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2017 October
10/31/2017 - Little Black Girl Screaming ‘Stranger Danger’ Was With Her Father; She’s Safe
10/31/2017 - Girl at Center of Rape Trial of Nicki Minaj’s Brother Gives Horrifying Details in Testimony
10/31/2017 -
House of Cards
Production Suspended Indefinitely in Wake of Kevin Spacey Allegations
10/31/2017 - 8 Dead, Multiple Injuries After Pickup Truck Plows Into People on Bike Path in NYC; Suspect Identified
10/31/2017 - 10 Cringeworthy Things Every Black Person Born Between 1975 and 1985 Did in Their Teens and 20s, Ranked
10/31/2017 - Russian Disinformation Has Long Targeted Blacks
10/31/2017 - Gun-Wielding Drunk Charged With Hate Crime After Chasing, Shooting at Black Man While Yelling Slurs
10/31/2017 - What Pitbull Gets Wrong When He Says ‘Immigrants Built the United States of America’
10/31/2017 - Why Some Black and Brown People Can’t Trust Bernie Sanders, in 1 Quote
10/31/2017 - Man Catches Thief, Allows Thief to Catch ‘These Hands’
10/31/2017 - Surprise? New Survey Reveals a Wide Gulf Between Millennial Whites and Millennials of Color on Race
10/31/2017 - Kaepernick’s Attorney Believes the Quarterback Could Be Signed ‘in the Next 10 Days’
10/31/2017 - Dear White Women: Interracial Relationships and Biracial Children Do Not Absolve You of Racism
10/31/2017 -
Queen Sugar
Decided That
This Is Us
Was NOT Going to Get All of My Emotions This Season
10/31/2017 - Wendell Pierce Calls John Kelly a ‘Racist Prick’ Over Civil War Comments
10/31/2017 - Va. Governor’s Race: Conservatives Shed White Tears After Political Ad Calls Out Ed Gillespie’s Racist Ads
10/31/2017 - 2nd Texas Student Sues Her High School Over Treatment After Not Standing for Pledge of Allegiance
10/31/2017 - FDA Warns That You Can ‘Overdose’ on Black Licorice, but Who the Hell Is Eating That Shit Anyway?
10/31/2017 - Wendy Williams Faints on Live TV
10/31/2017 - 10-Year-Old Girl Raises More Than $4,000 From Bake Sale After Mom’s Breast-Cancer Diagnosis
10/31/2017 - 10 Thoughts on Big K.R.I.T. and His New Album,
4eva Is a Mighty Long Time
10/31/2017 - Steve Harvey’s Ratings Allegedly Tanking Because of Trump Visit
10/31/2017 - John Kelly: ‘Lack of Compromise’ Led to Civil War
10/31/2017 - ‘Who Does That?’ Man Sparks Controversy After Wearing Masked-Gunman Costume, Complete With Toy Rifle, to Neb. Malls
10/31/2017 - White Students at Baltimore Private Schools Caught Wearing Inmate and ‘Freddie Gray’ Costumes
10/31/2017 - 8-Year-Old Jump Rope Champ Killed After Being Struck by a Jeep While Walking Home From Fundraiser
10/31/2017 - A Black Woman, Judge Deborah Robinson, Will Hear the Manafort Case; Watch the B.S. Begin
10/30/2017 - Woman Says NYPD Held Her Hostage in Her Own Apartment for 10 Hours
10/30/2017 - Contrary to Previous Reports, Colin Kaepernick Was Not Invited to Past or Future Meetings Between NFL Team Owners and Players
10/30/2017 - Nev. Campus Police Officer Dons Racist Costume to Mock Colin Kaepernick’s Protest
10/30/2017 - Netflix Cuts the Cord on
House of Cards
10/30/2017 - Twitter Has a Serious Harassment and Abuse Problem but Doesn’t Seem to Want to Cure It
10/30/2017 - Some Republicans Say Donald Trump Might Not Seek Re-Election, and I Don’t Know if We Should Cry or Praise-Dance
10/30/2017 - We Need a Reset Button or Something for White People
10/30/2017 - Paul Manafort Charged With Conspiracy Against the US: 3 Things You Need to Know
10/30/2017 - The Lowlights From the White House’s ‘How to Get Away With Conspiracy Against the US’ Playbook
10/30/2017 - SportsBalls and Benefit Galas: I Went to All These Things and Managed Not to Almost Kill Myself (Yet)
10/30/2017 - Court Blocks Trump’s Transgender Military Ban, Cites His Announcement via Twitter
10/30/2017 - Paul Manafort, Trump’s Former Campaign Chairman, Pleads Not Guilty to Conspiracy Against the United States
10/30/2017 - Family of College Grad Killed in Greece Determined to Get Justice
10/30/2017 - Tomi Lahren’s Disrespectful Flag Costume Highlights the Hypocrisy of Whiteness
10/30/2017 - NC Man Charged With DWI Allegedly Got Wildly Sauced off Vanilla Extract
10/30/2017 - ‘I Can’t Be Racist Because My Best Friend Is Black and Lives in the Condo I Own’ Is the Whitest Thing I’ve Ever Heard This Week
10/30/2017 - Stephen A. Smith Doesn’t Think Black NBA Players Should Wear Hoodies Because Stephen A. Smith Is Stupid
10/30/2017 - #RelationshipGoals: 10 Reasons We Love
This Is Us
Couple Beth and Randall
10/30/2017 - George Papadopoulos, Former Trump Campaign Aide, Pleads Guilty to Lying to FBI During Russia Investigation
10/30/2017 - ‘White Lives Matter’ Members Attack Interracial Couple After White Supremacist Rally Fails Miserably
10/30/2017 - Government Yanks $98,000 for UC Berkeley Black Panther Project After Complaints From Police Union
10/30/2017 - Steph Curry Wants to Play a Game, but Not That Game
10/30/2017 - Why Are People Letting Their Kids Near Donald Trump?
10/30/2017 - MSNBC Host Joy-Ann ‘Reids’ Guest Over Fake Right-Wing Uranium Story
10/30/2017 - Black Twitter Is Dragging Kim Kardashian for Dressing as Aaliyah for Halloween, but Is It Cultural Appropriation?
10/30/2017 - Cyclist Sees Trump Motorcade Passing by, Casually Flips the Bird as She Rides Away
10/30/2017 -
Star Trek: Discovery
Actor Outs Kevin Spacey as Alleged Pedophile
10/30/2017 - 1 Fish, 2 Fish, No More Whitefish: Puerto Rico Cancels Controversial Energy Contract
10/30/2017 - Jay-Z Responds to Houston Texans Owner’s ‘Inmates Are Running the Prison’ Comment
10/30/2017 - Motorist Dead After 12-Year-Old Boy Attempting Suicide Jumps Off Overpass and Lands on Her Car
10/29/2017 - Houston Texans Players, Including Most White Teammates, Kneel During Anthem
10/29/2017 - Here Are Some Pictures of Black Kids in Halloween Costumes. You’re Welcome
10/29/2017 - Fragile Snowflake Referees in NJ Refuse to Work Football Game After Players Take a Knee
10/29/2017 - #NYCStripperStrike: City’s Black Exotic Dancers Strike Against Colorism, Unfairness
10/29/2017 - Former Ebony Editor Plans Relaunch of the Grio, Owned by Billionaire Byron Allen
10/29/2017 - The Smithsonian Is Creating a Dope Hip-Hop Anthology
10/29/2017 - White Supremacists Gather in Tenn., Prove Whiteness Is
Not
Supreme
10/28/2017 - Chrisette Michele Reveals Suicidal Ideations, Miscarriage on IG; Heartless Critics Remind Her She Sang at Trump’s Inauguration
10/28/2017 - On Watching a Black Woman Let Wypipo Touch Her Hair
10/28/2017 - Report: NFL Executive Tried to Keep Eric Reid Out of Meeting With Owners for Kneeling During Anthem
10/28/2017 - 2 NYPD Cops Charged With Raping Teenager in Police Van
10/28/2017 - Chrisette Michele Becomes 1st Black Woman to Cry White Tears After Label, Black People Kick Her to Curb
10/28/2017 - 30 Years Later, 7 Ways
A Different World
Was Woke AF
10/28/2017 - The Caucasian’s Guide to Halloween Costumes
10/27/2017 - Offset Proposes to Cardi B Live Onstage at Powerhouse Philly
10/27/2017 - Houston Texans Owner Bob McNair Said What He Said, and He Meant It
10/27/2017 - 1st Person (or People) Charged In the Russia Investigation to Be Arrested Monday: Report
10/27/2017 - Coat Hanger Abortions Are Making a Comeback With Introduction of New GOP Bill
10/27/2017 - 10-Year-Old Boy Who Went Joyriding in His Parents’ Cars Charged With Felony
10/27/2017 - AKAs Come to Defense of Soror Frederica Wilson
10/27/2017 - ‘You Know My Heart’: Why White People Still Do Blackface
10/27/2017 - Fake-News Friday: Confessions From a Secret KKK Collaborator
10/27/2017 - White Supremacists Have Scheduled a Sequel to Charlottesville, Va., for Saturday in Tennessee
10/27/2017 - Star Stylist Brea Stinson Will Design Custom Uniforms for Winners of HBCU #RadiantDanceOff Contest
10/27/2017 - Houston Texans Owner Apologizes After Referring to NFL Protesters as ‘Inmates Running the Prison’
10/27/2017 -
Judge of Characters:
Tyrese ... Lord Have Mercy, We’re Praying for You
10/27/2017 - I Was ‘Melon-Shamed.’ Don’t Let It Happen to You
10/27/2017 - Watch: The Ad-Lib Takes Over
10/27/2017 - Ga. Teens Arrested for Allegedly Plotting Terror Attack Against High School
10/27/2017 -
The Root’
s Clapback Mailbag: Unanswered Questions
10/27/2017 - Do You Shower at the Gym After Working Out, or Do You Wait Until You Get Home?
10/27/2017 - Clemson University’s Student Vice President Facing Impeachment after Refusing to Stand for Pledge of Allegiance
10/27/2017 - Tyrese Says Anxiety Caused Him to Check Into Hospital After Day in Court
10/27/2017 - Watch: Official Trailer for Netflix’s
Mudbound
10/27/2017 - Tracing Your Roots: My Ancestor’s Records Are Confusing!
10/27/2017 - NYC Mom Arrested for Leaving Children in Car at LaGuardia Airport While She Interviewed for a Job
10/27/2017 - It’s Complicated
10/27/2017 - Grambling State University Freshman Arrested in Connection With on-Campus Shooting That Left 2 Dead
10/27/2017 - Odell Beckham’s Father Arrested on Gun Charges, Weed Possession: Report
10/26/2017 - So This Cardi B and Beyoncé Collaboration Is Probably Actually a Real Thing That Is Happening
10/26/2017 - Colin Kaepernick Will Finally Get His Seat at the Table When the NFL Meets Players Next Week—but Will He Take It?
10/26/2017 - Judge Says ‘Overweight’ Teenage Sexual Assault Victim Was Probably ‘Flattered’ by the Attention From Her Assailant
10/26/2017 - Media’s ‘Mass Delusion About Race’: Not Enough Are Connecting the Dots With Trump
10/26/2017 - Okla. Ex-Cop Who Killed Terence Crutcher Will Have Fatal Shooting Removed From Her Record
10/26/2017 - Please Stop Inviting Everybody to the Damn Cookout
10/26/2017 - Even Republicans Agree That Marijuana Prohibition Is Stupid
10/26/2017 - We Told Y’all: New Study Reveals How Every Phase of Criminal-Justice System Favors Whites
10/26/2017 - 8 Fight-the-Power Costumes Sure to Scare Wypipo
10/26/2017 - ‘Excellence 1st’: Black 6th-Grade Girls Slay Education Rap Song
10/26/2017 - Amazon Key Is Some, Like, Extra-White Shit
10/26/2017 - ‘Can’t Wait to Stab Your Neck’: Don Lemon Receives Racist Death Threats From Trump Supporter
10/26/2017 - Chicago Tribune Report Finds Black and Low-Income Residents Pay the Most for Water
10/26/2017 - Roy Moore and the Alabamafication of US Democracy
10/26/2017 - ‘Radical Christian Terrorism’: Doesn’t Sound Nice, Does It?
10/26/2017 - The 10 Scariest Black People
10/26/2017 - Today in Obama: Friendly Neighborhood President-Man
10/26/2017 - Energy Company Tasked With Bringing Power Back to Puerto Rico Gets Into Twitter Beef With Mayor Instead
10/26/2017 - Mother of Off-Duty Police Officer Killed in Las Vegas Mass Shooting Dies the Same Weekend as His Funeral
10/26/2017 - Calif. Man Beaten, Stabbed Because He Is Black, Authorities Say
10/26/2017 - Fla. Cop Sent for More Training After Accidentally Using Taser on 10-Year-Old During Gun-Safety Lesson
10/26/2017 - 2nd Woman Accuses ‘David Cop-a-Feel,’ aka George H.W. Bush, of Groping Her
10/25/2017 - Ben Carson Says He Doesn’t Have to Know Anything About Housing Policy, He Just Has to Be Able to Boss Around the People Who Do
10/25/2017 - Hey, I Can Play This Game Too, Guys
10/25/2017 - Nicki Minaj Will Not Be Taking the Stand as a Witness for Her Brother at His Trial on Charges He Raped a Child: Report
10/25/2017 - NYC Cops Accused of Raping Teen Resort to Victim-Blaming in Attempt to Avoid Indictment
10/25/2017 - Why Is the
Only
Brown Corn Pop the Janitor? Kellogg’s Called Out for Racist Cereal Box
10/25/2017 - 124 Dead in Outbreak of the Bubonic Plague in Madagascar (We Kid You Not)
10/25/2017 - 55 Percent of White Americans Believe Whites Face Racial Discrimination, Which Means 55 Percent of White Americans Are Really Stupid!
10/25/2017 - Calif. High School Student Who Made Racist Jokes on Snapchat Is Beaten Up Upon Return to School: Report
10/25/2017 - Nicki Minaj and Women Like Her Are No Friends of Mine: The Politics of Defending Real-Life Monsters
10/25/2017 - Kendu Is Still Scheming on Mary J.’s Money, Asks Courts to Double Spousal Support to $65,000 a Month
10/25/2017 - The Black Renaissance Is Real: HBCUs See Record Growth in 2017
10/25/2017 - Texas Father Who Reported His 3-Year-Old Daughter Missing Believed to Have Dumped Her Body: Report
10/25/2017 - Why Is Virginia Tech Silent About a White Supremacist Instructor Threatening and Harassing an Undergrad?
10/25/2017 - A Letter of Thanks to My Son Who Wants to Be Luke Cage This Halloween
10/25/2017 - Report: Brother of Las Vegas Shooter Stephen Paddock Detained on Child-Pornography Charges
10/25/2017 - Fats Domino, Rock ’n’ Roll Icon, Dead at 89
10/25/2017 - NJ Teacher Tells Students to ‘Speak American,’ but Who’s Gonna Tell Her That ‘American’ Isn’t a Language?
10/25/2017 - Mich. Woman Locked Out of Her Home Was Terrified After Glimpsing Racist Text Message Locksmith Sent
10/25/2017 - Paris, Texas, Is Site of Racial Animosity Again as Confederate Flags Pop Up at High School
10/25/2017 - Tamar Braxton Files for Divorce From Vincent Herbert
10/25/2017 - #FlyingWhileBlack: NAACP Issues Travel Warning for Black People Flying American Airlines
10/25/2017 - Former Educator Sexually Assaulted 42 Students and Filmed Sex Acts Over 2-Year Period, Authorities Say
10/25/2017 - Bloomberg’s Megan McArdle Can’t Tell Me Shit About White Supremacy
10/25/2017 - ‘I’m Black!’: Director Ava DuVernay Celebrates Her Heritage on
Finding Your Roots
10/25/2017 - 2 Dead After Shooting at Grambling State University; Suspect Still at Large
10/24/2017 - Mike Pence Casts Tie-Breaking Vote to Remove an Important Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Rule
10/24/2017 - Colin Kaepernick Reportedly Signs Book Deal Worth $1,000,000
10/24/2017 -
Flint
Premieres on Lifetime This Saturday; Will It Show Us the Outcome of the Ongoing Water Crisis?
10/24/2017 - 10 Easy Costumes for Black People Who Aren’t Really Into Halloween Like That but Still Want to Have Fun
10/24/2017 - Former Student Charged With Racist Vandalism at Eastern Michigan University
10/24/2017 - Life Lessons: Eat a Booty, Save a Life
10/24/2017 - Prince’s Personal Photographer (and Yara Shahidi’s Dad) Releases Never-Before-Seen Photos in New Book
10/24/2017 - Robert Guillaume, TV’s Benson, Dead at 89
10/24/2017 - White People Say They Face Discrimination and Believe Diversity Has Overlooked White Men: Poll
10/24/2017 - Tyrese Embarrasses Daughter by Flying Banner Over Her School
10/24/2017 - 12-Year-Old Va. Boy Jumps Out of Car Moving 60 MPH to Escape Armed Abductor
10/24/2017 - Brazilian Toilet Paper Brand Takes a Slogan for Black Empowerment and Wipes Its Ass With It
10/24/2017 - Jeff Sessions Praised for Taking Action on ‘America’s Most Vulnerable Minority’
10/24/2017 - The Pentagon Owes the Families of Troops Killed in Niger an Explanation. Here’s What’s Been Offered So Far
10/24/2017 - Hip-Hop Podcast Host ‘Combat Jack’ Reveals Colon-Cancer Diagnosis
10/24/2017 - Only MLB Player to Kneel During Anthem Denied Service at Ala. Restaurant
10/24/2017 - I Tried Brown Sugar Cream of Wheat Yesterday and Now I Want to Fight Everyone
10/24/2017 - Man Convicted in Infamous ’80s Racial Slaying in NYC Commits Suicide: Report
10/24/2017 - 5 Mich. Teens Charged With Murder for Tossing Rocks Into Traffic
10/24/2017 - Mich. State Police Director May Have Had Pay Docked for Controversial Posts About NFL Protests, but Her Pension Is Still Good
10/24/2017 - The World’s Most Evil Candies, Ranked
10/24/2017 - Family of Fallen Soldier Finally Receives $25,000 Check From Trump
10/24/2017 - NYC Police Catch Siblings Lying Their Tails Off After Innocent Man Turns Himself In
10/24/2017 - Puerto Rico Awards Largest Relief Contract to Small, 2-Year-Old Mont. Firm With Ties to Trump Administration
10/24/2017 - Va. School District Investigating Photos That Allegedly Show Students Wearing KKK Robe, Giving Nazi Salute
10/24/2017 - Man Accused of Stalking Released After Children Recant Story
10/24/2017 - ‘It Wasn’t Right’: 10-Year-Old Boy Delivers Damning Testimony Against Nicki Minaj’s Brother in Child Rape Trial
10/24/2017 - Police Investigating Ill. Man in Threat to Lynch Rep. Frederica Wilson, but He’s Pointing the Finger at an Anonymous ‘Meme-Maker’
10/24/2017 - NFL Executive Troy Vincent on Football, Leadership and Why the Player Protests Actually Worked
10/24/2017 - Utah High School District Takes ‘Appropriate Actions’ on Video of Cheerleaders Chanting Racial Slurs That Went Viral
10/23/2017 - Rumor: Cardi B and Beyoncé Might Be Teaming Up for a Collaboration That Could Be Cardi’s Next Single
10/23/2017 - Trump Gives Himself a 10 for Relief Efforts in Puerto Rico; Former Island Governor Hits Him With #WellActually on Twitter
10/23/2017 - Marine Sergeant From Tenn. Identified as Man Stabbed and Killed in Honolulu
10/23/2017 - #Flint: More Red Tape, but No Clean Water Yet. Judge Extends Deadline for Mich. City to Choose Water Source
10/23/2017 - Justin Timberlake Is a White Man
10/23/2017 - The Most Recent—and Disturbing—Abuse Allegations Launched Against R. Kelly: Report
10/23/2017 - Deon Cole’s Apology to the Black Race Is the Blackest Thing That Ever Happened This Week
10/23/2017 - Kylie Jenner Settles Out of Court With Another Artist She Allegedly Stole From
10/23/2017 - Chicago Moms Organize ‘Stand Up to Hate’ Playdate After Anonymous Racist Letter Targets Black Nanny, Calls Her an ‘Infestation’
10/23/2017 - 10 Most Common Statements Heard the Monday After an HBCU Homecoming Weekend
10/23/2017 - Is
Get Out
the Blackest Movie Ever?
10/23/2017 - Justin Timberlake Is Back for the Super Bowl Halftime Show (Side Eye)
10/23/2017 -
The Young and the Restless
Star Kristoff St. John Reportedly Threatens Suicide
10/23/2017 - Police Have Found Missing Teen With Special Needs in Las Vegas
10/23/2017 - How to Talk to Women if You Believe Feminism Has Made It Really Hard to Know What Counts as ‘Harassment’
10/23/2017 - Fla. Couple Orders Containers From Amazon, Gets 65 Pounds of Weed, Too
10/23/2017 - The NFL Protests Are a Perfect Study of How White Supremacy Works
10/23/2017 - Trump’s Thirsty Ass Wants His Patriotic Supporters to Remember How Much They Hate the NFL, Please
10/23/2017 - Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown: Steve Bannon Is a White Supremacist and Senior White House Adviser Stephen Miller Seems to Be
10/23/2017 - His Coffin ‘Could Be Empty for All I Know’: Gold Star Widow Still Has Questions About Her Husband’s Death
10/23/2017 - Cardi B, Kicked Out of Hotel Over Weed, Claims Cops Were Racist
10/23/2017 - Ohio State Is Being Sued After Refusing to Rent Space on Campus for White Supremacist Richard Spencer to Speak
10/22/2017 - The Black Person’s Guide to
The Walking Dead
10/22/2017 - What Happens When a Patient Demands a White M.D.?
10/22/2017 - Burger King Takes on Bullying in Viral Ad
10/22/2017 - As Loved Ones Say Goodbye to US Soldier Killed in Niger, Trump Continues to Disrespect Congresswoman Affiliated With His Family
10/22/2017 - 20-Year-Old Man With Autism Becomes 3rd Victim of Possible Fla. Serial Killer
10/22/2017 - #Resist: Music Professor Plays Black National Anthem From Bell Tower Before Richard Spencer’s Fla. Speech
10/21/2017 - Jemele Hill on ESPN Suspension: ‘I Put ESPN in a Bad Spot’
10/21/2017 - New Study Shows Bodycams Have Little Influence on Police Brutality
10/21/2017 - Va. Middle Schoolers Simulate Sex Acts With Pinned-Down Black Students While Yelling Racial Slurs
10/21/2017 - Being Insecure in Harvey Weinstein’s World: On Mayim Bialik, Rape and Concern-Trolling
10/21/2017 - I Tried It: If You’re Looking for a Way to Doze Off, Meditation May Be the Key
10/21/2017 - New Clinical Trial That Cured 6-Year-Old of Sickle Cell Disease Shows Promise for All
10/21/2017 - 10 Ways
A Different World
Lied to Us About HBCU Life
10/21/2017 - An Annotated Breakdown of a Nazi Getting Punched in the Face
10/21/2017 - President Littlefingers May Lock Millions Into Bad Trumpcare Plans Because of Ridiculous Enrollment Changes
10/21/2017 - Mom Says Mass. Group Home Shaved Her 7-Year-Old’s Head Without Permission
10/20/2017 - #KennekaJenkins Death Photos Released on Same Day Police Close Investigation, Raising More Questions
10/20/2017 - Harvey Weinstein Says He Remembers Things Differently From Lupita Nyong’o
10/20/2017 - ‘Kill Them’: White Nationalists Arrested for Shooting at Protesters After Richard Spencer’s Speech in Fla.
10/20/2017 - Jill Scott Says She Had a Nasty Moment With Harvey Weinstein, Too
10/20/2017 - White Men Asking Barack Obama to Lead the Resistance Need to Do the Work Themselves
10/20/2017 - 86-Year-Old Man Who Suffers From Dementia Remains in Intensive Care After Police Use Taser on Him During Traffic Stop
10/20/2017 - Howard University: This Is Family
10/20/2017 - John Kelly Should STFU About Rep. Frederica Wilson
10/20/2017 -
The Root’
s
Clapback Mailbag: Always Bringing Up Old Stuff
10/20/2017 - HBCU Classics, Ranked
10/20/2017 - Watch: The Real Woman Behind ‘Me Too’
10/20/2017 - RZA’s Publicist Says ‘Enough Is Enough’
10/20/2017 - Black Protester Hugs Squirming Nazi, Quips, ‘Why Don’t You Like Me, Dog?’
10/20/2017 - Biddle, Brayboy and Bojangles: We Love Thee, Smith
10/20/2017 - Habanero Hitler Confirms the Obvious: Hillary Clinton’s Name Will Never Completely Go Away, Even if You Want it To
10/20/2017 - Ga. Elementary School Finally Puts an End to Civil War Dress-Up Day, but Mom Whose Child Was Called a Slave Wants More Done
10/20/2017 - Trump-Loving ‘War Hero’ Admits He Lied His Ass Off About His Service
10/20/2017 - Nicki Minaj to Testify in Brother’s Child-Rape Trial
10/20/2017 - How TV Writer Angela Nissel Is Bringing Her Unique Voice to Tyler, the Creator’s
The Jellies,
and Why Black Female Writers in Hollywood Need to Be Heard
10/20/2017 - Tracing Your Roots: Did My Ancestor Work in a Prior Enslaver’s Home?
10/20/2017 - Wannabe Tulsa, Okla., Cop Who Killed Unarmed Black Man Released From Prison After Serving Less Than Half His 4-Year Sentence
10/20/2017 - I Tried It: My Co-Worker Shamed Me Into Watching
Purple Rain
10/20/2017 - ‘Don’t Touch My Hair’: Solange Calls Out Magazine for Cutting Out Her Crown
10/20/2017 - ‘Underwear Bomber’ Files Lawsuit Claiming US Justice Department Denies Him Free Speech, Religious Rights
10/20/2017 - Mich. State Police Director’s Pay Docked After She Calls NFL Protesters ‘Ungrateful, Anti-American Degenerates’
10/20/2017 - Now, Unpaid Uptown Magazine Writers Organize
10/20/2017 - Donald Trump Is Delusional, Continues to Deny He Said What Even John Kelly Has Confirmed He Said
10/19/2017 - Hoodie Melo Stunts on His Old Job With His New Job, and Thunder Smashes the Knicks on Opening Night
10/19/2017 - Michael Bennett Will Continue to Sit During Anthem, Says Kaepernick Needs a Job Before NFL Can Move Forward With Players
10/19/2017 - White House Doubles Down on Disrespect to Fallen Soldier’s Family, Attacks Congresswoman Who Heard Call
10/19/2017 - School Apologizes for Photo That Seems to Show Black Student on Leashes
10/19/2017 -
Drumline
Director, Producer Said They Had to Create a White Character to Get Enough Money to Make the Movie
10/19/2017 - Spelman College: ‘We’ll Ever Faithful Be’
10/19/2017 - NY Black Lives Matter Group Accuses Police of Spying, Targeting Group for Calling Attention to Abuse
10/19/2017 - Trump Treated Sgt. La David Johnson the Way America Has Always Treated Black Soldiers
10/19/2017 - Why I Hate Howard University’s Homecoming Weekend With Every Fiber of My Being, Explained
10/19/2017 - The Accidental Bulldog at Bowie State University
10/19/2017 - Va. Democratic Party Leaves Black Candidate for Lieutenant Governor Off Flyer (Then Blames Him for It)
10/19/2017 - White Nationalist Troglodyte Richard Spencer to Speak at University of Florida, State of Emergency Be Damned
10/19/2017 - Okla. Jury Convicts White Former Police Officer for Killing His Daughter’s Black Boyfriend
10/19/2017 - Watch: VSB and
The Root
Present the Battle of the HBCUs for VSB HBCU Week!
10/19/2017 - Slowly in the 4th Quarter
10/19/2017 - Is Infidelity Inevitable?
10/19/2017 - To a School for Greater Service, 1 That We Adore: Tennessee State University
10/19/2017 - Congresswoman Who Called Out Trump’s Disrespectful Comments to Military Widow Now Getting Threats
10/19/2017 - There’s a Cop Who Calls Himself the ‘Riot King’ of St. Louis and His Behavior Is Scarier Than His Name
10/19/2017 - School District, Police Investigating Picture of Pa. High School Students Posing With Pumpkins Carved With Racist Symbols
10/19/2017 - Today in Obama: Soon as I Get Home
10/19/2017 - Fla. Mother Says School Didn’t Do Enough After School Bus Driver Got Into Physical Altercation With Her 13-Year-Old Son
10/19/2017 - Miss. Elementary School Named After Jefferson Davis to Be Renamed for President Barack Obama
10/18/2017 - Trump Offered the Father of a Fallen Soldier $25,000, Then Reneged: Report
10/18/2017 - Hazel-E and Rose Burgandy of
Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood
Make Homophobic Comments in Social Media Beef With Jess Hilarious
10/18/2017 - Google’s ‘Dress Code’ Event Inspires Teens by Merging Computer Science With Fashion in Ingenious Ways
10/18/2017 - Irate Dad Shoots Daughter’s Boyfriend in the Groin After Catching Them in Motel Room
10/18/2017 - All Y'all Can Get It: Blac Chyna Sues Entire Kardashian Family, Who Have Some Allegations of Their Own
10/18/2017 - Tidal X Was an Epic 6-Hour Musical Marathon I Wasn’t Fit Enough to Run
10/18/2017 - Homecoming Survival Guide: How to Make Smart Life Choices
10/18/2017 - RZA Finally Admits Russell Crowe Did Spit on Azealia Banks at Party
10/18/2017 - Donald Trump, White America’s Favorite Christian
10/18/2017 - Social Media Blasts Nivea for Skin-Lightening-Lotion Ad
10/18/2017 - Oh, North Carolina A&T, How I Love Thee
10/18/2017 - Florida A&M University: Activism Since Day 1
10/18/2017 - Watch: Victims of African Terrorism Matter, Too
10/18/2017 - ‘I Dream Detroit’: Women of Color Lead the Charge for the City’s Future
10/18/2017 - How Trump Continues to Fail the Family of Sgt. La David Johnson
10/18/2017 - Lamonte McIntyre Spent 23 Years in Prison for a Crime He Didn’t Commit, but Won’t Receive a Dime
10/18/2017 - #FlyingWhileBlack: Harvard Law School Student Booted From American Airlines Plane With Infant
10/18/2017 - Should a Racist Grade Your Papers? Students Discover White Supremacists Teaching at Their Universities
10/18/2017 - States Sue Betsy DeVos for Refusing to Enforce Obama-Era Protections for Student Loan Borrowers
10/18/2017 - The Story of Tuskegee University and the Normalcy of Black Black Blackity Black Sisterhood
10/18/2017 - America’s Most Successful Jewel Thief Retires From Life of Crime
10/18/2017 - Colin Kaepernick’s Attorney Says He’ll Have ‘Smoking Gun’ to Prove NFL Owners Blackballed His Client
10/18/2017 - NFL Says It Won’t Penalize Players for Kneeling During Anthem
10/18/2017 - Regina Hall, Jada Pinkett Smith Talk Success of
Girls Trip
and Sequel Possibilities
10/18/2017 - Lone Protester Heckles Jerry Jones: ‘Look at the Videos of Police Getting Away With Murder and Tell Me the Players Are Wrong for Protesting’
10/18/2017 - Utah Cheerleaders Caught on Video Chanting Racial Slurs; School District Whitesplains Their Actions
10/18/2017 - Calif. Restaurant Called Out for Passing Off Popeyes Chicken and Upcharging
10/18/2017 - NYC Teen Indicted on Manslaughter Charges in Classroom Stabbing of 2 Fellow Students
10/17/2017 - Donald Trump to Army Sergeant’s Pregnant Widow: ‘He Knew What He Signed Up For’
10/17/2017 - Fashion Designer, Former
Project Runway
Finalist Mychael Knight Dead at 39
10/17/2017 - ACLU Files Suit Against New Orleans DA for Using Fake Subpoenas to Coerce Victims and Witnesses in Criminal Cases
10/17/2017 - 30 Reasons Why Your Favorite Team Won’t Win the NBA Finals This Year
10/17/2017 - Ohio Police Officer Recorded Brutally Beating a Black Motorist Is Finally Fired
10/17/2017 - Michelle Alexander on the War on Drugs: The Color of Drug Users Got Whiter, the Nation Got Nicer [Retracted]
10/17/2017 - What in the South African Beckery Is Happening Here?
10/17/2017 - Janaya Khan, Black Lives Matter Leader, Dismantles FBI’s Fraudulent ‘Black Identity Extremist’ Report
10/17/2017 - There’s Nothing Like That Morris College Love
10/17/2017 - Will Justice Be Served? White University of Maryland Student Will Now Face Hate Crime Charge in Fatal Stabbing of Richard Collins III
10/17/2017 - The Sloping Hills and Verdant Greens of North Carolina Central University
10/17/2017 - Cardi B Signs Deal With Sony/ATV
10/17/2017 - ‘Philando Feeds the Children’ Fundraiser Raises Enough Money to Pay Off School Lunch Debt for All St. Paul, Minn., Public School Students
10/17/2017 - Waka Flocka Doubles Down on ‘I’m Not Black’ Comment, but What Does He Really Mean?
10/17/2017 - Black, Hamptonian and Ain’t With the Shits
10/17/2017 - All Clear After Police Respond to Report of Possible Shooter at Howard
10/17/2017 -
Candyman,
the Scariest ‘Leave Them Damn White Girls Alone’ Movie Ever, Is 25 Years Old This Week
10/17/2017 - Carrying On Mary’s Legacy at Bethune-Cookman University
10/17/2017 - #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, Part 2: On Rose McGowan and the Continued Failure of White Feminism
10/17/2017 - Anthems I’d Stand For, Ranked
10/17/2017 - North Korea Says It’s Ready to Pop Off at ‘Any Moment’
10/17/2017 - Nelly’s Rape Accuser Decries Media Spotlight
10/17/2017 - Trump’s Drug-Czar Pick Bows Out After Report on How He Helped to Fuel America’s Opioid Epidemic
10/17/2017 - The Mighty, Mighty Panthers of Clark Atlanta University
10/17/2017 - The Bolshevik Revolution Took Place 100 Years Ago. What Is Its Legacy With Black People?
10/17/2017 - The Curious Case of the NFL’s Endorsement of Criminal-Justice-Reform Bill
10/17/2017 - For Dreadlocked Servicewomen, the Fight for Acceptance Is Both a Military and Civilian Battle
10/17/2017 - 9-Year-Old Fla. Child Dead After 325-Pound Adult Cousin Allegedly Sits on Her for Misbehaving
10/17/2017 - For Those Considering Blaxit, I Present to You: Japan
10/17/2017 - Racial Slur Written on Dorm-Room Door of Black Students at Mass. University
10/17/2017 - Colin Kaepernick’s Collusion Grievance Against NFL Draws Focus to Donald Trump’s Influence Over Team Owners, League
10/16/2017 - #Flint: Conflicting Water-Study Results Have Residents Confused and Unsure of Whom to Trust
10/16/2017 - Marijuana Market Projected to Hit $18,000,000,000 by 2021: Report
10/16/2017 - Trial Begins for Members of Heroin Ring Said to Be Protected by Baltimore Police Officers
10/16/2017 - Only White People Are ‘Wolves’: New Report Highlights How Cable-News Media Portrays Mass Killers
10/16/2017 - Fla. Gov. Rick Scott Declares State of Emergency in Advance of White Nationalist’s Speech This Week
10/16/2017 - Your Petty-Ass President Has Declared Obamacare ‘Dead,’ but in a Karmic Twist of Fate, the People Who Put Him in Office Will Probably Suffer Most
10/16/2017 - When America Makes You Hate Your Skin So Much You Shoplift Bottles of Ambi Fade Cream to Get Lighter
10/16/2017 - Black Heroes for Hire: Scratching the
Black Panther
Itch
10/16/2017 - Oh No, White People! What Is Y’all
Doing
? Why Every Caucasian Needs a Black Friend
10/16/2017 - After Nearly 2 Weeks, Trump Still Hasn’t Reached Out to Dead Soldiers’ Families
10/16/2017 - Former DEA Agents Say Trump’s Drug-Czar Pick Helped to Fuel the US Opioid Epidemic
10/16/2017 - Norfolk State University: Sugar Shack Supreme
10/16/2017 - Hundreds March for 11-Year-Old Utah Boy After Bullies Shouted Racial Slurs at Him as He Walked Home From School
10/16/2017 - Jemele Hill, Jerry Jones, the NCAA and the Sports Slave System
10/16/2017 - More German Soccer Players Have Taken a Knee Than US Baseball or Hockey Players
10/16/2017 - Mented Founders Raise $1,000,000 in Capital for Vegan, Nontoxic Makeup for Women of Color
10/16/2017 - I Never Knew So Much About Myself Until I Attended Lincoln University of Pennsylvania
10/16/2017 - The 15 Blackest Things About the New Trailer for
Black Panther
10/16/2017 - The Best Argument for Why Morehouse and HBCUs Matter You’ll Ever Read
10/16/2017 - At Least 277 Dead After Double-Car Bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia
10/16/2017 - Morehouse College Announces New President
10/16/2017 - #MeToo Highlights the Disturbing Prevalence of Sexual Harassment and Assault
10/16/2017 - Marvel Releases New
Black Panther
Trailer
10/16/2017 - Welcome to HBCU Week at VSB!
10/16/2017 - Ga. 2-Year-Old Denied Lifesaving Kidney Transplant Because Father, Who Is Perfect Match, Violated Probation
10/16/2017 - After Freddie Gray, Marilyn Mosby Intends to Keep on Fighting the Good Fight
10/16/2017 - After Getting Her Dry Wig Snatched, Sunny Anderson Backtracks on Victim-Blaming in Sexual Harassment Cases
10/16/2017 - Tamika Mallory, Co-Chair of Women’s March on Washington, Says American Airlines Pilot Kicked Her Off Flight Over Seat Dispute
10/16/2017 - Staffer Working on Trump’s Voter-Suppression Commission Arrested on Child-Porn Charges
10/15/2017 - Colin Kaepernick Files Grievance Against NFL Owners for Collusion: Report
10/15/2017 - Apple’s Diversity Chief Apologizes After Being Called Out for Saying a Team of White Men Can Be ‘Diverse’
10/15/2017 - ‘Rise Up!’ These Baltimore Grade-Schoolers’ Voices Are So Sweet, They Will Make You Weep
10/15/2017 - Anita Hill on the Weinstein Scandal: This Type of Shit Happens Every Day
10/15/2017 - Miss. School District Axes
To Kill a Mockingbird
Because It Made Some People ‘Uncomfortable’
10/15/2017 -
SNL
Alum Jay Pharoah Is Ready to Become
White Famous
on Showtime
10/15/2017 - Corey Long, the Black Man Wielding a Flamethrower to Protect Another Man in Charlottesville, Va., Is Arrested
10/14/2017 - ‘I’m a Sex-Positive, Polyamorous Pansexual’: Spike Lee’s Nola Darling Is Back, Baby!
10/14/2017 - Brooklyn, NY, Home Invasion Leaves 91-Year-Old Dead, His ‘Fiesty’ 100-Year-Old Wife Shaken
10/14/2017 - Chance the Rapper Puts in Another Act for Sainthood: Partners With Lyft for Chicago Public Schools
10/14/2017 - It’s Not Class, It’s Race: Why America Can’t Move Forward Until It Addresses the Racial Wealth Gap
10/14/2017 - Howard University Cheerleaders Continue to Kneel During National Anthem
10/14/2017 - 5 Arrested in 34-Year-Old ‘Racially Motivated’ Murder, Including 2 in Law Enforcement
10/14/2017 - Report: Water From a Hazardous Waste Site Is Being Given to Puerto Rican Hurricane Survivors to Drink
10/13/2017 - The Obamas Chose 2 Black Artists to Paint Their Official Portraits for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
10/13/2017 - Nelly’s Accuser Says She Will Not Testify Against Him and Wants Rape Case Dropped
10/13/2017 - NJ Man Finds Lottery Ticket Worth $24,000,000 in Pocket of Old Shirt
10/13/2017 - Hundreds of NJ Students Protest After Cop’s Manhandling of 2 Teenage Girls
10/13/2017 - The Blood on Trump’s Hands: White House Ends Obamacare Subsidies for the Poor
10/13/2017 - Writer-Director Angela Robinson Tells the Story of How Psychology and Polyamory Created Wonder Woman
10/13/2017 - Chance the Rapper Wants Everyone to See the Movie
Marshall,
so He Bought Out All Showings at 2 Chicago Theaters
10/13/2017 - ‘You Are My Slave’: Ga. Mom Furious After White Student Targets Son During School’s Civil War Day
10/13/2017 - Trump Claims to Have Spoken to the President of the US Virgin Islands Because He Doesn’t Know He’s the President of the US Virgin Islands
10/13/2017 - Top 10 Things White Women Should Boycott Besides Twitter
10/13/2017 - Watch: Yance Ford Tackles Grief and Racial Injustice in the Moving Documentary
Strong Island
10/13/2017 - I Have Been Raped by Far Nicer Men Than You
10/13/2017 - What My Frayed Relationship With My Mother Has Taught Me About Grace and Mercy
10/13/2017 - Disaster Relief Workers in Puerto Rico Treat Themselves to Taxpayer-Funded ‘Spa Day' Given by ... Puerto Ricans
10/13/2017 -
Judge of Characters:
When Racism Is Trained Behavior
10/13/2017 -
The Root’s
Clapback Mailbag: The Whitest Email of All Time
10/13/2017 - Chinese Museum Removes Photography Exhibit That Compared Black People to Animals
10/13/2017 - Parents Sue Miss. School District After White Teacher Allegedly Makes Comment About Hanging Black Child
10/13/2017 - Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones Wins MacArthur Fellowship
10/13/2017 - 20 Things We Pretend to Love That We Need to Admit Are Trash, Ranked
10/13/2017 - Tracing Your Roots: Was Great-Grandma Part Creek Indian?
10/13/2017 - For Hurricane Relief, Caribbean Americans Step In Where US Media and Government Fall Short
10/13/2017 - 5 Ways Black People Can Force Commonsense Gun Control
10/13/2017 - Facebook Promises to Finally Add Black Member to All-White Board
10/13/2017 - White Supremacists From Deadly Charlottesville, Va., Rally Being Sued
10/13/2017 - Makers of China’s Most Popular Chat App Apologize After Software Translates ‘Black Foreigner’ to Racial Slur
10/13/2017 - La. Sheriff Calls for Boycott of Ford Dealership Because the Company Advertises With the NFL
10/12/2017 - Jesse Williams Stars in New 7-Minute Protest Film Available Exclusively on Tidal
10/12/2017 - City of Los Angeles Looks to Fully Decriminalize Street Vending as a Means of Protecting Undocumented Immigrants From Immigration Agents
10/12/2017 - Slavery-Simulation Game Outrages Parents in Phoenix
10/12/2017 - I Tried It: Bacon Is the SZA of Meats
10/12/2017 - Trump Just Signed an Executive Order Crippling Obamacare
10/12/2017 - #SoupOnRacists Needs to Be a Movement Because We Need to Throw More Soup on Racists
10/12/2017 -
Growing Pains:
Colin Warner Was Locked Up for 21 Years for a Crime He Didn’t Commit
10/12/2017 - The Crisis in Puerto Rico Is a Racial Issue. Here’s Why
10/12/2017 - Did the Director of the Marsha P. Johnson Netflix Doc Steal a Black Trans Filmmaker’s Work?
10/12/2017 - I’m About to Be a Father to a Black Boy and I’m Scared to Death for Him (and Me)
10/12/2017 - BIE, Felicia: Fighting for Justice and Our Basic Human Rights Isn’t Extremism
10/12/2017 - ‘We Should Have Hung All You ... While We Had the Chance’: Parents Fear for Daughter’s Safety After Classmate Sends Her Threatening Message
10/12/2017 - Are You Enjoying This NFL Season? Ya Know, if You’re Watching It
10/12/2017 - Apple’s Black Diversity Chief Whitesplains How 12 Blue-Eyed Blond Men Can Be Diverse
10/12/2017 - La. Sheriff Furious at New Laws Allowing for Release of ‘Good,’ Nonviolent Inmates Because ‘We Use Them to Wash Cars’
10/12/2017 - RZA Praises Azealia Banks for
Love Beats Rhymes
Film;
Release Date Officially Set
10/12/2017 - The 6 Degrees of Wokeness
10/12/2017 - Lionel Richie to Produce Biopic About Curtis Mayfield’s Extraordinary Life
10/12/2017 - White Restaurant Manager Accused of Enslaving Mentally Disabled Black Man for 5 Years Charged With Forced Labor
10/12/2017 - Give Diddy the NFL Now
10/12/2017 - Black Doll Found Hanging From Locker Room in Pa. High School; Officials Call It a ‘Foolish Prank’
10/12/2017 - Today in Obama: Your Oompa Loompa President Could Never
10/11/2017 - FEMA Officials Say It’s Not Their Job to Distribute Food and Water to Hurricane Victims in Puerto Rico: Report
10/11/2017 - The Boy Scouts of America Will Admit Girls in 2018
10/11/2017 - Plot Twist: Jay-Z Reportedly Looking to Buy Harvey Weinstein’s Interest in the Weinstein Co.
10/11/2017 -
Being Mary Jane
Canceled by BET, Will End in 2018 With 2-Hour Series-Finale Movie
10/11/2017 - Someone Broke Into My Car and Stole My Altoids but Left Everything Else and Now I Have Questions!
10/11/2017 - Viola Davis Speaks Out on Weinstein: ‘You Don’t Get to Choose the Consequences’
10/11/2017 - Pa. College Football Quarterback Kicked Off Team After Kneeling During National Anthem
10/11/2017 - Are We Really Interested in a Sequel to
Creed
That Doesn’t Involve Ryan Coogler?
10/11/2017 - 2 Officers Involved in Freddie Gray Case Accept ‘Minor Disciplinary Action’ and Keep Their Jobs
10/11/2017 - Dallas Cowboys Players Meet With Jerry Jones Over His Claims That Any Player Who Protests Will be Benched
10/11/2017 - Yeah, We Did That: The 7 Most Embarrassing Moments in Blackness
10/11/2017 - Black Lives Matter Lone Survivor Leon Ford Jr. Loses Police Brutality Case, Still Pursues Justice
10/11/2017 - Watch: Al Sharpton on That Time He Was Stabbed During a March
10/11/2017 - Trump Threatens to Revoke NBC’s License Because He’s a Dick Who Wants Desperately to Be a Dictator
10/11/2017 - 2 White Thugs Arrested After Tormenting, Attacking Older Black Man, Firing Gunshots into His Home
10/11/2017 - Steve Scalise Was an Asshole Before He Got Shot. Now He’s Just an Asshole With a Bad Hip
10/11/2017 - Dating While Black and Atheist
10/11/2017 - What the Obamas Have to Say About Harvey Weinstein
10/11/2017 - DeAndre Harris’ Attorney Speaks Out About Charges, Says White Supremacist Was Hit by Someone Else
10/11/2017 - Did Voter Suppression Give Trump the Election?
10/11/2017 - Zuck WYD: Facebook Chief Apologizes for Tone-Deaf Virtual Puerto Rico Trip
10/11/2017 - Unpopular Opinions: Does Sparing the Rod Spoil the Child? GMG Staffers Weigh In
10/11/2017 - Dumbass Racist Who Got Doused With Soup After Screaming Racial Slurs on NYC Subway Train Says He’s ‘Not That Sorry’
10/11/2017 - ‘Quit Being Spineless About Doing—and Defending—the Work We Do,’ Says Journalist Leonard Pitts Jr.
10/11/2017 - 10 Things That Might Make America Admit the President Is Losing His Marbles
10/11/2017 - NYPD Cop Arraigned on 67-Count Indictment After Being Arrested and Charged With Having Sex, Recording Encounters With Underage Girl
10/11/2017 - KKK Starts Targeting High Schools, Goes Recruiting in Parking Lot Outside NC School Football Game
10/11/2017 - Take a Look at All This Black Genius the MacArthur Foundation Has Recognized
10/10/2017 - Eminem Got on National TV and Snatched Donald Trump’s Edges at the BET #HipHopAwards
10/10/2017 - Madea Goes to the White House? Tyler Perry Will Play Gen. Colin Powell in Dick Cheney Movie
10/10/2017 - ‘White Lives Matter’ Rally Planned for End of Month in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
10/10/2017 - Terry Crews Says He Was a Victim of a Hollywood Male Sexual Predator, Tells His Story on Twitter
10/10/2017 - Is the Adult Guardianship and Probate Court System Being Used to Exploit Elderly People for Profit?
10/10/2017 - No Justice for Leon Ford as a Jury Fails to Convict the Officers Who Shot and Paralyzed Him During a Traffic Stop
10/10/2017 - That Sneaky NFL National Anthem Rule Change—and What Legal Challenges It Presents, Explained
10/10/2017 - ‘Bodak Yellow’ Continues to Win and Is Coming for Taylor Swift’s Record
10/10/2017 - 10 Current Artists I Don’t Ever Want to Hear Sing the 1st Verse of ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ (Since That’s the Only Verse Y’all Know ... Shit, Me Too)
10/10/2017 - Tenn. Man Says He Was Fired From Job After Not Standing During National Anthem at Weekend Event
10/10/2017 - 6th State Executive Charged With Manslaughter in Flint, Mich., Water Crisis
10/10/2017 - Michael Jordan Donates $7,000,000 to Open Medical Clinics in Charlotte, NC
10/10/2017 - Somebody Lied: Education Alone Can’t Dismantle White Supremacy
10/10/2017 - White Woman Who Assaulted Black Man for Kneeling During Anthem Used N-Word, Attends California Baptist University: Report
10/10/2017 - Black Model in Controversial Dove Ad Says She’s ‘Proud’ of Campaign, Especially Because It Featured a Dark-Skinned Woman
10/10/2017 - Stephen Miller Somehow Only Being 32 (!!!) Is More Proof That Terrible White People Age Like Day-Old Guacamole
10/10/2017 - We Need to Have a Conversation About White People
10/10/2017 - Mike Ditka Doesn’t See Black Oppression, but He Wants NFL Protesters to See Their Way Out of His Country
10/10/2017 - Fires Are Raging in Calif. and Residents in Puerto Rico Still Don’t Have Drinking Water, so Why Is the President Tweeting About Jemele Hill?
10/10/2017 - Ask Agatha, or Don’t: Unsolicited Advice to a Woman Who’s Afraid to Be a Nag
10/10/2017 - Fixing the Lives of Male Childhood-Rape Survivors
10/10/2017 - Snapchat Showing Ill. High School Student in Blackface Sparks Outrage
10/10/2017 - US Virgin Islands Says ‘Nah, We’re Good’ to Trump Visit
10/10/2017 - Meet the Tech Duo With the App That Lets You Grab the Styles You Love on Social Media
10/10/2017 - Miami Beach, Fla., Police Fatally Shoot 22-Year-Old University Student Accused of Running Over Officer
10/10/2017 - SC Politicians Try to Rinse Confederacy of White Supremacy by Honoring ‘Black Confederates’
10/10/2017 - Deandre Harris Is Now Wanted in Connection With the Same Attack at a White Supremacist Rally Where He Was Seriously Injured, Because America
10/10/2017 - Detroit Firefighter Fired After Gifting Watermelon to Majority-Black Station
10/10/2017 - ‘Penny’ and ‘Willona’ From
Good Time
s Reunite
10/10/2017 - Texas Tech University Police Officer Shot and Killed; Suspect Now in Custody
10/9/2017 - Racist Lime-a-Rita Drinker Gets Tossed Off L Subway Train by Other Passengers for Repeatedly Shouting the N-Word
10/9/2017 - Joe Arpaio’s Infamous and Inhumane Tent City Jail Officially Shut Down
10/9/2017 - Who Gon’ Check Me, Boo? Eagles’ Malcolm Jenkins Says He Will Continue to Protest Even if Team Owner Forbids It
10/9/2017 -
Sesame Street
Wants to Help Children Cope With Traumatic Experiences
10/9/2017 - ESPN Hasn’t Yet Realized That It Needs Jemele Hill More Than Jemele Hill Needs It
10/9/2017 - Why Scrapping the Iran Deal Is a Dumb Move, Explained
10/9/2017 - Jemele Hill Suspended From ESPN for Social Media Post
10/9/2017 - Everything You Wanted to Know About Shannon Sharpe’s Yac and Milds but Were Afraid to Ask
10/9/2017 - Texas Mom Goes Through 9 Surgeries to Look Like Melania Trump
10/9/2017 - No One Has Ever Been or Will Ever Be Whiter Than Christopher Columbus: The Whitest White Man Ever
10/9/2017 - The New York Times Profile on White House Policy Adviser Stephen Miller Confirms That He’s Been an Asshole His Whole Life
10/9/2017 -
RHOA
Star NeNe Leakes Says She Hopes Heckler Gets ‘Raped’ by an Uber Driver
10/9/2017 - 5 Ways White People Can Fight White Supremacy
10/9/2017 - Chance the Rapper Livestreams Police Stop in Chicago in Case It Goes ‘Sideways’
10/9/2017 - Jessica Williams Cast in J.K. Rowling’s
Fantastic Beasts
Sequel
10/9/2017 - You Should Always Have Black People Around to Consult on Lotion (and on Pepsi, HBO, the New York Times ... )
10/9/2017 - From Convicted Felon to Attorney: Reginald Dwayne Betts Wins Approval to Practice Law in Conn.
10/9/2017 - #ForTheCulture: How a Black Woman Led Miami Dolphins Coach to Resign After Release of Video Showing Him Sniffing White Powder
10/9/2017 - Mike Pence Left the Colt-49ers Game Because He’s a Messy Bitch Who Lives for Drama
10/9/2017 - Exclusive: NFL Owners, Coaches Pressuring Players to Stop Kneeling During Anthem
10/9/2017 - New Calif. Law Makes Exposing Sexual Partner to HIV a Misdemeanor: A Big Step in Ending the AIDS Epidemic, Says Prominent Activist
10/9/2017 - White Female Candidate Gets Triggered, Claims Black Opponent Isn’t ‘Intelligent’
10/9/2017 - Black NHL Player Receives Death Threats After Raising Fist During National Anthem
10/9/2017 - Black Lives Matter Protests Police Shooting of Patrick Harmon in Utah
10/9/2017 - Trump Boasts About Inventing ‘Fake’ News While Sharing Fake News
10/9/2017 - Banana Republic Employee Told Her Box Braids Are Too ‘Urban’ and ‘Unkempt’
10/9/2017 - Dove Apologizes for Hella Racist Ad, but How Did It Even Get Into the Public Space to Begin With?
10/8/2017 - The Pittsburgh Steelers Might Be Better Right Now if They Had Colin Kaepernick Instead of Ben Roethlisberger
10/8/2017 - Snowflake Mike Pence Flees Colts-49ers Game After Players Kneel During the National Anthem
10/8/2017 - Trump’s New Budget Threatens to Kick Millions Off Food Stamps
10/8/2017 - Houston Teen Sues After School Expels Her for Not Standing During Pledge of Allegiance
10/8/2017 - Richard Spencer and His Tiki-Torch Bitches Are Back; Media Calls Them ‘White Activists’
10/8/2017 - Does Condoning Racist Family Members Make You an Accessory to Their Bigotry?
10/8/2017 - Rapper Nelly Released From Jail Without Rape Charges, Pending Investigation
10/7/2017 - Coroner Rules Death of 19-Year-Old Chicago Woman Found in Freezer an Accident
10/7/2017 - Rapper Nelly Arrested for Rape: Report
10/7/2017 - This Cipher With Method Man and Black Thought Proves That
Real
Hip-Hop Is Alive and Spittin’
10/7/2017 - Thousands Come Out for Funeral of Officer Slain in Las Vegas Attack
10/7/2017 - Why We Need More Women of Color Running Their Own Businesses Under a Trump Presidency
10/7/2017 - University of Wisconsin System Passes Dangerous New Policy That Expels Students for Protest
10/7/2017 - Jeremy Lin Claps Back at Kenyon Martin About His Locks: ‘You Have Chinese Tattoos’
10/6/2017 - No Justice, No Peace, Just Crooked Police
10/6/2017 - Opioid Crisis Intervention Court Is a New Kind of Drug-Court Program Looking to Stop People From Dying
10/6/2017 -
Judge of Characters:
Trump Saves the World With Cheap Paper Towels
10/6/2017 - Watch: Kimberly Hébert Gregory Is Dominating TV
10/6/2017 - Texas Lawmaker Who Called 2 Black Prosecutors Racial Slurs Refuses to Resign
10/6/2017 - Newark, NJ, Files Suit Against Opioid Manufacturers
10/6/2017 - Trump Administration Removes Mandate to Cover Birth Control From Obamacare
10/6/2017 - Here We Go Again: Gulf Coast Braces for Yet Another Major Storm
10/6/2017 - Watch: Trump Tries to Talk With a Spanish Accent in Speech for Hispanic Heritage Month
10/6/2017 - FBI Launches COINTELPRO 2.0, Targeting ‘Black Identity Extremists’: Report
10/6/2017 - Tina Campbell Is the Worst Type of Black Christian
10/6/2017 - Trump Is the Cesar Millan of Racist Dog Whistling: Claims Democrat in Va. Governors Race Is ‘Fighting for’ MS-13
10/6/2017 -
The Root’
s Clapback Mailbag: The Reverse Clapback
10/6/2017 - Was Marsha P. Johnson Killed Because of Her LGBT Activism?
10/6/2017 - More Naps! Everyone Needs to Take More Naps!
10/6/2017 - Teacher Suspended After 6-Year-Old Black Boy Is Physically Assaulted at NY Charter School; Mother Searches for Answers
10/6/2017 - Trump Met With Top Military Leaders and Teased the Threat of War Because He’s an Asshole
10/6/2017 - We Need to Talk About Jeremy Lin’s Dreadlocks
10/6/2017 - Tracing Your Roots: How Did My Black Ancestor Come to Own Land?
10/6/2017 - Professor Targeted With Racist Signs After Promoting Class About Dismantling White Supremacy
10/6/2017 - Video Shows Utah Police Fatally Shooting Black Man Who Was Attempting to Flee; District Attorney Says Shooting Was Justified
10/6/2017 - From a Black DACA Recipient: African-American Support Critical to Reform
10/6/2017 - Ga. Teacher Told 6th-Graders to Create a ‘Colorful’ Nazi Mascot as Homework Assignment
10/6/2017 - Federal Judge Looking to Toss Out 2nd Lawsuit Against Black Lives Matter, DeRay Mckesson
10/6/2017 - Today in Obama: It’s Our Anniversary
10/6/2017 - Your President Doesn’t Understand the 1st Amendment or What the Senate Intelligence Committee Does
10/5/2017 - High School Football Players Say Opposing Fans, Referee Call Them N-Word for Kneeling During Anthem
10/5/2017 - Las Vegas Shooter Previously Booked Rooms Overlooking 2 Other Large Music Festivals: Report
10/5/2017 - Jeff Sessions Believes Transgender People Cannot Be Victims of Sexual Discrimination and Are Therefore Unworthy of Civil Rights Protections
10/5/2017 - 10 Simple and Subtle and Easy Things I Do Every Day to Fight White Supremacy
10/5/2017 - Boy, Bye: Pro-Life Congressman Who Suggested Mistress Get an Abortion Will Resign
10/5/2017 - In Crazy-Wypipo News, Police Arrest Drunken Man Who Says He’s From the Future, and I Believe Him Because ...
10/5/2017 - Adidas’ Deal With the University of Louisville Was Supposed to Benefit the Athletic Department, so How Did Coach Rick Pitino Get 98 Percent of the Money?
10/5/2017 -
Moonlight
Director on Why New James Baldwin Film Needs to Be in Harlem
10/5/2017 - The Privilege of White Individuality
10/5/2017 - Tennessee Titans Coach Whitesplains Why Team Went With Brandon Weeden Over Colin Kaepernick
10/5/2017 - Why You Should Stop Addressing and Referring to Women as ‘Females,’ Explained ... Again
10/5/2017 - Dannon Drops Cam Newton After Sexist Treatment of Female Reporter
10/5/2017 - Black Stacey vs. White Stacey: A Lesson in Race Politics From Ga.
10/5/2017 - LeBron James Is Not Happy With
Keeping Up With the Kardashians’
Film Crew, Calls Them a ‘Shit Show’
10/5/2017 - Investigation Finds Prison Guards Forced Inmates to Walk Around Naked Wearing Leashes
10/5/2017 - After Winning Their 4th Championship in 7 Seasons, the Minnesota Lynx Are the Greatest WNBA Franchise
10/5/2017 - 2 Large Fries and a Baggie of Coke? McDonald’s Manager Charged With Dealing Drugs Out of Bronx, NY, Restaurant
10/5/2017 - Russian Artists Explore Soviet Union’s History With Black People
10/5/2017 - Justice Department Probe of Harvard Admissions May Hit on Affirmative Action: Report
10/5/2017 - Watch: On Chadwick Boseman,
Marshall
and Tokenism in Hollywood
10/5/2017 - Rapsody and 8 Other Rap Cats You Should Be Listening To
10/5/2017 - Federal Judge Officially Dismisses Guilty Verdict Against Joe Arpaio, Who Purposely Ignored Court Order, Illegally Detained Latinos While Sheriff
10/5/2017 - ‘It’s Not Murder if They’re Black’: Man Charged With Sending Racist Death Threats Targeting Howard University Students
10/4/2017 - After Sunday’s Shooting Massacre, Hotels and Casinos in Las Vegas Look to Increase Security
10/4/2017 - Report: Las Vegas Shooter Was Prescribed an Anti-Anxiety Drug in June
10/4/2017 - FEMA Is Garnishing This Man’s Check to Take Back Funds Given to Him After Hurricane Katrina
10/4/2017 - 10 Not-Racist-at-All Things White People Do That Make Me Think ‘Yup, He’s Probably Racist’
10/4/2017 - Janet Jackson’s
The Velvet Rope
Is 20. It’s Still Dope AF
10/4/2017 - Charlottesville, Va.’s ‘Unite the Right’ Organizer Indicted for Allegedly Lying His Ass Off
10/4/2017 - Quvenzhané Wallis Continues to Stunt on All of Us, Becomes Published Author at Age 14
10/4/2017 - Tyrese Being Investigated by Los Angeles Child Protective Services: Report
10/4/2017 - San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz on Trump: He Minimized Our Suffering and Was ‘Insulting to the People of Puerto Rico’
10/4/2017 - Girl, You Ain’t Gettin’ No Younger—When You Gonna Have a Baby?
10/4/2017 - GOP Senator Believes Las Vegas Victims Should’ve Gotten ‘Small’ When the Shooting Began: Report
10/4/2017 - Never Forget That Y’all’s Bum-Ass President Threw Paper Towels at Puerto Ricans and Didn’t Even Buy Bounty
10/4/2017 - #NotRacists Be Like: The Top 10 Phrases Used by People Who Claim They Are Not Racist
10/4/2017 - Tamar Braxton Is Finally the Solo Star She’s Long Wanted to Be, so Why Is She Quitting?
10/4/2017 - Gabrielle Union Opens Up About Miscarriages to Change the Way People Talk About Fertility
10/4/2017 - 10 Things I Know All Black People Would Protest
10/4/2017 - 10 Black Things I Did While Watching Last Night’s Super-Black Season 4 Premiere of
Black-ish
10/4/2017 - Interview: Progressive Randall Woodfin Wins Birmingham, Ala., Mayoral Race in a Major Upset
10/4/2017 -
Black-ish
Taught Me More About Slavery in 22 Minutes Than My Entire Education (Plus, That Roots Cartoon Was Epic)
10/4/2017 - Viola Davis and Larry Wilmore Team Up for
Black Don’t Crack,
a New ABC Comedy
10/4/2017 - #FanniesArmy: GirlTrek Organizes Thousands of Women to Walk on Fannie Lou Hamer’s 100th Birthday
10/4/2017 - Watch: The Exclusive 1st Look at
The Star,
Starring Oprah Winfrey, Anthony Anderson and Many More
10/4/2017 - How to Whitewash a Mass Murderer
10/4/2017 - Pro-Life Congressman Mysteriously OK With Abortion if His Side Chick Needs One: Report
10/4/2017 - Bullet From Cop’s Service Weapon Left Chicago Man Permanently Disabled, but City Says Family Can’t Prove Officer Shot the Victim
10/4/2017 - Don’t Get Scammed by Virtual Kidnappers: How 1 Mom’s Horrifying Experience Could Help Others
10/4/2017 - This South Side Great-Grandmother Meeting Denzel Washington Is the Best Thing Ever
10/4/2017 - USA Today Declares Devoted Father LaVar Ball ‘Worst Sports Parent Ever’
10/4/2017 - Girlfriend of Las Vegas Gunman Returns to the US
10/4/2017 - Mich. State Police Sergeant Under Investigation for Tossing Evidence in the Damon Grimes Case
10/3/2017 - Why Has the Justice Department Redacted a Great Majority of Its Documents Related to Ferguson, Mo.?
10/3/2017 - Puerto Ricans Will Now Be Able to Use Food Stamps to Buy Ready-to-Eat Hot Meals
10/3/2017 - Trump May Try to Pardon His Friends Before Charges Are Filed Against Them; Special Counsel Has Secret Weapon to Help Prevent That
10/3/2017 - The NFL Hates Colin Kaepernick So Much the Tennessee Titans Just Signed Brandon Weeden
10/3/2017 - What the Hell Happened to
The Breaks?
10/3/2017 - NYC’s Tough Gun Laws Stopped Me From Killing Myself
10/3/2017 - Pregnant Mich. Mom, Walking Around Her Neighborhood to Help Induce Labor, Harassed, Called Racial Slurs
10/3/2017 - The Cop Suing James Blake for Defamation After Racially Profiling and Assaulting Him Is the Whitest Thing That Ever Happened This Week
10/3/2017 - Las Vegas Is Only the Deadliest Shooting in US History Because Black Lives Aren’t Counted
10/3/2017 - Look at This Trash Human Throwing Paper Towels Into the Crowd in Puerto Rico
10/3/2017 - I Played 2-Hand Touch Football This Weekend. I’m Probably Not Doing That Shit Again
10/3/2017 - Why the Las Vegas Shooter Isn’t Called a ‘Terrorist’
10/3/2017 - Trump Lands in Puerto Rico and Delivers Drunken-Uncle Speech, Notes That Officials Should Be Proud That More Haven’t Died
10/3/2017 - Don’t Wake Me, I’m Stealing: R&B Singer Christopher Williams Arrested for Taking Headphones
10/3/2017 - The So-Called Christians Defending Sweet Potato Saddam Are Begging to Be Jumped by Jesus
10/3/2017 - Please Stop Assuming Stephen Paddock Must Have Been ‘Mentally Ill’
10/3/2017 - Watch: Why Colin Kaepernick Took a Knee
10/3/2017 - President Trump to Visit Puerto Rico for 5 Hours
10/3/2017 - My Life Is Dope and I Do Dope Shit: How I Ended Up Battle-Rapping Against Dave Chappelle
10/3/2017 - The Supreme Court Case That Could End Political Gerrymandering for Good
10/3/2017 - NYC Man Accused of Killing Girlfriend Less Than 24 Hours After Being Released From Jail: Report
10/3/2017 - Why We Never Talk About Black-on-Black Crime: An Answer to White America’s Most Pressing Question
10/3/2017 - The Obamas May Be in a New York State of Mind
10/3/2017 - My Grandmother, Like Millions of Puerto Ricans, Deserves Better Than Donald Trump
10/3/2017 - After Slamming Former Tennis Star James Blake to the Ground, This NYPD Officer Has Now Decided to Sue the Athlete
10/2/2017 - Welfare Programs Could Be the Next Target of a Donald Trump Executive Order
10/2/2017 - Marijuana-Decriminalization Ordinance Unanimously Passes in Atlanta City Council
10/2/2017 - A Black Woman Firing a Rifle Was Featured in a Russian-Bought Facebook Ad Meant to Create Further Racial Divide: Report
10/2/2017 - How Many (White) People Have to Die Before America Gives a Damn About Its Gun Problem?
10/2/2017 - Shannon Sharpe Pulled Out a Black & Mild on National TV and We Have Questions
10/2/2017 - On the Heels of the Las Vegas Mass Shooting, House May Make Gun Silencers Legal
10/2/2017 -
We Were 8 Years in Power
Moves Ta-Nehisi Coates to Top of Black America’s Draft Board
10/2/2017 - Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Las Vegas Mass Shooting, FBI Refutes That the Gunman Had Any Connection
10/2/2017 - The Curious Case of Cam Newton’s Raised Fist
10/2/2017 - I’m Scared to Death I Won’t Be Able to Protect My 2-Year-Old Daughter From Her Own Country
10/2/2017 - MSNBC’s Joy Reid Savages Joe Walsh After He Uses the N-Word on Twitter
10/2/2017 - White Men Who Shoot Up People Are Not Terrorists, and 4 Other Takeaways From Trump’s Response to Las Vegas
10/2/2017 - Shooter Opens Fire at Country Music Festival on Las Vegas Strip: More Than 58 Dead, Including Suspect
10/2/2017 - President Trump Dedicates Golf Trophy to Victims of Hurricane; Victims Want Him to Stick Trophy Up His Ass
10/2/2017 - Detroit Lions Owner Martha Ford Offers Players Money for Charity if They Stand for National Anthem
10/2/2017 - ‘Darkness Cannot Drive Out Darkness’: An Interview With a Former Racist on Reforming Neo-Nazis With Empathy
10/2/2017 - Sen. Kamala Harris Drops Some Truth Bombs, Defends NFL Protests During Remarks at Historically Black Church
10/2/2017 - Milo Yiannopoulos Marries a Black Man
10/2/2017 - Why We Should Fear a North Korean Nuclear Attack, Explained
10/2/2017 - 2 Houston High School Players Kicked Off Football Team for Racial-Injustice Protest During Anthem
10/2/2017 - ‘I Don’t See People Dying’: Ever Classy, Fox’s Geraldo Rivera Questions San Juan’s Mayor About the Devastation in Puerto Rico
10/2/2017 - Fla. Woman Upset After Tropical Smoothie Cafe Receipt Labels Her ‘Black Chick’
10/2/2017 - Fla. Elementary School Blasted After Refusing to Put Toilet Paper in Bathroom Stalls, Handing Out Wads of Paper to Students as Needed
10/1/2017 - Man Shot by Police on I-80 in Calif. Identified as 45-Year-Old Demilo Hodge
10/1/2017 - Media Document Failings in Puerto Rico
10/1/2017 - Body of 19-Year-Old Va. Culinary Student Found Behind Church in NC
10/1/2017 - To the ‘Unapologetically Black’ Beth Pearson of
This Is Us,
With Love
10/1/2017 - Thousands Descend on Washington, DC, for the March for Black Women
10/1/2017 -
SNL’
s Michael Che Calls Trump a ‘Bitch’ and a ‘Cheap Cracker’; Jay-Z Sports Kaepernick Jersey During Performance
10/1/2017 - Burning Jerseys: The Distant Cousin of Lynching
10/1/2017 - O.J. Simpson Walks Out of Jail a Free Man (Yes, the Juice Is Loose)