4/30/2018 - Can You Blame Him? 

4/30/2018 - Roy Moore Believes He’s the Victim of a ‘Political Conspiracy,’ Sues His Accusers

4/30/2018 - Congressional Black Caucus to Host Twitter Town Hall on Community Policing and Police Accountability

4/30/2018 - Watch: R. Kelly Responds to Time’s Up #MuteRKelly Letter

4/30/2018 - I Binge-Watched Call the Midwife, and It Got Me All in My Feelings

4/30/2018 - Emails Show That Cops Focused on Counterprotesters at Tennessee Rally but Were Totally Cool With Nazis

4/30/2018 - Tribeca Film Festival 2018: Time’s Up Staged a Tribeca Takeover

4/30/2018 - Bill Cosby’s Legacy Is Now Shit. Throw That Baby Out With the Bathwater

4/30/2018 - President Declares State of Emergency After White Tears Flood Correspondents’ Dinner

4/30/2018 - Watch: Nigerian President Asked About Trump’s ‘Shithole Country’ Remarks During White House Visit

4/30/2018 - Watch: Trump Wants to Build That Dumbass Wall, but He’s Totally Fine With Low-Wage Foreign Guest Workers

4/30/2018 - So ... We Went to the ‘Nerd Prom,’ and It Was As Awkward as It Looked

4/30/2018 - Exclusive: Cynthia Nixon Campaign Hires L. Joy Williams as a Senior Adviser for Gubernatorial Race

4/30/2018 - Toronto Chinatown Restaurant Forced to Pay $10,000 to Black Diner After Making Him Prepay for His Meal

4/30/2018 - Donald Trump Just Tweeted About His Pal Kanye and I Think I’m Going to Be Sick

4/30/2018 - Tribeca Film Festival 2018: Tribeca’s 5 Most Fashionable Films

4/30/2018 - Trump Just Can’t Stop Lying About Crowd Size 

4/30/2018 - Cosby Prosecutor Calls Out Comedian for Smirking at Victims During Trial: ‘This Is Not Your Stage’

4/30/2018 - Mother Arrested at Hospital for Disorderly Conduct While Trying to See Her Dying Son

4/30/2018 - Mother Says Bronx, NY, Teen Stabbed to Death Was Protecting Little Brother From a Bully: Report

4/30/2018 - ‘You Had a Bad Idea and You Making It Worse’: 10 Thoughts About Kanye and T.I.’s ‘Ye vs. the People’

4/30/2018 - Cash Me Outside: Vanessa Trump ‘Went Gangster’ on Aubrey O’Day After Learning of Her Alleged Affair With Donald Jr.: Report

4/30/2018 - Some People Are Mad Because a Chapter in Issa Rae’s 3-Year-Old Book Says Black Women and Asian Men Should Date Each Other

4/30/2018 - Sasha Obama Hung Out With Cardi B and Offset; We Have a Few Questions

4/30/2018 - Faculty Leaders Call on Howard University President, Top Administrators to Resign

4/30/2018 - Women of Color Within Time’s Up Join #MuteRKelly Protest

4/29/2018 - Black Girls Most Harshly Disciplined Over School Dress Codes, Study Finds

4/29/2018 - Father of Black Liberation Theology, the Rev. Dr. James Cone, Dies at 79

4/29/2018 - Kanye West Calls Emma González His ‘Hero’; She Responds by Calling This Man Hers

4/29/2018 - Suckabee Goes Down in Flames as a Proxy for Donald Trump at White House Correspondents’ Dinner; Snowflakes Liquefy 

4/29/2018 - Dominate

4/28/2018 - No Hack: Joy Reid Issues Mea Culpa for Unearthed Homophobic Comments

4/28/2018 - New Music From ‘MAGA’ Kanye Asks Black People to Pull Themselves Up by Their Yeezy Bootstraps

4/28/2018 - Wisconsin Police Who Tased Mentally Ill Black Man 18 Times Face No Charges in His Death

4/28/2018 - How Bill Cosby Divided Black America

4/28/2018 - Watch: Travis Reinking and the Invisible White Man

4/28/2018 - Seattle Vacates Hundreds of Marijuana Charges Going Back 30 Years

4/28/2018 - The Sunken Place Has Good Wi-Fi, so Now We Have (Not So) Deep Tweets by Kanye West

4/28/2018 - Virginia Newspaper Runs KKK Flyer on Its Front Page. Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? 

4/28/2018 - Watch: Police Slam Former NFL Player Desmond Marrow

4/28/2018 - For the ‘But-But-But, What About Harvey Weinstein?!’ Brigade When Bill Cosby Being Found Guilty Is Too Much

4/27/2018 - The 48-Hour 1st Date: A Twitter Fly-Out Story That Doesn’t End in Tragedy

4/27/2018 - #MeToo: Ann Curry Reported Matt Lauer for Sexual Harassment in 2012

4/27/2018 - House ‘Intelligence’ Committee Clears Trump, Associates of Wrongdoing in 2016 Election

4/27/2018 - Bill Cosby’s Honorary Degree Is Rescinded by Temple University 

4/27/2018 - Diamond and Silk Broke About a Million Laws Thursday in Congress, and They Might Need a Lawyer

4/27/2018 - Judge of Characters: Kanye West Doesn’t Care About Racism

4/27/2018 - Opioid Mixture Killed Veteran News Anchor Roy Hobbs

4/27/2018 - Watch: ‘If You Think That You’ve Aged Out of Justice, Think Again’—Gabrielle Union Speaks on Cosby’s Conviction

4/27/2018 - It’s Not Over Till the Black Lady Sings: Painter Elizabeth Colomba Makes History at the Metropolitan Opera 

4/27/2018 - Exactly 1 Good, Weird Thing Happened on Twitter This Week, and Lakeith Stanfield Was Involved

4/27/2018 - Once More for the People in the Back: Anyone Who Supports Donald Trump Is a Racist

4/27/2018 - Tribeca Film Festival 2018: A New Film on Blue Note Records Takes Us Beyond the Notes

4/27/2018 - Bill Cosby Wasn’t ‘Publicly Lynched’; He Hanged Himself

4/27/2018 - Frat Jerks Suspended Over Racist Videos Sue, Say Syracuse Has ‘Threatened Their Academic Success and Survival’

4/27/2018 - It’s an Explanation, Not an Excuse

4/27/2018 - Paul Ryan Forced the House Chaplain to Resign; Now Democrats and Republicans Want to Know Why

4/27/2018 - Watch: The Café That Discriminated Against W. Kamau Bell Just Shut Down, but the Storm’s Not Over

4/27/2018 - Chance the Rapper Loves Kanye, Not Trump

4/27/2018 - The Black Person’s Guide to Avengers: Infinity War

4/27/2018 - Universal Fan ‘Con’? A Conversation With Black Girl Nerds’ Jamie Broadnax on the Biggest Black Convention That Wasn’t

4/27/2018 - The Glow Up Anthem of the Week: Janelle Monáe and Pharrell Got the Juice

4/27/2018 - Watch: Roomful of Rich, White NYC Parents Get Big Mad at Plan to Diversify Neighborhood’s Schools

4/27/2018 - Miramax Releases Trailer for Upcoming Whitney Houston Documentary 

4/27/2018 - This Black Miss Utah State University Contestant Got Real About Microaggressions—and Won

4/27/2018 - TV Network Bounces Cosby Show From Lineup Following Guilty Verdict

4/27/2018 - Out of the 5 O’Clock Shadow: I Shave My Face, and There’s No Shame in That

4/27/2018 - Sun in Your Eyes: How to Get That Sunset Eye Shadow Look for Summer

4/27/2018 - Tribeca Film Festival 2018: First-Time Feature Filmmaker Nia DaCosta Wins for Little Woods

4/27/2018 - Lowndes County, Ala.: The Place God Forgot

4/27/2018 - Exclusive: Pastor Kenneth Glasgow, Beloved Voting-Rights Organizer, Speaks Out About Capital Murder Charges He Faces in Alabama: ‘I Am Innocent’

4/27/2018 - Spelman Student Says She and Her Transgender Partner Were Targeted With Hate Speech on Campus: Report

4/27/2018 - Tracing Your Roots: Who Left My Mother in Foster Care?

4/27/2018 - The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: All Mailbag, No Clapback

4/27/2018 - Police Caught on Camera Physically Assaulting Former NFL Player Desmond Marrow

4/27/2018 - Family Sues American Airlines for Wrongful Death After 25-Year-Old Nurse Dies on Board

4/26/2018 - Federal Agents Seized 16 Old Cellphones in the Michael Cohen Raids. Everybody’s Going to Jail

4/26/2018 - Cardi B’s Ex-Manager Sues Her for Allegedly Giving Him the Shaft

4/26/2018 - Watch: The Downfall of Bill Cosby

4/26/2018 - Life Comes at You Fast and Your Faves Are Probably All Trash

4/26/2018 - College Student Says He Was Attacked by Cops for Skateboarding Because ... Someone Could Get Hurt, You Know

4/26/2018 - Judge to Man Who Said Wearing ‘MAGA’ Hat Is Part of His Religion: GTFOHWTBS

4/26/2018 - Was There a Bright Side to Playing Catwoman? Halle Berry Found It 

4/26/2018 - Police Arrest Black Man in Attack on Hispanic Man While Wearing ‘Make America Great Again’ Hat and Shirt

4/26/2018 - ‘Genocide of Black People’: The Killing of Afro-Brazilians by Police Is an Injustice Marielle Franco Was Fighting to End

4/26/2018 - Wait, Did Stormy Daniels’ Lawyer Just Hint That a $1.6 Million Abortion Payout May Have Been for Trump and Not That GOP Donor?

4/26/2018 - Mike Pompeo Confirmed as Secretary of State

4/26/2018 - Bill Cosby Found Guilty of Aggravated Indecent Assault 

4/26/2018 - Janelle Monáe Says Dirty Computer Is a Soundtrack for Carefree Black Women Who Are ‘Beautiful as Fuck’

4/26/2018 - Kanye Is ‘Free Thought’-ing Again, Posts Text Messages From John Legend

4/26/2018 - Janelle Monáe Confirms She’s a ‘Queer Black Woman in America’

4/26/2018 - Kelis Opens Up About Physical Abuse She Dealt With During Marriage to Nas

4/26/2018 - Hey VSB Commenters, Reclaim Your Time and Your Comments (From Disqus)!

4/26/2018 - Trump Just Admitted That Michael Cohen Acted on His Behalf When He Paid Off Porn Actress, and Why This Matters 

4/26/2018 - Starbucks Tapped Public Policy, Racial-Justice Organizations to Help With Bias Training, but What Will Change Look Like?

4/26/2018 - The Fire This Time: Tracee Ellis Ross Speaks on the Power of Female Fury

4/26/2018 - Cardi B Cancels Tour Dates, Will Finally Be Pregnant in Peace

4/26/2018 - Tribeca Film Festival 2018: Time for Ilhan Reminds Us That Hope Can Make History

4/26/2018 - Trump’s VA Pick Withdraws Nomination Amid New Allegations He Drunkenly Crashed Government Car

4/26/2018 - Once Upon Once on This Island With Tamyra Gray

4/26/2018 - How the West Was Lost

4/26/2018 - Did Kanye West Lose Millions of Twitter Followers After His ‘MAGA’-Trump Lovefest?

4/26/2018 - Jay-Z’s Mom, Gloria Carter, to Receive Special Recognition Award for ‘Smile’ at GLAAD Media Awards 

4/25/2018 - Hate Attackers Invoke Trump’s Name: Report

4/25/2018 - Dating in the Age of Twitter, or How I Met Mr. Big

4/25/2018 - #Flint: On This Day 4 Years Ago, the Water Crisis Started. The Water Is Still Not Safe

4/25/2018 - OK, Seriously: What Is Going on With Kanye and These Weirdo Tweets? 

4/25/2018 - Kanye West Doesn’t Care About Black People

4/25/2018 - Joy Reid May Be the 1st Celebrity Who Was Actually Hacked, and I Should Probably Be Mad About It

4/25/2018 - Virgil Abloh x Ikea: A Side of Street Cred With Those Swedish Meatballs

4/25/2018 - White Reporter Stole From Warriors Security and Nothing Happened Until the Players Found Out 

4/25/2018 - New Study Shows White People Don’t Like Living Near Black People; Captain Obvious Declines Comment

4/25/2018 - She’s a Savage: There’s Even More to Love About Rihanna’s New Lingerie Line

4/25/2018 - Candace Owens, Who Thinks Racism Is All in the Past, Got Paid After Suing Over Racist Attacks

4/25/2018 - #StephonClark: Grieving Older Brother Charged With Misdemeanor Assault, Vandalism

4/25/2018 - #LifeComesAtYouFast: Florida Student at Center of Racist Promposal Will Not Attend Prom, Graduation

4/25/2018 - A Conspiracy Theory as to Why HUD Wants to Raise Rent on Low-Income Housing

4/25/2018 - My Lunch With André Leon Talley 

4/25/2018 - Auntie Maxine Waters Issues Proposal to Trump: Quit so I Can Stop Calling for Your Impeachment

4/25/2018 - The New Lynching Memorial and Legacy Museum Force Us to Bear Witness to Our Whole American Truth 

4/25/2018 - Sorry, Not Sorry? Golf Club That Called Cops on Golfing Black Women Apologizes Then Changes Its Tune

4/25/2018 - Leaked Meeting Audio Proves NFL Owners Worried About Appeasing White Fans, While Players Worried About Kaepernick, Black Lives

4/25/2018 - At One Point, My Career Goal Was to Be a Backup Dancer for Usher

4/25/2018 - Rashaun Williams Is a Venture Capitalist Who Gives the Game Away for Free; Have a Seat and Learn Something

4/25/2018 - Meek Mill Celebrates Release From Prison With 76ers Playoff Game

4/25/2018 - Melania Trump Acts Like She Expected Her Old, Rich and Unhealthy Husband to Be Dead by Now

4/25/2018 - How Melania Trump’s Hand Has Become the Most Defiant Member of the Trump Administration

4/25/2018 - Tribeca Film Festival 2018: There’s No Redemption Song in The Rachel Divide

4/25/2018 - Winston Duke Says Black Women Have Been His No. 1 Fans

4/25/2018 - Michael Brown’s Mother, Lezley McSpadden, Says She Will Run for Ferguson, Mo., City Council: Report

4/25/2018 - Florida Police Shoot and Kill Black Man, Then Go to Funeral Home in Attempt to Unlock His Phone Using His Fingerprint

4/25/2018 - Tribeca Film Festival 2018: How Naomi Wadler Disrupted the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards

4/25/2018 - Fundraisers for Tennessee Waffle House Hero, Victims of Shooting Raise More Than $100,000 

4/24/2018 - Even in White Neighborhoods, Black People Get Arrested More for Marijuana

4/24/2018 - Why Isn’t Jeff Sessions Recusing Himself From the Michael Cohen Investigation?

4/24/2018 - What’s Coming and Going on Netflix in May? 

4/24/2018 - How to Be a Better White Person

4/24/2018 - Meek Mill Is Free!

4/24/2018 - Tennessee Lawmakers and Waffle House Restaurant Show Support for Victims of Deadly Shooting

4/24/2018 - It Be Your Own People: On Universal FanCon and the Perversion of Community

4/24/2018 - Video: Virginia Cop Shot Black Teenager in the Back as Teen Tried to Run Away

4/24/2018 - Watch: Trump Embarrasses French President by Awkwardly Wiping Dandruff off His Collar

4/24/2018 - Supreme Court May Have to Decide if Banning Dreadlocks Is Racist

4/24/2018 - Accused Waffle House Killer’s $2 Million Bail Revoked; Police Investigate Father Who May Have Given Back Confiscated AR-15

4/24/2018 - Black Designers Rise to the Top 10 of Global Luxury Brands

4/24/2018 - Melania Trump Wore a White-Lady Beyoncé ‘Formation’ Hat

4/24/2018 - The Sean Hannity Controversy Exposes the Racist Hypocrisy of Wypipo Welfare

4/24/2018 - So Sophisticated: Beard Gang, Rick Ross Is Coming for You

4/24/2018 - Hearing Postponed for Trump VA Nominee Dr. Ronny Jackson Amid Overprescribing, Drinking Allegations: Report

4/24/2018 - Tribeca Film Festival 2018: Blowin’ Up Proves There’s Life After ‘the Life’

4/24/2018 - Did Trump Nickname Jeff Sessions ‘Mr. Magoo’ and Rod Rosenstein ‘Mr. Peepers’? An Analysis Proves He Did

4/24/2018 - Zazie Beetz’s Domino Takes Our Breath Away in New Promo

4/24/2018 - Here’s What Happened After I Left a 3-Star Yelp Review for a Pizza Parlor

4/24/2018 - Letitia Wright Gets It Right at Avengers: Infinity War Premiere

4/24/2018 - California Cop Who Shot and Killed Diante Yarber Was Previously Charged With Hate Crime, Lawyers Say 

4/24/2018 - What Does Your Favorite Artist Have to Do to Lose Your Support?

4/24/2018 - Prince’s Family Sues Illinois Hospital and Walgreens for Wrongful Death

4/24/2018 - Don Cheadle Talks Social Media and How He Deals With Trolls

4/24/2018 - Beautycon Sisters Claim Theirs Loud and Proud 

4/24/2018 - Police Use Video, Witness Testimony in Bid to Justify Use of Force During Controversial Arrest of Black Woman in Alabama Waffle House 

4/24/2018 - Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Calls Out Starbucks for Racism

4/24/2018 - Is That Suit Vibranium? Wakanda Returns for the Avengers: Infinity War Premiere

4/24/2018 - Man Wearing ‘Make America Great Again’ Hat and Shirt Wanted for  Attacking Hispanic Man in NYC Subway Station: Report

4/23/2018 - Blacks in Downtown Philly More Likely to Be Stopped by Police

4/23/2018 - Stop Calling the Police on Black People Just Because You’re Annoyed; You’re Gonna Get Someone Killed

4/23/2018 - #NetNeutrality: The Open Internet Isn’t Dead Just Yet

4/23/2018 - Sen. Cory Booker Blames Low Voter Turnout for Republican Victories

4/23/2018 - What Does Donald Trump Have Over Sen. Rand Paul?

4/23/2018 - Travis Reinking Is What Happens When Black People Are ‘Criminals’ and White People Are Allowed to Be Invisible

4/23/2018 - HBCU SpringComing Brings Black-School Spirit to New York City

4/23/2018 - White Judge Sentenced to Probation for Election Fraud in Same County Where Black Woman Received 5 Years

4/23/2018 - Even Melania Trump Misses Former President Barack ‘T’Challa’ Obama

4/23/2018 - Watch: Trump’s Silence on the Waffle House Shooting Is Deafening; the 4 Victims Killed Were All People of Color

4/23/2018 - Melania Trump Is Serving Michelle Obama’s Collard Greens for Dinner and We Need to Pray

4/23/2018 - Waffle House Shooting Suspect in Police Custody

4/23/2018 - Janelle Monáe Is Serving Lewks on Lewks on Lewks ... and We Like That

4/23/2018 - Watch: Traffik Tackles the Ugly Issue of Human Slavery

4/23/2018 - Kanye’s Politics Are What Happens When You Don’t Read Books

4/23/2018 - #SaggyBoobsMatter: Are You Good With Your Girls?

4/23/2018 - Kanye West, Candace Owens and the Conservative Sunken Place

4/23/2018 - Beyoncé Partners With Google, Doubles Up on HBCU Scholarship Program Following 2nd Coachella Performance

4/23/2018 - It’s Prom Season, Which Means the Racist Promposals Have Begun

4/23/2018 - Tribeca Film Festival 2018: Blackness Is the Muse of Mr. Soul!

4/23/2018 - Happy Confederate Day! On Lynching Memorials and Winning the Narrative War

4/23/2018 - The Only Thing Missing From Georgia’s Neo-Nazi Rally Was Actual Neo-Nazis

4/23/2018 - It’s a Wrap! Coachella 2018 Goes Out in Style

4/23/2018 - Black Woman Dragged to the Ground, Arrested by Officers in Alabama Waffle House Over Dispute About Plastic Utensils 

4/23/2018 - 29-Year-Old James Shaw Jr. Hailed as Hero for Stopping Tennessee Waffle House Shooting

4/22/2018 - Nude Gunman Kills 4 at Waffle House in Tennessee; Still on the Run: Police

4/22/2018 - Beyoncé Fan Site to Release Live Album of Coachella Performance so We Can Be Slayed on Repeat

4/22/2018 - Colin Kaepernick Speaks Truth to Power, Refers to Police Killings of People of Color as ‘Lawful Lynchings’

4/22/2018 - Trump Considers ‘Full Pardon’ of Boxer Jack Johnson After Sylvester Stallone Phone Call; Call Him Again, Sly

4/22/2018 - Tribeca Film Festival 2018: Thandie Newton Returns to the Wild, Wild Westworld

4/22/2018 - The Takedown

4/21/2018 - Holy Hennessy! One South African Church Takes Jesus Juice to a Whole Nother Level

4/21/2018 - Neo-Nazi Who Went by ‘Tyrone’ Doxxed Out of Marines in Alleged Connection to Unite the Right Rally 

4/21/2018 - ‘Everything You Think Is True’: Yara Shahidi Honors Her Family History With Prince

4/21/2018 - Singer Roberta Flack Rushed to Hospital From Apollo, Later Released

4/21/2018 - Lawyer, Publicist, Assistant Drop R. Kelly Like a Bad Habit

4/21/2018 - Love, Siriano Style: The Risk-Taker Who Rides With Us

4/21/2018 - From Stand-Up to Broadway: Rick Younger Is the New ‘Mr. Duvall’ in Broadway’s Mean Girls

4/21/2018 - Watch: Patti LaBelle Remembers Prince

4/20/2018 - Could You List the ‘Positive Aspects’ of Slavery? A Teacher Asked 8th-Graders to Do So

4/20/2018 - Federal Prosecutors Want to Charge Cop Who Put Eric Garner in Choke Hold

4/20/2018 - Judge of Characters: How to Hate on Beyoncé, a Guide

4/20/2018 - Bernie Sanders Spoke to a Crowd of Black Folks and He Didn’t Screw It Up This Time

4/20/2018 - Stans, Ranked

4/20/2018 - If You Love J. Cole, KOD Is Dope. If You Don’t Love J. Cole, KOD Is Trash. Water Is Still Wet

4/20/2018 - Greek Chic: Ready to Pledge Beyoncé Delta Kappa?

4/20/2018 - The Glow Up Anthem of the Week: Janelle Monáe’s ‘I Like That’

4/20/2018 - New Bops or New Bras: What Exactly Is Rihanna Teasing?

4/20/2018 - Hillary Clinton Told Campaign Aides That She Was Tired of Hearing About How ‘Nobody Likes’ Her: Report

4/20/2018 - Conscious Beauty: For Earth Day, Think Ethical Products

4/20/2018 - The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Lions, Tigers and Wypipo, Oh My!

4/20/2018 - Trump Proves He’s the Kenya Moore of The Real Housewives of the White House, Won’t Attend Barbara Bush’s Funeral 

4/20/2018 - Real Talk From Terry Crews on Misogyny: ‘There’s a Humanity Issue Here’

4/20/2018 - Tennessee Mom Furious After Video Shows Teacher Dragging 7-Year-Old Boy Off School Bus by His Feet 

4/20/2018 - 200 Words About the Ain’t-Shit Cops Who Were Called on the Black Men at Starbucks

4/20/2018 - Good Vibrations: Solange Writes About Jamaica, Grace Jones and Her New Album

4/20/2018 - Syracuse Fraternity Suspended Over Racist Videos Claims Horrific Behavior Was Just a ‘Satirical Sketch’

4/20/2018 - Watch: Boxer Adrien Broner Proves Once Again That His Press Conferences Are Better Than His Fights

4/20/2018 - High on Beauty: Cannabinoids 101

4/20/2018 - What’s the Best Song to ‘Electric Slide’ To?

4/20/2018 - James Comey’s Memos: Putin Told Trump That Russia Had Some of the ‘Most Beautiful Hookers in the World’

4/20/2018 - Tracing Your Roots: Where Were My Black Homeowning Ancestors From?

4/20/2018 - This Time, Time Got It Right: Tarana Burke Covers the 100 Most Influential People Issue

4/20/2018 - Watch: Zuck Reveals How White Facebook Is

4/20/2018 - One Black Woman’s Journey to Becoming One of California’s Newest Cannabis Dispensary Owners 

4/20/2018 - Calling the Police Could Have Been Deadly at Starbucks. It Was for This Unarmed Black Man

4/20/2018 - Stephon Clark’s Brother Stevante Arrested on Suspicion of Threats; Meanwhile, the Cops Who Killed His Brother Are Back on Duty

4/20/2018 - ‘Ain’t Nobody Got Time for This’: Former Houston 911 Operator Jailed for Hanging Up on Emergency Callers

4/20/2018 - The Night MLK Was Assassinated, as Told by Two White Reporters

4/19/2018 - It’s Handled: Farewell, Scandal!

4/19/2018 - 3 Kansas Men Found Guilty of Plot to Bomb Muslims, Kill Obama

4/19/2018 - Essence Drops Its Editor-in-Chief

4/19/2018 - Listen to Prince’s Original Version of ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ ... Then Cry

4/19/2018 - Either Donald Trump Doesn’t Know Slavery Existed or He Doesn’t Think Black People Are Human Beings

4/19/2018 - The Root’s Guide to the 10 Blackest Experiences of the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival

4/19/2018 - Chirlane McCray Is Making Mental Health an Open Discussion, and We’re the Better for It

4/19/2018 - I’m Really Excited for This Kanye West and Kid Cudi Album

4/19/2018 - No, Personal Responsibility Won’t Solve Inequality: New Study Dispels Common Myths Behind Racial Wealth Gap

4/19/2018 - California Store Clerk Calls Cops on Black Man Who Asked for Refund; Black Man Gets Beaten Bloody 

4/19/2018 - Bad Girl Blues: The Coachella Makeup Trend to Try Now

4/19/2018 - We Need a Yelp for Rating White People

4/19/2018 - She Ready! Tiffany Haddish Covers W Magazine

4/19/2018 - No One Told Me That Getting Older Meant That You Literally Just Keep Aging Until You Die!

4/19/2018 - No Criminal Charges in Prince’s Overdose Death 

4/19/2018 - 10 Things I Learned From My 23andMe Results (That May or May Not Be True)

4/19/2018 - WNBA Star Candace Parker Has to Pay Her NBA-Flameout Ex-Husband $400,000 in Alimony: Report

4/19/2018 - Former Playboy Playmate Is Free to Talk About Her Affair With the President; This Should Be Good

4/19/2018 - I’ve Never Met Anyone As ‘Black’ as Michael Rapaport Tries to Be

4/19/2018 - Can We Get This Tracee Ellis Ross TED Talk, Already?

4/19/2018 - Tiffany Haddish Lands Cover of Time’s 100 Most Influential People Issue

4/19/2018 - Trump’s Personal Fixer Michael Cohen Is Going to Flip Like a Gymnast and Sing Like 1985 Prince

4/19/2018 - ‘When You Know That You Did Nothing Wrong, How Do You Really React?’: Men Arrested in Philly Starbucks Speak Out

4/19/2018 - Miami’s 1st Afro-Latino Heritage Excellence Summit Weekend Embraced the Diaspora, Honored Univision’s Tony Dandrades

4/19/2018 - RiRi’s Style Sizzles at Coachella 

4/19/2018 - Mississippi Teen Honors Her Late Father With Prom Dress

4/19/2018 - LA Fitness Fires 3 Employees for Going Full Starbucks on Black Customer in Viral Video

4/19/2018 - Tennessee Lawmakers Punish City of Memphis for Removing Confederate Statues 

4/19/2018 - C.E. Hutton: Meet the Firm That’s Investing in Minority-Owned Cannabis Companies

4/19/2018 - Syracuse University Suspends Frat Over Videos Showing ‘Extremely Racist’ Behavior

4/19/2018 - Texas Bar Owner Takes Down Sign With Racial Slur Following Facebook Posts, Insists It Wasn’t Meant to Be ‘Racial’

4/18/2018 - Trump Tweet About Immigrant ‘Breeding’ Invokes White Supremacist Rhetoric

4/18/2018 - Atlanta’s Brian Tyree Henry Is More Than Just Your Paper Boi

4/18/2018 - White Actor Says He Can Play Black Character Because He Raps and Comes From ‘Urban Background’ 

4/18/2018 - Bernie Sanders Agrees With Cardi B’s Money Moves

4/18/2018 - True to the Game Is What I’d Expect to Happen if Tyler Perry Directed an Episode of Power

4/18/2018 - This Photo of Former FBI Director James Comey, Ghostface and Method Man Is Really Weird

4/18/2018 - The Mic Is Open: Poet Dabriel Fulton Is Giving Voice to All

4/18/2018 - Wait, CIA Director Mike Pompeo Met With Kim Jong Un?

4/18/2018 - Mark Your Calendars and Line Up Your Sick Day Excuses: Black Panther Hits Homes on May 8

4/18/2018 - Eric Holder Talks Like He’s Running for President

4/18/2018 - These Older Black Ladies Aren’t Here for Taylor Swift’s ‘September’

4/18/2018 - Watch: Philly District Attorney Wants to Grant Meek Mill a New Trial but Judge Keeps Him in Jail

4/18/2018 - Kobe Bryant Directs New BodyArmor Ads That Come for Gatorade’s Salty-Sweet Ass

4/18/2018 - Why Saying ‘One Bad Apple Doesn’t Spoil the Bunch’ About Starbucks Misses the Point Entirely

4/18/2018 - University of North Texas Dining Hall Employee Fired After Labeling Student’s Receipt With N-Word

4/18/2018 - Episode 10: The Memphis Sanitation Strike Ends

4/18/2018 - This Invasion of Privacy Manicure Exists, and We Have Questions

4/18/2018 - 12 Lawyers and Counting Have Passed on Working for Toxic Trump

4/18/2018 - Milwaukee Civil Rights Icon Vel Phillips Dead at 94

4/18/2018 - Either Teddy Perkins or Tom Brady Threatened Porn Actress Stormy Daniels

4/18/2018 - Crazy, Sexy, Cardi: What Was Cardi B Really Saying With Her TLC-Inspired ‘Boachella’ Look?

4/18/2018 - A Comprehensive List of Places That Should Also Close for 24 Hours for Racial-Bias Training

4/18/2018 - Virginia School District Investigating Video Showing 7-Year-Old Being Bullied on School Bus 

4/18/2018 - Calling All Black Designers! Harlem Fashion Week Auditions Are Open 

4/18/2018 - Georgia Man Arrested, Charged With Hurling Racial Slurs at Black Teacher in Road Rage

4/18/2018 - Body Pulled Out of Ocean Identified as 12-Year-Old Ciera Hart

4/17/2018 - #DianteYarber: California Cops Gun Down Father of 3 in Hail of Bullets. His Crime? Sitting in Walmart’s Parking Lot

4/17/2018 - Thanks to a Glitch on the IRS Website, You Now Have an Extra Day to File Your Taxes

4/17/2018 - Former First Lady Barbara Bush Dead at 92

4/17/2018 - #NetNeutrality: Mignon Clyburn, Biggest Defender of Open Internet, Stepping Down From FCC

4/17/2018 - Donald Trump Hates Jeff Sessions So Much, He Is Now in Support of Legalized Marijuana

4/17/2018 - Tracy Morgan and TBS Dedicate Refurbished Marcy Playground in Brooklyn, NY, in Honor of The Last O.G.

4/17/2018 - Exclusive: Inside the Deadly South Carolina Prison Riot Where 7 Inmates Were Killed

4/17/2018 - FDA Launches Investigation Regarding Professor Who Gave Unauthorized Herpes Vaccine to Patients in Caribbean and Illinois: Report

4/17/2018 - I Don’t Trust White People in ‘Black’ Spaces. I Don’t Call the Cops on Them, but Perhaps I Should

4/17/2018 - Starbucks to Close All Stores Across the US for ‘Racial-Bias Education’ Training Following the Arrest of 2 Black Men

4/17/2018 - School Daze and Drugstore Love: Get Beyoncé’s Coed-Inspired Coachella Look

4/17/2018 - I Flew 1st Class for the 1st Time as an Adult. I Feel Like a Different Person

4/17/2018 - Soul on Ice: Beyoncé’s Ivy Park Honors Figure Skating of Harlem 

4/17/2018 - How the Pulitzer Board Chose Kendrick Lamar

4/17/2018 - Scott Pruitt Is the Most Baller EPA Administrator the World Has Ever Known

4/17/2018 - James Comey Cites LeBron James as Role Model; Here’s Why King James Is Most Likely Cool on Comey

4/17/2018 - Here Are the House Races Where Sinclair Broadcast’s Propaganda Could Have the Biggest Impact

4/17/2018 - White Woman Facing Charges for Lunging at and Striking Pregnant Black Servicewoman at Georgia Restaurant

4/17/2018 - Oh, Nooow Y’all Want to Boycott Starbucks? I Been Trying to Get Y’all to Do That for 15 Years!

4/17/2018 - Are We There Yet? Coachella’s Couture Has Us Fiending for the Heat

4/17/2018 - UN Ambassador Nikki Haley Claims Russia Sanctions Coming; Trump Says No, They Aren’t

4/17/2018 - The Nonapology Guide: Black-Woman Edition

4/17/2018 - Around-the-Way Girl: Meet Adut Akech, Italian Vogue’s Cover Girl Next Door

4/17/2018 - New Footage Shows Cops Thought Stephon Clark Was Playing Dead, Waited Almost 5 Minutes to Help Him

4/17/2018 - Tina Knowles-Lawson Was Worried That Coachella’s Predominantly White Audience Would Be ‘Confused’ by Beyoncé’s Performance

4/17/2018 - Want Beychella-Proof Brows? Giselle Soto’s Got the Secret to Great Arches

4/17/2018 - Video of Massachusetts Cops Punching Black Harvard Student Sparks Outrage

4/16/2018 - There’s Nothing Wrong With Having Dating Preferences

4/16/2018 - Doing the Most for the Least: Michael Cohen, Fixer

4/16/2018 - NRA Admits to Taking Money From Russian Contributors

4/16/2018 - Dear White People Returns to Netflix for Another Season on May 4

4/16/2018 - John Lewis Is a Living Legend, and We’d Better Cherish Him While We Can

4/16/2018 - I Had No Idea a Pulitzer Prize for Music Existed Until Kendrick Lamar Won One for Damn.

4/16/2018 - Vince Staples Calls R. Kelly a ‘Child Molester’

4/16/2018 - Closet Case: Fashion Psychologist Dawnn Karen Styles From the Inside Out 

4/16/2018 - Think Like a Man, Harass a Woman? Steve Harvey Sued for Blindsiding a Sexual Assault Survivor

4/16/2018 - Damn. You Can Call Kendrick Lamar a Pulitzer Prize Winner Now

4/16/2018 - Lawyers Leach Millions From Prince’s Estate While His Family Hasn’t Seen a Dime: Report

4/16/2018 - Dear White People: Please Stop Doing Silly Racist Shit. Discovering New Things to Boycott Is Exhausting

4/16/2018 - Virginia Man Shoots Himself in His Leg, Blames Injury on 2 Black Men

4/16/2018 - Watch: Starbucks Involved in Another Racist Incident

4/16/2018 - Even the Philly DA Thinks Meek Mill Should Get a New Trial, but the Judge Still Won’t Let Him Go

4/16/2018 - Exclusive: R. Kelly Likes Women to Be Like ‘His Puppy, His Mother or His Daughter,’ Says His Latest Accuser

4/16/2018 - Iyanla Vanzant Has Hazel-E Read Her Lyrics to Famous Black Women, and Twitter Pops Its Butt in Laughter

4/16/2018 - 5 Takeaways From James Comey’s Petty-Ass Interview

4/16/2018 - From Starbucks to Hashtags: We Need to Talk About Why White Americans Call the Police on Black People

4/16/2018 - Philadelphia Starbucks Manager Who Called Police on 2 Black Men Decides to Leave Company in ‘Mutual’ Decision: Report

4/16/2018 - DC Police Now Have to Learn Black History. Will It Curb Brutality?

4/16/2018 - Always on Point: Fashion Stylist Dione Davis

4/16/2018 - I Went to UC Berkeley and Apparently Saw More Black People Than Anybody Ever Has There

4/16/2018 - Beyoncé Announces Scholarship for HBCUs Following Historic, Iconic Coachella Performance

4/16/2018 - Don’t Disrespect Our Anthems: 6 Black Songs Off-Limits to Taylor Swift and Other White Musicians

4/16/2018 - New Accuser Says R. Kelly Gave Her an STD 

4/16/2018 - 10 Common (and Dumb) Criticisms of Beyoncé That Are Actually Compliments

4/16/2018 - Beyoncé x Balmain = Best Coachella Homecoming Ever

4/16/2018 - Bill Cosby Accuser Andrea Constand to Return Monday for Testimony

4/16/2018 - Meghan Markle’s Nephew Developing Weed Strain ‘Markle’s Sparkle’ Just in Time for Your Royal-Wedding Watch-Party Needs 

4/15/2018 - Erica Garner Posthumously Wins Shorty Award for Social Media Activism

4/15/2018 - Washington, DC, May Give 16-Year-Olds Right to Vote for President

4/15/2018 - Michigan Man Faces Attempted-Murder Charges for Shooting at 14-Year-Old Who Asked for Directions

4/15/2018 - Starbucks Witness: Implicit Bias Exists and White People Need to Speak Up When They See It

4/15/2018 - Watch: Terry Larrier Is Walking by Faith, Not Sight

4/15/2018 - All Hail #Beychella: Beyoncé Makes History at Coachella

4/15/2018 - Starbucks CEO Apologizes, Says He Wants to Meet With the Black Men Arrested in Philly

4/15/2018 - Birthday Boy

4/14/2018 - Philly Police Chief Cop-splains Why 2 Black Men Were Cuffed in Starbucks Viral Video Incident

4/14/2018 - How Physics Works and Other Things I Learned at All Star Code’s 5th-Anniversary Celebration

4/14/2018 - Head of Russia Probe Says He’s Ready to Go if the President Gives Him the Boot

4/14/2018 - Thousands of South Africans Say Farewell to ‘Mama’ Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in Soweto

4/14/2018 - Ready for That Jelly? Beyoncé to Reunite With Destiny’s Child at Coachella

4/14/2018 - April Ryan Receives Fresh Death Threats After Asking if Trump Will ‘Step Down’

4/14/2018 - Los Angeles Times Union Finds Long-Standing Racial Pay Gap

4/13/2018 - Trump Orders Retaliation Strikes Against Syria 

4/13/2018 - Shook: After Cohen Raids, Trump’s Lawyers Reportedly No Longer Want Him to Talk to Mueller

4/13/2018 - White Nationalist Richard Spencer Just Got Kicked Off Facebook

4/13/2018 - In HBO’s Problem Areas, Wyatt Cenac Explores Policing and Leaves Trump to Everyone Else

4/13/2018 - Can We Talk? Viola Davis Speaks of Survival at the Power of Women Luncheon 

4/13/2018 - Tale of the Tape: Nicki Minaj vs. Cardi B

4/13/2018 - Power of Women: Tarana Burke Brings Message of Strength to New York City

4/13/2018 - Uncles, Ranked

4/13/2018 - Jennifer Hart Was Drunk When She Drove Family, Including Adopted Children, Off a California Cliff: Report 

4/13/2018 - Texas State University and the War on Whiteness

4/13/2018 - Shaquille O’Neal Once Had His Credit Card Declined While Trying to Spend $70,000 at Walmart

4/13/2018 - The Seattle Seahawks Pass on Colin Kaepernick to Sign a Quarterback Who Has Never Played in an NFL Game

4/13/2018 - A List of Things I’d Rather See Taylor Swift Cover Than Earth, Wind & Fire’s ‘September’

4/13/2018 - ‘Bodak Yellow’ on Your Back: Cardi B x Fashion Nova Drops in October

4/13/2018 - Ladies and Gentlemen: Miss Grace Jones 

4/13/2018 - Renowned Poet and Activist Eccentrich Richardson Rebuilds After Heartbreaking Loss

4/13/2018 - Trump Set to Pardon Lying-Ass Scooter Libby: Report

4/13/2018 - Judge of Characters: Can White People Do Black Hair?

4/13/2018 - The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Apologetically Black Friday

4/13/2018 - Black Teen Who Won Full Ride to 20 Colleges Wants Apology From Reporter Who Called His Effort 'Obnoxious'

4/13/2018 - The Petty War Waged by Powerful White Men and Why Trump Stays Losing on Twitter, Explained

4/13/2018 - Black Teen Who Missed Bus to School Gets Shot at While Trying to Ask for Directions 

4/13/2018 - Tracing Your Roots: Help! My Great-Granddad’s Trail Ran Cold

4/13/2018 - Watch: A Chef Who Grew From the Concrete Jungle

4/13/2018 - I’m the Son of an Oklahoma Schoolteacher, and the Way They’re Treated Is a Crime

4/13/2018 - The Glow Up Anthem of the Week: Cardi B’s ‘Money Bag’

4/13/2018 - Devonte Hart’s Biological Aunt Fought for Custody and Was Denied: Report

4/13/2018 - #NetNeutrality: Where Are We Now?

4/13/2018 - Arizona 17-Year-Old Saves Little Sisters From Burning Home

4/13/2018 - Lorna M. Mahlock Could Be the 1st Black Woman to Serve as Brigadier General in the Marine Corps 

4/13/2018 - Taylor Swift Just Disrespected Earth, Wind & Fire With Her Cover of ‘September’

4/12/2018 - James Comey Spills the Tea on Donald Trump and His Pee 

4/12/2018 - Why Would You Willingly Have Sex With Donald Trump? 

4/12/2018 - Dry Snitchin’: Trump Doorman Unofficially Confirms President’s Love Child With Former Housekeeper

4/12/2018 - Does Tristan Thompson Have More Side Chicks or Post Moves? (An Investigation)

4/12/2018 - Brittney Cooper Talks Beyoncé, White Feminists and Black Women’s Oh-So-Eloquent Rage

4/12/2018 - Announcer Claims Russell Westbrook Is ‘Out of His Cotton-Picking Mind’

4/12/2018 - Watch: Embracing the Otherness With Unreal’s Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

4/12/2018 - This Is Probably My Last Day at The Root Before Janet Jackson Hires Me as a Backup Dancer

4/12/2018 - Watch: Denzel Washington Raps His Favorite Cardi B Song

4/12/2018 - Seattle Seahawks Postpone Colin Kaepernick Workout Over the Former Quarterback’s Protest Stance: Report 

4/12/2018 - Parkland, Fla., Teacher Who Said He’d Carry Weapon on Campus if Allowed Left His Loaded Gun in Public Bathroom

4/12/2018 - White North Carolina Candidate Who Once Attended Fish Fry Believes He Has Invitation to Cookout

4/12/2018 - R&B Singer Sabrina Claudio Apologizes (We Guess) for Derogatory Comments Targeting Black Women

4/12/2018 - How to Get Some Big-Ass Lashes in 3 Moves

4/12/2018 - ‘Diversity of Thought’ Is Just a Euphemism for ‘White Supremacy’

4/12/2018 - Why We Don’t Trust White People’s Potato Salad, Explained

4/12/2018 - Watch: Feeling Insecure or Grown-ish? Go Behind the Scenes With Issa and Yara

4/12/2018 - Mad Hatters: B.M. Franklin Has Your Custom Crowns

4/12/2018 - Russian TV Mockingly Prepares for Nuclear War With Real Nuclear-War Instructions 

4/12/2018 - Watch: Grown-ish’s Trevor Jackson Speaks in Emoji

4/12/2018 - Neighbor’s Father Called 911 After Hart Child Jumped out of Window and Begged for Help Months Before Fatal Car Crash

4/12/2018 - Of Art and Plunder: Why Black Curators Are Still Shut Out of the Art World—and Why It Matters

4/12/2018 - The Voices Missing From #MeToo: Experiencing Sexual Assault as Butch

4/12/2018 - The Difference Between Soul Food and Southern Cuisine, Explained

4/12/2018 - Diet and Depression: Are They BFFs? 

4/12/2018 - 8-Year-Old Girl Thwarts Attempted Kidnapping at US-Mexico Border

4/12/2018 - Police Officer Who Shot and Killed Washington, DC, Motorcyclist Terrence Sterling Is Fighting to Keep His Job

4/12/2018 - Black-by-Injection White Woman Martina Big Is Now Known as ‘Malaika Kubwa’ After Kenyan Baptism

4/12/2018 - Accused Parkland, Fla., School Shooter Wants to Donate Inheritance to Victims, Lawyers Say

4/11/2018 - Boy, You Done Messed Up

4/11/2018 - Deuces! Paul Ryan Calls It Quits, and Republicans Just Lost the House

4/11/2018 - Donald Trump Is the Great Value Frank Underwood; Michael Cohen Is His Doug Stamper

4/11/2018 - Bong-Jour: John Boehner Gets Brand-New, Now Supports Cannabis

4/11/2018 - How to Make White People Uncomfortable

4/11/2018 - Meet the White Nationalist Most Likely to Take Over for Paul Ryan Now That Ryan Is Retiring

4/11/2018 - Watch: To Understand How Harmful Juvenile Incarceration Is, Listen to This Poem

4/11/2018 - Fresh Faces: Issa Rae and Yara Shahidi Cover Marie Claire’s May Issue

4/11/2018 - No Shame: Me, Mariah and Bipolar Disorder

4/11/2018 - President Signs Executive Order Mandating That Poor People Work or Lose ‘Welfare’

4/11/2018 - NFL Safety Eric Reid Met With the Cincinnati Bengals and Everything Was Going Great Until They Got to the Protests 

4/11/2018 - Why Tristan Thompson Allegedly Cheating on Khloé Kardashian Might Be Good News for the Cleveland Cavaliers

4/11/2018 - Survivor’s Remorse: On Junot Díaz and the Collateral Damage of Trauma

4/11/2018 - Target Agrees to $3.74 Million Settlement After Being Accused of Using Criminal-Background Checks to Keep Blacks, Hispanics Out of Jobs 

4/11/2018 - Mark Zuckerberg Is a Grown-Ass (White) Man, so Stop Talking About Him Like He’s a Kid

4/11/2018 - Fenty Body Lava: Love It or Leave It?

4/11/2018 - Who Put ‘It’s OK to Be White’ Cards in Diapers at Target?

4/11/2018 - Stephon Clark’s Younger Brother Admits Mental Distress After Brother’s Death by Police

4/11/2018 - Los Angeles Lakers Guard Andre Ingram’s Inspired Night Proves It’s Never Too Late to Chase Your Dreams

4/11/2018 - Trump Is Not in Bed With Russia and He Proves It by Sending Mean Tweets!

4/11/2018 - It Must Be the Shoes: Super Heroic Can Bring Out the Hero in Every Kid

4/11/2018 - Mariah Carey Reveals Her Struggle With Bipolar Disorder

4/11/2018 - Son of NYPD Chief Was Arrested for Groping a Woman; He’s Still on the Force: Report

4/11/2018 - Eau de Bull, Again: Good Ole Boys Have ‘No Concerns About Anything Inappropriate’ in Environmental-Racism Case

4/11/2018 - NAN Convention Arrives Just as Civil Rights Progress Is Taking Its Biggest Hit in Decades  

4/11/2018 - Dolce & Gabbana Conquers the Met Opera House 

4/11/2018 - Louisiana Sheriffs’ Association Says 1,300 People Have Been Held in Jail for 4 Years Without Trial  

4/10/2018 - Will Trump-Friendly Sinclair Face Consequences for ‘Fake Stories’ Script?

4/10/2018 - Yvonne Staples of the Staple Singers Dead at 80

4/10/2018 - California Police Balk as Calls Grow Louder for LAPD to Change Its Use-of-Force Policy 

4/10/2018 - Cardi B Addresses the Naysayers Who Doubt Her Ability to Have a Baby and a Career

4/10/2018 - Black Lives Matter Issues Official Statement Regarding Fraudulent Social Media Accounts

4/10/2018 - What Your Urinal Stance Says About You

4/10/2018 - We Got the ‘Pynk’: Janelle Monáe’s Got Girl Power on Lock

4/10/2018 - Meet the Koch-Funded, White Supremacist Professor Teaching at Florida Atlantic University

4/10/2018 - OK, Which One of Y’all Black Women Is Out Here Letting Rachel Dolezal Do Your Hair?

4/10/2018 - If This Writing Thing Doesn’t Work Out, I’m Flipping Shoes for a Living

4/10/2018 - Kamilah Forbes’ Beautiful Struggle: Bringing Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me to the Stage

4/10/2018 - Colin Kaepernick Gets His Day: Former Quarterback Deposed in NFL Collusion Complaint

4/10/2018 - Cardi B Keeps It Refreshingly Real (as Always) for GQ 

4/10/2018 - Ray Lewis, the Lawd’s Favorite Linebacker, Claims That Odell Beckham Jr. Has Removed God From His Life

4/10/2018 - Body Recovered From Ocean Near California Cliff That Hart Family’s SUV Drove Over

4/10/2018 - US Cabinet Members, America’s Least Christian White People, Have a Regular Bible-Study Group

4/10/2018 - Spring Makeup? It’s Handled: Kerry Washington Curates New Palettes for Neutrogena

4/10/2018 - Watch: Bill Cosby’s Spokesman Shames Topless Protester

4/10/2018 - Sheriff of America’s Deadliest Police Force Caught on Camera Admitting Killing Suspects Is ‘Better Financially’

4/10/2018 - Tommy Hilfiger Adaptive Is Making Fashion More Accessible

4/10/2018 - Kellyanne Conway, Is This Your Husband? If So, You Need to Get Him Off Twitter ’Cause He’s Destroying Your Boss

4/10/2018 - The Power of a Woman: Tarana Burke Covers Variety Magazine

4/10/2018 - California Polytechnic State University Fraternity Chapter Faces Backlash Over Blackface Photo 

4/10/2018 - Report Details How Employees Scammed Howard University for Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars

4/10/2018 - ‘Stanky Leg’ Dancing Police Officer Goes Viral, but Some Aren’t Buying It

4/10/2018 - BET’s In Contempt Confronts America’s Unjust Legal System While Giving Us a Black Leading Lady

4/10/2018 - Eric B. Is President, but He Wants Miranda From Sex and the City to Be New York’s Next Governor

4/10/2018 - Dolce & Gabbana Take Over Manhattan  

4/10/2018 - Money Bag, Money Bag, Money Bag: Cardi B Becomes 1st Co-Host of The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon

4/10/2018 - Belgian Man Says He’s Always Wanted to Be Black, Moves to Senegal

4/10/2018 - Atlanta, Donald Glover and the Invisibility of Black Genius

4/10/2018 - Equal Pay Day: Will Women Ever Catch Up?

4/10/2018 - Conservative Sinclair News Host Resigns After Threatening to Sexually Assault Parkland, Fla., Student

4/10/2018 - Neighbor ‘Hesitant About Calling 911 Again’ After Stephon Clark Shooting Death

4/9/2018 - The Biggest ‘Black Lives Matter’ Page on Facebook Is a Fake: Report

4/9/2018 - Trump Is Big Mad Because the FBI Raided His Attorney’s Office

4/9/2018 - Atlanta’s New Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Is the Coldest

4/9/2018 - Dear White People: If a Memorial Dedicated to Lynchings of Black People Makes You Uncomfortable, Good

4/9/2018 - Topless Activist Who Ran Toward Bill Cosby Is Former Cosby Show Actress 

4/9/2018 - FBI Raids the Office of Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen, Seizes Info on Payments to Porn Star Stormy Daniels: Report

4/9/2018 - #Flint: Michigan Cuts Off Bottled-Water Distribution, Claiming Water Quality Is Restored

4/9/2018 - Sen. Tammy Duckworth Becomes 1st Senator to Give Birth While in Office

4/9/2018 - Watch: Black Panther’s Reign Just Won’t Let Up

4/9/2018 - You Can Stream Beyoncé’s Coachella Set, so Why Bother to Go?

4/9/2018 - Trump to Make Decision on Syria Soon. It Looks Like We ’Bout to Go to War, Y’all

4/9/2018 - 10 Reasons Facebook Declared Trump’s Favorite Black Women, Diamond and Silk, ‘Unsafe’

4/9/2018 - With Invasion of Privacy, Cardi B Crafted the Perfect Thot Bop Album

4/9/2018 - Florida Gov. Rick Scott Is Running for Senate and This Race Is Going to Get Messy

4/9/2018 - With ‘Nice for What,’ Drake Celebrates Some of Our Faves and Shows Us Why He Keeps Winning

4/9/2018 - She Got That Glow: Olivier Award Winner Sheila Atim Is One to Watch (and Hear)

4/9/2018 - Joy Reid and Black Twitter Offer Several Seats to Killer Mike

4/9/2018 - About That Time Tarana Burke Took on Tony Robbins ... and Won

4/9/2018 - Is Bill Cosby’s Time Up? Comedian’s Sexual Assault Retrial to Begin Monday

4/9/2018 - 20 Words and Phrases White People Just Ain’t Allowed to Say

4/9/2018 - A ‘Double Standard’: Black Parkland, Fla., Students Speak Out on Black Lives Matter Message Being Shut Down by School Days Before Shooting

4/9/2018 - When Lena Met Linnethia: Watch What Happened

4/9/2018 - You May Think Viral Video of Toddler Terrified by Easter Bunny Is Hilarious; Her Family Is Not So Amused

4/9/2018 - Monday Motivation: Get Out of Bed and Have a Good Hair Day!

4/9/2018 - Remains of Tuskegee Airman Missing for 73 Years May Have Finally Been Found

4/9/2018 - Real Housewives of New York’s Luann de Lesseps Accuses Russell Simmons of Groping Her in Elevator 

4/8/2018 - Fewer Black Journalists Seem to Want to Cover Their Own

4/8/2018 - Jesse Jackson to Black Journalists in 1984: ‘You Work in Pain’

4/8/2018 - Presidential Twitter Rant Doesn’t Include Mention of Man Who Died in Trump Tower Fire

4/8/2018 - Like Everything Else, Trump Wrecks Travel to Cuba, Too

4/8/2018 - #SaheedVassell Mentally Spiraled After NYPD Gunned Down His Best Friend 10 Years Ago

4/8/2018 - We Head South

4/8/2018 - T’Challa Gets the Hang of ‘Black Jeopardy’ via Becky’s Potato Salad

4/8/2018 - Cardi Got a Baby With Offset! Rapper Reveals Baby Bump on SNL

4/7/2018 - Robert Johnson Capes for Trump Over Black Unemployment Numbers (or Something)

4/7/2018 - Lakeith Smith Gets 65 Years for Death of 16-Year-Old Killed by Police

4/7/2018 - Lorde Looks to Get Her Ass Beat by Whitney Houston Fans

4/7/2018 - Bye! South Carolina Threatens to Secede (Again) 

4/7/2018 - Howard Students End Protest, Win Concessions From University

4/7/2018 - Watch: What It’s Like to Be a Black Woman in Hollywood

4/6/2018 - NYPD Releases Video, 911 Transcripts Related to Shooting of Saheed Vassell

4/6/2018 - Sex Changes Everything

4/6/2018 - Tiffany Haddish Will Executive-Produce a Comedy Series for HBO

4/6/2018 - Compton, Calif., Mayor Aja Brown Drops Congressional Bid

4/6/2018 - 10 Keeping-It-Realisms People Say That Mean Absolutely Nothing

4/6/2018 - Trump’s Advisers Have Tried to Teach Him How the Post Office Works but He Won’t Believe It

4/6/2018 - Brows on Flee? Would You Dare Rock Shaved Eyebrows?

4/6/2018 - Tyrone Hankerson Jr., Student Caught Up in Howard University Financial Scandal, Expected to Sue School for $10 Million

4/6/2018 - Everyone, Including Trump’s Wig, Is Protesting Now

4/6/2018 - Roseanne Doesn’t Normalize Trump-Supporting Racists. It’s a Documentary

4/6/2018 - 10 Reasons the N-Word Is the Greatest Word in the English Language

4/6/2018 - In Event Honoring MLK, Bernie Sanders’ Comments on Race and Barack Obama Raise Eyebrows

4/6/2018 - Judge of Characters: The Hatred of Black Women

4/6/2018 - Guess Who Thinks Black People Aren’t Trying Hard Enough to Succeed?

4/6/2018 - A Cardi B Invasion of Privacy Think Piece Because We’re All Waiting for One

4/6/2018 - The Glow Up Anthem of the Week: Lizzo’s ‘Fitness’

4/6/2018 - A Case for Educational Reparations for Formerly Incarcerated People

4/6/2018 - The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: The Wypipo Participation Trophy

4/6/2018 - Protect Your Glow: Don’t Sleep on Sunscreen!

4/6/2018 - No Signs of Foul Play in Death of CDC Employee Timothy Cunningham

4/6/2018 - Tracing Your Roots: Why Did My Family Bury the Past?

4/6/2018 - Fashion News From the Continent: Rwanda Rising 

4/6/2018 - NRA Spokeswoman Dana Loesch Says MLK Inspired Her, Has No Clue What MLK Actually Stood For

4/6/2018 - North Carolina Mother Upset After 2nd-Grade Son Is Sent Home With Paper Explaining ‘White Privilege’

4/6/2018 - Meet the Dooplex: A New Destination for Your ’Do

4/6/2018 - Michelle Obama Compares Trump Administration to Irresponsible Parent Who Lets Kids ‘Eat Candy All Day, Not Follow the Rules’

4/6/2018 - Cardi B Dropped Invasion of Privacy, and It’s Already a Hit

4/5/2018 - #StephonClark: Black Lives Matter Protests Will Continue ‘Until We Get Justice’

4/5/2018 - Robert Mueller Follows the Money by Questioning Russian Oligarchs 

4/5/2018 - Watch: Lena Waithe Was My Favorite Thing About Ready Player One

4/5/2018 - How Much Does Undermining Public Faith in Police Cost?

4/5/2018 - What Do Your Passwords Say About You?

4/5/2018 - Why Can’t Getting a Gun Be Like Getting a Driver’s License? A Conversation With NRA TV’s Colion Noir

4/5/2018 - 7 Rules for White People With Black Friends

4/5/2018 - Minneapolis Community Activist Shot Dead Just Outside Mother’s Front Door

4/5/2018 - Timothy Cunningham, the CDC Employee Missing Since February, Has Been Found Dead

4/5/2018 - Missing Your Edges? Razor Chic Salon in Atlanta Has a Solution

4/5/2018 - Scholly Is Helping Howard University Students With Financial Aid Issues Get Their Money Right

4/5/2018 - #BlackGirlMagic: Illinois 8th-Grader Raises $1,000 to Give Community a ‘Free Wash Day’ at Local Laundromat 

4/5/2018 - Women Write the World in All the Women in My Family Sing

4/5/2018 - Government Study: School Is Racist

4/5/2018 - Rapper Lil B Calls for a ‘Black Panther Moment’ in Video Game Culture

4/5/2018 - What We Mean When We Call White People ‘Colonizers’

4/5/2018 - I Am Kréyol: A Haitian-American Fashion Brand Hopes to Give Back to Its Homeland

4/5/2018 - Comedian Gary Owen Enlists Wife’s Help in Calling Black Comedian the N-Word

4/5/2018 - What Better Way to Break Saudi Arabia’s 35-Year Cinema Ban Than With a Black Panther Screening?

4/5/2018 - I Am Legend: Iman Talks Age and Diversity in April’s Harper’s Bazaar

4/5/2018 - Memphis, Tenn., Honors 1968 Sanitation Workers With I Am a Man Plaza

4/5/2018 - Star’s Scene-Stealing Miss Lawrence Sits Down With The Glow Up

4/5/2018 - Woman Fired for Flipping the Bird at Trump Motorcade Sues Former Employer 

4/5/2018 - Bye-ish: Black-ish Creator Kenya Barris Could Be Eyeing Netflix Deal

4/4/2018 - Dr. Seuss’ There’s a Wocket in My Pocket Recited to the Beat of Migos’ ‘Walk It Like I Talk It’ 

4/4/2018 - #StephonClark: When Reporting the News Becomes Personal

4/4/2018 - NYPD Officers Kill Mentally Challenged Black Man They Say Aimed a Metal Pipe at Them Like a Gun

4/4/2018 - ‘I Hope That Doesn’t Offend Anybody,’ Says White Man Who Repeatedly Uses the N-Word

4/4/2018 - I Tried Red Lobster’s Lobster and Cheddar Bay Biscuit Waffles and Lived to Tell About It

4/4/2018 - America Did This: An Open Letter to Memphis, Tenn.

4/4/2018 - Black-ish Explores the Decision Between Attending an HBCU or a PWI That So Many of Us Had to Make

4/4/2018 - Man Who Landed Fatal Punch After Victim Called Him the N-Word Is Found Guilty of 2nd-Degree Murder

4/4/2018 - A Sad Day for Hip-Hop: Kris Jenner Is Now ‘Momaging’ Kanye West and Travis Scott

4/4/2018 - How Sway? RG3 Just Got Signed to the Baltimore Ravens and Colin Kaepernick Still Doesn’t Have a Job?

4/4/2018 - Dave Chappelle Is Being Sued by Some Guy Who Threw a Banana Peel at Him

4/4/2018 - I’m Playing in an Alumni Basketball Game in May, and I Have No Regrets About Agreeing to Do This!

4/4/2018 - This 27-Year-Old Mayor Is Giving Away Money to Realize MLK’s Last, Most Radical Dream

4/4/2018 - April 4, 1968, as Told by Black Reporters

4/4/2018 - Teen Girl Was Sold to Pimp for $250 Before She Was Murdered: Report

4/4/2018 - Putting Their Heads Together: How Facebook’s Natural Hair Group Became Over 250,000 Strong (and Growing)

4/4/2018 - Watch: King’s Mountaintop, 50 Years Later

4/4/2018 - White Woman Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison for Racist Tirade Appears in Court With ... Cornrows 

4/4/2018 - EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Is Doing His Best to Make Joanne the Scammer Proud

4/4/2018 - Howard University Student in Financial Scandal: Life Ain’t Been No Crystal Stair

4/4/2018 - Parkland, Fla., Survivor Who Saved 20 Finally Released From Hospital 

4/4/2018 - From Most Hated to American Hero: The Whitewashing of Martin Luther King Jr.

4/4/2018 - After 90 Years, Maya Angelou’s Legacy Is Still Rising

4/4/2018 - Episode 9: ‘We’ve Gotta March Again.’ Sanitation Workers Remember Martin Luther King Jr.’s Last Battle Cry

4/4/2018 - In Peak White Privilege, Nurse Fired for Saying Stephon Clark ‘Deserved’ to Be Killed Raises Over $20,000 

4/4/2018 - Google Releases Amazing New Doodle in Honor of Maya Angelou’s 90th Birthday

4/3/2018 - Cardi B Releases New Single and ‘Bartier Cardi’ Video Days Before Her Debut Album Is Set to Drop

4/3/2018 - #Flint: As 4-Year Anniversary Nears, Water in Schools Still Shows Elevated Lead Levels

4/3/2018 - Donald Trump Won’t Take His Foot Off Jeff Sessions’ Neck

4/3/2018 - Judge Asks Potential Cosby Jurors About #MeToo Bias

4/3/2018 - Villanova’s Donte DiVincenzo Deletes Twitter Account After Users Find History of Offensive Tweets

4/3/2018 - Deport Dem! Trump Administration Imposes Quotas on Immigration Judges

4/3/2018 - Fabolous Domestic Violence Charges Detailed in Court Complaint: Report

4/3/2018 - New York Just Took a Major Step in Addressing the Link Between Domestic Violence and Guns

4/3/2018 - Supreme Court Deals Major Blow to Fight Against Police Brutality

4/3/2018 - Don Lemon Helped Me Come Out to My Mother and It Changed My Life Forever

4/3/2018 - University of Alabama Coach Nick Saban Done Wobbled Into LeBron James’ Barbershop and James Ain’t Happy

4/3/2018 - Missouri Boy Looking for Candy Finds Gun Instead, Accidentally Shoots and Kills 7-Year-Old Brother

4/3/2018 - Why Howard University (and What’s Happening There Right Now) Matters So Much

4/3/2018 - Dance Break! Yara Shahidi Covers T Singapore

4/3/2018 - For Chloe x Halle, Being on Grown-ish Is the Best and Smartest Marketing of Their Music Ever

4/3/2018 - Donald Trump Jr. Wore a ‘Deplorable’ Lapel Pin Because He’s a Jackass

4/3/2018 - Curl Hunting: Nai’vasha Johnson Is Young Hollywood’s Go-to Hairdresser 

4/3/2018 - After Standing Her Ground, a Young Mother and Environmental Activist Could Be Forced to Give Birth in Prison

4/3/2018 - Mama Said Knock You Out! Tyra Banks and Her Mom Team Up for a New Book

4/3/2018 - The White House Intern Class Looks Like the President’s Cabinet and His Dream for America

4/3/2018 - ‘Get Up! It’s Jesus’ Day!’ Mother Arrested After Allegedly Using Stun Gun to Wake Up Son for Easter Service 

4/3/2018 - Sister Act: Chloe x Halle Cover Nylon Magazine’s Music Issue

4/3/2018 - Watch: Officers Who Killed Stephon Clark Come From a Department Already Under Scrutiny

4/3/2018 - Watch: Roxanne Shanté Explains How She Created Hip-Hop Diss Records

4/3/2018 - Episode 8: Memphis Police Officer Guns Down 16-Year-Old #LarryPayne as Sanitation Strike Continues

4/3/2018 - ‘Unapologetic’ White Nationalist Podcast Host and Middle School Teacher Resigns

4/3/2018 - South African Government to Hold National Funeral in Honor of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

4/3/2018 - Woman Says She Was Attacked in Downtown Washington, DC, Restaurant for Supporting Donald Trump

4/2/2018 - Is Your Local News Station a Propaganda Machine? 

4/2/2018 - When He Talks That Talk and Walks That Walk

4/2/2018 - Sacramento, Calif., Sheriff Blames Deputy-Involved Hit-and-Run on ‘Professional Instigators’

4/2/2018 - Why Is the Judge in the Meek Mill Case Such a Damn Hater?

4/2/2018 - Mathew Knowles on Infamous Solange vs. Jay-Z Elevator Fight: ‘If You Know Solange, That’s Solange’

4/2/2018 - Watch: Teens March 50 Miles in Honor of Martin Luther King Jr.

4/2/2018 - Former Morehouse President and Obama HBCU Chief John Wilson Selected to Lead Diversity at Harvard

4/2/2018 - Regina King Was Awesome in Seven Seconds; Seven Seconds Was Not As Awesome as Regina King

4/2/2018 - I Am Queen Mary, Denmark’s 1st Public Monument Honoring a Black Woman, Recalls a Fierce Rebel

4/2/2018 - Michael Rapaport Is the Worst Kind of White Man

4/2/2018 - The Root, Very Smart Brothas and The Glow Up Went to Los Angeles to Get All Urban by Nature

4/2/2018 - Lagos Fashion Week: Emmy Kasbit Wins the Prize 

4/2/2018 - We Don’t Love Men Like Fabolous. We Just Hate Women

4/2/2018 - Trump Blasts Amazon, yet His Campaign Used It to Order Over $150,000 in Office Supplies: Report

4/2/2018 - Fox News Runs Story About Teacher’s ‘Anti-Trump Rant,’ Neglects to Mention That Teacher Was Stating Facts

4/2/2018 - Baby Girl ... Aaliyah for MAC Launches June 20!

4/2/2018 - Donald Trump Sounds Crazy at Easter Egg Roll, Tells Children the Military Is at a Level They’ve Never Seen Before

4/2/2018 - Jesus, Imma Let You Finish, but Judas Had the Best Performance in Jesus Christ Superstar Live!

4/2/2018 - Liberté, Egalité, Lingerie: Model Amber Tolliver Is Leveling the Field of Luxury Lingerie With Liberté

4/2/2018 - Trump Invited Vladimir Putin to the White House; Expect the President to Change His Relationship Status on Facebook

4/2/2018 - South African Anti-Apartheid Activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Dies at 81

4/2/2018 - Ex-Georgia Cop Accused of Stealing $150,000 at Traffic Stops and Handing Money Over to Drug Dealers

4/2/2018 - Church Overflow Rooms: Do You Hate Them or Nah?

4/2/2018 - Tennessee Store Clerk Charged With Murder in Shooting of Black Teen for Allegedly Stealing Beer

4/2/2018 - How Does Your Garden Grow? My Hair Is a Garden Helps Black Girls Celebrate Their Hair

4/2/2018 - Easter Sunday Turns April Foolish as Blac Chyna Tries to Attack Someone With a Pink Stroller at Six Flags: Report

4/2/2018 - Fashion Models Are Changing–and It’s About a Lot More Than Clothes 

4/2/2018 - Authorities Acknowledge That Car Crash That Killed Hart Family May Have Been Intentional 

4/2/2018 - Ethan Couch, ‘Affluenza Teen’ Who Killed 4 While Driving Drunk, Set to Be Released From Jail 

4/1/2018 - Media Attention Turns to Laws That Excuse Fatal Police Shootings

4/1/2018 - #HUSitIn: Howard Students Occupying Administrative Building Say It’s Not Just About Money

4/1/2018 - Fabolous Acts a Total Donkey in Domestic Violence Episode Caught on Video

4/1/2018 - MLK’s White Girlfriend Speaks Out After All These Years

4/1/2018 - Champion

4/1/2018 - Did a Taylor Swift Script Dead Donald Glover’s Deadpool?

4/1/2018 - Report: Trump, GOP Seriously Considering Reparations to Attract Black Voters