12/31/2017 - For, by and About Black Women: Charlie Is a Reflection of How We All Deal Differently With Grief

12/31/2017 - N.Y. Times Brass Missing at Pioneer Black Photographer’s Funeral

12/31/2017 - Cleveland Teens Brazenly Rob Crew in Station Van

12/31/2017 - Habari Gani?! Kuumba! Robin Thede Embodied Creativity in 2017

12/31/2017 - The Biggest Winners of 2017

12/31/2017 - 90-Year-Old Gives Santa a Run for His Money in Dance-Off

12/31/2017 - Tamar Braxton Says ‘Broke Whore’ Is Carrying Vincent Herbert’s Baby

12/31/2017 - Going Toward the Light: My ‘Year of the Glow Up’ in Review

12/31/2017 - Arrests Made in Quadruple Homicide in New York State

12/31/2017 - Stop Putting Your Life on Layaway: 5 Things You Should Say Yes to in 2018

12/31/2017 - In Memoriam: Remembering Those We Lost in 2017

12/31/2017 - Florida Woman Says Condo Association Won't Allow 'Service' Dog Poolside

12/31/2017 - Erica Garner: ‘I’m in This Fight Forever’ [Retracted]

12/30/2017 - The Biggest Losers of 2017

12/30/2017 - We Need to Talk About the Teddy Pendergrass Kwanzaa Carol

12/30/2017 - Trump Lied About 15 Million Times in a New Interview (OK, at Least 24 Times in 30 Minutes): Report

12/30/2017 - Habari Gani?! Nia! Colin Kaepernick Embodied Purpose in 2017

12/30/2017 - Last-Minute New Year’s Plans? Resolve to Rock a Look That Works

12/30/2017 - Unarmed Kansas Man Killed by Police in ‘Swatting’ Prank Over $1.50 ‘Call of Duty’ Bet

12/30/2017 - Thank You, Woke Baby Jesus, for Giving Us Ashymania ’17 Between Tariq Nasheed and Dr. Umar Johnson 

12/30/2017 - Trump Fires Entire HIV/AIDS Council, While 1.2 Million Americans Are Still Infected

12/30/2017 - Erica Garner, Daughter of Police-Brutality Victim Eric Garner, Dead at 27

12/30/2017 - 5 Beauty Trends Black Women Should Leave in 2017

12/29/2017 - How to Have a Sexy and Happy New Year’s Eve

12/29/2017 - Puff, Puff, Pass: Marijuana Goes Legit in California Jan. 1

12/29/2017 - White ‘Nigerian Prince’ Email Scammer Arrested in Louisiana

12/29/2017 - Guess What? I Got In! Ferguson, Mo., Teen Gives Mom and Aunt a Morehouse Christmas Surprise

12/29/2017 - Solange Opens Up About Autonomic Disorder, Cancels New Year’s Eve Afropunk Performance in South Africa

12/29/2017 - Umar Johnson Is the Black Church

12/29/2017 - Keep It Bubbly: Soothe Sensitive Winter Skin With Natural Soaps

12/29/2017 - Calif. High School Students Band Together to Buy Classmate New Game Console After His Was Stolen Right Before Christmas

12/29/2017 - Is Cold Weather Racist?

12/29/2017 - Deadly Bronx, NY, Blaze Started by Toddler Playing With Stovetop

12/29/2017 - Detroit Pistons Guard Avery Bradley Paid Sexual Assault Accuser for Her Silence: Report

12/29/2017 - Watch: Trump’s Most Racist Moments of 2017

12/29/2017 - Ankara, Ankhs and the Ongoing Appropriation-vs.-Appreciation Argument: Is There a Right Way to Rock African Style?

12/29/2017 - Trump’s Newest Enemy: The US Postal Service

12/29/2017 - California High School Student in Racist Video: ‘When the Police Were Killing All Those Black People, I Was So Happy’

12/29/2017 - The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Cusswords, Awards and Our Old Friend Umar

12/29/2017 - President Stays-on-Vacation’s Tweet on Global Warming Might Be the Dumbest Statement He’s Ever Made

12/29/2017 - Don’t Drop the Ball: Hangover-Proof Your New Year’s Eve

12/29/2017 - ‘They’ve Chose a Real Good Color’: Owner of Defaced Confederate Eyesore Will Keep the Pink

12/29/2017 - Habari Gani?! Ujamaa! Chance the Rapper Embodied Cooperative Economics in 2017

12/29/2017 - Tracing Your Roots: DNA Connected Me With White Kin

12/29/2017 - Indelible Beauty: Makeup Maven Cashmere Nicole Talks Success, Survival and Building a Brand Built to Last

12/29/2017 - Chicago Oversight Board Finds Fatal Police Shooting of Quintonio LeGrier, Bettie Jones Unjustified 

12/29/2017 - Top 10 Disappointing Moments Black People Experienced in 2017

12/29/2017 - Houston Man Charged With Murder After ‘Nearly’ Decapitating Woman With Samurai Sword

12/29/2017 - Why Kwanzaa Is Lit Like 7 Red, Black and Green Candles

12/29/2017 - New York State Couple, Kids, Brutally Killed; Police Vow to Solve Crime 

12/28/2017 - Bronx, NY, Fire: At Least 12 Dead, More Injured

12/28/2017 - ‘Inappropriate Message’ Sacks BuzzFeed’s Adrian Carrasquillo

12/28/2017 - The Art of the Sexy Nude Selfie

12/28/2017 - #Flint: 1,342 Days Into the Water Crisis, City Accused of Violating Terms of Agreement to Replace Lead Pipes

12/28/2017 - Recy Taylor, Catalyst for Anti-Rape Activism in the Jim Crow South, Dead at 97

12/28/2017 - Milo Yiannopoulos’ Editor’s Notes Are Absurd, Hilarious (and Depressing) Proof That White Men Get Too Many Chances

12/28/2017 - Erica Garner, Daughter of Eric Garner, Still Fighting for Life After Sustaining Brain Damage: Report

12/28/2017 - Alabama Republicans Pray Over Roy Moore’s Racist Voter-Fraud Lawsuit. God Responds, ‘Roy, Bye’

12/28/2017 - 2017: The Year Liberal White People Reminded Us That They’re White, Too

12/28/2017 - Bitcoin and Why White Supremacists Love It, Explained

12/28/2017 - The Race: How I’m Gonna Get in Shape, Fight Gentrification and Celebrate Kwanzaa in 2018

12/28/2017 - The Illustrator of Curves Is the Instagram That Loves Your Body Unconditionally (and Hopes You Do, Too)

12/28/2017 - Former Auburn University Running Back Arrested for Reportedly Recording Boy in Bathroom Stall

12/28/2017 - Longtime Atlanta News Anchor Amanda Davis Dies After Massive Stroke

12/28/2017 - She’s Gotta Have Her: The Great Str8-Girl Debate

12/28/2017 - 10 Songs That You Just Gotta Listen to All the Way Through to Hear the Musical Magic

12/28/2017 - The 2017 Kwanzaa Week Gift Guide

12/28/2017 - Habari Gani?! Ujima! Patrisse Khan-Cullors Reflected Collective Work and Responsibility in 2017

12/28/2017 - Cops Suspended After Failing to Check Up on Pregnant NYC Mother Who Was Later Found Dead

12/28/2017 - Roy Moore Has Gone Full AppleCare Lady and Filed a Lawsuit to Block Alabama Special-Election Results

12/28/2017 - Sizing Each Other Up: Why Do Other Women Try to Kill My Vibe?

12/28/2017 - The 2017 List of People We Don’t Eff With Anymore

12/28/2017 - NYPD Veteran Caught Stealing From Banana Republic Quits: Report

12/28/2017 - Fatal Police Shooting of Washington, DC, Motorcyclist Terrence Sterling ‘Unjustified,’ Internal Investigation Finds 

12/28/2017 - Kwanzaa: Revisiting Maulana Karenga’s Legacy

12/28/2017 - Nebraska Man Accused of Killing Parents and Niece Apprehended in Tennessee 

12/28/2017 - Alabama Family Demanding Answers After 17-Year-Old Brutally Beaten by Officers

12/27/2017 - After the Breakup: How to Win the Petty Olympics on Social Media

12/27/2017 - Relish Belongs in Deviled Eggs. Period

12/27/2017 - Ohio Teens Charged With Murder After Sandbag Thrown From Freeway Overpass Kills a Man

12/27/2017 - How Do You Feel About Kool-Aid?

12/27/2017 - The Glow Up Gaze: Seynabou Cissé Is the Real-Talking ‘Real Woman’ We’ve Been Waiting For

12/27/2017 - There Appears to Be a Black Man in the ‘Thank You, President Trump’ Ad, and I Have Questions 

12/27/2017 - 2017: The Whitest Year Ever

12/27/2017 - Top 5 Black Movies and TV Shows of 2017 and No, She’s Gotta Have It Didn’t Make the Cut

12/27/2017 - 10 New Year’s Resolutions Everybody Sucks at Keeping That Have Nothing to Do With Losing Weight

12/27/2017 - What a Recovering Catholic and Out Gay Man Makes of the Priest Who Just Came Out

12/27/2017 - Watch: Father Gives His Son the Most Amazing Christmas Gift Ever

12/27/2017 - Why So Many of Us Are So Willing to Be Led by ‘Ain’t Shit’ Men, Explained

12/27/2017 - Richard Spencer Listed as ‘Texan of the Year’ Finalist by Newspaper and the Internet Is Not Pleased

12/27/2017 - Newspaper Publishes Heartwarming Profile of Killer Cop, Points Finger at Black Lives Matter Activists

12/27/2017 - NFL Cancels Sunday Night Football This Week Because Ratings Are Down and the NFL Is Trash

12/27/2017 - Top 10 Moments Black People Won in 2017

12/27/2017 - Pro Basketball Players Kicked Off Flight for Allegedly Stealing 1st-Class Blankets That Were Given to Them

12/27/2017 - First Do No Harm: Designer and CEO Natalia Allen Is Creating ‘Victimless Fashion’

12/27/2017 - Habari Gani?! Kujichagulia! Cardi B Was the Embodiment of Self-Determination in 2017

12/27/2017 - Traveling Light, Part 2: Yes, You Can Fit a Full Face Into Minimal Space

12/27/2017 - Former Pretty Ricky Member Now Makes Millions Tweeting

12/27/2017 - Watch: What Do You Know About Kwanzaa? 

12/27/2017 - Cardi B Still Doesn’t Have Time for These Hackers, Threatens Legal Action Over Offset’s Leaked Explicit Videos 

12/27/2017 - The 2017 Wypipo Awards

12/27/2017 - 5 Videos That Really Should Be Better, Like SZA’s ‘The Weekend’

12/27/2017 - Make a Dramatic Exit: 5 Designers on the Rise Give Us Their Takes on New Year’s Eve Style 

12/27/2017 - Mums the Word on Prince Harry Inviting the Obamas to the Royal Wedding

12/27/2017 - Joy Villa, Singer Who Wore ‘MAGA’ Dress at 2017 Grammys, Files Sexual Assault Complaint Against Former Trump Campaign Manager

12/27/2017 - Rihanna Mourns Cousin Killed in Barbados

12/27/2017 - Arizona Man Posted Video Singing Carols With His Son, Hours Before Killing His Family: Report

12/26/2017 - The 2018 Single-Life Reboot for Your Best Year Ever

12/26/2017 - Neo-Nazi Teen Mowed a Swastika Into a Field 2 Months Before Allegedly Killing Girlfriend’s Parents: Report

12/26/2017 - 5 Things Movie Theaters Can Do to Win Audiences Back in 2018

12/26/2017 - Dear Companies That Produce and Sell Shit, Would It Kill You to Add Some People of Color to Your Packaging?

12/26/2017 - Azealia Banks Issues Apology to Beyoncé 

12/26/2017 - Lonzo Ball Got His Parents a Convertible Rolls-Royce for Christmas, and That Was Really Stupid

12/26/2017 - Apparently Donald Trump’s Feelings Will Be Hurt if the Obamas Get a Royal-Wedding Invite and He Doesn’t. Please, 2018, Make This Happen!

12/26/2017 - Ohio Woman Convicted of Murder Is Released on Christmas Morning After Serving 22 Years

12/26/2017 - Trump Issued a 3-Sentence ‘Happy Kwanzaa’ Statement, and I Don’t Think He Wrote Any of It

12/26/2017 - Oklahoma Community Surprises Beloved Walmart Greeter With a Car

12/26/2017 - Watch: ‘Make Kwanzaa Great Again’ Campaign Video

12/26/2017 - 9 Things I’m Going to Try Very Hard Not to Be Annoyed by Anymore in 2018

12/26/2017 - If You’re Not Watching Ts Madison and Khia’s The Queens Court, What’s Taking You So Long?

12/26/2017 - Queen: CCH Pounder Celebrates the Art of Black Womanhood With an Exhibition at Xavier University

12/26/2017 - #2017WeMadeIt: What The Root’s Top 25 Stories of the Year Say About 2017

12/26/2017 - Woman Falsely Accused of Fraud After Buying Louis Vuitton at Saks Fifth Avenue

12/26/2017 - Trump Believes That Democrats and Republicans Will Work Together to Craft New Health Care Plan. He’s Also an Idiot

12/26/2017 - Police Remove Hate Group’s Memorial to White Woman Killed by Black Officer

12/26/2017 - This 12-Year-Old Colorado Girl, Concerned About the Water Crisis in Flint, Mich., Invented a Lead Detector

12/26/2017 - Habari Gani?! Umoja! Tarana Burke Was the Embodiment of Unity in 2017

12/26/2017 - Read My Lips: L’Oréal x Balmain Is the Budget-Friendly Designer Collab of the Season

12/26/2017 - High School Basketball Player’s Epic Christmas Gift to Special Needs Classmate Goes Viral

12/26/2017 - Can I Get a Window Seat? United Passenger Big Mad Over Losing 1st-Class Seat to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee

12/26/2017 - Welcome to Kwanzaa Week at The Root! 

12/26/2017 - Let’s Get Our Skin Tight in Time for the New Year With Hanacure! 

12/26/2017 - 97-Year-Old WWII Vet About to Be Evicted From His NYC Home. Merry Effing Christmas

12/26/2017 - Thanks to Fundraiser, Infant Mauled by Raccoon Will Be Able to Live in Safer Housing 

12/26/2017 - Washington, DC’s El Centro D.F. Restaurant Removes ‘No Sneaker’ Policy, Fires Racist Bouncer After Black Man Is Denied Entry

12/25/2017 - ‘Neo-Nazi’ Teen Charged With Killing Girlfriend’s Parents After Mom Asked Her to Break Up With Him

12/25/2017 - Naked Postal Worker Allegedly Shoots and Kills 2 Supervisors

12/25/2017 - Colorado Teen Charged With Murder After Allegedly Stabbing Stepdad and Posting Video on Snapchat

12/25/2017 - The Top Criminal-Justice Wins of 2017

12/25/2017 - #MakeKwanzaaGreatAgain, Explained

12/25/2017 - Serena Williams Set to Return to Tennis for 1st Time Since Birth of Her Daughter

12/24/2017 - Photographer Don Hogan Charles, Who Shot Iconic Photo of Malcolm X at His Window, Has Died

12/24/2017 - Steph Curry Says He’s ‘Really Serious’ About Owning Carolina Panthers

12/24/2017 - Your Racist President Said Haitians ‘All Have AIDS’ and Nigerians Live in ‘Huts’

12/24/2017 - Why 2017 Was the Year of Rose Armitage

12/24/2017 - #JailBedDrop: Los Angeles’ Fight Against a Multibillion-Dollar Jail

12/23/2017 - ‘The Confederacy Falls in Memphis’ and 1 Paper Says Good Riddance

12/23/2017 - Harvard University Recognizes the Gullah Language in Its New Curriculum

12/23/2017 - Bay Area Hip-Hop Pioneer and Prince’s Personal DJ, Pam the Funkstress, Dead at 51

12/23/2017 - Trump Changes Presidential Coins by Making Them Very Gold and Putting ‘MAGA’ on Them (Ewww)

12/23/2017 - Texas Police Call Shooting of Innocent 6-Year-Old a ‘Tragic Accident’

12/23/2017 - 5 Apps to Make Your 2018 More Productive and Stress-Free

12/22/2017 - One Good Tongue Deserves Another: The Art of Fellatio

12/22/2017 - Officers Who Handcuffed 11-Year-Old Girl at Gunpoint Won’t Be Disciplined: Report

12/22/2017 - #NetNeutrality: United Nations Expert Concerned About US Repeal of Open-Internet Rules

12/22/2017 - 10 Struggles That Only Men With Big-Ass Beards Will Understand

12/22/2017 - Judge of Characters: Can You Really Trust White Tears?

12/22/2017 - Royal Family Member Apologizes for Wearing Racist Brooch at Dinner With Meghan Markle 

12/22/2017 - Watch: Rhoda ‘On the Scene’ Young Talks Internet Fame and Going Viral

12/22/2017 - Republicans Seem Hell-Bent on Showing Us That Their God Doesn’t Exist

12/22/2017 - Washington, DC, Teen Killed Over $200 Pair of Jordans, Mom Says 

12/22/2017 - To Be Real: Dressing My Way out of ‘Butch Envy’

12/22/2017 - It’s Official: The Tax-Scam Bill to Ruin the Poor and Middle Class Is Now the Law

12/22/2017 - A Bold Strategy for Diddy and Colin Kaepernick’s Plan to Own the Carolina Panthers

12/22/2017 - Philadelphia 4-Month-Old Dragged out of Bed, Seriously Injured by Raccoon

12/22/2017 - Umar Johnson Announces He’s Under Investigation for Hotep Hogwarts

12/22/2017 - Former NFL Players Michael Irvin and Eric Davis Accused of Sexually Harassing NFL Network Employee: Report

12/22/2017 - The Hair Hits the Tour: Behind the Velvet Rope With Cassidy Blaine

12/22/2017 - Black Twitter Has Questions About SZA’s ‘The Weekend’ Video

12/22/2017 - How the Legacy and Influence of Combat Jack Lives On in These Black Podcasts

12/22/2017 - The Best Gifts Come Unwrapped This Holiday: Treat Yourself to Some #SelfLove, Part 4

12/22/2017 - The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Insert Clever Title Here

12/22/2017 - The 10 Blackest Moments of 2017, Ranked

12/22/2017 - Man Who ‘Didn’t Want a Child’ Killed Pregnant Girlfriend During Fight, Police Say 

12/22/2017 - Woman Kills New Mother, Steals Baby to Cover Up Her Own Miscarriage: Report

12/22/2017 - #BlackBoyJoy: The #CastMeJCrew Grand Prize Goes to 4-Year-Old Cayden!

12/22/2017 - Ashes to Ascots: the Final Days of NewsOne Now With Roland Martin

12/22/2017 - Tracing Your Roots: Were My Ancestors Melungeon?

12/22/2017 - Dreaming of a High Christmas: Couple in Their 80s Busted With 60 Pounds of Marijuana Claim It Was for ‘Christmas Presents,’ Cops Say

12/21/2017 - Talking Dirty to My Mom

12/21/2017 - Straight Into Compton: The City With the Gangsta Rap Is L.A.’s ‘Newest Housing Hotspot’

12/21/2017 - This Video of Jay-Z, Beyoncé and Ms. Tina Doing the Electric Slide Is Everything

12/21/2017 - Chicago 5-Year-Old Who Was Shot in Drive-by Last Year Shoots Self in the Hand: Report

12/21/2017 - Book Notes 2017: Best Sellers, Uncovered Treasures, Overlooked History

12/21/2017 - Pittsburgh Man Who (Allegedly) Killed 4-Year-Old Girl, Her Mother and 58-Year-Old Woman After Burning Their House Down Has Several Bizarre Facebook Videos Ranting About Black Women

12/21/2017 - Our Elected Officials Must Give Children 2nd Chances

12/21/2017 - The Village: Behind Every Issa Rae Is a Felicia Leatherwood Slaying Her Natural Tresses

12/21/2017 - #BlackWomenDemand: What We Insist the Democratic Party Does for Us

12/21/2017 - Wonder Woman: Happy Birthday, Flo-Jo!

12/21/2017 - 5 Inevitable Ways You Will Get Stuck for Your Paper Once You Have Kids

12/21/2017 - US Ambassador Nikki Haley Threatens UN Members Not to Vote Against the US and No One Cares

12/21/2017 - Bodycams Don’t Mean Shit

12/21/2017 - The #MeToo Movement Will Take Down the Music Industry and 17 Other Predictions for 2018

12/21/2017 - There Is Hope for Depression This Holiday Season

12/21/2017 - LaVar Ball Is the Wrong Guy With the Right Ideas

12/21/2017 - Cop Fired Following ‘Absolutely Unacceptable’ Conduct in Tasing of Fort Worth, Texas, Woman 

12/21/2017 - The President Believes That He ‘Repealed’ Obamacare. He Didn’t, but Don’t Tell Him That

12/21/2017 - Traveling Light: Do You Know How to Pack Like a Pro?

12/21/2017 - Texas Dad Finally Gets Custody of Son Just in Time for Christmas as Mom Faces Charges for Medical Child Abuse

12/21/2017 - 3 Georgia Cops Indicted for Tasing an Unarmed Black Man to Death

12/21/2017 - An Ode to Combat Jack, One of My Heroes

12/21/2017 - For Colored Girls ... Who Need to Talk About Colorism

12/21/2017 - Restaurant Owner and Stunt Queen Brings the North Pole to North Philly in Epic Neighborhood Block Party

12/21/2017 - Exclusive: God Responds to Ben Carson’s Weird Prayer Thanking the Lord for Trump and the Tax Bill

12/21/2017 - Because Beard Game Does Matter: Get Him Groomed for the Holidays With Camara Aunique

12/21/2017 - NYC Man Exonerated After Serving 30 Years for Rape He Didn’t Commit

12/21/2017 - Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Share Official Photographs to Celebrate Engagement 

12/21/2017 - Oklahoma Mom Reports Son ‘Missing,’ Only to Find Out He Was Trying to Make Money to Buy Her a Christmas Gift

12/21/2017 - In the Dark of Night, 2 Confederate Statues in Memphis, Tenn., Come Down

12/21/2017 - Venus Williams Not to Blame for Fatal Car Crash, Will Not Face Charges

12/20/2017 - Caught Out There: Beware of the Lying Twitter Man-Whore

12/20/2017 - Former Michigan State Trooper Charged With Murder in the Death of 15-Year-Old Damon Grimes

12/20/2017 - Detroit Journalist Stephen Henderson Traces Firing to 2 Encounters

12/20/2017 - Stigma Against Sex Workers Must End

12/20/2017 - Watch: The BEST Responses To That "I'm Not Racist" Video

12/20/2017 - The Otis Effect: 7 Things That Were Never the Same After the Star Left 

12/20/2017 - Yet Another Disturbing Story of a Grown-Ass Woman Messing With a Teenage Boy

12/20/2017 - New York Man Broke Into Black Neighbor’s Home, Threatened to Lynch Him With Chain: Report

12/20/2017 - Playing the National Anthem Before Sporting Events Is a Stupid and Silly Tradition and We Need to Stop Doing It

12/20/2017 - LaVar Ball Just Declared War on the NCAA, and Something Tells Me This Isn’t Going to End Well

12/20/2017 - ‘Cash Me Outside’ Teen on Cultural Appropriation: ‘Do Not Tell Me I’m Acting Black Because I’m Not’

12/20/2017 - How Sexual Harassment Silences Black Women in the Workplace

12/20/2017 - The Golden Child Is One of the Most Awesome Terrible Movies Ever

12/20/2017 - The Christmas Gift You Didn’t Want: Deplorable Bill for the Top 1 Percent Passes Deplorable Congress

12/20/2017 - Virginia Pastor and His Wife Found Guilty of Scamming Millions of Dollars

12/20/2017 - Someone Stole Former NBA Player Charlie Villanueva’s Toilet and He’s Pissed

12/20/2017 - She’s Smokin’: The Running Fat Chef Has a Holiday Dinner Hack for You

12/20/2017 - Roy Moore Is Holding on Like a Superglued Mink Eyelash in a Thunderstorm; He Still Won’t Concede

12/20/2017 - Mamie ‘Peanut’ Johnson, 1st Female Pitcher to Play in the Negro Leagues, Dies at Age 82

12/20/2017 - Locked Out: Black Mayor Boycotts City Council in Camilla, Ga., After They Refuse to Give Him Office Keys

12/20/2017 - Judge Throws Out Michael Jackson Sex Abuse Lawsuit

12/20/2017 - Watch: Magic Johnson and Isiah Thomas Rekindle Their Friendship After 25 Years of Pettiness 

12/20/2017 - I Quit Drinking Alcohol Years Ago, but Why Can’t I Stop Drinking Soda?

12/20/2017 - Hip-Hop Pioneer Reggie ‘Combat Jack’ Ossé Dies at 53

12/20/2017 - She Got That Glow: Zendaya Is Officially a Black Butterfly

12/20/2017 - Coming Clean ... With Lauren Napier

12/20/2017 - New Zora Neale Hurston Book Will Tell Story of the Last Survivor of the US Slave Trade

12/20/2017 - For Those Considering Blaxit, I Present to You: Seoul, South Korea

12/20/2017 - Watch: Cornel West on Neoliberalism, Bernie Sanders and Why Donald Trump Is a ‘Gangsta’

12/20/2017 - Diva in Distressed: Beyoncé Just Inspired Our New DIY

12/20/2017 - Figurines Depicting White Cherub Stepping on Head of Black Cherub Removed From Detroit Dollar Store After Customer Complaints

12/20/2017 - Charlottesville, Va., Dedicates Street in Honor of Woman Killed in Car Attack During White Supremacist Rally

12/20/2017 - Report: Water Is Wet, Fire Is Hot—Oh, and Race Relations Got Worse After Trump’s Election

12/19/2017 - Save Your Relationship: Go Downtown

12/19/2017 - White Campus Security Guard Who Lied About a Black Man Shooting Him Unlikely to Do Jail Time

12/19/2017 - Joe Budden, Complex Confirm He Will Not Return to Everyday Struggle

12/19/2017 - Men Who Were Also ‘About to Buy NBC, Tho,’ Ranked

12/19/2017 - Everything You Need to Know About the GOP’s Tax Heist but Were Afraid to Ask

12/19/2017 - 5-Year-Old Mississippi Hero Calls 911, Helps Cops Capture the Grinch to Save Christmas for Us All

12/19/2017 - Beloved, You See Eminem on Your Dating App, WYD?

12/19/2017 - Why Black Thought Doesn’t Rank As High on Rap GOAT Lists as He Should

12/19/2017 - WTF Is This Weird-Ass Video That Paul Ryan Posted?

12/19/2017 - All I Want for Christmas Is This California Woman’s Weed Fortress of White Privilege

12/19/2017 - From an Ex-Neoliberal: Why Ta-Nehisi Coates Keeps Talking About White Supremacy

12/19/2017 - Full Circle and Forward: The Renaissance of Dapper Dan

12/19/2017 - Watch: Kwanzaa Is Like Christmas, Just 7 Times Blacker

12/19/2017 - Sprinter Justin Gatlin Fires Coach Amid Doping Allegations

12/19/2017 - 35 Questions for the People Having Sex Underneath My Living Room Window at 1 in the Morning Last Night

12/19/2017 - Beautifully Flawed: The Ageless Beauty of Angelique Miles

12/19/2017 - #BlackExcellence: Louisiana High School Becomes Viral Sensation After Posting Videos of Ivy League Acceptance Reactions

12/19/2017 - Doug Jones Wants America to ‘Move On’ From Trump’s Sexual Assault Allegations, Says He May Vote Republican

12/19/2017 - Get Twisted and Braided in Harlem 

12/19/2017 - ‘How Else Are You Going to Meet People?’ Tavis Smiley Defends His Sexual Relationships With Employees

12/19/2017 - Christmas Ain’t Christmas Without My Grandma

12/19/2017 - John Legend Is Jesus Christ. No, Really, He Is

12/19/2017 - What Well-Meaning Men Don’t Understand When It Comes to Life as a Woman

12/19/2017 - Saving Face: Winning the Battle Against Adult Acne

12/19/2017 - Ex-University of Hartford Student Accused of Smearing Bodily Fluids on Black Roommate’s Belongings Will Avoid Hate Crime Charges 

12/19/2017 - Sarah Palin’s Son Allegedly Beat His Father, Called Arresting Officers ‘Peasants’

12/19/2017 - ‘He Looks Like He Smoked a Blunt and Drank a 40’: TV Anchor Apologizes for Comments Made After Diddy Offers to Buy NFL Team

12/18/2017 - #MeToo Creator Tarana Burke Will Kick Off New Year’s Eve Countdown in NYC’s Times Square

12/18/2017 - Single Means Alone, Not Lonely

12/18/2017 - Who’s the Greatest: Kobe No. 8 or Kobe No. 24?

12/18/2017 - Watch: Cornel West Gets Real About His Beef With Ta-Nehisi Coates and Barack Obama: ‘We Got to Keep Standards Up’

12/18/2017 - Watch for the Hook: Sessions Continues His Dishonest ‘Make America Safe Again’ Tour 

12/18/2017 - 10 More Black-Ass Mysteries You Always Wanted to Know but Never Thought to Solve

12/18/2017 - Rheumatoid Negroitis: The 10 Worst Dancers in Black Music

12/18/2017 - Charlottesville, Va., Police Chief Announces Retirement Effective Immediately

12/18/2017 - Are White Supremacists Infiltrating Law Enforcement?

12/18/2017 - Cornel West Seems to Believe Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Writing From the Sidelines, but Sidelines Don’t Exist for Black People

12/18/2017 - ‘Final SZN Ain’t Over’: College Sophomore Wraps Up Finals While in Labor

12/18/2017 - Should We Delight in Omarosa’s Demise?

12/18/2017 - ‘Friends With Benefits’: The Truth About Living With Anxiety

12/18/2017 - 10 Reasons Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Buying the Carolina Panthers Needs to Be a Thing

12/18/2017 - Shedding Light on Reproductive Health: Understanding Adenomyosis

12/18/2017 - New Jersey Police Increase Sen. Cory Booker’s Security After Death Threats

12/18/2017 - LeBron James Debuts New ‘Equality’ Shoes, Shades Trump in Visit to Washington, DC

12/18/2017 - Watch: Cornel West Answers the Question, ‘Did Obama Let Us Down?’

12/18/2017 - Donwill’s Trap Kwanzaa Carols Will Get You Through the Holidays

12/18/2017 - Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Is Good-Hearted Fun, With a Few Minor Exceptions

12/18/2017 - Give Diddy, Steph Curry and Colin Kaepernick the Carolina Panthers Now

12/18/2017 - Holidazed? Maiysha’s Guide to Last-Minute Gift Giving

12/18/2017 - Azealia Banks ‘in Tears’ Over Wendy Williams’ Comments About Alleged ‘Vaginal Rejuvenation’ Procedure

12/18/2017 - Tavis Smiley Says PBS Made a ‘Huge Mistake’ Over Sexual-Misconduct Investigation and Suspension

12/18/2017 - Recently Released Video of 21-Year-Old’s Violent Arrest in Pasadena, Calif., Leaves More Questions Than Answers

12/18/2017 - Watch: Will Smith, Cast of Bright Discuss Upcoming Netflix Film

12/17/2017 - Military Investigation Concludes Sgt. La David Johnson Was Not Captured, Refuting Earlier Reports That He Was Executed: Report

12/17/2017 - Amazing Grace: The Glow Up Talks to Greenleaf’s Merle Dandridge

12/17/2017 - Detroit Free Press’ Stephen Henderson Out After Harassment Investigation

12/17/2017 - White Supremacist Troll Low-Key Stalks Maxine Waters; George Zimmerman Mixes Her Up With Another Black Woman

12/17/2017 - On the Real: Body-Positive Models Took Over Times Square for a Guerrilla-Style Lingerie Show

12/17/2017 - When Harry Met Barry ... a Prince Interviews a Former President for the BBC

12/17/2017 - 17-Year-Old Maame Biney Becomes 1st Black Girl to Make US Olympics Team for Speedskating

12/17/2017 - Growing Up Without the ‘Christ’ in Christmas: What It’s Like Being Raised by a Christmas-Loving Atheist

12/17/2017 - Celebrating Ourselves: A Toast to #TeamNatural

12/16/2017 - George Zimmerman Says He’ll Beat Up Jay-Z, Feed Him to Alligators Over Trayvon Martin Doc

12/16/2017 - Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson Says He’s Seriously Considering a Presidential Run ... in 2024

12/16/2017 - These Ain’t Red Bottoms: Cardi B’s Putting Her Foot in a New Collab With Steve Madden

12/16/2017 - Trump Administration Forbids CDC From Using 7 Words in Budget Documents, Including ‘Transgender,’ ‘Diversity’ and ‘Fetus’

12/16/2017 - Tavis Smiley Show Suspended Over Sexual Allegations

12/16/2017 - Is This Sign Racist or Just Part of American History?

12/16/2017 - Gift Black: These Black-Owned Headwear Brands Have Got You Covered

12/16/2017 - For the Love of God? Evangelical Drug Traffickers Are Terrorizing Practitioners of Afro-Brazilian Religions

12/16/2017 - Sorry, Santa—‘Jingle Bells’ Has Racist Roots 

12/16/2017 - If Mark Ruffalo’s ‘God Is a Black Woman’ Tweet Were a Marvel Movie

12/16/2017 - Gift the People What They Want! Why Beauty Is the Best Buy on Our Christmas Lists

12/15/2017 - Black Women and Sexuality: Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t

12/15/2017 - Terry Crews Signs With New Talent Agency After Dropping WME

12/15/2017 - Light-Skinned Black Actress Thinks Black Folks’ Criticism of Colorism Is Racism

12/15/2017 - Judge of Characters: Black Women Make the World a Better Place

12/15/2017 - Watch: Let’s All Approach 2018 the Way This Atlanta Hawks Fan Approached This Half-Court Shot

12/15/2017 - Each Time I Watch This Video of 16-Year-Old Ayrton Little Learning He Was Accepted Into Harvard, a Ghost or Something Near Me Cuts an Onion

12/15/2017 - Mahalo for the Holidays! Sephora Features Its 1st Afro-Hawaiian Beauty ... and So, So Much More

12/15/2017 - Tony Rock on All Def Comedy, Sexual Assault Jokes and Why He Won’t Shy Away From Any Topic

12/15/2017 - The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: We’re the Real Racists

12/15/2017 - Here’s What LeBron James Said to Lonzo Ball After Thursday Night’s Game 

12/15/2017 - Save the Date: Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Will Have a May Wedding

12/15/2017 - Revisiting Dr. Dre’s The Chronic 25 Years Later

12/15/2017 - Sing Your Own Praises ... Treat Yourself to Some #SelfLove, Part 3

12/15/2017 - Atlanta-Area Uber Driver Charged With Raping 16-Year-Old Girl During Ride

12/15/2017 - Trump and Russia Didn’t Just Collude; They Have a Shared Phone Plan and Gift Registry at Target

12/15/2017 - It Turns Out This ‘Decorated Army Hero’ Must Have Earned a Distinguished Medal for Lying-Ass Liars

12/15/2017 - Mind Your Plate, Not My Stomach:  Surviving the Holidays With Judgmental Loved Ones

12/15/2017 - Black Thought’s Beautiful Mind

12/15/2017 - Watch: Trump Judicial Nominee Is an Idiot Who Can’t Answer Basic Legal Questions

12/15/2017 - City of Chicago Wants to Sue the Family of a Black Teen 1 of Their Cops Shot to Death

12/15/2017 - In Star Wars: The Last Jedi, John Boyega, People of Color Get to Shine in a Galaxy Far, Far Away

12/15/2017 - Sephora Is Selling a $38 Jar of Coconut Oil, and Black Women Everywhere Are Unimpressed

12/15/2017 - Little Black Girls Are Killing Themselves. Does Anyone Care Enough to Figure Out Why?

12/15/2017 - She’s So Basic: 6 Common Mediocre-White-Girl Tropes Found in TV and Movies

12/15/2017 - Tracing Your Roots: Were My Enslaved Ancestors East African?

12/15/2017 - Black Lightning Forecast for Special Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend Premiere

12/15/2017 - This Christmas: Less Stuff, More Love

12/15/2017 - For the Love of Black Boys: Derrick Barnes and His Ode to the Fresh Cut

12/15/2017 - New Mexico School Shooter Was a Trump-Loving, White Supremacist Troll

12/15/2017 - Meet the Kids of Showtime’s The Chi Series in Rules of the South Side Webisodes 

12/15/2017 - 1st-Degree Murder Charge for Accused Charlottesville, Va., Car Plower

12/14/2017 - Another Woman Is Accusing Russell Simmons of Attempted Rape

12/14/2017 - 10 Raunchy Twerk Anthems to Get Your Booty Moving

12/14/2017 - Omarosa: ‘Donald Trump Is Racial, but He Is Not a Racist’

12/14/2017 - New York Police Investigating Sexual Assault Allegations Against Russell Simmons

12/14/2017 - In Latest BET Shake-Up, Debra Lee Out as President, Stays on as Chair and CEO

12/14/2017 - Jury Awards Family Millions After Finding Doctor Medically Negligent in Care of Tortured 8-Year-Old Chicago Girl

12/14/2017 - Woman Sues Michigan Police for ‘Thuglike Conduct’ During Brutal Arrest 

12/14/2017 - Nah, White Women ... You Can’t Have This One

12/14/2017 - Watch: How Black Voters Saved Alabama

12/14/2017 - Washington, DC’s Only Public Hospital Just Decided to Close Its Maternity Ward

12/14/2017 - Russell Simmons Repurposes #MeToo With #NotMe to Defend Against Rape Accusations, Deletes Twitter

12/14/2017 - Why Does the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Keep Snubbing LL Cool J?

12/14/2017 - Man Injured by White Supremacist Who Drove His Car Into Crowd of Protesters Will Face Attacker in Court

12/14/2017 - Joe Biden Claims He Owes Anita Hill an Apology; Here’s Why I Don’t Believe He’s Sincere

12/14/2017 - The Top 10 Moments From Roy Moore’s New Racist, Dog-Whistle, Batshit-Crazy Video

12/14/2017 - Masculine of Center Stage: Progressive Politics Don’t Replace Progressive Thinking

12/14/2017 - Atlanta’s Outgoing Mayor Kasim Reed Talks Elections, Black Power and Hurt Feelings

12/14/2017 - Why Don’t You Know How to Play Spades? An Important Question

12/14/2017 - Suspended PBS Host Tavis Smiley Vows to ‘Fight Back’ Against Claims of Sexual Misconduct

12/14/2017 - Texas Mom Accused of Putting Healthy 8-Year-Old Son Through 323 Hospital Visits, 13 Major Surgeries

12/14/2017 - Former NFL Player Warren Sapp Thought Buying Co-Workers Vibrators Was OK Because They Were Cute Vibrators

12/14/2017 - Meet the Former Sharecropper Who Helped Push Alabama’s Historic Black Voter Turnout

12/14/2017 - Let’s Get Something Straight: The Real Talk of the Curl Talk Project 

12/14/2017 - Omarosa Speaks: Claims She ‘Resigned’ Peacefully, but Report Says She Stormed Back Into White House, Triggering Alarms

12/14/2017 - Watch: VSB and The Root Conduct ‘Operation Find Black Santa’

12/14/2017 - For Colored Girls Who Have Considered the Barbershop When the Beauty Salon Was Tew Much

12/14/2017 - Turning My Life as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Daughter Into Fiction

12/14/2017 - Washington State Bar Manager Brutally Attacked While Defending Black Bartender From Racist Customers 

12/14/2017 - Missouri City Official Facing Charges After ‘Teasing’ Co-Worker With Gun 

12/14/2017 - Oprah Winfrey Will Become 1st Black Woman to Receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award

12/13/2017 - Sex on the 1st Date: Yes or No?

12/13/2017 - Dang, Tavis. You Too?

12/13/2017 - 10 Different Women Have Come Forward to Accuse Russell Simmons of Sexual Misconduct, Rape

12/13/2017 - #NetNeutrality: Black Women Saved Alabama on Tuesday; Now Let’s Save the Internet

12/13/2017 - Feeling Good, Finally? Nina Simone’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Is a Bittersweet Victory

12/13/2017 - How Come No One in the Justice Department Can Explain the ‘Black Identity Extremists’ Report to Rep. Karen Bass? 

12/13/2017 - Iowa Cheerleader Who Quit Team After Being Ordered to Stand During Anthem Finds Racial Slur Written on Dorm Door

12/13/2017 - 5 Albums Everyone Loved in 2017 Except Me

12/13/2017 - Boston Globe Measures the City’s Racism

12/13/2017 - My Significant Other Made Up an Elaborate Backstory to Steal My Shirt

12/13/2017 - Women Who Inspire: Meet the Legendary BFFs of Patrick Riley

12/13/2017 - A Moment-by-Moment Look at Doug Jones’ Historic Win and Roy Moore’s Tragic Defeat Told in GIFs

12/13/2017 - Y’all Don’t Deserve Black Women

12/13/2017 - Father of Keaton Jones Is a White Supremacist Serving Time in Tennessee: Report

12/13/2017 - New Orleans Saints Season Ticket Holder Sues Team Because of Anthem Kneeling, Then Drowns in Tub of Salty White Tears

12/13/2017 - Black Women in Alabama Saved Themselves Last Night

12/13/2017 - Omarosa Leaving the White House for Lucrative Career in Unemployment 

12/13/2017 - NYC Man Who Forced His Girlfriend to Walk Naked Through Harlem Says She Volunteered to Shame Herself

12/13/2017 - Police Union Is Big Mad After Colin Kaepernick and His Protest Afro Visited Rikers Island Prisoners

12/13/2017 - Beyoncé Stole My Look: How to Do a Holiday Party Right

12/13/2017 - #DanielShaver: It Is Not Black People’s Job to Create a White Lives Matter Movement

12/13/2017 - Sole Purpose: Gift Style With a Conscience for the Holidays 

12/13/2017 - With This Alabama Loss, Trump Is Becoming the Permanent Jordan Crying-Face Meme

12/13/2017 - DeRay Mckesson Sues Fox & Friends Host for Saying He Incited Violence Against a Cop

12/13/2017 - Formerly Fat: How Bariatric Surgery Helped Me Transform My Life

12/13/2017 - Florida Middle School Teacher’s Aide Arrested in Solicitation of Nude Photos, Sex Acts From 2 Students 

12/13/2017 - 8-Year-Old New Jersey Girl Who Killed Herself Saw a Story Online About Another Child’s Suicide, Sources Say

12/13/2017 - White People Need to Be Better People

12/12/2017 - You’re Welcome, White People: Alabama’s Black Voters Just Saved America

12/12/2017 - Could an Ethics Investigation of 2 FBI Agents Derail Mueller’s Russia Probe?

12/12/2017 - 5 Things Men Need to Understand About Foreplay

12/12/2017 - #Flint: Congress’ Failure to Renew Child Health Insurance Program Impacts Flint, Mich.’s Pipe Replacement

12/12/2017 - Alabama Election: 1 Black Voter’s Experience at the Polls

12/12/2017 - D.C. Police Reunite Toddler With Her Parents

12/12/2017 - Bodycam Footage Shows Grand Rapids, Mich., Police Holding an Innocent 11-Year-Old Girl at Gunpoint, Handcuffing Her

12/12/2017 - The No-Holds-Barred Alabama Senate Race Live Blog and Prayer Circle

12/12/2017 - Call Off Christmas: Fenty Beauty’s Taking All Our Money

12/12/2017 - They ‘Wouldn’t Even Watch the Movie’: Jada Pinkett Smith Goes in About Girls Trip Golden Globes Snub

12/12/2017 - Where Were You When You Found Out Singer Bobby Caldwell Was White?

12/12/2017 - Watch: Meet the Teen Who Created an App to Protect Kids From Police Brutality

12/12/2017 - That Time I Staged a 1-Man Die-In, or ... Why I’m Banned From the Apple Store

12/12/2017 - Surprise, Surprise: Former Arizona Cop Who Killed Daniel Shaver Was Previously Investigated for Use of Force

12/12/2017 - Former Cop Convicted of Statutory Rape After Impregnating 13-Year-Old, Tried to Contact Victim From Prison

12/12/2017 - Ugly-Sweater Christmas Parties Are Trash and We Need to Stop Having Them

12/12/2017 - The Charter School Movement Is Complicit With Segregation

12/12/2017 - The Best Brew You Never Had: Beyoncé Sends Cease and Desist Letter to Maker of Biëryoncé

12/12/2017 - Former White House Press Secretary Sean ‘Spicy Facts’ Spicer Is Writing a Tell-All. Let’s Come Up With Book Names

12/12/2017 - K. Michelle’s New Album Is Basically The Shade Room: The Musical

12/12/2017 - The Glow Up Gaze: Mama Cax Is Redefining the Runway

12/12/2017 - A Viral Story About a Bullied White Boy and His Probably Racist, ‘MAGA’ Scamming Mom Is the Perfect Way to End 2017

12/12/2017 - Roy Moore’s Wife: Our Attorney Is Jewish and We Have Black Friends. We Can’t Be Racists!

12/12/2017 - Snow Ain’t the Only Thing White During Christmas, so I Give You the Top 10 Blackest Holiday TV Shows and Movies

12/12/2017 - Glow-Getter: Santana Caress Benitez Cooks Like Your Mother ... and May Just Steal the Scene

12/12/2017 - Roy Moore and Alabama’s GOP Are Upset Because Thousands of Felons Registered to Vote  

12/12/2017 - NYC Teen Used Dying Breath to Identify the Man Who Shot Her After She Rejected His Advances, Officers Testify

12/12/2017 - Be Aware: Your Favorite Beauty Secret May Be More Trouble Than It’s Worth

12/12/2017 - The Median Net Worth of Black Bostonians Is Lower Than the Cost of Lunch 

12/12/2017 - Get Out Receives Top Film of 2017 Honor From African American Film Critics Association

12/12/2017 - Surviving a Breakup: What I’ve Missed Since Going Natural

12/12/2017 - Keaton’s Mom on Confederate Flag: This Is the South, This Is Tennessee 

12/12/2017 - Roy Moore Is a Stand-Up Dude Because He Turned Down Vietnamese Child Sex Workers Once, Moore’s Friend Says

12/11/2017 - Is He Playing With Your Emotions and Wasting Your Time?

12/11/2017 - ‘Mammy’ Calendar Distributed to Residents at North Carolina Assisted Living Facility

12/11/2017 - Family of 10-Year-Old Bullying Victim Ashawnty Davis Uses GoFundMe to Raise Money for Burial Expenses

12/11/2017 - With Sisters Thrive, Chirlane McCray Is Tapping the Power of Black Women to Address the Mental Health Crisis

12/11/2017 - If the Philadelphia Eagles Don’t Sign Colin Kaepernick, It’s Because the NFL Whiteballed Him

12/11/2017 - Wait, Matt Barnes Was Still in the NBA?

12/11/2017 - This Video of White People Who Are Sticking by Roy Moore Is the Whitest and Most Insane Thing That Ever Happened This Week

12/11/2017 - Couple Faces Charges for Lying to Cops About Knifepoint Robbery by 3 Black Men 

12/11/2017 - Raise Your Hand if You Smoke Weed!

12/11/2017 - Taking My Kids to See White Santa Might Be My Most Unwoke Parenting Act and I’m Sorry

12/11/2017 - You Are What You Eat: Donald Trump’s Trash Diet, Explained

12/11/2017 - That Kid Can Saanngg: The Lion King’s JD McCrary Sings the Jackson 5’s ‘Who’s Lovin’ You’

12/11/2017 - ‘Christmas Tree Brows’ Are the Latest Thing We Hope Gets Left in 2017

12/11/2017 - Goodell Doubles Down on Claim That Kaepernick Isn’t Being Blackballed

12/11/2017 - Susan Akkad Is Making Beauty More Multicultural—and Knows Black Women Don’t Need to Be ‘Fixed’

12/11/2017 - He Went Viral Because of Bullying, but Keaton Jones’ Mother Just Might Be a Racist Money Grabber

12/11/2017 - The Video of the Man Saving the Rabbit From the Fire Captures Everything Wrong With Whiteness in 30 Seconds

12/11/2017 - Hannibal Buress Asked Cops for an Uber—Then Got Arrested for ‘Disorderly Intoxication’

12/11/2017 - What Did You Do With Your Weekend? This 4-Year-Old Chicago Boy Read 100 Books in 1 Day

12/11/2017 - Man Who Attempted Suicide Bombing in NYC Identified, in Custody

12/11/2017 - Simeon Booker, Dean of Black Journalists, Dies at 99

12/11/2017 - Roy Moore vs. Doug Jones Has Nothing to Do With Little Girls; It’s About White Supremacy

12/11/2017 - A (Too) Short List of All the Black Golden Globe Nominees to Root For

12/11/2017 - Home for the Holidays? AphroChic Has Your Guide to Last-Minute Decorating

12/11/2017 - Florida Pizza Hut Won’t Deliver to Historically Black Neighborhood After Dark 

12/11/2017 - Um, Jagged Edge, What the Hell Was That? DC Is Not Pleased

12/11/2017 - Watch: Jenifer Lewis, the Undisputed ‘Mother of Black Hollywood,’ Tackles Mental Health Head-On

12/11/2017 - Unnatural: The Beauty Industry’s Natural-Hair Bias

12/11/2017 - 4 Reasons Rwandan President Paul Kagame Is Not ‘Papa Africa’ Saving Slaves

12/11/2017 - Nominate the Leaders of Tomorrow for The Root’s Young Futurists

12/11/2017 - Fordham University Investigating After Students Were Kicked Out of Campus Coffee Shop Because of ‘MAGA’ Hats 

12/11/2017 - Trailblazing Civil Rights Journalist Simeon Booker Dies at Age 99

12/10/2017 - Hannibal Buress Calls Cops ‘Goofy AF’ While Being Arrested for Public Drunkenness

12/10/2017 - ‘What Did I Do?’ Black Minnesota Woman Viciously—and Mistakenly—Attacked by Police Dog

12/10/2017 - The Complicated Business of Giving Birth: Motherhood and Mortality

12/10/2017 - #ThemToo: Black Women Break Their Silence in Media

12/10/2017 - Taxicab Confessions: On Being Friendly When You Can’t Be Bothered

12/10/2017 - Red Lip Theology: Every Sista Deserves to Be a Stunna

12/10/2017 - Fear of the State, Fear of My Home: To Be Black and Queer in America

12/10/2017 - Comedian Marsha Warfield Says That Her Mother Didn’t Want Her to Come Out Until She Was Dead, Defends Patti LaBelle

12/10/2017 - Say It With Your Chest: These Tees Have People Talking

12/10/2017 - Virginia Man in Custody for Sexual Molestation of at Least 21 Haitian Children

12/9/2017 - On the Ground at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Opening in Jackson

12/9/2017 - This Starving Polar Bear Should Prove to All Climate Change Deniers That They’re Delusional and Disgusting

12/9/2017 - Trump Spoke at the Opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in What Was Essentially a Photo Op

12/9/2017 - If You Think the #MeToo Movement Means You Can’t Hug a Woman Anymore, You’re a Simpleton Who Needs to Hug a Wet Electric Socket

12/9/2017 - Days After Golden Krust CEO Commits Suicide, Workers Seek Class Action Lawsuit Over Wages 

12/9/2017 - Pretty Hurts: The Insidious Side of Insta-Beauty

12/9/2017 - Did Chris Bosh’s Mama Turn His Texas Home Into the Trap?

12/9/2017 - Trump Just Openly Campaigned for an Accused Pedophile

12/9/2017 - Terrence Howard ‘Mayne Memes’ Are Social Media’s Early Holiday Gifts

12/9/2017 - Ex-Atlanta Cop Found Guilty of Breaking Man’s Leg Over a Tomato at Walmart

12/9/2017 - Because Being a Woman Isn’t Scary Enough: Now Your Birth Control Could Cause Breast Cancer

12/9/2017 - Louisiana State University Student’s Reaction to Snow Is the Greatest Thing to Happen This Week

12/9/2017 - Hot Flashes: The Cold Truth 

12/9/2017 - Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba Declines to Share Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Stage With White Supremacist in Chief

12/8/2017 - Letting Him Back In: Why Are We Unable to Let Go of Our Problematic Exes? 

12/8/2017 - Rep. Steve King Might Be a Racist, and This Tweet Proves It

12/8/2017 - #Flint: Michigan May Reconsider Program for Free Bottled Water

12/8/2017 - Be Attentive, Be, Be Attentive: Treat Yourself to Some #SelfLove, Part 2 

12/8/2017 - Actor Harold Perrineau Issues Statement on Daughter Aurora Perrineau’s Rape

12/8/2017 - Judge of Characters: What Happens When You Silence the Silence Breakers?

12/8/2017 - Felony Charges Against DeAndre Harris Dropped in Charlottesville, Va., White Supremacist Rally

12/8/2017 - Emil Wilbekin’s Native Son Will Change the Way Black Gay Men Are Represented in the Media

12/8/2017 - Forget About Colin Kaepernick; I Think I’m Done With the NFL Just Because I Don’t Want to Watch Someone Die

12/8/2017 - Rep. Trent Franks Resigns Amid Rumors That He Offered a Staffer $5,000,000 to Carry His Child: Report

12/8/2017 - Almost 1,000 More People Died in Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria Than Officially Confirmed: Report

12/8/2017 - Former Trump Policy Adviser George Papadopoulos Might Be the President’s Worst Nightmare

12/8/2017 - Louisiana Man Arrested After Video Shows Him Repeatedly Striking Girl With Belt, Shaving Her Head as Punishment

12/8/2017 - White People Are Upset That Amazon’s Alexa Believes Black Lives Matter

12/8/2017 - What Song Best Represents the ‘Bad Boy’ Era? Take That, Take That

12/8/2017 - Top 10 Moments From the Arson Investigation That Became the Greatest Facebook Live Video Ever

12/8/2017 - Cop Suffering From PTSD After Pulse Massacre Will Lose His Job

12/8/2017 - We Gon’ Run This Town ... in Fenty x Puma’s Newest Release

12/8/2017 - Horrific Video Showing Arizona Cop’s ‘Execution’-Style Shooting of Texas Dad Daniel Shaver Released After Officer’s Acquittal

12/8/2017 - The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Wypipo Be Tripping

12/8/2017 - She’s Your Queen-to-Be: @Krissychula Stays Saying What We’re All Thinking

12/8/2017 - Disgraced Ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio Strongly Considering Senate Run

12/8/2017 - House Employment Counsel Staff Share Stories of Abuse in the Workplace: White Manager Displayed Whip to ‘Motivate the Black Employees’

12/8/2017 - The 10 Best Brown-Liquor Christmas Songs, Ranked

12/8/2017 - Nailing It, Naturally: How I Do a DIY Mani-Pedi

12/8/2017 - Watch: Comedian Khalid Rahmaan on Being Black and Muslim in 2017

12/8/2017 - Mike Pence Once Snitched on His College Frat for Having a Keg Because He’s Mike Pence

12/8/2017 - Black ICE Agent Accuses New Mexico Sheriff’s Department of Racial Profiling After Being Pulled Over Multiple Times 

12/8/2017 - Blood and Glasses Found in Parking Lot in Case of Missing New Jersey Nurse

12/8/2017 - Baltimore’s Latest Plan to Clamp Down on Crime: Tricking and Trapping Youths

12/8/2017 - The Purple One Would Approve: Pantone Finally Gets It Right With 2018’s Color of the Year

12/8/2017 - Tracing Your Roots: Were My Southern Kin From Jamaica? 

12/8/2017 - Virginia Man Charged With Hate Crime Found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity in Terrifying Attack on Black Woman

12/7/2017 - Draya Is Being Dragged for Being a Bad Mother ... and I Hate It

12/7/2017 - A Woman-to-Woman Conversation About a Man Is Not Always the Move

12/7/2017 - Roy Moore Thinks America Was Better When Slavery Was in Place

12/7/2017 - Attorneys for Girls Writer Accused of Rape Retract Claim That Accuser Demanded Money

12/7/2017 - Rep. John Lewis Is Boycotting Trump’s Visit to the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Opening

12/7/2017 - Former Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford Jr. Fired After Woman Says He Harassed Her

12/7/2017 - Is It Safe Yet to Admit How Shocked I Am That There Are Actual Black People Who Had No Idea Meghan Markle Is (Partially) Black?

12/7/2017 - Man With Life Sentence Escapes Prison, Does TV Interview to Proclaim His Innocence

12/7/2017 - It’s Official: Jordan Peele Is Bringing Back The Twilight Zone

12/7/2017 - Department of Justice Video Confirms Widely Held Belief That Jeff Sessions Is a Complete Asshole

12/7/2017 - Serena Williams to Have Nike Campus’s Biggest Building Named for Her

12/7/2017 - Being an Advocate for My Child Is One of the Most Important Lessons I’ve Learned as a Parent

12/7/2017 - Former Cop Sentenced to 20 Years for Shooting Death of Walter Scott

12/7/2017 - If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late: An Insomniac’s Lament

12/7/2017 - I Hate the Collection of Pills I Need to Take Each Day ... but I Love Them Because They’re Keeping Me Sane (and Alive!)

12/7/2017 - Gordon Ramsay Transformed a Soul Food Restaurant Into an Unseasoned Hipster Mess 

12/7/2017 - 2 Students Dead After Shooter Opened Fire at New Mexico High School

12/7/2017 - Hey, Kylie Girl, Rihanna Got You Shook Again?

12/7/2017 - How Are The GOP Going to Make Up for Massive Tax Cuts to the Rich? Yep, Cuts to Medicaid and Welfare

12/7/2017 - Racist, Anti-Semitic Flyers Found on Princeton Campus

12/7/2017 - Sen. Al Franken Admits No Guilt and Offers No Apology in Bizarre Resignation Speech

12/7/2017 - Lupita Back on the Cover of Vogue Is All the ‘New Year, New You’ We Need

12/7/2017 - The 20 Blackest Moments From Sharon Reed’s Clapback Heard Round the World

12/7/2017 - Is #TeamNatural Ready to Go Coed? 9 Natural-Hair ‘Guy-rus’ Who Might Teach You a Few Things

12/7/2017 - Man Catches Beatdown From 2 Women After They Discover Video of Him Molesting 9-Year-Old

12/7/2017 - Denture-Gate: President Thick Tooth of the United ‘Shaehs’ Slurs Speech, and Hilarity Ensues

12/7/2017 - Chocolate Milk Mommies Encourage Black Women to Breast-Feed in Stunning Photoshoot 

12/7/2017 - The Cover That Time Forgot: Why We’re Placing #MeToo’s Tarana Burke Front and Center

12/7/2017 - What to Do if You’re Experiencing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

12/7/2017 - Will Mississippi’s New Civil Rights Museum Tell the Truth About the State’s Troublesome Past?

12/7/2017 - Black Employees File Civil Rights Lawsuit Against NYC Fire Department, Say Racism Within FDNY Is a ‘Disease’

12/7/2017 - Grand Jury Indicts Georgia Men on Murder Charges in Racially Motivated 1983 Killing 

12/7/2017 - A Racist Flyer Might Cost Doug Jones the Election Because the Entire Democratic Party Is Trash

12/7/2017 - Woman Who Slapped Cop at University of Miami Football Game Has to Write Letter of Apology 

12/6/2017 - Why Nola Darling 2.0 Is Not a Good Example of Polyamory

12/6/2017 - TV One Cancels Roland Martin’s Morning Show, NewsOne Now

12/6/2017 - Gabrielle Union on the #MeToo Movement: ‘The Floodgates Have Opened for White Women’

12/6/2017 - Oh, It’s Knit: Singer Frenchie Davis Helps Brooklyn, NY, Man’s Business Take Off After Snapping His Picture

12/6/2017 - Walking While Black: Community Calls for Jacksonville, Fla., Sheriff to Suspend Racially Biased Pedestrian Ticketing

12/6/2017 - 10 Best Christmas Soul Songs, Ranked (Also Known as the Hardest List of All Time)

12/6/2017 - #DerickWiley: Grand Jury Returns ‘True Bill’ Against Officer in Lyndo Jones Shooting

12/6/2017 - The Empire Strikes Black Gold: Team Azzedine Takes the British Fashion Awards 

12/6/2017 - After Another Woman Says Al Franken Forcibly Kissed Her, Democrats Are Finally Calling for His Resignation

12/6/2017 - So Caucasian … Joanne the Scammer Is Getting Her Own Show

12/6/2017 - #Chance2018: Can We Just Impeach Donald Trump and Make Chance the Rapper President Already?

12/6/2017 - ‘You Don’t Know the Trouble I’ve Had in My Life’: This 6-Year-Old Boy Is Fed the Hell Up With Santa

12/6/2017 - Dear 24- to 45-Year-Old White People Who Live in Urban Spaces: Why Don’t You Put Curtains and Blinds on Your Windows?

12/6/2017 - That Was Close! 3 Things to Know About Atlanta’s Wild Mayoral Race

12/6/2017 - Watch: Bodycam Footage Released of Oklahoma Republican in Motel Room With Teen Boy

12/6/2017 - Golden Krust Is a Major Part of the Caribbean New Yorker Identity

12/6/2017 - Tracee Ellis Ross Breaks Down Sexual Harassment for the Entitled Creeps Who Can’t Seem to Keep Their Hands to Themselves

12/6/2017 - Boxer Zab Judah Is Turning His Life Around 1 Patient at a Time

12/6/2017 - Bigoted White Women Are Mad at Bigoted White Men for Acting Like Bigots

12/6/2017 - MSNBC Live Anchor Craig Melvin Being Considered to Replace Matt Lauer on Today Show: Report 

12/6/2017 - ‘Moral Revival of America’: Modern-Day Poor People’s Campaign Launched

12/6/2017 - Magnetic Attraction: Glue-Free False Eyelashes

12/6/2017 - Black Women, Don’t Throw Up Hands—Call the Bank of Hysteria to Vent

12/6/2017 - Atlanta Hasn’t Had a White Mayor Since 1974, and Tuesday’s Mayoral Race Is So Close That It’s Headed for a Recount

12/6/2017 - Yes, #HimToo: How Would You React if a Man You Know and Care About Were Accused of Sexual Misconduct?

12/6/2017 - Former President Barack Obama and Recent Data Suggest That Women Make Better Leaders, and Water Is Wet

12/6/2017 - Time Magazine Names ‘the Silence Breakers’ Its Person of the Year

12/6/2017 - 10 Great Reasons to Buy Rachel Dolezal’s 2018 Calendar That’s a Real Thing

12/6/2017 - Once on This Island’s Opening Night Gives Me Jitters While I Consider Reginald F. Lewis’ Billion-Dollar Deal

12/6/2017 - The Real MVPs: My #Faves From Fenty Beauty (Hint: It’s Not the Foundation)

12/6/2017 - 2 Arizona Boys Honored as Heroes After Saving Woman From Burning Apartment

12/6/2017 - Atlanta Anchor Sharon Reed Claps Back at Viewer Who Calls Her N-Word After Mayoral Election

12/6/2017 - The 16 Best Books of the Year by Black Authors

12/6/2017 - The Bizarre Case of Meek Mill’s Incarceration, Explained

12/6/2017 - Beyoncé Makes Surprise Appearance to Present Colin Kaepernick With Muhammad Ali Legacy Award

12/6/2017 - Walmart Pulls T-Shirt Calling for Journalist Lynchings

12/5/2017 - Why Emotional Maturity and Emotional Intelligence Are Important for Healthy Relationships

12/5/2017 - These Shirts Are Every Thought People of Color Have Refrained From Saying to White People

12/5/2017 - Lubaina Himid Makes History as 1st Nonwhite Woman to Win Prestigious Turner Prize

12/5/2017 - Terry Crews Files a Lawsuit Against Adam Venit, WME for Sexual Assault

12/5/2017 - Back on Their Bullshit: Facebook Suspends Accounts of Women Who Call Men ‘Trash’

12/5/2017 - Who Will Survive in America?

12/5/2017 - Bad and British: We Showed Up and Out at the British Fashion Awards 2017—Including The Glow Up’s Veronica Webb

12/5/2017 - Tennessee High School Students Stage Walkout After Racist Messages That Reference ‘Stringing Up’ Black Students

12/5/2017 - Miguel’s War & Leisure Is Not as Political as Initially Advertised, but It’s a Near-Perfect Listen

12/5/2017 - Did Cornel West Come for Ta-Nehisi Coates?

12/5/2017 - From Bus Stops to Hip-Hop: An Ode to Around-the-Way Girls

12/5/2017 - Still Fine: The Glow Up Chats With Legendary Makeup Artist Sam Fine and We Get Our #BrowsOnFleek

12/5/2017 - My Mother Is White, I Am Not: On Being Biracial Without Identity Issues

12/5/2017 - With Trump’s Endorsement, the Republican National Committee Is Sending Funds to an Accused Pedophile

12/5/2017 - LaVar Ball Is Out of His Mind: He’s Sent Sneakers to Trump and He May Have Just Ruined LiAngelo’s Career

12/5/2017 - 69-Year-Old Man Had Plans to Shoot Up a Florida Mosque, Police Say

12/5/2017 - Rep. John Conyers Steps Down Amid Sexual Harassment Allegations; Double Standards Win Again

12/5/2017 - Quiz: Are You a Becky?

12/5/2017 - Watch: What Happened to Our Girls?

12/5/2017 - Heroic Cop Suspended When Officers Complain After She Violently Attacks Their White Privilege

12/5/2017 - Kate Steinle and the Return of the Angry White Lynch Mob

12/5/2017 - Meet ‘Angela,’ One of the 1st Slaves to Arrive in America

12/5/2017 - Discovery Communications Shells Out $70,000,000 to Buy Majority Stake in the Oprah Winfrey Network

12/5/2017 - Number of Fatal Cocaine Overdoses Among Black People on Par With Opioid-Related Deaths Among Whites, Study Shows

12/5/2017 - Atlanta Might Just Elect Its 1st White Mayor in Over 40 Years. Here Are 4 Things You Need to Know

12/5/2017 - Roy Moore Invited to Speak at Black Church and Those Negroes Ought to Be Ashamed of Themselves

12/5/2017 - Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson Says He Definitely Wouldn’t Pick Kevin Hart as His 2020 Running Mate

12/5/2017 - Glow Up Goals: Carmen de Lavallade Is the Epitome of Ageless Glamour

12/5/2017 - Pennsylvania Man Found Guilty of Killing Fiancee’s 8-Year-Old Son for Not Cleaning Room 

12/5/2017 - Florida Teen Accused of Setting Girlfriend’s Home on Fire Tells Investigators That a ‘Random Black Guy’ Did It

12/4/2017 - Choke Me, Spank Me, Pull My Hair: For the Women Who Like It Rough

12/4/2017 - Trump Administration Is Detaining an American Citizen in Iraq, Denying Him a Lawyer: Report

12/4/2017 - Today We Honor Chad ‘Pimp C’ Butler of UGK on the 10th Anniversary of His Death

12/4/2017 - LaVar Ball Pulls LiAngelo Ball Out of UCLA Over Indefinite Suspension: Report

12/4/2017 - Trump’s Lawyer Says the ‘President Cannot Obstruct Justice’

12/4/2017 - Trump’s Travel Ban Is Back On, Says Supreme Court

12/4/2017 - The Doctor Is In: Reframing the Christmas Blues

12/4/2017 - Long Live the Chairman: On This Day in 1969, the FBI and Chicago Police Assassinated Black Panther Fred Hampton

12/4/2017 - Longtime Florida Congresswoman Sentenced to 5-Year Prison Term for Corruption

12/4/2017 - Donald Trump Would Rather Have Old-Ass Orrin Hatch Run Again Than Have Mitt Romney on the Senate: Report

12/4/2017 - Massachusetts Cop Finally Fired After Writing ‘Love This’ About Deadly Attack at Charlottesville, Va., White Supremacist Rally

12/4/2017 - It Took 20 Years to Share My Mental Health Struggles. My Silence Could Have Killed Me

12/4/2017 - Meghan Markle’s White Sister Is Writing a Tell-All About the ‘Princess’-to-Be

12/4/2017 - 13-Year-Old California Girl, Victim of Bullying, Takes Her Own Life

12/4/2017 - Watch: How Do Black People ‘Emoji’?

12/4/2017 - While the NFL Is Losing Viewership, Colin Kaepernick Is Living His Best Life

12/4/2017 - Say What? Police Don’t Know Who Invited This Terrible ASL Interpreter to Their News Conference

12/4/2017 - Golden Krust Owner Lowell Hawthorne Reportedly Owed Millions in Back Taxes

12/4/2017 - Is the South More Racist Than Other Parts of the US?

12/4/2017 - 10 Things That Do Not Belong on Pizza

12/4/2017 - All These Women of Color Are Badder Than Taylor Swift

12/4/2017 - Florida Man Faces Charges After Drawing Attack Scene on Elementary School Student’s Homework

12/4/2017 - Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State Would Only Make Trump’s Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Even Worse

12/4/2017 - President Pussy Grabber Endorses Accused Pedophile for Congress

12/4/2017 - Judge Refuses Meek Mill’s Request for Bail, Calls Him ‘a Danger to the Community’

12/4/2017 - Oh, Honey: The (Budget-Friendly) Beauty in the Secret Life of Bees

12/4/2017 - Cleveland Finds Out This Week if It Made History by Electing 1st Muslim to City Council

12/4/2017 - Billy Bush to Trump: Bitch, You Know That’s You Saying, ‘Grab ’Em by the Pussy’

12/4/2017 - Blow Me: Airbrush Makeup Puts a Smile on My Face 

12/4/2017 - 10 Best Christmas Hip-Hop Songs, Ranked

12/4/2017 - Neo-Nazi Site Founder Who Prompted ‘Troll Storm’ Against Jewish Woman Wants Lawsuit Dismissed

12/4/2017 - New Book Reveals That Trump’s a Garbage Person Prone to Screaming Fits and His Diet Is Trash

12/4/2017 - Flight Time: 48 Hours in a Supermodel’s Suitcase 

12/4/2017 - Joy-Ann Reid Apologizes for ‘Tone-Deaf and Dumb’ Homophobic Blog Posts

12/4/2017 - LL Cool J Becomes 1st Rapper to Receive Kennedy Center Honors Award

12/4/2017 - Sentencing Begins in Trial of Former South Carolina Cop Who Killed Walter Scott 

12/4/2017 - NYC Subway Riders Get Their ‘Bodak Yellow’ On

12/4/2017 - Appolition Is the App That Takes Spare Change and Turns It Into Bail Money

12/4/2017 - 22-Year-Old Says He Connected With 81-Year-Old on Words With Friends After She Used the Word ‘Phat’

12/3/2017 - Like Father, Like Daughter: 20 Years After His Death, Biggie’s Legacy Launches a Clothing Line

12/3/2017 - Trauma May Be Passed Through Generations From Mothers to Daughters

12/3/2017 - DMX Pleads Guilty to Tax Fraud, Faces Up to 5 Years in Prison

12/3/2017 - American Airlines Makes Anti-Racism Training Mandatory After NAACP Issues Travel Advisory

12/3/2017 - Email Reveals That Senior Trump Aide Wrote: Russia ‘Has Just Thrown the Election to Him’

12/3/2017 - A Facial Fit for Queen Bey: How I Got My Own Beehive

12/3/2017 - #BlackGirlMagic: Meet the Creative Gunning to Bring Black Movie-Streaming to the Diaspora

12/3/2017 - Killer in the Sack? Why You Might Need to Learn CPR This Cuffing Season

12/3/2017 - Lowell Hawthorne, Founder of Golden Krust, Dead at 57 of Suspected Suicide

12/2/2017 - Slightly Drunken Customer Makes His Own Meal at Waffle House After Finding Employees Asleep

12/2/2017 - Trump Had a Racist Meltdown, Some Say

12/2/2017 - The 1 and Only Copy of Wu-Tang’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin Might End Up With the Feds Thanks to Martin Shkreli

12/2/2017 - Dapper: Fashioning a Queer Aesthetic of Black Womanhood

12/2/2017 - McDonald’s Manager Receives $110,000 for Helping to Capture Suspected Florida Serial Killer

12/2/2017 - Rapsody on Her Grammy Nominations Being ‘Good for the Culture,’ Her Unconventional Journey and Thoughts on Cardi B

12/2/2017 - I Am Not Your Token: What Rihanna Taught Us This Week About ‘Diversity’ Casting 

12/2/2017 - Someone Should Have Gotten Tyrese Off of Al Gore’s Internet Years Ago

12/2/2017 - Pigment on Fleek: Why these Juvia’s Place Makeup Tutorials Are So on Point 

12/2/2017 - Senate Passes Major Tax Overhaul 51-49, Cutting Corporate Taxes and Gutting Student Loan Write-Offs

12/1/2017 - The Big-Boob Struggle Is Real

12/1/2017 - New York District Attorney Indicted in Cover-Up of Police Shooting of Unarmed Black Man

12/1/2017 - BBWs Are Popping, and We Have the Sauce

12/1/2017 - Before The Glow Up: The Root Staff Reveal Their Younger Selves in a #FlashbackFriday Series of Embarrassing Photos

12/1/2017 - 1 in 4 Men Are Entitled Trash Who Think Exposing Themselves Doesn’t Count as Harassment

12/1/2017 - Of Course Roy Moore Is Mad About Felon Voters. Suppressing Black Votes Was a Function of Alabama’s Constitution

12/1/2017 - Byron McBride Indicted on Capital Murder Charges in Slaying of 6-Year-Old Kingston Frazier

12/1/2017 - Report Calls Out Weak Police Response to Charlottesville, Va., Protests, Alleges Obstruction

12/1/2017 - ‘It’s OK to Be White,’ Explained

12/1/2017 - I Paid Attention to the Cotton Fields of Alabama for the 1st Time

12/1/2017 - Snitches, Ranked

12/1/2017 - Judge of Characters: The Beauty of Black Royalty

12/1/2017 - #NappyGirlMagic: She Left the Corporate Grind and Became America’s Natural-Hair Whisperer

12/1/2017 - Treat Yourself ... to Some #SelfLove

12/1/2017 - Texas Republican Used $84,000 of Taxpayer Funds to Settle Sexual Harassment Claim: Report

12/1/2017 - Turns Out the Nearly $90,000,000 Donation to Prove the NFL Cares About Social Justice Is Bullshit

12/1/2017 - Snitches, Roaches, Criminals and Rats: Yup, the Trump White House Is Definitely a Trap House

12/1/2017 - Michael Flynn Releases Statement After Pleading Guilty to Lying to the FBI; James Comey Responds With Epic Subtweet

12/1/2017 - Judy Reyher Hates the Obamas, Blacks and Muslims. Colorado Republicans’ Response? You’re Hired!

12/1/2017 - Make My Nature Rise: Why We Should All Be Using All-Natural Cosmetics

12/1/2017 - Philadelphia Eagles Player Fletcher Cox Seduced a Married Woman and Now Her Husband Is Suing Him: Report

12/1/2017 - The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Pocahontas, Potato Salad and Porch Monkeys

12/1/2017 - Family Searching for Answers After Young, Aspiring NYC Model Is Killed in the Country of Jamaica 

12/1/2017 - Racist Shopper Tells Mother to ‘Go Back to Mexico’

12/1/2017 - Tracing Your Roots: How Were My Ancestors’ Lives in 19th-Century Arkansas?

12/1/2017 - Watch: An 11-Year-Old Meghan Markle Shuts Down a Sexist Dish Detergent Ad

12/1/2017 - On This World AIDS Day, Where Do We Go From Here?

12/1/2017 - Makeup Mecca: Marjani Beauty Is a Marketplace Made for Us, by Us

12/1/2017 - Nas Is Taking Kelis to Court Over Visitation Rights

12/1/2017 - Indiana High School Employee Is Being Fired After Participating in Game of Hangman That Used Racial Slur: Report

12/1/2017 - Azealia Banks Recounts Abuse by Coldplay Manager Dave Holmes

12/1/2017 - #MeToo: When Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Leaves You Feeling Powerless

12/1/2017 - Conservative Black Pastor Has Come-to-Jesus Moment, Parts Ways With GOP and Trump

12/1/2017 - Cynthia Bailey Knew She Was Beautiful the Moment She Realized She Didn’t Need Anyone to Validate That Beauty

12/1/2017 - Conservatives Want to #BoycottSanFrancisco After Undocumented Immigrant Acquitted in Death of Kate Steinle

12/1/2017 - 5 Times James Baldwin Read White America

12/1/2017 - 15-Year-Old Girl Stabbed 80 Times, Set on Fire by Man She Met on Facebook, Police Say 

12/1/2017 - Texas 16-Year-Old Finds ‘Forever Home’ After Asking Teacher to Adopt Him