9/30/2017 - This Black Cop Proves That Not All Skinfolk Are Kinfolk

9/30/2017 - NBA Says Players Must Stand During the National Anthem

9/30/2017 - Officers in Michael Bennett Vegas Incident Won’t Face Disciplinary Charges; Sheriff Says They Acted ‘Professionally’

9/30/2017 - Watch: Why the Black Kids Still Sit Together

9/30/2017 - As Racist as He Wanna Be: Trump Attacks Mayor of San Juan, Implies Puerto Ricans in a Crisis Are Lazy

9/30/2017 - Watch: LaVar Ball and the Influence of Black Sports Dads

9/30/2017 - Jaimee Foxworth Speaks Out About Not Being Invited to Entertainment Weekly’s Family Matters Reunion Photo Shoot

9/29/2017 - Murder Conviction Overturned After Court Determines Teen Was Coerced by LAPD

9/29/2017 - Inmates in La. Jail Will Lose in-Person Visits; Friends and Family Will Have to Pay for Video Visitation

9/29/2017 - Judge of Characters: Clapback for the D

9/29/2017 - Couldn’t Pay the Cost, Can’t Be the Boss: The Tom Price Story

9/29/2017 - Watch: Bringing John Coltrane Back to North Philadelphia

9/29/2017 - Your President Is a Gotdamn Idiot, and This Video Clip Proves It Once and for All

9/29/2017 - Mary Mary’s Tina Campbell Talks Stumping for Trump and Husband’s Infidelity

9/29/2017 - 3 Brothers From White Settlement, Texas, Accused of Luring Black Teen Into Meeting, Fatally Shooting Him

9/29/2017 - ‘Grits With Sugar’ Are the White People of Breakfast Grains and Hot Cereals

9/29/2017 - Please Stop Defending Colin Kaepernick. You’re Doing It Wrong

9/29/2017 - For the Record, Washington Wizards Forward Kelly Oubre Jr. Is Not a Lesbian

9/29/2017 - The Denver Broncos Have Officially Left the Protest: All Players Will Stand for National Anthem

9/29/2017 - Mother Desperate to Find Son in Puerto Rico Begs Trump to Stop Talking About Football and Help

9/29/2017 - An Open Letter From Black America to White People’s Pets

9/29/2017 - Peak Caucasity: HHS Secretary Tom Price Balls Out on Private Jets Costing Taxpayers $400,000, Gets Caught, Then Pays Back Only $51,887.31

9/29/2017 - 2 Players From Washington, DC’s NFL Team Buy Xbox for 10-Year-Old Wearing Kaepernick Jersey 

9/29/2017 - Tracing Your Roots: What Did Freedom Bring for My Ancestor?

9/29/2017 - So-Called Patriots Stoke Hate by Photoshopping NFL Players With Burning Flag

9/29/2017 - The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Now With 50 Percent More Clapback ... and Racism

9/29/2017 - 94 Percent of Blacks Call Trump Unfit

9/29/2017 - Calif. Teen Wears Confederate-Flag Sweatshirt to School; Mother Complains After Students Call Him Racist 

9/29/2017 - Pa. Man Didn’t Like It When the Steelers Declined to Take the Field for the National Anthem, so He Painted a Swastika on the Team Flag

9/29/2017 - Miami High School’s Dance-Team Costumes and Routine Under Fire as Being Too Risqué 

9/29/2017 - Beyoncé Drops ‘Mi Gente’ Remix to Benefit Disaster Relief in Mexico, Puerto Rico and Other Caribbean Islands 

9/29/2017 - Tidal Charters Cargo Plane to Deliver Aid to Puerto Rico

9/29/2017 - Racial Slur Scrawled on Black Military Cadets’ Doors—and the Air Force Academy’s Response Is Weak

9/29/2017 - But His Emails: Jared Kushner Failed to Disclose Use of His Personal Email Account to Senate Intelligence Committee

9/28/2017 - Gov. Rick Snyder Backs Mich. State Police Director Who Called Protesting Athletes ‘Degenerates’

9/28/2017 - Judge Rules Black Lives Matter Is a Movement That Cannot Be Sued, Dismisses Cop’s Lawsuit Against DeRay Mckesson

9/28/2017 - Sports Illustrated Whitesplains Why It Left Colin Kaepernick Off ‘Sports United’ Cover

9/28/2017 - Crazy White-People News: A Roundup

9/28/2017 - Watch: Washington, DC, Football-Team Fan Burns Gear Over Protest but Was Fine With Team Name and Racist History 

9/28/2017 - Everyone Is Stupid. When Did Everyone Get So Stupid? Has Everyone Always Been This Stupid?

9/28/2017 - La. High School Says It Will Remove Players From Team if They Do Not Stand for National Anthem 

9/28/2017 - Ohio, a Union State, Will Reinstall Confederate Monument for Some Reason

9/28/2017 - Trump Believes NFL Owners Are Scared of Their Black Players, Which Is Why They Haven’t Stopped Them From Protesting

9/28/2017 - Russia’s Recent Facebook Ads Prove the Kremlin Never Loved Black People

9/28/2017 - Hey, Democrats! Stop Complaining—You’re Actually Winning

9/28/2017 - Feds in the DMs: DHS Now Wants to Collect Social Media Info From All US Immigrants

9/28/2017 - March for Black Women Organizers Want to Put Our Issues Front and Center During March for Racial Justice

9/28/2017 - What We’re Gonna Do When the Revolution Comes

9/28/2017 - Cardi B Explains Her NYPD Choke Hold Allegation With the Most Beautiful, Ghetto-Fabulous Story of All Time

9/28/2017 - Too Sick to Socialize, but I Went to the NY Urban League’s Black & White Champagne Brunch and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Conference in DC Anyway

9/28/2017 - Donald Glover Reportedly Shooting Season 2 of Atlanta

9/28/2017 - British Airways Flight Attendant Fired Over ‘BBC’ Snapchat

9/28/2017 - Houston Texans Quarterback Deshaun Watson Donates 1st-Game Paycheck to Cafeteria Workers Devastated by Hurricane Harvey

9/28/2017 - Ann Arbor, Mich., Police Searching for Racist Thugs Who Tagged Alley Wall With ‘Free Dylann Roof’ Graffiti

9/28/2017 - Should I Tell Them? Mad Wypipo Want Ray Lewis’ Statue Removed After He Knelt During the National Anthem

9/28/2017 - O.J. Simpson Could Be Swinging Golf Clubs by Monday

9/28/2017 - Today in Obama

9/28/2017 - From Hallmark to the Royal Family: Why Made-for-TV Movies Are the Break From Reality We All Need

9/28/2017 - FBI to Senate: We’re Investigating 1,000 White Supremacists. Senate to FBI: That’s All?

9/28/2017 - Airbnb Guest Charged With Sexual Assault After Being Discovered Naked in Bedroom With Minn. Host’s 7-Year-Old Daughter: Report 

9/28/2017 - Southwest Airline Passenger Forcibly Removed From Flight After Stating Dog Allergies

9/28/2017 - Stabbing at NYC High School Leaves 15-Year-Old Dead, 16-Year-Old Critically Injured 

9/28/2017 - Fla. Mom Says 6-Year-Old Son Was Reprimanded for Taking a Knee During Pledge of Allegiance

9/28/2017 - Mo. Woman Furious After Fried Chicken Allegedly Thrown Into Her Car; Police Investigating 

9/28/2017 - Black-ish Creator Kenya Barris to Write Script for Coming to America Sequel 

9/28/2017 - Playboy Magazine Founder Hugh Hefner Dead at 91

9/27/2017 - People in Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore Were Targeted by a Russian-Bought Facebook Ad That Referenced Black Lives Matter: Report

9/27/2017 - Jemele Hill and the Social Burden of Being a Black Woman in Media

9/27/2017 - Colin Kaepernick, Sports Illustrated and How Media Complicity Is Erasing His Movement

9/27/2017 - An Apology to Ray Lewis, Who Says He Was Praying, Not Protesting

9/27/2017 - Dear College Choice, Who Is You and Why Come Your HBCU Rankings Don’t Make No Damn Sense?

9/27/2017 - Mo. Bar Decides That Using ‘Lynch’ and ‘Kaepernick’ Jerseys (in That Order) as Doormat Is a Great Idea 

9/27/2017 - Racist Ex-Convict Pledges to Investigate Barack Obama’s Birth Certificate: ‘Biggest Cover-Up’ in American History

9/27/2017 - Trump’s NFL Attacks Embolden Journalists

9/27/2017 - Photos of Suspect in American University Incident Involving Confederate Flag and Cotton Released

9/27/2017 - Patriotism Is for Black People

9/27/2017 - 5 Black-Ass Culinary ‘Delights’ That Black People Can Keep

9/27/2017 - Michelle Obama Had a Simple Reminder for the 53 Percent: ‘Any Woman Who Voted Against Hillary Clinton Voted Against Their Own Voice’

9/27/2017 - Why ‘Ultralight Beam’ Is the Official Song of Christians Who Love Jesus but Curse a Little

9/27/2017 - O.J. Simpson’s Record of Domestic Abuse Not Considered in Nev. Parole Hearing

9/27/2017 - The Myth of the ‘Angry Black Woman’ and Advertising’s Fight to End It

9/27/2017 - #VeteransForKaepernick Goes Viral as Military Vets Support the Right to ‘Take a Knee’

9/27/2017 - DirecTV Gives Refunds to Those Offended by NFL Protests

9/27/2017 - Pittsburgh-Area Fire Chief Resigns After Calling Mike Tomlin the N-Word on Facebook, Blames His Racism on ... the Media?

9/27/2017 - British TV Hosts Asked Steven Seagal About the NFL Protests, When They Should Have Asked About His Sprayed-On Hairline

9/27/2017 - Team Jamaica to Trump: ‘Leave the Boss Out of Your Politricks’

9/27/2017 - Watch: How Black Lawmakers Are Resisting Trump

9/27/2017 - JusticeLA Coalition: Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Black Lives Matter Co-Founder, Partners With Organizations to Halt Los Angeles Jail Expansion [Retracted]

9/27/2017 - Justice Clarence Thomas Gets Exhibit in National Museum of African American History and Culture

9/27/2017 - Head of DEA Stepping Down Because of Trump: Report

9/27/2017 - Mark Cuban and Pitbull Lend Their Private Planes to Aid in Puerto Rico’s Relief Efforts

9/27/2017 - Even Rihanna Is Trying to Get the Dotard to Pay Attention to Puerto Rico’s Humanitarian Crisis

9/27/2017 - US Supreme Court Grants Last-Minute Stay of Execution for Ga. Man Convicted by a Racist Juror 

9/27/2017 - Mich. State Police Director Under Fire After Facebook Post Calling NFL Players Who Take a Knee During Anthem ‘Ungrateful, Anti-American Degenerates’

9/27/2017 - #ForTheDChallenge: Celebrities and People Across the Internet Rap About It

9/26/2017 - Donald Trump Jr. Broke Up With the Secret Service Just a Week Ago, but They’re Reportedly Back Together Again

9/26/2017 - Ala. Voters Chose Between ‘Ku Klux and the Klan’ Tonight in GOP Primary and Got Roy Moore

9/26/2017 - Reunited and It Feels So Good: Can LeBron and Wade Bring the Heat of Another Championship to Cleveland?

9/26/2017 - Hey, Guys, There’s Going to Be a New Black Dude on Saturday Night Live This Season

9/26/2017 - Watch: Sterling ‘Bae’ Brown Explains That Viral Thirst Trap Emmy-and-Abs Pic

9/26/2017 - To the Black Men Still Watching the NFL: NBA God Bill Russell Just Took a Knee

9/26/2017 - Watch: Auntie Maxine Says Black Women Can Put Trump Out of Office

9/26/2017 - Black Chicago Cops Will Be Reprimanded for Taking a Knee, Chicago Mayor Issues Statement

9/26/2017 - A Prayer for My Emotions as This Is Us Embarks on Its 2nd Season

9/26/2017 - Another Bill Bites the Dust: Republicans Want to Replace and Repeal Obamacare So Bad, Except They Don’t Know WTF They’re Doing 

9/26/2017 - My Battle With Depression (and the Pills and Therapy Necessary to Defeat It): A Coming-Out Story

9/26/2017 - I Watched CNN Debate Night: The Fight Over Obamacare. I Would Like Most of Those Minutes Back

9/26/2017 - Sponsors Are Dropping NFL Players for Protesting. This Is What We Mean When We Say ‘White Supremacy’

9/26/2017 - SC Restaurant: We’re Banning NFL Games Until Players Stand During Anthem, but Serving Trash Crab Legs Is OK

9/26/2017 - Fire Chief Says Pittsburgh NFL Coach Mike Tomlin Added Himself to ‘the List of No-Good [N-Words]’

9/26/2017 - Threatening Black Phrases, Ranked

9/26/2017 - Georgetown Law Professors Will Take a Knee to Protest Jeff Sessions’ ‘Free Speech’ Visit

9/26/2017 - B.o.B. Launches GoFundMe to Prove the Earth Is Flat

9/26/2017 - Philadelphia Will Pay Tribute to Forgotten Black American Hero With New Monument

9/26/2017 - Ask Agatha: Her Friends and Family Hate Me (but I Kinda See Why), Superhero Sex and More

9/26/2017 - A Hurricane Devastated Puerto Rico, but Donald Trump Only Cares About White People (Old Kanye Voice)

9/26/2017 - Dale Earnhardt Jr. Earns Provisional Invitation to the Cookout

9/26/2017 - Canadian MP Rocks ‘Pretty Dope’ Braids in Solidarity With Girls Shamed for Their Hair

9/26/2017 - Insecure Director Melina Matsoukas Will Helm Her 1st Series for Amazon Studios

9/26/2017 - Car Dealership Pulls TV Ads With NFL Star Von Miller After He Takes a Knee

9/26/2017 - The Rape of Recy Taylor Looks Back at a Horrific but Largely Forgotten Case From the Jim Crow South

9/26/2017 - Sauce, Explained

9/26/2017 - British Airways Flight Attendant Goes on Racist Rant About Nigerian Passengers and ‘BBC’

9/26/2017 - TLC’s T-Boz Demands Justice for Cousin Killed by Ill. Police

9/26/2017 - How to Protest Without Offending White People

9/26/2017 - Grand Jury Will Not Indict Teen Charged With Choking Mom’s Abusive Ex-Boyfriend to Death

9/25/2017 - ‘We Still Have No Clue of What Being Born White Means’: San Antonio Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich Goes In on White Privilege

9/25/2017 - Jordin Sparks Delivers Powerful, Silent Protest While Loudly Singing the National Anthem Before Monday Night’s Football Game

9/25/2017 - St. Louis Board of Aldermen Passes Resolution to Remember Anthony Lamar Smith, Who Was Killed by Now-Former Police Officer Jason Stockley

9/25/2017 - Trump Adds North Korea to His Infamous Travel Ban: Power Move or More Child’s Play From the Idiot in Chief?

9/25/2017 - Shining Light on the ‘Alt-Right’: How This Satirical Show Could Fuel the Hatred It Mocks

9/25/2017 - Compton, Calif., Cops Claim They Know Who Killed Tupac

9/25/2017 - Shannon Sharpe on NFL Protest: ‘I’m Disappointed, and I’m Unimpressed’ 

9/25/2017 - 10 Things Less Disrespectful Than Kneeling During the Anthem (According to Donald Trump)

9/25/2017 - St. Louis Police Have Declared an All-Out War on Protesters, Media and Even Themselves

9/25/2017 - It’s Funny How 1 Title Can Fuck Up the Game: Thoughts on the Response to Damon’s Piece About Black Men

9/25/2017 - How the NFL Turned Colin Kaepernick’s Protest Into #AllLivesMatter 

9/25/2017 - Watch: Segregated Schools, Then and Now

9/25/2017 - NASCAR Confirms That It’s Still the Favorite Sport of White Supremacy

9/25/2017 - Parents of Teen Accused of Nearly Hanging 8-Year-Old Say It Was an ‘Accident’ (and They Have Black Family, Too)

9/25/2017 - Whether You Love It or Hate It, ‘Bodak Yellow’ Is Now the No. 1 Song in the Country 

9/25/2017 - Patriotism Is for White People

9/25/2017 - The Devil Stays Busy: Hitler’s Old Drawers Command $5,500 at Auction

9/25/2017 - A Pa. Mom Demands Stronger Response From Administrators in Racial Bullying Incident: Report

9/25/2017 - Creepy Anthony Weiner Gets 21 Months in the Pokey for Teen Sexting Case

9/25/2017 - W.Va. High School Taunts Inner-City Pittsburgh High School Football Team With ‘Trump Perry’ Sign

9/25/2017 - Best Part of Congressional Black Caucus Week? Exclusive Footage of Marvel’s Black Panther

9/25/2017 - C-SPAN Caller Sheds White Tears, Just Can’t Watch Football Anymore Because of NFL Players’ Protest

9/25/2017 - The Burgeoning Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico

9/25/2017 - Fla. Man Who Punched 12-Year-Old’s Teeth Out and Called Him Racial Slurs Claims Self-Defense, Is Not Arrested  

9/25/2017 - Calif. Boy Beaten to Death With Hammer While Trying to Protect His Younger Sister From Alleged Molester 

9/25/2017 - Pharrell Williams Takes a Knee During Charlottesville, Va., Concert

9/25/2017 - Suspect in Tenn. Church Shooting Charged With Murder, Held Without Bond 

9/24/2017 - Did Mike Tomlin Pull Some Black-Ass Judo With His Answer to Why the Steelers Stayed in the Locker Room?

9/24/2017 - Jay-Z Speaks on Trump ‘With All Disrespect’

9/24/2017 - Ray Lewis Kneels for National Anthem Because ... of Course He Would 

9/24/2017 - NASA Dedicates Building to Hidden Figures Heroine Katherine Johnson

9/24/2017 - Black Men Still Watching the NFL Are Running Out of Excuses

9/24/2017 - This Was Never About the Anthem

9/24/2017 - Can an All-Boys, Afrocentric Education Close the Achievement Gap?

9/24/2017 - Disasters Raise Visibility of Latino Journalists

9/23/2017 - Carmelo Anthony Traded to Oklahoma City for Bag of BBQ Chips and Peach Faygo

9/23/2017 - People Are Freaking Out Over a Photo of Supersized Kanye West

9/23/2017 - Trump’s Hate-Filled Rant Against Black Protest May Have Just Ensured Kaepernick an NFL Job

9/23/2017 - Donald Trump Rescinds Steph Curry’s Invitation to White House

9/23/2017 - Dotard in Chief Calls the Mothers of Peaceful NFL Protesters ‘Bitches’

9/23/2017 - Is Burning Man Just a White-People Thing?

9/23/2017 - Trump Curses NFL’s Black Protesters, Suggests They Should Be Fired

9/22/2017 - Ga. Is Going to Execute a Black Man Convicted by a Racist Juror 

9/22/2017 - ‘Whites Only’ Stickers Attributed to #BlackLivesMatter, but (Spoiler Alert) White Boys Did It

9/22/2017 - Texas Politician Kinda Apologizes After He’s Caught on Tape Using the N-Word

9/22/2017 - Judge of Characters: Rooting For All the Black People

9/22/2017 - An Annotated Translation of the Greatest Clapback of All Time

9/22/2017 - Watch: Afro Pick Pops Up Near Philly’s Frank Rizzo Statue

9/22/2017 - Former NFL Player Who Reportedly Claimed He Didn’t Date Black Women Now Claims That White Ex-Girlfriend Beat Him and Called Him the N-Word

9/22/2017 - Mobilizing Our Brothers Initiative: Empowering Black Gay Men to Tackle Trump’s America

9/22/2017 - What to Say When Your White Friend Wants to Use the N-Word

9/22/2017 - Colin Kaepernick’s NFL Jersey Is Still Doing Well Even Though He Doesn’t Have an NFL Home

9/22/2017 - Pumpkin Spice Brings My Inner White Girl to the Yard

9/22/2017 - Piers Morgan Is Allowed to Say ‘Nigga’ if We’re Allowed to Smack the Pumpkin Spice out of Him When He Does

9/22/2017 - Kingsman: The Golden Circle Turns the Drug War Into the Opioid Crisis for White America

9/22/2017 - The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: A Teachable Moment

9/22/2017 - Las Vegas Police Change Use-of-Force Policy Following Death of Unarmed Black Man Who Was Put in Choke Hold 

9/22/2017 - Howard University Students Protest James Comey at Opening Sesquicentennial Convocation

9/22/2017 - WTF, Variety?

9/22/2017 - 5 Times Donald Trump Proved to Be a Dotard 

9/22/2017 - Tracing Your Roots: Where Did My Ancestor’s Freed Slaves Go?

9/22/2017 - More Black Women Are Realizing That the Democratic Party Is Full of Shit, New Poll Finds

9/22/2017 - Does Donald Trump Struggle With Reading? An Investigation

9/22/2017 - Miss. Inmates Break Out of Jail, Burglarize a Dollar General, Then Sneak Back Into Jail in Bizarre Crime

9/22/2017 - Detroit Nonprofit Upset After Bounce House Company Refused It Service, Citing Crime in the City 

9/22/2017 - Del. Woman in Viral Video Ranting About Service Dog in a Restaurant Says Patrons Called Her Racial Slurs

9/22/2017 - EEOC Sues Ind. Nursing Home for Allowing Residents to Be Racist Toward Black Employees

9/22/2017 - Pa. Cop Caught on Video Brutally Beating Man Who Allegedly Interfered With Arrest of Another Suspect

9/22/2017 - White Woman Discusses Her ‘Black Woman’ Transition on Maury

9/21/2017 - Deceased NFL Star Aaron Hernandez Had ‘Most Severe Case’ of CTE That Researchers Have Ever Seen

9/21/2017 - University of Mich. Students Illustrate When It’s OK to Punch a Racist

9/21/2017 - Chicago Deposits $20,000,000 in City’s Only Black-Owned Bank

9/21/2017 - Kim Jong Un on Trump’s UN Speech: ‘He Will Face Results Beyond His Expectation’

9/21/2017 - Hospital Workers Fired for Using Black Babies as Snapchat Puppets

9/21/2017 - Types of Black Privilege, Ranked

9/21/2017 - Ithaca, NY, Police Identify Prep School Thug Charged With Racially Motivated Beating of Cornell Student

9/21/2017 - England Says ‘Oliver’ Is Its Most Popular Boy Name, but Issa Lie

9/21/2017 - Contaminated Flint, Mich., Water Resulted in Fewer Pregnancies, Higher Number of Fetal Deaths: Study 

9/21/2017 - New Study Suggests Black Middle-Class Families May Have Zero Wealth in a Few Decades

9/21/2017 - ‘He Can’t Hear You!’ Okla. Cops Fatally Shoot Deaf Man as Neighbors Watch On in Horror 

9/21/2017 - New Study Finds That LGBTQ Youths and Youths With Disabilities Suffer Most Under Solitary Confinement

9/21/2017 - Miss. Elementary School Teacher Fired Over Facebook Post Telling African Americans to ‘Move Back to Africa’

9/21/2017 - Sean Spicer’s Latest Lie: I ‘Have Not Knowingly’ Lied to America

9/21/2017 - Plainclothes ICE Agents Who Did Not Identify Themselves Caught on Video Harassing Latino Citizen

9/21/2017 - NFL Players Want Month to Honor Social Activism 

9/21/2017 - Another Horrible Quarterback Signed by Coach Who Wants Nothing to Do With Colin Kaepernick

9/21/2017 - Father, Daughter Face Charges in Beating of Girl’s Ex-Boyfriend 

9/21/2017 - Darth Chad Shows Everyone Why He Was Fired From Google

9/21/2017 - Black Employees of Steak House in Trump International Hotel File Civil Complaint Charging Racial Discrimination 

9/21/2017 - Racists Target an Asian-American Family for Supporting Black Lives Matter

9/21/2017 - Va. Church Named After Robert E. Lee Votes for Name Change 

9/21/2017 - Happy Earth, Wind & Fire Day!

9/21/2017 - Westfield State U Investigating After Student Claims Racist Message Was Written on Her Door 

9/21/2017 - From the NFL to Film and Art, Bernie Casey Was More Than Blaxploitation 

9/21/2017 - The Saga of My Stolen Car: Shenanigans Ensue

9/20/2017 - Former Sheriff David Clarke Uses Expletive in Response to Reporter Who Asked About His Security Detail

9/20/2017 - Melania Trump Wants the Next Generation to Live by the Golden Rule, but What About Her Husband?

9/20/2017 - Paul Manafort Offered to Give Private Briefings on Presidential Election to a Billionaire Russian Oligarch: Report

9/20/2017 - As Hurricane Maria Passes Through Puerto Rico, Images Stream in Showing Storm’s Devastation

9/20/2017 - Minority Firms Getting Few (if Any) Federal Asset-Management Contracts 

9/20/2017 - This Acoustic Cover of ‘Bodak Yellow’ Is the Whitest Thing That Ever Happened

9/20/2017 - Is ‘Moist’ the Worst Word in the English Language? (Hint: Yes, Yes It Is)

9/20/2017 - Watch: Bullet Holes and Rosé: Exploiting Black Pain for Profit

9/20/2017 - Obama Tears Into ‘Aggravating’ Attempts by Republicans to Overhaul the Affordable Care Act

9/20/2017 - Thirsty Republicans Slide Into America’s DMs for Obamacare Repeal ... Again

9/20/2017 - Ohio ‘Food Stamp Millionaire’ Found Guilty of Welfare Fraud

9/20/2017 - Ayesha Curry Is Yet Another New Face for CoverGirl

9/20/2017 - The Faces of the Zimbabwean Delegation Listening to Trump Speak Are the Blackest Thing That Ever Happened This Week

9/20/2017 - Student Goes Undercover With ‘Alt-Right’ Nazis for a Year and Reveals Some (Not) Shocking Information

9/20/2017 - An Open Letter to White Statues From Black America

9/20/2017 - It’s All Right to Say ‘White Supremacy’

9/20/2017 - Jay-Z Reportedly Turns Down Super Bowl Halftime Gig; Is It in Solidarity With Kaepernick?

9/20/2017 - Dayveon: A Visceral Peek Into the Lives of Black Boys in Rural America

9/20/2017 - Grand Jury Indicts Mystikal on Charges of Rape and Kidnapping

9/20/2017 - This White-Privilege Exercise Has Some Conservative Students Big Mad

9/20/2017 - Former Chicago Cop, on the Run for Almost 15 Years, Finally Arrested on Drug Charges

9/20/2017 - Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Legislative Conference Slated to ‘Rise’ Above Trump-Era Shenanigans

9/20/2017 - Rosemont, Ill., Police Reject Calls for FBI to Look Into Kenneka Jenkins Case 

9/20/2017 - NYC Butcher Who Gave Black Deliveryman a Noose Pleads Guilty

9/20/2017 - Gucci Mane Ambushed By Anti-Fur Protestors at NYC Book Signing

9/20/2017 - Cardi B Alleges NYPD Officer Put Her in a Choke Hold

9/19/2017 - Serena Williams, Emotional About Motherhood and in Love With Her Baby Girl, Pens a Heartfelt Open Letter to Her Mother

9/19/2017 - Youth Football Team in Ill. Takes a Knee During the National Anthem Before Game Sunday

9/19/2017 - Heinz Family Foundation Honors Pediatrician Who Brought National Attention to Flint, Mich.’s Lead-Contaminated Water Crisis

9/19/2017 - The Incomplete List of Things White People Are Mad About This Week

9/19/2017 - Straight Black Men Are the White People of Black People

9/19/2017 - Government Awards Major Grant to UC Berkeley to Honor Black Panther Party’s Legacy

9/19/2017 - Can 1 Trump Stop a Party? Not This CBC Week

9/19/2017 - Dylann Roof Wants to Fire His Jewish, Indian Lawyers: ‘My Political and Biological Enemies’

9/19/2017 - 5 Ways Trump’s UN Speech Proves He’s the World’s White-Supremacist-in-Chief 

9/19/2017 - Trump Appoints Unqualified HBCU Chief ... Then Skips Town

9/19/2017 - White Man Once Again Arrested in Connection With 2 Possibly Racially Motivated Killings and a Shooting at Home of Black Family 

9/19/2017 - The Toys R Us Bankruptcy Filing Is Probably Good News for Black Kids

9/19/2017 - Texas Woman Fatally Shot Sleeping Boyfriend Before Dismembering His Body and Fleeing, Cops Say 

9/19/2017 - St. Louis Police Claim an ‘Unknown Chemical’ Labeled ‘Apple Cider’ Maliciously Used Against Them

9/19/2017 - When He Wasn’t Cheating, Kevin Hart Made a Family Video Game

9/19/2017 - For Those Considering Blaxit, I Present to You: New Zealand

9/19/2017 - Ask Agatha: Should I Ignore Her When She Says There’s No Future for Us?

9/19/2017 - Obama Continues Key Initiative to Provide Opportunities to Boys and Young Men of Color 

9/19/2017 - A Reminder: Black Queer People Are Whole

9/19/2017 - ‘Why Do You Think Your Treatment of African Americans Is Justified?’ SC Elementary Teacher Poses Question to Students From KKK Perspective

9/19/2017 - Is Donald Trump a White Supremacist? A Racial-Draft Analysis

9/19/2017 - R. Kelly Accuser Alleges Older Woman Trained Her to Please Him Sexually

9/19/2017 - 86-Year-Old International Jewel Thief Doris Payne Is Once Again a Free Woman 

9/18/2017 - Donald Trump Jr. Gives Up His Secret Service Protection as Mueller’s Russia Investigation Intensifies

9/18/2017 - Family of Md. Man Who Died Days After a Violent Encounter With Police Files Lawsuit

9/18/2017 - Anti-Fascists Hunt Down, Knock Out Neo-Nazi for Harassing Black Man 

9/18/2017 - Kobe Bryant’s 11-Year-Old Daughter Is Already Better at Basketball Than You

9/18/2017 - My Marriage Is Over. Most of My Friends Don’t Know

9/18/2017 - Lawsuit Claims Columbus, Ohio, Police Have Been Using Excessive Force Against Black Residents

9/18/2017 - Fantasy Writer Nnedi Okorafor Releases Comic Short Inspired by Chibok, Nigeria, Schoolgirls, Has Novel Developed for HBO

9/18/2017 - This Belly Flop Contest Into a Pool of Mayonnaise Is the Best-Ever Example of ‘That’s Some White-People Shit’ 

9/18/2017 - Either Kevin Durant Refers to Himself in 3rd Person, or He Has Another Twitter Account He Uses to Defend Himself

9/18/2017 - Jordan Peele is No. 1 on The Root 100, Our Annual List of the Most Influential African Americans

9/18/2017 - Donald Trump’s Twitter ‘Follow’ List Is as Bad as You Think

9/18/2017 - Issa Rae’s ‘I’m Rooting for Everybody Black’ Was FUBU

9/18/2017 - Ohio ‘Father of the Year’ Faces Charges After Punishing 6-Year-Old Daughter by Chasing Her While Wearing Clown Mask 

9/18/2017 - Sean ‘Spicy Facts’ Spicer Is on a Crusade to Change History’s Account of Him. So Why Is Liberal White America Providing the Stage?

9/18/2017 - Strong Island Is on Netflix. You Should Watch It Now

9/18/2017 - Calif. High School Sparks Criticism for Using Slave-Ship Role-Play to Teach Students History

9/18/2017 - Bail Reform Is About Criminal and Economic Justice

9/18/2017 - Dick Gregory Honored During ‘Celebration of Life’ Service

9/18/2017 - Does Kevin Durant Have a Secret Clapback Instagram Account?

9/18/2017 - 1 Year After #BankBlack, America’s Biggest Black-Owned Bank Still Doing the Work

9/18/2017 - A Noose—No, 2 Nooses—Grow in Brooklyn

9/18/2017 - Anika Noni Rose’s Patience With Cicely Tyson Is the Blackest Thing That Ever Happened This Week

9/18/2017 - Uber Driver Kicks Not-Racist White People Out of Car for Being Racist

9/18/2017 - Racist Manspreading Douchebag on Subway Caught After Attacking Black Woman: Report

9/18/2017 - Tenn. University President Hosted Dinner for African-American Students Featuring Cotton-Stalk Centerpieces and ‘Black Meals’ 

9/18/2017 - St. Louis Police Chant ‘Whose Streets? Our Streets’ While Making Arrests During Continuing Protests Sunday: Report

9/18/2017 - Lena Waithe, Donald Glover, Sterling K. Brown Make History at Emmys

9/17/2017 - White Man in Custody in Possible Connection to 2 Random, ‘Racially Motivated’ Killings in La.

9/17/2017 - ESPN Public Editor Says Jemele Hill Violated Policy

9/17/2017 - David Clarke Came for Colin Kaepernick and Was Summarily Put in His Place; He Also Has to Rewrite His Thesis

9/17/2017 - Marvin Sapp Teams With R. Kelly for Song on Gospel Singer’s Upcoming Album

9/17/2017 - Twitter Drags Kevin Hart After He Admits to Cheating on His Pregnant Wife, and Hilarity Ensues

9/17/2017 - St. Louis Continues to Protest Acquittal of Police Officer in Murder Case; U2, Ed Sheeran Cancel Concerts There

9/16/2017 - Ohio Firefighter Says He’d Rather Save a Dog Than a Million ‘[N-Words]’

9/16/2017 - Sarah Huckabee Sanders Hit With Ethics Complaint After Calling for Jemele Hill to Be Fired

9/16/2017 - ‘Aunt V,’ the World’s Oldest Woman, Dies in Jamaica at 117

9/16/2017 - Football Player Convicted in Steubenville, Ohio, Rape Case Sues to Play Ball in College

9/16/2017 - Watch: We Built This

9/15/2017 - Michael Bennett Says He Plans to Sue Las Vegas Metro Police Department Over August Incident on the Strip

9/15/2017 - Like Father, Like Son: Jeffrey Sandusky Pleads Guilty to 14 Counts of Child Sex Abuse

9/15/2017 - Someone Left Bananas at Dorm Rooms Occupied by Black Students at Temple University 

9/15/2017 - An Ode to an Unsung Atlanta Classic, Lil Will’s ‘Lookin’ for Nikki’

9/15/2017 - Policing the Police Takes a Black Eye: Sessions Cuts Program That Investigates, Publicizes Police Department Shortcomings

9/15/2017 - Auntie Maxine Waters to Jeff Sessions: ‘How Does It Feel to Be Dragged & Humiliated? Now You Know How the African Americans You Disrespected Feel’

9/15/2017 - Netflix to Premiere Tragic Documentary The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

9/15/2017 - Employers May Soon Help With Student Loan Debt—but Will Black Grads Be Left Behind?

9/15/2017 - Activist Claims Video Shows Kenneka Jenkins Walking Into Hotel Freezer Alone; Jenkins’ Mother Says Family Was Misrepresented 

9/15/2017 - Who Gets Your Vote in 2020: The Night King or Donald Trump?

9/15/2017 - Ga. Teacher Uses Racial Slur While Attempting to Brush Off 4th-Grader’s Offensive Comments 

9/15/2017 - Judge of Characters: The Bodega App and Tyrese Make the World Ask, ‘Why?’

9/15/2017 - Why Doesn’t Trump Want the Public to Know Who Visits Mar-a-Lago While He’s There?

9/15/2017 - Ferguson, Mo., State Senator Survives Calling for Trump’s Assassination

9/15/2017 - An Astonishing Percentage of Americans Believe White People Are ‘Under Attack.’ Here’s Why They’re Wrong

9/15/2017 - Shit Finally Hits the Fan in St. Louis ... Like We Said It Would

9/15/2017 - So You’ve Decided to Make Friends With a Black Person: A Beginner’s Guide

9/15/2017 - Behold This Divine Image of Rihanna and Beyoncé Together Again

9/15/2017 - I Threw My Back Out This Morning by ... Waking Up. I Think I’m Officially Old Now

9/15/2017 - 5 Things That Will Happen Before Jemele Hill Apologizes to Donald Trump

9/15/2017 - Facebook Responds to Reports It Let Advertisers Target Nazis, ‘Jew Haters’ and Other Anti-Semitic Groups

9/15/2017 - Nooses Are All the Rage; Can Lynchings Be Far Behind? 

9/15/2017 - Former St. Louis Cop Jason Stockley Found Not Guilty in 2011 Shooting Death of Anthony Lamar Smith 

9/15/2017 - Tracing Your Roots: Have I Found My Ancestor’s Plantation?

9/15/2017 - NJ Man Suffers Fractured Jaw, Broken Nose, Multiple Other Injuries After Being Brutally Beaten by Cops, Lawyer Says

9/15/2017 - The Richard Pryor Show: A Master Class of Innovation vs. Censorship

9/15/2017 - Can Black People Be Racist? A Clapback Mailbag Special Edition

9/15/2017 - Exclusive: Pastor Jamal Bryant Spills on Dropped Stalking Case, ‘Being Messy’ and Redemption

9/15/2017 - NYPD Releases 1st Bodycam-Recorded Video Showing Officers Shooting Mentally Ill Bronx Man

9/15/2017 - Mich. Teacher ‘Violently’ Drags Black 6th-Grader Out of His Seat After He Declines to Stand for the Pledge of Allegiance: Report

9/14/2017 - Motel 6 Corporation Issues Statement On Phoenix Locations Turning Undocumented Guests in to ICE

9/14/2017 - White Campus Security Guard Shoots Himself, Then Blames Black Man Who Doesn’t Exist to Cover It Up

9/14/2017 - Shirtless Looters Outchea Stealing Telephone Poles

9/14/2017 - Darryl Strawberry Criticizes Jemele Hill and Praises Donald Trump as a ‘Great Man’

9/14/2017 - Is Lawrence From Insecure Trash? An Important Debate

9/14/2017 - Jemele Hill’s Regret on ‘Supremacist’ Tweet

9/14/2017 - More and More Black Women in Chicago Are Taking Their Safety Into Their Own Hands, Obtaining Concealed-Carry Gun Permits

9/14/2017 - Aramis Ayala, Selected as Part of the ‘Politico 50,’ Is the Future of Our American Criminal-Justice System

9/14/2017 - Kwame Kilpatrick Files Appeal, Says He Doesn’t Owe City of Detroit a Damn Thing

9/14/2017 - To All the Black Men Watching the NFL, Here’s What Philadelphia Eagles Owner Thinks About Colin Kaepernick

9/14/2017 - I’m Not Ashamed of Being Broke and You Shouldn’t Be Either

9/14/2017 - Someone Must Have Explained to Trump How DACA Works, Because Now He’s All In

9/14/2017 - Marines Give White Nationalist GI Joe the Boot

9/14/2017 - Anthony Scaramucci Mane Wants Paternity Test for Newborn Son Whose Birth He Missed Because He’s a Horrible Person: Report

9/14/2017 - ‘You Would Be the 1st One I’d Shoot if I Had a Gun,’ British Police Officer Tells Black Man 

9/14/2017 - Berkeley Squares Up for Key Test Ahead of Free Speech (Read: White Supremacist) Week

9/14/2017 - Racist Note Left at Calif. Hair Salon Calls Black People an ‘Eyesore,’ Prompts Hate Crime Investigation

9/14/2017 - Man ID’d as Murder Suspect Is Later Ruled Out, but NYPD Never Bothered to Tell the Public, Lawsuit Claims 

9/14/2017 - How the Mint Conference Aims to Cultivate Photographers and Other Creatives

9/14/2017 - New Poll Finds Majority Oppose White Supremacists—Even While Sharing White Supremacist Views

9/14/2017 - Cher and Future Walk Into a Gap Commercial ...

9/14/2017 - Ohio Mom Stabbed Boyfriend 6 Times After Finding Him Naked on Top of Her 12-Year-Old Daughter: Report

9/13/2017 - Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthing ta F’ Wit. And Neither Is Hillary Clinton

9/13/2017 - ‘I’m Going to Strip You Naked and Whip You Like the Slave You Are’: Man Sends Racist Messages Before Killing Innocent Black Man

9/13/2017 - ESPN’s Reprimand of Jemele Hill Reveals How White Supremacy Controls the Media Industry

9/13/2017 - University Finds Harassment Campaign Against DACA Student to Be ‘Free Speech’

9/13/2017 - White House Calls for ESPN to Fire Jemele Hill for Telling the Truth About Y’all’s Triflin’-Ass President

9/13/2017 - Munroe Bergdorf Hired to Be the Face of L’Oreal’s Competition Because She ‘Speaks Out About the Issues’

9/13/2017 - The White House Wants ESPN’s Jemele Hill Fired for Stating Facts

9/13/2017 - 7 Reasons Why I’m Getting the iPhone X

9/13/2017 - 10 Songs for Your Black-Ass Playlist for Days You’re Feeling Particularly Black

9/13/2017 - Congress Passes Legislation Urging the President to Act Less Like a White Supremacist

9/13/2017 - I Finally Found the One Who Passed the Wifey Test

9/13/2017 - White Man Who Yelled ‘Shut Up, Slave!’ at Black Man During Altercation at Chicago Starbucks Now Faces Hate Crime Charges

9/13/2017 - Video Goes Viral of Crazy Confrontation After Couple Refuses to Hand Over License

9/13/2017 - America Unites Momentarily to Hate This Stupid-Ass ‘Bodega’ Startup

9/13/2017 - Serena Williams Debuts Photo of Daughter Who Will Beat Maria Sharapova in 16 Years Too

9/13/2017 - Why US Virgin Islanders Say They Feel Like America’s ‘Bastard Stepchildren’ After Hurricane Irma

9/13/2017 - Serena Williams Shares 1st Photo of Daughter

9/13/2017 - Trump’s Private Clubs Ask Government for More Foreign Workers

9/13/2017 - Mo. Man, Tired of Being Called Racist for Flying a Confederate Flag, Puts Up ‘Slaves 4 Sale’ Sign in Retaliation Because That Makes Complete Sense 

9/13/2017 - A Minn. Prosecutor—Not a Grand Jury—to Consider Charges in Death of Justine Damond

9/13/2017 - Donald Trump’s White Christian Supremacy

9/13/2017 - Texas Mom Uses ‘Extreme Couponing’ to Help Out Victims of Hurricane Harvey 

9/13/2017 - Interview: Mother of 8-Year-Old Nearly Hanged in NH Speaks Out on Moving Forward With Her Son

9/13/2017 - Texas City Councilman Casually Drops Racial Slur While Attempting to Prove How Not Racist He Is After Controversial Facebook Post 

9/13/2017 - This Woman’s Flight-From-Hell Video Proves Some Airline Passengers Don’t Have Etiquette 

9/13/2017 - Beyoncé, Stevie Wonder Speak Out About Climate Change and Global Warming During Hurricane-Relief Telethon

9/13/2017 - Randy Jackson Claims Janet Jackson Was Verbally Abused by Husband

9/12/2017 - Justice Department Will Not Bring Charges Against Any of the Officers Involved in Freddie Gray’s Death

9/12/2017 - Thug Charged With Shooting and Critically Injuring Homeless Man After He Asked Her to Move Her Porsche

9/12/2017 - Both of Kobe Bryant’s Jerseys Will Be Retired by the Los Angeles Lakers Later This Year

9/12/2017 - Black Public Figures Are Being Silenced for Calling Out White Supremacy

9/12/2017 - I See You, Mona Scott-Young, Trying to Tend to Black Folks’ Health and Wellness. I See You, Boo

9/12/2017 - They Can’t Kill Us All, Wesley Lowery’s Book on Racially Biased Policing, in Development to Be a New Series on AMC 

9/12/2017 - A Couple of Thoughts for the White Man From Detroit Who Hates Black People Protesting the National Anthem

9/12/2017 - UC Berkeley Says It Will Investigate Viral Video of Police Officer Who Seized Money From Hot Dog Vendor

9/12/2017 - Maybe You Should Stop Calling Yourself an Alpha Male

9/12/2017 - The White People Are Coming! 6 Signs Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified

9/12/2017 - ‘We Are Allowed to Punch, Kick’: Ohio Police Attempt to Justify Brutal Beating of Unarmed Black Man 

9/12/2017 - Thoughts on #EbonyOwes From a Man Who Owes His Career to Ebony

9/12/2017 - NJ State Trooper Pleads Guilty to Pulling Over Women to Ask Them on Dates, Then Covering It Up  

9/12/2017 - Meet the White Nationalist Fraternity Coming to a College Near You

9/12/2017 - Was Ted Cruz on Late-Night Twitter Liking Porn?

9/12/2017 - Vandalism of Statue of the World’s Most Notorious Colonizer Will Be Investigated as a Hate Crime

9/12/2017 - Hope Hicks Officially Named White House Communications Director; Here’s Why She Won’t Get Fired

9/12/2017 - Iraqi-American Family Arrested After Going to the Bank to Deposit Large Check From Home Sale

9/12/2017 - Are You a Phone-Charger ‘Borrower’? Stop That Shit

9/12/2017 - Pizza Hut to Employees: Who Else Is Gonna Serve These Garlic Knots if You Evacuate for Irma?

9/12/2017 - Wash. State Sheriff Apologizes After His County Facebook Page Posts ‘All Lives Splatter’ Meme Showing Car Running Over Protesters 

9/12/2017 - Police Reviewing Viral Facebook Video in Case of Chicago Teen Found Dead in Ill. Hotel Freezer 

9/12/2017 - Ga. Teacher Who Compared Trump Campaign T-Shirts to Swastikas No Longer Teaching Students 

9/12/2017 - Bobby Brown Sues TV One Over Bobbi Kristina Biopic

9/12/2017 - Previews of Scandal, Grey’s Anatomy and How to Get Away With Murder Featured in New ‘Thank God It’s Thursday’ Trailer

9/12/2017 - How This Country’s Historical Efforts to Prevent the Education of Black People Have Continued Into the 21st Century

9/11/2017 - White People Commit Welfare Fraud, State Creates Amnesty Program so They Won’t Go to Jail

9/11/2017 - Dear Kylie Jenner: Kindly Shut the Hell Up When It’s Black-Girl Time

9/11/2017 - Trump Election Commission Member Suggests Jim Crow Laws Worked Better

9/11/2017 - How Disney Movies (and the Like) Have Ruined Reality for Me

9/11/2017 - Canada’s Ex-Poet Laureate Stole From Tupac and Maya Angelou in the Greatest Cultural Appropriation of All Time

9/11/2017 - This Wine Writer Has the Perfect Drink to Wash the Bitter Taste of Slavery Out of Your Mouth

9/11/2017 - Steve Bannon’s 60 Minutes Interview Proved Anthony Scaramucci Right

9/11/2017 - How 1 of America’s Deadliest Police Forces Gets Away With Shooting and Killing Black People

9/11/2017 - NYC’s First Lady Remixes ‘Reclaiming My Time’ as a Mental-Health Anthem

9/11/2017 - The Near-Perfect Insecure Season Finale and Issa’s, Molly’s and Lawrence’s Baby Steps to Adulthood

9/11/2017 - Watch: Fantastic Negrito’s New Video, ‘Push Back’

9/11/2017 - I Love Watching Insecure With Twitter and I Hate Watching Insecure With Twitter

9/11/2017 - Online Dating Apps, Rated for Your Black Ass

9/11/2017 - Nigerian Man Scams US Companies out of $3,700,000, Sentenced to 46 Months in Prison 

9/11/2017 - A Black Person’s Guide to Happily Watching Football During the #BoycottNFL Era

9/11/2017 - Apparently, Omarosa Was the White House’s Willona From Good Times

9/11/2017 - The Zombie Obamacare Repeal Is Dead ... for Now

9/11/2017 - You Ain’t Got the Juice: Why Arrow Has No Business Addressing #BlackLivesMatter

9/11/2017 - Fla. Sheriff Sued for Mandating Background Checks for Those Seeking Shelter During Hurricane Irma

9/11/2017 - YouTuber PewDiePie Uses Racial Slur During Live Video Game Streaming

9/11/2017 - The Root 100 No. 1s: Beyoncé Will Forever Be Bey-ond. She’s So Fly, They Named a Fly After Her

9/11/2017 - Chicago Woman Found Dead in Ill. Hotel Freezer 

9/11/2017 - DC Protesters Remember Terrence Sterling, Unarmed Motorist Killed by Police, 1 Year Later

9/11/2017 - Viral Video Shows Black Man Blasting Cop for Allegedly Pointing a Gun at His Head During Traffic Stop 

9/10/2017 - The Cleveland Browns’ Message on ‘Unity’ Is About as Bad as That Punt Attempt

9/10/2017 - If You’re a Black Man Watching Football This Sunday, Here Are 25 Things I Already Know About You

9/10/2017 - Fringe Media Outlets Smear Heather Heyer, Alleging She Died by Heart Attack, Not a Raging White Supremacist

9/10/2017 - Family of Jahi McMath, the Teen Declared Brain-Dead, ‘Overjoyed’ That Jury Will Decide if She Is Still Alive

9/10/2017 - Rush Limbaugh Flees Hurricane He Dismissed 

9/10/2017 - NH Police Refuse to Release Information in Case of 8-Year-Old Biracial Boy Who Was Nearly Lynched

9/10/2017 - Watch: Listen to Grandma, Y’all

9/10/2017 - From The Wire to The Deuce: David Simon, George Pelecanos and Lawrence Gilliard Jr. Discuss HBO’s Newest Series

9/9/2017 - Ousted Fox Host Confirms That His 19-Year-Old Son Has Died 

9/9/2017 - Sloane Stephens for the Win at US Open

9/9/2017 - Spike Lee and Jordan Peele Collaborate on Black Klansman, the True Story of a Black Man Who Infiltrated the KKK

9/9/2017 - Beyoncé Cries With Hurricane Harvey Victims at Her Childhood Church

9/9/2017 - Activists Demand Names of Vegas Cops Who Held Gun on NFL Player Michael Bennett Jr.

9/9/2017 - Undocumented Black Immigrants May Fare Worse Without DACA Protections

9/9/2017 - Obama’s Back ... and Not a Moment Too Soon

9/8/2017 - Character Assassination of Michael Bennett Continues: LVMPD Investigating Alleged Altercation That Happened Before His Encounter With Police

9/8/2017 - Prosecutor Seeks to Lock Up a Mother for Crimes Allegedly Committed by Her Children

9/8/2017 - Is ‘Anything’ From Kingdom Come Really Jay-Z’s Worst Song? 

9/8/2017 - NaturallyCurly’s ‘Texture on the Runway’ Laid My Edges

9/8/2017 - Watch: Harlem’s Fashion Row Celebrates 10 Years of Being a Major Platform for Designers of Color

9/8/2017 - Judge of Characters: Jason Whitlock Refuses to Stand for Something, so He Falls for Anything

9/8/2017 - Darth Maria Becky Sharapova Is the 2nd-Whitest Woman on Earth

9/8/2017 - Study: A Picture of a Black Person Can Anger Trump Supporters and Change Their Politics

9/8/2017 - Sending Unsolicited Pictures of Your Penis Is a Form of Sexual Harassment. Please Stop Doing This

9/8/2017 - Why Do So Many White People Want to Bone the American Flag?

9/8/2017 - ‘Bodak Yellow’ Is Trash, and if You Like It, Your Taste in Music Is Trash

9/8/2017 - Stuff That Scares Black People, Ranked

9/8/2017 - #MAGA: Wife of Trump Lawyer Arrested, Caught Having Sex With 23-Year-Old Inmate 

9/8/2017 - Angry Earth Is Determined to Murder Us All

9/8/2017 - No Woman Left Behind: Has the Plus-Size Industry Forgotten Its Roots?

9/8/2017 - Texas A&M Coach Loses Football Game, so Fans Lose Their Minds and Send Racist Hate Mail to His Home

9/8/2017 - The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: No Free Lunch

9/8/2017 - Ind. High School Bans Confederate-Flag Clothing

9/8/2017 - Tracing Your Roots: Who Were My Grandparents?

9/8/2017 - 2 Chicago Police Officers Help Homeless Mother With 2 Sets of Twins

9/8/2017 - Noose Discovered at Calif. High School Investigated as Hate Crime

9/8/2017 - Ta-Nehisi Coates Calls Out ‘The First White President’

9/8/2017 - Janet Jackson on Tour Opening Night: ‘You Know I Came to Snatch a Couple of Wigs’

9/8/2017 - All Black Girl Everything: Sloane Stephens and Madison Keys to Face Off in US Open 

9/7/2017 - #EbonyOwes: Freelancers Sue Historic Black Magazine for $70,000 in Unpaid Invoices

9/7/2017 - Fla. Sheriff Promises to Arrest Anyone With a Warrant Who Comes Looking for Shelter During Hurricane Irma

9/7/2017 - Supervillain Martin Shkreli Wants to Sell a Wu-Tang Clan Album on eBay for at Least $1,000,000

9/7/2017 - 7 Truisms Creatives Will Appreciate

9/7/2017 - Whiteness Is Useless Without the Nigger

9/7/2017 - There Is No Such Thing as ‘Alt-Left’

9/7/2017 - Shannon Sharpe on Jason Whitlock’s Skit and the NFL’s Double Standard Between Colin Kaepernick’s Protest and J.J. Watt’s Hurricane Relief Efforts

9/7/2017 - Watch: Mudbound’s 1st Trailer Reveals a Soul-Stirring Story of Survival, Friendship and America’s Inequality

9/7/2017 - I’m Black, Middle-Class and Surrounded by Crime

9/7/2017 - Betsy DeVos Wants to Rewrite Obama-Era Campus Sexual Assault Policy to Add More Protections for the Accused

9/7/2017 - Harlem’s Fashion Row Celebrates 10 Years While I Contemplate Whether I’m Over- or Underdressed

9/7/2017 - Kid Rock, the Former Black-Culture Vulture and Now Trump Supporter, to Open New Detroit Arena Amid Protest 

9/7/2017 - 50 Cent Gets Big Dollars to Keep Power at Starz

9/7/2017 - The Story of Rosa Parks’ Detroit Home Reveals Hard Truths About Her Life in the ‘Northern Promised Land That Wasn’t’

9/7/2017 - Trump’s Going on Another Vacation, and This Time He’s Bringing His Full Cabinet

9/7/2017 - Photo of 5 High School Students Burning a Cross, Wearing KKK Hoods Shocks Iowa Town ... but Not Really

9/7/2017 - How Donald Trump Uses Ivanka as His Secret Weapon

9/7/2017 - How a Not-Racist Cop Arrested a Man for ‘Walking While Black,’ Blamed It on Black People and Walked Away With $100,000

9/7/2017 - How Petrified Should We Be for Hurricane Victims Now That Ben Carson Is the Head of HUD?

9/7/2017 - Watch: Breaking Down the School-to-Prison Pipeline

9/7/2017 - Robert De Niro Vows to Help Rebuild Barbuda After Hurricane Irma Destroys Island

9/7/2017 - Bounce TV Launches Brown Sugar Streaming Service on Amazon 

9/6/2017 - 15 States, DC Sue Trump Administration Over the End of DACA

9/6/2017 - NYC Public Schools Announces Free Lunch for All Students

9/6/2017 - Robert E. Lee Descendant Who Spoke Out Against Racism Quits Church After Being Criticized for Supporting Black Lives Matter

9/6/2017 - Cardi B, Yay or Nay: GMG Staffers Share Their ‘Unpopular Opinions’ on America’s Unconventional Sweetheart

9/6/2017 - Fla. Residents Evacuate as Hurricane Irma Rips Through Caribbean 

9/6/2017 - 10 Signs You’re One of Those Wack-Ass People Who Don’t Like ‘Bodak Yellow’

9/6/2017 - If You’re in Hurricane Irma’s Path, Do Us a Favor: Get Out

9/6/2017 - Charlottesville, Va., City Council Votes to Remove That Other Confederate Statue, Stonewall Jackson’s

9/6/2017 - NFL Player Michael Bennett Assaulted by Vegas Police After Mayweather-McGregor Fight, Video Shows

9/6/2017 - Jason Whitlock Hates Black People

9/6/2017 - Spelman Changes Admissions Policy, Will Admit Transgender Students in Fall 2018

9/6/2017 - Dancing Ray Lewis Needs to Keep Dancing and Stay Off Colin Kaepernick’s Girlfriend’s Timeline 

9/6/2017 - What Happened to Jason Whitlock to Make Him Hate Himself So Much?

9/6/2017 - US Appeals Court Says Racist Texas Voter-ID Laws Can Stand

9/6/2017 - 7 Black Shows to Watch This Fall TV Season 

9/6/2017 - Charlotte, NC, Mayoral Candidate Reminds Voters That She’s ‘Smart’ and ‘White’ 

9/6/2017 - How 1 Black Woman Goes Inside Fla.’s Toughest Prisons to Help Inmates Get ‘Free on the Inside’

9/5/2017 - Does Sarah Huckabee Sanders Miss President Obama as Much as We Do?

9/5/2017 - #BlackGirlMagic: US Open Women’s Singles Semifinals Will Feature 2 American Black Women

9/5/2017 - After Skinnin’ and Grinnin’ for Trump, Steve Harvey Says He Should Have Listened to His Wife and Skipped Meeting

9/5/2017 - Backlash Over Owner’s Donation to Ex-KKK Leader Forces Minneapolis Bar to Close

9/5/2017 - Fear and Uncertainty for People Living Under DACA Now That Their Fates Rest With Congress

9/5/2017 - Top Native American News Site on ‘Hiatus’

9/5/2017 - Obama Blasts Trump on DACA and Reminds Us What a Real President Looks Like 

9/5/2017 - Joel Osteen Sounds a Lot Like Donald Trump

9/5/2017 - They Know They Can’t Win; They Just Want Black and Brown People to Lose Too

9/5/2017 - British Airways In-Flight Magazine Apparently Thinks Lupita Nyong’o Is Actually From Wakanda

9/5/2017 - Ga. School District Apologizes After Teacher Tells Students They Can’t Wear Trump Campaign Shirts, ‘Just Like You Cannot Wear a Swastika’

9/5/2017 - Trump Ends DACA Because He Hates Us All

9/5/2017 - Why the Messy and Uncomfortably Real Insecure Is Getting Harder and Harder to Watch

9/5/2017 - 50 Cent Urges Fans to Cut the Cord With Starz, Takes His New Show to BET

9/5/2017 - Exclusive Preview: Copwatch Explores What Happened to the People Who Filmed Famous Cop Killings

9/5/2017 - Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty Reps for Her ‘Brown Sisters’ With 40 Foundation Shades

9/5/2017 - Singer Apologizes After Saying ‘Reggaeton Music Comes From Apes’

9/5/2017 - If Trump Ends DACA, Obama Is Ready to Show Out

9/5/2017 - Richard Spencer’s Band of Hate-Mongers Sues Mich. State for Refusing to Allow Spencer to Speak on Campus 

9/5/2017 - 3 Black Women Advance to US Open Semifinals

9/5/2017 - The Root 100 No. 1s: Shonda Rhimes Changes the Face of Television Forever

9/5/2017 - Simeon Wright, Cousin Who Witnessed Emmett Till’s Kidnapping the Night of Emmett’s Brutal Murder, Dies at 74

9/5/2017 - When Dancing Soothes the Soul

9/5/2017 - Petition Launched to Replace Christopher Columbus Statue With Prince Monument

9/4/2017 - Black Excellence: 13-Year-Old Kimora Hudson Begins Classes at University of West Ga.

9/4/2017 - Beyoncé Loves Cardi B Just Like the Rest of Us!

9/4/2017 - Lil Wayne Hospitalized for Seizures Again

9/4/2017 - Watch: America’s Racist History of Labor

9/4/2017 - The 10 Worst Co-Workers Ever

9/4/2017 - The Small Man in the White House Moves to End DACA

9/3/2017 - Cleveland Police Union Refuses to Hold Flag During Browns Opening Game, Calls Players’ Protest ‘Ignorant’

9/3/2017 - Read the Note Barack Obama Graciously Left for Donald Trump ... Which Trump Has All but Ignored

9/3/2017 - Led by Cam Newton’s Little Brother, Howard U Pulls Off Largest Point Spread Upset in College Football History

9/3/2017 - Philadelphia Police-Union Head Defends Nazi Cop, Calls BLM a ‘Pack of Rabid Animals’

9/3/2017 - Someone Tell the Democrats to Stop Acting Like the Political Equivalent of Unseasoned Chicken

9/2/2017 - Rihanna Announces Fenty Beauty Launch. Take That, Kylie With the Fake Lips!

9/2/2017 - Mad Magazine Remixes a Norman Rockwell Painting for the Age of Trump

9/2/2017 - They Continue to Disparage Harriet Tubman, but There’s a Remedy for That

9/2/2017 - Autopsy Shows Pregnant, Mentally Ill Woman Charleena Lyles Shot 7 Times by Police

9/2/2017 - Can Brooklyn, NY’s J’Ouvert Retain Its Traditional Spirit Under a New Security Crackdown?

9/2/2017 - Omarosa Might Be Pushed Out for ‘Triggering’ Trump

9/1/2017 - Making Sure Your Houston Relief Money Is Going to the Black Folks Who Need It Most Isn’t Easy

9/1/2017 - Watch: Police Kill Another Person With Mental Illness, This Time in Ind.

9/1/2017 - Serena Williams Delivers Healthy Baby Girl: Report

9/1/2017 - Wells Fargo Uncovers 1,400,000 More Fake Accounts in Growing Sales Scandal

9/1/2017 - One of the Worst Things White People Ever Did to Black People Happened This Week

9/1/2017 - Sean ‘Spicy Facts’ Spicer Has Officially Left the White House. Who Else Thought He Was Already Gone?

9/1/2017 - L’Oreal Drops 1st Transgender Model Because Her Post Calling Out White Privilege Is ‘at Odds With’ Their ‘Values’

9/1/2017 - 5 Rules for Black Cookouts ... and Life

9/1/2017 - 10 Things My Black Paranoia Saved Me From

9/1/2017 - White Ga. Lawmaker Threatens Black Woman, Says She May Go Missing … but Was She Already in the Sunken Place?

9/1/2017 - National Action Network Calls for Review of All Cases Related to Ga. Cop Who Was Caught on Camera Saying, ‘We Only Kill Black People’

9/1/2017 - ‘Everyday It Rains’: A Root Editor’s Personal Struggle Through the Hell of Hurricane Harvey

9/1/2017 - Texas Secretary of State Turns Down Hurricane Harvey Aid From Canada and Asks for Prayers Instead: Report

9/1/2017 - The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Beckys and Bad Suits

9/1/2017 - Mahershala Ali to Give True Detective a Much Needed Shot of Melanin

9/1/2017 - How Do I Legally Prove Native American Ancestry?

9/1/2017 - Why Aren’t There More Black WWE Stars?

9/1/2017 - ‘Nazi Crybaby’ Christopher Cantwell Denied Bond 

9/1/2017 - Columbus’ Ain’t the Only Legacy Stained by Slavery—So Is That of the Hero Many People Want to Replace Him With

9/1/2017 - Ga. Cop, Caught on Viral Video Saying ‘Remember, We Only Kill Black People,’ Retires as Department Moves to Fire Him