6/30/2019 - Clap Your Hands: Pharrell Williams Makes 114 Grads of Harlem High School ‘Happy’ With Guaranteed Internships

6/30/2019 - Black Patient Arrested After Security Guard Accuses Him of Attempting to Steal an IV and Sell It on eBay

6/30/2019 - North Carolina Man Sues Hardees for Civil Rights Violations for Shorting Him on Hash Rounds

6/30/2019 - Cory Booker Tells Don Jr.: ‘Kamala Harris Doesn't Have Shit to Prove’ About Being Black

6/30/2019 - 30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Day 30: MAZE featuring Frankie Beverly 'Before I Let Go'

6/29/2019 - ‘Your Attraction to Me...Is Not a Reason to Kill Me’: Laverne Cox Speaks Out About the Murders of Black Trans Women

6/29/2019 - Gay History Is Black History: These 10 Icons Prove It

6/29/2019 - A Detroit Artist Was Commissioned by the City to Paint a Mural—Then Police Arrested Him

6/29/2019 - Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Endorses Joe Biden for President

6/29/2019 - Observations on the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater From a Dancing Non-Dancer

6/29/2019 - 30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Day 29: De La Soul's 'A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays'

6/28/2019 - Lizzo Tosses Her Hair, er, Hat in the Ring to Play Ursula in Little Mermaid as Melissa McCarthy Said to Be Disney’s Pick

6/28/2019 - As Supreme Court Shuts Down for Summer, It Announces It’ll Review DACA Protections for Young Immigrants Next Term

6/28/2019 - Biden Defends Record on Race Before a Black Audience at Rainbow-PUSH Convention

6/28/2019 - The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Math

6/28/2019 - Protecting Pride: Safe Spaces Are Crucial to the Existence of the LGBTQ Community

6/28/2019 - Brooklyn Lindsey Becomes 11th Black Trans Woman Killed This Year

6/28/2019 - White People Are Boring

6/28/2019 - Murderous White Supremacist Sentenced to Life in Prison for Charlottesville Attack

6/28/2019 - The Lion King: Beyoncé's New Secret Song and How She Helped Director Jon Favreau's 'Cool' Stock Rise

6/28/2019 - Chris Matthews Asked Kamala Harris to Explain Why She Doesn't Hate White People. Here's the Answer [Corrected]

6/28/2019 - For World Pride, Andre J. Pays Homage to Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera With Excuse Me, Hello

6/28/2019 - On Megan Thee Stallion, the Overuse of ‘Cancel Culture,’ and Allowing People Space to Grow

6/28/2019 - Lizzo Is Looking ‘Good as Hell’ in Her 1st Cosmetics Campaign for Urban Decay

6/28/2019 - Black Woman Alleges She Was Denied Service, Forced to Give Up Her Seat for White Men

6/28/2019 - Grind Like That to Shine Like This: Meek Mill Is Now the Co-Owner of Lids Hats

6/28/2019 - California Is a Governor’s Signature Away From Prohibiting Employers From Discriminating Against Black Hair

6/28/2019 - The Racist Nextdoor

6/28/2019 - A Wild Night on MSNBC: Why the Latest Presidential Debate Has Donald Trump Shook—and 4 More Observations

6/28/2019 - 30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Day 28: SWV 'When U Cry'

6/28/2019 - The Homecoming Playlist: Turn-Up at the Tailgate

6/28/2019 - 'I'm So Fucking Woke, I'm Ready to Go to Sleep': Lee Daniels Speaks on the Progress of LGBTQ Liberation

6/28/2019 - Kamala Harris Goes for Joe Biden’s Jugular on Issue of Race During 2nd Night of Democratic Debates

6/27/2019 - Top Conservative Calls for Chief Justice’s Head Over High Court’s Ruling on the Census Citizenship Question

6/27/2019 - Convo Over ‘Snitching’ Said to Have Sparked Shooting That Left Nipsey Hussle Dead

6/27/2019 - SCOTUS Blocks Census Citizenship Question, but Rules Political Gerrymandering Constitutional

6/27/2019 - It's All Love: Sorry, Met Gala, the Love Ball Is the Invite We Really Want to Score

6/27/2019 - Pose Stars Reflect on the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion

6/27/2019 - New Lawsuit Alleges Macy’s Discriminates Against Black, Latino Employees in Its Hiring Practices

6/27/2019 - Let’s Play Democratic Debate B-I-N-G-O Tonight! (No, We’re Serious)

6/27/2019 - We Dream a World: Black & Queer in Milwaukee

6/27/2019 - White Supremacist Propaganda on the Rise on US College Campuses

6/27/2019 - White Business Owners Claimed Cherokee Ancestry—and Got $300 Million in Government Money

6/27/2019 - A Pregnant Woman Was Shot in the Stomach, Killing the Unborn Child. Police Charged Her With Manslaughter

6/27/2019 - Like a Mother: Poet Staceyann Chin Chronicles Her Queer and Challenging Path to Parenthood in Motherstruck!

6/27/2019 - 30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Day 27: Junk Yard Band 'Loose Booty'

6/27/2019 - If Chaka Khan Had Heard Kanye West's Final Sample of Her Song, She Would've Said 'Hell No'

6/27/2019 - Jaleel White to Reprise His Role as Steve Urkel in New Series

6/27/2019 - Reunited? Meghan Markle Expected to Attend Wimbledon to Support Serena Williams

6/27/2019 - Alleged Sex Tape Involving R. Kelly Turned Over to Defense, Judge Expects 1 of 4 Cases to Begin in Early 2020

6/27/2019 - In First Debate, Democrats Say They’re All for Change, but Argue Over How Far to Go and at What Cost

6/26/2019 - NYC District Attorney Candidate Backed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Claims Democratic Primary Victory

6/26/2019 - What’s the 411? Mary J. Blige Is Getting Into the TV Production Business With Lionsgate

6/26/2019 - Who’s on Top? The Root’s 2020 Presidential Black Power Rankings, Week 1

6/26/2019 - Finally! According to the Obama Women, It Is Now Officially Sundress and Sneaker Season

6/26/2019 - NYPD: It’s Not Racist When a Cop Calls You the N-Word

6/26/2019 - Homeless Father Turns Tragedy Into Triumph After Being Publicly Shamed on Facebook

6/26/2019 - 30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Day 26: Roy Ayers Ubiquity 'Everybody Loves the Sunshine'

6/26/2019 - Don’t Call It a Comeback: With an Ethically-Based New Label, Designer Tracy Reese Honors Her Detroit Roots

6/26/2019 - Somebody Spit on Eric Trump

6/26/2019 - Press, Press, Press, Press, Press: Cardi’s New Music Video Is a Perfectly Timed Court Drama

6/26/2019 - Melania Trump and the Hypocrisy of White American Motherhood

6/26/2019 - Okay, So Breakdancing Might Really Become an Olympic Sport

6/26/2019 - What’s Your Favorite Scary Reboot? Mary J. Blige, Keke Palmer, and Tyga to Star in Queen Latifah-Produced Scream Series on VH1

6/26/2019 - Over the Rainbow: This Pride Month, Kehlani and Rico Nasty Debut Gender and Sex-Positive Clothing Collections

6/26/2019 - Twitter Offers 'Thoughts and Prayers' After NRATV Meets Its Untimely Demise

6/26/2019 - Nothing but the Truth: A Q&A With Bryan Stevenson, Subject of HBO’s True Justice

6/26/2019 - P-Valley: Loretta Devine to Portray Everybody's 'Grandmuva' in 'Trap Music Meets Film Noir' Adaptation

6/26/2019 - Styled in Sound: Solange Composed and Conducted a New Work to Bid Kenzo’s Longtime Designers Farewell

6/26/2019 - With $200 Million in Investment, JP Morgan Chase Hopes to Make Black Detroit Flourish

6/26/2019 - Not Pressed: Cardi B Pleads Not Guilty to New Strip Club Fight Charges

6/26/2019 - Beto O’Rourke Says Donald Trump Owes The Exonerated Five an Apology

6/25/2019 - Summer Heat: Robert Mueller Agrees to Testify Before Congress About His Findings in the Trump Russia Probe

6/25/2019 - Alabama Amends Law to Strip Parental Rights From Those Convicted of First-Degree Rape

6/25/2019 - YouTube Star Etika Is Found Dead in NYC, Leaving Thousands of Fans in Mourning

6/25/2019 - Big Beauty Tuesday: How to Turn Lemons Into (Pink) Lemonade

6/25/2019 - Florida Cop Accused of Racism, Brutality and Sexual Assault Named Officer of the Year

6/25/2019 - Leaked Documents Show Trump Team Used Google to Vet Staff, Considered Hiring a ‘White Supremacist,’ and Wondered Why an Official Put His Junk in People’s Faces

6/25/2019 - A Recipe for Success: Chefs of Color Make Their Mark at the Iconoclast Dinner Experience

6/25/2019 - A Black Revolutionary War Hero Finally Gets the Military Burial Honors He Deserved

6/25/2019 - Chicago Police Release Video of Jussie Smollett Meeting Police With Noose Around His Neck

6/25/2019 - Breakfast of Champions: Serena Williams Scores Her 1st Wheaties Box!

6/25/2019 - #BeBest? Melania Trump’s Spokesperson Tapped to Replace Sarah ‘Suckabee’ Sanders

6/25/2019 - Megan Thee Stallion Says ‘Hot Girl Summer’ Is Gender Neutral, So Get Ready to Drive the Boat

6/25/2019 - How to Throw a 25-Year Party: Why Essence Festival Is Your Faves’ Favorite Event of the Year

6/25/2019 - No White Saviors: Woman Accused of Letting African Babies Die at Fake Medical Facility in Uganda

6/25/2019 - Iranian President Says White House Is ‘Afflicted by Mental Retardation’ as Trump Announces Sanctions

6/25/2019 - ‘I Ain't Going to Jail!’: In Spite of Indictment, Cardi B Remains Optimistic

6/25/2019 - The 2019 NBA Awards Were a Slam Dunk

6/25/2019 - Beto O'Rourke Says All Americans Must Understand History of Slavery Before Cash Reparations Can Be Pursued

6/25/2019 - 30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Day 25: New Edition, 'You're Not My Kind of Girl'

6/25/2019 - For Some Reason I Can’t Put My Finger On, Donald Trump Doesn’t Support Reparations

6/25/2019 - ‘Racist Bone’ Disease: The Diagnosis, Treatment and Causes of Skeletal Racism

6/24/2019 - Mom Driving SUV Kills 3-Year-Old Son in a Game of ‘Chicken’ With Her Children, Prosecutors Charge

6/24/2019 - In the Donald Trump Era, People Ages 18-34 Are Less Accepting of LGBTQ Community, GLAAD Finds

6/24/2019 - Black Women Are More Likely to Be Sexually Harassed on the Job, a Study Finds

6/24/2019 - No Bra? Not Your Business: Singer Tanerélle Claps Back at Breast-Shamers

6/24/2019 - BBC, Who Dis Woman? A Spoof of Meghan Markle Sparks Backlash

6/24/2019 - Migrant Children Moved From Texas Detention Center After Reports of 'Horrendous' Conditions. Here’s Why This Isn't Necessarily Great News

6/24/2019 - Watch: Rihanna Talks Immigration at the BET Awards

6/24/2019 - A Twitter Thread Wants to Know If You Have What It Takes to be Beyoncé’s Assistant

6/24/2019 - Your Ignorance Is Showing If You Believe in a 'Gay Agenda'

6/24/2019 - Colonizing BK to the Fullest: Rent Biggie’s ‘One Room Shack’ for a Measly $4,000 Per Month

6/24/2019 - No More ‘Great White Hopes’: Study Reports Women and Men of Color Are Just as Electable as White Men

6/24/2019 - Building His Own: Tyler Perry Is Partnering With BET to Launch Streaming Service This Fall

6/24/2019 - Trump Trying to Explain Why His Job Numbers Aren't Better Than Obama's: A Story Told in Gifs

6/24/2019 - Video: DC Metro Officers Tase Man Because He Looked Like He Wanted to Fight Cops

6/24/2019 - Trump Has the Perfect Location for His Library: A Trump-Owned Property

6/24/2019 - 30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Day 24: Ari Lennox, 'Night Drive'

6/24/2019 - Pete Buttigieg Faces the Ire of Black South Bend Residents After Fatal Police Shooting

6/24/2019 - More Than an Awards Show: BET Just Gave Us Another Unforgettable, Female-Fueled 'Experience'

6/24/2019 - Watch: Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith Are 'Staying Alive' in Queen & Slim Teaser Trailer

6/24/2019 - 2019 BET Awards: The Horses Were in the Back and Black Women Were in the Front

6/23/2019 - ‘Everybody’s Fine’: Lena Waithe Elaborates on That Viral ‘Denzel and Will’ Comment

6/23/2019 - The Root Is at the 2019 BET Awards and You’re Getting This Liveblog — It’s Like You’re There, Too!

6/23/2019 - 30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Day 23: Deep Cotton, ‘We’re Far Enough From Heaven Now We Can Freak Out’

6/23/2019 - White Supremacist Who Plowed His Car Into Charlottesville, Va., Counter-Protestors Begs for Mercy Ahead of Sentencing

6/23/2019 - Shaquille O’Neal Wants In On the Sneaker Biz: ‘I Would Love to Purchase Reebok’

6/22/2019 - Tennis Great Arthur Ashe Honored With Street Naming Ceremony in Virginia

6/22/2019 - Lena Waithe Calls Out Will Smith, Denzel Washington for Not Funding More Black Films

6/22/2019 - 30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Day 22: Mark Morrison, ‘Return of the Mack’

6/21/2019 - Missouri’s Last-Remaining Abortion Clinic Can Stay Open for Now—but the State Has Yanked Its License

6/21/2019 - ICE Raids to Deport Migrant Families Set to Begin Sunday in 10 US Cities

6/21/2019 - The Saga Continues: Chicago Judge Orders Special Prosecutor Be Appointed in the Jussie Smollett Case [Corrected]

6/21/2019 - The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Clapback to Reality

6/21/2019 - The Children of Philadelphia Have Been Attending Toxic Schools for Years. This Is a National Crisis

6/21/2019 - Cardi B Indicted on Multiple Felony Charges in Connection With Strip Club Fight

6/21/2019 - A New Toni Morrison Documentary Gives the World’s Greatest Living Writer Her Flowers, and Plants New Seeds

6/21/2019 - Trump Sat Down With Time Magazine and Then Threatened a Reporter With Prison

6/21/2019 - Top 8 Iconic BET Awards Moments

6/21/2019 - Seth Meyers and Rihanna Went Day Drinking. When Can We RSVP to the Next One, Though?

6/21/2019 - Director Kenny Leon and Danielle Brooks Bring Blackness to Shakespeare in the Park

6/21/2019 - Three Times a Lady: When I Grow Up, I Want to Be Like Iman (or Ciara, or Teyana, or...)

6/21/2019 - How Fox News Host Sean Hannity Almost Got America Into a War With Iran and Then Tucker Carlson Saved Us All

6/21/2019 - 30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Day 21: Nicole Bus, 'You'

6/21/2019 - The Last Black Man in San Francisco Remembers the Heart of the City

6/21/2019 - Showing Their True Stripes? A New Report Reveals Diversity Concerns at Adidas

6/21/2019 - The Auntie Playlist: Girl, That's My Jam!

6/21/2019 - First Look: Behind the Scenes and on the Run With Queen & Slim

6/20/2019 - Lil Nas X Drops New Single, ‘Panini,’ in Advance of New Album Release, 7

6/20/2019 - He’s Baack: Trump Appointee Who Quit Consumer Watchdog Agency After Racial Backlash Gets New Government Job at HUD

6/20/2019 - Federal Appeals Court OKs Trump’s Abortion Gag Rules

6/20/2019 - Iran Shot Down an American Drone and Trump Does His Best Chuck Norris Impression; Claims They Made a ‘Very Big Mistake’

6/20/2019 - ABFF 2019: How Beats Tackles Chicago Crime and the Curious Case of Anthony Anderson's Forehead Acting

6/20/2019 - Alabama Quietly Passes Law Allowing Church With History of Racism and Homophobia to Form Its Own Police Force

6/20/2019 - 30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Day 20: Phyllis Hyman, 'Be Careful (How You Treat My Love)'

6/20/2019 - Donald Glover and Beyoncé Want You to Feel the Love Tonight in New International The Lion King Clip

6/20/2019 - Zoe Spears Becomes 10th Black Trans Woman Killed This Year

6/20/2019 - Grabbing Feminism by the Mic: This Is How Women in Hip-Hop Are Making a Lane of Their Own

6/20/2019 - 'No More Music': Rihanna Drops New Fenty, Photographs Her Own Campaign, and Still Finds Time to Troll Us

6/20/2019 - Heartwarming Movie About the Friendship Between a KKK Member and a Black Man Set to End Racism

6/20/2019 - South Carolina Sen. Jim Clyburn Defends Biden’s ‘Boy’ Comments, Accuses Nancy Pelosi of ‘Tokenism’ in Staffing

6/20/2019 - Trump’s Reelection Campaign Is Trying to Woo Latino Voters While Threatening to Purge America of Latinos

6/20/2019 - Philadelphia Yanks 72 Police Officers Off the Street Because They Couldn't Stop Being Racist on Facebook

6/20/2019 - August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Film Adaptation Confirmed With Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman to Star, Denzel Washington to Produce

6/20/2019 - Ta-Nehisi Coates Clapped Back at Mitch McConnell for Saying ‘No One Alive’ Is Liable for Reparations. So We Came Up With a List

6/19/2019 - Getting This Smoke: Black Activists Slam Meharry Medical School Decision to Take $7.5 Million Grant From Juul

6/19/2019 - Bronx, NY, Principal Wins Nod From Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Backers in Long-Shot Bid to Oust Long-Term Congressman

6/19/2019 - Federal Judge Rules New Evidence of Race and Partisan Bias in Citizenship Question Issue Deserves a 2nd Look

6/19/2019 - Exclusive: Ebony Magazine Allegedly Fires Online Staff Without Pay

6/19/2019 - R. Kelly Just Paid Up His Back Child Support, Says His Attorney

6/19/2019 - Janet Mock Makes History by Becoming the 1st Black Trans Woman to Sign Deal With a Major Studio

6/19/2019 - White-Ass Joe Biden Claims Old White-Ass Segregationist Never Called Him ‘Boy’

6/19/2019 - Beauty, According to BanX: Tyra Banks to Produce a Docuseries on Modern Beauty

6/19/2019 - Trump Rally Brings Out Far-Right ‘Proud Boys’ Wearing Matching Polos

6/19/2019 - The Naked Truth: Were Whoopi Goldberg’s Opinions on the Risks of Nude Photos Victim Blaming or Common Sense?

6/19/2019 - Reframing History: In Houston, Juneteenth Becomes a Celebration of Black Love

6/19/2019 - 30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Day 19: Joi, 'Freedom' x Various Artists, 'Freedom'

6/19/2019 - ‘Little Marco’ Trends on Twitter After Former Trump Nemesis Is All Smiles During the President’s Reelection Rally

6/19/2019 - 'An Idea Whose Time Has Come': Congress Hears the Case for Reparations on Juneteenth

6/19/2019 - Trump Won’t Apologize to the Exonerated Five, Claims They Admitted Their Guilt and That There Are ‘People on Both Sides’

6/19/2019 - Mitch McConnell on Reparations: 'We’ve Elected an African-American President'

6/19/2019 - The War on Women

6/19/2019 - Dear White People, How You Like Your Grits?

6/18/2019 - Empire’s Bryshere Gray Is the Latest Castmember to Get Into a (Minor) Dustup With Chicago Law Enforcement

6/18/2019 - Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, With the 2020 Presidential Election Nearing, Slams Trump As Threat to LGBTQ Rights

6/18/2019 - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Draws GOP Wrath After Slamming Immigrant Detention Centers as Modern-Day ‘Concentration Camps’

6/18/2019 - Big Beauty Tuesday: Can a Turban Help Me Embrace Change?

6/18/2019 - Forgiveness Is a White Privilege

6/18/2019 - What Is the Best and Blackest Movie Soundtrack?

6/18/2019 - 2019 MTV Movie & TV Awards: Lizzo Came, Lizzo Saw, Lizzo Conquered

6/18/2019 - ‘Your Family Loves You. They Miss You’: An R. Kelly Accuser Warns His Current ‘Girlfriends’

6/18/2019 - Julián Castro Wants to Stop Police Brutality by Getting Rid of Qualified Immunity

6/18/2019 - Manhattan District Attorney Refuses to Reopen Cases Handled by Central Park Five Prosecutor Linda Fairstein

6/18/2019 - Thanks to Drake, We Now Know Way More Than We Ever Needed to About ‘Erotic Timepieces’

6/18/2019 - The Benefits of Whiteness: Paul Manafort Won't Be Going to Rikers Island. He Can Thank the Department of Justice

6/18/2019 - Miami Officer Acquitted of Attempted Manslaughter: 'He Should Have Never Been Charged to Begin With'

6/18/2019 - Yes, Zendaya Dyed Her Hair Red. No, That Doesn't Mean She's Playing The Little Mermaid (or Does It?)

6/18/2019 - Robin Givens, Brian White and Essence Atkins Serve Up Ambitions for OWN

6/18/2019 - 30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Day 18: The Temptations 'Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)'

6/18/2019 - President Stephen Miller Gets His Wish: Trump Promises Mass Deportations of Undocumented Immigrants Next Week

6/18/2019 - FX’s Pose Has Been Renewed for a 3rd Season

6/18/2019 - Because She Loves Us, Michelle Obama Challenged James Corden to a Dodgeball ‘Battle of the Sexes’

6/18/2019 - Does Kamala Harris Have a Working-Class Black Man Problem? It's Complicated

6/17/2019 - Democratic Candidates Talk Black Money Matters at South Carolina Forum

6/17/2019 - 4 Hurt in Shooting at Toronto Raptors NBA Championship Celebration; Police Arrest 3

6/17/2019 - Parkland Shooting Survivor Kyle Kashuv Loses His Place at Harvard After Racist Text Messages Surface

6/17/2019 - It’s #BuyBlackWeek. Do You Know Where Your Dollars Are Going?

6/17/2019 - Kim Kardashian West Partners with Lyft to Provide 5,000 Former Prisoners With Transportation to Job Interviews

6/17/2019 - Be Careful: A Wardrobe Malfunction Forces Cardi B to Finish the Bonnaroo Festival in a Bathrobe

6/17/2019 - We Tried to Recap the MTV Movie and TV Awards Red Carpet—and Fell Into a Tessa Thompson Vortex, Instead

6/17/2019 - Supreme Court Tells Virginia Republicans to Have Several Seats Because the Old Ones Were Racist

6/17/2019 - Bill Cosby Called Himself 'America's Dad' and Black Twitter Determined That Was a Lie

6/17/2019 - With Blanco Brown’s ‘The Git Up Challenge,’ 2019 Is Truly the Summer of the Yee-Haw Agenda

6/17/2019 - Nigel Shelby’s Mother Says the School System Failed Her Child

6/17/2019 - ABFF to Launch 1st Feature Award for Directors in John Singleton’s Honor in 2020

6/17/2019 - The Marathon Medal: Nipsey Hussle to Be Honored With Humanitarian Award at 2019 BET Awards

6/17/2019 - Emanuel, Produced by Stephen Curry and Viola Davis, Debuts on the 4th Anniversary of the Charleston, SC, Shooting

6/17/2019 - Trump Punks Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney for Coughing During Interview

6/17/2019 - ‘Appalled’ and ‘Disappointed’: Federal Judge Tells St. Louis to Stop Dragging Feet on Cash Bail Order

6/17/2019 - 30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Day 17: Intro, 'Funny How Time Flies'

6/17/2019 - Jay-Z's Roc Nation Offers Legal Counsel to Phoenix Family Held at Gunpoint By Police, Calls Incident 'Absolutely Sickening'

6/17/2019 - Is This the Mother of All Foundations? Pat McGrath’s Next Release Promises ‘Sublime Perfection’

6/17/2019 - For Father’s Day, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex Shared a Rare Glimpse of Baby Archie

6/16/2019 - What It’s Like To Be a Black Woman Named Beckii

6/16/2019 - Report: Intelligence Officials Won’t Brief Trump on Cyberattacks Against Russia For Fear He Might Get Mad and Tell Putin

6/16/2019 - #ShoppingWhileBlack: Video Shows Store Owner Harassing, Calling Security on Black Boys

6/16/2019 - T.I., the Central Park Five, and Ebenezer Baptist Church Kick Off Summit to End Mass Incarceration

6/16/2019 - 30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Day 16: Gladys Knight & the Pips ‘Daddy Could Swear, I Declare’

6/16/2019 - Tiffany Haddish Cancels Atlanta Show Over Georgia Abortion Law

6/16/2019 - Black Twitter Explodes After Lakers Trade Me, You, Your Mama and Your Cousin, Too, for Anthony Davis

6/15/2019 - ‘37 Bullets For What?’: No One Has Answers After Cops Kill Unarmed Ryan Twyman

6/15/2019 - Boeing Employee Claims White Co-Workers Hung Noose, Urinated on His Chair

6/15/2019 - Report: Hundreds of Police Officers Belong to Racist Facebook Groups

6/15/2019 - Fatherhood 101 With Very Smart Brothas and the Dads of The Root!

6/15/2019 - 30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Day 15: Fela Kuti ‘Lady’

6/14/2019 - What Would a Harriet Tubman $20 Bill Look Like? Here’s a Sneak Peek

6/14/2019 - Pay Me What You Owe Me: DC to Trump on $7 Million Unpaid Inauguration Bill Ahead of Planned July 4th Bash

6/14/2019 - Toronto Raptors President Masai Ujiri Under Investigation for Allegedly Hitting Sheriff’s Deputy After Championship Win

6/14/2019 - 'What Are We Saying?': Billy Porter Calls Out the Misogyny in Fearing a Man Wearing a Dress

6/14/2019 - Family Files $10 Million Lawsuit Against City of Phoenix After Police Allegedly Assault, Threaten to Shoot Family

6/14/2019 - The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: White People

6/14/2019 - Braiding a Bond: Serena Williams Shares the Time-Honored Tradition of Braiding With Daughter Olympia

6/14/2019 - Otis Williams of The Temptations Weighs in on Hitting the Great White Way, His Mortality, and Patti LaBelle’s Big Lie

6/14/2019 - Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC, May Lose Its Liquor License

6/14/2019 - Black Woman Gets a Racist Surprise with Her Drive-Thru Order: ‘I Seek Justice for This Hate Crime’

6/14/2019 - ABFF 2019: Shaft Highlights Toxic Masculinity, Wet Glitter, and Grits

6/14/2019 - 30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Day 14: Sister Nancy, 'Bam Bam'

6/14/2019 - Could Beyoncé Be an Alien? Men in Black: International Star Tessa Thompson Thinks So

6/14/2019 - In More Than Enough, Elaine Welteroth Discusses the Double-Edged Sword of #SucceedingWhileBlack

6/14/2019 - End of the Road: My Sarah 'Suckabee' Sanders Breakup Playlist

6/14/2019 - Taraji P. Henson’s Groundbreaking Mental Health Summit Is Sure to Make an Impact on Black America’s Quiet Crisis

6/14/2019 - Shaft Is Still Black AF, So We Played 'Black Ass Game'

6/14/2019 - Hidden No More: NASA Honors Its ‘Hidden Figures’ With a Street Renaming

6/14/2019 - Welp. The Golden State Warriors Were Fun While It Lasted

6/14/2019 - The Glow Up Playlist: The Soundtrack to Finding Your Inner and Outer Beauty

6/14/2019 - 'None of My Favorite Artists Are Humble': Issa Rae Refused to Play Insecure at the 2019 Women in Film Awards

6/14/2019 - The Memphis Theater That's Performing Blackness Unapologetically

6/13/2019 - Prosecutors Drop All Criminal Charges in the Flint, Mich., Water Crisis; Residents Fear: ‘Our Lives Don’t Matter’

6/13/2019 - Cory Booker Secures 12 Co-Sponsors for Reparations Bill

6/13/2019 - They’re Coming Baaack: The Boondocks Is Returning to TV—With Series Creator Aaron McGruder on Board

6/13/2019 - Cuba Gooding Jr. Arrested and Charged With Groping Woman at an NYC Bar

6/13/2019 - Forbes’ 5 Richest Rappers and What They Should Buy With Their Money

6/13/2019 - Kimora Brought Back the Iconic Cat, But Did Baby Phat’s Return Bring the Nostalgia We Were Craving?

6/13/2019 - Trump Is Trash, So of Course, He'd Still Accept Political Dirt on Foes From Foreign Governments

6/13/2019 - Toni Morrison: Pieces I Am: ‘Navigating a White Male World Was Not Threatening; It Wasn’t Even Interesting’

6/13/2019 - Danny Glover, Ta-Nehisi Coates to Finally Discuss Reparations During House Hearing on Juneteenth

6/13/2019 - You Are Not Entitled To Know Someone’s Sexuality

6/13/2019 - MTV Is Bringing Back Daria Character Jodie Landon—With Help From Tracee Ellis Ross

6/13/2019 - With 37 Covers, New York Magazine Celebrates the Timeless, Transformative World of Drag

6/13/2019 - Government Watchdog Wants Kellyanne Conway Fired, but Conway Wants That Smoke: 'Let Me Know When the Jail Sentence Starts'

6/13/2019 - 'Expert' Says It Was 'Reasonable' for Cops to Fire 55 Bullets at a Man Sleeping in His Car

6/13/2019 - Protesters and Police Clash in Memphis After Officer-Involved Shooting

6/13/2019 - 30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Day 13: Lysette Titi, 'Young, Sad and Blue'

6/13/2019 - When Karma Has GPS: Linda Fairstein Dropped By Literary Agency Amid Backlash for Being a Despicable Human Being

6/13/2019 - Still Wishing Oprah Would Run for President? Sounds Like Gayle King Does, Too!

6/13/2019 - Secret Service Agent Claims He Was Targeted While on Duty by Park Police Because He’s Black

6/13/2019 - How It Feels to Be ‘Inside Out’ After 40 Years of Keeping Everything In

6/13/2019 - All Hail the Queen: Mary J. Blige to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2019 BET Awards

6/13/2019 - #DaretoCare: This Father’s Day, Scotch Porter Decodes Masculinity With a New Campaign

6/13/2019 - Man Arrested in Killing of Black Trans Woman in Dallas, Muhlaysia Booker

6/13/2019 - Queen Sugar's Season 4 Premiered Last Night and Fam—It's Crazy! Let's Recap! In GIFs!

6/12/2019 - Black Student Protest Leads to Prosecutor in the Central Park Five Case Quitting Her Columbia Law School Job

6/12/2019 - Ex-White House Aide Hope Hicks Is Said to Have Agreed to Spill Her Guts Before a House Panel Looking Into Whether Trump Meddled in Russia Probe

6/12/2019 - Alabama: Where You Can Be Forced to Give Birth After Being Raped and Maybe Have to Parent the Child With Your Rapist

6/12/2019 - Cuba Gooding Jr. to Turn Himself in to NYPD for Allegedly Groping a Woman at a Bar

6/12/2019 - Because #DadsAreDope: Your Last-Minute, 'I'm So Glad You're My Dad' Father's Day Gift Guide

6/12/2019 - Prepare Yourself for the Emotional Rollercoaster Ride Known as Queen Sugar

6/12/2019 - White People Want Trump

6/12/2019 - White House Fills Director of African-American Outreach Left Vacant After Omarosa's Abrupt Departure

6/12/2019 - Could Pre-Employment Marijuana Tests Become a Thing of the Past? Nevada Becomes 1st State to Kiss Them Goodbye

6/12/2019 - Trump Is Obsessed With the 'I-Word'—and No, the 'I' Doesn't Stand for Idiot

6/12/2019 - Research Confirms That ‘Black Don’t Crack’—and the Secret Is in Our Bones

6/12/2019 - ‘Horrific and Barbaric’: Here’s What We Know About the Human Rights Crisis in Sudan

6/12/2019 - GOP Big Mad After Lawmaker Reads Letter on House Floor Calling Trump Supporters ‘Racist’ and ‘Just Plain Dumb’

6/12/2019 - If Democratic Lawmakers Get Their Way, 1 Million Convictions in California Could Be Expunged

6/12/2019 - The Definitive Ranking of Black Clothes

6/12/2019 - The Cat Is Back? Forever 21 Teases a Collab With Baby Phat

6/12/2019 - Goodbye to Good Thrifting? Goodwill Is Going the Luxury Resale Route

6/12/2019 - 30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Day 12: Luther Vandross, 'So Amazing'

6/12/2019 - I Kept Hearing My Masculinity Was Under Attack by 'The Gay Agenda,' So I Went to Pride to Test This Theory

6/11/2019 - Nation’s Treasury Department Is Said to Be a Bastion of White Male Privilege

6/11/2019 - Mistrial Declared on Remaining 8 Rape and Kidnapping Charges Facing Ex-NFL Player Kellen Winslow II

6/11/2019 - Yes, the South Side Can Have Nice Things: Judge Dismisses Lawsuit That Would Have Thrown Wrench in Obama Presidential Center Plans [Corrected]

6/11/2019 - Boston Red Sox Legend David ‘Big Papi’ Ortiz Said to Be Resting After 2nd Surgery in Boston

6/11/2019 - With a New Memoir, Elaine Welteroth Reminds Us That We’re More Than Enough

6/11/2019 - Big Beauty Tuesday: Glow Up in One Stop With Brown Beauty Co-op

6/11/2019 - Trump Just Held Up a Folded Piece of Paper Claiming It's the Deal With Mexico

6/11/2019 - Janet Mock: Why Gender Pronouns Matter

6/11/2019 - Philadelphia's First Openly Gay Deputy Sheriff Found Dead of Apparent Suicide

6/11/2019 - Spread Love, It’s the Christopher Wallace Way: Brooklyn Block Renamed for Notorious B.I.G.

6/11/2019 - Alabama Governor Signs Bill Requiring 'Chemical Castration' for Some Sex Offenders

6/11/2019 - FX’s Pose Is Not Only Entertaining, But Saving Lives—One Episode at a Time

6/11/2019 - 'Tiger Mom' Amy Chua Defended Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Now, Her Daughter Is Going to be His Law Clerk

6/11/2019 - The FBI Admits Black Lives Matter Was Never a Threat. It’s White People You Should Be Worried About

6/11/2019 - New Poll Shows That Black Voters Favor Former Vice President Joe Biden in 2020

6/11/2019 - The Perils of Being ‘Office Oprah’

6/11/2019 - ACLU Files Lawsuit After California Church Is Removed as Polling Place for Supporting Black Lives Matter

6/11/2019 - 30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Day 11: Fresh Start Worship, ‘Mention’

6/11/2019 - The Bitter, the Sweet, and the Book: Beyoncé’s Seminal Work Enters the Literary Canon With The Lemonade Reader

6/11/2019 - Los Angeles Barbershop Ordered to Pay $80,000 for Discriminating Against HIV-Positive Customer

6/11/2019 - President Trump Told Aides to Lie About Internal Polling Data That Showed Him Trailing Joe Biden

6/11/2019 - Lord Jesus, God in Heaven, Please Don't Let Kevin Durant Have a Torn Achilles

6/11/2019 - Underneath It All: Rihanna Reveals Her ‘Shy’ Side, Says She Wants to Be a Mother ‘More Than Anything’

6/11/2019 - Supreme Court Will Hear Byron Allen's Racial Discrimination Suit Against Comcast

6/11/2019 - As a Black Man, I Understand Why Democrats Don’t Want to Impeach Trump

6/10/2019 - OJ Simpson Is Living Free and Without Care 25 Years After Deaths of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman

6/10/2019 - Rep. Steve King Trots Out Diamond and Silk in Legislative Announcement

6/10/2019 - Ex-NFL Player Kellen Winslow II Found Guilty of Rape, Lewd Conduct Involving 3 Women

6/10/2019 - DJ Khaled Is Said to Be Planning to Make a Run on Billboard’s Pockets Over No. 1 Spot Spat

6/10/2019 - 91 Percent of Inmates Freed by First Step Act Were Black. Should We Give Republicans Credit?

6/10/2019 - Tiffany Haddish, Issa Rae Among Star-Studded Lineup of Presenters for 2019 NBA Awards

6/10/2019 - California Police Swarm an Unarmed Black Man With Guns Drawn in Viral Video

6/10/2019 - She’s Not Your Superwoman: Miko Branch of Miss Jessie’s Pays Homage to Her Sister Titi on Her 50th Birthday

6/10/2019 - Help! Trump Spoke to CNBC and I Don't Understand Anything He Just Said

6/10/2019 - Pose Actress Indya Moore Attacked by Trump Supporter in NYC

6/10/2019 - Activists Demand Justice for Layleen Polanco, a Black Trans Woman Found Dead in a Rikers Island Jail Cell

6/10/2019 - Trump Makes Get-Well Call to Democratic Rival in Hospital

6/10/2019 - Figures of Speech: With His 1st Museum Exhibition, Virgil Abloh Says ‘I Was Speaking About Race the Whole Time’

6/10/2019 - Taraji P. Henson Wants Us To Change How We Talk About Mental Health

6/10/2019 - 30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Day 10: Geto Boys, 'My Mind's Playing Tricks On Me' x Isaac Hayes, 'Hung Up On My Baby'

6/10/2019 - ‘30 Years Later and Not Much Has Changed’: Oprah’s Interview with The Exonerated Five to Air on Netflix and OWN

6/10/2019 - Houston Rap Legend Scarface Running for Houston City Council

6/10/2019 - Do The Right Thing...Again: Spike Lee's Critically Acclaimed Joint Will Be Rereleased in Theaters for 30th Anniversary

6/10/2019 - A Black Teen Was Going Through a Mental Health Crisis. Wisconsin Police Ended Up Punching Him in the Head

6/10/2019 - In Shocking Twist, Fox News Calls Trump's Claim 'Fake News'

6/10/2019 - 2019 Tony Awards: André De Shields Is a Winner in Hadestown

6/10/2019 - Boston Red Sox Legend David Ortiz in Stable Condition After Being Shot in the Dominican Republic

6/10/2019 - Stage Presence: The Stars Show Out for the 2019 Tony Awards

6/10/2019 - Memphis Mayoral Candidate Tami Sawyer Says Black Women Can Reclaim the South

6/10/2019 - Bushwick Bill of Iconic Hip-Hop Group Geto Boys Dead at 52

6/9/2019 - Trump Administration Bars Pride Flags From Embassy Flagpoles

6/9/2019 - West Point Identifies Cadet Killed in Training Accident

6/9/2019 - Louisiana Deputy Fired, Arrested, for Reportedly Forcing Mother to Perform Oral Sex on Infant Son

6/9/2019 - Army Veteran Everett Palmer Died in Police Custody in 2018. His Family Can’t Find His Heart

6/9/2019 - 30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Day 9: Ray J, 'One Wish'

6/8/2019 - Many Americans Believe Fake News Is a Bigger Problem Than Racism, New Poll Finds

6/8/2019 - Dark Phoenix Is a Gentrified Neighborhood of Superheroes

6/8/2019 - DC Metro Snitch Who Lost Her Book Deal Is Suing Publisher for $13 Million

6/8/2019 - 30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Day 8: Teni, 'Party Next Door'

6/7/2019 - Family Affair: Maya Harris Is Painted as the Face and Political Ice Breaker for Big Sister — and Presidential Hopeful — Kamala

6/7/2019 - It’s Almost Decision Time for the US Supreme Court, With Questions Regarding Census 2020 and Gerrymandering High on the List

6/7/2019 - Blacklisted: Publisher Kicks Central Park Five Prosecutor Linda Fairstein to the Curb

6/7/2019 - Sony Honors John Singleton by Renaming One of the Biggest Theaters on Its Movie Lot After the Filmmaker

6/7/2019 - Here's Why Trump Sent That Nonsensical Tweet About the Moon Being 'a Part' of Mars

6/7/2019 - On Lena Waithe and the Danger of Pinning Your Creative Authenticity to Your Activism

6/7/2019 - The Black Godfather: Clarence Avant and the Successful Six Degrees of Separation

6/7/2019 - Raphael Saadiq Is About to Make Your Summer Better With the August Release of His New Album, Jimmy Lee

6/7/2019 - Steve McQueen, on the Blackest Soundtrack of America and Music’s Impact on His Filmmaking

6/7/2019 - Joe Biden Switches Position on Abortion Funding After Sen. Elizabeth Warren Gathered His Ass Up

6/7/2019 - Megan Thee Stallion Gathers Fans for a Day of Community Service

6/7/2019 - The Warriors Owner's Wife Received Death Threats Because the Beyhive Is Petty AF [Updated]

6/7/2019 - Tucker Carlson Believes White Privilege Is a Myth Because 7 Children of Color Won the National Spelling Bee

6/7/2019 - The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Why?

6/7/2019 - From Morehouse College’s Bookstore to My Gate at the Airport in Under 40 Minutes: An Atlanta Story

6/7/2019 - Eff That Little Album You’re Asking For, Rihanna Is on a Boat With Her Boo and His Fam

6/7/2019 - 30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Day 7: Mother’s Finest, 'Love Changes'

6/7/2019 - 2019 AFI Lifetime Achievement Ceremony: Denzel Washington Collects His Things; Beyoncé Honors Melina Matsoukas

6/7/2019 - Dallas High School Cuts Off Valedictorian’s Mic After She Mentions Trayvon Martin and Tamir Rice in Graduation Speech

6/7/2019 - The 9th Black Trans Woman Has Been Killed This Year

6/7/2019 - The Cookout Playlist: Music Is the Most Important Part of the Celebration (Fight Me)

6/7/2019 - Spike Lee on Filming in Georgia After Abortion Ban: 'They Got to Shut It Down'

6/7/2019 - Presidential Podcasting: Barack and Michelle Obama Signed a Major Deal With Spotify

6/7/2019 - Open Thread: VSB x Mahogany Books June Book Club Meeting Selection, Zora and Langston by Yuval Taylor

6/7/2019 - Inclusivity? Just Do It. Nike Adds Plus and Para-Sport Mannequins to Its London Store

6/7/2019 - ‘I Can’t Stop’: With Ms. Blakk for President, Moonlight Writer Tarell Alvin McCraney Campaigns as an Unlikely Candidate

6/6/2019 - For Many Black Voters, Beating ‘The Donald’ in 2020 Trumps Race, Gender or More Progressive Concerns

6/6/2019 - Study Finds Folks in Chicago’s Affluent Streeterville Live to Almost the Century Mark, While Blacks in Impoverished Englewood Don’t Live Long Enough to Collect Social Security

6/6/2019 - Chicago Judge Accused of Asking a Court Reporter ‘How Much’ for Sex, Attempting to Kiss a Cop in a #MeToo Case of Judicial Proportions

6/6/2019 - NYPD Apologizes for 1969 Stonewall Inn Raid That Sparked Modern Gay Pride Movement

6/6/2019 - Tarana Burke Says Ava DuVernay Was ‘The Only One’ of Many Prominent Black Women Who Would Go on Record Against R. Kelly

6/6/2019 - Queen Sugar Continues Its Matriarchy, Adds 4 New Directors. Cree Summer and Bryan Terrell Clark to Guest Star

6/6/2019 - Rich White Man Gets Away With Shoving Black NBA Basketball Player Because He Has a Lot of Money [Updated]

6/6/2019 - All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Black Queer Man Writes About Black Queer Life for Black Queer Kids

6/6/2019 - R. Kelly Pleads Not Guilty to 11 New Sex-Related Felony Charges

6/6/2019 - Nancy Pelosi to Dems: I Don’t Want to See Him Impeached, I Want to See Him in Jail! Suurrrreeeeee She Does

6/6/2019 - 30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Day 6: Oddisee, 'That's Love'

6/6/2019 - Beat Your Feet or Step Out the Way: D.C. Council Introduces Bill to Make Go-Go 'the Official Music of the District'

6/6/2019 - Saving Weeksville: Why Black Historic Landmarks Need Us

6/6/2019 - New Louisiana Law Allows Expert Testimony on the Flaws of Eyewitness Accounts of Crimes

6/6/2019 - Ja Rule Still Thinks the Fyre Festival 'Was An Amazing Idea'

6/6/2019 - 'I Really Believe It's a Form of Racism': Michael Jackson Lawyers Question Ethics of Leaving Neverland Doc

6/6/2019 - Tessa Thompson, Chris Hemsworth, an Explosion, and a Big Gaping Hole in New Men in Black: International Clip

6/6/2019 - AAFCA and Revolt TV Partner For New Culture Series, Short and Fresh; Announce Call For ‘Hip-Hop Identity’ Films from Young Creatives

6/6/2019 - Paul Pierce Clears Up Longstanding Speculation That He Left NBA Finals in a Wheelchair Because He Had to Boo-Boo

6/6/2019 - Chicago Releases Jussie Smollett 911 Tapes: ‘They Put a Noose Around His Neck’

6/6/2019 - ‘The People Are the Real Power’: Tayari Jones’ An American Marriage Wins the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction

6/6/2019 - Garden Party Before the Iconoclast Dinner Experience Offers Rare Opportunity to Mingle With Culinary Superstars

6/6/2019 - 'Life Is a Carnival': The World According to Angélique Kidjo

6/6/2019 - This Is Not a Drill: Beyoncé’s Teasing New Merch—and Will Still Check the Hell Out of You for Invading Her Space

6/6/2019 - I'm Allergic to Hennessy

6/5/2019 - Battle Pits Native American Tribes Against White Couple Over Adoption of Native Child in Case With Potential Affirmative Action Implications

6/5/2019 - Historic Ebony Photos Set to Be Auctioned Off for at Least $13,000,000

6/5/2019 - ‘I Ain’t No Killer, Bro’: Derion Vence Proclaims Innocence in Death of Maleah Davis During Jailhouse Interview With Houston Reporter

6/5/2019 - Tennessee Prosecutor to Same-Sex Couples: No Domestic Violence Protections for You!

6/5/2019 - Auntie Who? Ava DuVernay Sets Some Boundaries and Sparks Major Debate—and The Root Digs In

6/5/2019 - The Wire, 17 Years Later: Tray Chaney on His Upcoming Cast-Heavy Docuseries, Undeniable and the Reality of 'Two Baltimores'

6/5/2019 - So Ebony Magazine Took Us to Court

6/5/2019 - RIP Baby Trump Blimp: Woman Stabs Baby Trump Balloon and Is Promptly Arrested

6/5/2019 - YouTube to Remove Thousands of Channels, Ban Hate Speech and Supremacist Content in Order to 'Tackle Hate'

6/5/2019 - Black Mirror's 'Striking Vipers' Summarized: And I ... Oop!

6/5/2019 - RuPaul's Drag Race Contestant Honey Davenport Shares Why the Art of Drag Is Revolutionary

6/5/2019 - Alabama Mayor Suggests 'Killing Out' the LGBTQ Community in Deleted Facebook Post

6/5/2019 - Wait, Did the President Fall Asleep During Queen's State Banquet Speech?

6/5/2019 - Stand Your Kampground: Gun-Toting Granny Arrested for Pulling Gun on Black People Attempting to Picnic

6/5/2019 - 30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Day 5: Letta Mbulu, 'Mahlalela (Lazy Bones)'

6/5/2019 - Trump Administration Cancels English Classes, Soccer, Ping-Pong, Legal Aid for Migrant Children in U.S. Shelters

6/5/2019 - The Democratic Party Does a Lousy Job Protecting Black Women

6/5/2019 - Your Celebration of Pride Must Go Further Than Putting Up a Rainbow on Social Media

6/5/2019 - Central Park Five Prosecutor Linda Fairstein Dismisses Accuracy of When They See Us: ‘It’s a Basket of Lies’

6/5/2019 - She’s Gotta Have It Writer Responds to John Boyega Regarding ‘Trash’ Black Brits Scene

6/5/2019 - Luxury Comes Home: At My City, 4 Ways, Law Roach Helped Celebrate the Undefeatable Style of Chicago

6/5/2019 - Police Officers Get Exposed for Making Racist Social Media Posts, So Cities Decide to Investigate

6/5/2019 - America’s Public Defenders’ Offices Are Broken. Here’s How to Fix Them

6/5/2019 - But Will It Make Me Look Like Beyoncé? Bey’s Makeup Artist Sir John Collabs on Lion King-Themed Beauty

6/5/2019 - Bethune-Cookman and the Survival of the HBCU, Part 3: Things Fell Apart

6/4/2019 - Perfect Just As You Are: Massachusetts Bill Would Reward Companies for Not Altering Models’ Appearance in Their Ads

6/4/2019 - Mom of Slain Sex Trafficked Teen Cries Out for Justice—and Gets It; Judge Slaps Pimp With 32 Years in Prison

6/4/2019 - Stacey Abrams Calls on Hollywood to #StayAndFight About Georgia Abortion Rights Instead of Boycotting

6/4/2019 - Caster Semenya Can Run Free—For Now—As Court Rules She Won’t Have to Take Drugs to Lower Testosterone Levels

6/4/2019 - Big Beauty Tuesday: Got Pride?

6/4/2019 - #SayHerName: Chynal Lindsey Is the 3rd Black Trans Woman Killed in Dallas in Less Than a Year

6/4/2019 - We Will Have It, Oh! In Rare Show of Unity, Internet Throws Draws at Winston Duke’s Squat Form

6/4/2019 - Texas Teacher Outs Herself on Twitter as MAGA-t Who Wants to Help Trump Round Up 'Illegal Students' in Her School

6/4/2019 - Grammy Award-Winning Jazz Drummer Lawrence Leathers Dead at 37

6/4/2019 - Summer Lovin’: British Vogue Gets Marriage-Minded With Idris and Sabrina Elba and Bride-to-Be Zoë Kravitz

6/4/2019 - The Last O.G.: As ‘Bobby,’ Allen Maldonado Is Channeling Every Black Cousin Ever

6/4/2019 - Serena Williams Is the First Athlete to Make Forbes’ List of the World’s Richest Self-Made Women—By Investing in Herself

6/4/2019 - Trump Claims He Doesn’t See the Big-Ass Trump Blimp Baby Protesting His Visit in London

6/4/2019 - Marlon Wayans Defends 19-Year-Old Daughter Against Homophobic Internet Trolls: 'Love Her for Her, Not What I Want Her to Be'

6/4/2019 - Trump’s Clearly Watching Sons of Anarchy Reruns Again, Channels Jax Teller With New Hair Style

6/4/2019 - Someone Get Kim Kardashian on the Phone: Trump's Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort Headed to Rikers Island

6/4/2019 - A New Lawsuit Against a Virginia Apartment Complex Shows How Modern Day Redlining Works

6/4/2019 - 'Sweetness, Flowing Like a Faucet; Body Banging, No Corset': What's New and Black on Netflix in June 2019?

6/4/2019 - Can’t Visit Stonewall in NYC? You Can Still Get Get There Via a ‘Living’ Pride Monument

6/4/2019 - 30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Day 4: Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway, 'Be Real Black For Me'

6/4/2019 - Poetry In Motion: Barry Jenkins to Direct Alvin Ailey Biopic

6/4/2019 - California Community Activists Respond to Blackface Video of High School Cheerleader: 'This is Not New'

6/4/2019 - How Much Will It Cost Florida's Formerly Incarcerated to Vote? Try at Least $1 Billion

6/4/2019 - 'Simba...': Beyoncé’s Husky Voice Is Heard Throughout the Pride Lands in New The Lion King Sneak Peek

6/4/2019 - The 2019 CFDA Awards Left Black Designers Empty-Handed Again—But We Stay Winning

6/4/2019 - Bethune-Cookman and the Survival of the HBCU, Part 2: An Inside Job

6/3/2019 - Doin’ It for the—Reality TV? Black Ink Crew: Chicago Stars Hit With Suit Charging They Really Jumped Somebody

6/3/2019 - Medical Examiner Confirms Remains Found in Arkansas Are Those of 4-Year-Old Maleah Davis

6/3/2019 - The Real ‘MVP’: Barack Obama Steals Drake’s Thunder at Game 2 of the NBA Finals

6/3/2019 - West Virginia Woman Who Called Michelle Obama ‘Ape in Heels’ Headed to Prison for Embezzling $18,000 in FEMA Aid

6/3/2019 - Priorities, Priorities: After Avoiding Meeting Trump, Meghan Markle to Pause Maternity Leave to Celebrate the Queen

6/3/2019 - Quincy Jones Celebrates the Sound and Soul of Black Power with the Broad Museum's 'Soul of a Nation Celebration'

6/3/2019 - The Supreme Court's Latest Ruling Makes It Easier for Cops to Arrest Black Lives Matter Protesters

6/3/2019 - Black Man Celebrating Mother's Day With White Wife Was 'Beat to a Pulp by a Bunch of Rednecks'

6/3/2019 - Baltimore Mayor Introduces Novel Idea to Curb Gun Violence: 'Put a Boxing Ring Up, Let Them Go and Box It Out'

6/3/2019 - Cop Detains Innocent Black Man, Answers 'Fuck You Is My Name' When Asked to Identify Himself

6/3/2019 - Trump's Son-in-Law Jared Kushner Claims Racism Doesn't Count If He's Not Involved In It

6/3/2019 - Klay Thompson to Drake: 'See You in the Bay, Aubrey. Weren’t Talking Tonight, Were Ya? With Your Bum Ass'

6/3/2019 - 5 Black Men React to Netflix's When They See Us, Ava DuVernay's Series About the Central Park Five

6/3/2019 - Museum-Worthy: Billy Porter to Talk Camp at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

6/3/2019 - 30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Days 2 and 3: Tank and The Bangas, 'Spaceships' + The Roots 'Act Too (The Love Of My Life)'

6/3/2019 - Critical Condition: Bethune-Cookman and the Survival of the HBCU, Part 1

6/3/2019 - Ain't Nothing to It...Boss: It's Official, Jay-Z Is a Billionaire

6/3/2019 - In One Day, Jaime Harrison, Lindsey Graham's Challenger, Raises Six Figure in Donations

6/3/2019 - The Brotherhood: Raymond Santana Creates a T-Shirt to Commemorate the Central Park Five

6/3/2019 - Olo’oruko Mi: Legacy Ponderings of a Nigerian-but-Mostly-American

6/3/2019 - Raymond Santana Supports Boycott of Central Park Five Prosecutor Linda Fairstein: 'She Has to Pay for Her Crime'

6/3/2019 - At Harlem Eat Up, Harlem’s Food Scene Showcases Its Proud Culinary History—and Its Future

6/3/2019 - R9 Lives: Rihanna Shows Behind-the-Scenes Proof That Her New Album Is Coming

6/3/2019 - Queen of the Jungle: Beyoncé Went Full ‘Nala’ for The Lion King-Themed Wearable Art Gala

6/2/2019 - Affordable Care Act Reduces Racial Disparities in Cancer Treatment: Report

6/2/2019 - Black Voters in Mississippi File Lawsuit to Challenge Racist Election Law

6/2/2019 - Virginia Beach Shooter Resigned from His Engineering Job Before Rampage Despite Good Standing

6/2/2019 - Trump’s Reelection Campaign Disputes Trump Called Meghan Markle ‘Nasty’... By Posting Audio of Him Calling Her ‘Nasty’

6/2/2019 - Catholic School Principal Arrested at a D.C. Strip Club While on Student Field Trip

6/2/2019 - Leah Chase, Iconic Executive Chef and Civil Rights Activist, Dies at 96

6/2/2019 - Where’s Security? Man Grabs Sen. Kamala Harris’ Microphone at Forum

6/1/2019 - #AirbnbWhileBlack: Host Calls Black Men ‘Monkeys’ and ‘Criminals’ Before Kicking Them Out [Updated]

6/1/2019 - Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka Eliminated from French Open

6/1/2019 - Harlem Drug Kingpin Frank Lucas Dies at 88

6/1/2019 - Kanye West Launches Grant for Young Creatives, YEEZY Alum Named First Recipient

6/1/2019 - Trump Administration to Require Visa Applicants to List ‘Social Media Identifiers,’ Previous Phone Numbers

6/1/2019 - End of an Era: Apple to Announce Shutdown of iTunes

6/1/2019 - Marlborough, NH, Police: ‘Stop Taking Your Horses Down to Our Old Town Road’ [Corrected]

6/1/2019 - Suspect Identified in Virginia Beach Mass Shooting

6/1/2019 - Derion Vence Allegedly Confesses to Dumping Body of Maleah Davis; Police Find Human Remains [Corrected]

6/1/2019 - 30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Day 1: Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, ‘They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)’