 - 12 Things I Want And Need To Happen On Super Bowl Sunday
2/5/2016 - Woman Surprises Husband, Who Paid to Have Her Killed, at Her ‘Funeral’
2/5/2016 - My Son Has Autism, and He’s Perfect the Way He Is
2/5/2016 - Lupita Nyong’o: I’m Using the Little Weight I Have to Get Diverse Stories Told
2/5/2016 - Watch: L.A. Reid Says Pebbles Didn’t Shortchange TLC; Parent Label Was the Bottleneck
2/5/2016 - Interview: When She Didn’t See Depictions of Diversity in Comic Books, Jazmin Truesdale Created Her Own
2/5/2016 - Cam Newton Answers the Most Ridiculous Question at Super Bowl Presser About His Socks and Sandals
2/5/2016 - 5 Adults, 1 Child Found Dead in Chicago Home
2/5/2016 - Report: Johnny Manziel Not Being Charged Despite Ex-Girlfriend’s Claim He Struck Her
2/5/2016 - Kendrick Lamar Says the Way People Look at Him Is How He Looked at the President
2/5/2016 - Top 4 Political Reasons to Root for, or Against, a Team in the Super Bowl
2/5/2016 - In Gratitude for Maurice White, the Spirit Leader of Earth, Wind & Fire
2/4/2016 - CNN Contradicts Ted Cruz’s Campaign, Says Network Never Said Ben Carson Was Dropping Out
2/4/2016 - Maurice White, Co-Founder of Earth, Wind & Fire, Dies at 74
2/4/2016 - How to Protect Yourself From the Flood of White Tears That’ll Come if the Panthers Win the Super Bowl
2/4/2016 - UN Experts ‘Extremely Concerned’ About the State of African Americans in the US
2/4/2016 - David Oyelowo Thinks His Next Movie About an African King’s Love Story Is What the World Needs
2/4/2016 - Leaked Emails Show Racist Culture at University of Chicago Fraternity: Report
2/4/2016 - Beyoncé Is Taking Her Career to Greater Heights With a Few New Hires and Dismissals
2/4/2016 - #TBT: 30 Years Ago Today, Janet Jackson Showed Us She Was in Control
2/4/2016 - Md. Man Confesses to Killing 2-Year-Old Daughter and Her Mother Over Child Support, Court Documents Say
2/4/2016 - Watch: Alicia Keys Uses Valentine’s Day to Woo the Speaker of the House Into Action Over Justice Reform
2/4/2016 - Five Things People Need To Stop Saying When Police Dogs Are Killed
2/4/2016 - We Dated for 2 Years and He Still Wouldn’t Claim Me as His Girlfriend
2/4/2016 - NFL Dads Encourage Fathers to Spend Time With Daughters by Doing Their Hair
2/4/2016 - Mother and Twin Daughters Have the Internet Going Crazy Trying to Figure Out Who’s the Mother in Viral Photo
2/4/2016 - Usher’s ‘Chains’ Video Focuses on Police Brutality
2/4/2016 - Police Search for Suspect After Morgan State Student, 20, Fatally Stabbed
2/4/2016 - Judge Rules Against Bill Cosby in Sexual Assault Case
2/4/2016 - Unarmed Fla. Man Left Paralyzed in Cop Shooting Awarded $23,100,000
2/4/2016 - Black Lives Matter Activist DeRay Mckesson to Run for Mayor of Baltimore
2/4/2016 - Is My Mom Passing on Straight-Hair Ideals to My Daughter?
2/4/2016 - How Spike Lee Inspired This Filmmaker to Do His Own Thing
2/4/2016 - Everything You Need to Know About the Zika Virus
2/4/2016 - 50 Greatest Super Bowl Plays by Black Athletes
2/3/2016 - Black Feminists Don’t Owe Hillary Clinton Their Support
2/3/2016 - Kanye Patches Things Up With Wiz Khalifa
2/3/2016 - MUST LOVE BEARDS DC Day Party Ticket Giveaway
2/3/2016 - The Best Twitter Reactions to The People v. O.J. Simpson Movie
2/3/2016 - Toyota to Pay Up to $21,900,000 to Black and Asian Borrowers to Settle Federal Discrimination Investigation
2/3/2016 - The Hip-Hop Dalmatians Are the Greatest Rap Group That Never Was. Probably. Maybe.
2/3/2016 - Ex-Mich. Cop Gets Up to 10 Years in Prison for Brutal Roadside Beating of Floyd Dent
2/3/2016 - Melissa Harris-Perry Recalls Being Threatened During Iowa Caucus by Man Mumbling About Nazi Germany
2/3/2016 - National Museum of African American History and Culture Scheduled to Open Sept. 24
2/3/2016 - Underrated Moments In Black History: Angela Bassett Slaps A White Woman
2/3/2016 - Here Are the Super Bowl Commercials With Some of Your Favorite Black Celebrities and Athletes
2/3/2016 - Meagan Good and DeVon Franklin Share Why They Took Vows of Celibacy
2/3/2016 - Woman Who Had Been Beaten by Officer Is Found Dead in Cell
2/3/2016 - Comic Gary Owen Sends Thanks for Being Traded in the Racial Draft for Stacey Dash
2/3/2016 - Watch: Don Cheadle as Miles Davis in Miles Ahead Trailer
2/3/2016 - 14 Years After Historic Academy Award Win, Halle Berry Doesn’t Think Barriers Have Been Broken
2/3/2016 - Tenn. Police Use Taser on Middle School Cleaning Woman After Mistaking Her for Burglar
2/3/2016 - Calif. Murder Suspect Accidentally Released From L.A. Jail Because of Paperwork Error
2/3/2016 - Sanders Beats Clinton 49-49: The Real Story Behind the Iowa Numbers
2/3/2016 - The 5 Best Black History Travel Destinations
2/2/2016 - Fund to Honor Memory of Rising Journalist Michael J. Feeney Raises More Than $15,000
2/2/2016 - The Hip-Hop Dalmatians Are the Greatest Rap Group That Never Was
2/2/2016 - Here Are 3 Examples of Michael Jackson’s Cutthroat Shrewdness in L.A. Reid’s New Memoir
2/2/2016 - Why A Man Enjoying A Woman's Finger In His Butt Doesn't Make Him Gay (NTTAWWT), Explained
2/2/2016 - Fla. Day Care Director Arrested After Caught on Tape Slamming Toddler to Ground
2/2/2016 - Watch: 1st Look at Documentary Chronicling Misty Copeland’s Rise in Ballet World
2/2/2016 - Over 1,000 Ocala, Fla., Students Stay Home After Shooting Threat
2/2/2016 - Russell Simmons Donates 150,000 Bottles of Water to Flint, Mich.; Says Environmental Racism Is Happening
2/2/2016 - Ga. to Execute Oldest Death Row Inmate
2/2/2016 - Underrated Moments in Black History: Angela Bassett Slaps a White Woman
2/2/2016 - Ask Agatha: Effective Online Dating Profiles And Proper Spades Reneging Etiquette
2/2/2016 - Since When Does 3rd Equal 1st? Deconstructing Marco Rubio’s Iowa ‘Win’
2/2/2016 - Roc Nation Reportedly Countersues Rita Ora, Says She Owes Company Money
2/2/2016 - Watch: Cam Newton Talks About Those Black-and-Gold Pants
2/2/2016 - Man Creates GoFundMe Page for Girlfriend’s Engagement Ring; GoFundMe Is Like, ‘Nah’
2/2/2016 - Star Wars’ John Boyega Shuts Down Black History Month Haters on Twitter
2/2/2016 - Mom Who Donated Infant Son’s Heart Hears It Beat Again Inside 4-Year-Old Girl’s Chest
2/2/2016 - Mike Epps’ Wife Says She Didn’t See Divorce Coming
2/2/2016 - Report: Boko Haram Burned Children Alive in Attack in Nigeria
2/2/2016 - Ted Cruz Wins Iowa; Hillary Clinton Claims Razor-Thin Victory
2/2/2016 - Oscar Who? The Best Black Performances of 2015
2/2/2016 - Black American Influence in London: An Overlooked History
2/1/2016 - The Root’s Young, Fabulous and Female Is Heading to L.A.
2/1/2016 - David Justice to Halle Berry: You Should’ve Let People Know It Wasn’t Me Who Hit You
2/1/2016 - With Determining And Accepting Racial Identity, Do Biracial Men Have It "Easier" Than Biracial Women?
2/1/2016 - Former Okla. City Cop Daniel Holtzclaw Is No Longer in Prison Database
2/1/2016 - Rapper the Game Posted a Pic of His $500,000 Donation to Flint, Mich.’s Water Crisis
2/1/2016 - Family of Ramarley Graham, NYC Teen Fatally Shot by Cop, to US Attorney’s Office: ‘Foot-Dragging Is Unacceptable’
2/1/2016 - Serena Williams: I’m Expected to Win but ‘I’m Not a Robot’
2/1/2016 - Why Is Every Black Church Pastor Also Good At Singing? A Black History Month Mystery
2/1/2016 - Minn. High Schoolers Face Suspension Over KKK-Like Costumes
2/1/2016 - Live Update From Iowa: They’re All Running Against the Same Guy
2/1/2016 - Journalist Michael J. Feeney, Who Was Set to Start Dream Job at CNN, Dies at 32
2/1/2016 - Department of Justice to Investigate San Francisco Police Department After Mario Woods Shooting
2/1/2016 - Fla. Burger King Employee Burns Uniform After Getting Fired, Gets Arrested
2/1/2016 - Google Doodle Kicks Off Black History Month Honoring Frederick Douglass
2/1/2016 - Chicago Man Guilty of Murder After Giving Niece Gun to Settle Facebook Dispute
2/1/2016 - Viola Davis Says Hollywood Diversity Issue Is ‘Not a Hashtag’
2/1/2016 - Snoop Dogg on His Visit to Flint, Mich., and His Ties to the Area: ‘We Do Have Ties. We’re People’
2/1/2016 - Timbaland’s Rep Responds to Accusations That His Client Refused to Perform at Flint Charity Show Because of a Lack of Champagne
2/1/2016 - Imagine How Different Our Country Will Be When We Collectively Honor Black Excellence
2/1/2016 - Top 5 Countries to Move to if You’re Afraid of a ‘President Trump’
2/1/2016 - Jan Rodrigues: The 1st Black Man to Set Foot on the Island of Manhattan