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2018 May
5/31/2018 - Bill O’Reilly Blames Roseanne for Proving That White Racism Is Alive and Well in America
5/31/2018 - How Much Does It Cost to Find Out if the Trump Campaign Colluded With the Russians? $17 Million So Far
5/31/2018 - Mama Don’t Take No Net: Serena Williams Comes Off Maternity Leave, Shows She’s Still Boss at French Open
5/31/2018 - #FreeMeekMill: The Rapper Is Out of Jail but Still Trapped in a Corrupt Criminal-Justice System
5/31/2018 - The Exhibit ‘Black Women: Power and Grace’ Shows the Timeless Strength and Beauty Within Us All
5/31/2018 - Kendrick Lamar Gets His Pulitzer, but It’s Pulitzer Administrator Dana Canedy Who Is a Prize
5/31/2018 - Colin Kaepernick’s Lawyer: Somebody Is Ready to Snitch on the NFL
5/31/2018 - Bronx, NY, Man Allegedly Beaten by Pizzeria Employee With Wooden Pizza-Making Tool Demands Justice
5/31/2018 - I’d Feel Bad for Those Fired Because of Roseanne’s Racism if They Didn’t Get Hired Because of Roseanne’s Racism
5/31/2018 - Survey Says: How Are Men
Really
Processing #MeToo?
5/31/2018 - How Drake Can Win the Rap Battle With Pusha T (or at Least Not Lose It)
5/31/2018 - Cruise Control: The 2019 Cruise Collections Set Sail in France
5/31/2018 - Trump to Give Full Pardon to Satan’s Favorite Author, Dinesh D’Souza
5/31/2018 - It Takes Heart to Fight: What Boxing Taught Me About White Supremacy
5/31/2018 - Southwest Flight Diverted After Passenger Tried to Join the Mile-High Weed Club
5/31/2018 - Drake Dropping a Press Release During a Rap Battle Is the Whitest Thing That Ever Happened This Week
5/31/2018 - Buffalo Wild Wings Gives Homeless Man Free Wings for a Year After Employee Writes Horrid Message on Receipt
5/31/2018 - Life of a Working Model: The Secret to Liris Crosse’s Longevity Is ‘Making It Work’
5/31/2018 - Black Man Wearing ‘Make America Great Again’ Hat and Shirt Charged With Hate Crime in Attack on Hispanic Man
5/31/2018 - This Video of a Georgia Boy Helping an Elderly Woman Up the Stairs Is the Feel-Good News We All Deserve to See
5/31/2018 - Louisiana Man Struck and Killed While Picking Up Debris From Roadway; Crass Social Media Posts Following Death Spark Outrage
5/31/2018 - Pennsylvania High School Students Under Fire for Playing N-Word Hangman
5/31/2018 - Drake Explains Blackface Photo From Pusha T’s ‘Story of Adidon’
5/30/2018 - Innocent Man Who Served 20 Years for a Crime He Didn’t Commit Forced to Take Plea Deal in Exchange for His Freedom
5/30/2018 - #NetNeutrality: California Senate Approves Strict Open-Internet Protections for the State
5/30/2018 -
Roseanne
Train Wreck Raises Issues of Race in TV Coverage
5/30/2018 - Jim Carrey Excoriates the NFL’s New Policy in One Sweet Tweet
5/30/2018 - Pusha T Forced to Remove Drake Blackface Pic From Instagram
5/30/2018 - Summertime? Check. Acne? Check.
Poppin’ That Pimple?
Not So Simple!
5/30/2018 - Trump Claims African Americans Have Chosen Democrats for 100 Years—Except His Math Is Way Off
5/30/2018 - Sterling K. Brown on Roseanne’s Firing: ‘I’m Happy With the Swift Action That Was Taken’
5/30/2018 - An Extensive, Comprehensive List of What Should Be Off-Limits When Rappers Are Battling
5/30/2018 - Valerie Jarrett Was Called an Ape and Roseanne Barr Lost Her Job, but the Real Victim Here Is Trump
5/30/2018 - North Korea Won’t Give Up Nuclear Weapons, but It’s Willing to Build a Fast-Food Joint in Honor of Trump: Report
5/30/2018 - For White People Who Pretend Not to Understand What Racism Is or How It Works: Here’s a Refresher Course
5/30/2018 - Brown Girl Surf Wants to Change Surf Culture
5/30/2018 - Trump Still Hates Jeff Sessions for Being Jeff Sessions
5/30/2018 - Revisiting DJ Quik’s ‘Dollaz + Sense,’ One of Hip-Hop’s Classic Diss Records
5/30/2018 - Want to Slay Like Serena? Now You Can Shop the GOAT’s New Online Boutique
5/30/2018 - Has Melania Trump Left the White House?
5/30/2018 - Beach, Please! Jackie Aina Gets Frosted With Fenty (So We Don’t Have To)
5/30/2018 - Florida Cop Arrested After Threatening to Kill Woman and Her Family if She Didn’t Send Him Nude Photos: Report
5/30/2018 - Why Are White Men So Angry?
5/30/2018 - Ambien Manufacturer Responds to Roseanne Barr for Blaming Her Racism on Its Drug [Updated]
5/30/2018 - Prison-Reform Expert Kim Kardashian to Meet With Reality-TV Show Host at White House to Discuss Prison Reform
5/30/2018 - Raccoon to Memphis, Tenn., Family: ‘Look at Me, I’m the Renter Now’
5/30/2018 - The Unofficial Gag Order of Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown): 16 Years in Prison, Still Not Allowed to Speak
5/30/2018 - Wakanda for the Win: Serena Williams Brought Superhero Style to the French Open
5/30/2018 - Serena Williams Is Looking Like a Goddess for Her Harper’s Bazaar UK Cover
5/30/2018 - College Basketball Coach Says Southwest Airlines Employee Asked Her to Prove That Her Biracial Son Was Hers
5/29/2018 - Well, Damn! Pusha T Responds to Drake With ‘The Story of Adidon.’ Here Are 10 Quick Thoughts
5/29/2018 - Jamie Foxx to Star in
Spawn
Reboot Directed by Creator Todd McFarlane
5/29/2018 - What’s New and Black on Netflix for the Month of June?
5/29/2018 - #ListeningToBiggieWhileBlack: Neighbors Call Cops on Black Doctor for Listening to Loud Rap Music
5/29/2018 - Was the Starbucks Anti-Bias Training a Fail or Nah?
5/29/2018 - Valerie Jarrett Is Better Than Me—Just Look at the Way She Handled Roseanne’s Racist Tweet
5/29/2018 - Can Botox Turn a Depressed Woman’s Frown Upside Down?
5/29/2018 - How Sen. Ted Cruz Cursed the Houston Rockets and Kept Them Out of the NBA Finals
5/29/2018 - ABC Cancels
Roseanne
After Racist Tweet [Updated]
5/29/2018 - The NBA Finals Are Just a Contest to See Who Wins the Chance to Refuse Trump’s White House Invitation
5/29/2018 - Roseanne Barr Is a White Woman [Updated]
5/29/2018 - 10 Thoughts About Drake, His Petty and His ‘Duppy Freestyle’ Directed at Pusha T
5/29/2018 - Trump’s Latest Conspiracy Theory Might Be His Craziest Yet
5/29/2018 - Black NYC Cop Arrested by Fellow Officers for No Reason, Court Documents Claim
5/29/2018 - Wanda Sykes Says She’s Not Returning to
Roseanne
After Roseanne Barr Racist Twitter Tirade
5/29/2018 - Yes, Yara! Yara Shahidi Covers June Issue of Harper’s Bazaar Arabia
5/29/2018 - Booing Rudy Giuliani During Yankees Game Was the Wrong Play; He’s Really a Spy for the Resistance
5/29/2018 - The Men From Issa Rae’s
Insecure
Are out Here Doing God’s Work and Laying Thirst Traps
5/29/2018 - Morgan Freeman’s Lawyer Demands That CNN Retract Sexual Harassment Story
5/29/2018 - The Naked Truth: What’s the One Thing Thandie Newton Doesn’t Take Off for
Westworld
?
5/29/2018 - Roseanne Barr Says Valerie Jarrett Is the Result of ‘Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes’
5/29/2018 - Call It ‘the Fenty Effect’: Dior Launches a New 40-Shade Foundation Range
5/29/2018 - 8,000 Starbucks Stores Shut Down Today for 4-Hour Nap ... I Mean Anti-Bias Training
5/29/2018 - White Man, Furious That Jack in the Box Employee Wouldn’t Accept Coupon for Free Burger, Threatens to Send Her ‘Back to Mexico’
5/29/2018 - Alabama Teen Photographed Walking to Catch the Bus to His Graduation Is Gifted With Brand-New Car
5/29/2018 - Jada Pinkett Smith and Gabrielle Union Speak About Their ‘Petty’ 17-Year Feud
5/29/2018 - Grocery Store Cashier Shames Woman on WIC, Won’t Allow Customer to Help Pay: ‘They Keep Getting Handouts’
5/28/2018 - Army National Guardsman Missing After Massive Flooding Hits Ellicott City, Md.
5/28/2018 - Tiffany Haddish’s Ex-Husband Sues Over Domestic Violence Claims in Biography
5/28/2018 -
Black-ish
Creator Kenya Barris and Wife Rainbow Give $1 Million to Clark Atlanta University
5/28/2018 - How to Watch
Under the Cherry Moon
in Philly With The Root and Jay Smooth. Plus: a Surprise From Questlove
5/28/2018 - Black People Created Memorial Day—Literally
5/28/2018 - When Barbecuing and Living While Black Becomes a Crime
5/28/2018 - Malian Immigrant Gets French Citizenship After Saving Child Dangling From Balcony
5/28/2018 - Black Children and Foster Care: On Surviving the Trauma of a System That Doesn’t Care About Keeping Families Together
5/27/2018 - Serena Williams’ Ranking Falls to No. 453 in the World After She Has a Baby, Smacking of Sexism
5/27/2018 - NFL No-Knee Rule Blasted as Slap at Blacks
5/27/2018 - Kim Kardashian West Jumps Into Ye’s Latest Dustup and Twitter Tells Her to Have a Stadium of Seats
5/27/2018 - Ayesha Curry Says Houston Fan Intentionally Bumped Her ‘8 Month Pregnant’ Belly After NBA Playoff Game
5/27/2018 - Talon of God
5/27/2018 - Artist Hank Willis Thomas Shines Spotlight on the Power of Protest
5/27/2018 - 4 Maryland High Schoolers Charged With Hate Crimes After Spray-Painting Racist Graffiti Targeting Black Principal
5/27/2018 - Oakland, Calif., Police Confirm Identity of Cookout Hater Who Blocked Us [Updated]
5/27/2018 - Leslie Uggams Said President Lyndon B. Johnson Tried to Get Her Into Lincoln’s Bed
5/26/2018 - Trump to Naval Academy Grads: ‘Our Ancestors Tamed a Continent’
5/26/2018 - Oberlin’s Main Library to Be Named for Feminist and Civil Rights Activist Mary Church Terrell
5/26/2018 - What’s Beef? Drake Immediately Claps Back on Pusha T and Kanye West in a Most Savage Manner
5/26/2018 - Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Gets Her Very Own Coat of Arms and Shows California Much Love
5/25/2018 - Federal Prisons Director Was Caught in Pissing Match Between Jared Kushner and Jeff Sessions, so He Quit
5/25/2018 - Exclusive: Ida B. Wells’ Great-Granddaughter Discusses Her Legacy, Growing Monument Campaign
5/25/2018 - #CoffeeWhileBlack: Black-Owned Coffee Shops in Philly to Host Roundtable on Day of Starbucks Racial-Bias Training
5/25/2018 - Watch This 16-Year-Old Sing the Hell Out of ‘Ain’t No Sunshine’ on
Showtime at the Apollo
5/25/2018 - Young, Black and Progressive: Chokwe Antar Lumumba and Randall Woodfin Chop It Up in Birmingham, Ala.
5/25/2018 - Protesters Challenge NFL’s National Anthem Rule in Front of the Master’s House
5/25/2018 - #BikingWhileBlack: NAACP and Black Motorcyclists Sue Myrtle Beach, SC, for Discrimination During ‘Black Bike Week’
5/25/2018 - The Age of Digital Well-Being: Help! I’ve Fallen Into a Click Hole and I Can’t Get Up
5/25/2018 - Behind the Curtain: André Leon Talley Speaks on the Fickleness of
Fashion with the New York Times
5/25/2018 - The NFL Is an Internet Troll
5/25/2018 - Philly Teen Who Used to Be Homeless Earns Full Ride to Harvard
5/25/2018 - Stacey Abrams’ Sister Is Engaged to a Man Incarcerated 26 Years for a Rape and Robbery He Didn’t Commit
5/25/2018 - Royal Shade: Was Meghan Markle’s Wedding Gown a Knockoff?
5/25/2018 - Is the Trump Administration Running a Child-Trafficking Ring or Nah? Follow Me Down the Rabbit Hole
5/25/2018 -
Judge of Characters:
Wypipo Want Everything We Have, Even Our Oppression
5/25/2018 - The Glow Up Anthem of the Week: Cardi B Warns Us to ‘Be Careful’
5/25/2018 - Drank Options to Bring to a Memorial Day Cookout for the Person Who Never Knows What to Bring
5/25/2018 - The Royal Wedding Between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un Just Might Happen
5/25/2018 - White Student, Charged in Brutal Beating That Left Black Minneapolis Teaching Aide on Life Support, Released Without Bail
5/25/2018 - The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: It’s a Hard Job, but Someone Has to Do It
5/25/2018 - Kanye West Paid $85,000 to Use Photo of Whitney Houston’s Drug-Covered Bathroom on Pusha T Album: Report
5/25/2018 - Glamour Magazine Shines the Spotlight on the Historic Number of Black Women Who Are Candidates in Alabama
5/25/2018 - ‘This Is Not Your Country’: Motorist Recorded Mocking Korean-American Veteran Won’t Be Charged in Road Rage Incident
5/25/2018 - Police in Berlin Intend to Press Charges Against Black Customers Who Recorded Alleged Racist Encounter at KFC: Report
5/24/2018 - Dear Rachel Dolezal: Being a ‘Welfare Queen’ Actually Makes You White
5/24/2018 - No, Seriously. Earth Is Literally Trying to Drain the Swamp, Starting With Donald Trump
5/24/2018 - Betsy DeVos to Schools: Call ICE on Undocumented Children
5/24/2018 - Obama Doesn’t Owe This Country Shit
5/24/2018 - Jack Johnson Posthumously Tells Donald Trump to Kiss His Ass
5/24/2018 - Stacey Abrams’ Campaign Was the Hogwarts School for Black Girl Magic
5/24/2018 - NYC’s First Lady Is Addressing the Intersection Between Incarcerated Women and Mental Illness
5/24/2018 - I Love This Song: George Zimmerman Tells Court He’s a Broke-Ass Bitch Who’s $2.5 Million in Debt With No Income
5/24/2018 - 25 Things I Might Do Tomorrow Other Than Listen to Pusha T’s Kanye West-Produced Album,
Daytona
5/24/2018 - Too Late for Whom? 89-Year-Old Woman Becomes Oldest Graduate in Liberty University’s Class of 2018
5/24/2018 - Say What? Apparently, Meghan Markle’s Duchess Glow Up Requires 6 (More) Months’ Training
5/24/2018 - I’m Tired of Enduring the Abuse and Pain That Makes Me a ‘Strong Black Woman’
5/24/2018 - The Sterling Brown Video Has Been Released, and I Have a Few Questions for the Milwaukee Police
5/24/2018 - Morgan Freeman Too? 8 Women Accuse Hollywood Star of Inappropriate Behavior, Harassment: Report [Updated]
5/24/2018 - The Sterling Brown Video Proves Once and for All That There Is No Such Thing as ‘Good Cops’
5/24/2018 - Black Harvard Professor, Often Cited to Discredit Black Lives Matter, Accused of Sexual Misconduct
5/24/2018 - Congratulations, NFL, You Played Yourself! Protest Fines Didn’t Appease Trump, Who Wants Players Who Don’t Stand for the Anthem Tossed Out of the Country
5/24/2018 - 10 Reasons Why Cherrelle and Alexander O’Neal’s ‘Saturday Love’ Is One of the Best Songs Ever
5/24/2018 -
Fox & Friends
Pans NABJ’s ‘Journalist of the Year’
5/24/2018 - The Shrunken Place: Why I Can’t Laugh at This Viral Video
5/24/2018 - Our Forever First Lady, Michelle Obama, Reveals Stunning Cover for Upcoming Memoir,
Becoming
5/24/2018 - Blowing Up: BigHeadHanna Reimagines Rihanna’s Head Abnormally Large, and It’s Hilarious
5/24/2018 - Tomi Lahren Says Underneath Her Racist Skin She’s a Real Person With Feelings ... No One Believes Her
5/24/2018 - ‘Get Out of My Country’: Florida Man Arrested After Attacking Men With Knife, Stun Gun at McDonald’s: Report
5/24/2018 - Idris Elba to Score and Star in Netflix’s
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Adaptation
5/24/2018 - Unfortunate-Faced Florida Man Scares Playground Kids Into Abstinence: Report
5/24/2018 - Ranting Racist on New York Train Receives Hate Crime Charge: Prosecutor
5/23/2018 - Bodycam Footage Shows Milwaukee Police Using Excessive Force Against the NBA’s Sterling Brown for No Reason
5/23/2018 - Are You Seeking Perfection or Just a Good Fit?
5/23/2018 - It Is Illegal for Donald Trump to Block You on Twitter Just Because He Is a Big Baby Who Can’t Take Criticism
5/23/2018 - The Pleasure Principle: Guess What Janet Jackson Once Gave Her Dancers?
5/23/2018 -
Fox & Friends
Tried to Come for Jemele Hill. Our Suggestion? Don’t
5/23/2018 - Celeb Hairstylist Ursula Stephen Is Creating Magic in Brooklyn, NY, With a Brand That Won’t Bust Your Budget
5/23/2018 - Looks Like I’ll Be Sitting Out the NFL Again Next Season (and the Season After That, Etc.)
5/23/2018 - Chesterfield County, Va., Police Say ‘Facts Matter’ After Violent Arrest Video Goes Viral. Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Believe Them
5/23/2018 - The NFL Will Fine Players Who Protest During Anthem, Proving White Tears Matter More Than Black Lives
5/23/2018 - ‘I’m From Here’: Washington, DC, Natives Fight Back Against the Whitewashing of Chocolate City
5/23/2018 - 2 Mississippi Police Officers Fired After Brutally Beating, Kicking Black Man
5/23/2018 - Why It’s OK for Black People, but Not White People, to Use the N-Word, Explained (Again)
5/23/2018 - South Carolina County Council Candidate Posed in Blackface; Community Outraged, but The Root
Staff Is Unimpressed
5/23/2018 - A List of Things Much Better (and Safer!) Than Water to Throw at Stupid, Silly, Dangerous Racists
5/23/2018 - Nordstrom Is Getting More Size-Inclusive ... Thanks to a Kardashian?
5/23/2018 - There’s a Reparations Happy Hour in Oregon Where Black Attendees Get Cash From White Donors
5/23/2018 - Can Someone Take the iPad From the President? He’s Tweeting About ‘Criminal Deep State’ Conspiracy Again
5/23/2018 - Things I Learned Yesterday After Being Stuck in an Airport for 10 Hours Because of a Flight Delay
5/23/2018 - Angela Bassett and Thandie Newton Discuss Being Black and What’s Considered Sexy in Hollywood
5/23/2018 - Exclusive: A Leaked Email Exchange Between Aaron Schlossberg and His PR Firm, You Can’t Say That MFer LLC
5/23/2018 - Cast of
Queen Sugar
Gets Real About Interracial Dating. Guess Who Was Told, ‘Don’t Bring the Oppressor Home’
5/23/2018 - The Future of Fashion is at Atlanta's Grady High School
5/23/2018 - Louisiana Prosecutors Try but Can’t Stop Ex-Felons From Regaining Voting Rights
5/23/2018 - Miami Judge Uses Racial Slur to Describe Black Defendant, Blames Language on Growing Up in New York
5/23/2018 - Pilot Kicks Passenger Off Flight for Hurling Racial Slur at Flight Attendant
5/23/2018 - Georgia Medical Examiner Rules CDC Employee Timothy Cunningham’s Death Suicide by Drowning
5/23/2018 - Donald Glover Fans Have Taken Over a Trump Fan Page on Reddit
5/23/2018 - Tomi Lahren Has Drinks Thrown at Her During Hip-Hop Brunch in Minneapolis
5/23/2018 - Dashcam Footage Appears to Clear Texas Officer Accused of Sexual Assault of Wrongdoing, Attorney Says [Updated]
5/22/2018 - Stacey Abrams Wins Big in Georgia and Now Has a Shot at Becoming 1st African-American Female Governor in US History
5/22/2018 - ‘Hip Cleavage’ Is Not a New Trend
5/22/2018 - Sure, Jan: Aaron Schlossberg’s Apology, Blacksplained
5/22/2018 - District MotherHued’s 1st Momference Highlights Modern Motherhood and Safe Spaces for Black Moms
5/22/2018 - In an Attempt to Help America, the Earth Tries to Swallow Up Trump’s White House
5/22/2018 -
Queen Sugar
and Ava DuVernay Had the Sweetest Garden Party in NYC
5/22/2018 - Trump’s New ‘Work for Welfare’ Rules Protect Poor Whites at the Expense of Urban Blacks
5/22/2018 - ‘Rafiki’ Actress Explains Why
The Lion King
Is One of Broadway’s Blackest and Most Legendary Shows Ever
5/22/2018 - R. Kelly on #MuteRKelly: ‘They Should Have Did This Shit 30 Years Ago’
5/22/2018 - She Got That Glow: Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Makes Her 1st Public Appearance in Style
5/22/2018 - I Went Down a Hip-Hop Rabbit Hole and Ended Up at the Fu-Schnickens Like It Was 1992 All Over Again
5/22/2018 - Video Evidence Proves That Betsy DeVos Might Be the Dumbest Person in Trump’s Cabinet
5/22/2018 -
Having Our Say:
The Delany Sisters Return, More Relevant Than Ever
5/22/2018 - Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser Adopts Newborn in Surprise Announcement
5/22/2018 - Footage of an NBA Player Being Tased by Cops Is Reportedly So Disturbing, the Entire City of Milwaukee Is Worried About Releasing It
5/22/2018 - Bishop Curry Blesses Us With Reflections on the Royal Wedding
5/22/2018 - Lena Waithe to Be Honored With MTV Movie & TV Trailblazer Award
5/22/2018 - Did I Do That? Issa Rae Dresses Up as Our ’90s Faves for GQ—and It’s Pure Comedy
5/22/2018 - Actresses Arrested in Atlanta for Taking Too Long in the Bathroom
5/22/2018 - Let’s All Make a Run for Venus Williams’ New Sprint Collection From EleVen
5/22/2018 - Dear Laura Mvula: Thank You for Being the Musical Bridge for My Daughter and Me
5/22/2018 - Korean Restaurant Owner Slaps Black Female Employee Over $8.47
5/22/2018 - Illinois Man Arrested for Hate Crime After Yelling Racial Slurs at Black Woman Dropping Daughter Off at School: Report
5/22/2018 - Exclusive: Janelle Monáe Is Trying to Be as Free and Open-Minded as Possible With Virtual Reality and Pandora
5/22/2018 - Publix Supermarket Doesn’t Want ‘Cum’ on Graduation Cakes
5/22/2018 - Woman Sues R. Kelly, Charging Sexual Assault and Herpes Infection
5/22/2018 - People Are Big Mad Over Netflix’s Production Deal With the Obamas
5/22/2018 - Houston Cop to Woman During Traffic Stop: ‘Put Your Hands Up ... Pretend Like We’re Going to Shoot You’
5/22/2018 - Woman Who Filmed Oakland, Calif.’s BBQ Becky Speaks Out
5/21/2018 - Jemele Hill Named 2018 Journalist of the Year by National Association of Black Journalists
5/21/2018 - Let’s Clear Up Some Misconceptions About Nonmonogamy
5/21/2018 - When Your Privilege Is Whiter Than Top-Shelf Cocaine, This Happens
5/21/2018 - Be Careful! Cardi B Returns to Instagram and Drops New Video for the Culture
5/21/2018 - Do White People Go to Chuck E. Cheese’s?
5/21/2018 - The White House Is Really Trying to Drive Home This ‘Immigrants Are Animals’ Agenda With New Report
5/21/2018 - Was Nicki Minaj’s
SNL
Performance Cultural Appropriation?
5/21/2018 - Colin Kaepernick’s Collusion Case Just Proved NFL Teams Believed He Was Good Enough to Start, so Why Doesn’t He Have a Job?
5/21/2018 - Oakland, Calif., Holds Massive #BBQingWhileBlack Festival at Lake Merritt
5/21/2018 - Barack and Michelle Obama Have Signed a Multiyear Production Deal With Netflix, Hopefully Ending Our Withdrawal Symptoms
5/21/2018 - Becky Got Kendrick Lamar M.A.A.D: Rapper Shuts Down White Fan for Repeatedly Rapping N-Word
5/21/2018 - Behold BeelzeBecky: White Woman Seen on Video Trying to Get Man Driving Through Her Neighborhood Killed
5/21/2018 - LeBron James’ Reaction to the Man Wearing the ‘MAGA’ Hat Was All of Us
5/21/2018 -
We Used to Have Money, Now We Have You!
Is the Bedtime Story We All Secretly Tell Our Kids
5/21/2018 - Asian Woman Records Sacramento, Calif., Police Officer Harassing Black Boyfriend
5/21/2018 - Woman Reunited With Abandoned Baby She Found 20 Years Earlier
5/21/2018 - Iyanla, Fix My ... Bath? Iyanla Vanzant Is Launching a Line of Body Products on HSN
5/21/2018 - Trump’s Bullying of the Justice Department Again Must Mean the Russia Investigation Is Heating Up
5/21/2018 - Are We Still Boycotting H&M or Nah?
5/21/2018 - NJ High School Invited Prom Attendees to ‘Party Like It’s 1776,’ Sparking Outrage Because, You Know, 1776 Wasn’t a Party for Everyone
5/21/2018 - Snoop, Please Spare Us Your Rage About Trump, Mr. ‘Bitches Ain’t Shit’
5/21/2018 - Janet Jackson Speaks Out Against Sexism, Abuse and Racism in Billboard Icon Award Speech
5/21/2018 - What a (Wo)Man! The 2018 Billboard Awards Were Dedicated to the Ladies
5/21/2018 - ‘Highly Offended’ White Teacher Kicked My 9-Year-Old Son Out of Class for Taking Knee During Pledge
5/21/2018 - Woman Calls Police After Having Wig Snatched
5/21/2018 - Watch: Montana Border Patrol Agent Admits to Detaining 2 US Citizens at Gas Station Because They Were Speaking Spanish
5/20/2018 - Why Meghan Markle Matters (Whether We Like It or Not)
5/20/2018 - Al Sharpton Claims ‘White Male Supremacy’ Is ‘on Its Last Breath’ Because Harry Married Meghan, and I Need Him to Stop Talking
5/20/2018 - Media Noticeably Stingy on Naming Racial Profilers
5/20/2018 -
BlacKkKlansMan
Wins Top Prize at Cannes, Spike Lee’s 1st-Ever Nod From the French Film Fest
5/20/2018 - Starbucks Announces New Policy: Sit All Day for Free if You Want (Black People, Too)
5/20/2018 - Serena’s Grand Slam: How the GOAT Switched It Up for the Royal Reception
5/20/2018 - Sweet Baby Beysus! Beyoncé Went and Bought Another Church
5/20/2018 - Samaria Rice to Open Tamir Rice Cultural Center in 2019
5/20/2018 - The French Connection: The Cannes Film Festival Closes on a High Note
5/20/2018 - Watch:
SNL
Does a Spot on Send-Up of Bishop Curry From the Royal Wedding
5/20/2018 - #DrivingWhileBlackWithLeavesOnTheWindshield: Kansas Man Detained for Having ‘Vegetation’ on Window
5/19/2018 - Something Blue: The New Duke and Duchess of Sussex Ride Off Into the Sunset in Style
5/19/2018 - Fashion and Fascinators: The High Style of Britain’s Blackest Royal Wedding (to Date)
5/19/2018 - Why Is Bobby Moore Still on Death Row, Despite a Recent Supreme Court Decision in His Favor?
5/19/2018 - #SayHerName: 100 Years Ago, Mary Turner Was Lynched
5/19/2018 - Former Playboy Model Jumps to Her Death With Her 7-Year-Old Son
5/19/2018 - A Black Preacher Gave a
Word,
and 4 Other Blackity-Black Moments From the #RoyalWedding
5/19/2018 - ‘Decolonize the Mind’: Black South Africans Are Figuring Out How to Heal From the Mental Damage of Apartheid
5/19/2018 - Malcolm X Matters: Icon’s Words Still Ring True
5/18/2018 - Detroit Street to Be Renamed After Michael Jackson
5/18/2018 - Zazie Beetz Is the Only Thing That Matters in
Deadpool 2
5/18/2018 - White Supremacist Hillbillies Attack Black Family With Baseball Bats and Frying Pan: Report
5/18/2018 - New Evidence Shows the Vegas Shooter Was Probably a Far-Right Extremist, but No One Will Say It
5/18/2018 - Will the Real Meghan Markle Please Stand Up?
5/18/2018 - The Glow Up Anthem of the Week: Ivy Sole’s ‘Life’
5/18/2018 - Georgia High School Tennis Players Photographed With White Bags Over Their Heads in ‘Highly Offensive’ Photo
5/18/2018 - The Full Story of the White Woman Arrested for Petting a Black Woman’s Dog Is Even Wilder (and Whiter) Than You Think
5/18/2018 - Black Porn Star Claims He Was Tricked Into Letting His White Co-Star Call Him the N-Word
5/18/2018 -
Judge of Characters
: Hello, 911? It’s Me, White America
5/18/2018 - Texas School Shooting Suspect Identified as 17-Year-Old Dimitrios Pagourtzis [Updated]
5/18/2018 - #BlackMomMagic: District MotherHued Caters to Millennial Moms of Color in Nation’s 1st ‘Momference’
5/18/2018 - #StayWoke: Trump’s Team Hired Firm to Suppress the Black Vote: Report
5/18/2018 - The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Lotion Is the Cure for Racism
5/18/2018 - 8 Things You Need to Know if You’re Invited to a Wedding This Summer
5/18/2018 - The Best Kind of Bond: Meet the Facebook Group Offering Support and Sisterhood to Breastfeeding Moms
5/18/2018 - Trump Didn’t Know the Difference Between HIV and HPV, so Bill Gates Explained It to Him—Twice
5/18/2018 - Watch: Kerry James Marshall Just Sold the Most Expensive Painting by a Living African-American Artist [Updated]
5/18/2018 - Meek Mill Cancels Appearance at White House Prison-Reform Summit
5/18/2018 - The Great Escape: A Journey to the Center of Myself
5/18/2018 - Meghan Markle’s White Relatives Are the Messiest of Bitches
5/18/2018 - How Janet Jackson’s
janet.
Made a Man Out of Me
5/18/2018 - The Face of Resilience: Beauty Brands Come Together In Support of Human Trafficking Survivors
5/18/2018 - Watching the Racist Lawyer Who Threatened to Call ICE on Spanish Speakers Run Away From Reporters Is My New Favorite Thing Ever
5/18/2018 - Mugshots.com Owners Arrested on Extortion Charges
5/18/2018 - Montana High School Student Suspended for Repeatedly Wearing Confederate Flag Sweatshirt Whines About 1st Amendment Rights
5/18/2018 - Teacher Tells 10-Year-Old He’ll Only Be Able to Blame Himself When He’s 16 and Shot by Police: Report
5/18/2018 -
Star Wars
Writer Confirms Lando Calrissian Is Pansexual
5/18/2018 - Is Making
Star Wars’
Lando Calrissian ‘Pansexual’ an Assault on Black Manhood? Maybe, but Not in the Way You Think
5/17/2018 - Michael B. Jordan on the Cover of Essence Is Just the Christmas-in-June Blessing We Need
5/17/2018 - Get Polished With This ‘Impressive’ Press-on Pedicure
5/17/2018 - Michael Avenatti vs. Anthony Scaramucci: Coming Soon to a Television Near You?
5/17/2018 - It’s Been a Year Already: So, What Actually Happens if Trump Fires Mueller?
5/17/2018 - Bigot Bus Breaks Down Before Bashing of Immigrants Begins
5/17/2018 - The Complexity of
Not
Calling the Police While Black
5/17/2018 - 64 Years After
Brown v. Board of Education,
Integration Has Not Helped Black People
5/17/2018 - Trump’s Thug, the Ruthless Gina Haspel, Confirmed as the 1st Female CIA Director
5/17/2018 - Fox Reaches $10 Million Discrimination Settlement
5/17/2018 - John Bunn, Convicted at 14 for a Crime He Didn’t Commit, Is Finally Exonerated. But Justice Still Hasn’t Been Served
5/17/2018 - Becky With the Bold Hands: White Woman Arrested for Attempting to Pet Black Woman’s Dog Without Permission
5/17/2018 - #ThrowbackThursday: The Legend of Zelda (Wynn Valdes)
5/17/2018 - Lying White Woman Who Falsely Accused 2 Black Men of Rape Now Accuses Police of Lying on Her
5/17/2018 - The Trump Administration Has Mastered the Art of the ‘Grumblebrag’
5/17/2018 - The President’s Newest Russia Deflection: Obama-Embedded Informant in Trump’s Campaign
5/17/2018 - Trump Called Undocumented Immigrants ‘Animals,’ and That’s Exactly What He Meant
5/17/2018 - And Another One: California Starbucks Writes Racial Slur on Latino Customer’s Drink
5/17/2018 - Whitest Cookout Ever: Woman Suspected of Killing Lover, Serving His Remains at Barbecue
5/17/2018 - Racist Man Who Threatened to Call ICE on Spanish Speakers to Be Besieged by Mariachis and Tacos, Thanks to the Internet
5/17/2018 - Why I Don’t Regret Taking Medication to Cope With My Depression
5/17/2018 - Is It Safe to Admit I’m Just Happy It’s the White Side of Meghan Markle’s Family Acting a Damn Fool?
5/17/2018 - Rolling
Solo:
Thandie Newton Made a Stylish Statement About Representation at Cannes
5/17/2018 - Can Someone Donate a Shit for Me to Give About the Royal Wedding?
5/17/2018 - Ohio 4th-Grader to Receive Kidney From Teacher
5/17/2018 - A Homeless Black Man Was Jailed After Trying to Eat at Burger King. Now He’s Suing for Almost $1 Million
5/17/2018 -
Black Is Not My Job:
16 Black Actresses Take the Cannes Red Carpet by Storm
5/17/2018 - Texas 13-Year-Old Abducted, Assaulted After Getting Off School Bus; His Mom Believes He Was Targeted Because of His Race
5/17/2018 - Black Teen Rower Says White Teens Called Her Rosa Parks and N-Word After Competition
5/17/2018 - Read This Before Calling the Police: For Wypipo Who Have Considered Cops When Privilege Wasn’t Enough
5/17/2018 - Leaked Jail Video Shows T.I. Questioning Cop About Arrest
5/17/2018 - Bill Cosby to Be Sentenced in September
5/17/2018 - Whitney Houston Documentary Reveals She Was Molested by Cousin Dee Dee Warwick
5/17/2018 - Bronx, NY, Man Wants to Stay Anonymous After Winning $5 Million Scratch Off Game; Gaming Commission Says Nah
5/16/2018 - Rex Tillerson Takes Shots at Donald Trump During Virginia Military Institute Commencement Speech
5/16/2018 - #NetNeutrality: Senate Votes to Overturn FCC Repeal of Open-Internet Rules
5/16/2018 - Georgia Gubernatorial Candidate Is Riding Around in a ‘Deportation Bus’ That He Promises to Fill With ‘Illegals’
5/16/2018 - The Iconoclast: How Lezli Levene Harvell Is Redefining ‘Having It All’
5/16/2018 - How to Get That Glow Down Below, aka Minding Your Lady Business
5/16/2018 - Jury Finds Man Dubbed the ‘George Zimmerman of Alabama’ Guilty in Killing of Unarmed Black Teen
5/16/2018 - White Woman Calls Security on ‘Suspicious Man With a Baby’ at Park in Washington, DC
5/16/2018 - Well, What Do You Know? Trump Did Reimburse Lawyer for Porn-Star Payment: Report
5/16/2018 - Radical, Socialist, Feminist and Black: Meet Newly Elected Pennsylvania State Rep. Summer Lee
5/16/2018 - Watch: White Dude Gets Big Mad at People Speaking Spanish in Front of His Salad, Threatens to Call ICE
5/16/2018 - Black Cop’s Tale of Infiltrating KKK Is a Hit at Cannes
5/16/2018 - Michael B. Jordan Talks Fake News, Internet Culture and
Fahrenheit 451
5/16/2018 - Couple Who Survived Charlottesville, Va., Attack Get Dream Wedding and Honor Heather Heyer
5/16/2018 - 25-Year-Old Posed as Hurricane Harvey Evacuee, Attended Dallas High School for Over a Year as a Freshman
5/16/2018 - 10 Things That Confuse Me About Kenny G’s Colonization of My Musical World
5/16/2018 - Pastor Fights Megachurch Gentrification With Sign Telling Black Folks to ‘Stay Out of White Churches’
5/16/2018 - #GoingHomeWhileBlack: Rapper T.I. Arrested Outside His Gated Community After Misplacing Keys
5/16/2018 - The Parent Trap: Is Being Nude in Front of Your Kids Free Expression or Overexposure?
5/16/2018 - Spelman Makes History After Graduating Its 1st Openly Transgender Male Student
5/16/2018 - Just an Ordinary Pain: Living With Persistent Depressive Disorder
5/16/2018 - The Meeting Between Kim Jong Un and Trump Is About As Likely as a Full-Member New Edition Reunion Tour
5/16/2018 - White Hobby Lobby Manager Calls Police on Black Customer for #ShoppingWhileBlack
5/16/2018 - Your Girl Candace Owens Ran a Trump-Bashing Website Less Than 2 Years Ago. Color Us Shocked
5/16/2018 - #ShoppingWhileBlack: California Woman Accuses Macy’s of Racial Profiling After Being Accused of Stealing
5/16/2018 - Rihanna Does Not Give a Damn About the Royal Wedding
5/16/2018 - South Carolina NAACP President Claims He Was Racially Profiled During Traffic Stop, but Bodycam Video Tells a Different Story
5/16/2018 - The 2018 BET Awards Nominees Are ...
5/15/2018 - Unarmed Black Teacher, a Recent VCU Honors Grad, Shot and Killed by Virginia Police
5/15/2018 - Community Groups Finalize Consent Decree Demands for Chicago Police Department
5/15/2018 - #StephonClark: 2 Months Later, We Are No Closer to Justice
5/15/2018 - Kansas Finally Bans Cops From Forcing Suspects to Have Sex Because ... Yes, a Cop Reportedly Raped Black Women for Years
5/15/2018 -
Solo: A Star Wars Story:
A Promising Prequel With an Even More Promising Lando
5/15/2018 - At What Age Did You First See
Coming to America
?
5/15/2018 - The Best Way to Battle Internet Trolls Is to Treat Them Like Ice Cubes Dropped in the Dirt
5/15/2018 - Some Did Choose to Return to Slavery Because They Chose Family Over Everything
5/15/2018 - Study: Affluent Black Kids Suffer Higher Rates of Depression Because ... You Guessed It: Racism
5/15/2018 - Bad Publicity Only Works for the Kardashians
5/15/2018 - Spike Lee Rips Donald Trump: ‘That Motherfucker Did Not Denounce the Motherfucking Klan’
5/15/2018 - (Do) Touch My Hair? 2 White Brits Specialize in Celebrating the Artistic Potential of Black Hair
5/15/2018 - Floyd Mayweather Jr. Won $100,000 Video-Poker Jackpot, Proving That Life Is Unfair
5/15/2018 - White Woman Calls Cops on Black Real Estate Investor Inspecting House Next Door
5/15/2018 - #CommunityServiceWhileBlack: Cop Questions Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Members During Highway Cleaning, Says He Thought They Were Fighting
5/15/2018 - Did Chris Paul Elbow Kevin Durant in the Butthole Last Night?
5/15/2018 - How to Watch Your Family Drown Slowly
5/15/2018 - A Black Student Says He Was Sexually Harassed and Assaulted by a White Classmate, but Only He Was Punished
5/15/2018 - Estée Lauder Ambassador Aïssa Maïga to Lead Historic Forum Against Racism and Sexism at Cannes Film Festival
5/15/2018 - Jimmy Jam’s Episodes of
Questlove Supreme
Might Be the Greatest Episodes of Anything That Ever Existed
5/15/2018 - The Edge of 17:
For Ahkeem
Is a Coming-of-Age Story in the Age of Ferguson
5/15/2018 - #StayWoke: The Real Reason Trump’s Trying to Make China Great Again
5/15/2018 - 113-Year-Old Ohio Woman Is the Oldest Living Person in US
5/15/2018 - Michaela Coel, Clearly Not Looking Like a Flight Attendant, Gets Mistaken for ... a Flight Attendant
5/15/2018 - Powerful, Immersive Play
As Much as I Can
Brings Voices of Southern Gay Black Men and HIV/AIDS Awareness to Harlem
5/15/2018 - ‘White Caller Crime’: The Worst Wypipo Police Calls of All Time
5/15/2018 - Whose Nude? Christian Louboutin Explains Why Inclusion Is Important—but We Still Have Questions
5/15/2018 - A Black Man Died During an Arrest in Louisiana; A Local Coroner Has Ruled the Death a Homicide by ‘Asphyxia’
5/15/2018 - Black Yale Student Wants White Classmate Who Called Police on Her Held Accountable
5/15/2018 - Trump
Finally
Reaches Out to Waffle House Hero James Shaw Jr. Almost a Month After Deadly Shooting
5/15/2018 - Willow Smith Shocks Mom With Self-Harm Admission
5/15/2018 -
Star Trek’
s Nichelle Nichols Given Conservators Because of Dementia: Report
5/15/2018 - Woman Who Called the Cops on Oakland, Calif., Family Becomes Viral Meme
5/14/2018 - Spike Lee’s
BlacKkKlansman
Gets Standing Ovation at Cannes
5/14/2018 - Tomi Lahren Is a Descendant of Non-English-Speaking Immigrants. She Should Shut Up About Immigration
5/14/2018 - Melania Trump’s Kidney Revolts, Tries to Leave the White House Without Her
5/14/2018 - Black Oakland Electric Slides on Racism by Throwing Big-Ass Cookout in Park Where White Lady Called Cops [Updated]
5/14/2018 - This Cynthia Nixon Marijuana-Reparations Drama Is Dumb
5/14/2018 - Waffle House Customer Choked by Police Officer Says Employees Called Him a Gay Slur [Updated]
5/14/2018 - Breaking All Barriers: Funny Gal Amber Ruffin Hosts the 2018 Webby Awards
5/14/2018 - I Took a Knee for the Anthem Before an Alumni Basketball Game ... but I Just Felt Silly
5/14/2018 - A Sincere Apology to the Strong Black Men Being Attacked by #TheRootArticles
5/14/2018 - A Catholic School in Florida Had a Caged Tiger at Its Jungle-Themed Prom and WTF?
5/14/2018 - An Hour With Her: Debbie Allen Teams Up With Dove to Talk Mentorship
5/14/2018 - L’Oreal Brand Ambassador Fatou N’diaye Brings Her Brand of Africanism to Cannes
5/14/2018 - Ex-Cop Convicted of Killing Unarmed Black Man Caught Drinking at Bar in Apparent Violation of Parole
5/14/2018 - 4 Hospitalizations, 3 Diagnoses, 2 Scared Parents and 1 Very Sad Woman
5/14/2018 - ‘This Is America’ Is the No. 1 Song in America
5/14/2018 - While Trump Congratulates Israel and Plugs Fox News, Here’s What’s Happening in Gaza
5/14/2018 - A Missouri Man Has Already Served Almost 2 Decades in Prison for a Murder He Didn’t Commit, but He Still Has Not Been Freed
5/14/2018 - NYPD Tried to Blame High Marijuana Arrest Rates for Black People on Higher Call Rates. Here’s Why That Doesn’t Add Up
5/14/2018 - Taraji P. Henson Is Going to Be a Bride, Y’all!
5/14/2018 - Yes, We Cannes: The Lens Is on Equality at the World’s Most Fashionable Film Festival
5/14/2018 - Nigerian Woman, Who Was Removed From United Flight After a White Passenger Complained She Was ‘Pungent,’ Files Lawsuit
5/13/2018 - Chadwick Boseman, aka ‘Blek Pentha,’ Encourages Howard University’s Class of 2018 to Always Seek Purpose
5/13/2018 - Virginia Hotel Employee Angrily Calls Black Man a ‘Monkey’ in Dispute Over Room
5/13/2018 - For Many Moms, ‘Life Ain’t Been No Crystal Stair’
5/13/2018 - Mamas Day 2018: Honoring Black Mamas’ Right to Parent
5/13/2018 - That’s Dr. Chano to You: Chance the Rapper Praises the Great Name of Beyoncé
in Dillard Commencement Speech
5/13/2018 - Wait, Did Gayle King Just Admit That Oprah Smoked Weed?
5/13/2018 - Childish Gambino’s ‘This Is America’ Has Been Colonized
5/13/2018 - André 3000 Drops 2 New Songs for Mother’s Day
5/13/2018 -
My Mother’s Daughter,
a Multigenerational Talk About Motherhood, Part 5: Rasheedah
5/13/2018 - Beyond the Blue
5/13/2018 - White Wisconsin Police Officer Caught on Camera Punching Black Teen in the Face
5/12/2018 - Did Azealia Banks Bully Cardi B Into Deleting Her Instagram Account?
5/12/2018 - Ava DuVernay Has a Mother’s Day Gift for Us All:
A Wrinkle in Time
Will Be Rereleased for Mother’s Day Weekend!
5/12/2018 - R. Kelly Gives a Defiant Performance in Midst of North Carolina Protests and #MuteRKelly Campaign
5/12/2018 - Former Loud Records CEO Announces a Wu-Tang
36 Chambers
Redo. We Say Blasphemy
5/12/2018 - Young Dolph Blesses the 2 Duke University Baristas Who Were Fired for Playing His Song ‘Get Paid’ With $20,000
5/12/2018 - Video Released After Teen Tased and Killed by Michigan State Troopers Underscores Law Enforcement’s Utter Contempt for Black Americans
5/12/2018 - #VintageShoppingWhileBlack: NYC Lawyer and Daughter Handcuffed After Being Accused of Stealing
5/12/2018 - White Woman Calls Police on Bob Marley’s Granddaughter After She Didn’t Smile. Now the Filmmaker Wants Justice
5/12/2018 -
My Mother’s Daughter,
a Multigenerational Talk About Motherhood, Part 4: Aissatou
5/12/2018 - ‘I Quit’: Georgia Officer Resigns After Dragging 65-Year-Old Woman From Car During Traffic Stop [Updated]
5/11/2018 - Watch Nashville, Tenn., Mayoral Candidate Tell Roomful of Black Voters Racial Profiling Is ‘Absolutely Necessary’
5/11/2018 - Hold Up ... Did Whitey McWhiteMan Just Tell Auntie Maxine to ‘Stop Talking About Discrimination’?
5/11/2018 - It Turns Out, That Cop-Calling Starbucks Manager Might Be the Beckiest Becky Who Ever Beckied
5/11/2018 -
Judge of Characters:
Black Men, White Wives ... This Is America
5/11/2018 - Is This the 1st Victim of COINTELPRO 2.0? Jailed ‘Black Identity Extremist’ Speaks Out
5/11/2018 - The Glow Up Anthem of the Week: Prince’s ‘I Wish U Heaven’
5/11/2018 - Henrietta Lacks: The Immortal Mother of Modern Medicine Will Be Honored in the Smithsonian
5/11/2018 - Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky and Mike (aka RBRM) Is the Lemonade We Get From New Edition’s Lemons
5/11/2018 - Debra Shaw Gets Her 1st Vogue Cover at 41
5/11/2018 - Becoming Royalty: Actress Parisa Fitz-Henley Talks Transforming Into Meghan Markle
5/11/2018 - Trump Knew Former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman Was an Alleged Sexual Abuser in 2013: Report
5/11/2018 - This Dancer Gave Birth Weeks Before Performing in Beyoncé’s Historic Coachella Set. This Is How She Snapped Back
5/11/2018 -
Breaking In
: Gabrielle Union Plays One Bad Mother
5/11/2018 - Misty Copeland on How She Ended Up in Drake’s ‘Nice for What’ Video
5/11/2018 - Pulitzer Prize Board Will Review Junot Díaz Sexual-Misconduct Claims
5/11/2018 - This Mother’s Day Will Be Different
5/11/2018 - Manager Loudly Reads Store’s Theft Policy to Black Customers, Calls Security When Asked Why [Updated]
5/11/2018 - Happy Mother’s Day: Chris Bosh’s Mom Sues the Former NBA Player for Cutting Her Off
5/11/2018 - The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: The Declaration of Blackness
5/11/2018 -
My Mother’s Daughter,
a Multigenerational Talk About Motherhood, Part 3: Moji
5/11/2018 - Toronto Raptors Head Coach, and Front-Runner for NBA Coach of the Year, Dwane Casey Has Been Fired: Report
5/11/2018 - ‘Calling the Police’ Is White People’s AppleCare for Black People
5/11/2018 - Gillian Jacobs Is the ‘Life of the Party’ On-Screen, but Not So Much, She Says, in Real Life
5/11/2018 - ‘He’s Dying Anyway’: White House Aide’s Crass ‘Joke’ About Sen. John McCain
5/11/2018 - #RentingWhileBlack: Mother of 3 Loses Apartment Because She Didn’t Provide Her Landlord With an Ultrasound Photo
5/11/2018 - Savage x Fenty Is Here, and Our Bodies Are
Ready:
Here’s What to Expect
5/11/2018 - North Carolina Dentists Apologize After Cosplaying in Native American, Japanese Clothing for ‘Whitening’ Service
5/11/2018 - Dear Black Male Nerds: Maybe There’s Another Reason the Popular Black Girls in High School Rejected You
5/11/2018 - Tracee Ellis Ross Talks SZA and RiRi, Gives Us the Scoop on Her Supreme Met Gala Style
5/11/2018 - South Carolina Mom Disputes Cops’ Claim That 3-Year-Old Accidentally Shot Himself in the Head
5/10/2018 - Did Michael Cohen Get $600,000 From AT&T so Trump Would Kill Net Neutrality and OK a Merger?
5/10/2018 - Meek Mill Discusses His Opioid Addiction, Says Jay-Z Quietly Paid His Legal Fees
5/10/2018 - Univision Bosses Incompetent, Staffers Write
5/10/2018 - #TBT: You Can Now Call Tyrone (Biggums) at Your Local Banana Republic
5/10/2018 - I Honestly Thought White People Were Better Than This
5/10/2018 - Gina Haspel, Trump’s Pick to Run the CIA, Is a Thug
5/10/2018 - You’ve Got 3 Days Left to Make Your Mama Happy; Here Are 9 Suggestions
5/10/2018 -
This
Is America: Save a White Drug Addict, Jail a Black One
5/10/2018 - The Mama Dilemma: Adoption, Racism and the Search for Answers
5/10/2018 - It’s OK Not to Be OK: 2 Black Teens Use Tech to Prevent Suicide
5/10/2018 - This Is the Remix to Eviction: R. Kelly’s Music Booted From Spotify Playlists
5/10/2018 - The NFL Is Being Guided by an Immoral Compass
5/10/2018 - If You’re Still Mad That People Didn’t Want You in High School, I Get It, but Please (for Your Own Sake) Get Over It
5/10/2018 - Trump Wants the Nobel Peace Prize, and With His Latest Moves, the Deplorable in Chief Just Might Win
5/10/2018 -
My Mother’s Daughter,
a Multigenerational Talk About Motherhood, Part 2: Lemuria
5/10/2018 - #CookingOutWhileBlack: White Woman Calls Cops on Black People Cooking Out in Oakland, Calif., Park
5/10/2018 - Speaking Out Against Domestic Violence on Black Women Is No Longer Taboo, but Doing Something About It Is
5/10/2018 - Trump Has Been in Office Fewer Than 500 Days. Here’s How Many Times He’s Lied
5/10/2018 - Woman Says She Was Raped in Chris Brown’s Home in New Lawsuit
5/10/2018 - 92-Year-Old Woman Earns 4th College Degree, Says She’s Returning for Another
5/10/2018 - Aunt of Wakeisha Wilson, Woman Who Died in LAPD Custody, Throws Niece’s Ashes at Chief
5/10/2018 - Zora Neale Hurston’s
Barracoon
Is an Epic Tale From the Last Known Survivor of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
5/10/2018 - Denver Mayor Responds to Leaked Video of Son Threatening Cop, Spewing Gay Slurs at Traffic Stop
5/10/2018 - In Living Color: Danielle Brooks Brightens Up Essence Magazine
5/10/2018 - A Black Yale Student Took a Nap in a Dorm Common Room. A White Classmate Called the Cops on Her [Updated]
5/9/2018 - Monica Lewinsky Gets Uninvited From an Event After Bill Clinton RSVPs
5/9/2018 - Trap Music Gets 2 Baristas Fired From a Duke University Coffee Shop After School VP Complains
5/9/2018 -
My Mother’s Daughter,
a Multigenerational Talk About Motherhood, Part 1: Zaiane
5/9/2018 - Kanye West Invades the Nevada Congressional Race, and Now I’m Forced to Write About Him
5/9/2018 - Red Alert: The Fight for #NetNeutrality Continues
5/9/2018 - Texas State University Students Jailed for Campus Protest
5/9/2018 - A Late-Ass, Last-Minute Mother’s Day Gift Guide From Me (a Mom) for Your Mama (Also a Mom)
5/9/2018 - The All-American Question: Can You Truly Love Black People if You Date Outside the Race?
5/9/2018 - The Fugees’ ‘Killing Me Softly’ Is Overrated and the Least Awesome Song on
The Score.
Fight Me, Bro
5/9/2018 - Kim Kardashian Announced the Name of Her Upcoming Lingerie Line (and We Don’t Kare)
5/9/2018 - Donald Trump Jr. Posted His 3-Year-Old Daughter on Instagram Without a Shirt. WTF Is Wrong With Him?
5/9/2018 - Tarana Burke: Black Community Needs to Have Uncomfortable Conversations About Sexual Violence
5/9/2018 - Black Mamas Work: 6 Career-Driven Moms Share Their Messy Lessons, Wins and Fears of Raising Black Kids
5/9/2018 -
Red Table Talk:
Jada Pinkett Smith Starts a Multigenerational Dialogue
5/9/2018 - This Is
Us:
Jordan Peele’s New Social Thriller Boasts Killer Cast
5/9/2018 - Trump Wants to Punish Journalists, Admits That ‘Fake News’ Is Anything Negative About His Administration
5/9/2018 - Meek Mill on Prison Reform: ‘I Don’t Want to Be Martin Luther King; I’m Still Meek Mill’
5/9/2018 - Supermarket Employee Fired After Denying Black Couple a Money Order Over ‘Fraud’ Concerns
5/9/2018 - A List of the Fucks I Give About the Snitch-Ass Police Dogs That’ll Be Unemployed if Marijuana Is Legalized
5/9/2018 - Black Genius: A Privilege Afforded Only to Straight Black Men
5/9/2018 - ‘The Universe Do Need Me’: Cardi B Drops Pearls on Pregnancy With Vogue and Lashes Out With Kiss
5/9/2018 - South Carolina Man Seeks White Supremacist Hit Man to Lynch Black Neighbor, Burn Cross on Lawn: FBI
5/9/2018 - Miami Police Officer Charged With Assault After Attempting to Kick Handcuffed Man in the Head
5/9/2018 - Met Gala 2018: Did Vogue Catch Your Fave Live on Camera?
5/9/2018 - When White Politicians Profit Off Black Pain and Then Go Begging for Black Votes: Georgia Edition
5/9/2018 - Meghan Markle’s Madame Tussauds Wax Figure Doesn’t Look Like Crap
5/9/2018 - Dr. Dre Loses Trademark Battle Against Gynecologist Dr. Drai
5/8/2018 - #Flint: Water Was Flagged as ‘Poor’ Weeks Before Gov. Snyder Ended Water-Distribution Program
5/8/2018 - Donald Trump Has a Doppelgänger: A Spanish Woman Who Farms Potatoes
5/8/2018 - ‘Protect and Serve Act’ Would Make Police a Protected Class and Violence Against Them a Hate Crime
5/8/2018 - Nordstrom Rack Calls Cops on 3 Black Teens Shopping for Prom, Wrongly Accuses Them of Stealing
5/8/2018 - Watch: Mother of Former Duke Player Wendell Carter Jr. Compares NCAA Basketball to Slavery and Prison
5/8/2018 - The Sweet Taste of Victory: Inclusion Won Big at This Year’s James Beard Awards
5/8/2018 - We Knew When Trump Said His Numbers Doubled Among the Blacks That He Was Lying. Here’s Why
5/8/2018 - Get ’Em While They’re Young: Study Shows Cops Take Black Lives Earlier, More Often Than Whites
5/8/2018 - Donald Glover’s ‘This Is America’ Explained by 2 People Who Don’t Pretend to Understand It
5/8/2018 - Met Gala 2018: Get Laura Harrier’s Debutante-Ready Red-Carpet Look
5/8/2018 - Call Me ‘Master’: Ex Says Former New York Attorney General Was Into Racist Role-Playing During Sex
5/8/2018 - Black Life, White Wife and the Art Caught in the Middle
5/8/2018 - Met Gala 2018: How Janelle Monáe Served Flawless Face for ‘Heavenly Bodies’
5/8/2018 - Not Only Did Melania Trump’s Team Bite the Obama Playbook, but They Also Got Mad When the Media Pointed It Out
5/8/2018 - Met Gala 2018: Issa Rae Gets Regal and Red-Carpet Ready
5/8/2018 - Active-Duty Marine Moonlights as Leader of Violent White Supremacist Group: Report
5/8/2018 - ‘I Was Joan of Arc in a Former Life’: How Zendaya Was Transformed for the 2018 Met Gala
5/8/2018 - 1 of 3 Filmmakers #BlackWhileAirbnb-ing Is Bob Marley’s Granddaughter; Plans to Sue Police Over Excessive Stop [Updated]
5/8/2018 - 10 Reasons I Wear Hats for Sports Teams I Don’t Support or Watch
5/8/2018 - The Met Gala 2018: How Celebs Interpreted ‘Fashion and the Catholic Imagination’
5/8/2018 - Meek Mill Discusses His High-Profile Battle With Justice System: ‘This Happens to Minorities on a Daily Basis’
5/8/2018 - Civil Rights Group to Sue Ben Carson and HUD for Removing Obama-Era Housing Rule
5/8/2018 - Cynthia Nixon Catches Heat for Calling Cannabis Licenses in Black Community a ‘Form of Reparations’
5/8/2018 - 2 Men Wrongfully Imprisoned for Rape Exonerated After Accuser Recants Story
5/8/2018 - Kennedy Center Rescinds Bill Cosby’s Honors, Mark Twain Award
5/7/2018 - Federal Judge Blocks Police Lawsuit Against Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby
5/7/2018 - Why Won’t George Zimmerman Just Go Away?
5/7/2018 - ‘Not All White People’: A Definitive Disclaimer
5/7/2018 - Hate the Player, Not the Game: On Loving the Art of R. Kelly, Kanye and Cosby
5/7/2018 - The Dumbest (and Most Common) Argument for Why Michael Jordan, Not LeBron James, Is the Greatest Basketball Player Ever
5/7/2018 - Tonight’s the Night: Are You Ready for the Met Gala?
5/7/2018 - Melania Trump Just Swaggerjacked Michelle Obama, Again. This Time With Her Stupidly Named ‘Be Best’ Initiative
5/7/2018 - I Now Have Both TSA Precheck and Clear, and I Can Never Stand in Line With You People Again
5/7/2018 - Mother of Young Woman Killed at Tennessee Waffle House Accepts Her College Diploma
5/7/2018 - Rudy Giuliani Is Either a Spy for the Left, an Idiot or Both Because He’s Destroying Trump With Every Interview
5/7/2018 - ‘If God Is White, Kill God’: Why Dr. James Cone Was Once the Most Hated Theologian in America
5/7/2018 - This Is How We Do It: The 2018 Iconoclast Dinner Experience Kicks Off With an All-Star Bash in Chicago
5/7/2018 - Watch: Marvel’s
Luke Cage
Season 2 Trailer Introduces New Supervillain
5/7/2018 - Lynching Memorial: Ghanaian Artist Hopes Sculpture Captures Shared Pain Between African Americans and the Motherland
5/7/2018 - Got Enough Money to Make It Rain on Prince’s Private Island Estate? It’s Up for Bidding
5/7/2018 - The Original ‘March for Our Lives’: Alabama Children Re-Create 1963 Children’s Crusade
5/7/2018 - Making Donald Glover the ‘Anti-Kanye’ Is Gross and Wrong and Will Backfire, so Please Don’t
5/7/2018 - GLAAD and Gorgeous: Guests Were Out and Proud on the GLAAD Awards Red Carpet
5/7/2018 - American University’s 1st Black Student Government President Sues Neo-Nazi Leader for Racist Threats
5/7/2018 - Arizona Sen. John McCain Really Hates Trump; Doesn’t Even Want the President to Attend His Funeral
5/7/2018 - Jay-Z Knocks Harvey Weinstein’s Hustle, Sues Weinstein Co. for Big Pimpin’
5/7/2018 - #GraduatingWhileBlack: University of Florida Apologizes for Pushing Black Graduates Off the Stage
5/7/2018 - Michelle Obama Says She’s Not Running for Office
5/7/2018 - Michigan Police Department Uses Microsoft Paint to Connect With Young People
5/6/2018 - Ava DuVernay, Gloria Carter and Samira Wiley Honored at GLAAD Awards Because Black Women Stay Winning
5/6/2018 - ‘Street Talk’ From Huckabee Sanders?
5/6/2018 - West Virginia Pol Uses the Word ‘Negro’ to Defend Racist Ad About ‘China People’
5/6/2018 - California Artist Receives Death Threats for Charter School Mural Depicting a Severed Trump Head
5/6/2018 - Cynthia Nixon Vows to Legalize Weed in New York if She Wins Governorship
5/6/2018 - Donald Glover’s
SNL
Migos Parody Was Skrrt-Skrrt Perfect
5/6/2018 - A Storm’s a-Coming: Porn Star’s Lawyer Says Trump ‘Will Be Forced to Resign’
5/6/2018 - Off-Duty California Cop Pulls Gun on Guy Buying Mentos
5/6/2018 - Teen Stabs Classmate With Scissors After He Pulls Up Her Dress
5/6/2018 - Childish Gambino Drops New Video Appropriately Called ‘This Is America’
5/5/2018 - Ranting Racist White Man on New York Train Identified
5/5/2018 - Bernie Sanders Is Trying to Get Race Right
5/5/2018 - Cyntoia Brown, Sex Trafficking Victim Serving Life for Killing John, Granted Clemency Hearing
5/5/2018 - Nigerian Lawmaker Offers Kanye a Trip to Africa to Help Him Gather His Senses on Slavery
5/5/2018 - Tracee Ellis Ross Loves Us So Much That She Gave Us a Cinco de Mayo Gift With a Squeeze of Lime
5/5/2018 - The Reckoning: What Junot Díaz Teaches Us About Internalized Misogyny
5/5/2018 - Ava DuVernay Tells Whiny-Ass Men to ‘Sue Me’ for Using Only Female Directors in
Queen Sugar
5/5/2018 - ‘If Your Seat Belt Isn’t Tight, You Fucked Up’: Possibly Drunk Flight Attendant Goes HAM on United Flight
5/5/2018 - Maryland College Student Saves 80-Year-Old From Burning House
5/5/2018 - The Queen Is Coming: How April Ryan Got Her Glow Up for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
5/5/2018 - Cinco de Mayo Is More Than Margaritas and Sombreros, and Cut It Out With the Sombreros if You’re Not Mexican
5/5/2018 - 3 Times American Slaves Did Rebel
5/5/2018 - Ryan Coogler Reveals What Happened to Killmonger’s Mother in
Black Panther
Extra
5/4/2018 - White People Have Gentrified Fried-Bologna Sandwiches
5/4/2018 - The 1st Date Was Successful. Now What?
5/4/2018 - Donald Trump and John Kelly Just Came Out as BFFs, so Kelly’s About to Get Fired, Right?
5/4/2018 - The Greatest Responses to the News DJ Khaled Is Not a Lick-’Em-Low Lover
5/4/2018 - Exclusive: Learn How
Black Panther’
s Dora Milaje Were Cast
5/4/2018 - Lester Holt Says Meek Mill Is a ‘Mature, Thoughtful Young Man’
5/4/2018 - How to Speak in Front of Large Groups of People When You’re an Introvert and It Terrifies You
5/4/2018 - Author Junot Díaz Responds to Accusations of Sexual Misconduct and Verbal Abuse: ‘I Take Responsibility for My Past’
5/4/2018 - Trump Just Thanked Kanye for Doubling His Poll Numbers; Here’s Why This Has Become Dangerous
5/4/2018 -
Dear White People Vol. 2
Digs Deeper Into Modern-Day Segregation, Microaggressions, Twitter Trolls and More
5/4/2018 - Khaki Pants, Meet Tiki Torch: Trump Just Suggested That Rudy Giuliani Needs to ‘Learn Before You Speak’
5/4/2018 - Wypipo Held a Protest for White Teacher Who Slapped, Kicked and Pulled Locs of Sleeping Student
5/4/2018 - Exclusive: Lezley McSpadden on Why She’s Considering a Run for Ferguson, Mo., City Council
5/4/2018 -
Judge of Characters:
We’re Not Laughing at Slavery, We’re Laughing at Kanye
5/4/2018 - Meek Mill Says Because of His Probation, He Would Have Gone to Prison if Philly Starbucks Had Called Police on Him
5/4/2018 - Donald Trump Apparently Thinks Putting Kanye West in a Room With Colin Kaepernick Can Solve Racism
5/4/2018 - Wale Thinks Being Dark-Skinned and African Held Him Back in Hip-Hop, but He’s a Successful Rapper. What Gives?
5/4/2018 - It Was a Glorious Night for #BlackGirlMagic at the Ms. Foundation Gloria Awards
5/4/2018 - It’s Been a Week; Can We Finally Admit That Everybody Won at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner?
5/4/2018 - Journalist April Ryan to Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Street Politics Only Lead to Catching These Hands
5/4/2018 - A List of All the Fake Shit I’ve Bought (or Convinced My Parents to Buy for Me) to Be More Cool
5/4/2018 - Is Time Finally Up for R. Kelly? 2 More Women Come Forward With Sexual Abuse Claims Against the Singer: Report
5/4/2018 - National Urban League’s 2018 ‘State of Black America’: Tech Companies Don’t Care About Employing Black People
5/4/2018 - The Glow Up Anthem of the Week: ‘Anna Wintour’ by Azealia Banks
5/4/2018 - New York’s Long Island Rail Road Investigating Racist White Man’s Rant
5/4/2018 - The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: A Children’s Story
5/4/2018 - DJ Khaled Doesn’t Eat the Box but Expects Oral Sex From Wife Because He’s the King
5/4/2018 - Dear Black People:
Dear White People
Is Back
5/4/2018 - Black Woman Says Air Canada Treated Her Like an Animal, Forced Her Off Flight Because of Noncontagious Shingles
5/4/2018 - Philosophizing With Nick Cannon
5/4/2018 - White Producers Threw W. Kamau Bell to the KKK on Day 1, so He Got Rid of Them
5/4/2018 - Indiana Day Care Shut Down After Brutal Attack on 1-Year-Old
5/4/2018 - Just Book a Black Girl: Model Gigi Hadid Faces Accusations of Blackface (Again)
5/4/2018 - ‘No One Else Was Gonna Speak Up’: TMZ’s Van Lathan Emerges as an Unexpected Hero
5/4/2018 - New
Power
Trailer Shows Ghost, Tommy and Kanan
Joining Forces
5/4/2018 - IHOP Customer Called the N-Word on Receipt Receives $10 Gift Card as Apology
5/4/2018 - Miami Police Officer Suspended After Kicking Suspect in the Head
5/3/2018 - Transgender Woman Says She Was Raped at Colorado Men’s Prison
5/3/2018 - Juelz Santana Indicted on Federal Weapons Charges
5/3/2018 - Our ‘Best Friend’ Rihanna Gives Us 10 Minutes of FaceTime With Fenty Beauty
5/3/2018 - Nothing to See Here: Rihanna Goes Razor-Free and the Internet Loses Its Damn Mind
5/3/2018 - Bill Cosby Ousted From Film Academy Along With Roman Polanski
5/3/2018 - Alex Michael Ramos Found Guilty of Malicious Wounding in Charlottesville, Va., Parking Garage Beating of DeAndre Harris
5/3/2018 - Here’s a List of Books on Slavery That Kanye Should Read
5/3/2018 - Detroit Music Station ‘Mutes’ Kanye West but Doesn’t Know if It’ll Mute Chris Brown and R. Kelly.
SMH
5/3/2018 - Jay-Z Subpoenaed for Refusing to Talk to the Feds
5/3/2018 - Feds Tapped Longtime Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen’s Phone Weeks Before Raid: Report
5/3/2018 - 20 Questions About
Avengers: Infinity War
From a Guy Who Just Watched It and Still Might Be Very Confused
5/3/2018 - Meeting in the Ladies’ Room: Tracee Ellis Ross to Interview Michelle Obama at United State of Women
5/3/2018 - Rihanna Found Love, Treats Drake Like a Hopeless Place
5/3/2018 - Report: LA Fitness Called the Cops on a Black Man Because He ‘Fit a Profile’
5/3/2018 - Pittsburgh Steelers Pay Injured Linebacker Full Salary for 2018
5/3/2018 - 10 R&B Slow Jams That Bang in the Whip
5/3/2018 - White America Is ‘Publicly Lynching’ Black Men ... but Not Kanye, Cosby or R. Kelly
5/3/2018 - Rihanna Rules the World on June Cover of Vogue
5/3/2018 - Michelle Obama Just Called Herself Our ‘Forever First Lady.’ No Other First Ladies Need Apply
5/3/2018 - Yes, You Can Go Home Again: Model Adwoa Aboah Brings Burberry to Ghana
5/3/2018 - Officers Who Used Taser on Naked, Unarmed Mentally Ill Man Didn’t Follow International Guidelines; Still Won’t Be Disciplined
5/3/2018 - Rudy Giuliani Just Gave the Beyoncé Coachella Performance of Interviews. 3 Reasons Why It Was Staged
5/3/2018 - Meek Mill Documentary Heading to Amazon
5/3/2018 - Hat Tricks: Looks Like We’re Still in ‘Formation’
5/3/2018 - Serena Williams’ HBO Docuseries Begins With Fear
5/3/2018 - Camille Cosby Calls Husband’s Verdict ‘Mob Justice’
5/3/2018 - #CouponingWhileBlack: Pizza Inn Denies Black Man’s Coupon but Accepts Same Coupon From White Friend
5/3/2018 - 10 ‘Heroes’ Who Should Win Awards Before Donald Trump Gets a Nobel Peace Prize
5/3/2018 - Kevin Hart’s Friend Actor J.T. Jackson Arrested in Sex-Tape Extortion Attempt
5/2/2018 - For Grown Women Who Don’t Wear Lingerie but Decided to Buy Some Because Their Lover Is Into It
5/2/2018 - Bill Cosby’s Name and Statue Have Been Removed From the Television Academy Hall of Fame
5/2/2018 - Kanye, Words Matter!
5/2/2018 - ‘Around the Way’ Barbie, Is That You? What’s
Really
Going On With This Black Barbie’s Hair?
5/2/2018 - Ending the Policing of Black Bodies in Public Spaces Requires Not Just a Change of Policy but a Change of Heart
5/2/2018 - Darrell Scott and Trump’s White House Want to Talk About Race; This Is a Horrible Idea
5/2/2018 - The Correspondents’ Dinner Displayed the Vast Whiteness of the White House Media
5/2/2018 - Marsha Warfield Says She’s Ashamed of Not Sharing Bill Cosby Rumors Sooner
5/2/2018 - Former San Francisco 49ers Safety Eric Reid Files Collusion Grievance Against NFL
5/2/2018 - A Seat at the Table: The Iconoclast Dinner Experience Is a ‘For Us, by Us’ Culinary Celebration
5/2/2018 - Black Men Arrested in Philly Starbucks Settle With City for $1 and Pledge of $200,000 for Young Entrepreneurs, Settle With Starbucks for Undisclosed Amount
5/2/2018 - White House Lead Russia Lawyer Stepping Down and Trump’s Latest Tweet: Signs That Russia Investigation Is Getting Really Messy
5/2/2018 - Kanye West and Charlamagne Open Up Space to Talk About Black Men and Mental Health
5/2/2018 - The Petty Reason Trump’s Ex-Doctor Is Snitching All of a Sudden
5/2/2018 - Disagreement Is Fine. But Unpopular Opinions Do Come With Consequences
5/2/2018 - Stop Calling Us ‘Females’ for Real, Though
5/2/2018 - NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray Is Disrupting Domestic Violence With a New Initiative
5/2/2018 - Newly Released Deleted Scene From
Black Panther
Explains W’Kabi and Okoye’s Relationship
5/2/2018 - Lynching 2.0: White Family Charged With Murdering 2 Black Men, Dismembering Bodies
5/2/2018 - Netflix Producer Accuses Harvey Weinstein of Rape and Physical Assault in New Lawsuit
5/2/2018 - Slick With It: Model Slick Woods Talks Money Moves in May’s Glamour Magazine
5/2/2018 - 3 Black Girls Competing to Win Trip to NASA Reportedly Hacked by Racists
5/2/2018 - Kanye Ain’t the Only Black Person Believing and Spreading Anti-Black Nonsense About Slavery
5/2/2018 - EPA Chief Scott ‘All Gold Everything’ Pruitt Is Living His Best Life With Taxpayers’ Money; Morocco Trip Under Scrutiny
5/2/2018 - Must-See TV:
A Day in the Life of Naomi Campbell
Is As Glamorous as You Think
5/2/2018 - Talented Teen Trumpeter Just Got Into Juilliard, but His Family Needs Help Covering the $71,000 Price Tag
5/2/2018 - Top 10 Ways Black People Keep Racism Alive, According to Wypipo
5/2/2018 - Philadelphia’s Housing Authority Bought a High School: What Does That Mean for One of the City’s Poorest Neighborhoods?
5/2/2018 - I Seem to Have Developed Seasonal Allergies as an Adult. I Can’t Breathe Right Now. This Is Trash
5/2/2018 - We Got the Golden Ticket! Glowing Up at Studio Museum in Harlem’s Spring Luncheon
5/2/2018 - Free Thought Is for White People
5/2/2018 - Police Say Alabama Creeper Broke Into Home and Stole Women’s Underwear Hours After Attempting Sexual Assault on Another Victim
5/2/2018 - North Carolina Teen Accepted to 113 Colleges and Awarded $4.5 Million in Scholarships Accepts Full Ride to HBCU
5/2/2018 - Don Lemon Has a Few Words for Kanye West’s Slave Theory: ‘They Were in Real Chains’
5/2/2018 - White Supremacist Jacob Scott Goodwin Guilty in Charlottesville, Va., Parking Garage Attack of DeAndre Harris
5/1/2018 - #IfSlaveryWasAChoice Is the Funniest Thing on Twitter Right Now
5/1/2018 - #StephonClark: Sacramento County, Calif., Coroner Releases Autopsy Report
5/1/2018 - #Flint: Mayor Seeks EPA’s Help in Restoring Bottled-Water-Distribution Service
5/1/2018 - Kanye Has Gone Full Kanye and You Never Go Full Kanye
5/1/2018 - Kanye West Says Slavery Was a Choice, Gets Shut Down by TMZ Staffer
5/1/2018 - Dressed for Success? This Charter School’s Policies Are Humiliating Its Female Students
5/1/2018 - White Supremacist Gangs Are Getting Busted for Trafficking Drugs, but You Won’t Hear Trump Say Shhhhh ... About It
5/1/2018 - Watch: Dave Chappelle Says Correspondents’ Dinner Comedian Michelle Wolf Was ‘Cathartic to Watch’
5/1/2018 - Azealia Banks Hates Bath Bombs but Clearly Loves Glitter Bombs, and We Have Questions
5/1/2018 - Trump’s Goons Stormed Doctor’s Office Just 2 Days After He Claimed He Gave Trump Hair-Growth Meds: Report
5/1/2018 - You Can’t Love and Support R. Kelly and Also Love Black Women and Children
5/1/2018 - Attorney for Former Fort Valley State University Employee and AKA Adviser Says She’s Not a Pimp
5/1/2018 - University of Texas Campaign Around Healthy Masculinity Plunges Conservative Outlets Deep Into Their Feelings
5/1/2018 - Ahead of the Curve: Curvsi Wants You to Love Your Closet
5/1/2018 - The Root 100: Tell Us Who Should Be on Our Annual List of Influential African Americans
5/1/2018 - Virginia Tech Assistant Coach Resigns After Getting Outed on Twitter for Alleged Affair
5/1/2018 - Cop Who Killed Alton Sterling Caught on Video Slapping Handcuffed Man: Report
5/1/2018 - Black Woman Says She Wasn’t Allowed in Waffle House as White People Dined Inside; Restaurant Faces Calls for Boycott
5/1/2018 - Comic Relief:
Wash Day
Captures the Radical Self-Love in a Hair-Care Ritual
5/1/2018 - Washington, DC, Police Officer Arrested on Charges He Had Sex With 14-Year-Old Girl From Dating App
5/1/2018 - Naija, Please: Omarosa Wants Back In, Confirms Trump Called African Nations ‘Shithole Countries’
5/1/2018 - New Jersey Football Coach Says He Lost His Job Because He Had Too Many Black Players on Team
5/1/2018 - The Great White Way’s Tony Nominations Got a Little Blacker This Year
5/1/2018 - Janet Hubert Spills the Tea About That Infamous Pink-Leotard Dance Episode of
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
5/1/2018 - Pop Your Melanin, Protect Your Edges and Perfect Yourself With These Tips From a Great Skin Doc
5/1/2018 - Kanye West’s Mom’s Doctor Shares Truth About Her Death
5/1/2018 - #MovingInWhileBlack: Former White House Staffer Accused of Breaking Into His Own Apartment