7/31/2018 - Paul Manafort Drops His Lawsuit Against Robert Mueller Just as His Own Criminal Trial Begins

7/31/2018 - An Open Letter to the Avocado Haters on #NationalAvocadoDay

7/31/2018 - Colorism and the Legacy of Plaçage: The House That Will Not Stand Revisits a History Still Relevant Today

7/31/2018 - Change in the Company Line: Trump Echoes Giuliani's Claim That Collusion With Russia Is Not a Crime

7/31/2018 - #ServingYourNeighborhoodWhileBlack: Calif. Safeway Calls Cops on Black Woman Donating to the Homeless, Accuses Her of Shoplifting

7/31/2018 - She's So Colorful: Tiffany Haddish Covers Glamour's September Issue!

7/31/2018 - Cue the World's Smallest Violin: White Driver Who Followed Black Man, Called Him Slurs, Now Whines About Life Being Ruined

7/31/2018 - May We All Have Love Like Obama and Biden

7/31/2018 - Canceled? Why Beauty Vlogger Destiny Godley Is Closing Her YouTube Channel

7/31/2018 - J. Kenneth Lee, Who Was Among the 1st Black Students to Attend UNC at Chapel Hill, Dead at 94

7/31/2018 - Old White Men Beef: Trump to Koch Brothers: I Made Them Richer ... I Don't Need Their Money or Bad Ideas

7/31/2018 - Makeup for Everyone: Make Up For Ever's Latest Release Nails the Full Spectrum Foundation Range

7/31/2018 - Lauryn Hill, Style Icon? 20 Years After Miseducation, the Singer Fronts Her First Fashion Campaign

7/31/2018 - A Whole North Carolina Police Force Has Been Suspended After Chief Charged With Corruption 

7/30/2018 - Betsy DeVos Doesn't Give a Damn About Students, Education or the Cost Thereof

7/30/2018 - Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal Show Off Their MC Skills on ‘Easy Come, Easy Go’

7/30/2018 - She Did That: Because of Beyoncé, Tyler Mitchell Is the First Black Photographer to Shoot a Vogue Cover

7/30/2018 - Family of the 9 Killed in a Missouri Duck Boat Accident Sues for $100 Million

7/30/2018 - Kid Fury Is Making Big Moves With Lena Waithe and HBO

7/30/2018 - Attorney General Jeff Sessions Just Launched an *Insert Racist Dog Whistle* Christian Task Force

7/30/2018 - 19-Year-Old University of Kentucky Student Drowns in Israel

7/30/2018 - Imma Need Meghan Markle's Broke, Bitter Relatives to Pick a Struggle 

7/30/2018 - Polite White People Are (Still) Useless

7/30/2018 - 'Don't Throw Her Away': Mo'Nique Comes to 'Sister' Roseanne Barr's Defense

7/30/2018 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg: I've Got About 5 More Years on the Supreme Court Before I Retire

7/30/2018 - Trump Effect: Spokesman for GOP Senate Hopeful Called Memphis, New Orleans and Baltimore 'Shitholes'

7/30/2018 - Barack Obama Is Out Here Looking Like Our Favorite Uncle Jamming Out at the OTRII Concert in Washington, D.C.

7/30/2018 - The Category Is ... 'Cover Girls': The Beauties of Pose Cover Out Magazine

7/30/2018 - Rudy Giuliani Might Be the Dumbest Person in the White House and That's Good for Donald Trump

7/30/2018 - Minneapolis Police Officers Will Not Face Criminal Charges After Gunning Down Fleeing Black Man [Updated]

7/30/2018 - Could She Be the Most Beautiful Girl in the World? A 5-Year-Old Nigerian Girl Is Making Headlines

7/30/2018 - Danielle Brooks Shines Bright as Her Character Faces Darkness in Season 6 of Orange is the New Black

7/30/2018 - Things Black People Say When You Might Be About to Catch Those Hands But You're Not Quite Sure

7/30/2018 - 'We're Just Getting Started': Koch Brothers Plan to Spend Up to $400 Million on Midterm Elections

7/30/2018 - LeBron James is Having 1st-Day-of-School Jitters With the Opening of His New 'I Promise' Elementary School

7/30/2018 - African Girl Magic: Disney to Develop New Fairytale Movie Around African Princess, Sadé

7/30/2018 - Is It the End of an Era? Will Beyoncé's Next Vogue Cover Be Anna Wintour's Last?

7/30/2018 - Will Austin, Texas Get a New Name? A Local Report on Confederate Monuments Suggests Renaming City

7/30/2018 - The Public Health Crisis Hitting New York City's Most Vulnerable Black and Brown Children

7/30/2018 - When the Fenty Effect Fails: Beautyblender's New Foundation Needs to Bounce

7/30/2018 - Exclusive: Yusef Salaam of the Central Park Five Says City’s Recent Document Dump Is One-Sided, Prejudicial and Biased

7/30/2018 - Madam C.J. Walker Makes It to Netflix: Octavia Spencer to Play America's First Black Beauty Mogul

7/30/2018 - Court Records Posted Online Show Charlamagne Tha God's DNA Didn't Match Accuser's Rape Kit

7/30/2018 - 'She Broke Me': Cardi B Gets Real About Being a New Mom

7/30/2018 - Black Lives Matter to Counter Protest 'White Civil Rights Rally' in DC

7/29/2018 - New Orleans Shooting Leaves 3 dead, 7 injured

7/29/2018 - White Fox News Guest: 'There's Nothing Worse Than Being Called A Racist'

7/29/2018 - Amazon’s Face Recognition Disproportionately Matched Congressional Members of Color With Mugshots

7/29/2018 - Congressman John Lewis Hospitalized, Expected To Be Released Today

7/28/2018 - Billy Dee Williams, Carrie Fisher Set To Appear In New Star Wars Film

7/28/2018 - Ving Rhames Recalls Being Held at Gunpoint by Police at His Home After A Neighbor Called in a Break-In by a 'Large Black Man'

7/28/2018 - Dak Prescott Won't Protest During The National Anthem

7/28/2018 - Donald Trump Clearly Doesn't Care About Election Security

7/27/2018 - Mississippi Cop Caught on Video Using Stun Gun on Handcuffed Shoplifting Suspect

7/27/2018 - Florida Cop Says His Chief Instructed Him to Frame 2 Black Men for Crimes They Didn’t Commit

7/27/2018 - Smells Like Tea: Stormy Daniels Just Launched a New Perfume. It's Called 'Truth'

7/27/2018 - A Sandra Bland Documentary Is Coming to HBO

7/27/2018 - Judge of Characters: Stand Your Ground Only Works for White People

7/27/2018 - End of Days: White House Issues Official Statement and Spells 'United States' Wrong

7/27/2018 - A List of Things La Croix Tastes Like

7/27/2018 - Bobby Brown Will Honor His Daughter Bobbi Kristina by Building a Domestic Violence Shelter in Her Name

7/27/2018 - Hit 'Ignore': New Documentary Sheds Light on the Hate Speech Facebook Allows on Its Site

7/27/2018 - It's Official: Nail Art Is Being Taken Over By White Women

7/27/2018 - #SayHerName: Celebrities Draw Attention to the Death of Nia Wilson in the Week Following her Fatal Stabbing

7/27/2018 - Donald Trump Jr.'s Bae Kimberly Guilfoyle Left Fox News Amid Dick Pic Scandal: Report 

7/27/2018 - How to Use Your White Privilege the Right Way 

7/27/2018 - President Trump Is Rage-Tweeting and Big Mad That Robert Mueller Is About to Be All Up in His Tweets

7/27/2018 - The One About the Time My Parked Car Was Totaled When It Stopped a High-Speed Police Chase Through the Streets of DC

7/27/2018 - In His Shoes: Lenny Kravitz Shows Off Collectibles From His Idols for GQ

7/27/2018 - Long-Lost Writings of Malcolm X Find a Home in Harlem

7/27/2018 - The Pop Up: pineappleCITI Just Might Be Your New Favorite Rapper

7/27/2018 - A Fenty Muse in Full Bloom: Slick Woods Makes a Big Reveal on the Cover of Elle UK

7/27/2018 - Gwyneth Paltrow May Be a Becky. But She’s Not That Becky

7/27/2018 - Naturally Beautiful: The Best of CurlFest 2018

7/27/2018 - Mother Says Medics Denied Her Daughter an Ambulance Ride Because They Assumed She Couldn't Afford It. Her Daughter Died Days Later

7/27/2018 - Fake or Drake? Why an Awkward IG Post Had Folks Ready to Pull Drake's #BeardGang Card

7/27/2018 - Lawyer Michael Avenatti Claims 3 More Women Were Paid to Keep Quiet About Donald Trump: Report 

7/27/2018 - Michael Cohen Is Singing Like 1970s Anita Baker, Claims Trump Knew About 2016 Russia Meeting

7/26/2018 - Cardi B Announces She Is Choosing Motherhood Over the Bruno Mars Tour

7/26/2018 - Do All of Your Clothes Have To Be Off for It To Be Considered Rape?

7/26/2018 - Trump’s Tweets Reportedly Being Investigated in Mueller Probe

7/26/2018 - Blindspotting Is the Perfect Metaphor for Implicit Bias

7/26/2018 - Donald Trump Is America's Greatest President

7/26/2018 - Wait, Stormy Daniels Lawyer Might Be Running for President? Don't Say This Is So

7/26/2018 - Misty Copeland Portrays a Stripper in the 2019 Pirelli Calendar—and We Feel a Way [Updated]

7/26/2018 - At Least Omarosa's Got the Right Name for Her 'Tell-All' on the Trump White House: Unhinged

7/26/2018 - The Choir That Performed at the Royal Wedding Got a Record Deal With Sony

7/26/2018 - A Small Arizona Town Is Saying It's Not as Racist as It Appeared on Sacha Baron Cohen's Show

7/26/2018 - As a Kid, I Thought Huntsville, Ala., Sucked. As an Adult, It Looks Pretty Alright

7/26/2018 - Shit Bougie Black People Love: 35. Pretending to Enjoy La Croix

7/26/2018 - Attorney General Jeff Sessions Rides for Deputy Rod Rosenstein After Members of GOP Call for His Impeachment 

7/26/2018 - Angela Bassett Dishes on Her Career, Staying Fit and Mission Impossible: Fallout 

7/26/2018 - Bernie Sanders Takes on Unjust Cash Bail System, but Still Doesn't Make Direct Connection to Institutional Racism

7/26/2018 - White House Bans CNN Reporter From Event and Journalists Are Pissed, Including Fox News

7/26/2018 - Black Student Wins Harvard Debate Tournament After Atlanta Students Dominate Competition 

7/26/2018 - Latino Man Says He Was Brutally Beaten by 2 New Orleans Cops for Wearing Camo: 'He Kept Telling Me...I Was a Fake American'

7/26/2018 - Dwyane Wade Offered $25 Million To Play For China, Miami Heat Offers $5.3 Million

7/26/2018 - Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Has a $40 Million Yacht and Vandals Set It Free

7/26/2018 - It Must Suck to Be a Dallas Cowboys Fan Right About Now

7/26/2018 - Wells Fargo Employees Call Cops on 78-Year-Old Black Woman After Refusing to Cash Her Check

7/26/2018 - Put What in the Butt? About That Time We Learned About Chicken Stock Butt Injections

7/26/2018 - Blue Ivy is Only 6 Years Old, But She's Still My Life Goal

7/26/2018 - Stacey Abrams, Who May Become the Country's 1st Black Female Governor, Lands Cover of Time's 'The South' Issue

7/26/2018 - Black Celebs Suffering From Drug Addiction Deserve The Same Support as Demi Lovato

7/26/2018 - Wardrobe Malfunction: Bianca Lawson's Battle With an Exploding Water Bra Is All of Us

7/26/2018 - White Driver Follows Black Man to His House, Calls Him the N-Word in Road Rage Incident 

7/26/2018 - Oregon Student Disciplined for Wearing Pro-Border Wall Shirt to School Wins $25,000 Settlement 

7/26/2018 - Chicago Cops Fail to Administer Aid After Shooting Black Man Climbing Fence to Get Away

7/25/2018 - Jerry Jones Says Players on ‘America’s Team’ Required to Stand for National Anthem

7/25/2018 - 11 Republican Congressmen File Articles of Impeachment Against Rod Rosenstein, Proving That U.S. Democracy Is Indeed on Its Deathbed

7/25/2018 - Lucy McBath, One of the 'Mothers of the Movement,' Advances in Congressional Run in Georgia

7/25/2018 - Are White Sneakers Worth the Trouble? (An Important Debate)

7/25/2018 - Winner's Circle: Serena Williams Scores Natural Hair Products at Target—Just Like Us!

7/25/2018 - Teacher Who Made a Noose Symbol Toward Black Kid Won't Face Charges; DA's Office Said It Wasn't a Hate Crime

7/25/2018 - Yep, That Soccer Ball That Vladimir Putin Gave to Trump Had a Transmitter Chip: Report

7/25/2018 - Sean 'Spicy Facts' Spicer Is Still Trash

7/25/2018 - Runway to On the Run II: The Carters Hit the States and We Run Down Bey's Tour Looks to Date

7/25/2018 - Nothing to See Here, Just the World's Greatest Athlete, Serena Williams, Getting 'Randomly' Drug Tested Again

7/25/2018 - N-Word-Shouting Georgia State Lawmaker Jason Spencer Resigns

7/25/2018 - Trump Is Guilty Tweeting This Morning After Michael Cohen Tape Reveals Him Discussing Payment to Side Bae  

7/25/2018 - What It Looks Like When the Whole Team's Winning

7/25/2018 - #CouponingWhileBlack (Again): Dollar General Employee Calls Cops on Black Woman Using Digital Coupons

7/25/2018 - Meek Mill Working With Philadelphia 76ers Co-Owner To Reshape The Criminal Justice System

7/25/2018 - Come Through, Comic-Con! How Celebs Turned Up for the World's Best Known Comic Convention

7/25/2018 - 'He's Been a Monster His Whole Life': Family of Man Accused of Murdering Black Woman Says He's a White Supremacist 

7/25/2018 - What Skin Are You In? A New Spot Celebrates All Shades and Shapes of the Nubian Skin Woman

7/25/2018 - DA Asks That Bill Cosby Be Classified as a Sexually Violent Predator Before Sentencing

7/25/2018 - Black Journalist Groups Call Out TV Station for Airing Photo of Stabbing Victim Nia Wilson Appearing to Hold a Gun

7/25/2018 - #BankingWhileBlack: Chase Bank Refuses to Deposit Compensatory State Check From Wrongfully Convicted Man Twice

7/25/2018 - Diamond Life: Fenty Is Launching a New Killawatt Highlighter for a Fantastic Cause

7/25/2018 - Black Trans Woman Shot in Dispute at Detroit Gas Station; Police Exploring if Incident Is a Hate Crime

7/25/2018 - Family Believes Grandfather Shot and Killed in Long Beach, Calif., Park is a Hate Crime Victim

7/24/2018 - Protestors Shut Down Convenience Store After Video Shows Owner Kicking Black Woman

7/24/2018 - Trump Tries to Offset Damage From Tariffs With Welfare for White People

7/24/2018 - 10 Quick Things About What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker, an Upcoming Memoir in Essays From Damon Young

7/24/2018 - Sherri Shepherd's Son Doesn't Like Black Girls Because They're Mean

7/24/2018 - Does Sarah Huckabee Sanders Have One Foot Out the White House Door and the Other on a Banana Peel?

7/24/2018 - 5 Things Black Voters Should Demand From the Democratic Party

7/24/2018 - More Full-Spectrum Beauty: Milk Makeup Increases Its Shade Range

7/24/2018 - The Root Packs the House for Very Smart Brothas' and The Glow Up's Boss Moves Event in Washington, D.C.

7/24/2018 - Shonda Rhimes Reveals 8 New Shows Coming to Netflix

7/24/2018 - Cowboys Defensive End Tyrone Crawford Isn't Happy With His 'Humpty-Dumpty' Body in Madden 19

7/24/2018 - A New Destiny Down Under: Kelly Rowland Appears in Vogue Australia

7/24/2018 - Utah Man Impersonated Officer, Threatened to Kill 2 Men Believed to be in the Country Illegally: Report

7/24/2018 - Hold Up: Is a New Beyoncé Album Really Coming to Netflix?

7/24/2018 - You're Fired! Ivanka Trump Shuts Down Her Fashion Line

7/24/2018 - I Knew the Story of Whitney Houston Was Sad, But My God!

7/24/2018 - Amber Rose Launches New App, Plans to Help Her Rosebuds Financially 

7/24/2018 - Black Woman Manhandled by 3 Cops at Alabama Waffle House Found Guilty of Disorderly Conduct

7/24/2018 - Attorney General Jeff 'King Keebler' Sessions Joins High Schoolers in 'Lock Her Up' Chant

7/24/2018 - Calling All Makeup Junkies: Fashion Nova Plans To Launch Nova Beauty

7/24/2018 - I Didn't Know I Wanted Golden Girls Action Figures Until I Saw That They Existed. Now I Want Other Collections

7/24/2018 - It's About to Go Down: FBI Seized 12 Tapes During Michael Cohen Raid

7/24/2018 - Michael Arceneaux's Debut Book, I Can't Date Jesus is For Those Who Unapologetically Bop...With Chicken Wings

7/24/2018 - Racist Comic Fans Run Titans Star Off Instagram for Not Being the Right Kind of Black

7/24/2018 - Video Shows Georgia Police Officer Forcefully Restraining 10-Year-Old Distraught Over Father's Arrest

7/24/2018 - So Fresh, So Clean: Fellas, Scotch Porter Now Has Your Head-to-Toe Grooming Regimen

7/24/2018 - Gunman in 'Stand Your Ground' Shooting of Black Man Had History of Raging About Parking Spaces, Locals Say

7/24/2018 - Charlamagne Tha God Called His Wife On The Breakfast Club To Put An End To Allegations About Raping Her [Update]

7/24/2018 - Man Arrested in Horrific Stabbing Death of Nia Wilson; Bay Area Protesters Demand Justice

7/24/2018 - Denzel Washington on Sustaining a 35-Year Marriage: 'I Do What I'm Told and Keep My Mouth Shut!'

7/24/2018 - A Joyful Noise! Letitia Wright Covers W Magazine

7/24/2018 - Texas Waiter Who Received 'We Don't Tip Terrorist' Note Admits to Writing Racist Message Himself 

7/23/2018 - Cop Kept His Job After Calling Teenage Black Girl a 'Wild Animal That Needs To Be Put Down'

7/23/2018 - Millions of Black Voters Are Being Purged From Voter Rolls, Often Illegally: Report

7/23/2018 - Petty President: Trump Looking to Remove Security Clearances From Ex-Officials Critical of His Administration

7/23/2018 - 'Fashion Is a Form of Art': The Cast of Pose Explains How Fashion Empowers Identity

7/23/2018 - Stabbing at BART Station Leaves 1 Black Woman Dead, Another Injured; Police Identify Suspect

7/23/2018 - Black Man Fired From Home Depot for Standing Up to Racist Customer Offered His Job Back, But He's No Longer Interested 

7/23/2018 - The Senile Old Man in the White House Is Going to All-Cap Tweet Us Into a War With Iran

7/23/2018 - Family of Australian Woman Shot and Killed by Minneapolis Cop Files Lawsuit Against City, Officers 

7/23/2018 - Mareena Robinson Snowden Is The 1st Black Woman to Earn a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering From MIT

7/23/2018 - 10 Music Biopics I'd Really Like To See

7/23/2018 - GOP Lawmaker Who Showed His Ass (Literally), and Screams the N-Word Claims He's Not a Racist

7/23/2018 - School Bans Durags Because They Turn Black Boys Into Bald-Headed Gangbangers

7/23/2018 - Dapper in Dior, Married in Marchesa: How Pusha T and His Bride Tied the Knot in Classic Style

7/23/2018 - We Listened to R. Kelly's New 19-Minute Song, 'I Admit,' So You Don't Have to

7/23/2018 - Everything That Went Down At Pusha T's Wedding

7/23/2018 - Forever Fine: Angela Bassett Proves She's Eternally Bae on the Cover of Porter Magazine 

7/23/2018 - How the Republican Party Became The Party of Racism

7/23/2018 - Amazon Should Replace Literally Every White Man to Save Local Taxpayers Money

7/23/2018 - From the Gridiron to the Screen: How Thomas Q. Jones Plans to Take on Hollywood

7/23/2018 - Florida Man Who Accused Home Depot of Firing Him Because of Upcoming Surgery Speaks Out

7/23/2018 - #OwningABusinessWhileBlack: San Francisco Man Gets Accused of Breaking into His Own Shop

7/23/2018 - Pennsylvania Man Shot and Killed at Local Bar After Defending Black Man Who Was Being Called Racial Slurs

7/23/2018 - She Got That Glow: Anok Yai Is the Newest Face of Estée Lauder

7/23/2018 - #PermitPatty Reported a 13-Year-Old Selling Hot Dogs. Instead of Shutting Him Down, the City Helped Him Get His Permit

7/22/2018 - Michael Bae Jordan Attempts to Use Milk Analogy to Explain His Love For Black Women

7/22/2018 - The House of Abundance: The Carters Eyeball the Colosseum in Rome for Next Video and Give Us a Glimpse of The Twins on a Yacht

7/22/2018 - The Stand Your Ground Law Protects Shooter Who Killed Black Man Over Parking Space, Sheriff Says

7/22/2018 - Georgia Southern University Student Mistakenly Sends Racist Text About Another Student, Meant "Triggerish"

7/21/2018 - The Whoopi Goldberg Vs. Judge Jeanine Pirro Beef is So Deliciously Messy

7/21/2018 - Anthony Anderson Under Investigation For Allegedly Assaulting a Woman

7/21/2018 - Unfortunately, Michelle Obama is Not Running For President, But She's All About Voting

7/21/2018 - 9 Members of the Same Family Killed in Freak Boat Accident That Left 17 Dead

7/20/2018 - Black Bosses Making Moves with VSB and The Glow Up!

7/20/2018 - Offset of Migos Arrested for Gun Possession and Hit With 4 Charges: Report

7/20/2018 - Home Depot Reverses Course and Offers Employee Fired for Responding to Customer's Racist Rant His Job Back [Updated]

7/20/2018 - Woman Who Called Police on 2 Black Yale Students Says She's 'Done Absolutely Nothing Wrong' in Whitest Tweets Ever

7/20/2018 - Grab Your Girls and Celebrate Your Curls: CurlFest Returns to Brooklyn This Saturday!

7/20/2018 - A Running List of Things Straight Men Can't and Shouldn't Do Because It'll Make Us Gay

7/20/2018 - Common on Putting His Money Where the Government Won't

7/20/2018 - The University of Virgina Hired a Trump Staffer Days Before the Charlottesville Anniversary and, as an Alum, I’m Okay With That

7/20/2018 - Level Up: The Latest Lyst Index Indicates That Black Influence Is Finally Being Recognized

7/20/2018 - Teenager Loses Job After Mistaking a Text From His Boss for a 'Dick Appointment'

7/20/2018 - City of Clayton, Mo., Apologizes to 10 Black Students Wrongly Accused of Dining and Dashing 

7/20/2018 - Judge of Characters: Does Justice Have a Shelf Life?

7/20/2018 - Unemployed Comedian Comes Up With Another Excuse for Valerie Jarrett Tweet: 'I Thought the Bitch Was White'

7/20/2018 - It's About to Go Down: Michael Cohen Secretly Recorded Trump Talking About Payments to Ex-Playmate

7/20/2018 - Eric Holder for President? Obama's Former Attorney General 'Seriously Considering' Running in 2020 

7/20/2018 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: The Seinfeld of Mailbags

7/20/2018 - Burberry Burning? British Retailer Reportedly Torched Over $33 Million of Unsold Merchandise

7/20/2018 - NFL Takes Page Out of Trump's Russia Playbook, Moonwalks Back on National Anthem Policy

7/20/2018 - New Jersey Wawa Mistakes Black Woman for Shoplifter Because of Her Big Afro

7/20/2018 - White Nationalists Who Jumped Black Man in a Bar Charged With Hate Crime

7/20/2018 - A Real Week In New York City on an Intern's Salary

7/20/2018 - Whose Hand is This? Korean Company Gets Inclusivity Wrong with a Blackface Manicure

7/20/2018 - NYC Releases Thousands of Documents on the Central Park Five Case, Prosecutor In Case Says the Five Weren't 'Deserving' of Settlement

7/20/2018 - For the Kulture: Cardi B's Little Princess Has a Crib Fit for a Queen

7/20/2018 - 4 Men Indicted in the Murder of Rapper XXXTentacion 

7/20/2018 - Everything You Missed At The ESPYs

7/19/2018 - O Canada! White Canuck Detains, Calls Police on Black Man He Deems an ‘Illegal Alien’ 

7/19/2018 - Harlem Renaissance: Gucci-Dapper Dan Goes Live!

7/19/2018 - 'Stop Fingering Me Though, Bruh!' Cop Sued For Turning Police Pat-Down Into Prostate Exam

7/19/2018 - The Devil's Mouthpiece, Sarah 'Suckabee' Sanders, Is Having a Tough Time Defending Trump's Lies

7/19/2018 - White Detroit Business Owner Spits on Black Man Working Security at Event Over Parking Dispute 

7/19/2018 - I Interviewed Denzel Washington About The Equalizer 2. He Really is Everybody’s Uncle

7/19/2018 - Royal Roundup: In Her 2nd Month as Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle's Style Hits Its Stride

7/19/2018 - Illinois Cops Smash Car Window, Break Hand and Tase Passengers in Video of Traffic Stop

7/19/2018 - Queen Sugar Continues to Make Beautiful Television. I Hope It Never Ends

7/19/2018 - 'Atlanta's Eiffel Tower': 2 Chainz Vies to Save His Iconic Pink Trap House From Demolition

7/19/2018 - Nothing But 'Work': Rihanna Working on Dancehall Album and Our Souls and Bodies Are Reeaaadddyyyy

7/19/2018 - Try This: Google Image Search 'Idiot' and See What Appears (Hint: His Name Rhymes With Flonald Dump)

7/19/2018 - Harlem and Hijabs: Model Adesuwa Aighewi Turns Director With a Celebration of Muslim Beauty

7/19/2018 - From Sponges To Foundation: Beautyblender Finally Launches Its 1st Makeup Product 

7/19/2018 - Man Steals Car From Date to Take Another Woman Out

7/19/2018 - OK, I'm Happy for Ciara 

7/19/2018 - President Vladimir TrumPutin's Latest Tweet Storm Claims Russia Is Bae and the Real Enemy is the American Media

7/19/2018 - 'Men Have Been Getting On My Nerves Lately': Barack Obama, Forever a Mood, Speaks Out For the Empowerment of Women in South Africa 

7/19/2018 - The Apocalypse is Nigh: Crocs Created a High Heel

7/19/2018 - White People Are Right: They Built This Country

7/19/2018 - Free Wigs 4 Kids: How One Woman Is Restoring Children's Confidence, One Wig at a Time

7/19/2018 - Chance the Rapper Buys Influential Chicago News Site 

7/19/2018 - 'We Don't Tip Terrorist': Customer Banned from Texas Restaurant after Leaving Server Racist Note

7/18/2018 - Jay-Z Rails Against Philadelphia and Its Mayor for 'Evicting' His Made In America Festival

7/18/2018 - Eric Garner’s Widow Moves Into Her Dream Home … Without Her Husband or Daughter

7/18/2018 - All Good in the Hood: Jamie Foxx Will Star in New Robin Hood Movie

7/18/2018 - Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? Stevie J and Faith Evans Tie the Knot in Vegas

7/18/2018 - She Tried It: Brazilian Designer Accused of Stealing Dashiki-Print Designs from Nigerian-American Label [Updated]

7/18/2018 - That Time in High School That I Didn't Get Hired at McDonald's

7/18/2018 - What a Newly Discovered Gravesite Can Tell Us About Black Life Post-Slavery

7/18/2018 - Free Agent Cornerback Adam 'Pacman' Jones Trolls Airport Attacker

7/18/2018 - Beauty Beats Brexit: Heptathlete Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers Is the 1st Black Miss Universe Great Britain

7/18/2018 - Tennessee Titans Player Jurrell Casey Will Continue to Protest During Upcoming NFL Season

7/18/2018 - What Is the Chicago Police Department Hiding? New Questions Surface Regarding Harith Augustus' Death 

7/18/2018 - Trump Moonwalks All Over U.S. Intelligence Again, Claims He Doesn't Believe Russia is Targeting Midterm Elections

7/18/2018 - Those 'Flexin' In My Complexion' Shirts You've Been Seeing Everywhere? An 11-Year-Old Did That

7/18/2018 - Ex-White House Stenographer: Trump is a Lying-Ass Liar

7/18/2018 - 'Mother' to Mogul: Pat McGrath's Makeup Line Is Now Valued at $1 Billion

7/18/2018 - 6 Jobs I Might Have to Look Into Now That I Know You Can Get a W-4 for Being a Real Ninja

7/18/2018 - Shuri, Princess of Wakanda, to Get Her Own Comic Book Series

7/18/2018 - 15 (Usually) White Pickup Basketball Players We Need to Start Calling the Cops on Too

7/18/2018 - Florida Couple Grins for Drug Arrest Photo Following Police Chase ... And Whew, Chile, the Privilege 

7/18/2018 - Beauty's Biggest Weekend: All the Highlights from Beautycon LA 2018

7/18/2018 - Ciara Has 'Leveled Up' With New Song and Music Video 

7/18/2018 - Four Years Later, NYPD Prepares to Discipline Cop in Eric Garner's Death

7/18/2018 - Determined College Student Walked 20 Miles to New Job, So His Boss Gave Him a Car 

7/18/2018 - #EvolveTheDefinition: Retailer Bonobos Takes On Toxic Masculinity

7/18/2018 - The Ida B. Wells Monument in Chicago Is 1 Major Step Closer to Becoming a Reality

7/18/2018 - Papa John's Founder Regrets Resigning, Whines About Board Making Him Step Down 'Without Any Investigation'

7/17/2018 - Destiny's Child Singer Michelle Williams Checks Into Mental Health Facility to Fight Depression 

7/17/2018 - Apparently, There's a Whites-Only Nightclub in Charleston, SC

7/17/2018 -  'I Thought It Would Be My Last Day of the World': Teens Speak Out After Being Held at Gunpoint By Cops

7/17/2018 - Barack Obama Takes Shots at Donald Trump During Nelson Mandela Lecture

7/17/2018 - It's World Emoji Day! Do You Know Where Your Emojis Come From?

7/17/2018 - Trump Now Claims He Believes American Intelligence on Russia. Trump is Also a Lying-Ass Liar

7/17/2018 - Meet the Youngest Black Woman to Own a McDonald's Franchise 

7/17/2018 - Texas Shouldn't Execute Chris Young for Murder Even Though He Is Guilty of the Crime [Updated]

7/17/2018 - We Don't Trust the Criminal Justice System Until It Clears a Black Man of Sexual Assault. Then We're All In

7/17/2018 - #FlagrantFreddy: White Man Calls Police After Hard Foul in Pickup Basketball Game

7/17/2018 - Epic Shade: Issa Rae's Latest CoverGirl Spot Is the #BlackGirlMagic Night Out We All Need

7/17/2018 - So Trump is a Traitor. What Difference Does That Make to Black Folks?

7/17/2018 - Warrant Issued for 16-Year-Old Accused of Throwing Objects, Hurling Racial Slurs at Black Tennessee Cyclist [Updated]

7/17/2018 - Police Falsely Accuse Black Students of Dining-and-Dashing at Clayton, Mo., IHOP [Updated]

7/17/2018 - Living the Dream: Will Anok Yai Be the One to Mainstream Dark-Skinned Beauty?

7/17/2018 - NAACP Lifts Travel Warning Against American Airlines

7/17/2018 - Floyd Mayweather Is the Highest Paid Celeb In the World

7/17/2018 - Racial-Profiling Pool Patrol Goes International: Black Canadian Family Say They Were Singled Out at Neighborhood Pool Over Whether They Belong

7/17/2018 - Pool Rules: Chromat's Latest Campaign Changes the Rules of the Typical 'Swimsuit Body'

7/17/2018 - The Hate U Give Aims to Create Empathy While Offering a Portrait of Why Black Lives Matter

7/17/2018 - Sports Illustrated's Latest Show Was Inclusive of Everyone—Or Was It?

7/17/2018 - 7-Year-Old Girl Who Survived Alleged Drunk Driving Crash, Killed While Crossing I-94 In Search of Help 

7/17/2018 - Vladimir Putin Doesn't Want to See No Stinkin' Indictments, Plays Fox News Host to the Left During Interview

7/17/2018 - T.I. Hit With Simple Assault Charge After Incident Where He Misplaced Keys Outside His Gated Community

7/17/2018 - Feeling the Love: Naomi Campbell and Adwoa Aboah Cover Love's 10th Anniversary Issue

7/17/2018 - 2 CVS Employees Fired After Calling the Cops on Black Woman Who Was Just Trying to Use a Coupon 

7/16/2018 - 19-Year-Old French Phenom Kylian Mbappé Will Donate Entire World Cup Winnings to Children's Charity 

7/16/2018 - 20-Year-Old Poet, College Student Charged with Murder of Former Star Quarterback

7/16/2018 - Sports Illustrated's Fashionable 50 List Is Out! See Which of Your Sports Baes Made the Cut

7/16/2018 - Cleveland Cop Caught Using N-Word in Texts, Gets Slap on the Wrist

7/16/2018 - Fresh Cuts: Lena Waithe Loses Her Locs!

7/16/2018 - The MTV VMA Nominations Are In! Cardi B and the Carters Lead the Nominees

7/16/2018 - A Minute-by-Minute Breakdown of the Destiny's Child Episode of MTV Cribs in 2000

7/16/2018 - True Beauty: Aerie Gets Even More Real with Its Campaigns

7/16/2018 - LeSean McCoy's Ex-Girlfriend Now Uncertain That Running Back Had Anything to Do With Robbery

7/16/2018 - Dark-Skinned Babies? 'I Ain't With That': GlocKKKNine, Self-Hate and Colorism in America

7/16/2018 - VSB and The Glow Up are Making Boss Moves in Washington, D.C., July 19th! Come Through!

7/16/2018 - Design Unveiled for Proposed Memorial at Emanuel A.M.E. Church, Site of Horrific Charleston, S.C. Shooting

7/16/2018 - Serena Williams Soars to No. 28 in WTA Rankings, Flying Through 153 Spots 

7/16/2018 - Writer and Cultural Critic Jamilah Lemieux Joins Cynthia Nixon’s Gubernatorial Campaign Team

7/16/2018 - Black Woman Kicked Off Delta-SkyWest Flight Over Airplane-Mode Dispute Still Seeking Answers

7/16/2018 - The 10 Best Things About Being a 'Confirmed Black Racist'

7/16/2018 - Trump's Joint Press Conference With Russian President Makes Their Secret Love an Official Relationship

7/16/2018 - Fast and Fierce: Is the World's Fastest Woman En Route to Being One of Its Most Fashionable?

7/16/2018 - Ohio Woman Charged With 'Ethnic Intimidation' After Spray Painting Slurs, Swastikas on Neighbor's House

7/16/2018 - Barack Obama Visits Kenya, Plans to Help His Sister Launch a Training Center

7/16/2018 - #CampaigningWhileBlack: Police Called on Black Students Canvassing for Congressional Candidate 

7/16/2018 - 'We're More Than Capable': Pose Stars Push Back on Cis Actors Playing Trans Roles

7/16/2018 - Milwaukee to Pay $3.4 Million to Settle Lawsuit Claiming Police Stop-And-Frisk Policy Targeted Black and Latinx Residents

7/16/2018 - Muslims Kicked Out of Delaware Pool for 'Wearing Cotton'

7/16/2018 - I Am Women: Lupita Nyong'o Co-Stars in Calvin Klein's Latest Fragrance Launch

7/16/2018 - There Is Only 1 Thing that Can Make a Beyoncé Concert Better: Michelle Obama 

7/16/2018 - Florida Man Who Wanted to 'Kill All Jews' Arrested While Planning to Burn Down Miami Beach Condo 

7/15/2018 - Photo Surfaces of Rapper DMX as He Does His 1-Year Bid in Jail

7/15/2018 - 68-Year-Old Black Congresswoman Gets in on the #InMyFeelingsChallenge

7/15/2018 - ‘Coupon Carl’ Calls Cops on Black Woman at CVS for Allegedly Using a Forged Coupon, But Was Busted Himself for Forgery Less Than 2 Years Ago

7/15/2018 - Chicago Neighborhood Explodes After Officer Kills Popular Black Barber; Police Say He Was ‘Exhibiting Characteristics’ of an Armed Person

7/15/2018 - Like a Mother: Gatorade Knows that Serena Is Still Our G.O.A.T.

7/14/2018 - Unbreak Our Hearts: Serena Falls in Wimbledon Finals

7/14/2018 - Emmett Till Biographer, Who Spoke to White Woman Who Lied on Teen, Turned His Interviews Over to the FBI [Updated]

7/14/2018 - Uber HR Head Resigns Over Her Handling of Discrimination Complaints; Allegedly Disparaged Black Execs

7/14/2018 - Florida Police Chief Told Cops to Pin Crimes on Black Teens, Adults to Boost Crime Stats: Report

7/14/2018 - Papa John Schnatter Says He Was 'Pushed' To Use the N-Word That Ended His Career

7/14/2018 - The World Cup's Last African Team?

7/13/2018 - White Woman Calls Cops on California Man Chilling in His Car Listening to Yoga CD 

7/13/2018 - Apartment Complex Manager Suspended After Black Resident Kicked Out of Pool

7/13/2018 - Wait, Were Rihanna and Her Billionaire Boyfriend Arguing about the World Cup?

7/13/2018 - She Slays: Danai Gurira Is the New Face of Reebok

7/13/2018 - Judge of Characters: Meet the Racist Caucasian Crusaders

7/13/2018 - 12 Russians Indict for Meddling in 2016 Election and President Trump Still Doesn't Care

7/13/2018 - The 'Pick-He' (the Male Version of the 'Pick-Me'), Explained

7/13/2018 - Doing the Work: Gabrielle Union Talks Inclusion and the Insidious Influence of Colorism

7/13/2018 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: An Annotated Guide to White Fragility

7/13/2018 - In 2015, Charlamagne Tha God Admitted to Giving a Woman Spanish Fly and Having Sex While She 'Wasn't Coherent' [Updated]

7/13/2018 - Black Man Denied Entry To Bus in Martha's Vineyard 'Because You're Black'

7/13/2018 - Amazon Prime Day Is Monday. Ready for New Beauty?

7/13/2018 - Georgia Cops Flip a Coin to Decide Whether to Arrest Driver Who Was Allegedly Speeding

7/13/2018 - Set It Off Has One of the Blackest Scenes in All of Cinema That Nobody Ever Talks About

7/13/2018 - Woman Who Beat Elderly Mexican Man with a Brick on July 4 Charged With Attempted Murder 

7/13/2018 - We Live! Pose Just Scored a Second Season on FX

7/13/2018 - Pre-Yeezy: Complex Magazine Unpacks Kanye's First Fashion Label, Pastelle

7/13/2018 - U.S. Navy Ends Ban on Dreadlocks for Women 

7/13/2018 - Former Firefighter Who Hanged Noose Outside Black Neighbor's Apartment Pleads Guilty to Interfering With Right to Fair Housing

7/12/2018 - Can We Start Calling Them 'Bey-Z Dukes' Now? Beyoncé Is Killing Us in Studded Cutoffs [Updated]

7/12/2018 - 2 White Women Attack Their Latinx Neighbors, Call the Police on Them, and End Up Going to Jail Themselves

7/12/2018 - According to Forbes' Calculations, I'm the Next Self-Made Billionaire,' Not Kylie Jenner

7/12/2018 - Will Smith Just Won the #InMyFeelingsChallenge

7/12/2018 - Baby > Beef: Nicki Minaj Makes Nice With a Gorgeous Gift Basket for Cardi and Kulture [Updated: Or, Maybe Not]

7/12/2018 - Well, This Is Awkward: Rape Accuser Identifies Kellen Winslow Jr.'s Lawyer as Her Attacker

7/12/2018 - South Carolina, Home of the Racist: White Supremacist Sentenced to Less Than 3 Years for Dylann-Roof Inspired Attack

7/12/2018 - YouTube Originals' G Funk Documentary Proves Warren G Saved Snoop Dogg's Career, He's Not Afraid of Suge Knight and Drake Should Thank Him

7/12/2018 - Watch: New Details Emerge in Case of Minnesota Cops Pulling Guns on Black Kids After Fake 911 Call

7/12/2018 - After Living in 21 Different Homes, I Finally Have My Own House

7/12/2018 - Man Screaming Racial Slurs at Black Teenage Girl Arrested For Threatening to Kill Me, You, Your Mama and Your Cousins Too ...

7/12/2018 - The Emmy Nominations Are In! We're Rooting For Everybody Black

7/12/2018 - Petition to Fire Charlamagne Tha God From 'The Breakfast Club' Launched After Rape Allegation Resurfaces

7/12/2018 - Cop Fired For Calling Black People 'Alabama Porch Monkeys' ... Then Re-Hired

7/12/2018 - Black Millionaire Finds Racist Note in Florida Hotel Room; Hotel Says It Was a Note Left by Previous Guest

7/12/2018 - Serena Williams Is Heading to Her 10th Wimbledon Final, Reaching Harriet Tubman Levels of Blackness 

7/12/2018 - 'It's a Deliberate Attack on Black Women': April Ryan Gets Real About 'Post-Racial' America

7/12/2018 - New York Knicks Great Charles Oakley Arrested for Cheating Las Vegas Casino: Report

7/12/2018 - Woman Goes on Hate-Filled Anti-Muslim Rant on New York City Bus: 'ICE is Here For You'

7/12/2018 - Stormy Daniels Arrested for Doing Stripper Things as a Stripper Inside a Strip Club 

7/12/2018 - Are They Still Goals? 1 of the Clermont Twins Arrested for Stealing a Dead Man's Identity: Report

7/12/2018 - 10 Thoughts About Boyz n The Hood, Released 27 Years Ago Today, and Why It Still Matters

7/12/2018 - Ready for Some 'Sister Love'? Mary J. Blige Just Collaborated on a New Jewelry Line

7/12/2018 - Can't Stop, Won't Stop: NYX Cosmetics Collabs With Vlogger Alissa Ashley on 45 Shades of Foundation

7/12/2018 - Woman Studying Outside Grocery Store Attacked by Drunken Racist 

7/12/2018 - Officer Who Stood by as Man Harassed Woman in Puerto Rico Shirt Resigns

7/12/2018 - Another Woman Accuses Russell Simmons of Rape 

7/12/2018 - The Pop Up: Deva Mahal's Vintage Soul Sound Will Grab Your Attention and Your Eardrums

7/11/2018 - Trump's Ex- Campaign Chairman Paulie 'Walnuts' Manafort Claims He's Treated Like 'VIP' in Jail

7/11/2018 - Black Model on Vogue's IG Responds to Troll Who Complained About Too Many 'Ghetto People'

7/11/2018 - Peak Caucasity: Papa John's Founder Drops N-Word During Sensitivity Training Call

7/11/2018 - Cop Pulls Gun on Children After 911 Caller Falsely Reports Armed Black Kids Roaming Around in Park

7/11/2018 - 'Self-Made' Mogul? Not So Much. Franchesca Ramsey Claps Back at Forbes' Praise of Kylie Jenner

7/11/2018 - Kentucky Governor: Black Kids Playing Chess 'Not Something You Would've Thought Of' in Black Part of Town

7/11/2018 - RuPaul Is Filming a Daytime Talk-Show Pilot

7/11/2018 - Red Table Talk: Jada Pinkett Smith and Guests Come Clean About Overcoming Addiction

7/11/2018 - Misty at The Met: Misty Copeland Twirls and So Do Little Black Girls

7/11/2018 - Black Actors Bring Attention to Trump's Heartless Immigration Policies

7/11/2018 - #SwimmingSheriffSusie Throws Lone Black Man Out of His Apartment Complex Pool

7/11/2018 - Beyoncé, Buy The Root (and All of GMG and The Onion). It's for Sale

7/11/2018 - 5 Super Smug-Ass Types of People Who Need To Cut the Shit

7/11/2018 - In Full Bloom: Cardi's Makeup Artist Breaks Down Her Bardi Baby Announcement Beauty

7/11/2018 - I Was Wrong. Cephus, Not Washington, Is America's Blackest Last Name

7/11/2018 - Watch: NFL Cornerback Adam ‘Pacman’ Jones Gets Into a Full-On Fist Fight With an Atlanta Airport Employee

7/11/2018 - Diddy Gets Real About Funding Black Enterprises: When Black People Get the Resources, 'We Over-Deliver'

7/11/2018 - Former Buffalo Bills Lineman Claims to Know the ‘Whole Story’ in LeSean McCoy’s Domestic-Violence Beef

7/11/2018 - Raising Our Standards: J.Crew Teams Up With Universal Standard on a Collection That Goes to 5X

7/11/2018 - Baby Bardi Is Here! Cardi B Welcomes 1st Child With Offset

7/11/2018 - 'Go Back to Your Own Country': Elderly Mexican Man Beaten With a Brick During July 4 Attack [Updated]

7/11/2018 - Chicago Cop Under Investigation After Being Caught on Viral Video Saying 'I Kill Motherf--kers' 

7/11/2018 - 10 Personal Reflections a Year After Becoming Part of The Root

7/11/2018 - #SummerJobWhileBlack: Child Gets Cops Called on Him for Delivering Newspapers

7/11/2018 - Barry Jenkins Visually Reimagines James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk For a Full Display of Cinematic Blackness

7/11/2018 - Aspiring Model Brings the Wheelchair to the Runway 

7/11/2018 - You Woke? Do the Work: Tarana Burke, Tamika Mallory and Symone Sanders Talk Accountability

7/11/2018 - Prosecutor Who Wondered Why 'Ghetto' Maxine Waters Hadn't Been Shot Is Suspended

7/11/2018 - FBI Agent Who Shot Man After Dropping Gun While Dancing Will Get His Weapon Back, Because Why Not?

7/10/2018 - Is This a Youth Diversion Program or School-to-Prison Pipeline Feeder System? 

7/10/2018 - Tyler Perry Says Stop Falling for Facebook Scams. He’s Not Giving Away Any Money

7/10/2018 - Winston Duke Is Going in the Cage to Play Kimbo Slice in New Biopic 

7/10/2018 - Philly Police Department Seeks to End Implicit Bias With a Field Trip to a Black Museum

7/10/2018 - Who Run the World? A Balmain x Beyoncé Capsule Collection Is Created to Benefit Black Colleges

7/10/2018 - Work Hard, Play Carter: The Carters Take a Stylish Time Out in Italy

7/10/2018 - Another Day, Another Duchess: Meghan Markle Steps Out in Dior and More [Updated]

7/10/2018 - This Is the America White People Wished For. This Is the America White People Want

7/10/2018 - Rep. Louie Gohmert Defends Rep. Jim Jordan Against Claims That He Knew of OSU Wrestler’s Sexual Abuse by Saying They ‘Were Adults’

7/10/2018 - Beyoncé and Jay-Z Are Set to Headline Global Citizen Festival to Honor Nelson Mandela in South Africa

7/10/2018 - If You Live in One of Chicago’s Black Neighborhoods, Stop Reading This and Go Check on Your Car

7/10/2018 - Let Love Rule: Zoë Kravitz Is Saint Laurent’s Latest Campaign Star

7/10/2018 - Here’s What We Know About the Disturbing LeSean McCoy Domestic Violence IG Post

7/10/2018 - 10 Observations From My First Essence Festival, the ‘Super Bowl for Black Women’

7/10/2018 - Man Who Drove Through Antwon Rose Protest, Ran Over Demonstrator, Only Charged With Misdemeanor

7/10/2018 - Judge Rules Against Trump Administration, Rejects Long-Term Detention of Migrant Families

7/10/2018 - ‘Shine Bright, Shine Far, Be A Star!’ Life-Size 2 Is on the Way

7/10/2018 - ‘White People,’ Explained

7/10/2018 - 11-Year-Old Nigerian Artist Creates Stunning Portraits of Figures in His Community

7/10/2018 - Rihanna Maybe-Arguing With her Billionaire Boyfriend Is My Summer Mood Board

7/10/2018 - Ladies First: Essence Fest 2018 Took Over NOLA, and We Had FOMO

7/10/2018 - Did Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy Negotiate His Replacement With Trump Before Retiring?

7/10/2018 - #MericaMax Harasses Woman in Puerto Rico Shirt While Cop Does Nothing

7/10/2018 - #TuesdayTurnUp: ‘This Is America’ Choreographer Sherrie Silver Demos Her Favorite Dances for Vogue

7/10/2018 - If You Wanted to Know How Trump Would Treat America, Just Look at How He Treated His Chauffeur for Over 25 Years

7/10/2018 - Trump Administration Bullies Poor Countries Into Disavowing Breast-Feeding, Stands With Formula Companies: Report

7/10/2018 - New York Giants' A.J. Francis Says TSA Spilled His Mother's Ashes During a Baggage Inspection

7/9/2018 - Virginia Lawmaker Says He Can’t Be Racist Because His Son Is Named After a Black Man

7/9/2018 - Michael K. Williams Joins the Cast of Ava DuVernay’s Central Park Five

7/9/2018 - Love Is the Message: Janet Mock Makes Her Directorial Debut—and Television History—With Pose

7/9/2018 - Oxygen-Dependent Grandmother in New Jersey Dies After Power Company Disconnects Her Service

7/9/2018 - #CaucasianCallingTax: White People Need to Be Taxed for Wasting Police Officers’ Time

7/9/2018 - Ivanka Trump’s Clothing Line Avoids China Trade Tariffs

7/9/2018 - 22-Year-Old Becomes the 1st Black Female Nanoscientist in Virginia 

7/9/2018 - As Haiti Burns, Never Forget: White People Did That

7/9/2018 - Trump to Announce Supreme Court Nominee in Prime Time Because He’s a Drama Queen

7/9/2018 - Signature Style? In Case You Hadn’t Noticed, Bateau Necklines Are Bae in Meghan Markle’s Closet

7/9/2018 - A List of Things That Just Ain’t Worth the Trouble

7/9/2018 - California Prosecutor Called Maxine Waters a ‘Loud Mouthed C-Word in the Ghetto.’ His New Boss Calls it ‘Salty’ Language

7/9/2018 - Insecure Season 3 Is Coming Back: Where’s Lawrence?

7/9/2018 - ‘Where Are the Babies, Mitch?’ Protesters Confront Mitch ‘Turtle Head’ McConnell Outside Restaurant

7/9/2018 - The Sisterhood Ceiling: Are Women Holding Each Other Back by Avoiding Healthy Competition?

7/9/2018 - It’s Not That I Won’t Stop Watching #InMyFeelingsChallenge Videos, It’s That I Can’t Stop Watching #InMyFeelingsChallenge Videos

7/9/2018 - White Couple Who Called Police on 12-Year-Old Mowing Lawn Called Them Again on the 4th of July Because They Felt ‘Threatened’

7/9/2018 - Monday Motivation: Serena Williams Knows Why She’s Great—and Why Other Women Are, Too

7/9/2018 - Patricia Okoumou Knows She Could Have Died During her Statue of Liberty Protest; She Did it Anyway

7/9/2018 - Milwaukee Daycare Says 8-Month-Old Got Bit by a Mosquito; Injuries Point to Abuse

7/9/2018 - Zac Efron's 'Dreadlocks' Are Hilarious Looking And 'Just For Fun'

7/9/2018 - Jamie Foxx's Penis-Slapping Case Closed

7/8/2018 - Cops Are White People's Cousins

7/8/2018 - Officer Loses Retirement Benefits After Fellow KKK Members Tried to Kill Black Prisoner

7/8/2018 - Tomi Lahren Says People Are Being Mean to Her And It's All Maxine Waters' Fault

7/8/2018 - Judge Orders Cops to Return $20,000 to Exotic Dancer

7/7/2018 - White Man Claims Self-Defense After Gunning Down Black Teenager for Shooting Fireworks

7/7/2018 - A Black Woman in Handcuffs For Climbing The Statue of Liberty on Independence Day is a Perfect Metaphor For America

7/7/2018 - Lookbook: The Glow Up's Guide to Fall-Winter Paris Haute Couture Week 2018-2019

7/7/2018 - #PoolPatrolPatty: White Apartment Manager Fired After Calling Police on Black Couple Because of Socks

7/7/2018 - Sorry to Bother You Has a Wild Alternate Reality Centered on Black People

7/7/2018 - Denver Snowflakes Melt After Former Congressional Candidate Tweets She Has Given Up on White People

7/7/2018 - Paul Blart, Pool Cop Fired After Calling Police on Woman For Swimming in Her Own Pool

7/6/2018 - Bedtime Stories: How We Take It All Off

7/6/2018 - Are Black Women Fighting Other People’s Battles?

7/6/2018 - Yes, a Black Site Is Posting About National Fried Chicken Day

7/6/2018 - Judge of Characters: Wypipo, Stop Killing Everything Fun

7/6/2018 - Cardi B Countersues Former Manager, Accuses Him of Trying to Get Between Her and Offset

7/6/2018 - Trump to NFL: Congratulations, You Played Yourself

7/6/2018 - Dystopian by Design: Costume Designer Deirdra Govan Isn’t Sorry to Bother You

7/6/2018 - ‘It’s My Fucking Country’: Chad the Cookout Killer Goes on Racist Rant When Neighbors Play Spanish Music on the 4th

7/6/2018 - Looks Like Utah Jazz Guard Grayson Allen Will Continue His White-Privileged, Thuggish Ways in the NBA

7/6/2018 - Pennsylvania Fire Company Suspended for Use of Racial Slurs, Bullying, and Harassment

7/6/2018 - Uncensored: Alexandra Shipp Attempts to Clarify Those Colorism Comments for Glamour Magazine

7/6/2018 - Black Man Forced to Crawl at Gunpoint After Police Thwart Imaginary Robbery

7/6/2018 - Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Wants to Make America Great Again by Hiring 61 Foreign Workers: Report

7/6/2018 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: The Five Kinds of Clapbacks

7/6/2018 - Florida Officer Accuses Burger King of Putting Dirt in Food. Turns Out, It Was Seasoning

7/6/2018 - Unhinged Trump Holds Rally in Montana, Attacks #MeToo Movement in Rant About Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Heritage

7/6/2018 - Mona Scott-Young’s Major Keys to Success

7/6/2018 - Idris Elba Casted In 'Fast & Furious' Spinoff As A Villain

7/6/2018 - Back to Basics: Venus Williams Shares Her Moves for a Grand Slam Body

7/6/2018 - Chris Brown Got Arrested...Again

7/6/2018 - Assault Victim Who Stabbed One of His Attackers Sentenced to 18 Months in Jail

7/6/2018 - Great Lengths: Do You Know Where Your Bundles Come From?

7/6/2018 - I've Been Family-Free for a Whole Week and I've Discovered How Boring That Can Be

7/6/2018 - Ant-Man and the Wasp is the Best Superhero Movie Made About Criminal Justice for White Guys

7/6/2018 - White Driver Who Fatally Struck Black Man, Called Him Racial Slur After Death, Cleared of All Fault in Collision 

7/6/2018 - Pennsylvania Man Shot With Taser While Trying to Comply With Cops Files Lawsuit Against Police Department

7/5/2018 - Who Killed Tupac? Las Vegas Police Have Been Reviewing the Case Again But No Arrest is Imminent

7/5/2018 - Texas Mom Shoots Would-Be Carjacker After He Tries to Steal Vehicle With Her Children Inside

7/5/2018 - ‘I Believe If My Daughter Was a White Girl, They Would Have Taken All My Leads Seriously’: Mother of Missing 16-Year-Old 

7/5/2018 - Black Women Are People. Expecting Them to Be Our Saviors and Superheroes Is Killing Them

7/5/2018 - Sentient Marshmallow Calls Police on Black Woman for Swimming in Her Own Pool

7/5/2018 - Golden Lady: Meghan Markle Just Got Colorful, and We Couldn't Be Happier

7/5/2018 - Trump Creates ‘Denaturalization’ Task Force to Pursue Deportation Against Thousands of U.S. Citizens

7/5/2018 - Donald Trump is Not Making White People More Racist, He's Making Them Act More Racist

7/5/2018 - #TrendBackThursday: Do We Really Want to Get Back Into Bike Shorts?

7/5/2018 - Trump Picks Disgraced Former Fox News Executive Bill Shine to Fill White House Communications Position

7/5/2018 - 'We've Had Problems With Your Kind Before': Black Frat Files Racial-Discrimination Lawsuit Against Alabama Restaurant 

7/5/2018 - Oakland Raiders Cornerback Gareon Conley Sues Woman Who Accused Him of Rape, Causing His Draft Stock to Fall

7/5/2018 - Chance the Rapper Finally Took a Chance and Proposed

7/5/2018 - She Slays! Adut Akech Bior Shuts Down Paris Couture Week

7/5/2018 - Principal Stops School's 1st Black Valedictorian from Giving Speech, So Rochester, N.Y., Mayor Gives Him Platform

7/5/2018 - Michael Cohen Breaks Up With Trump and Makes It Social-Media Official

7/5/2018 - Behind the Seams: Are Black Designers All Dressed Up With Nowhere to Go?

7/5/2018 - It's A Boy! Steph and Ayesha Curry Welcome 3rd Child

7/5/2018 - Hit Musical Featuring Cotton-Picking White People Singing Slave Songs Closes Amid Protests

7/5/2018 - Chicago Activist Rides Progressive Wave in Mayor's Race

7/5/2018 - Interviewing the World's Most Famous Interviewer: Vogue UK's Edward Enninful Talks with Oprah

7/5/2018 - #EatingOutWhileBlack: Subway Employee Calls 911 on Black Family Because She Thought They Would Rob Her

7/5/2018 - Woman Arrested on 4th of July After Climbing the Base of the Statue of Liberty in Protest of Migrant Family Separations

7/4/2018 - The National Anthem Is Racist, and We Made a Video in Case You Forgot

7/4/2018 - Priest Who Called Cops on Black Funeral-Goers Placed on Leave 

7/4/2018 - #CampaigningWhileBlack: Someone Called the Cops on an Oregon Legislator Who Was Out Canvassing 

7/4/2018 - Philanthropic Queen Nicki Minaj Has Given Scholarships to 37 of Her Biggest Fans And They Are Just As Shook As We Are 

7/4/2018 - Craig Turner, Eldest Son of Tina Turner, Dead at 59

7/4/2018 - South Carolina Police Union Whines About Police Brutality Novel The Hate U Give Being on A School's Summer Reading List

7/4/2018 - As Usual, Beyoncé Is Living Her Best Life While We Contemplate Her Fertility on This 4th of July

7/4/2018 - #BanditBecky: Suburban Mom, Sentenced to 30 Days in Jail Following 2-Day Stealing Spree, Blames Boredom For Crimes

7/3/2018 - Page Six Seems to Have an Opinion About Cardi B's Pregnancy Sex Life

7/3/2018 - #RidingWhileBlack: Former Teen Vogue Editor Says an Uber Driver Assaulted, Called 911 on Her

7/3/2018 - No, Netflix Has Not Had a Change of Heart and Given Mo’Nique a $10 Million Deal

7/3/2018 - Protecting Black Women and Girls Is More Important Than Your Break Up With R. Kelly

7/3/2018 - Have a Samsung Phone? You Better Delete Your Nudes

7/3/2018 - Rachel Dolezal Booked and Released From Jail on Welfare Fraud Charges

7/3/2018 - Nicki Minaj Losing Her Mind Over Chanel Redefines ‘Fashion Obsessed’

7/3/2018 - Nice or Next? Would You Bedazzle Your Face?

7/3/2018 - Chicago PD Settles for $2.5 Million After Police Point Gun at 3-Year-Old

7/3/2018 - The First Purge Is Triggering AF, But Y’lan Noel as a New Black Action Star Makes It Worth the Watch

7/3/2018 - Howard Grads Do It For the Culture With Homage Hospitality Hotels

7/3/2018 - Gang of White Thugs Hurl Slurs at Black Mom, Smash Her Car Window, Yet Somehow No One Went to Jail or Even Had a Damn Mugshot Taken

7/3/2018 - Man Enough? Racing Star Lewis Hamilton Confronts His Biases on the Cover of British GQ

7/3/2018 - Netflix's On My Block Is My Favorite Binge Watch of the Summer and Thank Goodness They Renewed It For a 2nd Season

7/3/2018 - White Boy Scout Leader to Black Kid: It’s OK That You Were Called the N-Word. ‘I’ve Seen a Lot Worse’

7/3/2018 - Portland State University Campus Police Shoot and Kill Black Navy Veteran Who Was Trying to Break Up Fight

7/3/2018 - Crossing the Lines: Are Stretch Marks Really Going Mainstream?

7/3/2018 - Off-Duty Cop Crashes Into Car in Hit and Run, Attacked Victim Who Chased Him Down

7/3/2018 - 2 Birds, 1 Racist President: Trump to Undo Obama Policy That Used Race as Factor for Diversity in Schools 

7/3/2018 - #NewportNancy Wants Black Neighbor Evicted For Smoking Cigarettes in the Parking Lot

7/3/2018 - Y'all Can Hate On Drake's Scorpion All You Want, He Still Just Trampled Every Apple Music Record 

7/3/2018 - Purdue Professor Proudly Posts Photo in Blackface But Faces No Consequences Because of Free ‘Speech’

7/3/2018 - Drama Queen Terrell Owens Announces Where He'll Be Spending His Time During the Hall of Fame Ceremony

7/3/2018 - This Dad Giving His Daughter a Virtual Rollercoaster Ride Is the Blackest (and Best) Thing I've Ever Seen This Week

7/3/2018 - Happy to Bother You: Tessa Thompson and Lakeith Stanfield Serve Up Some Summer Loving in GQ

7/3/2018 - Sarah Huckabee Sanders Continues Her White-Tears Tour Despite Being Satan's Mouthpiece

7/3/2018 - Junot Díaz Says He Regrets Statement Apologizing for Sexual Misconduct, Denies Allegations

7/3/2018 - Everybody Loves Cardi: Cops Let Offset Go During Traffic Stop After They Facetime With Bronx Hitmaker

7/3/2018 - Video Shows at Least 5 Cops Aiming Guns at Black Woman With Her Hands Up; LAPD Says She Is a Kidnapping Suspect 

7/3/2018 - Watch: 1st Trailer for Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story Released

7/2/2018 - Rich White People Shunning Other Rich White People For Supporting Donald Trump Is Hilarious

7/2/2018 - Take Off Your Shoes, Take Out Your Snacks: TSA Is Searching Everything

7/2/2018 - Cardi B Really Is P-Popping Up the Charts

7/2/2018 - The 10 Most Awesome Parts of The Roots x Backstreet Boys x Jimmy Fallon's 'I Want It That Way' Classroom-Instruments Video

7/2/2018 - Men In Black Spinoff Coming Soon Featuring Les Twins and Tessa Thompson

7/2/2018 - 89-Year-Old Grandmother Was Forced to Use the Bathroom Outside After Being Turned Away at Charlotte, N.C., Gas Station

7/2/2018 - 10 Wypipo We Need to Call the Cops On

7/2/2018 - Melania Trump Made at Least $100,000 from News Organizations That Paid to Use Photos Designated for Only Positive Stories: Report

7/2/2018 - LeBron James Is Already the Greatest Laker of the 21st Century

7/2/2018 - Yass, Queen! Oprah Channels Royalty on the Cover of Vogue UK's August Issue

7/2/2018 - 15-Year-Old Who Graduated From High School With 4.5 GPA May Not Be Able to Go to College After He’s Turned Down for Scholarships [Updated]

7/2/2018 - Virginia Court Awards 'Unite the Right' Organizer $5 Because a Protester Called Him Names

7/2/2018 - Is the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency Overtesting the 183rd Best Tennis Player in the World? Serena Williams Thinks So

7/2/2018 - LeBron James Joins the Los Angeles Lakers With a $154 Million Deal 

7/2/2018 - High School Valedictorian Stripped of Ranking Due to an Administrative Error, but She Thinks It's Retaliation for Critical Graduation Speech

7/2/2018 - Private School for Rich Kids Announces Plans to Segregate Students By Race

7/2/2018 - Power to the People! By Popular Demand, CoverGirl Brings 40 More Shades to the Drugstore Aisle

7/2/2018 - Power Is Finally Back. I Can't Wait For Every Character to Die

7/2/2018 - Michael Cohen to Trump: I'm Ready to Flip Like the Last Black-Owned Home in a Gentrified Neighborhood

7/2/2018 - Confederate Barbie Says 'Minority' Who Doesn't Like Confederate Monuments is Like ISIS

7/2/2018 - New York City Finally Admits that More than 800 Kids Living in Public Housing Tested High for Lead

7/2/2018 - A 246-Word-Long Review of Drake's Scorpion

7/2/2018 - A Breakthrough for New Jersey Braiders: New Legislation Won't Require a License to Practice

7/2/2018 - Dear Mariah and Shades on Luke Cage ... I Love You, but 'OMG Please Stop!' 

7/2/2018 - #MourningWhileBlack: Priest Calls Cops on Black Funeral-Goers, Tells Them to 'Get the Hell Out' of Church 

7/2/2018 - Lee Daniels Heaps All the Praise on Damon Dash, but Says Mo'Nique 'Needs to Shut Up'

7/2/2018 - On the Run and On the Fly: Beyoncé Turns a Tour Stop Into an Impromptu Photo Shoot

7/2/2018 - Alabama Man Arrested After Pulling Gun, Shouting 'Womp Womp' at Immigration Rally 

7/2/2018 - Seems Like We Can't Get Rid of Roseanne Barr That Easily; Comedian Speaks Out About Job Offers She's Received Since Racist Rant

7/1/2018 - At Capital Gazette, Lack of Security Was 'Deliberate'

7/1/2018 - Watch: Civil Rights Icon John Lewis Implores Americans to 'Turn America Upside Down to Set it Right Side Up' 

7/1/2018 - XXXTentacion's Mother Reveals Son's Mausoleum

7/1/2018 - It's 2018 and These Trash Bags Are Still Erecting Confederate Monuments

7/1/2018 - Unbossed and Unbowed: Maxine Waters Tells MAGA Harassers, 'If You Shoot at Me, You Better Shoot Straight'