1/31/2019 - Smollett Family Issues First Statement Since Racist, Homophobic Attack

1/31/2019 - Presidential Hopeful Elizabeth Warren Announces Major Announcement

1/31/2019 - Fenty Never Freezes: Rihanna Defies the Winter Temps with a Decidedly Spring-Like Look

1/31/2019 - ‘Don’t Forget About Us’: Mariah Carey Performs in Saudi Arabia as Saudi Women Activists Urge Her to Boycott 

1/31/2019 - Jussie Smollett Reportedly Refused Extra Security After Receiving Racist and Homophobic Letter Threat 

1/31/2019 - The NFL Needs to Get Behind Its Blockers and Run Colin Kaepernick His Check 

1/31/2019 - ‘Here I Am, Rock You Like a Herman Cain’: President Reportedly Considering Pizza Boss for Federal Reserve

1/31/2019 - Cory Booker to Announce Decision on Presidential Run, Would Become Second Strong Black Candidate in the Race [Updated]

1/31/2019 - Jay-Z Demands a More Diverse Panel to Settle Trademark Lawsuit—and Wins

1/31/2019 - Iowa Caucus? Nah, Iowa Baucus — Cardi B Invited to Speak at Democratic Reception in Des Moines

1/31/2019 - Portland Police Sergeant to Cops: ‘If You Come Across a Black Person, Just Shoot Them’

1/31/2019 - On DC’s MLK Avenue, Where Over-Policing Reigns, King’s Dream Is Far From a Reality for Residents

1/31/2019 - OWN Debuts Trailer for Tarell Alvin McCraney's David Makes Man, Which Was the Best Pitch Oprah Ever Heard

1/31/2019 - Black Lives Matter Leaders Sue Sacramento Sheriff for Censoring Them on Facebook

1/31/2019 - Trump's Former Pastor: He Never Actually Entered the Church Doors. Not One Time

1/31/2019 - It's Her Turn: Diana Ross to be Honored at the 2019 Grammys, Will Perform Live

1/31/2019 - Sen. Lindsey Graham and President Trump Prove That a White Man's Arrest Is Worse Than a Black Man's Death

1/31/2019 - A Tale of Two Faces

1/31/2019 - Jussie Smollett's Neighbor Claims She Saw a 'Redneck' with a Rope Near Their Apartment Building Shortly Before Reported Attack

1/31/2019 - Glossier Gets with the Program: The Brand's Perfecting Skin Tint Finally Expands Its Shade Range

1/31/2019 - First Look: Ava DuVernay's The Red Line Tackles Segregated Chicago—and Finds Unexpected Connections

1/31/2019 - 2 Years of Trump Vs. 2 Years of Obama: By the Numbers

1/30/2019 - Super Bowl LIII to Feature Male Cheerleaders for the First Time

1/30/2019 - New York State Department of Education to Investigate Alleged Strip-search of Four Black Middle School Girls

1/30/2019 - Sarah Sanders Said God ‘Wanted Donald Trump to Become President.’ God Responds

1/30/2019 - Chicago Police Identify ‘Potential Persons of Interest’ in Jussie Smollett Attack

1/30/2019 - Baltimore’s Marilyn Mosby Becomes Latest Top Attorney to Stop Prosecuting Marijuana Cases But Faces Major Hurdle—the Police

1/30/2019 - Sarah Palin Calls Stacey Abrams a ‘Literal Loser’ and Twitter Quickly Reminds Her That She’s Sarah Palin

1/30/2019 - The Season Finale of This Is Us Will Be Delayed So President Boiled Fanta Can Issue His Little SOTU Address

1/30/2019 - Infinite Possibilities: Black Love Matters in Christina Anderson's How to Catch Creation

1/30/2019 - If You’re Black and in the Polar Vortex Today, You Have God’s Permission to Be Ashy (For a Day)

1/30/2019 - Chuck Schumer: Trump Can't 'Take Hostages' In Negotiations Over Border Security

1/30/2019 - Tisha Campbell Files Restraining Order Against Duane Martin, Cites Physical Abuse [Updated]

1/30/2019 - Hampton University Put a Statue of Former President George H.W. Bush on Campus Because ...?

1/30/2019 - Trump Just Berated His Own Intelligence Chiefs, Called Them 'Passive and Naive' for Disagreeing With Him

1/30/2019 - No Tears Left to Cry? Ariana Grande's New Tattoo Is, Er ...  Smoking Hot (Literally) [Updated]

1/30/2019 - Former NFL Running Back Clinton Portis Explains Why He Drank Hennessy Before Games, and He Kind of Makes Sense

1/30/2019 - Yung Joc Is Officially Hair Goals—Or, He Should Be

1/30/2019 - News Outlets Were Comfortable Calling Jussie Smollett's Attack 'Homophobic.' Why Didn't They Call It 'Racist'?

1/30/2019 - Spotify Quietly Enabled a Feature to Allow Listeners to Literally Mute R. Kelly

1/30/2019 - Trump Met With Vladimir Putin In Private, Again Because No One Can Stop This Love. No One!

1/30/2019 - Game Changer: Toyota's 2019 Super Bowl Spot Stars Groundbreaking Female Football Player Toni Harris 

1/30/2019 - FBI Investigating Racist and Homophobic Attack Against Jussie Smollett Due to Previous Threat 

1/30/2019 - Former Alabama State University Stingettes Challenge the Odds to Instill Confidence in the Community

1/30/2019 - ACLU Sues Entire School District For Being Racist AF

1/29/2019 - Famous Dex Superfan Gets Probation for Attempted Plane Theft

1/29/2019 - O, Yes! Oprah Turns 65—With No Retirement Plans in Sight

1/29/2019 - Trump Lied On Obama During White House Visits, Claimed the Former President Watched Basketball All Day

1/29/2019 - Grammy-Winning R&B Singer-Songwriter James Ingram Dead at 66

1/29/2019 - Tom Brokaw’s Comment on Hispanics Wasn’t Racist. It Was White Magic

1/29/2019 - Stacey Abrams, Who Came ThisClose to Winning Georgia Governor's Race, to Deliver Democratic Response to State of the Union Address: Report

1/29/2019 - You Don't Have to Ask About My New Baby When You See Me (You Can If You Want To! But It's Fine If You Don't!)

1/29/2019 - Police Pocketing Innocent People’s Money: Report Shows Huge Racial Gap in South Carolina Civil Forfeitures

1/29/2019 - Former Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger, Who Killed Botham Jean, Appears in Court 

1/29/2019 - #StephonClark: Sacramento DA Says It Will Take Longer to Decide Whether Officers Will be Charged for Killing Unarmed Black Man

1/29/2019 - Zazie Beetz is Waiting For Atlanta Season 3 With the Rest of Us, Says They're Hoping to Start Production in the 'Spring Sometime'

1/29/2019 - Trump Adviser Roger Stone Pleads Not Guilty to 7 Criminal Counts. Are We Sure He Even Knows What's Going On?

1/29/2019 - Your Bigoted Grandpa Trump Is Wacky Tweeting, Again

1/29/2019 - Jussie Smollett Reportedly Hospitalized in Chicago Following Racist, Homophobic Attack [Updated]

1/29/2019 - 26 Is Too Young to Die

1/29/2019 - Julie Dash to Direct Angela Davis Biopic, Iconic Activist Will Be Involved in Production 

1/29/2019 - 'We Hear You. We See You. We Believe You': Terry Crews and More Help #MeToo Center Survivors in a New PSA Campaign

1/29/2019 - Sen. Kamala Harris Is a 54-Year-Old Black Woman, and Yes, She Dated Willie Brown. So What?

1/29/2019 - What's That Snowflake? Fox News Anchor Blasts Trump: 'Bullying Journalists Is Not Presidential'

1/29/2019 - Robin Thede and Issa Rae Secure HBO Series Order For Aptly-Titled A Black Lady Sketch Show

1/29/2019 - 3 Times a Lady: Naomi Campbell Covers British Vogue's Spring Fashion Issue

1/29/2019 - Exclusive: Clemson’s Black Players Refused to Accept Donald Trump’s Invitation to the McCookout

1/28/2019 - Michael Bloomberg Warns Fellow Billionaire Howard Schultz Not to Run for President

1/28/2019 - Donald Trump on the State of the Union: Mother May I? Nancy Pelosi: Yes, You May

1/28/2019 - #StephonClark: Family of Man Killed by Police Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Officers, City of Sacramento

1/28/2019 - Sarah Huckabee Sanders Bravely Emerges From Her Crypt for the 1st White House Press Briefing in 41 Days

1/28/2019 - Wakanda Forever? Wakanda For—FREE: Black Panther to Host No-Cost Screenings for Black History Month in 250 AMC Theaters

1/28/2019 - Yes, Taraji P. Henson and Erykah Badu Addressed Their R. Kelly Comments During the What Men Want Press Tour

1/28/2019 - The SAG Awards Tale: The Handmaid's Tale's Amanda Brugel Talks #MeToo and Gets Gorgeous for the SAGs

1/28/2019 - Maybe We Need Tighter Sword Control Laws: Anchorage Man Reportedly Brings Knife to a Sword Fight

1/28/2019 - Pregaming, Hollywood Style: Celebs Celebrated Awards Season at Entertainment Weekly's Pre-SAG Party

1/28/2019 - 2 California Newspapers Sue Sacramento Sheriff to Make Him Follow the Law

1/28/2019 - OK, It Might Be Time to Forgive Chrisette Michele

1/28/2019 - Dear Black Boy: You Can Fly Even If You Can’t Run, Shoot or Dribble, Says Martellus Bennett

1/28/2019 - Kevin Durant Opens After-School Center in Maryland Hometown

1/28/2019 - Michael Jackson’s Family Condemns Leaving Neverland Doc, Says There’s a ‘Public Lynching’ by Media and ‘Vulture Tweeters’

1/28/2019 - ‘I’m Told This Is Where Bill and Monica...’: Trump is Giving White House Tours Because He Doesn’t Have Anything Else to Do

1/28/2019 - Your Friendly Neighborhood Platano-Man Shows You How to Take Down Racists on Your Way to Work

1/28/2019 - In Her Ongoing Fight for Equal Pay, Octavia Spencer's Latest Advocate Was LeBron James

1/28/2019 - La La Anthony Will Take Her Talents to Miami as the 2019 American Black Film Festival Ambassador 

1/28/2019 - Definitive Proof That Trump Is Losing His Base: Now He’s Beefing With Fox News

1/28/2019 - Acting Up: The Screen Actors Guild Celebrates 25 Years in High Style

1/28/2019 - SAG Awards 2019: Sterling K. Brown Double-Fists Statuettes as This Is Us and Black Panther Take Home Ensemble Wins 

1/27/2019 - In Order to End Toxic Masculinity Once and for All, Terry Crews Offers to Slap the Shit Out of D.L. Hughley

1/27/2019 - Black Billionaire Robert F. Smith Donates $1.5 Million to Morehouse College 

1/27/2019 - Report: FBI Investigating R. Kelly for Arranging Cross-Country Flight for Underage Girl

1/27/2019 - Kanye West Takes Credit for 'Revitalizing' Jay-Z's Career, Sues Roc-A-Fella Records and EMI

1/27/2019 - 15-Year-Old Mahailya Reeves Pleases Our Ancestors by Bench Pressing 355 Pounds in Viral Video

1/26/2019 - Prior to His Inauguration, Trump and His Merry Band of Soon-To-Be Convicted Felons Had Over 100 Contacts With Russians

1/26/2019 - Black Twitter Showers Naomi Osaka with Praise After Winning the Australian Open 

1/26/2019 - ‘It’s Okay to Be White’: Charlottesville Police Not Investigating Zeta Phi Beta Mural Defaced by White Supremacists [Updated]

1/26/2019 - Papa John's Proves All Money Ain't Good Money with $500k Donation to HBCU Bennett College

1/25/2019 - New Orleans Rapper C-Murder Denied Retrial Despite Recantations by Two Witnesses

1/25/2019 - Penguin Random House Announces Closure of Publisher Spiegel & Grau

1/25/2019 - Who, Wear, What: Rate Sunday's SAG Awards Red Carpet with The Glow Up!

1/25/2019 - Alabama Public Defender Accused of Creating ‘Law & Order: Special Racist Unit’

1/25/2019 - 1... 2... Meet Him Outside: DMX is Free

1/25/2019 - #MuteChrisBrown Too, Because He's Clearly Committed to Being Trash

1/25/2019 - Only Two Best Song Oscar Nominees Might Be Showcased at the 2019 Ceremony and 'All The Stars' is One of Them

1/25/2019 - Trump Bends the Knee to Pelosi, Temporarily Ends Shutdown He Created

1/25/2019 - Civil Rights Museum Backflips on Angela Davis Honor (Again)

1/25/2019 - His and Hers: In Paris, Balmain Debuts Contrasting Collections—and Blackface?

1/25/2019 - Roger Stone Is a Stunt Queen Who Is Loving the Attention From His Arrest

1/25/2019 - The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: A Kinder, Gentler Mailbag

1/25/2019 - A 'Triggering' Conversation With Rapper Killer Mike

1/25/2019 - Dear Writers, What Do You Have Saved in Your Drafts?

1/25/2019 - 'Godfather of Black Music' Clarence Avant to Receive Salute To Industry Icons Honor at Clive Davis' Pre-Grammys Party 

1/25/2019 - Yikes, Yeezy: Japanese Fabric Company Sues Kanye West for More Than $600,000

1/25/2019 - Roger Stone Has Nixon's Face Tattooed on His Back and Other Things That Might Help Him in Prison

1/25/2019 - Video Surfaces of Cop Apparently Kicking Man in Head; Officer Cleared by Internal Investigation

1/25/2019 - It's a Celebration: Vanity Fair Debuts a Distinctly Diverse 25th Annual Hollywood Issue

1/25/2019 - Amanda Seales Will Have You Lifting Every Voice to Sing in Her New HBO Special 'I Be Knowin'

1/25/2019 - New York Middle School Denies It Conducted Strip Search on Four 12-Year-Old Black Girls

1/25/2019 - Trump Now Wants to Put His Wall on a Layaway Plan

1/25/2019 - Baby Hair and Afros: Blue Ivy's Natural Hair Grows Up, Out and Claps Back at the Haters

1/25/2019 - Emanuel: NBA Star Steph Curry Debuts Poignant Documentary About the Murder of 9 Parishioners at South Carolina Church

1/24/2019 - White House Squatter Mulls Fake National Emergency to Secure Border Wall Funds

1/24/2019 - New York City Settles With Family of Kalief Browder for $3.3 Million

1/24/2019 - Japanese Company Learns That, Despite Its Best Efforts, Naomi Osaka Is Not a White Anime Character

1/24/2019 - Fla. Secretary of State Resigns After Photo Emerges of Him in Blackface as a ‘Katrina Victim’

1/24/2019 - Rest in Peace to the Dueling Senate Bills to Reopen the Government, Both of Which Died Quick Deaths

1/24/2019 - High Art: Artist Lorna Simpson to Receive the 2019 J. Paul Getty Medal

1/24/2019 - Beyoncé’s Ivy Park Has a New ‘Cheerleading-Inspired’ Collection—and The Root Crew Has Jokes

1/24/2019 - Best Part: H.E.R. to Perform at 2019 Grammys 

1/24/2019 - I Don't Know How We're Going to Make It Through This Campaign Season Y'all

1/24/2019 - Trump’s Commerce Secretary, Who's Worth $700 Million, Doesn’t Understand Why Federal Workers Need Food Banks During Shutdown

1/24/2019 - Nurse’s DNA Tied to Incapacitated Woman's Baby; Lawyer Says ‘No Proof’ Suspect Raped Victim

1/24/2019 - Weezer Sits On the Passenger Side of TLC's Ride, Covers 'No Scrubs'

1/24/2019 - Well, Whad'Ya Know? One of Trump's Top Lawyers Is a Covington Catholic Graduate

1/24/2019 - Is Kellyanne Conway the White House Snitch?

1/24/2019 - Salim Akil Requests Dismissal for Domestic Violence and Copyright Infringement Case 

1/24/2019 - White Supremacist Who Vowed to Start Race War Pleads Guilty to Terrorism Charges in Murder of Black Man

1/24/2019 - Bebe Rexha Has 2 Grammy Nods but Designers 'Can't' Dress Her Size 8 Body. I Know Exactly How She Feels

1/24/2019 - A Neverending Quest for Sovereignty

1/24/2019 - The Gangsta Rapper President

1/24/2019 - Sundance 2019: A List of Black Movies to Watch While You're in the White Mountains 

1/24/2019 - Here Comes the Hotstepper: Naomi Campbell Makes a Majestic Return to Valentino's Runway

1/23/2019 - Mitch McConnell's Slow and Steady Pace Avoids Run-in with Furloughed Government Employees

1/23/2019 - Correctional Trainee in Custody After Florida Bank Shooting Leaves Five Dead

1/23/2019 - Sheila Jackson Lee Leaves Judiciary Committee After Former Staffer Alleges She Was Fired for Reporting Sexual Assault

1/23/2019 - Atlanta Police Investigate Facebook Livestream of Alleged Sexual Assault in Atlanta Nightclub

1/23/2019 - Donald Trump Said He Was Going to Give His Little Speech Anyway. Shorter Nancy Pelosi: I Said What I Said

1/23/2019 - Teyana Taylor’s ‘WTP’ Music Video Deserves 10s Across the Board

1/23/2019 - Will Packer is Producing a Show About Twitter. The Premiere Has to Be About $200 Dates, Right?

1/23/2019 - New Growth: 18-Year-Old Beauty Entrepreneur Zandra Cunningham Lands Her Plant-Based Brand in Target

1/23/2019 - It Was Always Going to End Like This

1/23/2019 - Donald Trump Is the ‘Grand Wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,’ According to Rep. Hakeem Jeffries

1/23/2019 - Who Broke a Record for Extremist Killings in 2018? (Spoiler Alert: It Was White People)

1/23/2019 - Covington Catholic Wins Racist Bingo: Blackface as ‘School Spirit,’ Feeling ‘Threatened’ by Hebrew Israelites

1/23/2019 - Born to Flex: Cardi B Signs Las Vegas Residency for Spring 2019 [Updated]

1/23/2019 - Back in Business? While Federal Workers Remain Out of Work, Ivanka Trump Secures New Trademarks From China

1/23/2019 - Black Grad Student Accused of Stealing His Own Car and Beaten by Police Gets $1.25 Million Settlement

1/23/2019 - Don't Worry, Y'all. I Solved America's Problems. It's Pizza

1/23/2019 - Gina Rodriguez: For Colored Girls Who Had Anti-Black Sentiments and Black Twitter Decided Their Tears Weren't Enuf

1/23/2019 - Taraji P. Henson Is Fierce on the Pay Gap, Racism and Sexism in Hollywood—but #FirstThem on Social Media?

1/23/2019 - If It Isn't Love, Why Are Ronnie and Shamari DeVoe Singing and Dancing This Way?

1/22/2019 - CNN and Jake Tapper Neglect to Disclose Connections to PR Firm Behind Nick Sandmann’s Statement, Signal Boost It Anyway

1/22/2019 - Trump's Wall Tantrum Has the FBI Strapped for Cash

1/22/2019 - You Do the Math: Can You Spot the 7 Layers of Appropriation in Ariana Grande’s ‘7 Rings’? 

1/22/2019 - MAGA Troll Reboots Birther Conspiracy for Kamala Harris

1/22/2019 - Is President Willy Wonka Trying to Reopen the Government Chocolate Factory?

1/22/2019 - First Look: Don Cornelius Tells Gladys Knight About His ‘Not Whitewashed, Not Toned-Down’ Vision in American Soul

1/22/2019 - Citing Costs, Police Departments Drop Use of Body Cameras

1/22/2019 - They Don’t Want That Smoke: NFL Nixes a Super Bowl Ad Advocating Medical Cannabis Legalization

1/22/2019 - Trump Told Sarah ‘Suckabee’ Sanders to Stop Holding Briefings Because the Press Pushes Back on Her Lies 

1/22/2019 - Justin Fairfax, The King of Confederate Shade, Shuts Down 100-Year Tribute to American Traitors

1/22/2019 - Up in Smoke: Cardi B Ethers Yet Another Conservative Woman

1/22/2019 - An Open Apology to the Covington Catholic MAGA Hat Harassment Team

1/22/2019 - The Double Dose of Fyre Festival Fail Docs Led to a Blessing as Caribbean Caterer Raises Over $160K

1/22/2019 - Watch: André Holland and Tarell Alvin McCraney Reunite In High-Stakes Soderbergh NBA Flick, High Flying Bird 

1/22/2019 - #StephonClark: Sacramento Considers Banning Items From Protests in the Wake of DA’s Impending Decision

1/22/2019 - Video: Florida Man Pulls Gun on Black Kids Riding Bikes at #BikesUpGunsDown Event

1/22/2019 - Chris Brown Detained for Rape Allegations in Paris, Meeting His Weekly Arrest Quota à La Mode

1/22/2019 - President 'Both Sides' Proves Once Again He Is a White Nationalist Who Enables Racists

1/22/2019 - Supreme Court Allows Trump's Transgender Military Ban to Go Into Effect

1/22/2019 - Abloh the Appropriator? Amid Virgil Abloh's Recent Runway Success Come Claims of Copycatting

1/22/2019 - An Unexpected Adonis: Actor William Jackson Harper Has Found His 'Good Place'

1/22/2019 - You Don't Say? Joe Biden Preaches to the Choir About White America's Systemic Racism

1/22/2019 - GM Swears ‘Zero Tolerance’ in Response to Racism Allegations, Unclear What ‘Zero’ Means to Them

1/22/2019 - Exclusive: BET's Boomerang Teaser on Being 'Young, Gifted and Black'

1/22/2019 - Rudy Giuliani: Where Am I and Why Am I in This Hand Basket?

1/22/2019 - Brave White Girl Doesn’t Limit Herself to Being Racist Just One Way, Kicked Out of Sorority for Blackface and Saying the N-Word

1/22/2019 - 2019 Oscars: Nominations Are In and Spike Lee Finally Gets His Directing Nod [Updated]

1/22/2019 - A Good Look: Bevy Smith and Dapper Dan Join Harlem Restaurant Melba's to Host Free Lunch for Furloughed Federal Workers

1/21/2019 - Four Volunteers Convicted for Leaving Food and Water Near Border as Four More Await Trial

1/21/2019 - Committee-less Racist Congressman Steve King Tweets Fake MLK Quote

1/21/2019 - The Fierce Urgency and Intimacy of #MLKNow

1/21/2019 - In His Own Words: Martin Luther King Jr. on White Privilege, Police Brutality, Reparations and More

1/21/2019 - Millions of Families to Receive February SNAP Benefits Early, March Funding Remains Unclear

1/21/2019 - Racist Teeth Giuliani Baffles AM Joy Panel with Poor Lawyering 

1/21/2019 - Leah Still, Daughter of Former Cincinnati Bengal Devon, Cancer-free 3 Years Later

1/21/2019 - Quiz: How Much Do You Really Know About Martin Luther King Jr?

1/21/2019 - She's Running! Kamala Harris Announces Run for the Presidency on Good Morning America

1/20/2019 - Black Twitter Tells Erykah Badu to Have a Window Seat After 'Coming to R. Kelly's Defense' at Chicago Concert [Updated]

1/20/2019 - Martin Luther King Jr. and the White Delusion of a 'Non-Racist' America

1/20/2019 - If You Thought Trump's Presidency Was Bad, Scientists Prepare For a World Without Coffee

1/20/2019 - Fyre Festival Co-Founder Ja Rule Swears He's Not a Scam Artist, Even Though He Co-Founded a Scam with a Convicted Scam Artist

1/20/2019 - In the Clapback Heard Around the World, Cardi B Tells Tomi Lahren: 'Leave Me Alone I Will Dog Walk You'

1/20/2019 - For the 2nd Year in a Row, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax Wants No Parts of Tribute to Confederate Superhero Robert E. Lee

1/19/2019 - Trump Unveils His Genius Plan to Offer DACA & TPS Protections in Exchange for His Non-Sensical Border Wall 

1/19/2019 - News You Can Choose: Iowa Bar Cancels MLK-Themed Keg Party

1/19/2019 - The Next Generation of MAGA Hat-Wearing Bigots Besiege Indigenous Peoples March [Updated]

1/19/2019 - Taraji P. Henson to Be Honored with Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

1/19/2019 - This Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Here's How to Get Involved in Your Community

1/18/2019 - New Year, New Me—But for Real This Time

1/18/2019 - This Is Not Justice: Former Chicago Police Officer Sentenced to 6 Years, 9 Months for the Murder of Laquan McDonald

1/18/2019 - Not So Sweet Fantasy: Mariah Carey's Former Assistant Claims She Was Held Down and Peed on at Work

1/18/2019 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: The Black Lists

1/18/2019 - Paris Men's Fashion Week: Under Virgil Abloh's Eye, the Louis Vuitton Man Channels the King of Pop

1/18/2019 - Ava DuVernay to Lead 'National Day of Racial Healing' Following MLK Day, Speakers Include Stacey Abrams and More

1/18/2019 - Bounce Bounce Bounce: Sony and R. Kelly Mutually End Longtime Record Deal: Report [Updated]

1/18/2019 - R. Kelly Accused of Sexually Abusing a Former Epic Records Intern When She Was 16

1/18/2019 - Nancy Pelosi's Trip Cancelled After Leak Exposes Exact Travel Schedule Causing Security Risks 

1/18/2019 - I Don’t Care What Y’all Say, If Buzzfeed Brings Down President Trump, I’m Inviting Them To The Cookout [Updated]

1/18/2019 - Missouri News Anchor Apologizes for Converting MLK’s Name to a Racial Slur [Updated]

1/18/2019 - Iyanla Vanzant Wants You to Get It Clean In 2019

1/18/2019 - As the 2019 Women's March Dawns and the DNC and Others Pull Support, Tamika Mallory and Co-Leaders Confront the Divide Within

1/18/2019 - 2019 Oscars: Tracee Ellis Ross to Present Nominations

1/18/2019 - Not Like This: Gladys Knight Plans to 'Give the Anthem Back Its Voice' at Super Bowl LIII

1/18/2019 - Sherrell Dorsey Is on a Mission to Make Space for Black People In Tech

1/18/2019 - Watch: Fast Color Trailer Shows Black Mamas Really Are Superheroes 

1/17/2019 - Maybe Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey Really Is Just Donald Trump in Disguise

1/17/2019 - Texas Mayor, Mayor Pro-Tem Resign Amid Accusations of Using City Funds to See Michelle Obama

1/17/2019 - Police Disciplinary Records in California Are Now Public Information

1/17/2019 - On This Episode of The Real White Housewives, President Petty Cancels Nancy Pelosi's Foreign Travel

1/17/2019 - Judge Acquits Officers for Covering Up Laquan McDonald Murder

1/17/2019 - Watch: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 'Mother of Dragging,' Flames Trump in Her First Floor Speech

1/17/2019 - An Honor Roll Student Unknowingly Paid for His School Lunch With Counterfeit Money. His School Suspended Him for 2 Weeks

1/17/2019 - 10 Thoughts About Soulja Boy's Awesome and Entertaining Appearance on The Breakfast Club

1/17/2019 - Queen to Queen: Our Forever First Lady Turns 55—With a Tribute From Beyoncé

1/17/2019 - 'She's Black. I Hate That': Dance Coach Told Student Her Skin Was 'Too Dark,' Suit Claims

1/17/2019 - Happy 88th Birthday to the Only Mufasa We'll Ever Acknowledge—James Earl Jones

1/17/2019 - 2019 Grammys: Cardi B and Janelle Monáe Will Perform—Expect Money Moves and an Afrofuturistic Wondaland

1/17/2019 - A Screenshot of a Boat Shoe

1/17/2019 - Meghan Markle Takes Maternity Glam Day to Night, Starting With a $35 H&M Dress (and You Can, Too)

1/17/2019 - Michael Cohen Paid to Rig Polls for Trump and the President Still Didn't Make The Top 100

1/17/2019 - Finding Martin Luther King Jr. In America's Streets

1/17/2019 - Chicago Man Becomes the 19th to Have His Murder Conviction Overturned After Accusing Detective of Framing Him

1/17/2019 - Rudy Giuliani Is a Terrible Lawyer Who Can't Stop Putting His Foot In His Mouth and It's Actually Great For the President

1/17/2019 - The Unbearable Blackness of Being

1/17/2019 - America. In Black.: A VSB Essay Series About the Unique and Individual Experiences of Black People in America

1/17/2019 - Fenty, But Make It Luxury: Rihanna Reportedly Working on a High-End Line With LVMH—and Partying on the LES?

1/17/2019 - McDonald's Employee Serves Racial McSlurries to Black Customer, Promptly Gets Fired

1/17/2019 - Yes, Cardi B Went from Shaking That Ass to Speaking on Politics in the Same Day 

1/17/2019 - Do White People Have Higher IQs?

1/16/2019 - Where the (Legal) Weed At? More States Eye Cannabis Legalization

1/16/2019 - #MuteRKelly: ‘Rally to Protect Black Girls’ Demands That RCA Drops R. Kelly

1/16/2019 - We May Not Know God’s Plan, but Drake Reportedly Plans to Take a $10M Residency in Vegas

1/16/2019 - City Girls and Cardi B Give Us the Ass-Clapping Video Anthem We Never Knew We Wanted

1/16/2019 - We Thought Beto O’Rourke Was Cool Until We Found Out He Voted for Anti-Black Lives Matter Legislation

1/16/2019 - The Music, the Myth, the Muse: Sade Turns 60

1/16/2019 - Is Donald Trump Blackmailing Senator Lindsey Graham? 

1/16/2019 - President Silent on Steve King; Don Lemon Wonders if Y’all Noticed All the Racist Shit Trump Did Before 

1/16/2019 - Miss You: On Aaliyah’s 40th Birthday, I Reminisce on the Stanning of the Hair Swoop

1/16/2019 - Nancy Pelosi Suggests Trump Write State of the Union in Crayon or Reschedule for Feb. 31

1/16/2019 - Post-Surviving R. Kelly Fallout: What Do We Do With All These Celebrity Apologies?

1/16/2019 - R. Kelly Is Facing Eviction, Hot and Fresh Out the Kitchen

1/16/2019 - Film Noir x 4: KiKi, Jenifer, Regina and Amandla Cover Essence's Black Women in Hollywood Issue

1/16/2019 - Nobody Knows What's Up With the Bloody Band-Aid on President Trump's Hand. The Root Investigates

1/16/2019 - Did NYPD Spy on Black Lives Matter Protesters? Judge Rules Police Must Disclose Surveillance Data

1/16/2019 - Soulja Boy Tells 'Em...He Taught Drake Everything He Knows?

1/16/2019 - Colin Kaepernick Doesn’t Approve of Travis Scott’s Super Bowl Halftime Performance [Updated] 

1/16/2019 - Sounds About White: Colonizer 'Artist' Gentrifies African Desert With Whitest Song Ever

1/16/2019 - R. Kelly’s ‘Goons’ Reportedly Stepped in the Name of Boxing Gloves to Attack Dave Chappelle Over Skit 

1/16/2019 - Are People More Excited for Michelle Obama’s Book Than Sex? (Yes, Yes They Are)

1/16/2019 - Romper Room: Serena Williams Serves a New Spin on Her Famed Catsuit at the Australian Open

1/15/2019 - Border Agents Would Rather Migrants Die Than Let Them Have Food and Water as They Cross the Desert

1/15/2019 - You Can’t Be Mad at Big Boi and Travis Scott If You Watch the NFL

1/15/2019 - #MuteRKelly: NYC Rally Planned to Pressure RCA to Drop 'The Pied Piper of R&B' [Updated]

1/15/2019 - After Shutdown Causes Family Visits to Be Canceled, Inmates at New York City Jail Go on Hunger Strike

1/15/2019 - The Story Behind the Music of Black-ish’s Most Talked About Episode 

1/15/2019 - Oh, Na-Na, What’s Her Name: Rihanna Sues Her Father Over Unauthorized Solicitation  

1/15/2019 - Calling Foul: Virginia Referee Barred From Future Games After Complaining About 10-Year-Old Girl’s Hair

1/15/2019 - Newark Mayor to Trump: Forget the Wall! Our City’s Water Has ‘Dangerously High’ Levels of Lead

1/15/2019 - Alexandria Shipp Storms Twitter to Defend Her X-Men Role—Again. But, Why?

1/15/2019 - Netflix and Bill: Streaming Service Raising Its Prices—Again

1/15/2019 - Rep. Steve King Being Pressured to Resign for Being Rep. Steve King

1/15/2019 - Why Is NBC News Afraid of the Word Racist? Why Does CNN Want Us to Give Bigots a Pass? [Update: NBC—Never Mind] 

1/15/2019 - Michaeil Ward Sentenced to 84 Years in Prison for Murder of Hadiya Pendleton

1/15/2019 - Racist Shows Up to Harass Black Woman at  Press Conference Announcing He Won't Be Charged For Harassing Black Woman

1/15/2019 - Broadway Legend Carol Channing Dies at 97, 'Proud as Can Be' of Her Black Heritage

1/15/2019 - Mitch 'Turtle Face' McConnell Blocks Bill That Could've Reopened the Government

1/15/2019 - This Girl Is On Firrrrrre: Alicia Keys to Host the 2019 Grammys

1/15/2019 - R. Kelly's Lawyer Claimed Aaliyah Lied About Her Age. This Resurfaced Video Shows He's Full of Shit

1/15/2019 - UNC Chancellor Departs as Last Remnants of Confederate Statue Come Tumbling Down

1/15/2019 - Did Trump Lie About How Many Burgers He Ordered For Clemson's White House Hoedown? The Root Investigates

1/15/2019 - The Best Men Can Be? Gillette Poses a New Challenge—but Can Men Accept It?

1/15/2019 - New York City’s Afrocentric Schools Get More Love as Segregation Increases Nationwide

1/15/2019 - Trump’s Inaugural Fund Spent More Than $1.5 Million at Trump International Hotel: Report

1/15/2019 - Man Leaves 2 Pounds of Weed in Uber, Tries to Retrieve It From Cops

1/15/2019 - ‘Black Like Us’: Black-ish Finally Tackles the Elephant in the Room—Colorism 

1/15/2019 - Missing from the Immigration Discussion? How the U.S. Gov’t Has Failed to Prevent Child Marriages

1/15/2019 - ‘Hang the Whites’: Rapper’s Hate Speech Trial Exposes the Hypocrisy of Race Relations in France

1/14/2019 - Value Meal in Chief Feeds National Champion Clemson with Good Old American Fast Food

1/14/2019 - Barbara Gardner Proctor, Trailblazing Ad Woman, Dies at 85

1/14/2019 - Just Mary: For Her 48th Birthday, Mary J. Blige Let Us Know She's Even Better in a Bikini

1/14/2019 - Candace Owens Came for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Quickly Realized She Wasn't Ready

1/14/2019 - NJ Officials Are Still Targeting the High School Wrestler Who Was Forced to Cut His Dreadlocks

1/14/2019 - Enough: Rwanda Becomes the 3rd African Nation to Ban Skin-Bleaching Ingredients

1/14/2019 - African American Film Critics Association Names Quincy Jones 2019 Special Achievement Honoree

1/14/2019 - All the Bizarre and Racist Moments in the Recent Donald Trump vs. Elizabeth Warren Beef

1/14/2019 - Rashida Tlaib, the Hypocritical Cuss Word Controversy, and the Myth of Political Civility

1/14/2019 - Move Over, MLK: Roads, Landmarks, Even Animals Being Named After Barack Obama

1/14/2019 - Middle School Teachers Are Saints 

1/14/2019 - The Duchess Narrows Down Her Due Date—and Keeps Pregnancy Colorful

1/14/2019 - No Check, Snowed In and No End in Sight: How Black D.C. Is Surviving Trump’s Government Shutdown

1/14/2019 - John Amos Wants to Join the Coming to America Sequel and Hopes to Sell Zebra and Hippo Burgers at McDowell’s  

1/14/2019 - Black Twitter Provides Generous Donation of Shade After Travis Scott, Big Boi Agree to Perform at Super Bowl

1/14/2019 - Indya Moore, Thandie Newton and More Star in Louis Vuitton’s Pre-Fall Lookbook

1/14/2019 - Top White House Advisor: The Shutdown Is Basically a Paid Vacation for Furloughed Workers

1/14/2019 - Trump Claims He Is Not a Russian Spy, Which is Exactly What a Russian Spy Would Say

1/14/2019 - Legend, John Legend: The Singer Celebrates Turning 40 with a Casino Royale-Themed Bash

1/14/2019 - According to Survey (OK, Several Surveys), Americans Blame Trump for Shutdown

1/14/2019 - No, Iyanla Cannot Fix R. Kelly’s Life 

1/14/2019 - North Carolina Man Arrested After Video of Him Brutally Punching Black Girl Goes Viral

1/14/2019 - Black Panther Finally Comes to Collect Its Things at the 2019 Critics Choice Awards 

1/14/2019 - The Critics Have Spoken—Who Were the Best-Dressed Celebs at the 2019 Critics Choice Awards?

1/13/2019 - CBS News Just Announced Their Team of Journalists Covering the 2020 Presidential Election. Guess How Many of Them Aren't Black?

1/13/2019 - Illinois Officials Mute R. Kelly, Deny Permit for Upcoming Concert

1/13/2019 - Pastor Faces Eternal Damnation (and 10 Years in Prison) For Stealing $35,000 From Church

1/13/2019 - Aretha Franklin's Assets Were Stolen Prior to Her Death

1/12/2019 - Because Bigotry Never Fails, Megyn Kelly Just Made $30 Million for Defending Blackface

1/12/2019 - The Auburn Women's Basketball Team Just Blessed Us All with a Legendary Locker Room Dance-Off 

1/12/2019 - Meet Missy Elliott, the First Female Hip-Hop Artist Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame

1/12/2019 - Almost 70 Years After Being Falsely Accused of Rape, the Groveland Four Have Finally Been Pardoned 

1/12/2019 - Ready for a Sequel? The #BlackPantherChallenge Creator Is Raising Funds for Girls to See Captain Marvel!

1/12/2019 - Will a Little Black Girl Save the World on Fox’s The Passage?

1/11/2019 - Journalist and Former MSNBC Host Touré Accused of Sexual Harassment By Former Coworker

1/11/2019 - Aaliyah ‘Lied About Her Age’ and R. Kelly Didn't Know, Lawyer Claims

1/11/2019 - People Are Buying a 27-Pound Bucket of Macaroni and Cheese. This Is Why Jesus Wept

1/11/2019 - Why Do We Silence Black Girls and Women Who are Survivors of Sexual Violence? 

1/11/2019 - Government Shutdown Threatens Housing Funds for Low-Income Senior Citizens

1/11/2019 - An Ode to Res’ Debut Album, How I Do 

1/11/2019 - The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: What Anyone Would Do

1/11/2019 - In Another Case of Dreadlock Discrimination, Texas Elementary School Insists 1st Grader Cut His Locs 

1/11/2019 - Police and Media Royally Botch Response to First Recorded Murder of Trans Woman in 2019

1/11/2019 - Will the GOP’s Lone Black Senator’s Wokeness Play Well With the White South Carolina Voters He Relies Upon?

1/11/2019 - Ruth E. Carter and Marci Rodgers Nab Costume Designers Guild Award Nominations for Black Panther and BlacKkKlansman

1/11/2019 - Concerned by Allegations in Surviving R. Kelly, Judge Grants Emergency Motion to Inspect R&B Singer's Studio

1/11/2019 - KTLA Reporter Kacey Montoya Tells Black Activists They Are the Reason People Are Racist

1/11/2019 - Stacey Abrams Meets With Top Democrats to Talk Possible 2020 Senate Run

1/11/2019 - Kevin Hart Explains How He Flips the White Savior Narrative in The Upside

1/11/2019 - Rudy Giuliani, Who Was Once Married to His Cousin, Believes Trump's Legal Team Should be Allowed to 'Correct' Mueller Report

1/11/2019 - ‘We’re Dancing to These Women’s Pain’: Female Activists Escalate Protests Against R. Kelly—and Call Out RCA and Sony

1/11/2019 - Suspected Driver Confesses in Jazmine Barnes Case, Suspected Shooter Denies Involvement

1/11/2019 - Black Leaders Must Pass White-Approved Purity Tests That White Leaders Don’t. Ask Angela Davis

1/11/2019 - Rep. Steve King Is Not a White Nationalist or a White Supremacist, He’s Just a White Man

1/11/2019 - Green Book Writer Nick Vallelonga Faces Stop Sign—Deletes Twitter Following Backlash Over 2015 Anti-Muslim Tweet 

1/11/2019 - Black Federal Employees Disproportionately Affected as Government Shutdown Ties for Longest Ever

1/11/2019 - Profile in Courage: Serena Williams Covers Allure’s ‘Body & Mind’ Issue

1/11/2019 - What You Want? Baby, You Got It: Aretha Franklin’s Biopic Lands Black Female Director

1/11/2019 - Lashes Like a 'Mother': Pat McGrath's Next Release? A Major Mascara

1/11/2019 - Sterling K. Brown Almost Had His Challenge Day as M'Baku in Black Panther, but Ryan Coogler Had Other Ideas

1/11/2019 - Frank Ocean Resurfaces on GQ—and Makes Us Wonder If He’d Rather Be Seen Than Heard

1/10/2019 - R. Kelly’s Estranged Daughter, Another Reported Victim, Come Forward to Speak Out Against Him

1/10/2019 - Our Aunties Oprah and Gayle Just Talked About Sex, and Now We Feel Weird

1/10/2019 - R. Kelly’s Attorney Accuses Lady Gaga of Exploiting His Current Controversy to Win an Oscar

1/10/2019 - How Kamala Harris, a Tweet and a Pink and Green ‘Screech’ Proves We Need More Black Journalists

1/10/2019 - Michael 'Eddie King Jr' Cohen Is Ready to Prove He's Still Got It; Will Testify Before Congress

1/10/2019 - Wakanda—for Hosting: The Academy May Go the Host-less Route, but Reportedly Wants The Avengers Cast to Help

1/10/2019 - Arizona Cardinals Hiring Kliff Kingsbury Proves That Mediocre White Men Stay Winning

1/10/2019 - Leaving Neverland, a Documentary Based on Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Michael Jackson, to Premiere at Sundance 2019 [Updated]

1/10/2019 - Backlash Grows After Civil Rights Institute Reneges on Angela Davis Honor

1/10/2019 - A Photo Gallery of Black Republican Men With Nice and Fashionable and Totally Not Corny at All Haircuts

1/10/2019 - Trump Admits That He Lied About Mexico Paying for Border Wall

1/10/2019 - Black Teens Accused of Shoplifting at Kroger Had Receipts. Police Still Gave Them a Trespass Warning

1/10/2019 - Move Over, Ellen. Lena Waithe Has Spoken and Wants a 'Really Gay Ass Black Person' to Host the 2019 Oscars 

1/10/2019 - If Beale Street Could Talk, It Would Likely Compliment Gabrielle Union's Outfit

1/10/2019 - Maybe We Should Stop Wishing We Could Do What the Worst White People Do

1/10/2019 - Crazy White People News Roundup: Swords, Shafts and Becky With the Bad Attitude

1/10/2019 - Trump Sends Temper Tantrum Tweet Denying He Threw a Temper Tantrum

1/10/2019 - Sky's the Limit: Foot Locker Invests $3 Million in Kids' Sneaker Brand Super Heroic

1/10/2019 - Lady Gaga Apologizes For Working With R. Kelly, Vows to Remove 'Do What U Want' From iTunes 

1/10/2019 - Locked Up and Locked Out: How to Ensure New York's Black Communities Get Their Share of the Marijuana ‘Green Rush’

1/10/2019 - J'Adore! Zendaya Will Debut Her 1st Collab With Tommy Hilfiger During Paris Fashion Week

1/9/2019 - Could Trump’s Endgame Be a Plea Deal and a Resignation? Rudy Giuliani Reportedly Thinks So

1/9/2019 - R. Kelly’s Legal and Personal Woes Mount in the Aftermath of Victim Allegations in Surviving R. Kelly

1/9/2019 - Trump Just Threw a Temper Tantrum and Walked Out of a Meeting Over a Wall That Only Racists Want

1/9/2019 - #BlackGirlMagic: Black-ish Star Marsai Martin Set to Become Youngest Executive Producer in Hollywood History

1/9/2019 - Someone Added Me to the Notable Morehouse College Alumni Wikipedia Page and I Almost Cried (Thug Tears)

1/9/2019 - 2019 BAFTAs: Nominations Are Out and The 'Rising Star' Category is Particularly Black AF

1/9/2019 - Why Does Donald Trump Keep Sniffling? An Investigation

1/9/2019 - Top Dallas R&B Radio Stations Saw Something Wrong With R. Kelly's Bump N' Grind—and Banned His Music 

1/9/2019 - Kamala Harris Doesn’t Yet Announce Presidential Run With New Book (but Hints as Subtly as a Semi-Truck)

1/9/2019 - Safety Eric Reid Was Drug Tested 7 Times in 11 Weeks. The NFL Swears it Was Totally Random

1/9/2019 - PSA of the Day: Stop Asking Women If They’re Pregnant (Because Sometimes, It’s Just a Food Baby)

1/9/2019 - Kevin Hart Is Pretty Damn Tired of Apologizing to the LGBTQ+ Community, Promptly Goes on Exhaustive Fake Apology Tour 

1/9/2019 - Harlem Dreams: Gucci Releases Dapper Dan Tribute Book—But Good Luck Copping One [Updated]

1/9/2019 - When, If Ever, Should We Explain Blackness, for The Culture?

1/9/2019 - The 'Stable Genius' Just Rage-Tweeted a Misspelled Threat to Cut Funds for Fighting 'Forrest Fires'

1/9/2019 - After Surviving R. Kelly, What Now? How About Trusting Survivors and Dismantling Systemic Misogynoir?

1/9/2019 - Second Suspect Charged With Capital Murder for Death of Jazmine Barnes

1/9/2019 - Black Artists Unite to Revive Black Wall Street’s Legacy

1/9/2019 - So, About That Black Panther Joke at the 2019 Golden Globes...

1/9/2019 - R. Kelly Is the Black Donald Trump and His Supporters Are Deplorables, Too

1/9/2019 - New Trump Administration Policy Would Make Racism OK as Long as You Don't Mean It

1/9/2019 - Love on the Brain: Rihanna Continues World Domination by Moving Valentine's Day to January

1/8/2019 - Oval Office Confessions: Trump Goes Live on National Television to Talk About His Dumb Wall

1/8/2019 - News Networks Airing Trump’s Immigration Speech Tonight Did Not Have That Same Energy for Obama in 2014

1/8/2019 - When Chancletas Come Home to Roost: Did You Hear About the Flip Flops That Confirm Trump Is a Flip-Flopper?

1/8/2019 - Beth’s Black-Ass Backstory on This Is Us Is Coming Together With Phylicia Rashad Portraying Her Mama

1/8/2019 - 10 Things They Won't Tell You About the Border Wall

1/8/2019 - R. Kelly Reportedly Under Criminal Investigation in Georgia Following Surviving R. Kelly Documentary Series

1/8/2019 - Barry Jenkins Wants to Helm a Sci-Fi Film. Hurry Up and Take My Money in Advance

1/8/2019 - Suspect Charged, Held Without Bail for Murder of 7-Year-Old Jazmine Barnes

1/8/2019 - Samuel L. Jackson, Patron Saint of ‘MFers,’ Endorses Rashida Tlaib’s Expert Usage on Trump

1/8/2019 - R. Kelly Unsuccessfully Tried to Expose the Survivors From Surviving R. Kelly Because He’s a Creepy Calculating Cretin

1/8/2019 - 11 Thoughts About Surviving R. Kelly Now That I’ve Had a Chance to Process It All

1/8/2019 - Regina Hall Isn't Salty About Being Mistaken for Regina King Because It Means She Gets More Free Shit

1/8/2019 - Exclusive: New Report Shows Gentrifiers Use Police to Terrorize Communities of Color—Without Even Calling 911

1/8/2019 - High-Low in Hollywood: Lupita Nyong'o Wore a $45 Shoe to the Golden Globes

1/8/2019 - Another Black Man Turns Up Dead in Wealthy Democratic Donor’s Home

1/8/2019 - Only 5 of the Top-Grossing Films Since 2007 Were Directed by Black Women—and 2 Were From Ava DuVernay 

1/8/2019 - Like Cardi, Like Kulture: The Bardi Baby Gets Some 'Mommy and Me' Bling From Reebok

1/8/2019 - What in the Willy Wonka Hell Was Lil Wayne Wearing at the Alabama v. Clemson Halftime Show?

1/7/2019 - Dumb Dullard Donald Trump Is Doing the Damn Most. Again.

1/7/2019 - White House Directs IRS to Issue Tax Refunds, Narrowly Averting Bag Security-Related Backlash

1/7/2019 - R. Kelly’s Sales and Streams Have Increased and Jada Pinkett Smith Is Confused

1/7/2019 - Rising Playwright Jeremy O. Harris Addresses Backlash Over Controversial Slave Play

1/7/2019 - A Live Look at ‘America’s Most Livable City’

1/7/2019 - Moschino USA Sued for Racial Profiling: Store Manager Accused of Labeling Black Customers ‘Serenas’

1/7/2019 - Your Favorite CoverGirl Comes to Town: Issa Rae Hits Times Square on Tuesday, Jan. 8

1/7/2019 - Cyntoia Brown Granted Clemency

1/7/2019 - Before and After: Pre- and Post-Globes, How Do Celebs Celebrate the Start of Awards Season?

1/7/2019 - Civil Rights Institute Cancels Gala Honoring Angela Davis After Outcry From Jewish Community

1/7/2019 - Color Us Corrected: Morphe Maxes Out the Foundation Game with 60 Shades of Fluidity! [Updated]

1/7/2019 - Government Shutdown Not Responsible for Declined EBT Cards in Indiana, Officials Say [Updated]

1/7/2019 - First Look: Inside The Boomerang Writers' Room 

1/7/2019 - The Golden Glow Up: Diversity and Retro Glamour Ruled the 2019 Golden Globes Red Carpet

1/7/2019 - 2019 Golden Globes: Regina King Rightfully Takes Her Throne 

1/6/2019 - R. Kelly Responds to Surviving R. Kelly

1/6/2019 - Odd Couples, Iconic Roles: W Magazine Kicks Off Awards Season with a Celebration of Best Performances

1/6/2019 - Nancy Pelosi Banged Her "All Lives Matter" Drum Despite Being Given the Perfect Opportunity to Do Otherwise

1/6/2019 - Conk Fight: Days After Usher Debuts a New 'Do, Yung Joc Says 'Hold My Beer'

1/6/2019 - Complicit Police, Staged Rescues, and Other Revelations from the Final Night of Surviving R. Kelly

1/6/2019 - TSA Agents Want No Parts of Unpaid Work During Government Shutdown... So They're Calling Out Sick

1/6/2019 - Surviving R. Kelly Triggers a Surge in Sexual Abuse Hotline Calls

1/5/2019 - Police Make Arrest in Case of Murdered 7-Year-Old Jazmine Barnes in Houston

1/5/2019 - An Apology on Ellen was Cute, But Don Lemon Demands More from Kevin Hart for His Previous Homophobic Behavior

1/5/2019 - Why You Can Expect Silence from These Legends When it Comes to R. Kelly's History of Abuse

1/5/2019 - Underage Threesomes, Hush Payments, and Other Revelations from the 2nd Night of Surviving R. Kelly

1/5/2019 - Drake Kisses and Fondles 17-Year-Old Girl In Disturbing Video

1/5/2019 - Bowling Alley Shooting in California Leaves 3 Dead, 4 Injured

1/4/2019 - Man Tries to Kidnap Woman. Woman Runs In Black Karate Dojo. Attacker Follows. Things Don't Go Well

1/4/2019 - Murder-Obsessed Nazi Couple Indicted For Planning 'Upscale' Massacre

1/4/2019 - New Study Finds Emergency Personnel Less Likely to Treat Pain for Black Patients Than White Ones

1/4/2019 - Dressing Like a Congresswoman: Once Again, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has the Last Laugh

1/4/2019 - From 'Big Daddy' Clyburn to Wakanda Salutes: The Biggest, Baddest Congressional Black Caucus Has Arrived

1/4/2019 - Black Teacher Allegedly Told Food for ‘Whites Only’ by Colleagues, Called ‘Aunt Jemima’

1/4/2019 - People Magazine Previews Michelle Williams as Diana Ross, Proves Not to Know What Diana Ross Looks Like [Updated]

1/4/2019 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: For Your Consideration

1/4/2019 - Back in Black! Awards Season Starts Sunday With the Golden Globes and The Glow Up

1/4/2019 - Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk Put on Hold Pending Sexual Misconduct Investigation

1/4/2019 - Only 2 Hours Into Surviving R. Kelly, the Conclusion Is Simple: Black Girls Deserve Better  

1/4/2019 - If You Have Student Loans, Grown-Ish and Scholly Are Trying to Make It Rain on Your Loan Provider (for You)

1/4/2019 - A Legacy of Design: British Designer Joe Casely-Hayford Has Died

1/4/2019 - This Is the Man Suspected of Killing 7-Year-Old Jazmine Barnes

1/4/2019 - Tekashi 6ix9ine Will Show Up in Your Hood but Not to His Show: Sued Over Canceled Performance

1/4/2019 - Kevin Hart to 'Assess' Returning to Host the Oscars After Ellen Degeneres Reveals the Academy Wants Him Back 

1/4/2019 - Thanks to Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Visitors Went 'Apeshit' at the Louvre in 2018—But a Fan Cries Foul

1/3/2019 - Wesley Bell Wastes No Time Making Changes in St. Louis County Prosecutor's Office

1/3/2019 - Exclusive: Meet Some of the Women Who Are Speaking Out in Lifetime's Surviving R. Kelly

1/3/2019 - Donald Trump Gives a Fake Press Briefing Because Nancy Pelosi Was Getting All the Attention

1/3/2019 - Here’s How Many People Police Killed in 2018

1/3/2019 - College Board Under Fire for Deciding Black Student Did Too Well on Her SAT

1/3/2019 - R. Kelly Threatens to File Federal Lawsuit Against Lifetime If It Airs Documentary [Updated]

1/3/2019 - Donald Trump Engages in a Little More Revisionist History, aka Lying

1/3/2019 - Diddy Bops Toward Hypocrisy and Reportedly Feels 'Betrayed' By Cassie Dating Her Personal Trainer 

1/3/2019 - 'Hidden Figure' Shelby Jacobs, Who Designed a Camera System for NASA, Finally Getting His Due Nearly 51 Years Later

1/3/2019 - Fashioning a New Congress: What This Freshman Class Wears to Work Matters More Than Ever

1/3/2019 - Childish Gambino, Pusha T, Solange and More to Descend Upon the Desert at Coachella 2019

1/3/2019 - South Carolina Woman Arrested for Lies After Allegedly Telling Police a Black Man Assaulted Her

1/3/2019 - Could Police Have Prevented 7-Year-Old Jazmine Barnes’ Death?

1/3/2019 - Differences: Ginuwine's Whole Face Has Changed With a New Lee Press-On Beard

1/3/2019 - 2019 Young Futurists: Nominate the African-American Leaders Who Aren’t Waiting to Change the World

1/3/2019 - Winning in Wakanda: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o and Sterling K. Brown to Present at 2019 Golden Globes [Updated]

1/3/2019 - Sabrina Setlur, One of Germany's Biggest Ever Hip-Hop Stars, Was One of My Babysitters Growing Up 

1/2/2019 - UMass Says You Can't Say 'Fuck Nazis' Because It's Not Inclusive

1/2/2019 - So, About That Time Tiffany Haddish Sent Fur—and Hypocrisy—Flying In Defense of Black Lives

1/2/2019 - Umar Johnson Doesn't Announce Location of His Academy of (Con) Arts and Sciences ... Again

1/2/2019 - Your 'President' Is a Big Fat Liar Who Seems Obsessed With Walls

1/2/2019 - The 2019 List of Things Black People Are Too Ashamed to Talk About

1/2/2019 - R. Kelly Didn't 'Have Sex' With 15-Year-Old Aaliyah on That Tour Bus. We Need to Call It What It Was—Rape [Updated]

1/2/2019 - 50 Shades of Game: Fenty's Got Fresh Products and Foundation Shades on the Way

1/2/2019 - Marijuana Decriminalization in Maryland Has Not Stopped Implicit Bias nor Institutional Racism Against Black People

1/2/2019 - Cardi B Is Making Even More Money Moves, Plans to Release New Album in 2019 

1/2/2019 - Civil Rights Lawsuit Accuses California Sheriff’s Deputies of Chipping Woman’s Tooth, Splitting Her Lip

1/2/2019 - Usher Got a Conk for the New Year—and the Internet's Got Jokes

1/2/2019 - The Breakup Has Come Home to Roost for Birdman and Toni Braxton. He Says, 'Its Over'

1/2/2019 - Man Attacks Black Female McDonald’s Worker, Receives Large Surprise Order of ‘That Smoke’

1/2/2019 - I Don't Ever Want to Try Whatever Kool-Aid Kanye West Keeps Drinking 

1/2/2019 - ‘Mama, Jazmine’s Not Moving’: Family of 7-Year-Old Killed in Car Shooting Grieves, Gunman Still at Large

1/2/2019 - New Year, New Gear: Kelly Rowland Debuts a Limited Edition Line With Fabletics

1/2/2019 - Beyoncé and Jay-Z Challenged Us to Become Vegan—Again. Their Wealthy-Ass Plants Probably Taste Like Fried Chicken

1/1/2019 - Dispatches From The Kwanzaa Kid: How I Killed the Kwanzaa Carol

1/1/2019 - Stacey Abrams Exemplifies the Kwanzaa Principle of Imani—Consciously Moving Forward Against Forces Seen and Unseen

1/1/2019 - Jane Curtin Wants to Kill the Republican Party in 2019

1/1/2019 - Tiffany Haddish Bombs, Drinks with Fans Instead

1/1/2019 - Four Florida Men Steal $500,000 Worth of Tequila