8/31/2017 - Philando Castile’s Legacy of Helping His Students Pay for Their Lunches Lives On

8/31/2017 - Trump Energy Official Resigns After Claiming Controversial Comments Attributed to Him Were the Result of Hacking

8/31/2017 - Controversial Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke Resigns Without Explanation

8/31/2017 - LaVar Ball May Have Ruined Youngest Son’s NCAA Career With Signature Shoe: ‘Who Cares? If He Can’t Play, Then He Can’t Play’

8/31/2017 - #StayWoke: White House Removes Sexual Assault Prevention Report From Its Website 

8/31/2017 - Shit Might Hit the Fan in St. Louis Tomorrow

8/31/2017 - 8 Hip-Hop 1-Hit Wonders You Flat-Out Forgot About 

8/31/2017 - Mind Your Own Vagina: On Yvonne Orji, Adult Virgins and Personal Sexual Choices

8/31/2017 - Doctored Snapchat Photo Shows Black NM High School Student Surrounded by Classmates Wearing KKK Hoods 

8/31/2017 - A Prayer for White People Who Don’t Understand That Black Love Doesn’t Mean White Hate (Sometimes)

8/31/2017 - Mo. Lawmaker Wants Confederate-Monument Vandals ‘Hung,’ but He Means It in an Old Cowboy Way, Not in a Lynching Way

8/31/2017 - Spider-Man Helps Bring Smiles to Displaced Kids at Houston Hurricane Shelter

8/31/2017 - Alt-White: On How White People Use Language to Deny the Existence of White Supremacy

8/31/2017 - Eric Trump: My Father Has to Block Out Negative Media or He’d End Up Killing Himself

8/31/2017 - 19-Year-Old Calif. Woman, ‘Mistaken’ for Bald Black Man, Files Excessive-Force Claim Against City of Bakersfield

8/31/2017 - Kevin Hart’s Ex-Wife, Torrei Hart, and His Rib Aren’t on Speaking Terms After Instagram Blowup

8/31/2017 - Ga. Cop Reassures Terrified White Woman in DUI Traffic Stop: ‘Remember, We Only Kill Black People’

8/31/2017 - Solange Announces Hurricane Harvey Benefit Concerts

8/31/2017 - Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart Get Their Ghost On 

8/30/2017 - Los Angeles City Council Votes to Replace Columbus Day With Indigenous Peoples Day as a City Holiday

8/30/2017 - NBC in ‘Total Panic’ After Megyn Kelly’s New Show Scores Really High With Old White People. What Did They Expect?

8/30/2017 - In the Middle of a Devastating Hurricane, House Republicans Look to Make Cuts to Disaster-Relief Fund

8/30/2017 - Houston School District Will Provide 3 Free Meals a Day to All Students in the Aftermath of Hurricane Harvey

8/30/2017 - Hey Y’all, Ray J’s Musical Career Ain’t Half Bad

8/30/2017 - Disturbing Video Shows Wash. State Sheriff’s Deputy, With Gun Already Drawn, Confronting Motorcyclist During Traffic Stop

8/30/2017 - How 3 Black Visionaries Are Bringing the Hood Into the Marijuana Industry 

8/30/2017 - Aaron Rodgers Knows the Truth, Says Colin Kaepernick Is Still a Free Agent Because of His Protest

8/30/2017 - How a Family Tragedy for Newark, N.J., Mayor Ras Baraka Inspired a Haven for Domestic Violence Survivors

8/30/2017 - 2nd Suspect Arrested in the Charlottesville, Va., Beating of Deandre Harris

8/30/2017 - Is There a Such Thing as a Dumb Question? Yes. That Was a Dumb Question

8/30/2017 - Md. School Bans Apparel With Washington, DC, Football Team’s Insensitive Name and Logo

8/30/2017 - Ohio Teen Supposedly Shot Himself in Police Custody While His Hands Were Handcuffed Behind His Back; Now His Family Is Demanding Answers

8/30/2017 - Wait, Joel Osteen. Something Isn’t Adding Up

8/30/2017 - Ohio Cop Who Violently Beat Black Man During Traffic Stop Had Previous Complaints, Because of Course He Did

8/30/2017 - Mass. Sheriff Who Offered Free Inmate Labor to Help Build Trump’s Wall Now Proposes to Send Inmates to Help With Harvey Damage

8/30/2017 - Beyoncé’s Pastor Confirms ‘Significant Donation’ to Hurricane Harvey Relief

8/30/2017 - A Houston Best Buy Was Seen Selling Packs of Water for More Than $40; Now Says It Was a ‘Big Mistake’

8/30/2017 - Bobbi Kristina Brown Biopic Trailer Released, Leaving Us With 1 Question: ‘Why Does This Exist?’

8/30/2017 - Texans Are Asked: What About When You Need Immigrants to Rebuild?

8/29/2017 - Tone-Deaf Reporter Gets Read for Asking Dumb-Ass Questions During Hurricane Harvey

8/29/2017 - Houston Mayor Imposes Mandatory Curfew as Harvey Prepares to Hit the City Again

8/29/2017 - Closing Low-Performing Schools More Likely to Negatively Affect Black and Hispanic Students: Report

8/29/2017 - Black People Should Never, Ever, Ever, Ever Call the Police ... Unless 1 of These 10 Things Just Happened

8/29/2017 - This Should Be Good: Donald Trump Jr. to Testify in Front of Senate Panel 

8/29/2017 - It’s Michael Jackson’s Birthday: Are Your Favorite M.J. Songs on Our List?

8/29/2017 - Polite White People Are Useless

8/29/2017 - The 5 Types of ‘Becky’

8/29/2017 - Race and Class Are the Biggest Issues Around Hurricane Harvey and We Need to Start Talking About Them

8/29/2017 - Did Joel Osteen Really Close the Doors of His Texas Megachurch to Victims of Hurricane Harvey? Here’s What Really Went Down

8/29/2017 - ‘Day of the Rope Is Coming’: Racist, Anti-Semitic Signs Found at Va. Church

8/29/2017 - Ask Agatha: Is Taking Care of Men Becoming the New Trend?

8/29/2017 - The Face-Off Between the 2 Most Despicable World Leaders Heats Up

8/29/2017 - Watch: Alison Désir, the Running Activist

8/29/2017 - Leaked Chats Show That White Supremacists ‘Joked’ About Plowing Cars Into Crowds of Counterprotesters Prior to Violence in Charlottesville, Va.

8/29/2017 - Janet Mock Defends Interview With Kim Kardashian West

8/29/2017 - Beyoncé Pledges to Give Hurricane Harvey Aid to Houston

8/28/2017 - These Trumps Ain’t Loyal: Was Arpaio Pardoned Just to Undermine a GOP Senator’s Bid for Re-Election?

8/28/2017 - Because Amazon.com Is Doing God’s Work, Whole Foods Won’t Cost Your Whole Damn Paycheck Anymore

8/28/2017 - Stacey Dash Has an Intern? For What? 

8/28/2017 - How to Respond to White Folks Who Ask How They Can ‘Help’

8/28/2017 - It’s Official: Midnight Marauders by A Tribe Called Quest Is My Favorite Hip-Hop Album of All Time

8/28/2017 - White Guy Lies About Black Anti-Fascist Stabbing Him Because of His Nazi Haircut

8/28/2017 - Watch: The Gina and Pam Takeover

8/28/2017 - Here’s Why This 2-Year-Old Photo of Barack Obama Is Trending

8/28/2017 - Donald Trump’s Election-Stealing, Secret Voter-Purge Plan

8/28/2017 - Ariz. Professor Suspended After Saying Members of Black Lives Matter ‘Should Be Hung’

8/28/2017 - Shannon Sharpe, the Most Woke Sports Commentator Ever, Bashes Jim Brown: ‘I’m So, So Disappointed in Him’

8/28/2017 - Let’s Try This Again: Yvette Simpson Runs for Mayor of Cincinnati; Will Black Voters Rally?

8/28/2017 - Insecure Takes Us Back to 1997 With a Convo About Oral Sex I Thought We Weren’t Having Anymore

8/28/2017 - Kim Kardashian Poses as Someone’s First Lady

8/28/2017 - Straight Outta Compton Star Has Meltdown Over Loss of 1st-Class Seat on Delta Flight

8/28/2017 - 5 Questions the Game of Thrones Season Finale Answered for Black America

8/28/2017 - The Root 100 No. 1s: Ta-Nehisi Coates Wanted to Be ‘the Baddest Motherfucking Writer on the Planet’

8/28/2017 - Flooding Left in the Wake of Hurricane Harvey Could Force Some 30,000 People Into Shelters

8/28/2017 - Taylor Swift and the Tale of Unstoppable White Privilege Meeting Immovable White Privilege

8/28/2017 - Fla. Charter School Principal Under Fire for ‘Racist’ Facebook Posts 

8/28/2017 - Robert E. Lee Descendant Speaks Out Against Racism During MTV Video Music Awards

8/27/2017 - Floyd Mayweather Jr. Didn’t Beat ‘Racism,’ He Just Beat a Racist White Boy (and Made Him Rich)

8/27/2017 - Black Beauty Is a Real Crowd-Pleaser: Best Pics From Afropunk 2017

8/27/2017 - Before You Give Up on Humanity ... Read This

8/27/2017 - New Okla. Police Chief Resigns Over Neo-Nazi Ties, Claims He Was Hacked

8/27/2017 - White Nationalist Opened Fire at Crowd During Charlottesville, Va., Rally; Police ‘Never Moved’

8/27/2017 - 5 Things Someone Who Didn’t Watch the Fight but Had to Report on the Fight Found Interesting About the Fight

8/26/2017 - White Supremacist Daniel Borden Charged in Charlottesville, Va., Attack of Deandre Harris

8/26/2017 - Netflix Jumps Into the Weed Game With Strains Based on Popular Shows

8/26/2017 - So, What Was This White Dude Doing Writing ‘Black Lives Matter!’ All Over Charleston, W.Va.?

8/26/2017 - Awesome Teacher Breaks Down Geography With Cardi B’s ‘Bodak Yellow’

8/26/2017 - 10 Disgusting Things Joe Arpaio Did as Sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz.

8/25/2017 - Sebastian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to Donald Trump, Writes ‘Blunt Resignation Letter’ and Leaves Administration

8/25/2017 - Trump Pardons Ariz. Sheriff Who Defied Court Order and Continued to Illegally Harass Latino People 

8/25/2017 - When Your Job Is Finding Positive News Stories About the President, You Have to Say ‘Screw It’ and Just Quit

8/25/2017 - Racist Fla. Woman Charged in Viral Fight Video

8/25/2017 - Did Michael Vick Sell His Soul, and Sell Out Colin Kaepernick, for a Job With Fox Sports? 

8/25/2017 - The ‘Best Rapper Alive’ Title Is Some Overused Bullshit

8/25/2017 - Somebody Come Get Uncle Stephen A. Smith; He Out Here Dancing and Embarrassing the Family

8/25/2017 - 3 Young Black Men Were Hit by a Motorist While Walking Along a Road in La. Guess Who Got Charged? 

8/25/2017 - Trump Called Out a Republican Senator Because He Doesn’t Understand How Any of This Works

8/25/2017 - ‘You Need a Bullet in the Head’: Police Believe Black Miss. Judge Is Being Threatened for Removing Controversial State Flag From Courtroom

8/25/2017 - Taylor Swift’s Stale and Unsweetened Lemonade

8/25/2017 - 5 Reasons I Hope Donald Trump Doesn’t Get Impeached

8/25/2017 - Detroit Man Wrongly Imprisoned for 25 Years, Claims in New Lawsuit That Police Deliberately Set Him Up to Take the Fall

8/25/2017 - My Girlfriend Took Her 1st Trip Down South*. Here’s What Happened

8/25/2017 - Taylor Swift Is Releasing Her Album on the 10th Anniversary of Donda West’s Death, and Black Twitter Is Not Pleased

8/25/2017 - Why Sage Steele Needs to Go Sit Down and Stare Longingly at the Stirring Teaspoon

8/25/2017 - 2 Chicago Bars Stand With Colin Kaepernick, Won’t Show NFL Games

8/25/2017 - MAC Cosmetics Announces Aaliyah Collection

8/25/2017 - The Root’s Clapback Mailbag

8/25/2017 - Tracing Your Roots: Who Was My Black Colonial Ancestor?

8/25/2017 - Did Afropunk Lose Its Punk Roots?

8/25/2017 - Usher Says There’s No Proof He Gave Accuser Herpes

8/25/2017 - Man Who Allegedly Drove Into Group of Protesters in St. Louis Is Facing Multiple Charges

8/25/2017 - An Ariz. Man Is Out of a Job After Posting About Plan to ‘Drive Through’ Trump Protesters 

8/24/2017 - Jay-Z and Ryan Gosling Will Headline the 1st Episode of SNL Season 43

8/24/2017 - ‘House Negro to House Negro’? Herman Cain Pens Odd Note to Ben Carson

8/24/2017 - 10 Signs You’ve Just Met a Black Person Who’s About to Tell You ‘I’m Not Like Other Black People’

8/24/2017 - White House Outlines Transgender Military Ban and It’s Pretty Horrible: Report

8/24/2017 - Shaun King Is Out: Daily News Loses Its Activist Black Columnist

8/24/2017 - Dear Stacey Dash: Go Sit Your Ass Down Somewhere

8/24/2017 - Let’s Love Hood Girls Who Aren’t Famous as Much as We Love Cardi B

8/24/2017 - No Bond Set for White Supremacist Chris Cantwell 

8/24/2017 - Gay Dads Kordale and Kaleb, Along With Their Adorable Kids, Become 1st Black LGBT Family to Star in Major Fashion Campaign 

8/24/2017 - There’s a Serious Hennessy Shortage in America, and It’s Actually Donald Trump’s Fault (Seriously)

8/24/2017 - Jon Snow’s Pimp Capes Are Actually Ikea Rugs. Here’s How to Make Your Own

8/24/2017 - 5 Reasons Not to Waste Your Money on the Mayweather vs. ‘White Mayweather’ Fight  

8/24/2017 - Boycotting the NFL Will Not Work, but I’m Doing It Anyway

8/24/2017 - #ImWithKap: Hundreds Rally at NFL Headquarters for Colin Kaepernick, Call for Boycott if Demands Not Met

8/24/2017 - I’m Proud of My Husband for Kneeling During the Anthem, but Don’t Make Him a White Savior

8/24/2017 - Watch: Get to Know Beyoncé’s Ride-or-Die Dance Captain

8/24/2017 - The President of Those Who Love Deer Jerky Is Trolling Obama on Twitter Again

8/24/2017 - Refinery29 Short Cuts Gets Dragged for Its 4C Hair Tutorial Video

8/24/2017 - 2 Fla. Day Care Employees Charged in Death of 3-Year-Old Left in Hot Van for 4 Hours

8/24/2017 - Look at All These Monuments From Around the World That Honor Those Who Fought Against Slavery

8/24/2017 - Amy Schumer Is Delusional if She Thinks She’s in the Same League as Dave Chappelle or Chris Rock

8/24/2017 - White Fla. Inmate to Be Executed for Killing Black Man 

8/24/2017 - Driver Runs Car Through Protesters Following Vigil in St. Louis

8/23/2017 - Put Them in Hotation: A Practical Guide for Managing Your Casual Sex Relationships

8/23/2017 - Why Prerinsing Dishes Is a Dumb and Stupid Thing No One Should Ever Do, Explained

8/23/2017 - For White People Who Compare Black Lives Matter to White Supremacy

8/23/2017 - On Being the Only Black Man for Miles (or Kilometers) in Western Canada

8/23/2017 - Watch: Issa Rae: ‘We Will Find a Way to Shine’

8/23/2017 - Milwaukee Student Arrested After Video Shows Him Beating Up High School Teacher 

8/23/2017 - ‘Teleprompter Trump’ Calls for Unity a Day After ‘Rally Trump’ Spit Hot Hatred

8/23/2017 - A List of Places I’d Never Order Grits From

8/23/2017 - Howard University Is Doing the Most, Has Endowed James Comey With a Chair in Public Policy

8/23/2017 - Join The Root in Miami for a Discussion on How Climate Change Is Affecting Black Communities

8/23/2017 - I Have So Many Questions About the Greasy Black Guy With the Ponytail at All the Trump Rallies

8/23/2017 - ESPN Takes Asian Announcer off UVA Game Because His Name Is Robert Lee

8/23/2017 - Mystikal Arrested for Rape ... Again

8/23/2017 - Pa. Agrees to a $30,000,000 Lifeline to Save the Nation’s Oldest HBCU

8/23/2017 - Take the Quiz: Danny Glover Joined Airbnb as an Adviser Because ... 

8/23/2017 - Firefighters Eat Piglets Saved From Farm Fire

8/23/2017 - Democrats in Mich. House of Representatives Push to Make African-American History Required Learning After Charlottesville, Va.

8/23/2017 - Issa Rae, Maxine Waters, Solange and More Honored at Black Girls Rock!

8/23/2017 - Texas Police Officer Was Justified in Striking 14-Year-Old Girl in the Face, Department Says

8/23/2017 - Baltimore Drops 43 Police Cases After Cops ‘Fake’ Another Bodycam Video (Yes, That Makes 3)

8/23/2017 - Bill Cosby Retrial Postponed Until 2018

8/22/2017 - LeBron James’ Destruction of the Cleveland Cavaliers Is Complete: Kyrie Irving Headed to Boston Celtics

8/22/2017 - Trump-Branded Hotel to Celebrate the Antebellum South—You Know, Back When Blacks Were Slaves

8/22/2017 - Ga. Woman Fired Over Period Leaks: Report

8/22/2017 - Mented Cosmetics Has the Perfect Lip Gloss for Women of Color

8/22/2017 - Steven Mnuchin’s Wife Gets Called Out for Flossin’ on the ’Gram and Has the Whitest Response Ever

8/22/2017 - Newsroom Leaders Fired at L.A. Times

8/22/2017 - Magical Negroes, Ranked

8/22/2017 - Washed-Up Confederate-Flag Waver Who Stole Black Music Says ‘Fuck Colin Kaepernick’

8/22/2017 - Mo. Governor Stays Execution of Convicted Inmate Amid New DNA Evidence That May Prove His Innocence

8/22/2017 - 12 Cleveland Browns Players Took a Knee During the National Anthem and Colin Kaepernick Still Doesn’t Have a Job

8/22/2017 - Why Aren’t White Supremacists on the Terror Watch List?

8/22/2017 - Hillary Is Not Your White Savior

8/22/2017 - KKK Leader Called Univision Reporter the N-Word, Threatened to ‘Burn’ Her as She Conducted Interview 

8/22/2017 - I Don’t Know How to Convince R. Kelly Fans That They Should Give a Shit About Black Girls

8/22/2017 - Lil’ Kim Uses Hollywood Medium to Contact Biggie: Would He Even Recognize His ‘Soul Mate’?

8/22/2017 - Watch This Baby Run From an Elmo Doll

8/22/2017 - Well, What Do You Know? Turns Out the White Women Wearing ‘MAGA’ Hats Didn’t Just Wander Onto Howard’s Campus

8/22/2017 - Va. Catholic Priest Temporarily Steps Down After Revealing That He Was Once a Member of the KKK 

8/22/2017 - Make It Last Forever (Keith Sweat Voice), Don’t Let Our War End: Afghanistan Edition

8/22/2017 - Ask Agatha: I Can’t Orgasm During Sex. What Should I Do?

8/22/2017 - Dear NYC Police Union: Blue Is Not a People, Blue Is Not a Race ... Unless Y’all Smurfs

8/22/2017 - And They Say Chi City ...

8/22/2017 - Va. Issues 4 Warrants Against Christopher ‘Nazi Crybaby’ Cantwell 

8/22/2017 - What White Men Fear Most Is Coming to Pass ... They’re Being Erased. Isn’t That Ironic?

8/22/2017 - Black Women and Girls May Run the World, but They’re Not Safe in It

8/22/2017 - Charlottesville, Va., to Cover Confederate Statues in Black Fabric to Mourn Heather Heyer

8/22/2017 - New R. Kelly Accuser Violates Nondisclosure Agreement With Underage-Sex Claims

8/21/2017 - I Want Kids, but I’m Absolutely Terrified of Having Them

8/21/2017 - Texas Man Arrested on Charges He Planted Bomb on Confederate Statue 

8/21/2017 - The Secret Service Is Going Broke Protecting Y’all’s Baller in Chief

8/21/2017 - Donald Trump Looked Directly Into the Eclipse and Unfortunately Did Not Spontaneously Combust

8/21/2017 - 20 Things White People Ruined Already This Year

8/21/2017 - Bill Cosby Is Putting Together a ‘Dream Team’ to Defend Him During His November Retrial on Sexual Assault Charges

8/21/2017 - The Root 100 No. 1s: Ben Jealous, a Supreme Builder of Bridges Over Left and Right

8/21/2017 - How Insecure Reminds Us of the Shitty Decisions We’ve Made (and Are Still Making)

8/21/2017 - 5 Things to Keep in Mind When Watching Today’s Solar Eclipse: The Black Edition

8/21/2017 - Charles Barkley Is a Great Example of a Black White Supremacist

8/21/2017 - Petition Proposes Replacing Confederate Statue in Va. With a Statue of Missy Elliott; Here’s Where You Can Sign

8/21/2017 - ‘If I Were KKK, Would I Hold You Like This?’ Viral Picture Supposedly Shows Confederate-Monument Defender and Black Lives Matter Supporter 

8/21/2017 - Kevin Hart’s Current Wife and Ex-Wife Go at It Over Home-Wrecker Label

8/21/2017 - Should Black Folks Trust the FBI’s Russia Investigation, Given Its History of Targeting Our Communities?

8/21/2017 - White Supremacist Teen Says He’s Leaving Boston University Because of Threats

8/21/2017 - University of Texas Removing 4 Confederate Statues From Campus 

8/21/2017 - Chance the Rapper Tweets About Attending Clark Atlanta University, and Morehouse Is Like, ‘What About Us?’

8/21/2017 - This Week’s Game of Thrones Was a Replay of Every Black Fight Ever

8/21/2017 - Md. Man Confesses to Killing 6-Year-Old Sister, 2 Young Cousins: Report 

8/21/2017 - Parents Outraged After 4-Year-Old Girl Is Allegedly Duct-Taped to Chair at Day Care 

8/20/2017 - So, 2 White Women in ‘Make America Great Again’ Hats Walk Onto an HBCU Campus ...

8/20/2017 - NYPD Officers Rally, Sing ‘Black National Anthem’ in Support of Colin Kaepernick

8/20/2017 - Little Girl Scalded After ‘Hot-Water Challenge’ Bounces Back Like a Trouper

8/20/2017 - 2 Police Officers Killed in Fla., Suspect Apprehended

8/20/2017 - This Video Shows How Truly Pathetic the Boston Nazi March Was

8/19/2017 - Comedian and Civil Rights Activist Dick Gregory Dead at 84

8/19/2017 - Will ‘BlackOut’ Be the Movement to Shut Down the NFL?

8/19/2017 - Colin Kaepernick Items to Be Part of Black Lives Matter Exhibit at National African-American History Museum

8/19/2017 - 6 States Have Tried to Enact Protections for Drivers Who Run Over Protesters ... Many With the Same Language

8/19/2017 - Girls Trip Hits $100,000,000 at Box Office, Proving Yet Again That Hollywood Should Always Bet on Black

8/19/2017 - Major Cities Prepare for Massive Marches, Counterdemonstrations Across the Nation Today

8/19/2017 - Step: Black Girls Stomping All Over Adversity to Create a Rhythmic Safe Space

8/19/2017 - To Be Clear, White Supremacy Is the Foundation of Our Country. We Won’t Destroy It by Toppling Statues

8/18/2017 - 6 Flags Over Texas Removes Confederate Flag From Its Marquee, Replaces All Flags With American Flags

8/18/2017 - How ’Bout This, Tina Fey: Give Us (Black People) the Sheet Cake, and You Go Confront the White Women Who Voted for Trump

8/18/2017 - Crown Heights Exposes a Very Common American Problem: Wrongful Conviction

8/18/2017 - Judge of Characters: The ‘Alt-Left,’ White Genocide and Other White Nonsense That Doesn’t Exist

8/18/2017 - After Getting the Boot, Bannon Wants to Go to War? Great, Let Them Hos Fight

8/18/2017 - Did a Crowd of Counterprotesters in Durham, NC, Scare Off the KKK?

8/18/2017 - 3 Facts That Prove the Reality of White Supremacy

8/18/2017 - Watch: Let’s Talk About the Hitler Haircut

8/18/2017 - Tracing Your Roots: Why Did My DNA-Test Results Change?

8/18/2017 - Ding-Dong, the Dick Is Dead!

8/18/2017 - Remember When the Worst Thing We Had to Worry About Was the President Getting a Blow Job?

8/18/2017 - Grassroots Ad Calls for Trump to Rid the White House of White Supremacists 

8/18/2017 - If You Voted for Trump, I Don’t Give a Shit if You ‘Surely Regret It’ Now

8/18/2017 - Why All Confederate Statues Must Fall

8/18/2017 - Did Chris Long’s Support of Malcolm Jenkins’ Protest Just Secure Him the No. 1 Pick in This Year’s Racial Draft?

8/18/2017 - America Would Rather Topple Statues Than White Supremacy

8/18/2017 - Kevin Durant on Possible White House Invite: Is Trump Still in Office? Nah, I’m Good (I’m Paraphrasing a Bit)

8/18/2017 - Color of Climate: How Black Activists Are Preparing South Fla. Residents to Weather the Storm of Climate Gentrification

8/18/2017 - Trump’s Swift Response to Terrorist Attacks in Spain Proves He’s a White Supremacist

8/18/2017 - Someone Tarred and Feathered a Jefferson Davis Monument in Ariz. 

8/18/2017 - Lakeith Stanfield Loves the Beauty, Curls and Challenges of Being Black

8/18/2017 - Look at These Cute-Ass Babies, Because We’re Tired of Looking at White Supremacy 

8/18/2017 - Dog Shows Up on Phoenix Family’s Doorstep With Swastika Painted on Its Head 

8/18/2017 - Michael Jackson’s Bad: 30 Years Ago the King of Pop Hit His Prime ... so Why Is That Album Underrated?

8/18/2017 - How Trump Ruined My Relationship With My White Mother

8/18/2017 - Tenn. Teen Paints Racial Slur on Pastor’s Car, Says ‘It Wasn’t Supposed to Be Racist’

8/18/2017 - The Complete List of Racists

8/18/2017 - Robin Thicke Makes Another Baby Amid Custody Dispute With Paula Patton

8/18/2017 - Mom of Charlottesville, Va., Victim Heather Heyer Refuses to Speak to Trump After He Compared Anti-Racism Activists to White Supremacists 

8/18/2017 - KKK Flyers Distributed Across Green Township, Ohio

8/18/2017 - Comedian Dick Gregory Hospitalized

8/18/2017 - The President of the United States Is a Terrorist Sympathizer. Now What?

8/18/2017 - Officials in Lexington, Ky., Approve Plan to Move Confederate Monuments From Outside Former Courthouse

8/17/2017 - ‘I Hope Trump Is Assassinated!’: Mo. State Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal Investigated by Secret Service for Trump Facebook Post

8/17/2017 - Media Portray an Unpresidential President

8/17/2017 - Real-Life Clayton Bigsby Writes Email Denouncing Black Lives Matter, Supporting Confederate Monuments Because He ‘Wanted to Help’ Trump

8/17/2017 - Trump’s Black ‘Friends,’ Explained

8/17/2017 - Please Let This New Yorker Cover Send Trump Over the Edge

8/17/2017 - The Most Racist Statue in America Is in ... Pittsburgh, and It’s the Most Ridiculous Magical Negro You’ll Ever See 

8/17/2017 - Potential Martin Shkreli Jurors Want the Judge to Know ‘Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthing ta Fuck Wit’

8/17/2017 - Maine Gov. Paul LePage Compares Removing Confederate Statues to Losing 9/11 Memorial

8/17/2017 - White Power Is About White Victimhood, and It’s Everywhere

8/17/2017 - White Nationalist Says He’s Not Racist Because He’s ‘Spanish’ and From Puerto Rico

8/17/2017 - Can Ben Carson Just Go Away and Watch NCIS Reruns on a Barcalounger Like Every Other 65-Year-Old Black Man?

8/17/2017 - Durham, NC, Activists Stand in Solidarity, Crowds Gather to Turn Themselves In for Toppling Confederate Statue

8/17/2017 - Ain’t That Just Like a White Nationalist: Trump Pissed at the Removal of ‘Beautiful’ Confederate Statues

8/17/2017 - How Wes Bellamy, the 30-Year-Old Vice Mayor of Charlottesville, Va., Plans to Move His City Forward

8/17/2017 - Watch: Black People’s Capacity to Love Is Worth Loving

8/17/2017 - Steve Bannon Goes Rogue, Calls Reporter and Spills All the Lipton, but Something Doesn’t Seem Right

8/17/2017 - For Those Considering Blaxit, I Present to You: Jakarta, Indonesia

8/17/2017 - Ala. Attorney General Files Lawsuit Against City and Mayor of Birmingham, Ala., for Covering a Confederate Monument

8/17/2017 - Watch Out Loud: What Was It Like the 1st Time You Were Called the N-Word?

8/17/2017 - Some of Us Are Not Convinced Y’all’s President Won’t Start a Nuclear War

8/17/2017 - Tech Companies Decide White Supremacists Should Wear Hoods—Which Could Make Them Harder to Track

8/17/2017 - Rapper Bun B’s 2016 Confrontation With Trump Supporter Sees Rebirth After Charlottesville, Va.

8/17/2017 - Tech Companies Are Driving White Supremacists Back to the Dark Ages Where They Belong

8/17/2017 - LeBron James’ Production Company Developing Madam C.J. Walker Series

8/17/2017 - University of Fla. Rejects Request for ‘Repugnant’ White Nationalist Event

8/16/2017 - Wait! Calif. Had Confederates, Too?

8/16/2017 - I Bought an Apple Watch 2. I Wasted $399 (Plus Tax) on an Apple Watch 2

8/16/2017 - Killings of Black Men More Likely to Be Deemed Justifiable: Report 

8/16/2017 - Watch: Atlanta’s Brian Tyree Henry’s Emmy Mixtape

8/16/2017 - The Most Beautifullest Thing in This World Is This Scared White Boy Stripping Off His White Supremacist Uniform

8/16/2017 - Trump’s ‘Both Sides’ Fist Bump to White Supremacists Causes Ocean of Salty White Tears

8/16/2017 - Sex Tapes, Boob Jobs and Blackmail: Ezekiel Elliott’s Domestic Violence Case Is Getting Messy, and Here’s What You Need to Know

8/16/2017 - How Do We Stop Hate in America? We Asked an Expert

8/16/2017 - OWN Orders Drama Series Inspired by Moonlight Co-Writer’s Life, Executive-Produced by Michael B. Jordan

8/16/2017 - Whose Streets? A Ferguson, Mo., Documentary That Is Right on Time for Charlottesville, Va.

8/16/2017 - Trump Disbands Advisory Councils After CEOs ‘Greyjoy’ off His Sinking Ship

8/16/2017 - Look at This Neo-Nazi Snowflake Crying Like a Little Baby 

8/16/2017 - Yes, Anti-Fascists Are Violent ... and Necessary

8/16/2017 - Charlottesville, Va., Is About Choosing Who We Want to Be as a Nation

8/16/2017 - #NoBloodMoney: New Campaign Targets Credit Card Companies That Support Hate Organizations

8/16/2017 - Under Obama, Blackness Grew Belligerent. Under Trump, the KKK Grows a Face

8/16/2017 - The 10 Best ‘Brown Liquor’ Songs of All Time

8/16/2017 - Who Is Hope Hicks? Who Cares? Trump’s Interim Communications Director Won’t Be There Long

8/16/2017 - 2 KKK Members Who Were Correctional Officers in Fla. Convicted in Plot to Kill Black Inmate

8/16/2017 - Here’s Why the CEOs Leaving Trump’s Councils Aren’t Heroes

8/16/2017 - ‘Black’ Surrogates Take to Social Media to Tap-Dance for Trump’s White Supremacist Bullshit

8/16/2017 - Trump Campaign Video Attacks April Ryan 

8/16/2017 - Does Steve Bannon Have Greyscale? (Asking for a Friend)

8/16/2017 - PayPal to Cut Services From Hate Sites

8/16/2017 - Barack Obama’s Charlottesville, Va., Tweet Breaks Twitter Record

8/16/2017 - Ala. Mayoral Candidate Randall Woodfin Is a Sign of the Growing Progressive Movement in the South

8/16/2017 - Baltimore Wastes No Time, Tears Down Confederate Monuments 1 Day After Vote to Remove Them

8/16/2017 - Former SC Trooper Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison (but Will Only Serve About 5) for Shooting Unarmed Black Motorist 

8/16/2017 - Ga. Judge Suspended After Comparing ‘the Nut Cases Tearing Down’ Confederate Monuments to ‘ISIS’

8/16/2017 - Dylan, Dylan, Dylan: Dave Chappelle and Dylan Dili Finally Meet

8/15/2017 - Should Confederate Symbols Be Banned in the US? 

8/15/2017 - To White Folks Who Dance With Devils: ‘What Kind of Extremists Will You Be?’

8/15/2017 - State Senator in NC Calls Black Lives Matter a ‘Violent, Racist Movement’ Comparable to White Supremacists

8/15/2017 - Black Woman Arrested in Connection With Confederate Statue Being Taken Down at Protest in Durham, NC

8/15/2017 - Watch Live: Van Jones’ We Rise Against Hate Tour in Nashville, Tenn.

8/15/2017 - Trump Still Blaming ‘Both Sides’ for Va. Violence, Says White Nationalists Had Permits and Asks What About the ‘Alt-Left’ That Came Charging at Them?!

8/15/2017 - Look at This Picture. This Is America.

8/15/2017 - The Racist Roots of ‘Cuck’ (the White Supremacist’s Favorite Insult), Explained

8/15/2017 - Watch: The Making of Auntie Maxine

8/15/2017 - Hey, Paris Dennard, Woofing Only Works on the Basketball Court Against Nonblacks

8/15/2017 - Body Image and Me: My Struggle With Body Dysmorphia

8/15/2017 - NYC Teen Charged With Choking Mom’s Ex to Death After Witnessing Him Attack Her

8/15/2017 - We Need to Talk About Being Mary Jane

8/15/2017 - Michael Bennett Sat During the National Anthem Because He Loves America

8/15/2017 - ESPN Televises Slave Auction for NFL Players and Wait, Are We Sure the Confederates Actually Lost?

8/15/2017 - Racing Pioneer Joi ‘SJ’ Harris Identified as Stuntwoman Killed on Deadpool 2 Set

8/15/2017 - Steve Bannon, the Dr. Umar Johnson of White Nationalism, May Be Out of the White House by the End of the Week: Report

8/15/2017 - Trump Gives Tired Speech Denouncing Hate, Then Tweets Dog Whistle to White Supremacists

8/15/2017 - Estate of Inmate Who Died of Dehydration in Milwaukee Jail Files Civil Rights Lawsuit Against County, Sheriff David Clarke

8/15/2017 - Safaree Might Be the Funnest Coconut Salesman of All Time

8/15/2017 - With Domestic Terrorism in Charlottesville, Va., Betsy DeVos Fails to Recognize a Teachable Moment

8/15/2017 - Viral Video Shows Ohio Cops Beating Up Black Man During What Was Meant to Be a Routine Traffic Stop 

8/15/2017 - ND Father Wants No Parts of Son’s White Supremacy

8/15/2017 - Jimmy Fallon Addresses the Hate He Helped Donald Trump Normalize

8/15/2017 - Texas A&M Cancels White Lives Matter Rally That Was to Feature Richard Spencer

8/14/2017 - White Protesters—Yes, White People—Take Down a Confederate Monument in Durham, NC

8/14/2017 - No, Open and Nonmonogamous Relationships Are Not Just for White People

8/14/2017 - Pantone Announces Prince’s Own Hue of Purple, ‘Love Symbol #2’

8/14/2017 - The 10 Best Places for Black People to Escape White People When We Just Don’t Wanna See Them for a While, Ranked

8/14/2017 - White Supremacy Is the Opioid That’s Destroying America

8/14/2017 - For Black People Who Have to Deal With White People This Week

8/14/2017 - Watch: Climate Gentrification in Little Haiti

8/14/2017 - Everything Is Bigger in Texas, so of Course The Root’s Young, Fabulous and Female Event Slayed in Dallas

8/14/2017 - I’ll Never Criticize Black People’s Belief in Jesus, but Don’t Insist I Believe in Him Too

8/14/2017 - Okla. Man Arrested in Plot to Detonate Vehicle Bomb in Oklahoma City 

8/14/2017 - MC Lyte Jumps the Broom in Jamaica

8/14/2017 - Loretta Devine Says Division for No Reason Is a Problem

8/14/2017 - Interview: How Corey Long Fought White Supremacy With Fire

8/14/2017 - On ‘Hella LA,’ Insecure Allows Us to Escape and Reminds Us What We’re Escaping From

8/14/2017 - Here’s a Cookie

8/14/2017 - Hey, Guys, It Only Took 2 Days After the Violence in Charlottesville, Va., for Trump to Explicitly Denounce White Supremacy 

8/14/2017 - OWN’s New Docuseries Released Shares the Stories of Formerly Incarcerated Men and Women Re-Entering Society

8/14/2017 - White People, Ain’t Nothing Funny About White Supremacy, so Now Ain’t the Time for Jokes About It

8/14/2017 - Game of Thrones Shows Us How America Treats White Supremacy

8/14/2017 - 2 Texas Officers Cleared After Subjecting Black College Student to Body Cavity Search, What Her Lawyer Calls ‘Rape by Cop’

8/14/2017 - James Alex Fields Jr., Accused of Ramming Car Into Counterprotesters at White Supremacist Rally in Va., Denied Bail 

8/14/2017 - Why I Participated in That Hot-Mess Panel With Omarosa at NABJ Last Week

8/14/2017 - Mass. Cop After Car Plowed Into Counterprotesters at White Supremacist Rally: ‘Hahahaha Love This’

8/14/2017 - On Loving White People and Hating Whiteness

8/14/2017 - Zendaya Stars in Bruno Mars’ ‘Versace on the Floor’ Music Video

8/14/2017 - Washington State University’s College Republicans President Whines After Being Photographed Participating in Racist Rally: ‘They Have No Proof That I’m a Racist'

8/14/2017 - Bruno Mars Donates $1,000,000 to Help Flint, Mich., During Water Crisis

8/14/2017 - The Root 100 No. 1s: Melissa Harris-Perry Lets the World Know She Is Not Your Mammy

8/14/2017 - James Alex Fields Jr., Man Accused of Plowing Into Crowd in Charlottesville, Va., Idolized Hitler, Nazism, Former Teacher Says 

8/14/2017 - GoDaddy Bans Nazi Website Daily Stormer After Charlottesville, Va., Victim Post

8/14/2017 - These White Supremacist Idiots Are Planning a Rally in Texas Featuring Richard Spencer 

8/14/2017 - Shonda Rhimes Takes ShondaLand to Netflix

8/14/2017 - Tiki Brand Denounces Use of Its Torches During White Supremacist Rally 

8/13/2017 - #NoConfederate: Charlottesville Proves That Confederate Is Already Real, so HBO, Are You Still Fucking Serious With This?

8/13/2017 - Watch ‘Unite the Right’ Rally Organizer Jason Kessler Run for His Life

8/13/2017 - Are These Some of the White Supremacists Who Assaulted Deandre Harris in Charlottesville, Va.?

8/13/2017 - Lexington, Ky., Mayor Says Confederate Statues Are Coming Down After Charlottesville, Va., Tragedy

8/13/2017 - Here’s Why Jeff Sessions Federal Investigation Into Charlottesville, Va.’s White Supremacy Rally Is Bullshit

8/13/2017 - Black Journalists, ‘The World Needs You’

8/13/2017 - Drunk American Assaulted After Giving Nazi Salute in Germany

8/13/2017 - Interview: 20-Year-Old Deandre Harris Speaks Out About Being Assaulted by White Supremacists in Charlottesville, Va.

8/13/2017 - Va. Woman Killed in Charlottesville Car Attack: Report

8/13/2017 - Marshawn Lynch Sits During National Anthem at Raiders Preseason Game

8/13/2017 - #MaskOff: Social Media Exposes Racists From Charlottesville, Va., White Supremacist Rally

8/13/2017 - Ice-T on Why He’s Hip-Hop’s Unsung O.G.

8/13/2017 - Maybe Now Isn’t the Time, Guys

8/12/2017 - White Supremacists Beat Black Man With Poles in Charlottesville, Va., Parking Garage

8/12/2017 - James Alex Fields Jr. Identified as Alleged Terrorist Who Plowed Through Crowd in Charlottesville, Va., Anti-Racism Rally

8/12/2017 - Donald Trump Just Blamed the White Supremacist Hunger Games on ‘Many Sides.’ Here’s What He Meant

8/12/2017 - Donald Trump Ain’t Shit, He Ain’t Barack Obama and He Surely Doesn’t Care About Black People

8/12/2017 - There’s Nothing ‘Fringe’ About These White People

8/12/2017 - 1 Dead as Car Plows Into Group of Counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Va.

8/12/2017 - Help Me Find the Lie: DNC Leader Keith Ellison Calls GOP ‘the Party of Racism’

8/12/2017 - Those Va. Police Really Fucked the Dog in Charlottesville, Eh?

8/12/2017 - At Least 1 NFL Player Isn’t Scared to Protest

8/12/2017 - You Might Want to Cut Back on Those Boozy Brunches—Black Alcoholism Rate Doubles, Says New Study

8/12/2017 - White Supremacists Pop Off in Va. and Police Don’t Seem to Give a Damn. Why Is That? 

8/12/2017 - Why Giving Birth Is Deadly for Black Women ... and Why It Might Get Worse

8/12/2017 - If You’re Really Into MSNBC and Joy-Ann Reid Right Now You Have Yvette Miley to Thank

8/12/2017 - I’m Empty-Nesting ... Now What?

8/11/2017 - Houston Community Activist Throws Money at School Board: ‘Everything Is Money-Driven Around This Place ... You Don’t Care About Those Kids!’

8/11/2017 - A Marijuana Company Just Bought a Calif. Town Between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. It’s Lit! (Or Is It?)

8/11/2017 - Maybe We Should Stop Inviting Omarosa to Things (and by ‘Things’ I Mean Conventions, Cookouts, Clambakes, Church ... )

8/11/2017 - Omarosa Made an Appearance at NABJ and That Shit Did Not Go Over Well

8/11/2017 - An Ode to Bone Thugs-n-Harmony: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles of Hip-Hop

8/11/2017 - Judge of Characters: Is Being Fat Worse Than Spreading Herpes?

8/11/2017 - Civil Asset Forfeiture Seems to Target Poor Black and Brown People. Why Is That? 

8/11/2017 - Airbnb: We’re Not Racist! One of Our Best Friends Is Black!

8/11/2017 - Fortunately, Ezekiel Elliott Just (Allegedly) Beat His Ex-Girlfriend but Didn’t Sit During the Anthem, so He’ll Be Back Soon!

8/11/2017 - The Man Dance Between Trump and North Korea Continues; President Tweets That US Military Is ‘Locked and Loaded’

8/11/2017 - My Strange Addiction to My Strange Addiction: Hold Me

8/11/2017 - Why Black America Isn’t Worried About the Upcoming Nuclear Holocaust

8/11/2017 - Fla. Day Care Van Driver Charged With Manslaughter After 3-Year-Old Left in Van for 11 Hours Died

8/11/2017 - Fulton County, Ga., Chairman Calls for Full Criminal Investigation Into R. Kelly

8/11/2017 - Marlon Wayans Says He Wears His Skin as a Badge

8/11/2017 - Donald Trump: Putin Is Bae, and No One Can Stop Our Love!

8/11/2017 - Watch: Is Double Dutch a Traditionally Black Sport?

8/11/2017 - Racist Note Signed ‘KKK’ Left on Windshield of Black Woman’s Car 

8/11/2017 - Color of Climate: Meet a Power Player in Miami’s Fight Against Climate Gentrification

8/11/2017 - Tracing Your Roots: Untangle My Redbone Heritage

8/11/2017 - NJ Hotel Employee Says Usher Did End Up at the Hotel With Quantasia Sharpton: Report

8/11/2017 - Local Ga. Cop Challenges Owner of ‘No Cops’ Gym to a Boxing Match 

8/11/2017 - Google Doodle Celebrates the 44th Anniversary of the Birth of Hip-Hop

8/10/2017 - 2 White Cops Steal Weed From Evidence Locker, Sell It and Get Off With Probation Because Their Families Had ‘Already Suffered’

8/10/2017 - Should Police Departments Be Able to Use Drones? 

8/10/2017 - 2 Dope Queens Coming to HBO

8/10/2017 - The 20 Whitest Things White People Say to Black People, Ranked

8/10/2017 - If Black Gay Men on TV Were All Masculine ‘Professionals,’ Would We Still Care About Diversity? 

8/10/2017 - 10 Possible Reasons Rihanna Photoshopped That Pic

8/10/2017 - Shit Bougie Black People Love No. 34: The NABJ Convention

8/10/2017 - NBA’s Zach Randolph Arrested for Marijuana Possession With Intent to Sell; Here’s a 6-Step Guide to How He Got Caught Slippin’

8/10/2017 - Betty Shelby’s New Job Is Why Cops Won’t Stop Killing Black People

8/10/2017 - Wait, Were Mike Vick’s Comments About Colin Kaepernick’s Afro All for a TV Show?

8/10/2017 - Black Unemployment Hits Historic Low. Should Trump Get Credit or Are We Getting Played?

8/10/2017 - Stuff (Only) Black People Say, or Nah?

8/10/2017 - Anthony ‘Mucci Mane’ Scaramucci Compared His Phone Call With Reporter to Monica Lewinsky Scandal, and She Responded

8/10/2017 - Fla. Firefighter Recruit Fired, 3 Others Resign After Noose Found Hanging Over the Seat of the Only Black Recruit 

8/10/2017 - Raphael Saadiq Is the Most Underappreciated R&B Artist of All Time. Yeah, I Said It

8/10/2017 - How Do We Know That ‘Chicken Don’ and Donald Trump Aren’t the Same Person?

8/10/2017 - This Is What It’s Like Being Named Isis in 2017

8/10/2017 - Dirty, Pretty Things 

8/10/2017 - Queen Sugar’s Dawn-Lyen Gardner Loves That Black People Are Always Worth Celebrating

8/10/2017 - Marion, Ark., Cops Were ‘Justified’ in Killing 16-Year-Old Aries Clark, Prosecutors Say 

8/10/2017 - DC Cop Will Not Face Charges in Fatal Shooting of Terrence Sterling, an Unarmed Black Motorcyclist

8/10/2017 - Fla. Day Care Center Shut Down After 3-Year-Old Is Found Dead in Van 

8/9/2017 - LeVar Burton Is Being Sued by a Public Broadcasting Station Over Reading Rainbow

8/9/2017 - Betsy DeVos Tries to Backpedal on Her HBCU Comments, but She’s Still a Dummy Who Doesn’t Care About Black People

8/9/2017 - Mike Brown, Ferguson, Mo., and How the Movement to Save Black Lives Changed the Way I Do Journalism

8/9/2017 - High School Reunions Are the Unseasoned and Undercooked Chicken Breast of Social Gatherings 

8/9/2017 - Watch: 13-Year-Old AileyCamp Student Is Moved by the Love of Dance

8/9/2017 - How Ferguson, Mo., Changed America ... and Me

8/9/2017 - 11-Year-Old NYC Girl Severely Burned in Cruel Social Media Stunt Dubbed the ‘Hot-Water Challenge’

8/9/2017 - Ava DuVernay and Victoria Mahoney to Adapt Octavia E. Butler’s Dawn for Television

8/9/2017 - Kim Jong Un Is Showing Us That Trump Is the Real Crazy Man

8/9/2017 - Everything White People Think About Affirmative Action Is Wrong

8/9/2017 - Mike Pence Would Not Be Worse Than Trump Because No One, God Included, Gives a Shit About Mike Pence

8/9/2017 - Google Engineer Fired Over Diversity Screed

8/9/2017 - Robert Mueller Ain’t Playing: Former Trump Campaign Chair Paul Manafort’s Home Raided by the FBI

8/9/2017 - 10 Things to Help Black Students Prepare for Life at a PWI

8/9/2017 - Trump Has Folder With Photos of Him on TV Looking Powerful Delivered to Him Because He’s a Child

8/9/2017 - Ga. Gym Owner Unapologetic After Putting Up Controversial ‘No Cops’ Sign 

8/9/2017 - Issa Didn’t Cheat on Lawrence in Real Life, and Angela Valdes Didn’t Snitch on Ghost. So Stop Sending the Actors Hate Mail

8/9/2017 - I Want Better for Halle Berry

8/9/2017 - How Russia Used Racism to Hack White Voters

8/9/2017 - Donald Glover Says He’s Working on New Music and Season 2 of Atlanta Will Be Better Than the 1st

8/9/2017 - Master of None’s Lena Waithe Shocked to Learn She Is 1st Black Woman Nominated for Comedy-Writing Emmy

8/9/2017 - ‘This Is Ground Zero’: Ferguson, Mo., Remembers Mike Brown on 3rd Anniversary of His Killing 

8/9/2017 - Fla. 3-Year-Old Dies After Being Left in Van for More Than 11 Hours; Day Care Worker Faces Charges

8/9/2017 - #WalterScott: Prosecutor Believed It Was a ‘Close Call’ Between Manslaughter and Murder

8/8/2017 - Racist Shirt Worn by DC Cop Leads to Gun-Case Dismissal

8/8/2017 - Trump Is Clearly Trying to Start a Nuclear War With North Korea; Here Are 5 Things I’m Going to Miss When It Happens

8/8/2017 - In Insecure, Where Are the Condoms?

8/8/2017 - Of All the Reasons to Boycott the Trash-Ass NFL, Colin Kaepernick Not Getting Signed Is Waaay Down the List

8/8/2017 - Spike Lee Promotes Colin Kaepernick Rally to Be Held at NFL Headquarters

8/8/2017 - Trump Retweets Unnamed-Source Report on North Korea Condemned by UN Ambassador Because He Doesn’t Know What the Hell He’s Doing

8/8/2017 - HBO Renews Insecure for Season 3

8/8/2017 - The 10 Best Booty Songs, Ranked

8/8/2017 - Minn. High School Security Guard Cleared in Altercation Involving Muslim Teen

8/8/2017 - You May Not Want to See Detroit, but the Roots and Bilal Have a Hot-Ass Song on the Soundtrack

8/8/2017 - From Ben Carson to Donald Trump: Politicians and Their Imaginary Friends

8/8/2017 - Trump’s Bashing on Twitter Again, but Here’s What He Should Be Tweeting About

8/8/2017 - The Danger of Existing While Trans (and the Men Attracted to Us Who Pretend They Were ‘Fooled’)

8/8/2017 - Chris Brown Has Eyes on Rihanna’s Crop Over Costume

8/8/2017 - Simone Askew Becomes 1st Black Woman to Lead West Point’s Corps of Cadets

8/8/2017 - This Is Probably the Dumbest Tweet Ever Tweeted by a Father (Besides a Trump Tweet)

8/8/2017 - 4-Year-Old Boy Hospitalized After Being Shot in the Head While in His Mother’s Car

8/8/2017 - Serena Williams on Giving Birth: ‘I Am About to Be a Real Woman Now’

8/8/2017 - Parents of 8-Year-Old Ohio Boy Who Hanged Himself File Lawsuit Against Cincinnati Public Schools 

8/8/2017 - Airbnb Deactivates Accounts of People Set to Attend White Supremacist Rally in Va.

8/7/2017 - I, a Fat, Beautiful Black Woman, Get Lots of Sex. Why Does That Bother You?

8/7/2017 - I Have Been Issa. I Have Been Tasha. I Have Had My Fair Share of Lawrences

8/7/2017 - Join The Root for Young, Fabulous and Female in Dallas to Break Some Rules and Take Some Cards

8/7/2017 - Moving Day

8/7/2017 - Hey, Y’all! We’re Over Here on The Root Now! 

8/7/2017 - The Levels of Wrong in Lawrence Attending Tasha’s Family Cookout, Ranked From Least to Most Wrong

8/7/2017 - Hey, Jeff Sessions: Remember When 6,000 White Americans Went on Strike to Keep 8 Black People From Getting Promoted?

8/7/2017 - Barack Obama Just Got His Very Own Holiday in the State of Ill.

8/7/2017 - Y’all’s President Has Turned the White House Into The Real Housewives of White Supremacy

8/7/2017 - If Game of Thrones Had Black Characters, This Week’s Episode Would’ve Been Totally Different

8/7/2017 - NYPD Boycotting Dunkin’ Donuts After Employee Allegedly Refused to Serve 2 Detectives 

8/7/2017 - Attorney Lisa Bloom to Hold Press Conference With Usher Herpes Accuser

8/7/2017 - Viral Video Shows Calif. Cop Pointing Gun at Passenger for More Than 9 Minutes During Traffic Stop 

8/7/2017 - Serena Williams Throws ’50s-Themed Baby Shower

8/7/2017 - ‘It Was Either Him or Me, and I Wasn’t Going’: Ga. Mom Fatally Shoots Intruder Who Threatened Kids

8/6/2017 - Man Left Disfigured After Allegedly Being Assaulted by Grand Prairie, Texas, Police Officers

8/6/2017 - Steph Curry Is Petty As ...

8/6/2017 - Tyler, the Creator Calls ScHoolboy Q Everything but a Child of God All Over Twitter

8/6/2017 - White Man Feels 56 Years of Guilt and Apologizes to Black Former Teammate for Racism

8/6/2017 - 7 Journalists of Color Leaving Houston Chronicle

8/6/2017 - Trump Takes a Hypocritical 17-Day Vacation and We’re All Like, ‘Byeee!’

8/6/2017 - Shanice Isn’t Done Singing Just Yet

8/6/2017 - Beyoncé Had Twins About a Month Ago and Looks ... Like ... This

8/5/2017 - Drug Policy Alliance Calls Out NYC Mayor de Blasio for Attempting to Spin Marijuana-Arrests Record [Retracted]

8/5/2017 - Usher’s Got It Bad: 2 Women and 1 Man Come Forward With Herpes Claims

8/5/2017 - In Water-Is-Wet News, Trump Supporters Have a Change of Heart

8/5/2017 - Watch: Idris Elba Loves His Heritage as Much as We Love Looking at Him

8/5/2017 - How Shame, Secrets and Sugar Get Between Us and Better Health

8/5/2017 - Judge of Characters: Reclaiming My Time ... and Energy

8/5/2017 - Jay-Z’s ‘Moonlight’ Video Features Young Black Hollywood Excellence for a Friends Makeover

8/5/2017 - Raven-Symoné Speaks Out on Cosby Allegations and Surprises Us All ... Also, She’s Still ‘Dating Girls’

8/4/2017 - Watch: The White House Human Resources Be Like ...

8/4/2017 - Jeff ‘King Keebler’ Sessions Wants to Get Tough on Leaks Now That the President Hates Him

8/4/2017 - Watch: Former White House Photographer Pete Souza Is Donald Trump’s Perfect Troll

8/4/2017 - I’m a Grown-Ass Man and I’m Scared to Death of NYC Subways, and I Don’t Give a Shit How You Feel About That

8/4/2017 - The Baltimore Ravens Asked Fans Who Supported Colin Kaepernick to Show It; Now They Aren’t Taking Any Comments

8/4/2017 - Why White People Feel Oppressed, Explained

8/4/2017 - Working From Home Just Might Be That Bullshit

8/4/2017 - ‘Give Me Your Tired English Speakers Only’: Surreal Exchange at the White House

8/4/2017 - 2nd Verse Same as the 1st! Former Mexican President on Trump’s Wall: ‘We’ll Never Pay for That Fucking Wall’

8/4/2017 - Tracing Your Roots: Who Were My Granddad’s Enslaved Parents?

8/4/2017 - Former So You Think You Can Dance Winner Can Show Off All His Dance Skills in Jail

8/4/2017 - Rihanna Launches Bike Program for Girls in Malawi

8/4/2017 - Do You Know Someone Who Died or Nearly Died in Childbirth? Help Us Investigate Maternal Health

8/4/2017 - #HappyBirthdayMrPresident Trends, and We’re Not Talking Donald Trump

8/4/2017 - Color of Climate: Is Climate Change Gentrifying Miami’s Black Neighborhoods?

8/4/2017 - Wash. Man Arrested After Texting About Sexually Abusing Children During Southwest Flight: Report

8/4/2017 - The Dark Tower: Mediocre Marksmanship and Magical Negroes

8/4/2017 - Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed Against Off-Duty Ill. Cop Seen Threatening Black Teen in Facebook Video 

8/4/2017 - 8-Year-Old Fla. Girl Dies After Dare to Drink Boiling Water 

8/3/2017 - #Flint: An Update and a Reminder That It Has Been 1,196 Days Since the Mich. City Had Clean Drinking Water

8/3/2017 - Dun Dun Dun! Grand Jury Impaneled by Special Counsel in Russia Investigation

8/3/2017 - An Ode to the Blackest Fruit of All Time

8/3/2017 - Dear Family, Please Move Out of Mo., Love, Danielle

8/3/2017 - The World's 10 Greatest Enunciating-Ass Negroes, Ranked

8/3/2017 - Yara Shahidi’s Black-ish Spinoff to Be Called Grown-ish

8/3/2017 - Watch: Detroit’s Algee Smith Loves the Unspoken Bond of Black Folks

8/3/2017 - Mucci Mane Mixtape: Listen to the Phone Call That Got Anthony Scaramucci Canned

8/3/2017 - Idris Elba Addresses Controversy Over Black English Actors Taking Roles From African-American Actors

8/3/2017 - Damn ... Damn ... Dayumm! Jimmie Walker Tells Fox News He Loves Trump, Bill Maher and Ronald Reagan

8/3/2017 - Pa. Man Threatens to Shoot Woman’s ‘Brains Out,’ Screams Racial Slurs During Road Rage Incident  

8/3/2017 - 10 Reasons You Absolutely Should Be Watching Queen Sugar Right Now (and When It Comes Back)

8/3/2017 - Fla. Women Trash Chick-fil-A Over Cold Chicken Nuggets

8/3/2017 - The Liar-in-Chief Stay Lyin’

8/3/2017 - Respectable Negroes Can’t Advise Colin Kaepernick on Shit

8/3/2017 - Trump’s Favorite News Outlet Is Not Who You Think ... and You Should Be Worried

8/3/2017 - Trump Asked Mexican President to Stop Saying He Wouldn’t Pay for the Wall so He Could Keep Lying About Mexico Paying for the Wall

8/3/2017 - Md. Father Accused of Punching Infant Son to Death and Burying Body in the Woods Pleads Guilty 

8/3/2017 - Three Non-Football Reasons Why Baltimore Would Be The Best City For Colin Kaepernick

8/3/2017 - On Whole Foods, Gentrification and the Erasure of Black Harlem 

8/3/2017 - Procter & Gamble Release an Ad About ‘the Talk,’ and White People Respond With the Wettest, Saltiest, Stupidest White Tears Ever

8/3/2017 - Watch: John Boyega’s Blackness Sits Like a Crown Atop His Head

8/3/2017 - It’s Official: White Allies Are the Worst Wypipo in the World

8/3/2017 - Man Brutally Beaten on Dallas Train After Asking a Group of Passengers to Stop Smoking Weed 

8/3/2017 - Man Accused of Holding His Girlfriend and Her 2 Children Captive for at Least 2 Years Charged With Abduction

8/2/2017 - Founding Member of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5 Arrested on Murder Charge 

8/2/2017 - Don’t Go to Mo., It’s Dangerous for Black People: NAACP Issues Travel Advisory

8/2/2017 - The Fact That Bobby Valentino May Not Have Paid a Sex Worker Is a Problem; the Fact That the Sex Worker Is Trans Is Not

8/2/2017 - Dozens of Cases Dropped as Baltimore Police Are Caught on Video Planting Evidence … Again

8/2/2017 - Are We Returning to Jim Crow?

8/2/2017 - Finally, a White House Press Conference Went Completely Off the Rails, and It Should’ve Happened Long Ago

8/2/2017 - Watch: Let’s Talk About Stretch Marks

8/2/2017 - VSB in NYC, Explained

8/2/2017 - Shannon Sharpe to Fox Sports’ Clay Travis: ‘I Don’t F--k With You. Don’t Make Me Lose My Job’

8/2/2017 - HIV-Positive Md. High School Track Coach Accused of Sexual Assault Is Indicted on 119 Counts, Could Face 1,500-Year Sentence

8/2/2017 - Sportswriting’s Velvet Revolutionary, Claire Smith

8/2/2017 - VSB Interview with Queen Sugar's Kofi Siriboe

8/2/2017 - The Real Reason the Ravens Are Afraid to Hire Kaepernick: He’s Mr. Steal-Your-Job

8/2/2017 - Trump Didn’t Want to Sign Russia Sanctions Bill, but Here’s Why He Had To 

8/2/2017 - Trump Administration To Tackle Affirmative Action And Keep White Women Out Of College

8/2/2017 - Mar-a-Lago Served Rotten Meat, but the White House Is a Dump?

8/2/2017 - Woman Goes on Racist Tirade in Target, Starts Throwing Merchandise at Customers 

8/2/2017 - Okra Is Garbage and Zoodles Are Lies: GMG Staffers Share Their ‘Unpopular Opinions’ on Healthy Eats

8/2/2017 - Tenn. Deputies Repeatedly Used Taser on Teen Strapped in Restraint Chair: Lawsuit 

8/2/2017 - Someone Trolled Me With Racist Emails for a Week, and It Brought Me So Much Joy!

8/2/2017 - ‘We Are Not Thugs’: Black Police Chiefs Respond to Trump’s Endorsement of Police Brutality

8/2/2017 - André 3000 Is Too Busy Designing Sneakers to Worry About Rap Music

8/2/2017 - Houston Man Gets Catfished and Scammed Out of $80,000

8/1/2017 - Cop Shares Racist Facebook Post, Will Resign After Public Outcry

8/1/2017 - Senate Confirms New FBI Director Christopher Wray

8/1/2017 - Defending And Excusing Problematic Black Men Aint Love, It's Low Expectations

8/1/2017 - Cory Booker for the Win: NJ Senator Introduces Bill to Legalize Weed Nationwide

8/1/2017 - 10 Things White People Don't Really Seem To Give A Fuck About

8/1/2017 - Intel Ponies Up $4,500,000 for STEM Scholarships at 6 HBCUs

8/1/2017 - Watch: OWN’s Black Love Digs Into the Best Hollywood Couples’ Love Lives for Honest and Raw Advice

8/1/2017 - Trans Black Women Are Petitioning Charlamagne tha God Over Transphobic Comments on Show

8/1/2017 - A Conference Asked Hackers to See Which Voting Machines Could Be Breached: They Hacked All of Them

8/1/2017 - Please, Black Jesus, Let This Be True: Is Former Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick Eyeing a 2020 Run for the White House? 

8/1/2017 - Amazon Is Also Making a Civil War Alt-History Series, but It’s for Us, by Us

8/1/2017 - 3 Possible Reasons Anthony Scaramucci Mane Sleeps With the Fishes

8/1/2017 - NYC Cop Who Killed Dwayne Jeune Shot Another Mentally Ill Man Last Year: Report

8/1/2017 - Just When Jeff Sessions’ Seat Is Up for Special Election, a Judge Rules That Ala. Doesn’t Have to Tell Felons They May Be Able to Vote. Hmmm

8/1/2017 - Grand Opening, Grand Semiclosing: Several R. Kelly Tour Dates Canceled 

8/1/2017 - I Thought Day Parties Were Dumb And Too "Millennial" Until I Had One Of My Own

8/1/2017 - ‘Why Can’t I Be Proud to Be White?’ Punks, Policy and Praise at Politicon

8/1/2017 - Minn. Police Training Fund Won’t Be Named After Philando Castile After All Because That Would Be Too Much Like Right

8/1/2017 - Court Rules for Redistricting in NC to Address Racial Discrimination

8/1/2017 - #SafetyIs: Night Out for Safety and Liberation Happening Tonight 

8/1/2017 - The 2017 World Wypipo Tournament, Final Round: Who Is the Worst of the Worst?