2/28/2018 - Riding the Red River: Safely Navigating Your Way Through Period Sex

2/28/2018 - The Return of Back-Alley Abortions? Mike Pence Predicts End of Legal Abortion ‘in Our Time’

2/28/2018 - Walmart Will No Longer Sell Guns and Ammo to People Under 21

2/28/2018 - Watch: Mo’Nique Deserves Better

2/28/2018 - The Trump White House Is Love & Hip Hop for Terrible White People (and Ben Carson)

2/28/2018 - Pain and Policy: Why Reparative Justice Is Needed to End the War on Drugs [Retracted]

2/28/2018 - New Orleans Police Kept a Secret, CIA-Backed Policing System for Years; Guess Who It Targets?

2/28/2018 - Georgia Teacher Opened Fire Inside a Classroom, Sending Students Into Panic

2/28/2018 - It Looks Like Donald Trump and Melania Are Holding Hands, but This Could Be a Doctored Image

2/28/2018 - Trump Called Out Attorney General Jeff Sessions Because He Doesn’t Understand How This Works

2/28/2018 - Unpopular Black History Opinion: Jackie Robinson May Have Been an Opp

2/28/2018 - Watch SZA Bring Tears to Her Dad’s Eyes in This Video That Will Drop You Off Straight Into Your Feelings

2/28/2018 - Where’s the Best Place You’ve Ever Taken a Dump?

2/28/2018 - Watch: You Can Thank a Black Woman for Your Hulu Binge-Watching Habits

2/28/2018 - Is Anyone Shocked That Slavery Continued a Century After Emancipation? 

2/28/2018 - Ohio College Students Say Restaurant Manager Demanded They Pay for Meal Up Front Because ‘You People Steal’: Report 

2/28/2018 - Texas Judge Denied Bail for Over 10 Years to ‘Tainted’ Defendants; Blames BLM

2/28/2018 - Dwyane Wade Hits Game Winner in Honor of Parkland, Fla., Shooting Victim Who Was Buried in Wade’s Jersey

2/28/2018 - Taye Diggs Thinks We Actually Care Who He’s … (We’re Already Bored)

2/28/2018 - The Gap Gets It: In Its New Campaign, the Retailer Takes the Taboo Out of Breast-Feeding

2/28/2018 - Am I Actually a Southerner? An Examination

2/28/2018 - Could a Russian Call Girl Be the Straw That Breaks This Joe Camel-Colored President’s Back?

2/28/2018 - Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: Black Panther Set to Pass Wonder Woman as Film Continues Box-Office Domination

2/28/2018 - Sometimes You Gotta Cry Till You Laugh: Comedian Biniam Bizuneh Takes on Black Depression in Commercial Parody

2/28/2018 - This Is How You Rock Glasses: The Glow Up Goes to SEE Eyewear

2/28/2018 - Serena Williams’ Husband Just Put Up 4 Billboards in Her Honor Along Interstate 10, Once Again Soothing My Cold, Bitter Heart

2/28/2018 - Mary J. Blige Says She Made No Money From Oscar-Nominated Performance in Mudbound

2/28/2018 - On Target? Black Beauty  

2/28/2018 - Bethune-Cookman Student Arrested After Being Accused of Having Loaded AR-15 on Campus 

2/27/2018 - Ben Carson Wants to Cut HUD Funding, but Not His Office-Redecoration Budget

2/27/2018 - Let the Probing Begin: Mueller Is All Up in Trump’s Russian Business Now

2/27/2018 - Erykah Badu’s Daughter Puma Matches Her Mother in Looks and Voice: Video

2/27/2018 - Watch: Baltimore Residents Are Organizing Ceasefires to Protect Their Communities

2/27/2018 - Series of Shooting Threats Targeting Black Students Sent to Missouri High School

2/27/2018 - If White Privilege Were a Sentient Being, It Would Make Sweet Love to This Article in The Atlantic on Gun Culture

2/27/2018 - Am I the Only Person Under 60 Who Still Carries Around a Crown Royal Bag for My Valuables?

2/27/2018 - Reporters Uncover ‘Real Story’ Behind Chicago’s Gun-Death Stats, Black Flight From the City

2/27/2018 - What in the Hell Was That Last Season of Living Single?

2/27/2018 - Vladimir TrumPutin to Run for President in 2020; Hopefully He’ll Be Impeached Before This Happens

2/27/2018 - Police Find Body of 17-Year-Old Dutch Boy Who Went Missing After Grindr Date

2/27/2018 - Is ‘Colonizer’ the Best Word for Problematic White People Ever?

2/27/2018 - A New Report Examines the Close, Sometimes Fraught Relationship Between Black Twitter and the Media

2/27/2018 - It’s in the Stars: A Wrinkle in Time Premieres in Hollywood

2/27/2018 - #EbonyOwes Series Finale: Ebony Magazine Settles With Unpaid Writers

2/27/2018 - Trump’s Latest Tweet Proves Russia Investigation Is Heating Up

2/27/2018 - #28DaysOfBlackCosplay: Cosplay Is for Everyone (but It’s Nice to Have Options)

2/27/2018 - 10 Thoughts on The Loving Generation Documentary About Biracial Kids Born After Loving v. Virginia

2/27/2018 - The Gun Laws Moving Forward in the Florida Legislature Could Make Schools Especially Dangerous for Students of Color

2/27/2018 - Golden State Warriors Won’t Visit White House, Instead They’ll Visit With Kids From Kevin Durant’s Old Neighborhood

2/27/2018 - How to Raise a World of Shuris: Jessie Woolley-Wilson on What It Takes to Get More Black Women and Girls in STEM

2/27/2018 - Bill Cosby’s Daughter Ensa Dead at 44: Report

2/27/2018 - There’s a Petition Out to Bring a Show About Wakanda to Netflix 

2/27/2018 - Love, Italian Style: #BlackGirlMagic at Milan Fashion Week

2/27/2018 - North Carolina Man Killed While Recording on Facebook Live 

2/27/2018 - Florida Woman Walks Into Work to Find Monkey With a Noose Around Its Neck, Racist Notes in Her Office: Report

2/27/2018 - I Think Donald Trump and the NRA Just Solved All That Black Lives Matter Stuff

2/26/2018 - Michael B. Jordan, Your Villainous Hotep Boyfriend, Will Play Your Doubtful Fireman Boyfriend Next

2/26/2018 - Governor Wannabe Loves NRA Discounts So Much He’s Threatening One of His State’s Biggest Employers Over Them

2/26/2018 - 10 Presidents More Likely to Save You Than Trump

2/26/2018 - Ava DuVernay Says Not So Fast on the Gold Star, Hollywood: ‘We Sit on Top of a Broken System’

2/26/2018 - Watch Sarah ‘Suckabee’ Sanders Explain What the President Really Meant When He Claimed He Would’ve Run Into Florida High School

2/26/2018 - Some Wakanda Wonderful: Black Panther’s Success Spurs Disney to Fund STEM Centers Across US

2/26/2018 - All West Virginia Public Schools Remain Closed as Teacher Strike Continues

2/26/2018 - Are You a Hyper-tep? A Quiz for People Too Woke for Black Panther

2/26/2018 - Cry Me a River of White Tears, White South African Colonizers

2/26/2018 - Film to Fashion: Wanna Wear Wakanda? So Do We!

2/26/2018 - This Punk-Ass President Out Here Talking ’Bout How He Would’ve Run Into That Florida School Without a Gun

2/26/2018 - Watch: Will Shuri Save Wakanda in the Black Panther Sequel?

2/26/2018 - Why Is Our Government Soft on White Domestic Terrorism?

2/26/2018 - America Doesn’t Have a Gun Control Problem. We Have a White-People Problem

2/26/2018 - Video of Me Was Used to Introduce Donald Trump at the Conservative Political Action Conference and I’m Pretty Sure I’m on a Watch List

2/26/2018 - What’s the Better ’90s Party Jam: Luke’s ‘Scarred’ or ‘I Wanna Rock (Doo Doo Brown)’?

2/26/2018 - Woman Who Lied to Police About 3 Black Men Raping and Kidnapping Her Faces Zero Years in Prison

2/26/2018 - Ivanka Trump on Her Father’s 19 Sexual Assault Accusers: ‘I Believe My Father’

2/26/2018 - US Supreme Court Rules Dreamers Are Safe … for Now

2/26/2018 - Best Foot Forward: Step into Protective Styles this Spring! 

2/26/2018 - Donald Trump Wants to Kill Major Drug Dealers: Report

2/26/2018 - 6 Jobs That People Don’t Think Require Real ‘Work’

2/26/2018 - 40 Years Later, Jonestown Survivor Speaks Out on Massacre That Nearly Killed 1,000

2/26/2018 - The Bald and the Beautiful: Is There Any Better Time to Take It All Off?

2/26/2018 - 2 Employees Fired for ‘Racially Insensitive’ Black History Month Meal Were White, Student Group Says

2/26/2018 - Malcolm X Tells His Story in New Documentary Featuring Rarely and Never-Before-Seen Footage

2/26/2018 - Black Panther Continues to Slay Box-Office Records, Nears $1,000,000,000 Worldwide

2/26/2018 - If You Thought Black Panther’s Numbers Were Sick, Wait Until the Release of Michelle Obama’s Memoir This Fall

2/25/2018 - Technology Is Building a Future Without People of Color in Mind

2/25/2018 - 105 Nigerian Girls Are Missing Because Donald Trump Is a Racist Idiot

2/25/2018 - Kanye West Just Taped an Episode of Celebrity Family Feud That I’m Never Going to Watch Because I’m Lying to You Right Now

2/25/2018 - #IAmWhatIMakeUp: CoverGirl’s Newest Ad Highlights the Rare Beauty of Vitiligo

2/25/2018 - Illinois Republican Called Black Female Attorney General Candidate ‘Lesbo’ and Used N-Word

2/25/2018 - Jackie Aina: YouTube Style Warrior 

2/25/2018 - On the Duality and Double Consciousness of Black Panther

2/24/2018 - As Usual, Sailor J Says What We’re All Thinking

2/24/2018 - White Homeowner Nicknamed ‘George Zimmerman 2.0’ Gets Life in Prison for Murdering Unarmed Black Man

2/24/2018 - Former RNC Chair Michael Steele Shocked by Racist Comment From Racist at Convention of Racists

2/24/2018 - According to Laverne Cox’s New Video, the ’90s Are Officially Back

2/24/2018 - Wisconsin High School Accused of Racist Chants During Basketball Game ... Again

2/24/2018 - My Name Is Myeisha Is a Dramatic Hip-Hop Musical That Tells the Heartbreaking Story of Tyisha Miller’s 1998 Murder 

2/24/2018 - Is Mo’Nique a Donkey? Was Charlamagne Wrong for Calling Her One? Spoiler Alert: The Answer Is No

2/23/2018 - Pegging: Kink-Shaming Keeps Us From Fully Enjoying Butt Play

2/23/2018 - California May Make Ethnic-Studies Course a High School Graduation Requirement

2/23/2018 - Yes, Florida Gov. Rick Scott Is Breaking Ranks With the NRA and Trump. No, We Shouldn’t Celebrate Just Yet

2/23/2018 - Bullied Ex-NFL Lineman Arrested After Posting Disturbing Instagram Story; Causes High School to Shut Down: Report

2/23/2018 - What’s the Biggest National Chain You’ve Never Actually Stepped Foot in Before?

2/23/2018 - NRA Spokeswoman Dana Loesch Continues Her Crusade to Become the Worst Woman in the World

2/23/2018 - #HurtBae’s Ex-Boyfriend Is Still an Asshole

2/23/2018 - Philando Castile’s Mom Is Sick of Wayne LaPierre and the NRA’s Hypocrisy

2/23/2018 - Watch: Survivors of the Florida School Shooting Are Under Attack Again—This Time From the Far Right

2/23/2018 - Arming Teachers Is Probably One of the Worst Policy Suggestions of All Time

2/23/2018 - AMC, Color of Change to Provide Free A Wrinkle in Time Tickets to Underprivileged Kids

2/23/2018 - Rick Gates Becomes 3rd Member of Trump’s Campaign to Plead Guilty to Lying

2/23/2018 - London Fashion Designer Duro Olowu Is a Man of Many Muses  

2/23/2018 - What I Learned From My Week as a Conservative

2/23/2018 - Why It Hurts When the World Loves Everyone but Us

2/23/2018 - Brittney Cooper’s Eloquent Rage and the Lifesaving Power of Homegirls

2/23/2018 - Florida Considers Porn a Health Hazard, Doesn’t Ban Assault Rifles but Agrees to Have More God in Schools

2/23/2018 - A South Carolina Woman Swore She’d Die Before She Took Down Her Confederate Flag ... and Then She Had a Heart Attack

2/23/2018 - Trump’s Justice Department Doesn’t Care About Civil Rights: Report

2/23/2018 - Apparently There Are 3 People Who Haven’t Listened to Kendrick Lamar’s Award-Winning Damn., and They Were All on Jeopardy! Last Night

2/23/2018 - Before She Was 2nd: Daphne Maxwell-Reid Broke Beauty Barriers

2/23/2018 - Dumpster Diving for Dro: Las Vegas Airport Offers New Way to Dispose of Leftover Weed and ... Hold on, I’ll BRB

2/23/2018 - Judge of Characters: Colonizers Are Having a Hard Time Stomaching Black Panther’s Success

2/23/2018 - Oprah Delivers the Most Elegant, Unbothered Clapback to Trump’s Twitter Nonsense

2/23/2018 - Tiffany Haddish Becomes 1st Black Woman to Host MTV Movie & TV Awards

2/23/2018 - Let’s Do It Again: Send Our Girls to See A Wrinkle in Time!

2/23/2018 - Tisha Campbell-Martin Files for Divorce

2/23/2018 - O, Tiff! Tiffany Haddish Teaches Us the Importance of Being Earnest With Oprah

2/23/2018 - Tracing Your Roots: My Confederate Ancestor Is on Monuments; Who Did He Own?

2/23/2018 - The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Secondhand Clapbacks

2/23/2018 - Armed Sheriff’s Deputy Who Never Confronted Gunman During Parkland, Fla., Shooting Thinks ‘He Did a Good Job’ 

2/23/2018 - Soccer Player Who Heard Racist Chants Tells Fans to Watch Black Panther

2/23/2018 - White 7th-Grader Bullied at Philadelphia School Because of His Race, Parents Say 

2/22/2018 - Special Counsel Mueller Files New Charges of Money Laundering Against Paul Manafort and Rick Gates 

2/22/2018 - #NetNeutrality: Doomsday Is Here—It’s the End of the Internet as We Know It

2/22/2018 - Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner’s Drinking Chocolate Milk for ‘Diversity’ Is the Whitest Thing That Ever Happened This Week

2/22/2018 - Deranged NRA Spokeswoman: The Media Loves Mass Shootings, and Crying White Mothers Are Ratings Gold

2/22/2018 - On Prince and Painting Outside of Black and White: Janelle Monáe’s Inspiring Thought Process on Dirty Computer

2/22/2018 - R. Kelly and the Black People on the Wakanda Travel-Ban List

2/22/2018 - China Dismisses Criticism Over Blackface Sketch During Lunar New Year TV Gala

2/22/2018 - Snoop Dogg Doing Gospel Confuses the Hell Out of Me, but I’m Not Mad at These Bops for Christ

2/22/2018 - Don’t ‘Fix’ My Problem. Acknowledge That It Exists

2/22/2018 - Watch: Let the Battle Begin in Netflix’s Roxanne Shanté Biopic Roxanne, Roxanne

2/22/2018 - Double Vision: Janelle Monáe Drops 2 New Baddie Anthems on Us

2/22/2018 - Is It Sterling K. Brown’s Personal Mission to Make Us Cry in Every Damn Role He Plays?

2/22/2018 - Naturally in Fashion: #TeamNatural Took Over the Runways at Fall Fashion Week

2/22/2018 - Quincy Jones’ Daughters Told Him to STFU

2/22/2018 - Trump Had to Check His Notes to Remember to Care About Mass-Shooting Victims

2/22/2018 - Chris Tucker Presses Gas on Rush Hour 4

2/22/2018 - America: Wakanda for White People

2/22/2018 - Trump Can’t Seem to Get His NRA Objectives Together, Now Backtracking on Teachers Carrying Guns

2/22/2018 - Washington, DC, Reaches $3,500,000 Settlement With Family of Terrence Sterling, Unarmed Black Motorcyclist Killed by Police

2/22/2018 - Serena Williams Reveals What She Learned After Her Near-Death Experience Giving Birth

2/22/2018 - Notes From the Field: Through Some of America’s Biggest Racial Dramas, Anna Deavere Smith Has Been Taking Notes

2/22/2018 - South Carolina Lawmakers Want to Ban Baggy Pants Because What Other Political Issue Could Possibly Be More Pressing?

2/22/2018 - #28DaysOfBlackCosplay: Seeing Yourself in the Positive

2/22/2018 - The Hood Incubator: Oakland, Calif., Organization Empowers Black Communities to Take Ownership of Cannabis Industry [Retracted]

2/22/2018 - Maryland Gas Station Under Fire After Employee Called Customer Racial Slur 

2/22/2018 - White Powder Sent to Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Sparking Anthrax Scare 

2/21/2018 - Oprah Cares, Even if Republicans in Florida Don’t

2/21/2018 - Cuffing Season Is Almost Over, so Get Your Vibrators Ready

2/21/2018 - Lupita Nyong’o to Produce, Star in Film Adaptation of Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime

2/21/2018 - Pioneering Educator and Founder of Washington, DC’s Duke Ellington School of Arts Dies

2/21/2018 - Whose World Is This? Black Panther Production Designer Hannah Beachler Walks Us Through Wakanda 

2/21/2018 - Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Queer Black Woman Who Invented Rock ’n’ Roll

2/21/2018 - I Finally Saw Drake’s ‘God’s Plan’ Video, and Drake Is All Right With Me

2/21/2018 - Wendy Williams Puts Talk Show on Hiatus to Deal With Graves’ Disease

2/21/2018 - Donald Glover Talks About His Assist With the Black Panther Script

2/21/2018 - Pittsburgh Cop Shoots 3 Black People in Less Than a Year, Kills 1

2/21/2018 - ‘Patriotic’ Trump Supporter Finds Out She Was Tricked by Russian Trolls and Her Reaction Is Hilarious

2/21/2018 - Stephanie Horton Soars as a Fashion Executive, but She Doesn’t Want to Be the Only One at the Top

2/21/2018 - Oprah Brought SuperSoul Conversations to the Apollo and Aligned All of Harlem's Chakras

2/21/2018 - University Spokesperson Complains About Horrific Reverse Racism That Affects Her in No Way

2/21/2018 - Dallas Mavericks Investigating Sexual-Misconduct Allegations After Bombshell Report

2/21/2018 - ‘We Won’t Be Right for the Rest of Our Lives’: Korryn Gaines’ Mother Speaks Out

2/21/2018 - 10 Thoughts on Tell Them We Are Rising, the Documentary About the Story of HBCUs

2/21/2018 - Can We Stop Blaming Russian Bots for White People’s Racism, Please?!

2/21/2018 - Mitt Romney Is America’s Thirstiest Politician

2/21/2018 - Papa Don’t Snitch: Parents of Alleged Serial Killer Arrested for Not Cooperating With Prosecutors

2/21/2018 - Fast Company Offers Us Warm Wishes About Our Cold Offices

2/21/2018 - One to Watch: Clare-Hope Ashitey Makes Her Mark in Netflix’s Seven Seconds

2/21/2018 - Why Are You Like This? Far Right Cooks Up Conspiracy Theories, Bullies Survivors of Parkland, Fla., Shooting Seeking Gun Reform

2/21/2018 - There’s a Theory That if Black People Buy Guns, It Could Stop the NRA’s War on Kids; It Won’t 

2/21/2018 - Are White Film Critics Grading Black Panther on a Curve?

2/21/2018 - The Wait Between Sade Singles? Just A Wrinkle in Time

2/21/2018 - Family, Police Desperately Search for CDC Employee Who Vanished Without a Trace

2/20/2018 - Charges Dropped Against All Durham, NC, Confederate-Statue Protesters

2/20/2018 - Wanna Fly to Wakanda? The Atlanta Airport Is Offering Nonstop Flights

2/20/2018 - Republican Florida Lawmakers Care More About Guns Than They Do About Children

2/20/2018 - #MuteRKelly: Activists Plan a Protest at Singer’s Detroit Show

2/20/2018 - Why I Hate Referring to Anybody in My Family as ‘Step’ Anything

2/20/2018 - A List of Things That Are Definitely Racist

2/20/2018 - Come Through, 30! Rihanna Celebrates 3 Decades of Bad Gyal Magic

2/20/2018 - BNYFW: Xuly Bët Remains Mali’s Best-Kept Fashion Secret 

2/20/2018 - Black Panther Beats Out Star Wars: The Force Awakens for the Biggest Monday Ever at the Box Office

2/20/2018 - Watch: This Black Doctor Gave Us the Blood Bank and Saved Thousands of Lives

2/20/2018 - Audiences Across Africa Hail Black Panther for Humanizing Black Characters

2/20/2018 - Clarence Thomas Sexual Harassment Accuser Wants Him Impeached

2/20/2018 - Why I Decided to Become a Black Conservative

2/20/2018 - Fergie Apologizes for Giving America the National Anthem It Deserves

2/20/2018 - God Bless This #NoirTown Janelle Monáe Photo Shoot Directed by Jordan Peele

2/20/2018 - Chicago Blackhawks Ban 4 Fans From Home Games After They Chanted ‘Basketball’ at Black NHL Player

2/20/2018 - An Open Letter to the Men Whose Girlfriends and Wives Saw Black Panther and Now Want to Move to Wakanda

2/20/2018 - Trump Takes to Twitter to Bash Sexual Assault Accuser Because He’s Trash

2/20/2018 - On What Happens When Folks Are Denied Their Fried Chicken

2/20/2018 - Places Where Rae Carruth Can Go, Starting With Hell

2/20/2018 - BNYFW: According to Harlem’s Fashion Row, the Future of Black Fashion Is in Your Hands 

2/20/2018 - Caption This: Win Tickets to See Anita Baker, Chaka Khan at 2018 Jazz in the Gardens Music Festival

2/20/2018 - The Discouraging Response to Blac Chyna’s Leaked Sex Tape

2/20/2018 - These Police Stole, Sold Drugs and Covered Up Killings; Now Baltimore Must Pick Up the Pieces

2/20/2018 - The Trouble With Hero Worship: Is #TeamKillmonger Also #TeamToxicMasculinity?

2/20/2018 - Staff at Harlem Restaurant Falsely Accused Black Women of Dashing and Dining: Report

2/20/2018 - The Mysterious Killing of D.J. Broadus

2/19/2018 - You Have to See Black Panther in a Black Movie Theater to Really Understand It

2/19/2018 - Yet Another Reason Why Shuri From Black Panther Is the Greatest Disney Princess Ever

2/19/2018 - Killmonger Was Wrong, and Y’all Know It

2/19/2018 - Down for Some Biased Boning and Nationalistic Nookie? Try These Dating Apps for Trump Supporters

2/19/2018 - Episode 4: Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Memphis Sanitation Workers Go on Strike

2/19/2018 - Watch: Shirley Chisholm for President

2/19/2018 - Donald Trump Calls Oprah ‘Insecure,’ Challenges Her to Run for President, Has Obviously Lost His Damn Mind

2/19/2018 - Picture Yourself: How Michelle Obama Included Us in Her Portrait

2/19/2018 - We Need to Start Barking at White People Who Speak Out of Turn

2/19/2018 - Can’t We All Just Get Along? Black Panther Is Revisionist History

2/19/2018 - BNYFW: Nigerian Label Maki Oh Made This Fashion Week #BlackGirlMagical

2/19/2018 - #SayHerName: Toveet Radcliffe Was the 1st African-American Woman to Die in the Israeli Military. Her Death Was Ruled a Suicide but Her Family Isn’t Buying It 

2/18/2018 - Florida Killer Not in White-Power Group After All

2/18/2018 - In the Face of Incontrovertible Evidence, Trump Backpedals on Russia and Blames the Black Guy

2/18/2018 - Build-a-Bear Steals Our Hearts With the Black Panther Teddy

2/18/2018 - Marvel Head Crowns Black Panther Studio’s ‘Best Movie Ever’ 

2/18/2018 - Surviving Teens of Parkland, Fla., Massacre Tell NRA to Shove Its ‘Thoughts and Prayers,’ and Plan March on Washington

2/18/2018 - Digging the Dora Milaje? Then Love the Dahomey Women Warriors

2/17/2018 - R. Kelly’s Alleged Sex Palace in Georgia Hit With Eviction Notice

2/17/2018 - Black Panther Begets Political Action Beyond the Big Screen

2/17/2018 - Who’s Slept With More Women: Donald Trump While Married or Wilt Chamberlain?

2/17/2018 - Longtime Veterans Affairs Chief of Staff Out Amid ‘Travel Scandal’ That Looks Mighty Partisan

2/17/2018 - Don’t Play With Our Emotions: Black Panther and Queer Representation

2/17/2018 - Jamie Foxx Walks Off on-Air Interview When Asked About Katie Holmes

2/17/2018 - Writer Bryan Edward Hill Explains Why Black Representation in Comics Matter and Why Michael Cray Is Out to Kill Aquaman and the Flash

2/17/2018 - Robert E. Lee Beads Bring Mardi Gras’ Historic Racism Full Circle

2/16/2018 - 5 Things I Learned After Signing Up for a Tinder Account

2/16/2018 - ICE Raids Continue: Agents Target Southern California Businesses

2/16/2018 - Mueller Grand Jury Indicts Russians Accused of Interfering With 2016 Election

2/16/2018 - Judge of Characters: It’s a Woman’s World

2/16/2018 - Legacy, Legacy, Legacy: What Best Befits a Civil Rights Icon?

2/16/2018 - Vindication: Jury Awards the Family of Korryn Gaines More Than $37,000,000 in Damages

2/16/2018 - Wakanda Mess Is This? Cancellation of Black Panther Screening in Towson, Md., Has Some Raising Eyebrows

2/16/2018 - A Very Subjective List of the Black Greek-Letter Organizations Each Black Panther Character Would Have Pledged

2/16/2018 - Missouri Applebee’s Shut Down After Employees Falsely Accused Black Women of Dining and Dashing

2/16/2018 - Redlining 2.0: How Banks Block Black Homebuyers

2/16/2018 - The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: #Facts

2/16/2018 - 10 Things I Know About You if You Didn’t Cry Watching Drake’s ‘God’s Plan’ Video

2/16/2018 - We Went to Opening Night of Black Panther and Now We Want to Live in Wakanda Forever

2/16/2018 - Lerone Bennett, Ebony Editor and Historian, Dies

2/16/2018 - Because We Can’t Have Nice Things, Some Assholes Are Making Fake Claims About Being Attacked at Black Panther Screenings

2/16/2018 - Watch: Black Panther Cast Explains Why Black Superheroes Matter

2/16/2018 - Heavy Metal: How Jeweler Douriean Armored and Adorned Black Panther

2/16/2018 - White House Refuses to Release Photo of Trump Signing Bill That Overturned Mental Health Gun Restrictions: Report

2/16/2018 - A Brazilian Gang Kidnapped Nurses so They Could Deliver Vaccinations to Poor Favela Residents

2/16/2018 - Black Panther Weekend Starts Off With a Bang, Expected to Clear $25,000,000 on Opening Night

2/16/2018 - #StayWoke: Donald Trump’s Inaugural Committee Paid $26,000,000 to Melania’s Homegirl

2/16/2018 - A Read on Our Style: Constance C.R. White Presents How to Slay 

2/16/2018 - Perfect Music Moments in Black History: The Roots and Common ‘Act Too (The Love of My Life)’

2/16/2018 - Watch: These Future Attorneys Are Skipping Law School

2/16/2018 - Jeff Sessions’ Speech on Florida School Shooting Is a Nonsensical Symphony of Racist Dog Whistles

2/16/2018 - Missouri Restaurant Owner Pushes State to Let Him Hire More People With Felony Convictions

2/16/2018 - Tracing Your Roots: Why Free Virginia Blacks Looked Over Their Shoulders

2/16/2018 - #BNYFW: Inside Fashion Designer Samantha Black’s Bey-Line to Success 

2/16/2018 - Lunar New Year TV Gala Sparks Outrage Over Blackface Sketch

2/16/2018 - An Open Letter to White People Who Are Upset Because Black Panther Is So Racist

2/15/2018 - Jeff Sessions vs. Marijuana: the Federal Court Battle Begins

2/15/2018 - Steve Bannon Was Questioned for 20 Hours This Week in the Mueller Investigation: Report

2/15/2018 - Gucci, Forever 21 and the Case of the Green and Red Stripes

2/15/2018 - Washington State Takes Crucial Step Toward Abolishing the Death Penalty

2/15/2018 - Watch: How to Play a Villain With Black Lightning’s Marvin Jones

2/15/2018 - From Wannabes to Wakanda: Ruth E. Carter Costumes Our Cultural Consciousness

2/15/2018 - Watch: Viola Davis Says Nobody Talks About Poverty

2/15/2018 - Barack Obama Tried to Warn Former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus on How to Handle Donald Trump

2/15/2018 - Watch: This Heroine Paved the Way for Black Women in Comics

2/15/2018 - Whiteness Means It’s Never Your Fault

2/15/2018 - The NRA Is a Terrorist Organization

2/15/2018 - Billion-Dollar Legacy: Reginald F. Lewis’ Incredible Life Story Comes to Film

2/15/2018 - Why Won’t the White House Explain Melania Trump’s Parents’ Immigration Status?

2/15/2018 - Florida School Shooter Was Member of Local White Supremacist Group

2/15/2018 - I Listened to Trump Pretend He Cares About School Shootings so You Don’t Have To

2/15/2018 - A Spoiler-Free Review of Black Panther With No Plot Points or Facts in Roughly 250 Words

2/15/2018 - Fox News Response to School Shooting Is to Praise the AR-15

2/15/2018 - Black Panther Is Finally Here; Before You ‘All Hail the King,’ Here’s Some Background

2/15/2018 - Now That Porn Actress Stormy Daniels Can Talk About Her Affair With Donald Trump, No One Cares

2/15/2018 - Watch: Here’s an Exclusive Clip From Atlanta’s ‘Robbin’ Season’

2/15/2018 - NYPD Officer Found Not Guilty in Shooting Death of Mentally Ill Black Woman

2/15/2018 - Perfect Music Moments in Black History: Nina Simone’s ‘4 Women’

2/15/2018 - Call Me by My Name: Danai Gurira Writes About the Importance of Identity for Glamour Magazine

2/15/2018 - The Other Black Wall Streets

2/15/2018 - Why Black People Are Always Bringing Up Old Stuff, Explained

2/15/2018 - #BNYFW: LaQuan Smith Brought the Heat to Fall Fashion Week

2/15/2018 - Placing a Price Tag on Freedom: The Evils of the Money-Bail System [Retracted]

2/15/2018 - HBO’s Documentary King in the Wilderness Is a Chilling Portrait of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final 18 Months on Earth

2/15/2018 - Black Mississippi Cop Fired (and Then Rehired) After Confronting Confederate-Flag Wavers Outside Civil Rights Museum 

2/15/2018 - Universal Music’s VP of Urban Catalog Andre Torres Talks New Editorial Platform, Urban Legends

2/15/2018 - Women and Men of Color Pay an ‘Emotional Tax’ at Work That’s Detrimental to Their Overall Health and Ability to Thrive: Report 

2/14/2018 - Stop Sticking Fruit in Your Vagina

2/14/2018 - Viola Davis Says Pay Her Like You Pay White Women

2/14/2018 - Schools Are Supposed to Be Safe

2/14/2018 - 17 Reported Dead in Fatal Florida High School Shooting; More Injured 

2/14/2018 - Popping the Question: What if I’m the One Who Got Away?

2/14/2018 - Tell Them We Are Rising Brings the 1st Documentary on Our Nation’s HBCUs to PBS

2/14/2018 - Watch: When Denzel Met Pauletta: Did He Pursue Her 1st?

2/14/2018 - Smile! This Valentine’s Day, Yvonne Orji Is All the Single Ladies

2/14/2018 - ’90s Group Portrait Talks Comeback, Premieres New Single in Time for Valentine’s Day

2/14/2018 - Perfect Music Moments in Black History: Rick James and Smokey Robinson ‘Ebony Eyes’

2/14/2018 - It’s Valentine’s Day; South Africa Just Dumped Its Leader and America Should Be Next 

2/14/2018 - Your Supervillain Boyfriend Michael Bae Jordan Shows Love to the #BlackPantherChallenge

2/14/2018 - Lena Horne’s Family Responds to NYC Principal Accused of Blocking Black History Month Lessons

2/14/2018 - Here’s How Much Trump’s Fascist Military Parade Will Cost

2/14/2018 - Apparently a Wax Museum in Niagara Falls Thinks This Sculpture of a White Manager at Hot Topic Is Beyoncé

2/14/2018 - #WCW: The Women of Wakanda Have Our Hearts!

2/14/2018 - Michelle and Barack Obama Are So Damn Cute and My Bitter, Cold Heart Can’t Take It

2/14/2018 - GOP Senate Candidate’s Parents Donate Maximum Amount to His Democratic Rival

2/14/2018 - Immigrant Faces Deportation After Calling Police for Help 

2/14/2018 - Spread Love: Jamaican-American Bobsledder Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian Loves the Babies

2/14/2018 - #MAGA: Trump Properties Needed 144 Employees, so They Hired 143 Foreign Guest Workers and 1 American

2/14/2018 - Activist DeRay Mckesson Announces Book Deal

2/14/2018 - Black Students at Michigan Middle School Targeted by Threatening, Racist Email 

2/14/2018 - NYFW: Cushnie et Ochs Celebrates a Decade of Design

2/14/2018 - New York Times Hires, Fires Reporter for Using the N-Word, but She’s Not Racist ... Just White

2/14/2018 - Angela Davis Frees Herself of Her Personal Archives, Which Go to Harvard

2/14/2018 - Trump’s Lawyer: I Paid the Porn Star $130,000 but That Doesn’t Mean She Had Sex With the President

2/14/2018 - Samba and Misogynoir: Will 2018 Be the Last Year of Blackface in Brazil’s Carnival?

2/14/2018 - Ben Jealous Reminds Us to ‘Agitate!’ on Frederick Douglass’ 200th Birthday

2/14/2018 - Cop Who Arrested Meek Mill Was Suspected of Having Racial Bias, Lying Under Oath: Report

2/14/2018 - So ... Um ... I Think Politico Just Published an Argument for Slavery. In 2018 (Yes, That Slavery)

2/14/2018 - Watch: This Is What It’s Like to Be a Black Girl in a White Ballet World

2/14/2018 - BNYFW: Telfar Global’s Showroom Experiment Starts Today!

2/14/2018 - NYC Judge Says Cops Were Justified in Handcuffing 16-Year-Old Kimani Gray as He Died in the Street 

2/14/2018 - Celebrating the ‘Everyday Love’ in Your Life 

2/14/2018 - Tessa Thompson to Portray International Jewel Thief Doris Payne in Untitled Heist Drama 

2/13/2018 - Sex Is Not a Gift, and Other Things You Need to Know About Valentine’s Day

2/13/2018 - Get Out and See the Most Talked About Movie of 2017 In Theaters for Free on Monday

2/13/2018 - Is Ulta Repackaging and Reselling Used Makeup to Consumers? A New Lawsuit Says Yes

2/13/2018 - Perfect Music Moments in Black History: Isaac Hayes ‘Hung Up on My Baby’

2/13/2018 - BNYFW: Off-White c/o Jimmy Choo Is a Collaboration to Covet

2/13/2018 - Court Rules Alabama Town’s School Segregation Too Racist ... Even for Alabama

2/13/2018 - 5 Books I’m Reading Now Since the Really Dumb and Self-Defeating Book Fast I Was On Is Finally Over

2/13/2018 - The Wonder of Wakanda: How This Black Utopian Space Is a Game Changer for Artists and Audiences

2/13/2018 - Milwaukee Jail Staffers Facing Charges in Death of Inmate Who Died of Dehydration 

2/13/2018 - What We Thought We Knew About Africa and Slavery Might Not Be Right

2/13/2018 - BNYFW: Romeo Hunte Turns It Up

2/13/2018 - Former White House Staffer Accused of Domestic Violence Was Being Considered for Promotion: Report

2/13/2018 - Here’s Why It’s Called Robbin’ Season: New Trailer for Season 2 of Atlanta Drops

2/13/2018 - Why I, a Survivor of Police Violence, Find Jeff Sessions’ Remarks So Disturbing

2/13/2018 - Boston Police Department Celebrates Black History Month by Honoring White Man

2/13/2018 - In An American Marriage, Tayari Jones Gets to the Heart of Our Matter

2/13/2018 - Watch: You Have a Black Man to Thank for Your Video Games

2/13/2018 - Omarosa Fired From White House for Using Executive Car Service Like a Personal Uber: Report

2/13/2018 - Watch: Everything You Need to Know About Black Panther, Explained

2/13/2018 - Woman Pleads Guilty to Stealing Infant 20 Years Ago, Raising Child as Her Own

2/13/2018 - Freddie Gray’s Stepfather, Richard Shipley, Dead at 60

2/13/2018 - Ava DuVernay and Los Angeles Mayor Create $5,000,000 Program to Diversify Lily-White Hollywood

2/13/2018 - She Got That Glow: Danielle Herrington Is the 3rd Black Woman to Grace the Cover of Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue!

2/13/2018 - The Trump Administration Wants to Bring Back Gov’ment Cheese, Blue Apron-Style

2/13/2018 - BNYFW: Welcome to Wakanda!

2/13/2018 - There’s a Reason a TV Station Mixed Up P.F. Chang’s and Pyeongchang—and It’s Predictably Trash

2/13/2018 - Racist Republican Running Against Paul Ryan Banned From Twitter

2/13/2018 - 10 Thoughts on Anna Holmes’ New York Times Op-Ed ‘Black With (Some) White Privilege’

2/13/2018 - Chiwetel Ejiofor Delivers Oscar-Worthy Performance in Come Sunday at Sundance

2/13/2018 - Florida News-Station Producer Fired After Being Caught Yelling Racial Slur at Neighbor

2/13/2018 - Former Missouri Police Officer Charged With Sexually Assaulting Pregnant Mother While On Duty 

2/13/2018 - Chris Rock Drops His 1st Netflix Special on Valentine’s Day

2/12/2018 - A Community Reels After the Police Killing of 16-Year-Old Anthony ‘A.J.’ Weber in Los Angeles

2/12/2018 - Applebee’s Employees Fired After Racially Profiling, Falsely Accusing 2 Black Women of Dining and Dashing

2/12/2018 - Today Is Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday—and a Good Time to Remind You He Did Not Free the Slaves

2/12/2018 - 2 Baltimore Police Detectives Convicted of Racketeering and Robbery

2/12/2018 - Sarah Huckabee Sanders Claims Trump Supports Victims of Domestic Violence; His Tweets and Statements Say Otherwise

2/12/2018 - An Open Letter to the Mainstream Media Covering the Death of Black People by the Police

2/12/2018 - A List of Things I’m Qualified to Critique, Since Apparently You’re Only Allowed to Critique Something if You’re an Expert Now

2/12/2018 - LaVar Ball Wants All His Children on the Same NBA Team and Even Plans to Hold Them Out if That Can’t Happen

2/12/2018 - BNYFW: Ennyluap Brings Ladylike Style to Fall Fashion Week

2/12/2018 - Jeff Sessions Tells Law Enforcement to Never Forget the ‘Anglo-American Heritage’ of the Sheriff’s Office 

2/12/2018 - Barack and Michelle Obama’s Official Portrait Unveiling Was a Shining Moment of Black History

2/12/2018 - Are You Black Enough to Watch Black Panther? A Quiz

2/12/2018 - Black Twitter Hilariously Imagines Blackest Nation Ever With #InWakanda Hashtag 

2/12/2018 - Watch: Rise of a Black Panther Comic Book Writer

2/12/2018 - Devin Nunes Had a Fake News Website That Was Taken Down After a Report Exposed It

2/12/2018 - Top 7 Moments From BET’s Social Awards ’18

2/12/2018 - Yet Another Black Transgender Woman Killed; Friends Up in Arms Because She Was Misgendered

2/12/2018 - PTA in NYC Catches Heat for Using Blackface Photo for Fundraiser Message in the Year of Our Lord 2018

2/12/2018 - Lupita Nyong’o Takes Us on Her Hair Journey in Allure

2/12/2018 - California School Pulls Science Project That Questioned Black People’s Intelligence

2/12/2018 - Perfect Music Moments in Black History: Groove Theory’s ‘Tell Me’

2/12/2018 - French Figure Skater’s Beyoncé Routine Gives Us #BlackGirlMagic on Ice

2/12/2018 - Steve Bannon Was Tired of Being Trump’s Wet Nurse: Report

2/12/2018 - She Is Not Her Hair: Why We Love the Many Styles of Michaela Coel

2/12/2018 - BNYFW: Pyer Moss Takes America 

2/12/2018 - Baltimore Cops May Soon Be Liable for Payouts to Victims of Police Brutality

2/12/2018 - Was Omarosa Hospitalized for an Asthma Attack or Did She Finally Choke on Her Own Lies?

2/12/2018 - When the Appropriator Is Your Own: On Kendrick Lamar and Why Lina Iris Viktor’s Constellations Does Not Belong in ‘All the Stars’

2/12/2018 - Donald Trump: White Jesus

2/12/2018 - Black NYPD Commanding Officer Accused of Celebrating ‘Hate Group’ After #BlackLivesMatter Tweet

2/12/2018 - NYC Investigates Principal Who Barred Black History Month Lessons From Being Taught at Her Middle School: Report

2/11/2018 - NYFW: Christian Siriano Celebrates 10 Years of Loving Us Unconditionally

2/11/2018 - Makers of OxyContin Say They Will No Longer Market to Doctors in Stunning Reversal

2/11/2018 - Offensive Dreamers Cartoon ‘a Mistake,’ Editor Says

2/11/2018 - BNYFW: Telfar Takes Black Rock to the Runway 

2/11/2018 - The Value of Michael Jordan’s Investment in the Charlotte Hornets Quadruples in 8 Years

2/11/2018 - World of Wakanda! Marvel Releases the Black Panther’s Family Tree (and There’s a White Bro in It!)

2/11/2018 - Trump Shows That in His Mind, Only White Men Deserve the Benefit of the Doubt

2/11/2018 - Kicks Ahoy! Lil Yachty Sails Into the Sneaker Game  

2/11/2018 - Tributes to Jermaine Dupri and Cameo Are Just the Reasons to Tune Into the Bounce TV Trumpet Awards

2/11/2018 - These New and Upcoming Books by Black Authors Will Give You Life in These Perilous Times

2/10/2018 - She’s Grown-ish! Happy 18th Birthday, Yara Shahidi!

2/10/2018 - Idris Elba Is Off the Market—He Popped the Question to Sabrina Dhowre in London Town

2/10/2018 - NYFW: Chromat Shows Us Diversity Is Body Beautiful 

2/10/2018 - The 10 Whitest Things About the Woman Who Flushed Her Emotional-Support Hamster Down the Toilet at the Airport

2/10/2018 - Tiffany Brown, Head of the 1-Woman Company That Delivered Only 50,000 of 30 Million Meals to Puerto Rico, Blames FEMA

2/10/2018 - Our Sisters’ Keeper: Tarana Burke Keeps Us Focused

2/10/2018 - 1st-Ever Black Hockey Player for Team USA Hits the Ice for Winter Olympics

2/10/2018 - Trump’s Revolving Door: No. 3 at the Justice Department Out After 9 Months

2/10/2018 - Watch: The Cast of Black Panther Creates a National Anthem for Wakanda

2/10/2018 - Watch: Jordan Peele Loves How Black People Watch Horror at the Movie Theater

2/10/2018 - Judge of Characters: The Whitewashing of Black History

2/9/2018 - Tonya Harvey Is 3rd Transgender Woman Killed in US in 2018

2/9/2018 - White House Speechwriter Is 2nd Staffer This Week to Resign Amid Domestic-Abuse Allegations

2/9/2018 - Emmy-Winning Actor Reg E. Cathey Dead at 59

2/9/2018 - Will Gen. John Kelly Resign as White House Chief of Staff?

2/9/2018 - President Donald ‘Grab ’Em by the ... ’ Trump Wishes Staffer Accused of Domestic Violence a Fond Farewell

2/9/2018 - #BlackPantherChallenge Raises More Than $300,000 to Send 23,000 Kids to Theaters

2/9/2018 - Report: California Police Protected White Nationalists Who Helped Them Hunt Anti-Racism Activists

2/9/2018 - Speedskater Shani Davis Throws Shade at the Winter Olympics After Learning He Won’t Be the Flag Bearer

2/9/2018 - With Black Panther We Have a Black Movie and a Black Movie Soundtrack. It’s Like 1994 All Over Again

2/9/2018 - Real Beauty: Is Truth in Advertising Finally Here? 

2/9/2018 - NYC Student Wants to Put His Namesake Malcolm X’s Name on His Senior Sweater, but His School Thinks It’s Inappropriate

2/9/2018 - The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: My Apology

2/9/2018 - 10 Questions We Really Wish Quincy Jones Had Answered

2/9/2018 - Mike Pence Doesn’t Bat an Eye Bashing North Korea’s Military Parade While Praising Donald Trump’s Parade

2/9/2018 - Nudes You Can Use: Nubian Skin Gets Inclusive by Expanding Its Size Range!

2/9/2018 - Maryland Governor Tries to Settle HBCUs’ Lawsuit With $100 Million; Schools Say ‘What Else You Got?’

2/9/2018 - Bid on #BlackGirlMagic: EBay Partners With Black Girls Rock!

2/9/2018 - Sources, Documents Produce a Shocking Story About Dennis Edwards

2/9/2018 - Tracing Your Roots: My Ancestor’s Census Record Is Confusing!

2/9/2018 - How in the Hell Are People Paying for Weddings? 

2/9/2018 - Utah School Renamed in Honor of NASA’s 1st Black Female Engineer 

2/9/2018 - Up in the Air Life Features Black Travel That Gets Both Lit and Luxe

2/9/2018 - Sundance’s Tyrel Is Get Out Without Hypnosis or the Sunken Place

2/9/2018 - She Got That Glow: Danai Gurira Was a Work of Art at Black Panther’s European Premiere

2/9/2018 - Chi-Town, Check Your Damn Blind Spots; I Have a Lifelong Nazi as GOP Congressional Nominee in My Backyard

2/9/2018 - Elementary Schoolboy Set 7-Year-Old Girl’s Hair on Fire, Outraged Mother Says 

2/9/2018 - Texas Woman, Who Was Possibly Living at Fitness Center, Found Nearly Drowned in Pool 

2/8/2018 - This Country Does Not Care About the Claims of Abused Women, and It Enables the Men Who Have Been Accused

2/8/2018 - Rain Pryor Speaks Out in Defense of Her Father’s Legacy

2/8/2018 - #NetNeutrality: Virginia Lawmakers Vote Against Creating Open Internet Protections for Their State

2/8/2018 - Um, Cocaine Really Is a Hell of a Drug

2/8/2018 - White Man Told Police That 2 Black Men Tried to Rob Him at Gunpoint; Surveillance Footage Told Another Story

2/8/2018 - The Criticism of Jacob Copeland’s Mom Is Unfair (and a Tiny Bit Racist, Too)

2/8/2018 - John Kelly Is a White Man

2/8/2018 - Russia Is Boring 

2/8/2018 - Omarosa Still Believes She Has Redeeming Qualities, Cries While Telling Big Brother Castmate Her Time at the White House Was a ‘Call to Duty’

2/8/2018 - Young Teacher Adopts 12-Year-Old Student Who Almost Caused Her to Quit

2/8/2018 - So the Cavs Just Traded Everyone Except LeBron and LeBron’s Bigen

2/8/2018 - Melania Trump Is Trolling Donald on Twitter and It’s Awesome

2/8/2018 - #28DaysOfBlackCosplay: Too Black for the White Geeks

2/8/2018 - Let There Be No Mistake: If You’re Outspoken and Black or Muslim, ‘They’ Are Definitely Watching You

2/8/2018 - Pre-K Teacher Leigh Bishop Matching Her Student’s Hairstyle Has Me All Up in My Dad Feels

2/8/2018 - She Got That Glow: Taraji P. Henson Takes Over the amfAR Gala

2/8/2018 - Get Out Is an Iconic, Critically Acclaimed Film, but Writer-Director Jordan Peele ‘Didn’t Know It Was Ever Going to Get Made’

2/8/2018 - Watch: Exclusive Clip of Regina King in Netflix’s 7 Seconds

2/8/2018 - What It Feels Like to Receive a Call From Your Child After Cops Draw Their Guns on Him

2/8/2018 - The White House Knew That Rob Porter Had Allegedly Assaulted His Ex-Wives and Kept Him Around Anyway: Report

2/8/2018 - Princeton Students Walk Out of Lecture After Professor Allegedly Used the N-Word: Report

2/8/2018 - Bomb Kush Forces Man to Get Naked, Stab Mom Because He Thought She Might Rape Him: Report

2/8/2018 - #BNYFW: Aurora James and the Brotherhood of Shoes 

2/8/2018 - ‘I Love This Shit’: Tennessee Sheriff Recorded Boasting After Ordering Officers to Shoot Unarmed Man During Slow-Speed Chase

2/7/2018 - #RelationshipGoals and the Unrealistic Expectation of Picture-Perfectness

2/7/2018 - Jeff Sessions Won’t Hold Bad Police Departments Accountable, so California Is Doing It on Its Own

2/7/2018 - Richard Pryor’s Widow Confirms He and Marlon Brando Did the Freaky Deaky

2/7/2018 - This Mom Just Walked Out of Her Son’s Televised College Announcement and I Have Questions

2/7/2018 - 10 Blackest Things About Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s ‘All the Stars’ Video From the Black Panther Soundtrack

2/7/2018 - Color Me Surprised: Someone Was Actually Arrested During That Philly Super Bowl Celebration

2/7/2018 - NYFW: #BlackElegance at Tom Ford

2/7/2018 - All I Want Is to Be 84 Years Old so I Can Give Negative-Infinity Fucks Like Quincy Jones

2/7/2018 - The NYPD Wants Desiigner’s Penis Pics

2/7/2018 - These Polls Ain’t Loyal: Why the Generic Congressional Ballot Is the Worst Predictor in American Politics

2/7/2018 - How to Get Away With Harassment on Twitter

2/7/2018 - #TeamSupernatural: Meet Black Panther’s Hero Hair Designer, Camille Friend

2/7/2018 - White Supremacy Roundup: 4 Stories That Show How Institutional Racism Works

2/7/2018 - Scientists Reveal That Britain’s Oldest-Known Skeleton Had Dark Skin, and Twitter Has a Field Day

2/7/2018 - Donald Trump Has a White Man’s Lace Front and He Almost Watched It Blow Away

2/7/2018 - Pastors With Bentleys and the Messy Psychology of Money

2/7/2018 - How Last Year’s Hurricane Season May Have Decimated the Virgin Islands’ Middle Class: Report

2/7/2018 - Donald Trump Jr: My Dad Isn’t Racist Because He Takes Photos With Rappers

2/7/2018 - Teach the Babies: Our #WomanCrushWednesday Makes Her Students Feel Beautiful!

2/7/2018 - Charleston, SC, Black Lives Matter Leader Dies After Being Shot in Louisiana

2/7/2018 - Watch: As Flint, Mich., Literacy Rates Plummet, Is Poisoned Water to Blame?

2/7/2018 - Boyce Watkins Responds to Article by The Root’s ‘Negro Annihilator’

2/7/2018 - Marvel Made a Black Panther Movie Partly Because Reginald Hudlin Put the ‘Black’ in Panther

2/7/2018 - Paint It Black: New Orleans Artist ‘Bmike’ Odums on Being Featured in Queen Sugar

2/7/2018 - Episode 3: ‘I Know Hard Work’: Memphis Sanitation Strikers on Childhoods Sharecropping in the Jim Crow South

2/7/2018 - For Valentine’s Day, Give As Good as You Get, Baby!

2/7/2018 - How Detroit Photographer Tafari Stevenson-Howard’s Couch Became a Work of Art

2/7/2018 - Attorneys for Bullied Gay Teen Want Manslaughter Charges Dismissed After Cellphone Video of Attack Emerges

2/7/2018 - In His Latest Gift to Instagram, Will Smith Spoofs Jaden Smith’s ‘Icon’ Music Video to Celebrate 100 Million Streams

2/7/2018 - ‘I Didn’t Want to Kill Anybody, but I Didn’t Want to Be Killed’: 83-Year-Old Homeowner Shoots Intruder 

2/6/2018 - Trump’s Lawyers Tell Him to Stand Down on Mueller All-Access Interview; Will He Listen?

2/6/2018 - Trump Wants a Military Parade Because Fascism Isn’t Coming to America Fast Enough

2/6/2018 - White Men and Their ‘Blackcents’ Need to Stop Coming for Black Women Online

2/6/2018 - Steve Bannon Dodges a House Intelligence Committee Interrogation Again

2/6/2018 - I Once Taught a College-Level Statistics Class Using Nothing but Drug References; It Was the Most Effective, Questionable Thing I’ve Done (at Least That Day)

2/6/2018 - Watch: Rashida Jones Says #MeToo and Time’s Up Must Be Inclusive

2/6/2018 - Drake Blessed 2 Miami Schools With a Scholarship, New Uniforms and Impromptu Concerts

2/6/2018 - After Making History, New Orleans’ 1st Female Mayor, LaToya Cantrell, Is Ready to Shape the City’s Future

2/6/2018 - The Difference Between ‘Hungry’ and ‘Thirsty,’ Explained

2/6/2018 - Trump Uses Death of NFL Player to Rant Against Immigrants, Ask for Border Wall

2/6/2018 - The Loving Generation Explores the Lives of Biracial Children Born After Mixed-Race Marriages Were Legalized

2/6/2018 - Watch: Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s ‘All the Stars’ Black Panther Video Is Absolutely Stunning

2/6/2018 - Beyoncé’s Father Claims She’s Successful Because She’s Light-Skinned

2/6/2018 - #WhatBlackPantherMeansToMe Trends Across the US 

2/6/2018 - Black Panther’s Tomatometer Soars at 100 Percent

2/6/2018 - When Wakanda Was Real

2/6/2018 - BNYFW: Your Black New York Fashion Week Calendar 

2/6/2018 - How Do You Listen to Hip-Hop?

2/6/2018 - Watch: Ever Wonder What Was in a Hotep Starter Kit?

2/6/2018 - Sen. Tammy Duckworth Isn’t Here to Clap for ‘Cadet Bone Spurs’ 

2/6/2018 - Girl Scout Sold More than 300 Boxes of Cookies Outside Calif. Marijuana Dispensary, But Could She Get in Trouble?

2/6/2018 - Temptations Singer Dennis Edwards May Have Been Abused Before His Death: Report

2/6/2018 - Why Is Kellyanne Conway in Charge of the Opioid Crisis? Then Again, She Does Lie Like a Crackhead

2/6/2018 - Nail It, Baby! Just Press, Go and Glow 

2/6/2018 - Parents Big Mad Over High School Math Teacher’s Drug-Referencing Homework

2/6/2018 - How Boyce Watkins Became the Negro Whisperer, Explained

2/6/2018 - Getting Crafty: This Photographer Gives New Meaning to ‘Beauty on a Budget’

2/6/2018 - Black Panther Delivers the Biggest, Blackest Superhero Movie Ever and It’s Just as Good as You Want It to Be

2/6/2018 - Suspect Wanted in Connection With Sexual Assault of Child in Viral Video Turns Himself In

2/6/2018 - Dear, Teacher: How Does It Feel to Be an Oppressor?

2/6/2018 - Actor Fired From Film About Police Brutality After Video of Him Making Racist Comments Resurfaces

2/6/2018 - Texas Couple Goes to Visit Vacation Home, Only to Discover the Whole House Has Been Stolen

2/5/2018 - Who Gets the Friends in the Breakup?

2/5/2018 - #Flint: 1,383 Days Without Safe Water, and the EPA Wants to Make Sure This Doesn’t Happen Again

2/5/2018 - Black People Don’t Want ‘the Chronic’ in Compton, Calif.

2/5/2018 - Black-Adjacent Hollywood Manager Shuts Down Agency Amid Sexual Harassment Allegations

2/5/2018 - ‘Un-American’ and ‘Treasonous’: Trump Is Really in His Feelings About Democrats Not Clapping During SOTU

2/5/2018 - Watch: Who Will Kneel for You? Artists Speak Out

2/5/2018 - Yes, There Was Slavery in New York, and a NYC College Has Compiled a Free, Searchable Database From That Terrible Time

2/5/2018 - Is It Racist to Hate the New England Patriots Because They Have Too Many White Players? (Hint: Nope!)

2/5/2018 - Justin Timberlake’s Prince Tribute Was Not a Hologram ... It Was a Perfect Allegory of America

2/5/2018 - This Is Us Finally Showed Us What Happened to Jack and the Episode Almost Took Me Out

2/5/2018 - Walk Into Wakanda: Clarks Originals and Marvel Team Up to Give Us Black Panther Kicks

2/5/2018 - Yes, the MLK Estate Did Approve That Trash Dodge Super Bowl Ad

2/5/2018 - Your President Is Messy, but He Sure Ain’t Original: Trump Belittles ‘Little’ Democratic Lawmaker

2/5/2018 - Former US Attorney General Eric Holder Goes Hollywood With Main Justice

2/5/2018 - I Successfully Didn’t Watch the 2018 Super Bowl. Here’s What That Struggle Looked Like

2/5/2018 - Black Twitter Tells Some Dude Named Michael Rapaport to Keep Janet Jackson’s Name Out of His Mouth

2/5/2018 - Some Eagles Players Have Already Said They Will Pass on a White House Visit

2/5/2018 - The Numbers Are In: Super Bowl Ratings the Lowest in 8 Years

2/5/2018 - America Will Not Stop Until Martin Luther King Jr. Is Completely Rebranded as a Slice of Avocado Toast 

2/5/2018 - The Shame Is Not Ours: Black America, Poverty and the War on Drugs [Retracted]

2/5/2018 - Rodarte: Where Black Beauty Blooms This Season

2/5/2018 - Kevin Hart Lived His Best Life (i.e. Made a Damn Fool of Himself) Celebrating Eagles' Super Bowl Win

2/5/2018 - There’s Something About Mary: Why We Can’t Stop Talking About Mary J. Blige

2/5/2018 - Eagles Fans Tear Down Property and Act a Fool After Super Bowl Win, but Police Show Restraint. Amazing

2/5/2018 - 3 Old Navy Employees Fired After Viral Video About Racial-Profiling Incident in Iowa 

2/4/2018 - ‘Long Live the King’ Black Panther Commercial Wins the Super Bowl

2/4/2018 - Rob Moore Is 2nd Editor Out at New York Daily News Amid Sexual Harassment Allegations

2/4/2018 - #JanetJacksonAppreciationDay Is Trending on Twitter as a Big FU to J.T.

2/4/2018 - Facebook Group Deactivated After Vowing to Target Black Panther on Rotten Tomatoes

2/4/2018 - The (Other) Talk: What Last Week’s Grown-ish Got Right About Mothers, Daughters and Sexuality

2/4/2018 - Sheila E. Says There Will Be ‘No Hologram’ During J.T.’s Super Bowl Halftime Show

2/4/2018 - Colorado Teacher Allegedly Assaults Middle School Student Who Wouldn’t Stand for Pledge

2/4/2018 - When Therapy Is a Comfort

2/4/2018 - Sex Trafficking and the Super Bowl: There’s More at Play Sunday Than Just Football

2/3/2018 - Man Who Sold Ammo to Las Vegas Shooter Is Criminally Charged by Feds

2/3/2018 - Wanda Sykes Is the Sistah-Friend We All Need

2/3/2018 - Maryland County Passes a Black Lives Matter Week of Action for All Its Schools

2/3/2018 - Making Black History: Meet Michael Thomas, the New Editor of the Harvard Law Review

2/3/2018 - Black Unemployment Is Back Up. Way Up. What Will Trump Have to Say Now? 

2/3/2018 - Holding Out for a Shero: In Altered Carbon, Renée Elise Goldsberry Is a Superwoman for a New Age

2/3/2018 - Ambitious, Thought-Provoking and Utterly Bizarre, Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You Was the Most Mind-Blowing Movie at Sundance

2/2/2018 - #NetNeutrality: The FCC Has Reportedly Officially Put the Senate on Notice

2/2/2018 -  #BlackMenSmiling Is the Most Beautiful Thing on Twitter Right Now—and It’s Trending Worldwide

2/2/2018 - Temptations Singer Dennis Edwards Dead at 74

2/2/2018 - The World’s 10 Greatest Solemn-Ass Negroes, Ranked

2/2/2018 - Move Over, Lois Lane! Hit Comic Features Black, Bisexual Tabloid Reporter

2/2/2018 - If You Use a Housecleaning Service, Do You Tidy Up Before They Come? 

2/2/2018 - 2 Dope Queens on Getting HBO Coins, Meeting Oprah and Their Responsibility to Black Women

2/2/2018 - Photo of Sorority Girls Holding Banana Peel With Caption Reading in Part ‘I’m 1/16 Black’ Sparks Outrage at George Washington University 

2/2/2018 - Toni Braxton Has Blocked Me on Twitter and I Have Questions

2/2/2018 - Surprise, Surprise: Survey Reveals That American Students Are Not Being Adequately Taught About Slavery

2/2/2018 - Ivanka Trump Tweeted About Black History Month; It Didn’t Go Well

2/2/2018 - 6 Ways to Enjoy Super Bowl Sunday Without Watching the Super Bowl

2/2/2018 - The Nerve: In This Will Be My Undoing, Debut Author Morgan Jerkins Isn’t Afraid to Go There

2/2/2018 - Judge of Characters: An Ode to Black Twitter

2/2/2018 - In Shocking Report, 100 Percent of NFL’s Black Men Surveyed Are Treated Like Black Men

2/2/2018 - Georgia Father Dies After Saving 5 Children From Burning Home 

2/2/2018 - #28DaysBlackOfCosplay: Learning to Love Myself by Playing Dress-Up

2/2/2018 - Trump Bashes FBI and Doesn’t Impose Sanctions Against Russia—but He’s Racist, so Middle America Still Loves Him 

2/2/2018 - I Have a Problem: I Keep Ending Up at Target

2/2/2018 - Soul Singer Alleges That Kanye West and Solange Knowles Illegally Sampled His Track

2/2/2018 - ‘See How It Feels to Be a Slave?’: NYC Teacher Steps on Student’s Back to Simulate Horrors of Slavery

2/2/2018 - Kelvin Harrison Jr.’s Breakout Performance Anchors Powerful Young-Adult Novel-Turned-Sundance Film Monster

2/2/2018 - Black Panther: An Allegory of the World Wanting Blackness but Not Black People

2/2/2018 - The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Racists and White Jesus Need to Step Up Their Game

2/2/2018 - Vermont High School Flies Black Lives Matter Flag to Signal Commitment to Inclusivity 

2/2/2018 - Tracing Your Roots: Who Were My Kin Born During Slavery?

2/2/2018 - We Outchea! The Glow Up Takes a Field Trip

2/2/2018 - Don Lemon’s Sister, L’Tanya Lemon Grimes, Dies in Accidental Drowning 

2/2/2018 - Oregon State Student Government Rep Facing Hate Crime Charges in Placement of Racist Bumper Stickers on Cars

2/2/2018 - Louisiana Man Exonerated by DNA Evidence After Serving Nearly 38 Years in Prison for Rape He Didn’t Commit

2/1/2018 - Felons in Florida May Have an Easier Time Restoring Their Right to Vote

2/1/2018 - Fidel Ángel Castro Díaz-Balart, Fidel Castro’s Eldest Son, Commits Suicide

2/1/2018 - Mo’Nique Wasn’t Lying; Netflix Tried to Play Her

2/1/2018 - What Does Robert Mueller Have That Would Make 3 Defense Attorneys Leave Their Client in the Dust?

2/1/2018 - Can We Talk About Tom Brady Kissing His 11-Year-Old Son on the Mouth for a Long Time?

2/1/2018 - Texas Woman Charged With Yelling Racist Slurs at Interracial Couple, Smashing Their Car Windows 

2/1/2018 - Collusion? Forget Russia: LeBron James Is Willing to Take a Meeting With the Golden State Warriors

2/1/2018 - White People in Airports Keep Telling Me I Look Like Khalid

2/1/2018 - Watch: Did Donald Trump Really Bring Down Black Unemployment?

2/1/2018 - To All Old White Men Considering a Run for President in 2020: Reconsider

2/1/2018 - Oregon Mother Furious After 13-Year-Old Son Given Note With Racial Slur

2/1/2018 - A Clean Slate: San Francisco to Toss Out Thousands of Marijuana Convictions

2/1/2018 - #GuestsDontPay Would Make Life Easier, but Nobody Would Celebrate Anything Ever Again (Unless They Were Rich)

2/1/2018 - Trump Claims His State of the Union Address Was the Most Watched in History. It Wasn’t

2/1/2018 - Don’t Call It a Comeback: Are We Ready for a Real Cross Colours Revival?

2/1/2018 - Black Man in ICU After One-Night Stand’s Racist Brother Attacks Him With Bat

2/1/2018 - Angela Rye Talks the State of the Black Union. Next Stop ‘the Black Party’?

2/1/2018 - Who Got da Props? Who Got da Props? Cardi B, Runnin’ Things From the Bronx

2/1/2018 - Black History Can’t and Shouldn’t Be Relegated to a Single Month

2/1/2018 - Devin Nunes Is Trash, the Memo Is Garbage and the Entire Trump Administration Is Basura, Explained

2/1/2018 - New Report Says White Supremacist Propaganda Spiked on College Campuses Last Year

2/1/2018 - Justin Timberlake’s Man of the Woods Album Probably Should Have Been Called 808s and Banjos

2/1/2018 - Episode 2: The Tragic Deaths of Robert Walker and Echol Cole Sparked 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike

2/1/2018 - From Living Single to Love Jones: How the ’90s Shaped My Style 

2/1/2018 - Mom Says Ex-Boyfriend Is Person of Interest in 16-Year-old Virginia Girl’s Death 

2/1/2018 - About Lash Night: I Found the Perfect Eyelashes for $10, and I’m in Love!   

2/1/2018 - Is Today’s Hip-Hop Trash or Are We Just Getting Old? Spoiler Alert: The Answer Is ‘Yes’

2/1/2018 - This Is How You Finesse a Photo With Beyoncé—According to Tiffany Haddish

2/1/2018 - Iowa Man Says He Was Racially Profiled by Old Navy Employees Who Didn’t Believe He Purchased the Jacket He Walked Into the Store Wearing