8/31/2018 - Return of the Mack: How Does Momo Get Her Groove Back?

8/31/2018 - California Abolished Cash Bail But Created a New System of Inequality

8/31/2018 - Queen to Queen: Cicely Tyson’s Tribute to Aretha Franklin Was a Master Class in Black Excellence

8/31/2018 - Out of the Box: Logan Browning Talks Identity, Colorism and the Problem of Privilege 

8/31/2018 - Serena and Venus Meet in U.S. Open and We Already Know Who’ll Win (Spoiler Alert: It’s Us)

8/31/2018 - Minnesota House Candidate Kyle Greene Wants to Be Your N-Word

8/31/2018 - Are They Big Enough? Kanye Confronts 'Slidegate'

8/31/2018 - Michael Jackson’s 60th Birthday Celebration Was an Incredible Tribute to the King of Pop and His Fans

8/31/2018 - The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Farewell to the Queen

8/31/2018 - GirlTrek Takes Over The Root’s Instagram in Celebration of Black Women Coming Together in the Rocky Mountains for a #StressProtest

8/31/2018 - Bank of America Accused of Freezing Accounts of Customers Over Citizenship Inquiries

8/31/2018 - The Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace Pays Its Respect to Queen Aretha

8/31/2018 - Livestream: Aretha Franklin’s Funeral in Detroit

8/31/2018 - Pretty, Funny: Comedian Janelle James Ain’t No Joke

8/31/2018 - Man Indicted for Allegedly Stealing Teen’s ‘Make America Great Again’ Hat

8/31/2018 - Apparently, Ron DeSantis and Racist Republicans Love White Facebook

8/30/2018 - Cardi B’s Price Just Went Up: Report

8/30/2018 - Colin Kaepernick - 1, NFL - 0

8/30/2018 - Making Miss Black America: As the Pageant Turns 50, an Early Contestant Looks Back

8/30/2018 - Loc’ed Out: In Jamaica, a Battle for Equality Rests on a 5-Year-Old Girl’s Head

8/30/2018 - Holding History Hostage: One Family’s Quiet Attempt to Erase Their Father’s Part in Emmett Till’s Story

8/30/2018 - Omarosa’s Books Sales Are Dropping Faster Than a Kardashian at NBA All-Star Weekend

8/30/2018 - Pennsylvania Prisons Locked Down Indefinitely After 29 Employees Hospitalized

8/30/2018 - Yeah, This Might Be Jason Whitlock’s Worst and Saddest Take Ever

8/30/2018 - Judge of Characters: Confronting Racism Does Not Make You Racist

8/30/2018 - The Schedule for Aretha Franklin’s Funeral Is the Most Optimistic Schedule I’ve Ever Seen in My Entire Black Funeral Life 

8/30/2018 - Can You Guess the Black Icons Who Wore These Hairstyles?

8/30/2018 - Chicago Officer Who Killed 17-Year-Old Laquan McDonald Breaks Silence for the 1st Time Since Fatal Shooting

8/30/2018 - Our Bodies Are Not Ready: Teyana Taylor Keeps That Same Energy for Agent Provocateur

8/30/2018 - Black Excellence Is Not Crazy: Viral Video Shows Richard Williams Creating Black Superheroes

8/30/2018 - Even in Death, John McCain Is Petty AF

8/30/2018 - Detroit Public Schools to Turn Off Water Due to Elevated Levels of Lead, Copper 

8/30/2018 - Failed Ferguson, Mo., Prosecutor Bob McCulloch Headlined a Conference for District Attorneys. It Did Not Go Well

8/30/2018 - You Had 'One Job': A Mesmerizing Release From Rising Artist TeaMarrr Disrupts the Dollhouse

8/30/2018 - When Harry Met Halle: Did Meghan's Royal Husband Always Have a Type?

8/30/2018 - Ex-Cop Convicted in Murder of 15-Year-Old Jordan Edwards Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison 

8/29/2018 - Trump Claims China Hacked Hillary Clinton's Email, the FBI Determines That Is a Lie (Maury Voice)

8/29/2018 - Kanye West Talks Trump, Cries and Promises Changes

8/29/2018 - An Open Letter From Harriet Tubman Asking You to Keep Her Name Out Your Mouth

8/29/2018 - Vermont's Only Black Female Lawmaker Withdraws Re-Election Bid After Racist Attacks

8/29/2018 - Donald Trump Does Not Want That Smoke From Andrew Gillum

8/29/2018 - LeBron James Had to Learn to Like White People

8/29/2018 - Black-ish Writer and Super Bowl Champ Charged With Insider Trading

8/29/2018 - Betty Shelby Is Teaching a Class on Surviving Killing an Unarmed Black Man. Here Are 10 Things She'd Be Better At

8/29/2018 - 4 Out of 5 Kennesaw State University Cheerleaders Who Protested During National Anthem Cut From 2018 Squad

8/29/2018 - Unapologetic: Activist and Author Charlene Carruthers Says Radical Movements Require Radical Honesty

8/29/2018 - Well That Didn't Take Long: GOP Opponent Warns Florida Not to 'Monkey This Up' by Voting for Andrew Gillum in Governor's Race

8/29/2018 - Cardi B Apologizes to Bernice King for 2015  'Real Housewives of the Civil Rights Movement' Parody

8/29/2018 - South Los Angeles Street Gets Renamed After Barack Obama

8/29/2018 - Men Like Rev. Alexander Santora Are What's Wrong With White People

8/29/2018 - Janet Jackson Celebrates Michael Jackson's 60th Birthday With 'Remember The Time' Inspired Video

8/29/2018 - Doing the Work: How Macy's Is Investing in Women and Minority-Owned Brands

8/29/2018 - Puerto Rico's Hurricane María Death Toll On Par With 9/11 Terrorist Attack

8/29/2018 - Not a Good Look? Nicki Minaj Reportedly Splits with Longtime Hairstylist Kim Kimble and Glam Squad

8/28/2018 - In an Upset, Andrew Gillum Wins Democratic Nomination for Florida Governor's Race

8/28/2018 - 11-Year-Old Fan Surprised by Drake at Hospital Gets Heart Transplant

8/28/2018 - Wendell Pierce Is a Black Man

8/28/2018 - Biographer: Mike Pence Believes God Wants Him to Be President

8/28/2018 - Fit for a Queen: Even in Death, Aretha Franklin Makes a Fashion Statement

8/28/2018 - Nia Long: 'I’ve Watched a Lot of Men Get Rich Off of the Films That I’ve Done'

8/28/2018 - Ex-Officer Who Killed 15-Year-Old Jordan Edwards Found Guilty of Murder

8/28/2018 - 9 Things I Learned (and One Thing I Didn't) From Robert Townsend's Fun and Informative Documentary, The Making of The Five Heartbeats 

8/28/2018 - AfroPunk Trivia: Separating the Afros From the Punks

8/28/2018 - 'This Is Personal': Steph Curry Advocates for Equal Pay in a Women's Equality Day Essay

8/28/2018 - Let's Talk About Lauryn Hill's Essay Where She Addresses Everything and Nothing at the Same Damn Time

8/28/2018 - Trump's Favorite Ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio Refuses to Call John McCain a Hero

8/28/2018 - Auntie Maxine's GOP Opponent to Speak With FBI After Tweeting Most Racist Fake Letter Ever

8/28/2018 - Betty Shelby, the Oklahoma Cop Who Killed Terence Crutcher, to Teach Class on 'Surviving the Aftermath' of Police Shootings

8/28/2018 - John McCain Was a White American Hero

8/28/2018 - New Licensing Requirements for New Jersey Braiders Remain Tangled in Legislation

8/28/2018 - Trump Googled Himself This Morning and Got Sad. Now the White House Is Looking Into Regulating the Search Engine

8/28/2018 - Cops Who Brutally Beat Mesa, Ariz., Man Cleared of Wrongdoing By Other Cops

8/28/2018 - You've Been Served: Serena William's Ladylike—and Winning!—US Open Look Speaks Volumes

8/28/2018 - Man Admits to Burning Black Man Alive in Letter to White Supremacists

8/28/2018 - At This Baltimore Summer Camp, All the Counselors Are Cops—But They Don't Tell Kids That Until the End

8/28/2018 - The Constitution Is for White People: Why White Bullets Are Worth More Than Black Lives

8/28/2018 - Mourners Can Pay Their R.E.S.P.E.C.T. to Aretha Franklin Today in Detroit

8/28/2018 - Lauryn Hill Addresses 'Common Misconceptions' and Plagiarism Allegations in 3,000 Word Medium Post

8/27/2018 - Beyoncé and Jay-Z Will Award Over $1 Million in Scholarships to 11 Lucky High School Seniors

8/27/2018 - The Gentrification Administration: Trump’s Homies Love Making Poor People Homeless

8/27/2018 - Fan Who Rushed the Stage at Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s On the Run II Show Charged With Battery

8/27/2018 - AfroPunk Brooklyn 2018 Was an Explosion of Style

8/27/2018 - ‘In My Feelings’ Was the Song of the Summer According to Spotify

8/27/2018 - Black Breastfeeding Week: Why Doctors Insist the Breast Is Best

8/27/2018 - Bobby Brown Shares His Thoughts on Kanye Using Photo of Whitney's Bathroom: ‘Long as He Stays Clear From Me, He’ll Be Safe’

8/27/2018 - The First Mystery in Season 3 of True Detective Is WTF Is Up With Mahershala Ali’s Wig?

8/27/2018 - Black Patients on Pain Medication Are More Likely to Be Tested for Illicit Drugs, New Study Finds

8/27/2018 - All Your Faves Are Problematic: Tiger Woods Wants People to Respect the Office of the President

8/27/2018 - Dear Everybody Involved With Creating Last Night’s Episode of Power, THANK YOU! Here’s My Night in GIFs

8/27/2018 - 'We Want H.E.R': R&B's Newest Star Talks Fame with Vogue, Takes Stage at AfroPunk

8/27/2018 - Video: Police Arrest Black Man for Loitering at His Own Apartment Complex

8/27/2018 - President Petty Responds to Pushback: White House Brings Flag Back to Half-Staff After John McCain's Death [Update]

8/27/2018 - The 'Merit' Myth: The White Lies About Race-Conscious College Admissions

8/27/2018 - Royalty Never Repeats Itself: Serena Williams Comments on the French Open Catsuit Controversy

8/27/2018 - Mahershala Ali, Your True Fiancé-in-Waiting, Will Star in Season 3 of HBO's True Detective

8/27/2018 - Janet, Lena, Latifah and More: Black Girls Rock! Returns to the Red Carpet

8/27/2018 - The VSB Group Chat: Insecure Season 3, Episode 3, 'Backwards-Like' Recap

8/27/2018 - Spike Lee Responds to Boots Riley's Critique of BlacKkKlansman: 'We Need Police'

8/27/2018 - No Respect? Ahead of Her Funeral, PETA Asks Aretha Franklin's Estate to Donate Her Furs

8/27/2018 - Brother of Kalief Browder Endorses Cynthia Nixon for New York Governor

8/26/2018 - Texas Prison System Slashes Price of Inmate Phone Calls by 77 Percent, Contractor to Set Up Video Phones

8/26/2018 - Jemele Hill and ESPN Get It Over With: Report

8/26/2018 - Someone Jumped Up to Get Beatdown on Stage During Beyoncé and Jay-Z's On The Run II Tour

8/26/2018 - John McCain Requests Former Rivals, Barack Obama, George W. Bush to Eulogize Him at Funeral

8/25/2018 - Ex-Trump Doorman Who Claims Trump Has Love Child Is Now Free to Tell His Story: Report

8/25/2018 - Tavis Smiley's Lawsuit Against PBS Isn't Going Too Well

8/25/2018 - Fatayi Jomoh Was Handcuffed for Bouncing a Basketball, Now His Mother Is Speaking Out

8/25/2018 - Georgia Board of Elections Nixes Plans to Shut Down 7 of 9 Polling Places in Majority Black County

8/25/2018 - Prosecutors Say Story of White Man Peeing on 5-Year-Old Black Girl Was Fabricated

8/24/2018 - White Woman Who Falsely Accused 2 Black Football Players of Rape Rolls Her Eyes Throughout Sentencing Hearing

8/24/2018 - 5th Grader Punished at School for Calling His Teacher ‘Ma’am’

8/24/2018 - 1-800-WYPIPO: Breaking Down Trump’s Tweets About Black Folks

8/24/2018 - Why You Just Can’t Trust a Man With Weak Dap, Explained

8/24/2018 - Top Trump Official Granted Immunity: This Is the ‘Ultimate Nightmare Scenario for Trump’

8/24/2018 - If Beale Street Could Talk Gets a Harlem Homecoming for Its Premiere

8/24/2018 - Is Racism the Reason Why HBCUs Have to Pay More for Loans Than Other Schools?

8/24/2018 - Shut It Down: Rihanna Will Close New York Fashion Week With an Immersive Savage x Fenty Show

8/24/2018 - The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: An Outlet for Repressed Whiteness

8/24/2018 - Arizona Sen. John McCain to Stop Cancer Treatment

8/24/2018 - President Trump and Jeff Sessions Continue Their Reality Show Reunion Brawl on Twitter

8/24/2018 - No Love: Serena’s Superhero Look Is Being Shut Down by the French Open

8/24/2018 - Still Waiting for a Seat at the Table: What's It Really Like to Be Black in the Fashion Industry?

8/24/2018 - Man Accused in Nia Wilson's Killing Gets Upgraded Charge, Could Face Death Penalty

8/24/2018 - 10 Probably Not All That Interesting Reasons Why I Got the Title of My Book Tattooed on My Arm

8/24/2018 - Do Police Shield White Nationalists While Targeting Counter-Protesters?

8/24/2018 - For the Fellas: Guess What? The Fenty Effect Works for Men, Too!

8/24/2018 - Donald Trump's Top 10 Most Racist Conspiracy Tweets

8/24/2018 - St. Louis Teen Shot Shortly After Posting 'I Made it to 17' on Facebook Page

8/24/2018 - Drinking Games: Issa Rae Plays 'Never Have I Ever' with Harper's Bazaar

8/23/2018 - Spike Lee Compares David Duke’s Favorite President’s Administration to the KKK

8/23/2018 - 2 Men Who Attacked DeAndre Harris in a Charlottesville Parking Garage Last Year Have Been Sentenced to Prison 

8/23/2018 - Very Unstable Genius Says If You Impeach Him ‘Everybody Would Be Very Poor’

8/23/2018 - Trump Insults Attorney General Jeff Sessions and King Keebler Fights Back

8/23/2018 - We’re #1: Why Beauty Bakerie’s Biggest Innovation Was Listing Their Darkest Shade First

8/23/2018 - Phenomenal Women: On the Transformative Power of Black Women

8/23/2018 - Your Lifetime Woman Crush, Janet Jackson, to Receive Honor at Black Girls Rock

8/23/2018 - Flint Still Doesn’t Have Clean Drinking Water but Trump Is Tweeting About White South African Farmers

8/23/2018 - Beauty Is Beauty: Pose's Indya Moore Lands Coveted Contracts with IMG and William Morris

8/23/2018 - Audio Recording Catches Georgia School Superintendent Using N-Word Like It's 1799

8/23/2018 - Why Do Black Republicans Usually Have Such Bad Haircuts? An Important Exposé

8/23/2018 - Trump’s Fox News Interview Sounds a Lot Like a Criminal Trying to Convince His Cellmate He’s Innocent

8/23/2018 - Splitting Hairs: Celeb Hairstylists Kim Kimble and Tokyo Stylez Sparked a Shady Debate Over Legitimacy 

8/23/2018 - White Man Accused of Urinating on 5-Year-Old Black Girl, Calling Her N-Word, Innocent of Allegations: Prosecutors [Updated]

8/23/2018 - Rap Song That Advocated Violence Against Police Not Protected by First Amendment: Pennsylvania High Court 

8/23/2018 - 'He's Ruining Women': R. Kelly Accuser Details Gaslighting, Grooming and Abuse in New Interview

8/23/2018 - Southeast D.C. School Finally Removes Slaveholder's Name

8/23/2018 - ‘The Ultimate Clap Back’ Does It for the Culture

8/23/2018 - We've All Heard Somebody Be Called 'Uncouth,' But Have You Ever Heard Anybody Referred to as Being 'Couth'? 

8/23/2018 - Jury Finds Getaway Driver Guilty in Chicago Teen Hadiya Pendleton's Murder

8/23/2018 - African American Film Critics Association Teams Up With Turner Classic Movies for The Black Experience on Film

8/23/2018 - Mama Said Knock You Out: Serena Williams Channels LL Cool J in a New Commercial for Chase

8/23/2018 - From the New Edition Story to KIN: How Myles Truitt Is Leaving His Mark in Hollywood

8/22/2018 - Candace Owens Gets Dragged for Politicizing the Death of an Iowa College Student

8/22/2018 - Cardi B Will Be Off the Rip in New Sketch Comedy Series

8/22/2018 - #MeToo: Michaela Coel Reveals She Was Sexually Assaulted While Writing Chewing Gum

8/22/2018 - Yeah, Telling Black Women ‘To Carry Pepper Spray’ to Fight Street Harassment Is Missing the Point

8/22/2018 - On the Court in Off-White: Serena Williams and Virgil Abloh Launch Their Nike ‘Queen’ Collection

8/22/2018 - Sarah Huckabee Sanders Continues Her Trash Legacy During 100th Press Briefing

8/22/2018 - In a ’90s Kind of World, I’m Glad I Had My Girls: Living Single at 25 and Me

8/22/2018 - Peak Beckery: Brooklyn Woman Steals from Local Black-Owned Bakery, Then Calls Her Actions ‘Harmless’

8/22/2018 - The Shade: Cut Out the Hard Contour and Get Into Some Subtle Sculpting with Joan Smalls 

8/22/2018 - Senate Candidate Beto O’Rourke Defends NFL Players Right to Kneel: ‘I Can Think of Nothing More American’

8/22/2018 - Spike Lee Unveils Previously Unreleased Prince Song, ‘Mary Don’t You Weep’ for BlacKkKlansman

8/22/2018 - Blacks Are Not a Monolith, But I'll Bet Al Sharpton Misspelling 'Respect' on Live Television Made Every Last One of Us Cringe

8/22/2018 - Trump's Whole Team Is Trash: Top Adviser Hosted White Nationalist at Birthday Party

8/22/2018 - Restaurant Serves Drink Called 'The Tuskegee Experiment,' the Evilest, Most Racist Cocktail Ever

8/22/2018 - Freeway of Love: Mary Kay's Top Sellers Are Planning a Pink Cadillac Tribute at Aretha's Funeral

8/22/2018 - Kansas City Reporter Lisa Benson Says She Was Fired From TV Station for Sharing an Article About White Privilege

8/22/2018 - Michael Cohen's Lawyer, Lanny Davis, Is a Hero, But He Also Wants America to Run Him His Money

8/22/2018 - The VSB Group Chat: Insecure Season 3, Episode 2, 'Familiar-Like' Recap

8/22/2018 - It's Official: White Feminists Are the Worst Wypipo in the World!

8/22/2018 - Fashion for All: Old Navy Is Moving Plus Sizes Back Into Its Stores

8/22/2018 - 'Wakanda and Chill' Will Soon Be a Reality 

8/22/2018 - 'Not Financially Enrolled': The Crisis at Clark Atlanta University

8/22/2018 - White Kansas City Security Guard Placed on Leave After Asking Black Bartender to Make a 'Trayvon Martini'

8/22/2018 - No, Your Pretend Boyfriend of 10 Years Will Not Be the Next James Bond

8/22/2018 - When the Beat Drops Proves That Bucking Started With Black Women and Thrived in Atlanta's LGBT Community

8/22/2018 - Michelle Obama Gets Personal in New 'When We All Vote' Message

8/21/2018 - Aretha Franklin, With a Reported Net Worth of $80 Million, Died With No Will

8/21/2018 - Netflix Announces Tiffany Haddish Comedy Special for 2019

8/21/2018 - Trump's Former Lawyer and Fixer Michael Cohen Pleads Guilty to 8 Felony Charges, Including Hush Money Payment to Porn Star

8/21/2018 - Black Teen Assaulted Over Confederate Flag at Kid Rock Concert in Oregon

8/21/2018 - Watch: Stars on the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards’ Red Carpet Put Some R-E-S-P-E-C-T on Aretha’s Name

8/21/2018 - Trump's Former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort Found Guilty on 8 Charges

8/21/2018 - 2 Chainz, 2 Rings: How Rap Royalty Celebrated a Longtime Love at Miami's Versace Mansion [Updated]

8/21/2018 - This Is How a Black Woman Unravels 

8/21/2018 - Save Sundress Season! Rihanna Just Reminded Us of the Summer We're Not Having

8/21/2018 - It's About to Go Down! Trump's Personal Fixer Michael Cohen Reaches Tentative Plea Deal: Report

8/21/2018 - What is a Fuckboy and How Does One Avoid Them?

8/21/2018 - Racist White Man Allegedly Stabs Black Man to Death, Then Asks Police for a Ride Home

8/21/2018 - 'There Is No Model Survivor': Tarana Burke Warns Against the Derailing of #MeToo

8/21/2018 - So Long, 'Silent Sam': Demonstrators Topple Confederate Statue at UNC Chapel Hill

8/21/2018 - Ex-New York Giants Wide Receiver Victor Cruz Retires From NFL, Will Join ESPN as Analyst

8/21/2018 - Why Does Violence in Chicago Attract So Much Attention, Even Though It's Not the Murder Capital of The U.S.?

8/21/2018 - Trump Just Gave the Most Racist Compliment to a Hispanic-American Border Patrol Agent 

8/21/2018 - Non-Compliant: The War Against Black Students' Hairstyles Continues

8/21/2018 - Did Russians Hack the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards?

8/21/2018 - Father of Black Teen Shot in the Back by St. Louis PD Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit

8/21/2018 - North Carolina Middle School Teacher Suspended After Her Pole-Dancing Video Was Leaked

8/21/2018 - Face-Off: What Did Cardi B and Nicki Minaj Have in Common at the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards?

8/21/2018 - Yep, That's Right. I Do Not Like Ella Mai's 'Boo'd Up.' Mmhmm. Shonuff. I'm Lying

8/21/2018 - Educators Shouldn't Be Afraid to Teach the History of the N-Word

8/21/2018 - Florida High School Student Denied Lunch Because She Was 15 Cents Short 

8/21/2018 - Republican Senator Michael Williams Proves Why White Supremacy Will Never Die

8/21/2018 - Michigan Director of Health and Human Services to Stand Trial for Involuntary Manslaughter Over Flint Deaths 

8/21/2018 - Y'all Should Have Known Better Than To Task Madonna With The Aretha Franklin Tribute 

8/20/2018 - Sacramento Police Release Video of Cop Car Hitting Teen on Sidewalk, Knocking Him Into the Air

8/20/2018 - Cardi Has Arrived at the VMAs, and She's Snatched!

8/20/2018 - ‘Why You Got Your Guns Pointed at Me Though?’ ‘Because You’re Not White’: Viral Traffic Stop Video Raises Debate Over Racist Comment

8/20/2018 - White-on-White Crime: Trump Calls Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Team 'Thugs' and a 'National Disgrace'

8/20/2018 - It's Not Unrealistic for Issa on Insecure to Be 30 With Multiple Jobs and Homeless Because I've Been That Too

8/20/2018 - Cardi B's Video for 'Ring' Has Us All Tied Up

8/20/2018 - Forever and Ever You'll Stay in These Charts: Aretha Franklin Greatest Hits Album Reaches Billboard Top 10 Following Her Death

8/20/2018 - Hard to Get: Rihanna Bucks the Bridesmaid Cliché by Ducking Her Best Friend's Bouquet

8/20/2018 - ICE Claims Undocumented Immigrant Arrested While Driving Pregnant Wife to Hospital Is a Murder Suspect in Mexico [Updated]

8/20/2018 - Yeezus Walks: About That Time Kanye Wore Socks and Too-Small Sandals to 2 Chainz' Wedding

8/20/2018 - The White House Fired a Speechwriter After Learning He Attended a White Nationalist Event and I'm Confused

8/20/2018 - Am I Being Sensitive? A Discussion About a Business Transaction Gone Wrong

8/20/2018 - The 2018 World Wypipo Tournament Championship: The Good Hair vs. the Tortoise

8/20/2018 - #SafeWayOut: Serena Williams Wants to Raise Awareness About Financial Abuse

8/20/2018 - When Your 'Sex Diary' Becomes the Poster Child for Racial Festishizing

8/20/2018 - Looks Like Tevin Campbell Is Having the Best Week Ever

8/20/2018 - After 'Truth Isn't Truth' Statement, Rudy Giuliani Is Proving to Be Trump's Favorite Crash Test Dummy

8/20/2018 - 'For the Survivors': Simone Biles' Winning Leotard Was a Message to Victims of Sexual Abuse

8/20/2018 - Michigan Police Accused of Tasing Black Man While He Was Holding His 2-Month-Old Son

8/20/2018 - What Is Adenomyosis? Gabrielle Union Revealed a Fertility Issue Every Woman Should Be Aware Of

8/20/2018 - Here's What the Last American President Who Read a Book Is Reading This Summer

8/20/2018 - Family, Protesters Demand Answers Following Death of 15-Year-Old Black Teen Who Police Say Killed Himself Following Foot Chase

8/20/2018 - Simone Biles Is Still Making History, Is 1st Woman to Win 5 U.S. All-Around Championships 

8/19/2018 - Pack Your Bags: Plans For Girls Trip 2 Are Already in the Works

8/19/2018 - White US Citizen Arrested in Uganda After Racist Attack on Hotel Workers

8/19/2018 - Omarosa’s Mixtape Tour: Report Says There’s Video Too

8/19/2018 - White Doctor in Florida Claims Police Treated Him ‘Like a Black Person’ During His Arrest

8/18/2018 - How Much Do You Know About The Russia Investigation?

8/18/2018 - Study Shows Black Cops Just as Likely to Kill Black Suspects as White Cops 

8/18/2018 - Jersey Shore Employee Fired For Telling Black School Children They Were ‘Not Welcome Here’

8/18/2018 - Georgia Police Use Taser on 87-Year-Old Grandmother With Dementia

8/18/2018 - Too Little, Too Late: Sacramento PD Changes Foot Chase Policy After Killing of #StephonClark

8/18/2018 - Kofi Annan, Former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dead at 80

8/17/2018 - 23 Prince Albums Hit All Major Streaming Services

8/17/2018 - 2 Black Utah High School Soccer Players Subject to Racial Taunts, Slurs From Fans of Rival Team 

8/17/2018 - She Got That Glow: Why We're Low-Key Obsessed With Laura Harrier's Ever-Changing Looks

8/17/2018 - Will Aretha's Most Iconic Hat Become a Part of Obama's Legacy?

8/17/2018 - The Realness Podcast Tells the Story of Mobb Deep's Prodigy Through His Struggle With Sickle Cell Anemia and 'Keeps It Thoro'

8/17/2018 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: FAQ

8/17/2018 - i-D Magazine Debuts Three Earthwise and Black Girl Magical Covers for Fall

8/17/2018 - The 2018 World Wypipo Tournament: The Fragile Four

8/17/2018 - A List of Ways to Tell If a White Person Has Personally Benefitted From America's History of Racism

8/17/2018 - Crazy Rude Asian? Seemingly Drunk Porsche Employee Gets Fired for Running Black Folks Out of Atlanta Lounge

8/17/2018 - Parking Patrol Paula Calls Cops on Black Man Who Was Trying To Get Into His Own Car

8/17/2018 - Queen of Soul and Body-Positive Icon: A Look Back at Aretha's Franklin's Memorable Style

8/17/2018 - Arizona High School Student Refused to Take Off Bandanna, So He And 3 Other Students Were Arrested Because Apparently, That Makes Sense

8/17/2018 - Detroit Rep. Bettie Cook Scott Apologizes After Referring to Asian Opponent as 'Ching-Chong'

8/17/2018 - Release the Tapes, Omarosa!

8/17/2018 - Janet Jackson and Daddy Yankee Team Up For New Video 'Made For Now'

8/17/2018 - 'I Grabbed Him Good Between His Legs': 74-Year-Old Woman Fights Back Against Alleged Robber in Parking Lot 

8/17/2018 - 'Stand Your Ground' Is for White People: Markeis McGlockton’s Lawyer Says the Statute May Be Legal But It’s Not Moral

8/17/2018 - Aretha Franklin's Family Planning Public Viewing at Detroit's African American History Museum: Report

8/16/2018 - Fox News Is Trash: Network Celebrates Life of Aretha Franklin With Photo of Patti Labelle

8/16/2018 - En Vogue: This September, Vogue Made a Global Investment in Black Women

8/16/2018 - We're Not Buying It: Now, Meghan Markle's Father Is Starting a Men's Clothing Line?

8/16/2018 - The Last National Anthem

8/16/2018 - Omarosa Drops Latest Mixtape and This Time She Comes For Eric Trump's Wife, Lara

8/16/2018 - The Most Annoying People on the Internet Are Zion Williamson Highlight Truthers

8/16/2018 - Older Is the New Ageless: Angela Bassett Is 60 Today and We Need to Get Our Lives Right

8/16/2018 - Kenya Barris Signs Overall Series Deal With Netflix

8/16/2018 - 'R-E-S-P-E-C-T': Aretha Created a Women’s Anthem Out of a Song Written for a Man

8/16/2018 - Tom Arnold: The Trump N-Word Tape Exists and He Called Son Eric the R-Word on the Same Recording

8/16/2018 - Feel Bold Enough to Call Black Bus Riders in DC The N-Word? Feel Bold Enough to Get Clocked 

8/16/2018 - To Combat Bullying, Newark, NJ, High School Principal Installs Laundry Room

8/16/2018 - NY State Senator Wants to Make Calling 911 on Black Folks in White Spaces a Hate Crime

8/16/2018 - To Queen Aretha, You Are Appreciated. Rest in Power

8/16/2018 - 'If a White Person Said That': The False Equivalency of Reverse Racism

8/16/2018 - Sustainability by SZA: The Singer-Songwriter Teases an Ocean-Saving Fashion Line

8/16/2018 - The Queen of Soul Reigns Supreme: Our Top 6 Aretha Franklin Live Performances

8/16/2018 - Serena Williams Opens Up About Struggling with Motherhood and Her Comeback in Time Magazine Spread 

8/16/2018 - Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, Has Died at 76

8/16/2018 - A Study in Contrasts: Teyana Taylor & Ruth Negga Stun on Separate September Covers

8/16/2018 - Prosecutors Cannot Call Laquan McDonald, 17-Year-Old Shot and Killed by Chicago Cop, a 'Victim' During Murder Trial

8/15/2018 - Betsy DeVos Thinks Black Students Are Too Stupid to Understand Her Plans, According to Omarosa's New Book

8/15/2018 - Don’t Come For Cardi Unless She Sends For You, Bih!

8/15/2018 - Somali American Set to Become First in U.S. Congress

8/15/2018 - The Dress Code Is Discrimination? First Grader Denied His First Day of School for Dreadlocks

8/15/2018 - Company Tells Woman Via Email Her ‘Ghetto’ Name  Disqualified Her From Employment

8/15/2018 - The President Suffers From a Diet Coke Addiction, Owns 2 Guns and More Wackiness From Omarosa’s Book

8/15/2018 - Somebody Jacked Almost $100,000 Worth of Ramen Noodles From a Gas Station in Georgia and It Made My Heart Flutter

8/15/2018 - The Complete List of People Trump Has Called a 'Dog' on Twitter

8/15/2018 - #NetNeutrality: Will FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Face the Music at a Congressional Hearing This Week?

8/15/2018 - A Good Look: Singer Leon Bridges Collaborates on a Limited-Edition Sunglass Collection

8/15/2018 - How Does Magician Penn Jillette Know That Trump Apprentice Tapes Exist? 'I Was in The Room'

8/15/2018 - I Just Discovered the Container Store and I Think My Life Has Been Changed Forever

8/15/2018 - Nicki Minaj's CRWN Interview Proved She Is Tired of Being Asked to Prove Herself

8/15/2018 - Keith Ellison Wins Attorney General Nomination Despite Domestic Violence Claims

8/15/2018 - White Privilege Is a Thing. Here’s How It Works

8/15/2018 - The 2018 World Wypipo Tournament: The Ecru Eight

8/15/2018 - Viola Davis and Her Band of Widows Shine in New Trailer

8/15/2018 - Doja Cat's 'Bitch, I'm A Cow' Is The Song You Never Knew You Needed

8/15/2018 - Bundles or a Bag of Chips? Would You Buy Hair from a Weave Vending Machine?

8/15/2018 - Taraji P. Henson Creates Mental Health Foundation to Honor Late Father

8/15/2018 - Mississippi Hospital Employee Fired after Hurling Racial Slur at a Donut Shop 

8/15/2018 - Will Packer's What Men Want Is More Than a Mel Gibson Reboot With a Black Woman

8/15/2018 - Ready for Their Closeup: What Crazy Rich Asians Means to the People Who Made It

8/15/2018 - Colorism, or Complete Makeover? Disney's Princess Tiana Has a New Look, and We Have Questions 

8/15/2018 - Philly Mom, Who Threw Her Son a $25,000 Prom Party With a Camel, 3 Dates and a Rolls-Royce, Charged With Social Security Fraud

8/14/2018 - The Lie Sarah Huckabee Sanders Could Not Tell

8/14/2018 - Alabama Pastor Says He's Going to Stand His Ground If Truck Is Vandalized With Racist Graffiti Again

8/14/2018 - Barbie Dreams II: Nicki Minaj and Ex Safaree Swing at Each Other in the Twitter Beef Befitting Mercury Retrograde 

8/14/2018 - Dallas Cowboys Owner, Mr. Toe on the Line, Refuses to Talk About Wearing a Hat During the National Anthem

8/14/2018 - Zoom In: Vogue Brings Us Behind the Scenes of Beyoncé's September Issue

8/14/2018 - The 'Black Don't Crack' All-Stars

8/14/2018 - The VSB Group Chat: Insecure Season 3, Episode 1, 'Better-Like' Recap

8/14/2018 - She Really Does Care? Omarosa Says Melania Trump Is Trying to 'Punish' Her Husband With Fashion

8/14/2018 - NYPD Officer Allegedly Broke Into Nashville, Tenn., Family's Home, Hurled Racial Slurs 

8/14/2018 - Old in Art School: Nell Painter Paints a Refreshing Portrait of What Coming-of-Age Can Look Like 

8/14/2018 - 'Queen': Serena x Virgil Abloh x Nike Is a Grand Slam

8/14/2018 - Trump Calls Omarosa a Crazed Lowlife 'Dog.' We Need to Talk About Your Boy

8/14/2018 - Captured FBI Fugitive Does 'In My Feelings' Challenge on Tarmac

8/14/2018 - I'm Sure Someone Has a Tape of Donald Trump Saying the N-Word. Unfortunately, No One Gives a Shit

8/14/2018 - Dancing Through the Pain: 'A Mother's Rite' Moves Us Through a Parent's Worst Nightmare

8/14/2018 - Royalty Recognizes Royalty: Beyoncé Dedicates Detroit On The Run II Concert to Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin 

8/14/2018 - Omarosa Keeps the Hits Coming, Releases New Mixtape Where Campaign Aides Discuss Possible Fallout Over N-Word

8/14/2018 - When Black Lives Are Under Attack, What Do We Do? Stand Up, Fight Back!

8/14/2018 - Taraji P. Henson Has It All: Dishes on New Role, Wedding Plans and Almost Being Cast in Girls Trip

8/14/2018 - 7-Year-Old Missouri Boy Set on Fire With Nail Polish Remover by 8-Year-Old Neighbor, Mom Says 

8/13/2018 - Irony: Jeff Sessions Seemingly Hates Mexicans But Loves Mexican Food

8/13/2018 - Snopes Debunks Claim That Trump Posed With Bikers With Nazi Tattoos on Charlottesville Anniversary [Corrected]

8/13/2018 - This Is How Black Joy and Resistance Triumphed Over White Supremacy at D.C.'s Unite The Right Rally

8/13/2018 - The White House Keeps Making Excuses for Its Senior Staff to Side-Step the Law

8/13/2018 - My Son Starts 'Big Kid School' Next Week and I'm Not Ready 

8/13/2018 - I Spent the Whole Unite the Right 2 Weekend Looking for Nazis and Ended Up at the White House

8/13/2018 - Generosity Helps Spelman-Bound Student Whose Mom's Student Loan Debt Almost Prevented Her From Enrolling

8/13/2018 - You Know What? Taking Cell Phone Pictures for Random People on the Street is a Lot of Pressure

8/13/2018 - Rep. Keith Ellison Denies Domestic Violence Claims Made by Former Girlfriend and Her Son

8/13/2018 - Ex-Baltimore Cop Seen in Viral Video Brutally Beating Black Man Charged With Assault [Updated]

8/13/2018 - 2018 World Wypipo Tournament Round 3: The Saltine 16

8/13/2018 - Jason Kessler and His Band of Racists Took 'Private' Metro KKKars to White Civil Rights Protest, Infuriating Union Group, D.C. Officials

8/13/2018 - Omarosa's Got Receipts: New Audio Reveals Trump Was Unaware That His Favorite Black Had Been Fired

8/13/2018 - Stephanie Mills Snatches Sam Smith by His Widow's Peak For Talking Crap About Michael Jackson

8/13/2018 - Idris Elba Continues to Play With Our Emotions Amidst James Bond Rumors 

8/13/2018 - North Carolina Mom, Pregnant with Twins, Accused of Hiding Items Under Her Shirt at Local Staples 

8/12/2018 - Breaking Hate: What a Former White Supremacist Says Will End Racism May Suprise You

8/12/2018 - Florida House Republican Candidate Faked College Degree: Report

8/12/2018 - Cops Encouraged Not to Buy Miami Dolphins Tickets Because Police Hate Free-Thinking Black Men

8/12/2018 - Omarosa Claims Trump Wants to Start Race War, Trump Responds by Calling Omarosa a 'Low-Life'

8/12/2018 - The Root is Live at Unite The Right 2: Nazi Boogaloo

8/12/2018 - Baltimore Cop Suspended After Viral Video Shows Him Brutally Beating Unarmed Man

8/11/2018 - 'I Did It and So Can You': OWN's Star Entrepreneur Mahisha Dellinger Wants You to Mind Your Business

8/11/2018 - This Is What They Meant By 'Great Again': It's 2018 and America Is Preparing for a Nazi Attack

8/11/2018 - Trump Reportedly Ate Notes After Meeting With Michael Cohen: Report

8/11/2018 - Well This is Awkward: Black GOP Candidate Claims She Can Win Because People Don't Want to Vote for 'Old White Men'

8/11/2018 - How Memphis Police Created an Undercover Operation to Spy on Black Lives Matter Activists 

8/11/2018 - Mom's Student Loan Debt Prevents Daughter From Enrolling in Spelman College

8/11/2018 - Jury Awards Man $289 Million in Lawsuit Against Monsanto

8/10/2018 - What Did Rick Gates Tell Robert Mueller?

8/10/2018 - Whose Black Don't Crack? O Magazine's Creative Director Raises Eyebrows—and Questions—With a Shirt

8/10/2018 - Soledad O'Brien Wants Journalists to Stop Playing Games and Call a Racist a Racist

8/10/2018 - Omarosa Confirms What We All Suspected: Trump's a Racist Who Uses the N-Word

8/10/2018 - Time Traveling: For BlacKkKlansman, Costume Designer Marci Rodgers Took a Full Circle Journey

8/10/2018 - If You Ask Why I've Never Been to a Place You Assumed I've Been to Before, the Answer Is Probably 'Because I Was Broke'

8/10/2018 - BlacKkKlansman Allows You to Laugh at the Ridiculousness of White Supremacy, Then and Now

8/10/2018 - Florida Man Facing Hate Crime Charges After Allegedly Threatening to Lynch Local NAACP President 

8/10/2018 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Who Am I to Judge?  

8/10/2018 - Several NFL Players Protested During National Anthem, So You Know Who Didn't Like It and Tweeted About It

8/10/2018 - Lil Rel, Sinbad and David Alan Grier Bring the Funny to Fox This Fall

8/10/2018 - Oh, the Irony: Ivanka Trump's Makeup Artist Is ... a Mexican Immigrant?

8/10/2018 - 2018 World Wypipo Tournament Round 2: The Fight for Wypipo Supremacy

8/10/2018 - Awkward Black Guy: I’m Not Nigerian But I Played One for a Whole Weekend

8/10/2018 - 'Sadly, It Did Not Make the Mark': André Leon Talley Critiques Paul Manafort's 'Wearable Art'

8/10/2018 - This Is How We Do It: Essence's September Issue—Starring Naomi!—Is a Study in Black Excellence

8/10/2018 - 'I Really Stepped Into Myself': Lena Waithe Says Cutting Her Hair Liberated Her from Gender Norms

8/10/2018 - Donald Trump Doesn't Care About Black People and Kanye West Knows This

8/10/2018 - 'White Civil Rights' Aren’t a Thing: Why Black People Are Protesting Unite the Right 2

8/10/2018 - We Have September Issues: Black Women Are Covering Magazines, But Who's Behind the Lens?

8/10/2018 - Arkansas Cop Fired After Telling Black Men 'You Don't Belong In My City'

8/9/2018 - Florida Cop Handcuffs 11-Year-Old Black Boy Because ‘He Was Being Disrespectful’

8/9/2018 - #Flint: EPA Upholds State Authority to Set Deadlines to Fix Deficiencies in City Water System

8/9/2018 - This Is Not a Drill: Love Meghan Markle's Club Monaco Dress? It's Being Restocked Friday Morning

8/9/2018 - 'Tired of Talking': Nashville Community Demands Police Chief's Resignation After Cop Shoots Black Man in Back

8/9/2018 - Allegedly 'Smart' White People Keep Getting Dumber and Dumber About Racism

8/9/2018 - 10 Questions About the Funkiest White Karaoke Video of All Time

8/9/2018 - It's Official: Melania Trump's Parents Are Now US Citizens

8/9/2018 - Grown-ish Is Cute, But Yara Shahidi Wants You to Get Politically Involved

8/9/2018 - Sweet Deal: OWN Picks Up Queen Sugar for a 4th Season

8/9/2018 - Devin Nunes Joins Omarosa and Michael Cohen's White House Leaked Mixtape Series

8/9/2018 - A Year After Unite the Right, Charlottesville Is Taking a Stand Against Media and 'Allies' Who Implicitly Support White Supremacy

8/9/2018 - Racist Minnesota Couple Accused in Attack on Black Man Allegedly Held Him to the Ground and Threatened to Run Him Over With a Truck

8/9/2018 - What Might Be on Omarosa’s Trump Tapes, Ranked by Cookout Invitations

8/9/2018 - Aja Naomi King Gets Powerful for the Cover of Shape's September Issue

8/9/2018 - Elderly Sikh Man Spat On, Beaten; 'Disgusted' Police Chief's Estranged 18-Year-Old Son Is the Suspect

8/9/2018 - LeBron James Praised Black Women and Saltine Americans Are Predictably Upset

8/9/2018 - #BrooklynBecky Exposes 'Wokewashed' White Supremacy

8/9/2018 - All Charges Dropped Against 11-Year-Old Tased by Off-Duty Cincinnati Officer 

8/8/2018 - ‘Because He’s Black’: New Mexico Store Clerk Calls Police on College Student Buying Snacks

8/8/2018 - Trump's Legal Team Gives Robert Mueller a Last-Minute Birthday Gift

8/8/2018 - Omarosa Has Secret Recordings of Donald Trump, and She’s Letting People Listen to Them: Report

8/8/2018 - Killer Curves: BET and La La Anthony Take an Intimate Look at an Obsession That's Killing Us

8/8/2018 - Cardi B's 1st Postpartum Performance Will Be at the Mala Luna Festival in October

8/8/2018 - The 10 Ashiest People In America, Ranked

8/8/2018 - Donald Trump's Tweets About Black People, By the Numbers

8/8/2018 - About a Boy, a Bey and a Devil Who Wears Prada: What's Really Good With Vogue's September Issue?

8/8/2018 - Outraged Mother Speaks Out After 11-Year-Old Daughter is Tased in the Back by Off-Duty Cincinnati Cop [Update]

8/8/2018 - 6 Things I Learned About Myself During My First Trip to Martha's Vineyard

8/8/2018 - Enough With the Shit, Green Party. The Coming Midterms Are Too Important for Your Shenanigans

8/8/2018 - Antoine Dangerfield, the Welder Fired Over Filming a Viral Strike, Explains How It Happened

8/8/2018 - Ferguson Uprising: Prosecutor Who Didn't Bring Charges in Michael Brown Shooting Loses Primary to Black Councilman

8/8/2018 - Meet Morgan Dixon, the Black Girl Magic Behind the Incredible Nail Art on TNT’s Hit Series Claws

8/8/2018 - Money Moves: Cardi B and Offset Are Already Planning Kulture Kiari's Possible Retail Empire

8/8/2018 - Texas Grandmother Shoots Masturbating, Bicycle-Riding Burglar

8/8/2018 - From Hater to Hopeful: How Netroots Nation Changed My Opinion of Kamala Harris

8/8/2018 - Orange Is the New Nude: Dascha Polanco Is a Study In Self-Love In September's Women's Health

8/8/2018 - I Visited Martha's Vineyard for the First Time. Let's Talk About It

8/8/2018 - Spike Lee Wants Us to Respect Our White Allies: 'White People Have Died For Justice'

8/8/2018 - #WCW: Serena Williams Just Got Real—and Relatable—About Postpartum Emotional Fallout

8/8/2018 - A Black Surgeon Was Accused of Lying About a Botched Surgery 2 Years Ago. Now, the Lawyer Who Accused Him Is Taking it Back. 

8/8/2018 - Kevin Hart Partners With the United Negro College Fund, Knowledge Is Power Program to Launch $600,000 Scholarship Program 

8/8/2018 - From Bad to Worse: Day 2 of the 2018 World Wypipo Tournament

8/8/2018 - This Genius Tried to Take His Driver's License Test With a Pound of Marijuana, a Gun in the Car

8/7/2018 - Protest Is Not Supposed to Make You Feel Comfortable

8/7/2018 - Good News: The Ms. Foundation Is Making a Major Investment in Women of Color

8/7/2018 - Why Is the Gender Wage Gap Higher for Black Women in New York City and What Can Be Done?

8/7/2018 - A List of Things I've Never Done That I Ain't Ever Going to Do Because I'm Almost 40 So Why Start Some New Shit Now?

8/7/2018 - People are Actually Hating on LeBron James' I Promise School Because ... You Know Why

8/7/2018 - A Year Later: Documenting Hate: Charlottesville Explores the Growing White Nationalist Movement in America

8/7/2018 - White House Pushing New Policy That Would Punish Legal Immigrants Who've Received Public Benefits: Report

8/7/2018 - Lyft x Black Girls Code: How a Strategic Alliance Is Driving the Conversation on Equal Pay Forward

8/7/2018 - 'Plastered Peggy' Lists Reasons Why Cop Shouldn't Arrest Her, Claims She's a 'Very Clean, Thoroughbred, White Girl'

8/7/2018 - Kanye's Conservative BFF, Candace Owens, Was Harassed at a Coffee Shop, Claims Racism

8/7/2018 - Even Scrubbing Trump's Star Off the Hollywood Walk of Fame Is More Complicated Than It Should Be

8/7/2018 - Having Our Say and Reclaiming Our Time: What Social Media Has to Say About Black Women's Equal Pay Day

8/7/2018 - A Belligerent Patriots Fan Tried to Bully a Black Woman Out of 'His' Neighborhood and Got Shut All the Way Down [Updated]

8/7/2018 - LeBron's I Promise School Offers a Few Important Lessons in Education Reform

8/7/2018 - Sounds Like David Duke Is Afraid BlacKkKlansman Will Make Him Look Like a Dumb Fool Instead of Just a Racist One

8/7/2018 - DNC Chair Tom Perez Says Democrats are Committed to Stacey Abram’s Victory in Georgia ... Because This Time it’s Personal 

8/7/2018 - #38PercentCounts: It's Black Women's Equal Pay Day—and What You Don't Know Might Hurt Us

8/7/2018 - Black Lives Matter Disrupts Wedding of Officer Involved in Fatal Shooting of Stephon Clark

8/7/2018 - Sikh Man Attacked in Alleged Hate Crime Says His Turban Saved Him

8/7/2018 - 'Black $$$ Matter': Protesters Gather Outside Brooklyn Nail Salon Following Fight Over Botched Eyebrow Wax 

8/6/2018 - LeBron James Is Producing a Docuseries for Showtime Called Shut Up and Dribble

8/6/2018 - Beyoncé Has a FUPA. I Have a FUPA. We All Have a FUPA. ISSA CELEBRATION!

8/6/2018 - #NetNeutrality: Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Side With the FCC in Killing the Open Internet

8/6/2018 - This Might Just Be the Blackest Season in Fashion. Do You Want It to Be the Beginning, or the Trend?

8/6/2018 - That 'In My Feelings' Cameo from NOLA Bounce Legend Big Freedia? She Was the One Who Set That Up

8/6/2018 - Intense Segregation Is Returning to Boston's Public Schools, Report Finds

8/6/2018 - Breaking News: Dwyane Wade Doesn't Know the Lyrics to K-Ci & JoJo's 'All My Life'

8/6/2018 - Who Invited Trump? President Shows Up and Takes the Stage at Ohio Rally Without an Invite, Governor Claims

8/6/2018 - She Ain't Sorry: Beyoncé Gets Revealing and Reflective for Vogue's September Issue

8/6/2018 - 10 Things Easier to Do Than Work Remotely While on a Family Vacation

8/6/2018 - White Driver Who Called Black Motorist 'Monkey,' Swears He's 'Not Racial' Because He Has Biracial Grandkids

8/6/2018 - Broadway Star Uses His Platform to Bring the Arts to At-Risk Students

8/6/2018 - Bye, Lawrence: Why Insecure Just Doesn't Need Him Anymore

8/6/2018 - Birthday Bargain? Meghan Markle Wore Something (Semi) Affordable for Her 1st Birthday as Duchess

8/6/2018 - Joe Arpaio Talks With a Fake Donut and Says He'd Probably Accept an Amazing Blowjob From Trump

8/6/2018 - 'Got You Sis': Why Rihanna Is Basically the Best Boss Ever

8/6/2018 - Trump Supporter Calls C-Span, Threatens to Shoot Don Lemon

8/6/2018 - The 2nd Annual World Wypipo Tournament: Who is the Worst?

8/6/2018 - Beyoncé Made Another Major Designer Debut—But Her Behind-the-Scenes Moments Are Still the Best

8/6/2018 - Black Man Who Filmed Latino Workers Striking Is Fired from His Job, Regrets Nothing

8/6/2018 - Golden Lady: Oprah Is Pure Gold for the September Issue of O Magazine

8/6/2018 - Federal Judge Stops New Orleans From Jailing Those Who Fail to Pay Fines, Rules That They Must Have a Chance to Plead Poverty

8/5/2018 - Wounds That Never Heal: Emmett Till Sign Hit With Bullets Just a Month After Being Replaced 

8/5/2018 - Mural Depicts Dallas Cowboys' Dak Prescott in 'The Sunken Place' for Anti Protest Comments

8/5/2018 - White Brooklyn Firefighter Shouts Racist Insult at Medical Technician: 'Just Do Your Job You Black Bitch'

8/5/2018 - Azealia 'Where Are Your Bookings' Banks Accuses Beyoncé of Stealing and Drags Her Fashion Sense

8/4/2018 - Statue of Liberty Protester Expertly Shades Melania Trump With Statement Dress

8/4/2018 - Just Remember That Your Punk-Ass President Would Never, Ever, Ever Call LeBron James Dumb to His Face

8/4/2018 - Washington Metro Considers Giving Unite the Right Rally Participants Their Own Special KKK Express. Union Group Responds: Um, No

8/4/2018 - Is Watermelon Racist or Nah?

8/4/2018 - The 10 Worst Sentences From Andrew Sullivan's 'When Racism Is Fit to Print,' Ranked From 'STFU Andy' to 'Does He Have a Concussion?'

8/4/2018 - Bitter Old Goat Trolls One of the GOATs, Successfully Plays Himself

8/3/2018 - Video Shows Detroit Cop Beating a Naked Black Woman Who May Have Been Mentally Ill

8/3/2018 - Youth Care Worker Accused of Sexually Molesting 8 Children at Government Immigrant Shelter in Mesa, Ariz. 

8/3/2018 - Watch: Long Beach Police Investigating Video of White Man Dragging Unconscious Man Off Train

8/3/2018 - Why It's Dumb (and Vaguely Republican) to Be Mad About Blake Griffin's Child Support Payments, Explained [Updated]

8/3/2018 - Did the NFL Collude With EA Sports to Make Kaepernick's Name a Curse Word?

8/3/2018 - MC Lyte Talks Racial Bias, Female Rap Beef and the Longevity of Hip-Hop

8/3/2018 - Paul Manafort Hid Foreign Income on Taxes, His Accountant Says 

8/3/2018 - Nappily Ever After: Sanaa Lathan's Netflix Original Untangles Our Issues With Hair

8/3/2018 - Say It With Your Chest: How a T-Shirt Proved the Worst Thing You Can Call White People Is 'White'

8/3/2018 - Video: Louisiana Cops Strangle Black Man to Death for Asking to See Arrest Warrant

8/3/2018 - Michael Bennett, Other Players Troll the MAGA Crowd With Social Justice Gear as They Suit Up for the Season

8/3/2018 - How Much Do You Love Your Faves? You Still Can't Beat This 18-Year-Old Who Allegedly Tried to Steal a Plane to Go to Rap Concert

8/3/2018 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: White Advice for Black People

8/3/2018 - Trump to Migrant Parents Whose Children Were Taken at the Border: Let the ACLU Find Your Family

8/3/2018 - The 8 Kinds of Black Donald Trump Supporters

8/3/2018 - Alabama Subway Manager Fired After Being Caught on Camera Using Racial Slur; Tries to Frame It as a 'Slip Up'

8/3/2018 - Do Free Breadsticks Come With This? Olive Garden-Inspired Makeup Might Be a Thing, and ... Why?

8/3/2018 - Did Rihanna Appropriate 'Chola' Brows? One Latina Writer Thinks So

8/3/2018 - Chicago Mom Calls Brutal Attack on Gay Daughter a Hate Crime, Demands to Know Why No One Has Been Arrested

8/3/2018 - Phylicia Rashad Proves She's Still an Iconic Black Mom in Drake's 'In My Feelings' Video

8/3/2018 - First Wives Club Is Back, and Black Women Are Taking the Lead

8/3/2018 - Woman Shot and Killed Abusive Husband In Driveway, Now Faces Murder Charges Even Though Alabama is a 'Stand Your Ground' State

8/2/2018 - Swanky South Beach Hotel That Allegedly Called Haitian Employees 'Slaves' to Pay $2.5 Million Settlement

8/2/2018 - Trump Will Have to Speak With Special Counsel Mueller's Team In Person, Not Only Submit Written Answers

8/2/2018 - Moonlight Director Barry Jenkins Pays Homage to Baldwin on His Birthday

8/2/2018 - Jesus, Take the Wheel Because Your Shepherds Have Turned Into Sunken-Place Sheep

8/2/2018 - Papa John Needs to Go Sit His Ass Down: Still Wants to Shill for Pizza Company Despite Dropping the N-Word

8/2/2018 - Will and Jada Smith Want the Youth to Know Opportunities Are Out There for Them in Entertainment

8/2/2018 - Intentionally Bad Tippers Are Trash People You Should Never Trust, and There Are No Exceptions to This Rule

8/2/2018 - Alex Trebek Suggests Black Lawyer, Laura Coates, to Replace Him as Host of Jeopardy

8/2/2018 - Madden 19 Scrubbed Curse Words and Colin Kaepernick's Name Off Video Game's Soundtrack

8/2/2018 - Family Portrait: Kanye and Kids Cover Bazaar's Fall Fashion Issue

8/2/2018 - 'All I Did Was Be Black': Smith College Employee Calls Cops on Black Student Just Trying to Eat Her Damn Food

8/2/2018 - Family of Antwon Rose II, Pittsburgh Teen Killed by Police, Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit

8/2/2018 - Rihanna Reveals the Inspirations Behind Her Epic Cover—and the Trouble with Being 'Thicc'

8/2/2018 - Gifted Handouts: How Questionable Ethics Are Plaguing Ben Carson's Time at HUD 

8/2/2018 - Sarah Huckabee Sanders Tweets That Dems Suffer From 'Trump Derangement Syndrome.' It Didn't End Well

8/2/2018 - #BrooklynBecky: Cops Called on Suspicious-Looking 'Black' Woman Waiting for Uber in the Rain

8/2/2018 - Washington State Utility Company Sends Black Woman Racial Slur as Temporary Password 

8/2/2018 - 'I Was Like, I'm Not a Designer': Virgil Abloh Admits to Suffering from Imposter Syndrome in Vanity Fair

8/2/2018 - Congressional Hopeful Calls Melania Trump a 'Hoebag,' Claims She Works By the Hour

8/2/2018 - Rich, White 18-Year-Old Who Drove Getaway Car During Killing of Black Man Acquitted of All Charges, Now Plans to Study Law

8/2/2018 - White Woman Snatches Protest Sign From Black Woman, Cries to Police When She Gets Punched in the Face [Updated]

8/2/2018 - There's a Dapper Dan for Middle-Aged White Men? We Have Questions About Paul Manafort's 'Couture' 

8/2/2018 - Choreographer Chloe Arnold's Emmy Nomination Is a Win for Black Womanhood

8/2/2018 - Ohio Judge Ordered Deputies to Tape Black Man's Mouth Shut During Sentencing 

8/1/2018 - Somehow, Donald Trump Keeps Finding Groups of Thirsty, Shameless and Silly Church Negroes to Meet With Him

8/1/2018 - Seth Rogan, Evan Goldberg Getting Blowback for Child Actor in Blackface on New Film Set

8/1/2018 - Model Behavior: How Naomi Campbell Shut Down Pregnancy Rumors With a Single Look

8/1/2018 - Manhattan to Stop Prosecuting Marijuana Possession. In Fact, the DA Says ‘Legalize It’

8/1/2018 - Is America Ready to Recognize Black Women's Transformational Power? 

8/1/2018 - Man Convicted in the Killing of Yetunde Price, Eldest Sister of Venus and Serena Williams, Released and Then Re-Arrested [Updated]

8/1/2018 - Soccer May Be the World's Most Popular Sport and the U.S. Is Catching Up, But We Have a Lot More Work to Do

8/1/2018 - Barack Obama Reminds America What a Real President Looks Like, Endorses 81 Candidates

8/1/2018 - Nothing Reminds You That You're Black in White America Like Trying to Buy a House 

8/1/2018 - Meet the 35-Year-Old Who Wants to Be Nigeria's Next President

8/1/2018 - Dak Prescott Is Every Black Man in Corporate America

8/1/2018 - 'Fun, Honest and a Hot Mess Sometimes': Tiffany Haddish Answers Vogue's 73 Questions

8/1/2018 - On Conspiracy Theories and Election Hacking [Updated]

8/1/2018 - International I Love Braids Day Brings Black Self Love to Brooklyn

8/1/2018 - Trump Doesn't Understand How Buying Groceries Works

8/1/2018 - Tiffany Haddish Reveals She Was Raped as a Teen by a Police Cadet 

8/1/2018 - Do You Want More? September 2018 Is Shaping Up to Be a Beautiful Month for Black Women

8/1/2018 - 2016 Déjà Vu: Facebook Uncovers Disinformation Campaign Targeting Black and Latinx Groups Ahead of Midterms

8/1/2018 - White Michigan Cop Who Says He Faced Racial Taunts After DNA Test Showed He's 18 Percent Black Settles With City for $65,000

8/1/2018 - Take a Bow: Rihanna Is the 1st Black Woman to Grace the Cover of British Vogue's September Issue

8/1/2018 - 'I'm Grateful Because He's OK': New Mom Who Went Into Early Labor After Allegedly Being Kicked by Off-Duty Cop Speaks Out