6/30/2017 - Watch: Your Ultimate Guide to Black BBQs

6/30/2017 - Black Music Month Is a Celebration of What We All Know: We Created Music

6/30/2017 - Watch: Soul and Funk Icons Who Stood Tall for Black Empowerment

6/30/2017 - How Much Is a Black Life Worth? We Calculated It

6/30/2017 - Morehouse Names Harold Martin Jr. Interim President

6/30/2017 - Young Thug to Donate Proceeds From NYC Show to Planned Parenthood 

6/30/2017 - We Need to Talk About Eric Holder’s Ominous 3 a.m. Tweet

6/30/2017 - Manhunt Underway After Recent High School Grad Is Gunned Down During Road Rage Incident

6/30/2017 - 12 Thoughts on Jay Z's New Album, "4:44" Because We All Care Right Now

6/30/2017 - Jay-Z’s 4:44 Is the 1st Grown-Ass Hip-Hop Album

6/30/2017 - Watch: Sneak Peek of Array’s The House on Coco Road

6/30/2017 - Ind. Police Fatally Shoot Unarmed Black Motorist; Family Demands Answers

6/30/2017 - Tracing Your Roots: How Did My Ancestor Escape Slavery?

6/30/2017 - Black Music Month Playlist No. 5: We Made America Great in the 1st Place

6/30/2017 - Homeland Security Officer Indicted for Kicking a Handcuffed Man in the Head 

6/30/2017 - Fla. Woman Shot, Killed at Home Hours After Posting on Facebook About ‘Making 6 Figures’

6/30/2017 - Who Didn’t Jay-Z Come for in 4:44?

6/30/2017 - Retired Marine Fatally Shot While Trying to Stop an Attempted Robbery, Family Says

6/30/2017 - Tidal, Sprint Partnership Goal to Eliminate Homework Gap in Low-Income High School Students

6/30/2017 - Boston Police Officer Suspended Without Pay for Making ‘Black People Have Met Their Match’ Video

6/30/2017 - Notorious B.I.G.’s Estate Says Jenner Apology Doesn’t Cut It

6/29/2017 - White House Pushes Questionable Video

6/29/2017 - Barack Obama Boulevard: Los Angeles City Council Votes Unanimously to Rename Street After Former President

6/29/2017 - Kendall Jenner Issues Apology and Removes Shirts From Website

6/29/2017 - Serena Williams Beats Everyone On The Court, But Just Can't Win With White People And Black Men

6/29/2017 - Judge of Characters: Thank You, Kodak Black, Say Black Women Everywhere

6/29/2017 - Stupid or Liars? James O’Keefe’s Van Jones Hoax Raises an Important Question

6/29/2017 - ‘Nothing Like Almost Shooting Someone to Set Your Head Right’: Fla. Sheriff’s Deputy Fired After Boasting Online 

6/29/2017 - Strong Enough for a Man, Made (as) a Woman: John McEnroe, Serena Williams and the Erasure of Black Female Excellence

6/29/2017 - Morning Joe Co-Host Mika Brzezinski Claps Back at Trump’s Mean Tweet

6/29/2017 - Shit Bougie Black People Love: 33. Drinking Room Temperature Water

6/29/2017 - Hero Army Veteran Beaten to Death After Saving 2 Young Teens From Brutal Attack 

6/29/2017 - Watch the Drones: Can Black Folks Benefit From the New World Order?

6/29/2017 - A Tale of 2 Brothers: 1 Destined for the NBA, the Other a Hater

6/29/2017 - Providence, RI, Firefighter Fired Over Racist Fried-Chicken Remark to Black Woman 

6/29/2017 - Trump Goes on Twitter Rampage, Claims Morning Joe Host ‘Was Bleeding Badly From a Face-Lift’

6/29/2017 - Becky of the Year Candidate: White Woman Says Sexism in Hollywood Is Like Racism

6/29/2017 - Browns Are the New Nudes When It Comes to Beauty and Fashion for Women of Color

6/29/2017 - Off-Duty Ill. Cop ‘Detained’ Black Teen for Not Following Orders, Lansing Police Say

6/29/2017 - Minn. Man Arrested Despite Carrying ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Card

6/29/2017 - #Flint: State Files Lawsuit Against City After Council Refused to Approve Long-Term Water Contract With Detroit

6/28/2017 - Ohio Town Considers Imposing a 3-Strike Policy on Heroin Overdoses

6/28/2017 - Charges Dropped Against Only Officer to Face Criminal Charges Related to Sandra Bland’s Death

6/28/2017 - My Day In Memphis With President Obama's My Brother's Keeper Alliance

6/28/2017 - Black Man Takes Miss. Flag to Supreme Court Because ... Look at It

6/28/2017 - Black Music Month: The Transition of Mali Is Super Woke and Super Black

6/28/2017 - Watch: Kids on Game Show in Philippines Snatch Wigs During Beyoncé ‘Listen’ Performance

6/28/2017 - Facebook Will Ban You for Talking About White Men. Black Children and Muslims? Not So Much 

6/28/2017 - Watch the President Sexually Harass a Female Reporter

6/28/2017 - I Listened to Chris Brown and Ray J’s Mixtape so You Don’t Have To

6/28/2017 - ‘Form NBA Voltron!’ Chris Paul Headed to Houston Rockets

6/28/2017 - Trinity College Suspends Professor After He Is Forced to Flee the State for Scaring the Whites

6/28/2017 - Philando Castile Settlement Shows White America Willingly Pays for White Supremacy

6/28/2017 - Eau de Bull: A Cologne of Arsenic and Environmental Racism for Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Wood

6/28/2017 - A White House Reporter Grew Tired of the ‘Fake News’ Narrative, so He Fought Back

6/28/2017 - NRA Recruitment Video Basically Labels the Left Violent Snowflakes

6/28/2017 - Funeral of Mobb Deep’s Prodigy Open to the Public in NYC

6/28/2017 - Man Jailed in Rikers Island for 5 Months With $2 of Bail Files Lawsuit

6/28/2017 - United Airlines Issues Apology to Mother After Infant Overheats Aboard Delayed Flight

6/28/2017 - Man Spends 90 Days in Jail After Police Mistake Drywall Powder for Cocaine

6/28/2017 - Halle Berry Thought Oscar Win Would Open the Door for More Diversity

6/28/2017 - Flint, Mich., America’s Got Talent Contestant Blows Crowd Away With Whitney Houston Song

6/28/2017 - Black Girls Are Viewed as Less Innocent and More Adultlike Than White Girls: Study

6/27/2017 - Report: Sacramento, Calif., Police Department Moves to Fire Officer Involved in Shooting Death of Mentally Ill Black Man

6/27/2017 - #Flint: City Council Approves Short-Term Water Contract After Heated Arguments at Meeting

6/27/2017 - Watch: Did Rough Night Steal From Girls Trip? Director Says Yes

6/27/2017 - Fake Time Magazine Cover Featuring Trump Discovered Hanging at Trump Golf Clubs 

6/27/2017 - Teens Handcuffed for Selling Water on National Mall Get Job Offers

6/27/2017 - Flint, Mich., Water Crisis: How Much Is Gov. Snyder Responsible?

6/27/2017 - 3 Chicago Cops Facing Multiple Charges in Alleged Cover-Up in Laquan McDonald’s Shooting Death

6/27/2017 - Dark-Skinned Black Women Should Be Relieved That Kodak Black Doesn’t Like Them

6/27/2017 - Is Airbnb Turning NYC’s Brooklyn White? Airbnb Responds

6/27/2017 - Trumpcare Vote Put on Hold Because It’s a Hot Trashtastic Mess

6/27/2017 - LaVar Ball Took His Shirt Off During WWE’s Monday Night Raw and We Can’t Unsee This

6/27/2017 - Commerce, Texas, Police Chief and School Board Trustee Resign Amid Backlash Over Racist Road Rage Incident

6/27/2017 - The Joy They (And By They, I Mean White People) Can’t Steal

6/27/2017 - Watch NBA Guard Victor Oladipo Get Embarrassed by 12-Year-Old

6/27/2017 - Beyoncé and Twins Reportedly Home With Family

6/27/2017 - Family of Alton Sterling Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit 

6/27/2017 - Bill Cosby Sexual Assault Trial in Calif. Set for July 2018

6/27/2017 - Bask in Serena Williams’ Pregnant Nakedness on Vanity Fair Cover

6/27/2017 - Sen. Cory Booker and Rep. John Lewis Host Sit-In on Capitol Steps to Protest Health Care Bill 

6/27/2017 - Trump Couldn’t Wait to Hit Twitter After CNN’s Fake-News Debacle

6/27/2017 - NBC Reschedules The Carmichael Show Mass-Shooting Episode

6/27/2017 - We Need to Talk About Eric Trump’s New Nazi Haircut

6/27/2017 - Leslie Jones Warns People About Ritz-Carlton and Racism

6/27/2017 - From Drake’s Monologue to Draymond’s Knickers, We Watched the NBA Awards So You Didn’t Have To

6/27/2017 - Angela Valdes Gotta Go. Along With Everybody Else But Tasha and Tommy. Kthxbi.

6/27/2017 - 3 of the Central Park Five Finally Celebrate Their High School Graduation, Receive Honorary Diplomas

6/27/2017 - Marilyn Mosby Treated Baltimore Cops the Way Cops Treat Everyone Else; Now They’re Coming for Her

6/27/2017 - ‘I Could Kill You’: Video Shows Off-Duty Ill. Police Officer Pinning Black Teen to the Ground

6/27/2017 - #WalkingWhileBlack: Video Shows Fla. Cop Threatening to Jail Black Man for Crossing the Street, Not Having ID

6/26/2017 - Emmett Till Historical Marker in Miss. Destroyed by Vandals

6/26/2017 - Black Lives Matter Demonstrators Briefly Halt 2017 Twin Cities Pride Festival in Minn.

6/26/2017 - The Supreme Court Just Unblocked Part of Trump’s Muslim Travel Ban

6/26/2017 - 10 Thoughts About "All Eyez On Me", Both A Day Late and a Dollar Short

6/26/2017 - Trump Supporters Hold ‘Sit-in’ at NC Starbucks After Woman Is Reportedly Mocked for Wearing Trump T-Shirt

6/26/2017 - Beyoncé’s $100,000 Formation Scholarship Recipients Revealed

6/26/2017 - MMA Fighter Literally Gets the Shit Beaten Out of Her

6/26/2017 - Former Green Bay Packers Running Back Ahman Green Arrested for Child Abuse

6/26/2017 - The NFL’s Race Problem Is Deeper Than Colin Kaepernick

6/26/2017 - Migos Had Time for Chris Brown at the BET Awards

6/26/2017 - Everything You Wanted to Know About the Migos, Joe Budden, Chris Brown Fights but Were Afraid to Ask

6/26/2017 - Watch: A Brief History of Jazz by Some of the Genre’s Freshest Faces

6/26/2017 - The BET Awards Show Felt Like It Was on Forever, but I Had Chicken and Was Entertained

6/26/2017 - Here’s Why Donald Trump Ended the Eid Dinner Tradition

6/26/2017 - City of St. Anthony, Minn., Reaches $3,000,000 Settlement With Family of Philando Castile 

6/26/2017 - Police Still Searching for Suspects Who Beat Up Restaurant Owner Over Cold Chicken 

6/26/2017 - Woman Charged in SC With Tearing Confederate-Flag Tag Off Truck, Backing Into Truck’s Owner 

6/26/2017 - The 10 Blackest Moments From A BET Awards Show I Only Watched An Hour Of Because It Was Long As Shit And I'm Old

6/25/2017 - Live Blog: The Root Goes to the BET Awards and Tries to Look Cool

6/25/2017 - Journalists Claim Abuse at Inauguration

6/25/2017 - SC Restaurant Owner Says Confederate Flag Near His Business Has Caused Fistfights

6/25/2017 - Former NBA Player Marcus Camby Sued Over Nephew’s Death

6/25/2017 - Bill Cosby’s Picture Erased From Ben’s Chili Bowl Mural

6/25/2017 - Black Teens Cuffed for Selling Water on National Mall 

6/25/2017 - Sofia Coppola’s Blatant Erasure of Black Women in The Beguiled Highlights How White Women Are Complicit in White Supremacy

6/24/2017 - Halle Berry Says She Doesn’t Want to Hear About ‘Black Lives Matter’ but She’s No Sellout

6/24/2017 - Why a Utah Man Says He Got a Maaaad Disrespectful LeBron James Tat on His Leg

6/24/2017 - Dallas Cop Faces Charges in Shooting Death of 21-Year-Old Woman

6/24/2017 - Black Writer Sues, Says All Eyez on Me Ripped From His Work

6/24/2017 - For Those Considering Blaxit, I Present to You: Budapest, Hungary

6/24/2017 - The Root Is Going to the BET Awards Even Though 1 of Us Can’t Pick Migos Out of a Crowd

6/23/2017 - Senate Judiciary Committee Investigating Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch 

6/23/2017 - Calif. Bans Travel to 4 More States That Discriminate Against LGBT Americans

6/23/2017 - ‘What Happened to Black Lives Matter?’ Movement for Black Lives Responds

6/23/2017 - Watch: This Is What Happens When Your Privilege Is Showing and There’s a Black Woman in the Room

6/23/2017 - Watch: The Cast of Power on the Meaning of Loyalty

6/23/2017 - Watch: Does Claws Challenge Stereotypes on TV of Women of Color?

6/23/2017 - Judge of Characters: These White Women Were Told by AppleCare!

6/23/2017 - #StayWoke: Take a Look at Trump’s Energy Appointee’s Deleted Tweets About Blacks, Jews and Women 

6/23/2017 - Bill Cosby Wants to Hold Town Halls on Sexual Assault and the Law. Bruh.

6/23/2017 - 16-Month-Old Allegedly Beaten by Her Teenage Dad on Father’s Day Dies in NYC Hospital

6/23/2017 - If Dennis Rodman Is Our Hope for Peace With North Korea, We Are Screwed

6/23/2017 - Mistrial Declared for 2nd Time in Case of Ohio Cop Who Shot and Killed Sam Dubose

6/23/2017 - Limit(less) Reminds Us That Africans Can Be Queer, Too, and Debunks Stereotypes

6/23/2017 - NJ Assembly Passes Bill Requiring Schools to Teach Kids How to Interact With Police 

6/23/2017 - Watch: The Jazz Legends Who Fearlessly Fought for Freedom

6/23/2017 - Trump Implies That He Wants Robert Mueller Gone and Lied About the Comey Tapes to Keep the Ex-FBI Director Honest

6/23/2017 - High School Student’s Re-Creation of Beyoncé’s Lemonade Cover for His Graduation Goes Viral

6/23/2017 - Al Sharpton Explains Why His Thirst-Trap Selfies Might Steal Your Great-Auntie

6/23/2017 - City of Ferguson, Mo., Settled With Michael Brown’s Family for $1,500,000 in Wrongful Death Lawsuit 

6/23/2017 - Black Off-Duty St. Louis Officer Tries to Assist Colleagues Following Stolen Car Chase, Is Shot by Fellow Cop

6/23/2017 - ‘I Know What a Thug Black Guy Looks Like’: Jury Deliberates in Trial of White Man Who Killed Black Man Over $50: Update

6/23/2017 - Can We All Agree that DJ Khaled is the Best Human Being in all of Hip-Hop?

6/23/2017 - Seattle Police Release More Video of Charleena Lyles Shooting

6/23/2017 - Tracing Your Roots: Is My Family’s Big Secret Presidential?

6/23/2017 - Black Lives Matter Abroad, Too

6/23/2017 - Black Sororities Are a Straight, Cisgender Women’s Club, and That Needs to Change

6/23/2017 - German White Woman Completes Her ‘Transition’ Into a Black Woman

6/23/2017 - Black Music Month Playlist No. 4: Damn! Damn! Damn!

6/23/2017 - Johnny Depp Jokes About Assassinating Donald Trump 

6/23/2017 - NPG, Warner Bros. Records Release Purple Rain Remastered Deluxe Editions

6/23/2017 - L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputies Shoot at Aggressive Dog; Bullets Ricochet and Kill Teen, Authorities Say

6/23/2017 - Sheriff to Shorten Sentences for Ga. Inmates Who Saved Deputy Who Passed Out During Work Detail 

6/22/2017 - FBI Investigating Stabbing of Police Officer at Flint, Mich., Airport as Possible Act of Terrorism

6/22/2017 - Judges Rule Making a Murderer Confession Was Improperly Obtained

6/22/2017 - Is the Sacramento, Calif., Police Department Secretly Airing Its Grievances Through an Underground Facebook Page?

6/22/2017 - Barack Obama: Senate Health Care Bill Is a Massive Transfer of Wealth to the Richest People in America

6/22/2017 - Jerrod Carmichael Plays the Comedic Relief in Transformers: The Last Knight ... Only if You Laugh, Though

6/22/2017 - Ohio State Recruit Breaks Internet With Wokest Shirt Ever

6/22/2017 - NJ Airman Convicted of the Federal Crime of Being 6 Minutes Late for a Meeting 

6/22/2017 - #Justice4Kyira Means Justice for Black Mothers Everywhere

6/22/2017 - The Supersecret Trumpcare Bill Is Now Public and It Sucks, but You Knew That Already

6/22/2017 - How Information Overload Turns Into Writer's Block

6/22/2017 - Despicable Bill Cosby Wants to Teach Young People How to Avoid Sexual Assault Allegations

6/22/2017 - Calif. School Board Expels Student Over Racist Instagram Posts

6/22/2017 - Picture of Young Man Helping Elderly Man Down the Escalator at Mass. Mall Goes Viral

6/22/2017 - Trump: There Are No Comey Tapes Because I’m a Liar (OK, He Didn’t Say the Liar Part)

6/22/2017 - White Men Can’t Murder: Why White Cops Are Immune to the Law

6/22/2017 - College Campus Shut Down After Professor’s #LetThemFuckingDie Hashtag Scares White People

6/22/2017 - Guess Where the 1st Trump Re-Election Fundraiser Is Being Held?

6/22/2017 - ‘I Don’t Want You to Get Shooted’: New Video Shows Diamond Reynolds’ 4-Year-Old Daughter Concerned for Her Mother’s Safety 

6/22/2017 - Michael Vick’s Father Charged in Heroin Ring

6/22/2017 - The Brother Also Rises: As ‘White Dave,’ Noah Coogler’s Got Next

6/22/2017 - 9-Year-Old Girl Called ‘Nutella,’ ‘Servant’ by Racist Bullies at School; Posts Viral Video on Facebook to Bring Attention to Her Case

6/22/2017 - 2 Jurors in Cosby Trial Refused to Convict: Report

6/22/2017 - ACLU Sues DC Police, Claims Officers Wrongfully Arrested Protesters During Trump’s Inauguration

6/21/2017 - Fla. Education Official Says He Believes the Gender Wage Gap Is ‘Genetic’

6/21/2017 - Congressional Black Caucus: Trump and His Administration Don’t Care About Black People

6/21/2017 - Former Ivy League Administrator Ruth Simmons Named Interim President of Prairie View A&M University

6/21/2017 - On Philando Castile, Terror and the Trauma That Remains

6/21/2017 - #StayWoke: Betsy DeVos Just Hired the CEO of a For-Profit Student Loan Company to Run Federal Student Aid

6/21/2017 - Mobb Deep’s Prodigy and Sickle Cell: What You Need to Know About a Disease That Takes Down the Young

6/21/2017 - Fired Milwaukee Police Officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown Found Not Guilty in Fatal Shooting of Sylville Smith

6/21/2017 - 5 Questions About the Southern University Sex-Tape Scandal

6/21/2017 - Watch: Jasmyn Lawson Is Doing It for Black Girls at Giphy

6/21/2017 - Officials Recommend 1-Day Suspension After Columbus, Ohio, Officer Is Caught Kicking Handcuffed Black Man in the Head 

6/21/2017 - It’s Time to Revive the Heart of the Voting Rights Act

6/21/2017 - Black Billionaire Shares Motivational Message to Young Black Men

6/21/2017 - 5 Birthday Gifts for the Toddler Who Has Everything

6/21/2017 - NYC Sperm Donor Still Giving Away His Sperm for Free

6/21/2017 - Kawhi Leonard Looks Like He Cut His Braids Off With a Rusty Spoon

6/21/2017 - Video of a White Woman Demanding a White Doctor Shocked Everyone ... Except Black Doctors

6/21/2017 - DC Memorial for Slain Va. Teen Nabra Hassanen Set on Fire: Report

6/21/2017 - Texas GOP Congressman: Hey, Sorry About Saying Bill Clinton Tried to Kill Loretta Lynch

6/21/2017 - ‘That White Boy ’Bout to Lose’: The Inescapable Racial Politics of the Ga. 6th Special Election

6/21/2017 - O.J. Simpson’s Sister Says There’s No Reason Why He Shouldn’t Be Paroled

6/21/2017 - Texas Governor Signs ‘Weakened’ Sandra Bland Act Into Law 

6/21/2017 - The Cosby Trial Reminded Me Why I’ll Never Seek Justice

6/21/2017 - Jesse Williams Files for Joint Physical Custody Amid Divorce

6/21/2017 - Family of Michael Brown Settles Wrongful Death Lawsuit With the City of Ferguson, Mo.

6/21/2017 - 6 Ga. Inmates Praised for Saving Polk County Deputy Who Passed Out During Work Detail

6/21/2017 - Andre Iguodala to Warriors Fans Anxious About His Free Agency: Calm the Eff Down

6/20/2017 - We Looked at Kamala Harris’ Black Music Month Playlist and Here’s What We Found

6/20/2017 - Rural America Wants Respect From Media

6/20/2017 - Eric Holder May Run for the White House in 2020

6/20/2017 - Prodigy Lived His Entire Life In Pain, And I Hope He Finally Has The Peace His Music Gave Me

6/20/2017 - Dashcam Footage of Philando Castile Shooting Released

6/20/2017 - Watch: Kofi Siriboe Says Being Black Is a Blessing

6/20/2017 - President’s Pick to Head FBI Scrubbed Russian-Government-Related Case From Résumé

6/20/2017 - Detroit Mom Shot in Front of 4-Year-Old Daughter Dies in 14-Year-Old Son’s Arms; Ex-Boyfriend Named Person of Interest in Her Death

6/20/2017 - Trevor Noah Slams NRA Hypocrisy in the Police Shooting of Philando Castile 

6/20/2017 - Rap Legend Prodigy From Mobb Deep Dead at 42

6/20/2017 - Little Marco Rubio Goes In for the Hug, and Ivanka Trump Isn’t Here for It

6/20/2017 - #TheRootTrip: The Great American Ice Experiment

6/20/2017 - Canadian Woman Caught on Camera Demanding a ‘White Doctor’ for Her Son at Ontario Clinic

6/20/2017 - Sean ‘Spicy Facts’ Spicer Is Reportedly Stepping Out of the Spotlight, and Why This Is Bad for America

6/20/2017 - Ala. Mayor Wants New Orleans’ Recently Disassembled Confederate Monuments for Display in His City’s Memorial Park, Because of Course He Does

6/20/2017 - If You’re Mad About the Black and Brown Stripes Added to the Rainbow Flag, You’re Probably White Nonsense

6/20/2017 - Stevie Wonder Was All ‘Black Lives Matter’ but Then Went All ‘Black-on-Black Crime’ at Gun-Violence Rally

6/20/2017 - Watch: Have We Been Lied to About Drugs?

6/20/2017 - The Ku Klux Klan’s Big Recruiting Weekend

6/20/2017 - Mattel Launches New Diverse Ken Dolls 

6/20/2017 - #TheRootTrip: Treat Yo’ Self at Atlanta’s Iwi Fresh Garden Day Spa

6/20/2017 - Started From the Blog, Now We’re Here: Rae Holliday Is the ‘Stuff’ Fly People Like

6/20/2017 - Texas Woman Stabs Elderly Hispanic Woman on Bus for Not Speaking English: Report 

6/20/2017 - Kim Kardashian on ‘Blackface’ Photo: ‘I Was Really Tan’

6/20/2017 - Alternate Juror on Cosby Trial: ‘I Would Have Convicted Him on All Charges’

6/20/2017 - NYC Father Accused of Badly Beating 16-Month-Old Daughter on Father’s Day 

6/20/2017 - Rachel Lindsay Says She’s Under Pressure Being 1st Black Bachelorette

6/19/2017 - White Liberal Tears and Racism From Parents in Response to Seattle Teachers Wearing ‘Black Lives Matter’ T-Shirts

6/19/2017 - Report: Kevin Durant Will Decline Player Option, Re-Sign With Golden State Warriors

6/19/2017 - US Supreme Court Ruling on Offensive Trademarks Means Washington Redskins Will Likely Keep Their Name

6/19/2017 - Add This to the List: The Dangers of Canvassing While Black in Ga.’s 6th District

6/19/2017 - Facebook Banned Me For Writing "N*gger" In A Piece About Racism, While Emails Calling Me "N*gger" Still Sit In My Inbox

6/19/2017 - Va. Man, 22, Charged With Murder in Attack on Muslim Teen After She Left Mosque; Authorities Say Case Isn’t Being Investigated as Hate Crime

6/19/2017 - Wheel of Fortune Apologizes for Using Slave Images

6/19/2017 - Audio Released of Pregnant Woman Killed After Calling Police

6/19/2017 - Cosby’s Lawyer Is ‘Confident’ That Sexual Assault Case Will End in Acquittal if Retried

6/19/2017 - On The Vital And Audacious Rage Of Valerie Castile, The Newest Member Of The "Fucked Up Mother's Club"

6/19/2017 - Megyn Kelly’s Interview With Alex Jones Was a Waste of Everyone’s Time

6/19/2017 - Myrtle Beach, SC, Shooting Caught on Facebook Live From Tourist on Balcony: ‘Multiple People Down!’ 

6/19/2017 - Apparently, Senate Republicans Don’t Believe White Men Are Terrorists

6/19/2017 - Everybody’s Queen Sugar Bae, Kofi Siriboe, Is Trolling All of Us

6/19/2017 - Jay Z to Drop New Album, 4:44, on June 30

6/19/2017 - College-Bound 19-Year-Old Fatally Shot During Craigslist Transaction 

6/18/2017 - All Eyez on Me Not So Much a Box-Office Flop

6/18/2017 - Miami Herald Backs Trump on Cuba

6/18/2017 - Cuba Calls Out Donald Trump, US: Don’t Get Hincty With Us, Racist Hypocrites

6/18/2017 - #TheRootTrip: A Former Tourist Home in SC Has Literally Gone to the (Dead) Dogs

6/18/2017 - #TheRootTrip: Former Tourist Home in Atlanta Retains Some Signs of Its Past Glory

6/18/2017 - Rapper Juvenile Jailed for $150,000 in Back Child Support

6/18/2017 - Betsy DeVos Doesn’t Care About Systemic Discrimination (Old Kanye Voice)

6/18/2017 - #TheRootTrip: In Atlanta, a Mystery. Who Was Ma Sutton?

6/18/2017 - On 2-Year Anniversary of Massacre, Mother Emanuel AME Church Announces Memorial to Honor Shooting Victims

6/18/2017 - Sheriff ‘Black Guy for Trump’ Turns Down Job at the Department of Homeland Security

6/18/2017 - #TheRootTrip: Ga. on My Mind

6/18/2017 - Where the Hell Are the Police? Another Noose Found on National Mall

6/18/2017 - Prosecutor Announces Cosby Will Be Retried in Sex Assault Case

6/17/2017 - Beyoncé and Jay Z Welcome Twins

6/17/2017 - #TheRootTrip: Chillin’ in Style in Birmingham, Ala.

6/17/2017 - Jay Z Blasts ‘Exploitative’ US Bail Industry in Father’s Day Essay

6/17/2017 - #TheRootTrip: Success ... and Then ... Sadness

6/17/2017 - #TheRootTrip: Martin Luther King Jr. Slept Here

6/17/2017 - Mother of 15-Year-Old Jordan Edwards Joins Lawsuit Against Officer, City in Son’s Death; Also Sues Father 

6/17/2017 - #TheRootTrip: A Grand Hotel in the Heart of Meridian, Miss.

6/17/2017 - All Eyez on a Flop

6/17/2017 - #TheRootTrip: Try the Pig Ear Sandwich at the Big Apple Inn, Home of Authentic Southern Cooking in Miss.

6/17/2017 - #TheRootTrip: In a Historic District in Jackson, Miss., a Chance at a Rebirth

6/17/2017 - Resist! Thousands Flood the Streets After Not Guilty Verdict in Police Killing of Philando Castile

6/17/2017 - Hip-Hop, Mental Health and Telling Our Stories: Combat Jack Talks the Life and Death of Chris Lighty

6/17/2017 - The Profound Quandary of Blackness in the Video Game ‘Detroit: Become Human’

6/16/2017 - Mike Brown Movie Based on His Mother’s Memoir in the Works at Warner Bros.

6/16/2017 - Color of Change, Movement for Black Lives Join National Father’s Bail Out Day

6/16/2017 - This Lying, Murdering Whore Called America

6/16/2017 - Texas Governor Signs Bill Into Law Enforcing the Reporting of Police Shootings

6/16/2017 - #TheRootTrip: Don’t Expect to Be Welcome at This Old-School Pool Hall Without a Little Home Training

6/16/2017 - Minn. Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez Found Not Guilty on All Charges in the Shooting Death of Philando Castile 

6/16/2017 - White Supremacists Are Mad at Right-Wing Nutjobs for Not Being Racist Enough

6/16/2017 - Trump Talks Cuba, but All I Heard Was ‘Assata Shakur’ and All I Saw Was a ‘Blacks for Trump’ Sign

6/16/2017 - Of Course The Officer Who Killed Philando Castile Was Acquitted, Because Nigger Hunting Season Is (Always) Here

6/16/2017 - #TheRootTrip: Good Times and Good Vibes at Shreveport, La.’s Bon Temps Coffee Bar

6/16/2017 - This Cuba Deal Reversal Is Bad, But I'm More Creeped Out By How Obsessed Donald Trump Is With President Obama

6/16/2017 - #TheRootTrip: Where a La. Hotel Once Stood, People From the Past and Present Have Been Forgotten

6/16/2017 - Jada Pinkett Smith Is Not Impressed With Tupac Biopic All Eyez on Me: ‘The Reimagining of My Relation to Pac Has Been Deeply Hurtful’

6/16/2017 - Jeff Bezos Is Buying Whole Foods, Completing His Monopoly on Whiteness 

6/16/2017 - #TheRootTrip: To Experience This Shreveport, La., Dining Spot, You’ll Have to Use Your Imagination

6/16/2017 - NJ High School Reprinting Yearbook to Include Students Wearing Pro-Trump Shirts 

6/16/2017 - This Man Cooking On A File Cabinet Grill Is The Blackest Thing I've Ever Seen This Week

6/16/2017 - LeBron James Suffers Another Loss

6/16/2017 - #TheRootTrip: Fill ’er Up Quick at Swift, One of the Few Black-Owned Gas Stations in Texas

6/16/2017 - Family of Terence Crutcher Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit, Seeks Police Reform 

6/16/2017 - This Might Be Trump’s Best Tweet Yet

6/16/2017 - Obama Congratulates Jay Z for Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction in Loving Video

6/16/2017 - Bill Cosby Jury Enters 5th Day of Deliberations; Jurors Ask for Definition of ‘Reasonable Doubt’

6/16/2017 - When a Deplorable Interviews a Nutjob: How Alex Jones Played Megyn Kelly and Scooped Her Interview

6/16/2017 - Detroit Man, Convicted Based on a Single Hair, Released After 41 Years in Prison

6/16/2017 - Watch: Detroit Exposes the Terrifying Civil Unrest That Ripped the City Apart in 1967

6/16/2017 - Tracing Your Roots: Were Slaves’ Surnames Like Brands?

6/16/2017 - All Eyez on Me Star Demetrius Shipp Jr. on Being Tupac, a Role He Seemed Destined to Play

6/16/2017 - Black Music Month Playlist No. 3: All Eyez on Me

6/16/2017 - ‘It Was Very, Very Scary’: Bus Drops 5-Year-Old Off at the Wrong School, Terrifying Her Family

6/16/2017 - Noose Found Hanging From Tree in Montgomery County, Md. 

6/16/2017 - Dr. Dre Donates $10,000,000 to Build Performing Arts Center for Compton, Calif., High School 

6/16/2017 - Dying Woman Dragged Half-Naked Down Crowded Airplane Aisle by Emergency Workers 

6/16/2017 - Black Lives Matter Chicago Files Lawsuit Demanding Federal Oversight of City’s Police Department

6/15/2017 - Fox Drops ‘Fair & Balanced’ Slogan

6/15/2017 - ACLU Lawsuit Alleges Ga. Board of Education Disenfranchised Black Voters in School Board Selection Process

6/15/2017 - Karrueche Tran Gets 5-Year Restraining Order Against Creepy Ex-Boyfriend Chris Brown

6/15/2017 - #TheRootTrip: Dallas Vegan and Juice Spot Has Recipe for Success

6/15/2017 - #TheRootTrip: The Island Spot Serves Up the Flavor of Jamaica in the Heart of Black Dallas

6/15/2017 - Steve Harvey to Flint, Mich., Resident: ‘Enjoy Your Nice Brown Glass of Water’

6/15/2017 - #TheRootTrip: A Police Station May Have Replaced the Hotel Jim, but Not the Legacy of the Black Owner

6/15/2017 - Actress Elizabeth Banks Calls Out Steven Spielberg for Never Making a Movie With a Female Lead, Because I Guess The Color Purple Doesn’t Exist

6/15/2017 - #TheRootTrip: Not Much to See at the Evans Tourist Home ... Unless You Surprise a Neighbor

6/15/2017 - James Hodgkinson Proves White Men Are Bulletproof

6/15/2017 - #TheRootTrip: Dallas Cowboys Fans Will Find a Room With the Perfect View at This Motel

6/15/2017 - Here Is Why LeBron James Will Leave Cleveland

6/15/2017 - #TheRootTrip: The Green Acres Motel Was the Place to Be

6/15/2017 - Jury in Bill Cosby Trial Says It’s Deadlocked; Judge Denies Motion for Mistrial, Tells It to Keep Trying

6/15/2017 - Defense Calls for but Doesn’t Get Mistrial After Bodycam Footage of Sylville Smith’s Fatal Shooting Is Shown in Court 

6/15/2017 - Possible R&B Supergroup: Vladimir Putin, Edward Snowden and Ex-FBI Head James Comey

6/15/2017 - Southern Baptists Are Apparently Cool With White Supremacy: Update

6/15/2017 - I Will Literally Give Someone Actual Money To Attend Dr. Umar Johnson's Hotepalooza In Brooklyn And Report On It

6/15/2017 - President Tweets as Russia Probe Moves Closer to White House

6/15/2017 - Is Kim Kardashian Wearing Blackface?

6/15/2017 - #TheRootTrip: In Irving, Texas, There’s a Black-Owned Franchise Hotel Hidden in Plain Sight 

6/15/2017 - A Breakdown of the Black Stars on Forbes’ List of Highest-Paid Celebrities

6/15/2017 - NC High School Withholds Diploma From Senior Because He Refuses to Read Speech Written by Administrators

6/15/2017 - 10-Year-Old Bishop Curry Raises More Than $20,000 to Help Develop His Device to Stop Hot-Car Deaths 

6/15/2017 - Wrongful Death Lawsuit Dismissed in Case of Ga. Teen Found Dead in Rolled-Up Gym Mat 

6/15/2017 - Spike Lee, LeToya Luckett and More Help Kick Off the 2017 American Black Film Festival

6/15/2017 - Racist ‘Kill List’ at Calif. High School Sparks Outrage From Black Community Leaders 

6/14/2017 - ICE Picks Up Teen Hours Before His Senior Prom, Days Before His High School Graduation

6/14/2017 - Writers Union to Ebony Magazine: Pay Like You Weigh #EbonyOwes

6/14/2017 - Y’all Knew Kamala Harris Was Black, Right? Turns Out She’s Also Got an Extra-Special Super Power

6/14/2017 - Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Some White Irish UFC Guy Set to Fight in August

6/14/2017 - Insecure Season 2 Teaser Trailer Is Here!

6/14/2017 - 10 Thoughts About SZA's Album, Ctrl

6/14/2017 - Will the Va. Shooting Sway the GOP on Gun Violence?

6/14/2017 - Ezra Klein Just Sent the Whitest Tweet Ever

6/14/2017 - United Apologizes After Video Surfaces of Houston-Based Employee Pushing Passenger, 71, to Floor After Argument 

6/14/2017 - Report: Tiger Woods Headed Back to Rehab

6/14/2017 - It’s Not the Blacks, Tinashe, It’s You

6/14/2017 - The Anatomy of a Culture Vulture

6/14/2017 - Reported GOP Baseball Shooter Once Volunteered on Bernie Sanders’ Campaign: Report

6/14/2017 - Mich. Health Director, 4 Other Officials Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter for Their Roles in Flint’s Water Crisis

6/14/2017 - #BlackFathersDay: Divergent Media and Black Fathers From YouTube Challenge the Perception of Black Fathers 

6/14/2017 - White People Won’t Let Our Edges Be Great

6/14/2017 - Black NJ High Schooler Suspended for Submitting Yearbook Photo That Included Artwork With Racial Slur, Lynching Images 

6/14/2017 - On the Run 2017: Justin Fairfax Wins Democratic Primary for Lieutenant Governor of Va.

6/14/2017 - #TheRootTrip: An Abandoned Grocery Now Stands Where a Tourist Home Once Stood in El Paso, Texas

6/14/2017 - Keshia Knight Pulliam Speaks Out About Supporting Bill Cosby in Court

6/14/2017 - An African in New York: Jazz Singer Somi’s Petite Afrique

6/14/2017 - Little Girl Is on a Road Trip Handing Out Hugs to ‘Unloved’ Cops

6/14/2017 - The COVFEFE Act: Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Record Trump Tweets

6/14/2017 - Happy Birthday, Mr. President: A Birthday Basket From Black America

6/14/2017 - Man Stabs Girlfriend’s 12-Year-Old Daughter to Death, Then Sends Text to Mother: ‘See Wat U Made Me Do,’ Prosecutors Say 

6/14/2017 -  America’s Got Talent Contestant Killed in Car Accident

6/14/2017 - Open-Heart Surgery Isn’t Going to Stop This 15-Year-Old From Dancing

6/14/2017 - Wyo. College Student Caught Shoplifting Tells Investigators She Was Doing Research for Paper on Kleptomania: Report 

6/14/2017 - Bill Cosby Team Releases Statement From Woman Saying Accuser Devised a Plan to Sue

6/14/2017 - ‘Lynching in America’ Site Launched by Google to Confront the ‘Legacy of Racial Terror’

6/13/2017 - 2 Accomplices Plead Guilty in Shooting of BLM Activists at Jamar Clark Protest

6/13/2017 - #Flint: Short-Term Extension of Water Service From Detroit Will Cost City More Money

6/13/2017 - Jeff Sessions Hearing: Kamala Harris Did Her Best Kyrie Irving Impression, but Senate Dems Still Got Stuffed by GOP

6/13/2017 - The Senate Intelligence Committee Let Jeff Sessions Off the Hook 

6/13/2017 - Carlton Lee, Mike Brown Sr.’s Pastor, Dies From Heart Attack at 34

6/13/2017 - Should You Ever Trust a White Lady Sitting Cross-Legged on a Couch? Just Asking for a Friend!

6/13/2017 - Blame It on the … Quaaludes? Guilty or Not, Bill Cosby Still Preferred Sex With Intoxicated Women

6/13/2017 - I've Pretty Much Stopped Drinking. Asterisk.

6/13/2017 - Juice at 25: Director Ernest Dickerson Talks Tupac, Hip-Hop and the Film’s Enduring Legacy 

6/13/2017 - The Root Is Live-Blogging Jeff Sessions' Testimony to Congress Because We Hate Ourselves

6/13/2017 - Oprah Winfrey, Ava DuVernay and Queen Sugar Cast Discuss Season 2 and Diversity on TV

6/13/2017 - Neither Kevin Durant Nor Lebron "Ruined" The NBA; Irrational Stans Of Michael Jordan Did

6/13/2017 - Will NBA Champion Golden State Warriors Visit the White House?

6/13/2017 - 5-Year-Old Ark. Boy Dead After Being Left All Day in a Day Care Van 

6/13/2017 - #TheRootTrip: A Food (and Family) Connection in Phoenix

6/13/2017 - Cops Who Covered Up Laquan McDonald’s Death Back on Chicago Payroll

6/13/2017 - Iowa Trump Supporter Arrested for Voter Fraud Is Back in Jail After Cursing, Yelling Epithets at Neighbor 

6/13/2017 - How Trump’s Cabinet Meeting Devolved Into a Mob Movie

6/13/2017 - Judge Frees Terrorist-in-Training Because Whiteness Is a Helluva Alibi

6/13/2017 - #TheRootTrip: A Ghost of the Green Book in Phoenix

6/13/2017 - #TheRootTrip: The 1st Green Book Stop Tells a Tale of 2 Louises

6/13/2017 - No Pressure 

6/13/2017 - Fort Worth, Texas, Police Officers, Strangers Pitch in to Buy 95-Year-Old Man New Air Conditioner

6/13/2017 - Ga. Governor Suspends Sheriff Who Was Arrested by Police on Indecent Exposure Charges

6/13/2017 - Texas Woman Calls Police After McNuggets Aren’t Made Quickly Enough

6/13/2017 - Chicago-Area Firefighter Dies After Collapsing While Responding to Fire

6/13/2017 - Oprah Winfrey Says She’ll Never Run for President

6/13/2017 - Ice Cube Receives Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

6/13/2017 - Influenced by The New Jim Crow and 13th, Art Collector Sells Painting for $150,000,000 to Start Criminal-Justice-Reform Fund

6/13/2017 - Golden State Warriors Win 2017 NBA Finals, Beat Cleveland Cavaliers 129-120 in Game 5

6/13/2017 - 6 Teenagers in Flint, Mich., Charged as Adults in Beating Recorded and Posted to Facebook

6/12/2017 - Texas Governor Signs Bill to Help Shut Off School-to-Prison Pipeline

6/12/2017 - Remy Ma Continues Tradition of Shade-Throwing, and Other Top Moments From Summer Jam 2017

6/12/2017 - #PhilandoCastile: Closing Arguments Complete, Jury Begins Deliberations in Trial of Jeronimo Yanez

6/12/2017 - ‘You Can Kill a Man, but You Can’t Kill an Idea’: Remembering Medgar Evers on the 54th Anniversary of His Assassination 

6/12/2017 - Hillary Clinton, Jeff Sessions and America’s Secret Slave System

6/12/2017 - Republicans to Trump: Cut the Act and Release the Comey Tapes if You Have Them

6/12/2017 - NJ High School Teacher Suspended Over Photos Altered to Remove Trump References From Yearbook 

6/12/2017 - White Men are Winning at Literally Everything, So Why are they Still so Angry?

6/12/2017 - This Probably Isn’t Obama’s White House Portrait, but I Wish It Were

6/12/2017 - Bill Cosby’s Defense Rests After 6 Minutes

6/12/2017 - Why Was This Ga. State Senator Posing With Terrorists at a Hate Rally?

6/12/2017 - #TheRootTrip: The Blackest Voyage Begins at L.A.’s Only Black-Owned Gas Station

6/12/2017 - Ind. High School Valedictorian, Several Classmates Banned From Graduation After Senior Prank Goes Wrong

6/12/2017 - Actress Amanda Seales Schools Caitlyn Jenner on Privilege 

6/12/2017 - It’s On Now: Jeff Sessions to Testify in Public Hearing Tuesday

6/12/2017 - Marvel Comics Cancels Black Panther Spinoff About Black Women 48 Hours After New Trailer Drops 

6/12/2017 - Melania Trump Moves Into the White House; Hopefully She Can Bring the Old Man Home With Her

6/12/2017 - Ex-NBA Player Sebastian Telfair Caught With ‘Grand Theft Auto’-Style Weapons Cache: Report

6/12/2017 - A Shared History of Struggle Should Unite India’s Dalits and African Americans in the Fight for Equality

6/12/2017 - Black Teen Finds Photo of Herself Being Lynched Shared in Group Chat 

6/12/2017 - Camille Cosby Joins Bill Cosby in Court for 1st Time

6/12/2017 - Texas Man Arrested After Police Find 5 Malnourished Children Living in Squalid Home Among Rotten Food, Bugs, Feces 

6/12/2017 - Trial Begins for Former Milwaukee Cop Who Killed Sylville Smith 

6/12/2017 - DeRay Mckesson Discusses Cultural Appropriation With Katy Perry

6/12/2017 - Ed Hartwell Says Keshia Knight Pulliam Violated Custody Agreement When She Attended Bill Cosby Trial

6/12/2017 - Remembering the Pulse Nightclub Tragedy: 1 Year Later  

6/11/2017 - Former Mexican President Vicente Fox Just Handed Donald Trump His Ass in a Taco Bowl and It Is Hilarity

6/11/2017 - Innocent Kan. Man Walks Free After Spending 16 Years in Prison for a Failed Purse Snatching 

6/11/2017 - Police Chief Wears ‘Police Lives Matter’ Pin but Argues That Firefighter’s ‘Black Lives Matter’ Pin Is Political

6/11/2017 - Trump Expected to Make Changes to US Cuba Policy in Miami This Week

6/11/2017 - Black Man’s Severed Head Found Near Headless Burned Body in Jackson, Miss.

6/11/2017 - A Child’s Bed Becomes a Killing Scene

6/11/2017 - Bobbi Kristina’s Ex Nick Gordon Arrested for Attacking, Kidnapping Woman in Sanford, Fla.

6/11/2017 - Running While Black: Melanin and Movement Does Not a ‘Thug’ Make

6/11/2017 - Drive Black, Buy Black: The Root Goes on the Blackest Road Trip Ever With Author Lawrence Ross

6/10/2017 - Mo. Parole Board Plays Dumb Games With Prisoners, Urging Them to Say Words Like ‘Platypus’ and ‘Hootenanny’ During Hearings

6/10/2017 - Cop in Philando Castile Shooting Death Goes With Same Old Defense: ‘I Thought I Was Going to Die’

6/10/2017 - WTF Was Up With Dwyane Wade’s Dewy Hair and Outfit?

6/10/2017 - Ice Cube to Bill Maher: White Folks Get a Little Too ‘Familiar’ When They Date Black 

6/10/2017 - MC Lyte on Why Dope Female Emcees Are Now MIA

6/10/2017 - Police Training Should Start With a History Lesson on Slavery Laws

6/10/2017 - Melanin Madness! Black Panther Trailer Drops and Folks Lose Their Minds

6/9/2017 - Judge of Characters: It’s a Bad Week to Be a Bill

6/9/2017 - Flint, Mich., Police Investigating After Facebook Video Shows Woman Dragged From House and Beaten

6/9/2017 - Police Officers Who Beat Man, Then Lied About It, Face Federal Civil Rights Indictment

6/9/2017 - Unique Views, Episode 46: Queen Sugar or Queen Cougar?

6/9/2017 - The Official White-Tears Quiz: How a Black-Student Protest Terrified and Outraged White People 

6/9/2017 - The Root to Host a #TrumpRoast to ‘Celebrate’ Your President’s Birthday

6/9/2017 - Mmmm, The Root Came Off Really Great in This Post About All the Drama Going on Around Here!

6/9/2017 - Trump: I’m Willing to Testify Under Oath About Comey’s Claims; Also, the President Is a Big-Ass Liar

6/9/2017 - Stephen Curry Took an Invisible Dump on the Cleveland Cavs Floor, and They Are Pissed

6/9/2017 - Black Designer Destiney Bleu Receives a Cease and Desist Letter From Khloé Kardashian

6/9/2017 - Police Shot Brendan Hester Because That’s What Police Do

6/9/2017 - "Return of The Mack" Is The Best Song Ever That Nobody Acknowledges Is The Best Song Ever

6/9/2017 - President Twitter Fingas Is Back Like He Never Left

6/9/2017 - Hey, Nike or Under Armour, Let’s Get This Kid a Sponsorship: Update

6/9/2017 - British Election Backs Blacks and Breaks Brexit

6/9/2017 - Us Weekly Wants the World to Know Hoop Earrings Are Back, and Black Women Are Like, ‘They Never Left’

6/9/2017 - Watch: Michelle Wilson, a Black Woman Who Owns the Narrative on a Broadway Stage

6/9/2017 - Looks Like Another Kardashian Clan Member Culture-Vultured a Black Designer

6/9/2017 - Comedian Jay Mohr Likes the N-Word, Too

6/9/2017 - Black Music Month Playlist No. 2: Cosby Ain’t the God We Made Him

6/9/2017 - Watch: It Comes at Night Cast Names America’s Apocalyptic Disease

6/9/2017 - Tracing Your Roots: I Want to Post the Names of My Ancestors’ Slaves

6/9/2017 - 1st Black Panther Teaser Trailer to Air During NBA Finals Game 4

6/9/2017 - Chicago Residents Come Together to Send Teen to Prom

6/9/2017 - Louis Freeman, 1st Black Chief Pilot of a Major US Airline, Retires

6/9/2017 - Ind. Mother Sues Principal, Teacher for Forcing Son to Do Pledge of Allegiance 

6/9/2017 - Weis Supermarket Employee Goes on Shooting Rampage, Kills 3 and Himself

6/9/2017 - Dave Chappelle Donates $50,000 to Flint Water Crisis Organization

6/9/2017 - ACLU Makes the Case for Giving Formerly Incarcerated a Fair Chance at Employment

6/9/2017 - 12-Year-Old Cahree Myrick, Baltimore’s 1st-Ever National Chess Champion, Hones His Game Skills in Local Barbershop: Update

6/8/2017 - Deputy, Husband Indicted on Murder Charges in Off-Duty Killing of Man in Houston

6/8/2017 - La. Passes Criminal-Justice Reform That Will Reduce Prison Population by 10 Percent

6/8/2017 - Jury Awards $6,700,000 to Inmate Raped Repeatedly by Guard in Sheriff David Clarke’s Jail  

6/8/2017 - Comey Testimony Proves Trump Belongs on Set of Horrible Bosses 3, Not the White House

6/8/2017 - The Best Part Of The Comey Hearing Is Watching These White Men Throw Bags Of Piss At Each Other

6/8/2017 - Un-American Terrorists Are Planning a Major Event for This Weekend

6/8/2017 - Officers Wrong to Arrest Woman for #PartyingWhileBlack, DC Police Chief Says 

6/8/2017 - Bill Maher’s Fate Up for Debate

6/8/2017 - Watch: Angela Bassett Fights for Her Sweetheart

6/8/2017 - James Comey Is My New Favorite Real Housewife

6/8/2017 - Damn, Comey, in High School You Was the Man; WTF Happened to You?

6/8/2017 - ‘We’ve Found Our Monster’: Fla. Sheriff Announces Arrest in Killing of 12-Year-Old Naomi Jones

6/8/2017 - Apparently, Free Speech Is a White Privilege

6/8/2017 - Mont. Congressman-Elect Who Body-Slammed Reporter Issues Apology

6/8/2017 - Photos of Woman Helping Blind Chicago Cubs Fan Hail a Cab Go Viral 

6/8/2017 - Big Trump Didn’t Tweet During Comey Testimony, but Lil’ Donald Trump Jr. Did

6/8/2017 - Mary J. Blige’s Ex Heading to the Dancerie With $30,000 a Month in Spousal Support

6/8/2017 - NY Father Charged With Murder in Death of 7-Year-Old Daughter

6/8/2017 - Morehouse Interim President Dies

6/8/2017 - The Cleveland Cavaliers Are Done and They Know It

6/8/2017 - Chicago Grandmother Sentenced to Life in Prison for ‘Exceptionally Brutal’ Torture Death of 8-Year-Old Granddaughter 

6/8/2017 - Former FBI Director Comey Senate Hearing Open Thread

6/8/2017 - Watch: Female Artists Take Their Fight Against Bigotry on the Road

6/8/2017 - Watch James Comey Spill All the Tea Here

6/8/2017 - ‘Shut Up, Slave!’: White Man Hurls Insults, Compares Black Man to Livestock During Altercation at Chicago Starbucks 

6/8/2017 - Thirst Traps Are Body Positive, Too

6/8/2017 - NJ Woman Throws Racist Tantrum in New Brunswick Sears Because a Latino Family Was Using Coupons 

6/8/2017 - Watch: Rihanna Teaches Malawi Students Math in Short Documentary

6/8/2017 - Calif. Middle School Students Get Yearbooks With N-Word on Cover 

6/8/2017 - Tidal Hints at 4:44 Film With Mahershala Ali, Lupita Nyong’o, Danny Glover

6/8/2017 - Anne-Marie Johnson to Bill Maher: ‘Just Stop, Be a Little More Clever’

6/8/2017 - James Comey’s Statement to the Senate Intelligence Committee Is the Most Epic Dry-Snitch of All Time

6/8/2017 - #Flint: Eminem Surprises High School Graduates in the Class of 2017 With a Special Gift

6/7/2017 - New No-Cash Bail System Allows Dozens of Low-Level Offenders to Be Released From Jail in Houston

6/7/2017 - Ryan Coogler, Michael B. Jordan, Ta-Nehisi Coates Team Up for New Movie Wrong Answer

6/7/2017 - ‘What You Feel Isn’t Relevant’: Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing Gets Heated as 4 Intel Chiefs Won’t Answer Anything

6/7/2017 - Delta Passenger Bitten by Veteran’s Emotional-Support Dog

6/7/2017 - Bill Maher’s Ex-Girlfriend Speaks About His Use of the N-Word

6/7/2017 - Oprah Winfrey Can’t Save Underground Because It’s Too Expensive

6/7/2017 - Donald Glover Confirms That He Is Retiring ‘Childish Gambino’

6/7/2017 - Black-ish Star Yara Shahidi Is Headed to Harvard  

6/7/2017 - What We Know About Christopher Wray, Trump’s Pick for FBI Boss

6/7/2017 - Minn. High School Security Guard Placed on Leave After Being Accused of Using Excessive Force on Muslim Teen

6/7/2017 - Watch: Meet the Sculptor Whose Work Immortalizes Biggie

6/7/2017 - In Every Service Branch, Black Troops More Likely to Be Punished by Commanders, Courts: Report 

6/7/2017 - Eric ‘Vampire Face’ Trump: Dems Aren’t Even People

6/7/2017 - 2 White Men Assaulted Black Teen Near His Home in Campaign to Run Interracial Family Out of Va. Neighborhood: Lawsuit

6/7/2017 - The Jheri Curl Turns 40: A Look at the Most Iconic, Insulted and Revered Hair Craze Ever

6/7/2017 - Family Thanks ‘Guardian Angel’ Neighbor Who Fatally Shot Father Attempting to Drown 3-Month-Old Twins 

6/7/2017 - Ohio Man With HIV Charged With Murder After Longtime Girlfriend Dies of AIDS 

6/7/2017 - #NeverForget: Bill Maher Once Questioned a Black Woman’s Blackness Over the N-Word

6/7/2017 - #Flint: Judge Rules Residents Can Continue Their Lawsuit Against City, State Officials 

6/6/2017 - Trump Asked National Intelligence Director to Intervene in Comey’s Russia Probe: Report

6/6/2017 - #JXNRising: Chokwe Antar Lumumba Wins Jackson, Miss., Mayoral Race

6/6/2017 - Fingers Crossed: Attorney General Jeff Sessions Threatens to Quit as Tension With Trump Escalates

6/6/2017 - Andrea Constand Testifies on Day 2 of Bill Cosby Trial

6/6/2017 - Bill Maher Books Michael Eric Dyson in a Desperate Attempt to Get Re-Invited to the Cookout

6/6/2017 - Five Perfectly Practical Reasons Why Y'all Need To Stop Inviting Every Random-Ass White Person To The Cookout

6/6/2017 - Trump Tweets Are Now ‘Official Statements’ From President; He May Live-Tweet During James Comey’s Hearing

6/6/2017 - Diamond Reynolds, Girlfriend of Philando Castile, Testifies That Fear for Her Own Life Prompted Her to Facebook Live Aftermath of Shooting

6/6/2017 - Hey Charlottesville, Va.: The KKK Is Coming to Town! 

6/6/2017 - Fla. Man Who Fatally Shot 5 Former Co-Workers Planned Attack, Authorities Say

6/6/2017 - Missing 12-Year-Old Fla. Girl Found Dead; Homicide Suspected

6/6/2017 - Dallas Cowboy Quarterback Dak Prescott to Pursue Ph.D.

6/6/2017 - Tomi Lahren Gets Dragged on Twitter ... Again

6/6/2017 - Rihanna Has a Word for Those Not Appreciative of Her Thickness

6/6/2017 - Audio: LeBron James and Kevin Durant Rap Leaked, and It Doesn’t Sound Horrible

6/6/2017 - Family of Autistic Man Whose Therapist Was Shot by North Miami Police Files Lawsuit Against City, Police Officers 

6/6/2017 - Amazon to Offer Discounted Prime Memberships for People on Government Assistance

6/6/2017 - Ice Cube to Appear on Bill Maher’s Show to Discuss the N-Word

6/6/2017 - Represent the President or Nah? Top Lawyers Tell Trump to Kick Russian Rocks

6/6/2017 - Calif. Grandmother Wanted in Fatal Stabbing of 18-Month-Old Granddaughter Detained

6/6/2017 - #SaveUnderground: Aisha Hinds on Freedom Dreams and Revolutionary Art

6/6/2017 - Mo. Man Charged With Murder in Kansas City, Mo., Road Rage Shooting That Left 19-Year-Old Father-to-Be Dead 

6/6/2017 - Las Vegas Police Officer Faces 2 Felony Charges After Killing Unarmed Black Man Using Choke Hold

6/6/2017 - 2 Teen Girls Sentenced for Their Role in School Bathroom Attack That Left 16-Year-Old Amy Joyner-Francis Dead 

6/6/2017 - Research Suggests Police Speak Less Respectfully to Black People 

6/5/2017 - An 18-Year-Old Who Just Graduated From High School Is Looking to Unseat an Incumbent on Denver School Board

6/5/2017 - Housing an Inmate in a Calif. Prison Costs More Than Tuition for a Year at Harvard University

6/5/2017 - Sybrina Fulton, Mother of Trayvon Martin, Says Not Enough Is Being Done to Save the Lives of Black Children, Considers Running for Office

6/5/2017 - A Recap of This Weekend’s Wypipo Hunger Games

6/5/2017 - Solange, Pharrell and Friends Highlight Epic 10th Anniversary of the Roots Picnic

6/5/2017 - Flint, Mich., Official Resigns After Being Caught on Tape Blaming Water Crisis on ‘Niggers’ Who ‘Don’t Pay Their Bills’

6/5/2017 - Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly Is What Happens When Mediocrity and Whiteness Come Together

6/5/2017 - Racist Bullies at Texas Middle School Called Black Girl an Ape, Pretended to Whip Her Like a Slave, but School Does Nothing, Father Says

6/5/2017 - 8-Year-Old Girl’s Soccer Team Disqualified Because ‘She Looks Like a Boy’

6/5/2017 - Colo. Woman Is Being Terrorized by Racist Notes Slipped Under Her Door, but Apartment Complex Refuses to Let Her Break Lease

6/5/2017 - Students Get Harvard Admissions Offers Rescinded After Posting Offensive Memes on Facebook

6/5/2017 - Y’all’s Drunk Uncle President Is Tweeting Again

6/5/2017 - Did Khloé Kardashian Steal a Black Designer’s Work After Purchasing Her Products?

6/5/2017 - Halle Berry’s Rep Denies Pregnancy

6/5/2017 - The Crime This Time: Partying While Black and Successful

6/5/2017 - Multiple People Dead After Monday-Morning Shooting at Orlando, Fla., Business

6/5/2017 - I Never Cried Until My Son Was Born (Because Patriarchy), But Now I Cry At Every Damn Thing

6/5/2017 - Conn. Woman Hailed as a Hero After Jumping in Front of Speeding Car, Saving Young Boy’s Life 

6/5/2017 - Okla. Man Fatally Shoots Man Who Was Attempting to Drown 3-Month-Old Twins 

6/5/2017 - Philly Teen Does Prom With a Camel, 3 Dates and a Rolls-Royce

6/5/2017 - Bill Cosby Sexual Assault Trial Begins, Keshia Knight Pulliam Attends to Show Support

6/5/2017 - ‘What Now?’ I Survived the 1st 18 Years of Parenting Without Going Crazy

6/5/2017 - Black Leaders in Ariz. Push for Removal of State’s Confederate Monuments 

6/5/2017 - La. Man Who Shot Wife to Death After Allegedly Mistaking Her for Intruder Is Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder 

6/4/2017 - Black Cameraman Says Maxine Waters ‘Ain’t Shit’ While Caping for Racist Left-Wing Reporter

6/4/2017 - Another Noose Found in the DC Area, This Time at a Construction Site

6/4/2017 - ‘Trump to Pittsburgh: Drop Dead’

6/4/2017 - Lupita Nyong’o’s Dance Video Is ’Bout to Break the Internet

6/4/2017 - NJ Family Who Won $429,000,000 Lottery Jackpot Launch Grant-Making Fund to Give Back to Their Hometown

6/4/2017 - Lionel Richie’s Bassist Repeatedly Stabs Himself After Ingesting Weed Edibles: Report

6/4/2017 - Happy Pride! Division I Track Teammates Come Out as Couple

6/4/2017 - Instead of Offering Compassion, Trump Condemns London’s Muslim Mayor in Wake of Terror Attack

6/4/2017 - For Jodeci, Diary of a Mad Band Wasn’t Just an Album, It Was a Way of Life

6/4/2017 - At Least 21 People Killed in Boko Haram Terrorist Attacks, Villages Destroyed: Report

6/3/2017 - Bill Maher Apologizes for Calling Himself ‘House Nigger’ on Live TV

6/3/2017 - Get Your Life Together! Recent Fla. High School Grad Didn’t Miss a Day of School in 13 Years

6/3/2017 - Cops in Charge of Laquan McDonald Case Must Testify About Night of His Shooting Death, Judge Rules

6/3/2017 - Five Quick Thoughts On Bill Maher Going Peak Bill Maher (And A Quick Aside On White People And Nigga/Nigger)

6/3/2017 - Ray Rice Returns to Football ... as a Volunteer High School Coach

6/3/2017 - Another Noose Found—This Time Near MLK Memorial in DC 

6/3/2017 - Folsom Prison Hunger Strike Continues, Rally This Weekend in Support

6/2/2017 - Watch: Judge of Characters, The Root’s New Digital Show About the Best (and Messiest) of Black Twitter

6/2/2017 - Racial Tensions Escalate on Campus of Public University in Washington State

6/2/2017 - Lezley McSpadden, Mike Brown’s Mother, Graduates From High School Same Day as Her Daughter

6/2/2017 - Calif. High School Students Win Fight to Pay Tribute to Black Lives Matter in Their Yearbook

6/2/2017 - Watch: 3 Myths About Gun Violence

6/2/2017 - Public Service Announcement: ‘Black Pride’ Is for Black People Only

6/2/2017 - Police Union Launches Fundraiser for NYPD Cop Charged With Murder in Shooting Death of Mentally Ill Black Woman 

6/2/2017 - Netflix Buys Rights to The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

6/2/2017 - How Police Brutality Keeps America Poor and Uneducated

6/2/2017 - Jason Whitlock, Please STFU About LeBron, Racism, Everyone, Everything Forever

6/2/2017 - Unique Views, Episode 45: High on Covfefe

6/2/2017 - If Baby Boy 2 Is A Thing, I Have Some Sequel Ass Questions!

6/2/2017 - Brandy Hospitalized After Reportedly Losing Consciousness on Flight at Los Angeles International Airport 

6/2/2017 - Lucia McBath, Mother of Jordan Davis, Explains Why You Should Wear Orange for Gun-Violence Awareness Today

6/2/2017 - Joe Scarborough: Steve Bannon Is Leaking All Jared Kushner-Russia Intel

6/2/2017 - Jason Whitlock Needs A Friend (A Clue, A Seat, And Jesus Too, But Mostly Just A Friend)

6/2/2017 - Black Music Month Playlist No. 1: You Haven’t Done Nothin’

6/2/2017 - Tickets to See Beyoncé Perform at Coachella 2018 to Be Available Friday (That’s Today, Y’all)

6/2/2017 - NC Elementary School Teacher Caught on Camera Hitting 11-Year-Old Student With a Broom: Report

6/2/2017 - Ron Crowder and Street Works: Doing Black Harm Reduction and Public Health During a ‘White’ Drug Crisis

6/2/2017 - Tracing Your Roots: My ‘Merikin’ Ancestor Escaped Slavery

6/2/2017 - Y’all’s President Just Put Captain Planet on Suicide Watch and Further Endangered the Entire World

6/2/2017 - Predominantly Black Church in SC Receives $2,000 Donation, Apology From Anonymous Donor Who ‘Used to Be a Terrible Racist’

6/2/2017 - Prosecutors Drop All Charges Against Detroit Man Who Spent 25 Years in Prison in Murder Case 

6/2/2017 - #EbonyStillOwes: Writers Union Intervenes

6/2/2017 - City of Oakland, Calif., to Pay Nearly $1,000,000 to Teen in Police Exploitation and Sexual Abuse Scandal

6/1/2017 - Report: 2 Democratic Senators Asked Comey to Investigate Jeff Sessions’ Meetings With Russian Ambassador

6/1/2017 - Report: 75 Percent of Black Boys in Calif. Don’t Meet State Reading Requirements

6/1/2017 - Green Book Mobile App Turns the Painful History of Traveling While Black Into Tool for Learning

6/1/2017 - Watch: Star of Broadway’s Aladdin Keeps Getting His Wishes Granted With New Roles in Hamilton

6/1/2017 - Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Get Into a Full ‘Covfefe’ on Twitter

6/1/2017 - ...And In More Racism's Still Alive News: A Noose at the Blacksonian

6/1/2017 - Dontre Hamilton: Milwaukee Council Approves $2,300,000 Settlement for Son of Mentally Ill Man Killed by Cop

6/1/2017 - Is Tiger Woods Addicted to Pain Medications?

6/1/2017 - Lebron James May Or May Not Be A Better Basketball Player Than Michael Jordan, But He's A Better Man

6/1/2017 - Damian Marley and Investors Buy High Times, the Most Iconic Marijuana Brand 

6/1/2017 - College Student Who Missed His Graduation Because of NYC Train Delays Gets Impromptu Ceremony From Commuters 

6/1/2017 - Sean ‘Spicy Facts’ Spicer: ‘Covfefe’ Is a Word to Those in the Know!

6/1/2017 - It’s No Surprise That the Trump Administration’s Africa Policy Is Nonexistent. But We Should Care

6/1/2017 - Princeton Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Cancels Public Appearances Amid Fox News-Fueled Death Threats

6/1/2017 - Cavaliers vs. Warriors 3: LeBron May Not Catch Jordan, but He’s Better Than Kobe 

6/1/2017 - Black People Support Vouchers, Black Leaders Don’t. Who’s Right?

6/1/2017 - Fla. High School Athlete Dead, 1 Severely Injured After Single-Car Accident on Prom Night

6/1/2017 - NJ Trooper Threatened to Arrest Woman Unless She Gave Him Her Phone Number, Authorities Say

6/1/2017 - Calif. High Schooler Uses Blackface for ‘Promposal’ 1 Month After Another Student Used a Lynching Reference 

6/1/2017 - Baby Tells Her Dad ‘I Don’t Wanna Hear It’

6/1/2017 - Baltimore Book Festival Dumps Rachel ‘Nkechi Amare Diallo’ Dolezal

6/1/2017 - ‘Sports’ Site Gets Dragged for Fat-Shaming Rihanna