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2017 November
11/30/2017 - ‘Minecraft’ Creator Goes Full White Man Denying White Privilege on Twitter
11/30/2017 - Does Size Really Matter?
11/30/2017 - Nazi Sympathizer Loses His Job and Home After Being Profiled by the New York Times
11/30/2017 - Have You Been Singing the Wrong Lyrics to Your Favorite T-Pain Song?
11/30/2017 - Which Is the Better Michael Jackson Album:
Thriller
or
Off the Wall
?
11/30/2017 - #DerickWiley: Mesquite, Texas, Police Officer Fired, Will Face Grand Jury in Lyndo Jones Shooting
11/30/2017 - ‘Babies Are Life Hacks for Introverts’ and More I’ve Learned in the 2 Years I’ve Been a Dad
11/30/2017 - City Councilman and Sheriff’s Deputy Tweets Racist Response to Philando Castile Settlement
11/30/2017 - Woman Kills Thanksgiving Guest After He Didn’t Offer Her Crack: Report
11/30/2017 - Too Good to Be True? New Report Raises Concerns About DC High School Where Every Graduating Student Was Accepted to College
11/30/2017 - Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Has 1 Foot Out of the White House and the Other on a Banana Peel
11/30/2017 - Devon Wade Must Be Remembered for Disrupting the Prison Pipeline, Not Merely for How He Died
11/30/2017 - The Problem(s) With Joyner Lucas’ ‘I’m Not Racist,’ Explained
11/30/2017 - Girls and Gays: On the Tenuous Relationship Between Black Women and Queer Black Folk
11/30/2017 - 10-Year-Old Girl Killed Herself After Video of Fight With Alleged Bully Was Posted Online, Family Says
11/30/2017 - Chicago Bulls Forward Nikola Mirotic Is a Better Man Than All of Us
11/30/2017 - NFL Players Just Sold Kaepernick’s Protests for $100 Million. Are They Sellouts or Heroes?
11/30/2017 - I Went to the Jay-Z 4:44 Tour Stop in Washington, DC. Here’s What Happened
11/30/2017 - Azzedine Alaïa and Me
11/30/2017 - How Obama’s ‘Worst Mistake’ Led to the Libyan Slave Trade
11/30/2017 - Jason Kessler Is Planning Unite the Right 2: Electric Boogaloo
11/30/2017 - 5 Life Hacks for Black People Who Want to Leverage White Guilt to Make White People Uncomfortable at Work
11/30/2017 - Get Haute for the Holidays With Veronica Marché and Her Line of Gorgeous Greeting Cards
11/30/2017 - Lena Horne’s Granddaughter, Filmmaker Jenny Lumet, Accuses Russell Simmons of Sexual Violation
11/30/2017 - In Praise of Sailor J: The Woke AF Beauty Vlogger We’ve Been Waiting For
11/30/2017 - Rep. John Conyers Is Hospitalized for Stress on the Same Day 1 of His Accusers Appears on the
Today
Show
11/30/2017 - I'm a Plus-Size Runner and I Got Heckled at the NYC Marathon
11/30/2017 - NYC Teen Charged in Fatal Stabbing of Classmate Thanks Gay Community for Helping Post $250,000 Bail
11/30/2017 - Trump to Reporter: ‘There’s Nothing in the World Like First-Rate Pussy’
11/30/2017 -
AfroArt
: Immortalizing a New Generation
11/30/2017 - Family Still Searching for Answers 1 Year After Young Father Suffers Severe Brain Injuries in Chicago Jail
11/30/2017 - Cue the Violins, It’s Time for Matt Lauer’s Apology
11/30/2017 - Postal Worker Stalked by Estranged Boyfriend Before Being Shot and Killed: Report
11/29/2017 - In
The Defiant Ones
, We Watch Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre Grow Into Their Crafts and Make Magic, and Money, Happen
11/29/2017 - Jay-Z Bares His Soul on Infidelity, Kanye West and the Deeply Personal
4:44
Album
11/29/2017 - I Got My 1st-Ever Brazilian, and It Changed My Life
11/29/2017 - #Flint: 1,314 Days Into the Water Crisis, the City Now Has a Permanent Water Source
11/29/2017 - Just in Time for the Holidays: A Newly Recorded Version of the DMX Cover of ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’
11/29/2017 - A Tale of Lost Edges: Don’t Try This at Home
11/29/2017 - Who the Hell at NBC Approved Matt Lauer’s in-Office Sex Dungeon?
11/29/2017 - Watch: Little Miss Flint: ‘The President Is A Bully And A Liar’
11/29/2017 - Victoria’s Secret Models Face Backlash for Singing the N-Word With ‘Bodak Yellow’
11/29/2017 - My Interview With Donald Trump’s New Favorite British Xenophobe
11/29/2017 - 10 R&B Groups That Should (or Should Have) Release(d) Christmas Albums
11/29/2017 - After Black Transgender Woman Is Killed in Oklahoma City, Police Are Still Searching for Answers
11/29/2017 - When Will Donald Trump Say the N-Word?
11/29/2017 - Felony Charges Dropped Against Virginia Mom Who Put Recording Device in Daughter’s Backpack to Catch Bullies
11/29/2017 - 24-Karat Magic: Issa Rae Has Us Wanting to Get Gilded
11/29/2017 -
Access Hollywood
to Trump: Nah, Son. That’s You on the Tape (I’m Paraphrasing a Bit)
11/29/2017 - Small Talk Is Trash and the World Would Be a Better Place if Everyone Just Stopped Doing It
11/29/2017 - ‘Cry-rese’: I Was Lying the Whole Time
11/29/2017 - Everything but the Burden: Why We’re Done Getting Mad Over Makeup
11/29/2017 - Trump Hosted an Empty-Chair Meeting After ‘Chuck and Nancy’ Told Him to Kick Rocks
11/29/2017 - Winged Victory: The Victoria’s Secret Runway Got More Colorful This Year ... but Is It Enough?
11/29/2017 - Who’s Surprised? April Ryan Not Invited to White House Holiday Party for 1st Time in 20 Years
11/29/2017 - New Documents Reveal FBI Secretly Monitored Protests, Feared ‘Black Supremacist’ Attack
11/29/2017 - Howard University All Up and Through
This Is Us
Is the Blackest Thing That Ever Happened This Week
11/29/2017 - The Glow Up With Supermodel Veronica Webb Is on
The Root
11/29/2017 - Welcome to The Glow Up!
11/29/2017 - Diamond Reynolds, Girlfriend of Philando Castile, Reaches Settlement With City of St. Anthony, Minn.
11/29/2017 - Essence Won’t Be Part of Time Inc. Sale
11/29/2017 - Spelman Grad Bringing Prince George’s County, Md., Its 1st Medicinal-Cannabis Dispensary
11/29/2017 - President Trump Is the Single Biggest Threat to Muslims After Sharing Islamophobic Videos on Twitter
11/29/2017 - Get a Dose of Wakanda in the Trailer for
Avengers: Infinity War
11/29/2017 - Something Smells Catfishy: Ray Allen’s Alleged Male Stalker Claims They Had a 3-Year Romantic Relationship
11/29/2017 - Trump and CNN Are Having a Messy Public Breakup; Now CNN Isn’t Going to the Christmas Party
11/29/2017 - Watch: Al Sharpton Teaches Us How to Take a Proper Selfie
11/29/2017 - Police in Florida Arrest Suspect in Series of Killings in Tampa’s Seminole Heights
11/29/2017 - Matt Lauer Fired From
Today
Show for ‘Inappropriate Sexual Behavior’
11/29/2017 - 2 Teens Secure Plea Deal in Facebook Live Gang Rape Case
11/28/2017 - #BlackLivesMatter Los Angeles Is Dreaming of a #BlackXmas
11/28/2017 - Amid Mounting Allegations of Sexual Misconduct, Black Caucus Members Seek Conyers’ Resignation
11/28/2017 - Is Howard University Harboring a Sexual Predator on Campus?
11/28/2017 - Using ‘Pocahontas’ as a Slur Could Become an Article of Impeachment Against Trump
11/28/2017 - #FreeMeekMill: Judge Ordered to Rule on Rapper’s Petition for Bail ‘Without Further Delay’
11/28/2017 - Why Are You Like This? Thirsty White Makeup Artist Doubles Down on Blackface
11/28/2017 - From Now On, I Only Want My News and Weather From Cardi B
11/28/2017 - Racists, Ranked
11/28/2017 - Grad Student Shot and Killed by Boyfriend, Authorities Say
11/28/2017 - We All Gonna Die: North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile, and
The Root
Staff Contemplate Becoming X-Men
11/28/2017 - 7 Great Reasons to Be a Petty MFer: The Holiday-Season Version
11/28/2017 - 6 Things to Watch Now That Harry Put a Ring on Meghan Markle
11/28/2017 - ‘I. Am. Not. Finished’: Why Angela Rye Goes So Hard
11/28/2017 - David Otunga Wins Primary Custody of Son as Jennifer Hudson Voluntarily Drops Order of Protection
11/28/2017 - How Jeff Sessions’ Lying Ass Could Help the Cop Who Killed Walter Scott Get a Lighter Sentence
11/28/2017 - Asian Woman Says Federal Agents Harassed Her After Mistaking Her for Human Trafficking Victim
11/28/2017 - Black Folks Who, Though Invited, Probably Wouldn’t Come to the Cookout
11/28/2017 - ‘Chuck and Nancy’ Cancel Meeting With Trump Because He’s an Asshole
11/28/2017 - Why Calling Elizabeth Warren ‘Pocahontas’ Is Racist, Explained
11/28/2017 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Isn’t Feeling LiAngelo Ball’s Ferrari
11/28/2017 - Georgia Tech Football Player’s Brutal KO of Teammate Caught on Video and I Have Questions
11/28/2017 - The Perils of Being Black and Undocumented:
The Good Place
Actor Reveals Status to Los Angeles Times
11/28/2017 - President Trump’s Latest Tweet Is Undeniable Proof That He’s an Asshole
11/28/2017 - Grammys Announce 2018 Nominees and Somehow Cardi B Isn’t Included for Best New Artist
11/28/2017 - A Review of the Shrimp and Grits I Literally Just Ate an Hour Ago at Miss Shirley’s Cafe in Baltimore
11/28/2017 - Photographer Afshin Shahidi Gives the World ‘a Private View’ of Prince’s Life
11/28/2017 - Rep. Al Green Issues Weird Statement Just to Let Y’all Know He’s Not About That Sexual-Misconduct Life
11/28/2017 - North Carolina Names Highway for Groundbreaking Black Historian and Civil Rights Advocate
11/28/2017 - Beyond ‘Other’: Meghan Markle Recounted Her Feelings When She Heard Her Mom Called the N-Word in a 2015 Essay on Race
11/28/2017 - ‘Happily Gentrifying Since 2014’: Colorado Coffee Shop Puts Up Ridiculous Sign, and I’ll Give You 1 Guess as to What Happened
11/27/2017 - Is Michael Flynn Preparing to Testify Against the President?
11/27/2017 - Man Who Allegedly Sexually Assaulted Terry Crews Back at Work After 1-Month Suspension
11/27/2017 - Issa Rae Is Not So
Insecure
in Her CoverGirl Commercial Debut
11/27/2017 - An Undercover Sting Operation to Discredit Journalists Reporting on Roy Moore Targets the Washington Post
11/27/2017 - Roy Moore Will Win Alabama’s Senate Seat Because Southern Folks Don’t Like Being Told What to Do
11/27/2017 - Trump Honored Native American Code Talkers at the White House. What Could Go Wrong?
11/27/2017 - Everything You Need to Know About Meghan Markle’s ‘Level of Blackness,’ Explained
11/27/2017 - Meghan Markle Snagged Her a Prince and Black Twitter Is Here for It
11/27/2017 - Kevin Durant Is Black AF
11/27/2017 - An Accused Sex Offender Is in Office and Someone Thought It Was a Good Idea to Hang Mistletoe in the White House
11/27/2017 - A Line-by-Line Response to the New York Times’ Response to the Backlash It Received for Publishing a Nazi Puff Piece
11/27/2017 - Trump-Loving, NFL-Protest-Hating Police-Union Chief Who Supported Tamir Rice Killer Ousted by Black Cops
11/27/2017 - The 10 Best Games for Black Families to Play During the Holidays
11/27/2017 - She’s Your Princess-to-Be: Prince Harry Puts a Ring on Meghan Markle
11/27/2017 - And Some Say Protests Don’t Matter: LeBron James Vowed Not to Stay at Trump Hotels; Now the President’s Name Is Being Removed From Trump SoHo
11/27/2017 - Black Lives Matter Leader Plans to Sue NYPD for Viciously Slamming Him During Peaceful Protest
11/27/2017 - Jay-Z Cancels Another 4:44 Tour Date
11/27/2017 - The New York Times Whitesplains Its Awful Neo-Nazi Profile
11/27/2017 - Obama Played 333 Rounds of Golf in 8 Years. Here’s How Much Golf Trump Has Played in 311 Days
11/27/2017 - Never Go Full Hotep: Indiana Nurse Posts Racist Rant, Loses Job
11/27/2017 - 5 New Jersey Black Churches Vandalized but Police Determine It’s No Hate Crime
11/26/2017 - Grace in Action: Black Family of 7 Adopts 6 White Siblings
11/26/2017 - Another One Bites the Dust: Rep. John Conyers Steps Down From House Judiciary Committee Over Sexual Harassment Claims
11/26/2017 - ‘We Cannot Remain Silent’: Rwanda Offers to Take in 30,000 African Migrants at Risk for Being Sold Into Slavery
11/26/2017 - Awwww ... Accidental Thanksgiving Duo Spend the Holiday Together Again This Year
11/25/2017 - Kim Kardashian Hires Criminal Attorney to Help With Cases of 2 Jailed Black Women: Cyntoia Brown and Alice Johnson
11/25/2017 - Hometown Papers Urge Rep. Conyers to Resign
11/25/2017 - Malia Obama Maligned and Defended for Being a Regular Person
11/25/2017 - Jordan Peele Says Tiger Woods Is ‘in the Sunken Place’
11/25/2017 - Trump Is Lying His Ass Off Again—This Time About Being Time’s Person of the Year
11/25/2017 - Turning the Tide: Nonprofit Helps Black Female Entrepreneurs Compete With White Men
11/25/2017 - We Should All Liv
e
by
‘
The Gospel According to Shug Avery’
11/24/2017 - New Study Shows Black Students Receive Harsher Discipline; Does Not Investigate if Fire Is Hot or Water Is Wet
11/24/2017 -
The Root’s
Clapback Mailbag: White Friday
11/24/2017 - Top 10 Thanksgiving Leftovers
11/24/2017 - Russell Simmons Responds to Sexual Assault Allegations by Mansplaining That He’s Not Guilty Because ... Yoga
11/24/2017 - These Blackity-Black Productions Will Be Coming to Your Screen in 2018
11/24/2017 - Tracing Your Roots: How Do I Research My Cuban Origins?
11/24/2017 - Don’t Sleep! Gifts for the Newly Woke on Black (AF) Friday
11/24/2017 - Watch: Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins on Race’s Importance in Narratives
11/23/2017 - Trump’s Racist Beef Could Make LaVar Ball a Lot of Money
11/23/2017 - Jury Awards Man $15 Million for Spending 20 Years in Prison for a Crime He Didn’t Commit
11/23/2017 - Retired Alabama Police Officer Says She Was ‘
Told to Watch’ Roy Moore Around High School Cheerleaders
11/23/2017 - A 15-Step Guide on How to Talk to and Deal With the Trump Supporters in Your Family This Thanksgiving
11/23/2017 - The Caucasian’s Guide to Black Thanksgiving, Part 3: Giving Thanks
11/23/2017 - Watch: What Are People Thankful for in 2017?
11/23/2017 - Watch: NFL Star Michael Bennett Refuses to Stay in His Lane
11/23/2017 - ‘Brand’ Trump Takes Another Hit: Trump Name Coming off SoHo Hotel
11/23/2017 - Today in Obama: Turkey With a Side of Dad Jokes
11/22/2017 - A 2nd Woman Accused Rep. John Conyers of Sexual Misconduct Earlier This Year
11/22/2017 - Virginia Mother Charged With Felony After Putting Recording Device in Daughter’s Backpack to Catch Bullies
11/22/2017 - Ex-University of Hartford Student Who Smeared Bodily Fluids on Roommate’s Belongings Not Likely to Face Hate Crime Charges, Lawyer Says
11/22/2017 - Et Tu, Ceasar? Ceasar Mitchell’s Endorsement of White Mayoral Candidate Could End Black Power in Atlanta
11/22/2017 - Thanksgiving Text Hotline Helps White Folks Talk to Their Racist Relatives About Trump and Racism
11/22/2017 - CBS ‘Begging’ Oprah to Do Morning Show After Charlie Rose Canned
11/22/2017 - ‘I Had No Hair on Me’: DeRay Davis Says He Lost His Virginity at Age 11 to 2 30-Year-Old Women
11/22/2017 - Nazi Furries Are Proof That White People Have Officially Lost Their Minds
11/22/2017 - Trump’s Top Pick to Head Census Is Pro-Gerrymandering Professor Who Thinks Black People Are Overcounted
11/22/2017 - Trump Thinks That Standing in the Locker Room During the Anthem Is Offensive Because He’s an Idiot
11/22/2017 - Thank Gawd LaVar Ball Told Trump to Kiss His Black Ass
11/22/2017 -
Judge of Characters:
Thanksgiving While Black
11/22/2017 - Petty on Fleek: Texas Woman Is Selling Her Now Famous Anti-Trump Stickers
11/22/2017 - Put Some Respeck on It (and Some Frank’s Red Hot): Isn’t It Time We Celebrate Chitlins?
11/22/2017 - Richard Spencer Told to Kick Rocks After Farm Owners Realize They Were Hosting a Super-Secret Wypipo Meeting
11/22/2017 - Arizona Police Chief Loses Gun in Library, Takes 4 Days to Realize It’s Missing
11/22/2017 - LeVar Burton Is a National Treasure, so How Dare Trump Voters Confuse Him With LaVar Ball?
11/22/2017 - Do White People Have Cousins?
11/22/2017 - FCC’s Plan to Repeal Net Neutrality Will Silence Black Voices
11/22/2017 - Donor Found for Georgia 2-Year-Old Denied Kidney Transplant Because of Father’s Probation; Tyler Perry Gifts Child’s Mom a Car
11/22/2017 - Former USA Gymnastics Doctor Pleads Guilty to Multiple Counts of Sexual Misconduct
11/22/2017 - Justice Department Threatens to Sue Harvard Over Race-Based Admissions Practices
11/22/2017 - Watch: The Truth About Thanksgiving
11/22/2017 - Heard It All Before ... White Maryland Woman Charged With Lying About Black Men Trying to Carjack Her
11/22/2017 - With Trump Revoking Temporary Protected Status, Haitians Fear for the Future and Their Lives
11/22/2017 - Donald Trump Just Can’t Get Off LaVar’s Balls
11/22/2017 - The Caucasian’s Guide to Thanksgiving, Part 2: The Menu
11/22/2017 - 6 Ways to Make Your Thanksgiving as Unproblematic as Possible
11/22/2017 - Chicago Cop Gets 5 Years for Shooting Into Car Filled With Black Teens
11/22/2017 - Bank Better Have My Money: Armed 86-Year-Old Woman Demands That Tellers Pay Her What They Owe Her
11/22/2017 - Watch: Jemele Hill Says Our Progress Is ‘3 Steps Forward, 2 Steps Back’
11/22/2017 - Transgender Woman Spent 10 Years Inside Men’s Prisons and Is Fighting to Make Sure That Never Happens to Another Woman
11/22/2017 - Tennessee Judge Who Offered Freedom in Exchange for Sterilization Receives Mild Reprimand
11/22/2017 - 10 Gospel Songs to Make You Feel Like You’re in Church Whenever You Need That Feeling
11/22/2017 - Ilia Calderón Makes History as the 1st Afro-Latina to Anchor a Major News Desk in the United States
11/22/2017 - #ThanksgivingWithBlackFamilies Is the Most Wonderful Time of the Year on Social Media
11/22/2017 - High School Teacher Suspended After Bragging About Failing Students Who Refused to Stand for the Pledge of Allegiance
11/22/2017 - Georgia Cop Viciously Beat Teen, Causing Him to Suffer Concussion, Mom Says
11/22/2017 - Do You Use Uber? Do You Drive for Uber? If So, Your Information May Have Been Compromised
11/21/2017 - Booty Booty Booty Rockin’ Everywhere: Twerkers Take Over I-95 After Trump Stalls Traffic in South Florida
11/21/2017 - #FreeCyntoiaBrown: People Want Justice for Former Child Sex Slave Jailed in 2006 for Killing Man Who Exploited Her
11/21/2017 - Gabby Douglas Says She Too Was Sexually Assaulted by USA Gymnastics Team Doctor
11/21/2017 - #Flint: Federal Judge Orders City Council to Vote on Permanent Water Source by Tuesday Night
11/21/2017 - Meghan Markle Reportedly Moving Into Kensington Palace With Prince Harry
11/21/2017 - President Pussy Grabber
Damn Near Stumps for Accused Sex Offender Roy Moore, Because of Course He Would
11/21/2017 - Florida Church Puts Up Warning on Front Doors: ‘We Are Heavily Armed’
11/21/2017 - How to Survive in America When You’re Black and Your Hometown Is Donald Trump’s Base
11/21/2017 - Riding While Brown: A Man Named ‘Mohammad’ Was Ejected From a Greyhound Because of His Name
11/21/2017 - Trump Is Making the GOP Look Like Fake Russia Hawks
11/21/2017 - 10 Great Excuses for When You’re a Guest With Someone’s Family at Thanksgiving and They Offer Chitlins and You Don’t Want to Offend Them
11/21/2017 - Cam Newton May Have Written an Inspirational Note on Instagram, but I Can’t Read It Because He Types the Way Lil Yachty Raps
11/21/2017 - Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s Longtime President, Resigns After 37 Years
11/21/2017 - Ohio Man Harassed, Threatened Elderly Black Neighbor, Encouraged 4-Year-Old Son to Call the 70-Year-Old Racial Slurs
11/21/2017 - Black Lives Matter Kicks Off
The Provocateurs
Series at California African American Museum
11/21/2017 - Watch: Why Black Thought of the Roots Believes Art Should Represent the Times We Live In
11/21/2017 - Rep. John Conyers Paid $27,000 to Settle Sexual Harassment Complaint: Report
11/21/2017 - An Open Letter to Post Malone
11/21/2017 - The Caucasian’s Guide to Black Thanksgiving, Part 1: The Guest List
11/21/2017 - More Remains of Sgt. La David Johnson Discovered in Niger, Weeks After Funeral
11/21/2017 - Very Married Former NBA Star Ray Allen Reportedly Caught in Catfishing Scheme by ‘Troubled’ Man
11/21/2017 - ‘Disrespectful’ and More Things White People Say When They Really Want to Call Black People the N-Word but Can’t
11/21/2017 - When a Deadbeat Dad Attacks a College Grad: Joe Walsh Blew His Racist Dog Whistle on Marshawn Lynch and Twitter Wasn’t Having It
11/21/2017 - Teen Suicide Bomber Kills at Least 50 at Mosque in Nigeria
11/21/2017 - Thanksgiving and Chill: All the Shows to Binge-Watch Before You Get ‘The Itis’
11/21/2017 - Can a Company Be a Messy Bitch? Whitefish Stopped Work in Puerto Rico Over $83,000,000 It’s Apparently Owed
11/21/2017 - Anti-Gay Politician Sexually Harassed More Than 30 Men and Teenagers Before He Was Caught: Report
11/21/2017 - Donna Brazile in Atlanta: ‘Don’t Step on Me When I Tell You My Story’
11/21/2017 - Former Female
Saturday Night Live
Staffers Issue Letter of Support for Sen. Al Franken
11/21/2017 - Here’s Why No One Cares About University of Oklahoma Quarterback Baker Mayfield Grabbing His Dick on National TV
11/21/2017 - Bride Holds Surprise Wedding at Hospital Where Father Is Being Treated for Leukemia
11/21/2017 - Trump Supporter Accused of Threatening to Kill Rep. Maxine Waters in Racist Voicemail Remains Free on Bail
11/21/2017 - Kevin Hart Announces Birth of New Baby Boy, Kenzo Kash Hart
11/21/2017 - LaVar Ball vs. Donald Trump: The Epic CNN Smackdown
11/20/2017 - Trump Administration Kicks 59,000 Displaced Haitian Earthquake Victims Out of the US
11/20/2017 - Earle Hyman, Who Played Bill Cosby’s Father on
The Cosby Show,
Dead at 91
11/20/2017 - Lawyers for Korryn Gaines’ 6-Year-Old Son File Amended Lawsuit Against Baltimore County Police
11/20/2017 - Solange Stars in Calvin Klein’s New Campaign
11/20/2017 -
Queen Sugar
Star Rutina Wesley Announces Engagement
11/20/2017 - 5 Common Household Items That Are More Intelligent Than Donald Trump
11/20/2017 - The Great Migration: National Museum of African American History and Culture Offers to Digitize Black Family Home Movies for Free
11/20/2017 - HBCUs Can Revive US Cities
11/20/2017 - Watch: The Root 100 Gala Was the Blackest Event on TV
11/20/2017 - Spike Lee’s 25 Best Movies, Ranked
11/20/2017 - Who Wants to Bet a Dollar on the NAACP Image Award Winners?
11/20/2017 - If You Don’t Cry While Watching This Serena Williams Commercial, Then You Probably Voted for Trump
11/20/2017 - Black Excellence: 10 African-American Students Named Rhodes Scholars
11/20/2017 - Gifted Singer and Actress Della Reese Dead at 86
11/20/2017 - Watch: How Mayor Lumumba Is Rewriting the Story of Jackson, Miss.
11/20/2017 - It’s Dressing. Save a Life; Cut It Out With the Stuffing Shit
11/20/2017 - Trump Wants Marshawn Lynch Suspended and LaVar Ball’s Middle Child Thrown in Jail Because He’s Messy
11/20/2017 - Watch: Maxine Waters Honored With The Root 100 Gladiator Award
11/20/2017 - Texas Motorist With Profane Anti-Trump Sticker on Truck Adds Local Sheriff to Display After Being Arrested on Outstanding Warrant
11/20/2017 - Charles Manson’s Race War, Explained
11/20/2017 - A Simple Explanation for Why Alabama’s Roy Moore Will Get Elected to the Senate
11/20/2017 - Marshawn Lynch Only Stood During the Mexican Anthem Because He’s the Black Honey Badger and No One Can Stop Him
11/20/2017 - Oh, the Irony! Apple Replaces Black Diversity VP With a White Woman
11/20/2017 - Diana Ross Honored by the American Music Awards, but Her Grandson Stole the Show
11/20/2017 - This 8-Year-Old Boxer Can Kick All Our Collective Asses
11/20/2017 - Drake and His Dad Star in New Virginia Black Whiskey Ad
11/20/2017 - A New
Wrinkle in Time
Trailer Just Dropped and I Am Shook
11/20/2017 - Former Oklahoma State Senator to Plead Guilty to Child Sex Trafficking Charge: Report
11/19/2017 - LaVar Ball Just Won
11/19/2017 - This Can’t Be Good: Genealogy Companies Say They’re Willing to Give Law Enforcement Your DNA
11/19/2017 - Zimbabwe’s Ruling Party Gives Robert Mugabe the Boot, but the 93-Year-Old Is ‘Holding On’ Like Jeffrey Osborne
11/19/2017 - Russell Simmons Accused of Sexually Assaulting 17-Year-Old Model, While Brett Ratner ‘Just Sat There and Watched’
11/19/2017 - The 25 Best and Blackest Things About Chance the Rapper’s ‘Come Back, Barack’ Video on
Saturday Night Live
11/19/2017 - FCC Vote Advances Big Media. Will It Harm Diversity?
11/19/2017 - Marines Respond to Video of Jarhead Serving Up Racial Epithets With a Smile
11/19/2017 - Watch: The Root 100 Gala Co-Host A.J. Calloway Celebrates the Obamas
11/19/2017 - This Is What Child Sex Trafficking Looks Like in Madagascar
11/19/2017 - Watch: Raquel Willis on Bringing Your Black Transgender Identity to Work
11/19/2017 - LaToya Cantrell Becomes 1st Woman Elected Mayor of New Orleans
11/18/2017 - Lena Dunham Is Trash, Issues Apology for Defending Friend Against Rape Accusations
11/18/2017 - Carmen Ejogo Joins Mahershala Ali on Season 3 of
True Detective
11/18/2017 - Country Singer Criticizes Protests With Ineptly Named Ditty, ‘Take a Knee, My Ass’
11/18/2017 - Thousands of Zimbabweans Take to the Streets, Telling Robert Mugabe and ‘Gucci Grace’ to Kick Rocks
11/18/2017 - ‘We’re Not a Racist Department’: North Carolina Firefighters Complain After County Cuts Funding Over Confederate Flag
11/18/2017 - Watch: Lena Waithe Is Black and Unapologetic in the Writers’ Room
11/18/2017 - Should Congress Take Away Trump’s Authority to Pre-Emptively Launch a Nuclear Strike?
11/18/2017 - I Tried It: A Night at the Opera
11/18/2017 - Tyrese Wins Shared Custody of His 10-Year-Old Daughter, Though Judge Ruled His Social Media Posts ‘Melodramatic’
11/18/2017 - Navy Launches Investigation Over Dick Pic in the Sky
11/18/2017 - Serena and Venus Williams ‘Back Dat Azz Up’ in Leaked Video of Serena’s Wedding Reception
11/18/2017 - Gabby Douglas Apologizes for Victim-Blaming Teammate; Social Media Declares She’s ‘Canceled’
11/17/2017 - Anti-LGBTQ Lawmaker Caught in His Office Having
Extremely
Pro-LGBTQ Sex With a Man
11/17/2017 - Watch: Dee Rees Says It’s Not Enough to Just Be a Black Woman; You Must Be Excellent
11/17/2017 -
Judge of Characters:
Trump Helps Black People Now?
11/17/2017 - 7 Things That Make White People Interrupt You When You’re Minding Your Own Damn Business
11/17/2017 - Jameis Winston Under Investigation in Grabbing of Uber Driver’s Crotch
11/17/2017 - A Sentence-by-Sentence Reply to This Racist-ish and Awkwardly Punctuated Facebook Message I Got Yesterday
11/17/2017 - Study Shows That Black Men Serve Longer Prison Sentences Than White Men Convicted for the Same Crime; Also, Water Is Wet
11/17/2017 - Jenifer Lewis Is the Mother of Black Hollywood and She Has the Receipts to Back It Up
11/17/2017 - All of Kanye West’s GOOD Fridays Tracks, Ranked
11/17/2017 - The Rev. Jesse Jackson Reveals Parkinson’s Diagnosis
11/17/2017 - I Tried It: I’m Not Mad at the ‘Come Meet a Black Person’ Event Organizer and You Shouldn’t Be Either
11/17/2017 - Denzel Washington’s
Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Isn’t Exactly What You’re Expecting, but What You Might Need to See
11/17/2017 - Watch: Don’t Tell Michael Smith to ‘Stick to Sports’
11/17/2017 - Florida Man Faces Charges After Leaving Kids in Car While He Went to a Strip Club: Report
11/17/2017 -
Mudbound
Is Another Exhausting Tale of Inequality and Racism in America, but at Least It Was Executed Properly
11/17/2017 - These 7 Young Futurists Are Already Changing the World
11/17/2017 - Former United Airlines Pilot (and Houston Brothel Owner) Receives Probation and $2,000 Fine
11/17/2017 - ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ ... but Do We?
11/17/2017 - Tracing Your Roots: Do I Have Gullah Roots?
11/17/2017 -
The Root
’s Clapback Mailbag: Not All Mailbags
11/17/2017 - Tech’s Whiteness Is the Problem. Are We the Solution?
11/17/2017 - Idiot Gun Owner Shoots Himself and Wife in Church While Speaking About His Right to Have a Gun in Church
11/17/2017 - Texas Motorist Whose Vehicle Boasts Profane Anti-Trump Sticker Arrested on Previous, Outstanding Warrant
11/17/2017 - Dad Stabbed to Death Defending Son During Robbery
11/17/2017 - Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian Wed in New Orleans
11/16/2017 - Common Stars as His Own Comic Book Character, Caster
11/16/2017 - College to Be Named After Gwen Ifill
11/16/2017 - Naija! Nigeria’s Women’s Bobsled Team Set to Hit 2018 Winter Olympics
11/16/2017 - The Akils Return With
Black Lightning
on the CW
11/16/2017 - 5 Ways the Republican Tax-Reform Plan Hits Black Folks the Hardest
11/16/2017 - Is Nicki Minaj Being Slut Shamed for Her Paper Mag Cover?
11/16/2017 - Kim Foxx’s Office Orders Release of 15 More Chicago Inmates Tainted by Dirty Cop
11/16/2017 - I’m Tired of Hearing About White Men’s Penises
11/16/2017 - Joe Biden Needs to Offer Anita Hill a Better Apology
11/16/2017 - Charges Dropped Against Black Man Shot by Texas Cops Who Thought He Was Breaking Into His Own Damn Car
11/16/2017 - Watch: Angela Rye Makes Power Moves at The Root 100 Gala
11/16/2017 - This Flamin’ Hot Cheetos Turkey Is Flaming-Hot Trash
11/16/2017 - 10 Thoughts About
Queen Sugar
and Last Night’s Season Finale
11/16/2017 -
Justice League
Is Trash and a Desperate Money Grab, but You’re Still Going to See It
11/16/2017 - WTF Is Wrong With Alabama?
11/16/2017 - Deputy Sheriff Under Fire for Blackface Frederica Wilson Halloween Costume Because Whiteness Might Be a Mental Illness
11/16/2017 - Watch
:
Gabrielle Union: ‘Hollywood Is Very Segregated’
11/16/2017 - If You’re a Black Woman Who’s Tired of White People Touching Your Hair, There’s a Game for That
11/16/2017 - Roy Moore Pens Open Letter to Sean Hannity, Proving He’s As Bad a Liar as He May Be a Molester
11/16/2017 - Wakanda Forever: On the Importance of
Black Panther
11/16/2017 - Google Doodle Celebrates the Life of Author Chinua Achebe
11/16/2017 - Louisiana Mom Makes Her Son Do Free Yard Work Following 3-Day Suspension From School
11/16/2017 - Texas Sheriff Sparks Outrage After Warning Vehicle Owner About Profane Anti-Trump Sticker
11/16/2017 - 3rd Ohio Pastor Charged With Sex-Trafficking Underage Girls
11/16/2017 - House Democrats Introduce 5 Articles of Impeachment Against Donald Trump
11/15/2017 - Twitter Removes Verification Badge From White Nationalists’ Accounts, Changes Verification Policies
11/15/2017 - Rep. Karen Bass Ate Jeff Sessions for Lunch and It Was Delicious
11/15/2017 - Zendaya to Produce, Star in Thriller About a Black Woman Passing as White Near the Start of the 20th Century
11/15/2017 - Black Man in Louisiana to Be Freed From Prison After Judge Overturned 1974 Conviction, but He Still Has to Pay $2,000 Bail
11/15/2017 - White Meats I Personally Find Much Sexier Than Blake Shelton, Ranked
11/15/2017 - For Journalists of Color, Covering Racists Can Take Its Toll
11/15/2017 - California Gunman Killed Wife, Hid Body Beneath the Floor of Their Home: Police
11/15/2017 - Drake Threatens Concert Attendee After He Catches Him Groping Women
11/15/2017 - Babies Aren’t Birth Control. Field Trips Are Birth Control
11/15/2017 - Anonymous Disables More Than a Dozen White Supremacist Websites in Coordinated Hacking Attack
11/15/2017 - Was
Get Out
More Funny or Scary?
11/15/2017 - Issa Coup but Not Really: How Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe Happened to Find Himself Under ‘House Arrest’
11/15/2017 - Here Are a Bunch of Men Sexier Than Blake Shelton
11/15/2017 - LiAngelo Ball, 2 Other UCLA Basketball Players Suspected of Shoplifting in China Are Now Back in the US
11/15/2017 - A Guide to Donald Trump’s Love for Strongmen
11/15/2017 - Terry Crews Talks Hollywood Sexual Assault on
Good Morning America:
‘I Will Not Be Shamed’
11/15/2017 - The Real Anti-Blackness of Comedy
11/15/2017 - 19-Year-Old Thug, Accused of Racist Attack on Black Cornell University Student, Charged With Hate Crime
11/15/2017 - Every Argument Against Commonsense Gun Control Broken Down to Its Idiotic Nonsense
11/15/2017 - Papa John’s Apologizes After Blaming Lagging Sales of Trash Pizza on NFL Anthem Protests
11/15/2017 - Did Y’all’s Dotard President Just Tweet Condolences About the Wrong Mass Shooting?
11/14/2017 - Fight to Save an African-American Burial Ground Continues in Bethesda, Md.
11/14/2017 - Maxine Waters Leads an ‘Impeach 45’ Chant at the Glamour Women of the Year Ceremony
11/14/2017 - #Flint: 1,299 Days of No Clean Water, but State Advisory Committee Says ‘Nothing to Discuss’
11/14/2017 - ‘Sometimes I Just Don’t Wanna Be Here Anymore’: On Black Children and Suicide
11/14/2017 - White People Are Weird! Why Are Y’all So Damn Weird? Can Y’all Stop Being So Damn Weird?
11/14/2017 - At Least 5 Dead After Shooting Involving Multiple Locations in California, Including Elementary School
11/14/2017 - Boston-Area College Will Name School After Trailblazing Journalist Gwen Ifill
11/14/2017 - My Cousin Was Lynched. Here’s How It Changed My Life
11/14/2017 - Good Samaritan Killed While Trying to Help Distressed Motorist as Twin Sister Looks On
11/14/2017 - A ‘Come Meet a Black Person’ Networking Event Is Happening in Georgia This Week and I Have So Many Thoughts
11/14/2017 - City of Topeka, Kan., Trying to Bar Black Man’s Parents From Seeing Video of Fatal Shooting, Lawyers Say
11/14/2017 - How, if You’re a Man, to Deal With the Fact That You’re Probably Trash
11/14/2017 - Come Drink at Britt McHenry’s Fountain of White Tears Over Colin Kaepernick’s Citizen of the Year Recognition
11/14/2017 - White People Are Smashing Their Coffee Machines to Show Support for Child Molestation
11/14/2017 - NYC Restaurant Worker Employee Fired After Telling Customers That ‘Everybody’ Knows the Manager Is Racist
11/14/2017 - Ta-Nehisi Coates Talks Race, Trump and What’s Really Scary About America
11/14/2017 - White Man Allegedly Stabbed Florida Officers Trying to Arrest Him, and Somehow Managed to Be Apprehended Alive
11/14/2017 - Peter Vecsey Is White People
11/14/2017 - Jeff Sessions Has Another Chance to Lie His Ass Off Before Congress
11/14/2017 - FBI Launches Investigation Into Philly Judge Who Sentenced Meek Mill to Prison: Report
11/14/2017 - FBI Releases Hate Crime Statistics for 2016: Majority of Offenders Were White
11/14/2017 - Elon Musk Says Black Employee Filing Lawsuit Should 'Be Thick-Skinned And Accept Apology'
11/13/2017 - WikiLeaks, Donald Trump Jr., Drama, Lies and Deception
11/13/2017 - Don’t (re)Touch My Hair: Photographer Apologizes for Photoshopping Lupita Nyong’o’s Hair on Magazine Cover
11/13/2017 - LeBron James and His Cleveland Cavaliers Teammates Rode a NYC Subway Train ‘Like Real Citizens’ Monday Morning
11/13/2017 - Today in White Nonsense: Woman Claims She’s ‘Transracial,’ Identifies as Filipino
11/13/2017 - Barbie Shero Doll, Inspired by Olympian Ibtihaj Muhammad, Becomes 1st Barbie to Wear a Hijab
11/13/2017 - I’m Kind of Starting to Mess With Don Lemon
11/13/2017 - Whitefish, Candidates for the Scammer Hall of Fame, Billed Puerto Rico More Than 7 Times What They Actually Paid Their Workers: Report
11/13/2017 - The Curious Case of the Black Male Escort Found Dead Inside a Wealthy Democratic Donor’s Home
11/13/2017 - Keith Ellison, the Man Who Saw Trump’s Presidency Coming, Has Some Bold Predictions for Democrats in 2018
11/13/2017 - Fla. Man Is Fighting Condo Association to Keep His ‘Emotional Support’ Squirrel
11/13/2017 - A Guide to Fantasy and Science Fiction Made for Black People, by Black People
11/13/2017 - Trump’s Pick for HHS Secretary Has Deep Ties to Big Pharma
11/13/2017 - 18-Year-Old White Thug Spotted at World Series Game Days After Being Arrested in Connection With Murder of Black Man
11/13/2017 - Trump Asks Chinese President to Help Resolve LiAngelo Ball’s Shoplifting Thing
11/13/2017 - Bossip Smashes Twitter’s Tender Cakes to Smithereens With Their Hilarious Headlines
11/13/2017 - Philly Residents Plan March for Meek Mill
11/13/2017 - Trump <3 Duterte: 2 Dickheads Have the Weekend of Their Dreams
11/13/2017 - Ways Jason Whitlock Probably Reacted After Learning GQ Named Colin Kaepernick Citizen of the Year, Ranked
11/13/2017 - US Army Quietly Lifts Ban on Recruits With Some Mental Health Issues
11/13/2017 - Black Lottery Winner Invests Winnings Into Rebuilding Fla. Black Business Community
11/13/2017 - Suspected Black Serial Killer Captured After Writing Cryptic Message on 3rd Victim in Blood: Report
11/13/2017 - Colin Kaepernick Is GQ’s Citizen of the Year Without Having to Say a Damn Thing
11/13/2017 - Viral Video Shows White Gun-Store Owner Calling Cops on Black Customer After Refusing to Sell Him Firearms
11/13/2017 - Tenn. Teacher Suspended After Video Posted to Social Media Shows Hijab Being Removed From Student’s Head
11/13/2017 - Trump Hints at ‘Major’ Announcement on North Korea, Trade Following Asia Trip
11/12/2017 - What If Mass Killers Were Muslim or of Color?
11/12/2017 - Catch ’Em if You Can: Pics of Sir and Rumi Carter Hit the Nets but Are Taken Down Almost as Fast
11/12/2017 - Who Do You Think You’re Fooling? White Bank Robber Uses Blackface as His Disguise
11/12/2017 - J.Crew Doesn’t Believe in Hairstylists for Its Black Models
11/12/2017 - Tiffany Haddish Kills Louis C.K. on
SNL:
Keep Your ‘Thang-Thang’ in Your Pants Until She Takes Her Clothes Off, Mkay?
11/12/2017 - #JusticeForJason: Wis. DOJ Claims Jason Pero, 14, Called 911, Described Himself, Before Deputy Fatally Shot Him
11/11/2017 - Sammy Sosa’s Brown Skin No Longer Exists
11/11/2017 - #WeKnowWhatYouDid: Signs Naming Accused Rapists Papered All Over Morehouse and Spelman Campuses
11/11/2017 - RuPaul Is the Queen, Naomi a Beheader: Pirelli’s 2018 Calendar Envisions an All-Black
Alice in Wonderland
11/11/2017 - Sgt. La David Johnson, Soldier Killed in Niger, Was Bound and Executed: Report
11/10/2017 - The Root 100 Gala Is an Unapologetic Celebration of Black Brilliance, and This Year the Revolution Will Be Televised
11/10/2017 - Brett Talley, Louis C.K., The Root 100 and the Whitest Week Ever
11/10/2017 - 4 Underrated Things About NYC From a Guy Who Doesn’t Hate It There as Much as He Used To
11/10/2017 - Federal Court Orders Md. to Fix Its Lack of Investment in HBCUs
11/10/2017 -
Judge of Characters:
We’re Just Out Here Making America Great ... for Once
11/10/2017 - Reproductive Justice for Black Women, Latinas, More Critical Than Ever
11/10/2017 - ‘These Stories Are True’: Louis C.K. Responds to Reports of Sexual Abuse
11/10/2017 - Seahawks’ Michael Bennett Stood for National Anthem Ahead of Veterans Day
11/10/2017 - Missy Elliott’s
Supa Dupa Fly
Is the Story of the Black Girl Who Wins
11/10/2017 -
The Root
’s Clapback Mailbag: The Gray Area
11/10/2017 - When a Breakdown Is Public (or, That Time My Mom Was on WorldStarHipHop)
11/10/2017 - Lupita Nyong’o ‘Disappointed’ That Magazine ‘Smoothed’ Her Hair in Cover Photo
11/10/2017 - Tracing Your Roots: What Are My In-Laws’ Texas Slavery Roots?
11/10/2017 - Puerto Rico Suffers Major Blackout as Power Line Fails
11/10/2017 - Pastor Considers Demolishing Texas Church After Horrific Mass Shooting
11/9/2017 - 5 Women Accuse Comedian Louis C.K., a Former Writer for Chris Rock, of Whacking Off in Front of Them or on Phone
11/9/2017 - GOP Ala. Senate Candidate Roy Moore Faces Pressure to Drop Out After Being Accused of Sexually Abusing 14-Year-Old
11/9/2017 - Nicki Minaj’s Brother Found Guilty of Child Rape, Faces 25 to Life
11/9/2017 - Twitter: Oops! Did We Accidentally Verify a White Nationalist? Our System Is Broken. We’ll Fix It—‘Soon’
11/9/2017 - Thousands of Black Nerds Reportedly Deceased as
Black Panther
Character Posters Slay the Internet
11/9/2017 - Hey, Y’all, I Met Oprah. Here’s What Happened
11/9/2017 - The Root 100 Is Tonight ... and You Aren’t Ready
11/9/2017 - Rahm Emanuel Walks Out on Chance the Rapper Because Rahm Is Evil and Chance Is Better Than All of Us
11/9/2017 - Nazi Meet Ya: Fox News Hires Former Trump Deputy Assistant Sebastian Gorka
11/9/2017 - Tame Impala’s
Currents
Is the Soundtrack to My Post-Divorce Life
11/9/2017 - It’s Time to Reclaim ‘Identity Politics’
11/9/2017 - Daylight Saving Time Is a Depression-Inducing Devil, so Here’s What I Do to Keep It From Keeping Me Down
11/9/2017 - Why Is Society Intent on Erasing Black People in Fantasy and Sci-fi’s Imaginary Worlds?
11/9/2017 - Philly Residents Proved How Voting Can Help End Mass Incarceration
11/9/2017 - 3-Year-Old Boy Allergic to Dairy Dies After Preschool Gives Him Grilled Cheese Sandwich: Report
11/9/2017 - ‘This Is Not Fun. This Kinda Sucks’: SC State Senator Complains About Possibly Losing Job During DUI Arrest
11/9/2017 - Conn. NAACP Calls for Hate Crime Charge Against Disgusting U of Hartford Freshman Accused of Contaminating Black Roommate’s Living Space
11/8/2017 - Terry Crews Filed a Sexual Assault Report With the Los Angeles Police Department: Report
11/8/2017 - Former President Barack Obama Showed Up for Jury Duty in Chicago on Wednesday Like the Model Citizen He Is
11/8/2017 - The Most Useless Types of White People, Ranked
11/8/2017 - Drake Plans to Take Time Off to Do Movies ... but Not With Harvey Weinstein
11/8/2017 - Atlanta Mayoral Race Might Be the One Bright Spot for Republicans After Tuesday Night
11/8/2017 - NJ Students Facing Discipline After Wearing Confederate-Flag Clothing, Taunting Members of African American Culture Club
11/8/2017 - A Year Later, How Has the Trump Presidency Personally Affected or Changed You?
11/8/2017 - The First Gray President
11/8/2017 - Why the
Sister Act 2
Soundtrack Was a Major Milestone of My Black-Ass Childhood
11/8/2017 - Replacing Confederate Fables With Black-Girl Magic: UVA Honors Vivian Pinn
11/8/2017 - Watch: Gabrielle Union Gets Candid About Her Own Rape
11/8/2017 - Rooting for All the Black Folk: 7 Cities in America Elected Their 1st Black Mayors Tuesday Night
11/8/2017 - An Incomplete List of the Names We Used Instead of ‘President Donald Trump’
11/8/2017 - Rihanna, Queen of the Red Carpet, Will Host the 2018 Met Gala
11/8/2017 - Former Felons Voted in Tuesday’s Elections and Republicans Are Big Mad
11/8/2017 - 325-Pound Fla. Woman Who Allegedly Sat on 9-Year-Old Cousin Indicted on 1st-Degree Murder Charges
11/8/2017 - Black Cadet Found Responsible for Racist Graffiti at Air Force Academy
11/8/2017 - Say Something Nice: 7 Things That Have Actually Improved During Trump’s Presidency
11/8/2017 - LiAngelo Ball, 2 Other UCLA Players Out on Bail After Arrest in China, but Will Not Play in Season-Opening Game
11/8/2017 - Kansas State University Black Student Union Demands That Charges Be Filed in Racist Graffiti ‘Prank’
11/8/2017 - Democrats Have Huge Election Night Victories With Big Wins in Va., NJ
11/7/2017 - NYPD Officer Files Federal Lawsuit Alleging Mistreatment After He Complained About Racial Disparities
11/7/2017 - Fox News Pulls Ads Urging Impeachment
11/7/2017 - Baltimore Police Van Driver Found Not Guilty of All 21 Administrative Charges in Death of Freddie Gray
11/7/2017 - Looks Like Omarosa Is Getting Too Big for Her Britches in the White House
11/7/2017 - Russian Meddling Reveals Truths America Can’t Place at the Kremlin’s Feet
11/7/2017 - Twitter Just Gave Everyone 280 Characters, Which Means Nazis Can Be Even More Abusive Now
11/7/2017 - Female Ex-Staffers Say Congresswoman Championing Sexual Harassment Bill Tolerated Abusive Behavior From Top Aide: Report
11/7/2017 - LiAngelo Ball, 2 Other UCLA Players Arrested on Shoplifting Charges in China: Report
11/7/2017 - 4th-Graders Allegedly Called ‘Black Animals’ by White Elementary School Teacher in La.
11/7/2017 - Texas Mass Shooter Devin Kelley Escaped From a Mental Hospital in 2012
11/7/2017 - Despite Trump’s Best Efforts, Obamacare Enrollment Reaches New Highs
11/7/2017 - Jodeci’s
Forever My Lady
Was Revolutionary for Me, a Church Boy From Okla.
11/7/2017 - Dreams Do Come True: There’s Now an App That Tells You if McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Is Broken (as Usual)
11/7/2017 - Meet Shalira Taylor, the Black Trump Supporter Vying for a Cleveland City Council Seat
11/7/2017 - White-Tears News: Taylor Swift Threatens Legal Action to Prove She’s Not a White Supremacist
11/7/2017 - The White Woman Who Got Fired for Giving Trump the Finger Is the Blackest Thing That Ever Happened This Week
11/7/2017 - Demented Cheese Grit Claims Gun Control Would Have Made ‘No Difference’ in Latest American Mass Shooting
11/7/2017 - I Tried It: Notes From a Silent Party
11/7/2017 - Tito Jackson Hopes to Become Boston’s 1st Black Mayor Today
11/7/2017 - Air Force: Failure to Follow Policies Allowed Texas Shooter to Buy Firearms
11/7/2017 - University of Texas Police Chased Off Some White Boys Having a Tiki-Torch Protest on Campus
11/7/2017 - A Crime by Any Other Name Is Probably Not Mental Illness
11/7/2017 - Bobby Brown Solo Biopic Coming to BET in 2018
11/7/2017 - Defense Claims Girl and Mother Falsified Rape Claims Against Jelani Maraj to ‘Shake Down’ Nicki Minaj for Money
11/7/2017 - ‘That’s How People Like You Get Shot’: Ga. Teacher on Administrative Leave, Accused of Student Threat
11/7/2017 - Black Man Admits to Vandalizing His Car With Racist Graffiti in ‘Halloween Prank That Got Out of Hand’
11/7/2017 - If the Texas Church Shooter Wasn’t White
11/6/2017 - Tony Romo Tried to Roast Deion Sanders, Deion Clapped Back
11/6/2017 - Meek Mill Sentenced to 2-4 Years in Prison for Probation Violations: Report
11/6/2017 - Despite Supreme Court Ruling, District Attorneys in La. Are Working Against Juvenile Lifers Seeking Parole
11/6/2017 - Watch: King Bach Teaches Us How to Make a Viral Video
11/6/2017 - Papa John’s: Now the Official ‘Pizza’ of Nazis, According to Nazis
11/6/2017 - Fox News Host Looks for the ‘Positive’ in Texas Shooting, Insinuates Church Is the Best Place to Be Shot
11/6/2017 - Will White Identity Politics Prevail on Tuesday? Conservatives Use Racist, Anti-Immigrant Messages to Get Out the Vote
11/6/2017 - Authorities Believe ‘Domestic Situation’ May Have Motivated Gunman in Texas Church Shooting
11/6/2017 - Here’s a $1,000 Tin Can From Tiffany’s
11/6/2017 - Everything You Wanted to Know About the Lie-Filled FBI File on Martin Luther King Jr. Released by Trump
11/6/2017 - Don’t Let the Smile Fool You. I’m Cringing on the Inside
11/6/2017 - ‘Cry-Rese’ Gets $5,000,000 From Will and Jada Pinkett Smith After Emotional Video Plea
11/6/2017 - Cyclist Who Flipped Off Trump Motorcade Fired From Government Contracting Firm
11/6/2017 - What #JusticeForJazzy Would Look Like if I Were Jazzy
11/6/2017 - Video Shows Cop Punching Disorderly Female Fan After She Slaps Him at University of Miami Football Game
11/6/2017 - Bernie Sanders Is Not a Real Progressive
11/6/2017 - Pa. Man Who Gives Free Haircuts to the Homeless Receives Free Barbershop From Stranger
11/6/2017 - Ore. Congressman Says Pro Athletes Should Have Their Weed in Lieu of Dangerous Pain Pills
11/6/2017 - 4 State Elections That Could Prove How Much Everybody Hates Black Voters
11/6/2017 - Babysitter Believed to Have Kidnapped 6-Year-Old Autistic Boy in Brooklyn, NY: Report
11/6/2017 - NYC Cop Accused of Sending Lewd Texts to Woman He Arrested
11/6/2017 - Father Kills 14-Year-Old Son Allegedly Because ‘He Would Rather Have a Dead Son Than a Gay Son’: Report
11/6/2017 - Trump Says Texas Shooting Is a ‘Mental Health Problem,’ but Was It?
11/5/2017 - Devin Patrick Kelley Identified as Gunman in Texas Church Mass Shooting
11/5/2017 - Hillary Clinton’s Camp Responds to Donna Brazile’s Claims: ‘We Don’t Recognize the Campaign She Portrays’
11/5/2017 - La. Court Rules That Man Who Said ‘Give Me a Lawyer, Dog’ Wasn’t Asking for Counsel
11/5/2017 - Diddy Changes His Name to ‘Brotherly Love’ Cuz Hey, It’s Scorpio Season
11/5/2017 - ‘It’s Okay to Be White’ Signs Papered All Over the Country Because Everyone Knows White People Are Oppressed
11/5/2017 - Yoga Greenbook: How 1 Woman Is Working to Make the Transformational Power of Yoga Accessible to the Black Community
11/5/2017 - These Portraits of Dads in Madagascar Offer an Intimate Glimpse of Black Fatherhood in Other Parts of the World
11/5/2017 - 25-Year-Old American Jailed for Tweet Criticizing Zimbabwean Leader Robert Mugabe
11/5/2017 - ‘Aloha Also Means Goodbye’: Hawaii Gives Trump the Trolling He Deserves
11/4/2017 -
Judge of Characters:
It’s Time to Trust Black Women
11/4/2017 - Iowa Cheerleader Quits Team After School Says Students Cannot Kneel During Anthem
11/4/2017 - City of Miami May Be Sued for Releasing Photos of Firefighters Fired in Noose Incident
11/4/2017 - You Got a Little Soul in You, I See
11/4/2017 - 19-Year-Old Harvard Student Becomes America’s 1st Youth Poet Laureate
11/4/2017 - Man Found Guilty of Murder of 16-Year-Old Gender-Fluid Iowa Teen Kedarie Johnson
11/4/2017 - The Curious Case of Donna Brazile and Liberal Refusal to Admit So-Called Democracy Is Rigged
11/3/2017 - Woman With Cerebral Palsy Has Mouth Taped Shut by Teacher, Family Files Lawsuit
11/3/2017 - Beyoncé Channels Lil’ Kim in 5 Iconic Looks That Pay Homage to the Original Queen Bee
11/3/2017 - Hey, Jan, Stop Hating on Curvy Black Women Just Because You Are Shaped Like a Box Chevy
11/3/2017 - Man Who Allegedly Groped Actor Terry Crews Identified as William Morris Executive Adam Venit: Report
11/3/2017 - 10 of the Most Rewatchable Movies of All Time
11/3/2017 - Perhaps He’s ‘Corny,’ but Russell Wilson Would Definitely Whoop Your Ass (and Future’s Too, if It Ever Came to That)
11/3/2017 - Va. Man Admits to Shooting His Wife, Found Not Guilty of Murder
11/3/2017 - NFL Owners Will Be Deposed, Asked to Turn Over Cellphone Records and Emails in Colin Kaepernick Collusion Case
11/3/2017 - SC Senators Still Want Monument to ‘Black Confederates,’ Facts and Experts Be Damned
11/3/2017 - As Baltimore’s Homicides Reach 300, Activists Call for Another Cease-Fire Weekend
11/3/2017 - Are There Too Many African Americans in TV Ads?
11/3/2017 - Why Did a Former Fla. Prom Queen Die a Week After Being Booked at County Jail?
11/3/2017 - A Tale of 2 Mich. Water Crises
11/3/2017 -
The Root’
s Clapback Mailbag: First of All ...
11/3/2017 - Tracing Your Roots: Where Did My Infamous Ancestor Come From?
11/3/2017 - KFC Has a Fried-Chicken-Scented Bath Bomb, and I Am Equal Parts Disgusted and Intrigued
11/3/2017 - We Get It. It’s Harvey Weinstein’s News Cycle. But What About Our Black Girls?
11/3/2017 - ‘Go Back’: Kan. Restaurant Fire May Be Eyed as a Hate Crime After Xenophobic Graffiti Is Found
11/3/2017 -
Thor: Ragnarok:
This Time the Magical Negroes Have Swords
11/3/2017 - FBI Leading Investigation After Car Near Kansas State University Vandalized With Racial Slurs
11/3/2017 - NYPD Officers Accused of Raping Teen Will Face Rare Department Trial Before Going to Criminal Court
11/3/2017 - Mo. Father Demanding Answers After School Employee Accused of Yelling Racial Slurs at 4th-Graders During Recess
11/3/2017 - Black Woman Attacked, Beaten Unconscious After Rejecting Man’s Advances: Report
11/3/2017 - Ohio Kindergartner Awarded for Calling 911, Saving Grandmother’s Life
11/2/2017 -
House of Cards
Producer Investigating on-Set Harassment, Sexual Assault Claims Against Kevin Spacey
11/2/2017 - Donald Trump’s Twitter Account Was Deactivated ‘Inadvertently’ by a Twitter Employee for 11 Minutes
11/2/2017 - Coffee Shop in NYC’s Gentrified Bed-Stuy Neighborhood Refused to Give Candy to Black Children on Halloween: Report
11/2/2017 - Trump Found a White Dude Named ‘Jerome’ to Be in Charge of Our Money Because Nothing Makes Sense Anymore
11/2/2017 - Trump’s Energy Secretary Believes Fossil Fuels Can Help Prevent Sexual Assault
11/2/2017 - Prince Michael Jackson Taken to Hospital After Motorcycle Accident
11/2/2017 - Hillary Clinton Rigged the Race Against Bernie Sanders and Donna Brazile Has Proof
11/2/2017 - The Blue Grass Airport TSA Pulled Me Aside to Inspect and Massage My Hair and Now I Have Questions!
11/2/2017 - NY School District Apologizes After Automated Phone Call Uses Racial Slur Instead of Student’s Name
11/2/2017 - The Unsinkable Nikki Giovanni Reflects on a Life of Tears and Laughter in New Collection
11/2/2017 - Facebook Ran Russian Ads on
The Root’
s Page, but It Didn’t Work. Here’s What They Should’ve Tried
11/2/2017 - Did Bobby Brown Make
Don’t Be Cruel,
or Did
Don’t Be Cruel
Make Bobby Brown?
11/2/2017 - Black Man Was Killed in 1983 for Socializing With White Woman, Prosecutors Say
11/2/2017 - B.o.B.’s Apparent Belief That Slave Ships Never Existed May Be the Most Hotep Conspiracy Theory of All Time
11/2/2017 - Watch: 3 Athletes Who Risked It All Before Colin Kaepernick
11/2/2017 - SheaMoisture Is Out Here Setting Up Beard Thirst Traps, but Don’t Get Beard-Fished
11/2/2017 - Miss. High School Basketball Player Says He Was Suspended for Not Placing Hand Over Heart During National Anthem
11/2/2017 - 3 Dead After Gunman Opens Fire Inside Colo. Walmart
11/2/2017 - Congressman Tells Black Anti-Abortion-Rights Activist, ‘You’re Ignorant’
11/2/2017 - Kevin Spacey and the Damage Done
11/2/2017 - Google Gives $1,000,000 Grant to Push the Representation of Black Male Youths in Tech
11/2/2017 - White Juvenile Accused of Setting Black Church on Fire
11/1/2017 - Family of Mentally Ill Inmate Killed in Denver Jail in 2015 Will Receive $4,600,000 Settlement
11/1/2017 - Miami Firefighters Hang Noose Over Black Colleague’s Family Photo, Draw Penis on Picture of His Wife
11/1/2017 - Trump Thinks the US Justice System Is a Laughingstock
11/1/2017 - The Blackest Disney Movie Ever,
The Lion King,
Will Have the Blackest Cast Ever—Including Queen Bey
11/1/2017 - Fenty Beauty’s Social Media Capital Was Driven by Black Voices
11/1/2017 - When Should Rappers Hang Up the Microphone?
11/1/2017 - Police Chief Who Compared Black People to ‘ISIS’ and Wanted to Mow Them Down Charged With Hate Crime
11/1/2017 - Tyrese Has Social Media Meltdown Over Daughter and the Rock
11/1/2017 - Papa John’s Sheds White Tears Over Lagging Pizza Sales, Blames NFL Protests
11/1/2017 - Paul Manafort: The Adviser to Sellouts for Russia
11/1/2017 - Trump’s Latest Tweets Are Dog Whistles to White Supremacists
11/1/2017 - Disgusting University of Hartford Freshman Expelled After Being Accused of Rubbing Used Tampons on Black Roommate’s Bag, Contaminating Her Living Space
11/1/2017 - How I Lost My 13-Year War Against Starbucks
11/1/2017 - LeBron James Sings, Spits ‘It Was a Good Day’ With Ice Cube for
Carpool Karaoke
11/1/2017 - ‘I Hope You Die’: Racist Note Found in Black Student’s Locker at NJ Christian School
11/1/2017 - 6 Women Accuse
Rush Hour
Director Brett Ratner of Sexual Harassment or Misconduct
11/1/2017 - Trick or Treat or Asshole for a Dad? Donald Trump Jr. Tweets About Taking Candy From Daughter to Teach About ‘Socialism’
11/1/2017 - Mom Admits to Beating 10-Year-Old With Extension Cord Before He Reportedly Stabbed Himself to Death
11/1/2017 - The Culture of Male Silence: Men Treat Sexual Assault Like America Treats White Supremacy
11/1/2017 - Black Lawmakers and Leaders Blast John Kelly for ‘Dangerous’ Civil War Comments
11/1/2017 - Betsy DeVos, Our Educational System Helps Produce Harvey Weinsteins and We Need to Change That
11/1/2017 - Prince Harry and Michelle Obama Surprise Students at Chicago South Side High School
11/1/2017 - Nothing Is Sacred on Airlines Anymore: Delta Passengers Arrested for Having Oral Sex on Plane While in Their Seats
11/1/2017 - Utah Nurse Arrested by Police for Doing Her Job Reaches $500,000 Settlement