4/30/2020 - 'Having One Is Not Progress': Janet Mock on Netflix's Hollywood and Industry Gatekeepers Celebrating Diversity

4/30/2020 - Yes, Magic Johnson Has a Documentary About His Life in the Works. Kobe Bryant Does Too

4/30/2020 - Nichelle Nichols NASA Documentary Given the Green Light for World Sales

4/30/2020 - Muslim Lawmakers to Host National Ramadan Celebration Virtually

4/30/2020 - Yes, Disney Should Cast Amber Riley as One of the Hercules Muses and That's 'The Gospel Truth'

4/30/2020 - LeBron James Celebrates 2020 Class With Star-Studded TV Special

4/30/2020 - Charles Barkley Shares Hilarious Story About Michael Jackson and Reveals His Favorite Rap Group of All Time

4/30/2020 - The Pleasure Ponytail: This Jeopardy Contestant Thought Janet Jackson Was Ariana Grande

4/30/2020 - Africans in China Say Police Have Told Them to Stop Sharing Stories About Racial Discrimination: Report

4/30/2020 - I Just Finished Little Fires Everywhere Last Night and Now I Have Answers to My Questions!

4/30/2020 - Join Our Hive: OnlyFans Responds to Beyoncé's Bars in 'Savage (Remix)'

4/30/2020 - The Real Coronavirus Hoax: Republicans Are Using COVID-19 to Make the Black Vote Disappear

4/30/2020 - New York State Paid $69 Million for Ventilators It Never Received

4/30/2020 - 'My Memory Is Intact': Will André Leon Talley's Memoir Confirm That the Devil Does Indeed Wear Prada?

4/30/2020 - NCAA Still Won't Pay Student-Athletes, But It Might Finally Allow Them to Profit From Their Name, Image and Likeness

4/30/2020 - Janelle Monae to Perform in Verizon Live Series Benefitting Small Businesses

4/30/2020 - King Kong Ain't Got Nothin’ on Katie Couric's Reach, Says She Felt ‘Shaken' by Denzel Washington Interview

4/30/2020 - Megan Thee Stallion Tears Up Talking About Beyoncé...and Honestly, Same

4/30/2020 - More Than 80% of Patients Hospitalized for COVID-19 in Georgia Were Black, CDC Reports

4/30/2020 - 'Every Beating That I Got, I Deserved It': The Cast of OWN's Love Goals Discuss Generational Trauma in New Episode Clip

4/29/2020 - I Think I've Been Using Retail Therapy to Break the "Stay-at-Home" Monotony and Didn't Realize It

4/29/2020 - Will Smith Just Gave Us the Impromptu Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Reunion We All Needed

4/29/2020 - Black Student Forced to Sleep in His Car After Being Kicked Out of Campus Housing

4/29/2020 - Dr. Fauci Suggests COVID-19 Could Force Sports Leagues to Skip the Season: 'Safety Trumps Everything'

4/29/2020 - Houston Hotties Megan Thee Stallion and Beyoncé Finally Join Forces for 'Savage Remix'

4/29/2020 - Leader of Utah Surveillance Firm Is a Former KKK Member Involved in a Past Synagogue Shooting

4/29/2020 - Thank You, Heroes: Fisher-Price's New Line of 'Little People' Honors 'Community Champions'

4/29/2020 - 'Checking In, That's Whassup': Issa Rae, Gabrielle Union and More Recreate the Popular Budweiser Commercial in PSA

4/29/2020 - D'ussé Palooza Severs Relationship With Host Chris Stylezz After Sexual Assault Allegations Surface

4/29/2020 - Former Republican Justin Amash Is Considering Whether He Wants to Ruin Everything

4/29/2020 - Tarana Burke, Stacey Abrams, Weigh In on Sexual Assault Allegations Against Joe Biden

4/29/2020 - Octavia Spencer Donates Respirators to Hospitals in Alabama and New York

4/29/2020 - Video Appears to Show Police Officer Repeatedly Punching and Slamming a 14-Year-Old Black Child

4/29/2020 - Eager to Get His Career Back on Track, Jameis Winston 'Puts Ego Aside' to Sign With the New Orleans Saints

4/29/2020 - I'm Halfway Through Little Fires Everywhere and I Have so Many Questions!

4/29/2020 - Vice President Mike Pence Is a Crash Test Dummy for Trump

4/29/2020 - Shoop, Shoop! Babyface Will Host a Virtual Listening Party With the Waiting to Exhale Soundtrack for Mother's Day

4/29/2020 - T-Pain Teases Idea of Joint Tour With Lil Jon Based on Verzuz Battle Setlist

4/29/2020 - 'We're Out Here Risking Our Lives So That They Can Eat': The Realities Of Being An Essential Worker During COVID-19

4/29/2020 - Who Would Win in a Michael Jackson/Prince Verzuz Battle?

4/29/2020 - Tupac Shakur Tells Kentucky Governor 'I Ain't Mad at Cha' After Being Accused of Unemployment Prank

4/29/2020 - What You Don't Know Could Hurt Everyone: It'll Take Community Resistance to Fight COVID-19

4/28/2020 - Baltimore Ordered to Pay Settlements for Two Victims of the City’s Police Misconduct Scandal

4/28/2020 - Offset Schedules Facebook Live Concert to Benefit Atlanta Food Bank

4/28/2020 - How Old Were You When You First Realized That White Supremacy Is a Death Cult?

4/28/2020 - Black Barbershops Face Divide Over Reopening During Pandemic

4/28/2020 - NBA Draft Prospect Teshaun Hightower Arrested in Connection With a Georgia Murder

4/28/2020 - Send Her Your Love: Don't Let Quarantine Stop You From Showing Mom You Care

4/28/2020 - Life Comes at You Fast: Anti-Lockdown Protester Tests Positive for COVID-19

4/28/2020 - Former NBA Player Sebastian Telfair Loses Mother, Brother to COVID-19

4/28/2020 - Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Tells Anti-Stay-at-Home Protesters to Dress Like Healthcare Workers

4/28/2020 - Florida Governor's Failure to Address Pre-COVID-19 Unemployment Claimant Issues Seems Shady AF

4/28/2020 - Stop Blaming Black People for Dying From COVID-19

4/28/2020 - NBA Will Allow Players to Return to Practice Facilities on May 8. But Will They?

4/28/2020 - When the Music Stops: Famed Tap Dancers Diamond and Silk Cut From Fox News

4/28/2020 - This Jeopardy Contest Reached to the Limit to the Wall to Answer ‘Chaka Khan’ for a Shaka Zulu Question

4/28/2020 - Missing the Met Gala This Year? Make It Your Own—From the Comfort of Home!

4/28/2020 - Troy Sneed, Grammy-Nominated Gospel Star, Dies From COVID-19

4/28/2020 - Three 6 Mafia, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Will Tear the Virtual Club Up With Instagram Battle

4/28/2020 - Trump Suggested Mainlining Disinfectants, So Some People Did. Now He’s Not Taking Any Responsibility for It

4/28/2020 - They Need Us: MSNBC’s Trymaine Lee on Black Journalists and Holding America to Its Ideals

4/28/2020 - Megan Thee Stallion and Fashion Nova Joining Forces to Create Jeans for Tall Girls

4/28/2020 - 'So Little of Who I Am Happened in Those 8 Years': Michelle Obama's Book Becoming Is a Netflix Documentary

4/28/2020 - Little Women Atlanta Star Ashley 'Minnie' Ross Dies After Hit-and-Run Accident

4/28/2020 - Common Discusses Bumble Partnership, Tiffany Haddish, and Maintaining Connections While Quarantined

4/28/2020 - Oprah Winfrey Will Present the Class of 2020 Commencement Address, Thanks to Facebook and Instagram

4/27/2020 - Tyson Foods Warns That 'The Food Supply Chain is Breaking'

4/27/2020 - Lakers Return $4.6 Million Loan From Program Meant for Small Businesses

4/27/2020 - 9 Thoughts about Mobb Deep and Their Classic Album, The Infamous, That Just Turned 25 Years Old

4/27/2020 - Former WNBA Player Tamara Moore Becomes First Black Woman to Coach Men's College Basketball

4/27/2020 - Racists Invite Themselves to the Cookout

4/27/2020 - Black Agents Make NFL History by Representing the Majority of First Round Draft Picks

4/27/2020 - Looks Like Hope Hicks Has Replaced Ivanka as the Trump Whisperer

4/27/2020 - Narcissist-In-Chief Canceled the Coronavirus Press Briefing. Then Remembered There Were Cameras, So It’s Back On

4/27/2020 - Why Insecure Is the Best Show on TV Right Now

4/27/2020 - The Last Dance: Isaiah Thomas Is Not Isiah Thomas’ Tether; They Are Two Different People

4/27/2020 - Excerpt: George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue Is a Black, Queer, Coming-of-Age 'Memoir-Manifesto' for Us All

4/27/2020 - Patriots Draft Pick Has Right-Wing Paramilitary Gang Tattoo. But It's OK, He Didn't Know What It Meant

4/27/2020 - Jordan’s The Last Dance Doc Prompts Conversation About Kobe Bryant’s Well-Documented Final Season With the Lakers

4/27/2020 - TikTok Delight Tabitha Brown Has Signed to CAA—Let's Have a Celebratory Smoothie Bowl!

4/27/2020 - Manors & Bad Manners: Black Twitter Calls Out the Double Standard in a White Writer's Disrespect of a Black Influencer

4/27/2020 - Tyler Perry Drops Trailer for Upcoming Series Bruh

4/27/2020 - Trump Spent Sunday Raging on Twitter Because America's Starting to Realize He’s a Clown

4/27/2020 - Rapper Scarface Reveals He Is on Dialysis as a Result of COVID-19 Diagnosis

4/27/2020 - New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio Appoints Wife Chirlane McCray to Lead Racial Inequity Task Force

4/27/2020 - This Diddy/Dr. Dre Verzuz Battle May Actually Happen

4/27/2020 - Trump Supporter Wants You to Know He Isn't Just Worth a Measly $1.3 Billion, but $3.3 Billion

4/27/2020 - Replay, Revisit, Reject: Travis Scott, Alicia Keys, Wiz Khalifa and More of the Past Week's New Music

4/26/2020 - Black Woman Dies From Coronavirus After Being Turned Away 4 Times From Hospital She Worked at for Decades

4/26/2020 - Calls to Poison Centers Across the Country Have Gone Up Since Trump Talked About Injecting Disinfectant

4/26/2020 - Michigan State Senator Wears Confederate Flag Mask, Then Denies and Later Apologizes for Wearing Said Mask

4/25/2020 - Oprah Winfrey Surprised Ron Clark Academy Educators With a Guest Appearance in Their Online Conference Call

4/25/2020 - Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Got a Racist Text Just Because She Doesn't Want More Georgians Dying From COVID-19

4/25/2020 - 2 Black Men Released From Prison After Serving Over 17 Years for a Crime They Say They Didn't Commit

4/24/2020 - 5 Games That Deserve the Remake Treatment

4/24/2020 - Appeals Court Rules Detroit Students Have a Right to a Basic Education

4/24/2020 - Stacey Abrams Makes Her Vice Presidential Goals Clear: 'Black Women Are the Strongest Part of the Democratic Party'

4/24/2020 - Trump Owes State-Owned Chinese Bank a Whole Lotta Bread and That Loan Payment Is Coming Up Soon

4/24/2020 - Tina Knowles-Lawson Questions Why Georgia Is Reopening Hair Salons Despite Ongoing Pandemic: ‘We Know What Time It Is’

4/24/2020 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Can't Knock the (Race) Hustle

4/24/2020 - Isaiah Wilson's Mother Is All of Us, as Black Twitter Crowns Her the Real MVP of the 2020 NFL Draft

4/24/2020 - Freestyle Friday: WTF Is Happening Here?

4/24/2020 - Department of Justice Revises Early Release Requirements for Federal Prisoners

4/24/2020 - The Root Jams Weekly Playlist (4/24/2020): 'Move Your Body'

4/24/2020 - 'I Had to Shave It Off': Halle Berry's Daughter Learned About Hair Maintenance the Hard Way With a Quarantine Cut

4/24/2020 - Trump Suggested Swallowing Light Bulbs and Shooting Up Disinfectant to Kill the Coronavirus. We Finna Die

4/24/2020 - Trailer Roundup: We're Going to Hollywood—and It's Going to be Legendary

4/24/2020 - Instagram Live Shows Have Become the Norm, But Travis Scott Just Killed a Concert...in a Video Game

4/24/2020 - Grounded: This Black-Owned Plant Subscription Business Hopes Its Greenery Can Give Us Some Peace of Mind

4/24/2020 - The Gift: Beyoncé Donates $6 Million to COVID-19 Relief Through Her BeyGOOD Initiative

4/24/2020 - The Teddy Riley Jokes Were Fun but Let's Remember to Put Some Respect on His Name, Please

4/24/2020 - When Can I See You Again?

4/23/2020 - D.C's Historic Ben's Chili Bowl Among Small Businesses Still Waiting for Government Loans

4/23/2020 - TikTok Users Are Showing Off Their Editing Skills During Self-Isolation—and These Videos Make the Cut

4/23/2020 - Michigan Creates Task Force to Investigate Coronavirus Impact on Black Communities

4/23/2020 - Scholar, Mentor, Pioneer: Remembering Professor Cheryl A. Wall

4/23/2020 - Rapper Fred the Godson Dead at 35 From COVID-19

4/23/2020 - No Way the Miami Dolphins Pass on Tua Tagovailoa and Everything Else You Need to Know Before the 2020 NFL Draft

4/23/2020 - No Mitch-Assness: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Continues to be a ‘Mitch,’ and This Time, Andrew Cuomo Dunks on Him

4/23/2020 - The 'Open America' Protests Are a Classic Example of the Power of White Privilege

4/23/2020 - I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream...at Senator Mark Warner's Mayo Abomination of a Sandwich

4/23/2020 - Juice WRLD's Mother Establishes Mental Health Support Fund in Honor of Son

4/23/2020 - Opening Movie Theaters? During COVID-19? Spike Lee Says 'Hell to Da Naw'

4/23/2020 - Pharrell Williams Partners With SoundCloud to Release Compilation for Emerging Artists, Raise Funds for Charities

4/23/2020 - Trump Lies, Science Doesn't. So Scientists Aren’t Faring Well With This Administration

4/23/2020 - Ramadan 2020 and COVID-19: How Will Black Muslims Be Affected?

4/23/2020 - Jason Mitchell Reportedly Arrested on Felony Weapon and Drug Charges in Mississippi

4/23/2020 - I Wanna Dance With Somebody: Stella Meghie to Direct Whitney Houston Biopic Produced by Pat Houston

4/23/2020 - 15 Inspirational Audre Lorde Quotes You Need to Read Right Now

4/23/2020 - Golfing While Black: Women Who Had the Cops Called on Them for Playing Too Slowly File Discrimination Lawsuit

4/23/2020 - Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock and More Slated to Perform During Feeding America's Livestream Comedy Festival

4/23/2020 - Black 'Versuz' White: 10 Battles America Needs to See

4/22/2020 - Anthony Anderson, Kelly Rowland, Regina Hall and Terrence J to Host Saving Our Selves: A BET COVID-19 Relief Effort

4/22/2020 - New York Announces Maternal Health Task Force to Help Support Pregnant Parents Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

4/22/2020 - Missy Elliot's 'Cool Off' Visuals Provide the Perfect Cure For Your Quarantine Blues

4/22/2020 - New COVID-19 Model Predicts Failure to Reduce Jails Will Lead to Nearly 100,000 More Coronavirus Deaths

4/22/2020 - Georgia Still Set to Reopen Friday Despite Having Increase in Coronavirus Cases, Deaths

4/22/2020 - 99-Year-Old Black Woman Survives COVID-19 Infection Just in Time for Her 100th Birthday

4/22/2020 - Love & Basketball, 20 Years Later: I Still Think Quincy Was Wrong and Monica Was Right—Let's Fight

4/22/2020 - Dear Target, I Miss You. *Sniffle*

4/22/2020 - Lululemon Under Fire After Employee Promotes 'Bat Fried Rice' T-Shirt on Instagram

4/22/2020 - T.I. Explains Why He Treats His Daughters and Sons Differently

4/22/2020 - Study Finds That ICE Places African and Caribbean Immigrants in Solitary Confinement More Often Than Non-Black Immigrants

4/22/2020 - Twitter Fingers: President Troll Face Just Tweeted That He Wants Iranian Gunboats ‘Shot Down’ for Trolling

4/22/2020 - Curse Be Damned, Lamar Jackson Will Grace the Cover of Madden NFL 2021

4/22/2020 - Queen & Princess: Jodie Turner-Smith and Joshua Jackson Welcome a Baby Girl

4/22/2020 - Popular Pittsburgh Nightclub Owners Protest Stay-at-Home Order, Outed as...Just Really Stupid White People

4/22/2020 - Trump and Fox News Now Acting Like They Weren’t Out Here Pushing ‘Game-Changer’ Drug to Beat Coronavirus

4/22/2020 - Undercover: Stay Safe—and Chic—in Masks Made by Black Designers

4/22/2020 - Black Georgia Democrat Who Endorsed Trump Has Blexited the Building: ‘Turn the Lights Off, I Have Left the Plantation’

4/22/2020 - No Cover, No Overpriced Bottle Service: DJ D-Nice Is Bringing Back Club MTV to 'Save The Music'

4/22/2020 - Will Smith and Dr. Anthony Fauci Discuss COVID-19's Prevalence in the Black Community

4/22/2020 - Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Says Gov. Brian Kemp Blindsided Her With Announcement to Reopen Georgia

4/22/2020 - After Bitter Custody Battle, Rob Gronkowski Reunites With Tom Brady in Tampa Bay

4/22/2020 - Parable of the Songwriter: Toshi Reagon Explains Why an Octavia Butler-Inspired Opera Is More Relevant Than Ever

4/22/2020 - French Montana Claims He's on Par With Kendrick Lamar; Twitter Tells Him to 'Pop That' Ass in a Chair Somewhere

4/22/2020 - 'Open the Economy' Is the New 'White Lives Matter'

4/21/2020 - Pro-Life Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Says 'There Are More Important Things Than Living' When It Comes to Coronavirus

4/21/2020 - White People Continue to Stand Alone in Their Support of Trump, Survey Confirms

4/21/2020 - Michael Jordan Will Reportedly Make Millions in Proceeds from ESPN's The Last Dance and Donate Every Dime to Charity

4/21/2020 - Investigation Finds Culture of Racism, Sexism and Homophobia In Austin Police Department

4/21/2020 - My Mama Kicked My Ass In Mortal Kombat—And Every Other Fighting Game

4/21/2020 - Black Journalist Launches Newsletter to Keep Black People Informed About the Coronavirus Pandemic

4/21/2020 - This Is History: Niles Fitch to Portray Disney's 1st Black Live-Action Prince

4/21/2020 - The Truth Comes Out: Meghan and Harry's Pre-Wedding Texts to Thomas Markle Reveal His Lies

4/21/2020 - Remember the Malaria Drug Trump Was Pushing to Treat Coronavirus? Well a VA Study Shows It’s Really Good...For Malaria

4/21/2020 - The Problem With Michael Jordan Mythology Porn

4/21/2020 - The Best Scene in Tim Burton's Batman Is Brought to You by Prince

4/21/2020 - Aww, Snap: Timbaland and Swizz Beatz Are Eyeing a Dr. Dre/Diddy Verzuz Battle

4/21/2020 - 5-Year-Old Girl Becomes Michigan's Youngest COVID Death

4/21/2020 - Donald Trump Uses 'Let Me Clear My Throat' to Come for Joe Biden and DC Legend DJ Kool Isn't Here for It

4/21/2020 - We Actually Made It to the End of the Road of the Teddy Riley vs. Babyface Battle and We Will Remember the Time

4/21/2020 - Trump Says He Will Suspend Immigration Into the United States. Now If He Could Only Get Someone to Write the Executive Order

4/21/2020 - When Did White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor Become a Necklace? Because She Stays on Trump’s Neck

4/21/2020 - Draymond Green Airs Out Kevin Durant After ESPN's The Last Dance Had Him Feeling Some Kinda Way

4/21/2020 - In Relatable News, Megan Thee Stallion Gushes Over New Fan Janet Jackson

4/21/2020 - Congressional Black Caucus PAC Unanimously Endorses Joe Biden for President [Corrected]

4/21/2020 - 'I Was Just Lost': Coco Gauff Gets Real About the Pressure of Being a Phenom

4/21/2020 - Insecure's Natasha Rothwell to Star in Comedy Central Animated Series

4/20/2020 - Black People Are Still Being Disproportionately Arrested for Marijuana Possession: Report

4/20/2020 - Old Video Games Worth Giving a Revisit

4/20/2020 - For Decades, Split-Jury Convictions Imprisoned and Silenced Black Defendants. The Supreme Court Finally Found Them Unconstitutional

4/20/2020 - Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan Doesn’t Wait on Trump, Orders 500,000 Coronavirus Test Kits From South Korea

4/20/2020 - Idaho State Rep. Compares Coronavirus Restrictions to Nazi Germany

4/20/2020 - Dion Waiters Reflects on Mental Health Struggles In Revealing New Interview: 'Depression Is Fake Happiness'

4/20/2020 - Shake Shack Returns $10 Million in Relief Funds and Asks That Small Businesses Be Given More Access

4/20/2020 - This Week in More Lies From the President: You Know Who’s to Blame for Scottie Pippen’s Horrible Contract? Governors and Obama!

4/20/2020 - 10 Pieces of Unsolicited Advice for Teddy Riley for His Rematch With Babyface (Using Songs He Produced)

4/20/2020 - It's Official: NBA Players Are Taking a Pay Cut That Could Cost Them $654 Million In Salary

4/20/2020 - Coronavirus Infected 9 People in One Black Family. 3 Died. They Still Have Trouble Getting Tested

4/20/2020 - Taraji P. Henson Is Just as in the Dark About Empire Series Finale as You Are

4/20/2020 - An Exclusive Interview With the Tile That Tyrese Suggested Should Be Thrown

4/20/2020 - Replay, Revisit, Reject: the Best and Worst Music From This Past Weekend

4/20/2020 - Michigan Man Completing a 44-Year Life Sentence Dies From Coronavirus Just Weeks Away From Release

4/20/2020 - Teddy Riley's Uncleisure, Explained

4/20/2020 - When Paranoia Goes Wrong: Unpacking COVID-19 and Conspiracy Theories in the Black Community

4/20/2020 - The Teddy Riley of Presidents Is Using Props at His Press Conferences to Rewrite History

4/20/2020 - Jerry Krause is the Anti-Christ, and Other Takeaways From the First Night of ESPN's Docuseries The Last Dance

4/20/2020 - Meghan and Harry Are Setting Necessary Boundaries, Announcing They'll Have 'Zero Engagement' With Tabloids

4/20/2020 - Stevie Wonder Pays Tribute to Bill Withers With Performance of 'Lean on Me'

4/20/2020 - 'We Are Only as Safe as Our Most Vulnerable People': Idris and Sabrina Elba Help Launch Global Coronavirus Relief Fund

4/20/2020 - Don’t Forget About the Children Suffering in Silence

4/20/2020 - Beyoncé Spits Facts on How Coronavirus Affects Black Americans During Global Citizen Event

4/20/2020 - 'Mondays With Michelle': Your Forever First Lady and Quarantine BFF Is Hosting a Livestream Story Time for the Kids

4/19/2020 - To Protect Black People in Face Masks, Democratic Senators Request Racial Bias Training for Police

4/19/2020 - Racist Carrollton High School Students Expelled After N-Word Cooking Video Goes Viral

4/19/2020 - The Teddy Riley vs. Babyface Instagram Battle Managed to Be Too Much and Too Little All at Once

4/18/2020 - WNBA Honors Gianna 'GiGi' Bryant and Teammates as Honorary 2020 Draft Picks

4/18/2020 - Rapsody's EVE Has Inspired Courses at Two Universities

4/18/2020 - 'I Call These People the Modern-Day Rosa Parks': Conservative Shelter-In-Place Protesters Really Think They're Civil Rights Activists

4/17/2020 - Top 5 Anime to Watch During a Pandemic

4/17/2020 - Man Faces Charges After Attempting to Blow Up Jewish Nursing Home

4/17/2020 - Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Says Protestors Risk Extending Stay-At-Home Order

4/17/2020 - Disgraced Former Trump Attorney Michael Cohen to be Freed From Prison Early Because of the Coronavirus’ Proximity to His Valuable White Lungs

4/17/2020 - The Coronavirus Crisis Forces Pastors to Examine the State of the Black Church

4/17/2020 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Not-So-Black Twitter

4/17/2020 - NASCAR's Only Black Driver Believes Racist Ass Kyle Larson Deserves a Second Chance...Sadly, I'm Fresh Out of Grace

4/17/2020 - Medical Workers Reflect on COVID-19

4/17/2020 - 'Coronavirus Will Forever Change Bedside Care': Black Healthcare Workers Reveal Their Own Struggles to Survive a Global Pandemic

4/17/2020 - Can Someone Get Ben Carson to Explain to Trump that Chinatown and China Aren’t The Same Thing?

4/17/2020 - Virginia Bishop Dies After Holding Service Amid Coronavirus Warnings. Now, Four of His Family Members Are Infected Too

4/17/2020 - The Root Jams Weekly Playlist (4/17/2020): 'A Lovely Day'

4/17/2020 - Trailer Roundup: We Go From Paris to Politics By Visiting The Eddy ... And She Could Be Next to Preserve Our Democracy

4/17/2020 - Thanks to Black Women, There's More Political Interest in Fixing Black Maternal Care Than Ever Before

4/17/2020 - Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Are Both Full of Shit

4/17/2020 - The Blacker the Sugaberry: Tika Sumpter and Thai Randolph's New Platform Savors the Sweetness of Black Motherhood

4/17/2020 - MAGA vs. Hotep: The Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory Battle

4/17/2020 - The BeyHive Wished Upon a Star and Beyoncé Appeared on #DisneyFamilySingalong

4/17/2020 - Bailout of Black Mothers Takes on New Urgency as Coronavirus Pushes Fundraising Efforts Earlier

4/17/2020 - With Selah and the Spades, Tayarisha Poe Is Capturing the 'Volatility of Being Alive'

4/16/2020 - Wisconsin Judge Daniel Kelly Lost His Election. Now He Wants to Take Part in Deciding Whether Voters Should Be Purged

4/16/2020 - Louisiana Prisoner Says He Was Choked by Sheriff's Deputy for Seeking Medical Care

4/16/2020 - Rockstar Games Is Just Will's Dad From Fresh Prince

4/16/2020 - Colin Kaepernick Jumpstarts Know Your Rights Camp COVID-19 Fund With $100,000 Donation

4/16/2020 - Cyntoia Brown-Long Makes It Clear That She Had Nothing to Do With a Netflix Documentary on Her Life

4/16/2020 - Black Scientists Working Towards Anti-Viral Treatment for Coronavirus

4/16/2020 - Roc Nation and goPuff Team With Feeding America to Provide 200,000 Meals to Vulnerable Communities Impacted by COVID-19

4/16/2020 - Megan Thee Stallion Mulls Lucrative UFC Career After Delivering Another Knockout In Court Against Her Record Label

4/16/2020 - Trump Made Another Empty Threat. Something About Adjourning Congress, but Here’s Why He Can’t Do That Either

4/16/2020 - Gov. Cuomo Says All New Yorkers Have to Wear Masks Outside and He's Deadass

4/16/2020 - Need to De-Stress While Social Distancing? The Academy Suggests #ColoringWithRuth E. Carter

4/16/2020 - IG Honey Steve Mnuchin Believes $1,200 Stimulus Check Should Last Americans 10 Weeks

4/16/2020 - I Told My Child That Batman and Black Panther Wouldn't Hang Out. There Were Tears

4/16/2020 - California Mayor to Step Down After Comparing the President to Hitler and Trump Supporters to the KKK

4/16/2020 - World-Renowned Asshole Afraid That New Film About Him Being a World-Renowned Asshole Will Make Him Look Like a...World-Renowned Asshole

4/16/2020 - Watch: These Soulful R&B Artists Pay Tribute to Bill Withers and Amplify Organizations Supporting COVID-19 Frontline Workers

4/16/2020 - 'We Have a Full ICU': Inside a NYC Hospital Ravaged by the COVID-19 Crisis

4/16/2020 - Kamala vs. the Coronavirus

4/16/2020 - Despite Corporate Interest, Timbaland Says 'Verzuz' Will Remain 'For the Culture'

4/16/2020 - Michael Che Pays Rent for 160 NYC Residents in Honor of Grandmother

4/16/2020 - Having a Baby While Black: NATAL Is the Podcast Pregnant Black Parents Have Been Waiting For

4/16/2020 - Maybe We Don't Celebrate DC's Emancipation Day Because We're Not Actually Free

4/15/2020 - Kentucky Republicans Override Gov. Andy Beshear's Veto of New Voter ID Laws

4/15/2020 - Michigan Residents Stage Gridlock to Protest Stay-At-Home Order

4/15/2020 - Gay Men Still Not Able To Donate Blood Despite FDA Reducing Restrictions

4/15/2020 - #ObamaCommencement2020: Twitter Begs Obama to Serve as National Coronavirus Commencement Speaker

4/15/2020 - Ava DuVernay's ARRAY Alliance Announces $250,000 Initiative for PoC and Women-Centered Organizations Impacted by COVID-19 Crisis

4/15/2020 - San Francisco Mayor London Breed Ordered to Provide Hotel Rooms for the City’s Homeless During Health Emergency

4/15/2020 - Trump Authorized the Governors to Do What They Were Going to Do Anyway. Here Are Some Other Things He ‘Authorized’

4/15/2020 - As the COVID-19 Crisis Continues, Retail Takes a Devastating Dive

4/15/2020 - DJ Jazzy Jeff Discusses His Experience With COVID-19

4/15/2020 - No Ballparks, No Problem: Jackie Robinson Day Will Be Celebrated Across Every Major League Baseball Platform

4/15/2020 - I Read Kanye West's Latest Interview So You Don't Have To

4/15/2020 - Now This Asshole Wants His Name on the Stimulus Checks Because He Loves Himself and You Should, Too

4/15/2020 - Watch: Trump Blows His Toupee Because He Doesn’t Like Answering Questions During Press Briefings That He Continues to Host

4/15/2020 - Indiana Rep. Trey Hollingsworth Prefers People Dying of COVID-19 Over a Failing Economy

4/15/2020 - The Last Lyon: Empire Forced to Air an Abrupt Series Finale; Lee Daniels Hopes to Have Proper Ending One Day

4/15/2020 - Nas, Swae Lee Among Artists to Perform During 48-Hour Livestream Festival Music Lives: 'We’ll Unite Our Global Village With Music'

4/15/2020 - The Good Fight First Look Clip: Yes, There Are Black Lawyers at the Series' Prominent Law Firm, but 'They Hide Us'

4/15/2020 - First Look Clip: A #BlackAF Dinner With a Side of White Gaze

4/15/2020 - Essence Fest 2020 Is Officially Canceled

4/15/2020 - Cardi B Interviewed Bernie Sanders via Instagram Live. That's It, That's the Headline.

4/15/2020 - Young Futurists 2020: America Needs Leaders Now More Than Ever. Here Are 25 Who Are Already About That Life

4/14/2020 - Calls and Video Visits Free in Federal Prisons During Pandemic

4/14/2020 - Strong Choice: Black Democratic Lawmaker in Georgia Endorses Trump

4/14/2020 - Banks May Have the Authority to Take Your Stimulus Check and Use It to Pay Off Loans and Fees: Report

4/14/2020 - How Is the Coronavirus Affecting Black Voters? A New Poll Reveals Key Takeaways for 2020

4/14/2020 - Jay-Z Is the Zelda of Rap and Four Other Insights

4/14/2020 - Liberal Political Groups to Embark on Multimillion Dollar Campaign to Hold on to the Black Vote

4/14/2020 - The 'Urban' Legend of COVID-19: SC Data Shows Coronavirus Also Ravages Rural Black Communities

4/14/2020 - Congress Must Mandate Release of Coronavirus Demographic Data—Including Race and Ethnicity

4/14/2020 - Vanessa Bryant Reflects on Life Without Kobe, Gianna on Mamba Day: 'Life Truly Isn’t Fair'

4/14/2020 - Leave Xzibit Alone About Those Botched Pimp My Ride Cars

4/14/2020 - The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel Movie on Lifetime Brought the Sunshine. You Should Watch It. Amen.

4/14/2020 - Wisconsin Republicans Tried to Steal an Election and It Still Didn’t Work

4/14/2020 - The 10 Best Things About NASCAR Star Kyle Larson Saying the Word That Starts With 'N' and Rhymes With 'Bigger'

4/14/2020 - 'Number 3' Will Be a 'Prince': Ciara and Russell Wilson's Baby Gender Reveal Is Peak Adorable

4/14/2020 - Obama Makes It Facebook Official, Endorses Joe Biden and Throws Oak Tree-Level Shade at Trump

4/14/2020 - Jordan Peele Explains Why He Chose Nia DaCosta to Direct Candyman

4/14/2020 - Boosie Says He Rejected Jay-Z's Suggestion to Apologize for Offensive Zaya Wade Comments and It's Clear Someone Still Needs to Take His Phone

4/14/2020 - FedEx Worker Praised for Sanitizing Package Delivered to Home of Girl With Autoimmune Disorder

4/14/2020 - Video Appears to Show Police Using Excessive Force While Detaining an 8-Year-Old on a Subway Platform

4/14/2020 - Governors Ban Together to Defeat ‘King’ Donald Trump

4/14/2020 - Untangling History: A Rebranded Edition of A'Lelia Bundles' On Her Own Ground Adds New Chapters to the Story of Madam C.J. Walker

4/14/2020 - Black Actresses Discuss Importance of Representation and Diversity in New Interview

4/14/2020 - Karl-Anthony Towns Loses Mother to COVID-19: 'Her Energy Will Never Be Replaced'

4/14/2020 - Soul-Crushing News: Pixar’s First Black-Led Film Won’t Premiere on Juneteenth; Pushed to November

4/14/2020 - During a Global Health Pandemic, It's More Important Than Ever to Protect Black Mothers

4/13/2020 - NASCAR Driver Kyle Larson Suspended for Dropping Hard-R During Virtual Race

4/13/2020 - Africans Say Pandemic Has Caused Widespread Anti-Black Racism in China: Report

4/13/2020 - Georgia State Senator Nikema Williams Pressures Gov. Brian Kemp to Suspend Jim Crow-Era Mask Law

4/13/2020 - Eager to Get In On These Instagram Battles, Ja Rule Issues a Challenge to 50 Cent: 'I Want All the Smoke'

4/13/2020 - Florida Police Chief on Leave After Allegedly Attributing Gay Officer's COVID-19 to 'Homosexual Sexual Events'

4/13/2020 - The Root Joins PBS' Independent Lens and the film Bedlam for a Discussion on Mental Health and Mass Incarceration

4/13/2020 - Trump's New Press Secretary Apparently Hates Black History

4/13/2020 - Spin Cycle: Are Meghan and Harry Considering a Tell-All Interview for $1 Million?

4/13/2020 - The Insecure Characters Are Having All the Sex That Single People Aren't During Social Distancing

4/13/2020 - Bernie Sanders Endorses Joe Biden Because What Else Is He Going to Do?

4/13/2020 - Apple TV+ to Air Oprah Talks COVID-19 - The Deadly Impact on Black America for Free

4/13/2020 - Gov. Ralph Northam Signs Bills to Potentially Remove Confederate Monuments and to Protect the LGBTQ Community

4/13/2020 - Coronavirus Be Damned, Dak Prescott Throws Birthday Bash at Home...And the Cops Might Be Covering for Him

4/13/2020 - #COVIDWhileBlack: Miami Doctor Who Tests Homeless for COVID-19 Handcuffed for No Apparent Reason

4/13/2020 - Triflin' Negroes Like Jerome Adams, Explained

4/13/2020 - Trump Official Asks Black 60 Minutes Reporter Why They Didn’t Cover Global Pandemics Under Obama. 60 Minutes Pulls Out CVS-Length Receipts

4/13/2020 - Experts Say Concerts, Sporting Events Should Not Happen Until Fall 2021 to Prevent Spread of COVID-19

4/13/2020 - Here's What Happened During Diddy's Instagram Dance-a-Thon

4/13/2020 - Michelle Obama Announces New ‘When We All Vote’ Initiative to Make Voting More Accessible Amid Pandemic

4/13/2020 - As Millions of Workers Lose Their Jobs, Report Finds Nearly a Third of Renters Haven't Paid Rent for April

4/13/2020 - Trump Retweets #FireFauci Because He Hates People Who Tell the Truth

4/13/2020 - In the Midst of Their Feud, Shaquille O'Neal Once Offered a Teammate $10,000 to Beat Kobe Bryant's Ass: 'I Couldn’t Believe It'

4/13/2020 - Bad Girl Does Good: Rihanna Earns Praise From PETA—but Is More Intent on 'Saving the World'

4/13/2020 - Q-Tip Reveals He Is Releasing Three New Albums in the Most Q-Tip Way Imaginable

4/12/2020 - Black Man Forcibly Dragged Off Bus for Not Wearing Face Mask

4/12/2020 - ACLU Sues Baltimore Police Department Over Aerial Surveillance Program

4/12/2020 - Ex-Viking Tom Johnson Wins $475,000 Settlement in Police Brutality Lawsuit

4/11/2020 - Diamond and Silk Were Suspended From Twitter, and for a Moment, Things Were Right With the World

4/11/2020 - Hella Resourceful: Insecure's Annual Block Party Will Be Held Virtually in Anticipation of Premiere

4/11/2020 - Babyface Reveals COVID-19 Diagnosis, Sets Official Date for Teddy Riley Instagram Battle

4/11/2020 - When It Comes to Conquering Hollywood, Jay Ellis Is Feeling Secure

4/10/2020 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: The Gray Area

4/10/2020 - Diddy Holds Virtual Coronavirus Town Hall With Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Killer Mike, Sen. Kamala Harris and More

4/10/2020 - The Official Guide to #BlackEasterAtHome

4/10/2020 - My 3-Year-Old Tried to Set Me Up. He Is Clearly Cracking Under the Pressure of This Global Pandemic

4/10/2020 - After 16 Years Apart, Usher, Ludacris and Lil Jon Provide the Perfect 'SexBeat'

4/10/2020 - Surgeon General Jerome Adams Tells Black People to Lay Off Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs to Prevent COVID-19 Deaths: 'Do It for Your Big Mama'

4/10/2020 - The Chosen President Wishes Everyone a Happy Jesus' Death Day

4/10/2020 - TikTok Pledges Over $375 Million to COVID-19 Relief: 'Together, We Will Persevere Through This Time of Crisis'

4/10/2020 - Weeks After Attending Haircutting Competition, Mississippi Barber Dies From COVID-19

4/10/2020 - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Is Dumb AF, Claims Coronavirus Hasn’t Killed Anyone Under 25

4/10/2020 - As Easter Approaches, Black Pastors Cope With the Weight of Coronavirus

4/10/2020 - Rihanna Partners With Twitter CEO to Give $4.2 Million to Domestic Abuse Victims in Quarantine

4/10/2020 - Vietnamese Restaurant Owner Target of Racist Rant

4/10/2020 - Renowned Hollywood Hairstylist Charles Gregory Ross Dies of COVID-19

4/10/2020 - Trump Administration Looking to Reopen America Next Month Because They’re All Idiots

4/10/2020 - With a New EP and Rihanna's Stamp of Approval, Bia Is Aiming to Become the 'Best on Earth'

4/10/2020 - Will Considering a Cough an Act of Terrorism Make Us Any Safer During a Pandemic?

4/9/2020 - Woman Arrested for Licking $1,800 in Groceries

4/9/2020 - Liberty University’s Jerry Falwell Jr. Got Arrest Warrants Issued for Journalists for...Doing Journalism

4/9/2020 - Tips for First-Time Console Buyers

4/9/2020 - Former NFL Star Chris Johnson Accused of Funding Murder-for-Hire Plot

4/9/2020 - Was Trump Gifting Ventilators to His Allies? One Congresswoman Thinks So and She Has Receipts

4/9/2020 - Federal Reserve No Longer Accountable to the Public Under Recovery Law

4/9/2020 - There Are Little Fires Everywhere—and Tiffany Boone Has Been Set Ablaze

4/9/2020 - The Lonely Case for Joe Biden

4/9/2020 - Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan to Make Voting Easier and Safer This November—If You're Into That Kind of Thing

4/9/2020 - 5 More 'Verzuz' Music Battles I'd Love to See Happen

4/9/2020 - Gospel Great BeBe Winans Reflects on His Battle With COVID-19: 'It Could've Been a Different Outcome for Me and My Family'

4/9/2020 - The Pandemic Has Caused a National Surplus in Chicken Wings That May Go to Waste, and We Absolutely Should Not Stand for It

4/9/2020 - Something Tells Me Joe Biden Is Going to Mess This Up

4/9/2020 - Trae Young, Chris Paul Among Players Set to Square Off in H-O-R-S-E Competition

4/9/2020 - A National Holiday: Dr. Dre's 'The Chronic' Will Hit All Streaming Services on 4/20

4/9/2020 - Always on Trend: Fashion Nova and Cardi B Are Giving $1 Million to Individuals Affected by COVID-19

4/9/2020 - The Coronavirus Has Turned Me Into a Handyman. Temporarily, at Least

4/9/2020 - Black People Have Been the Only Ones to Die From COVID-19 in St. Louis: Report

4/9/2020 - The Glow Up and Jezebel Talk Black Hair in the Time of Coronavirus

4/9/2020 - 'Damn!': Here's How Will Smith and Tyra Banks Celebrated 30 Years of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

4/9/2020 - We Figured Out Why Coronavirus Is Killing Black People...As If You Didn't Already Know the Answer

4/9/2020 - Usher Launches #ClimaxChallenge After The Weeknd Claims He Inspired the 2012 Song [Updated]

4/9/2020 - Tiger Beat: Reporter Asks Trump About Pardoning Joe Exotic During a Pandemic

4/9/2020 - Philadelphia Rapper and Model Chynna Rogers, Dead at 25

4/9/2020 - Kobe Bryant's Latest Children's Book Tops New York Times Bestseller List

4/9/2020 - God Is Love: Why Finding Common Ground Is Paramount to LGBTQ Folks Feeling Welcomed In Religious Spaces

4/8/2020 - Trump Doesn’t Care If You Die Standing in Line to Vote as Long as You’re Voting for Him

4/8/2020 - Lawsuit Alleges That Yonkers Police Forced Muslim Woman to Remove Hijab

4/8/2020 - Air Pollution Disproportionately Affects Black Folks. A New Study Finds It Also Makes Coronavirus Much More Deadly

4/8/2020 - OVO the Top: Drake Treats Us to the 'Overwhelming High Luxury' of His New Home...and WTF?

4/8/2020 - Tyler Perry Continues 'Random Acts of Kindness,' Pays Shoppers' Grocery Bills at 73 Stores in Atlanta and Louisiana

4/8/2020 - Six Black Superheroes Who Deserve Their Own Movie

4/8/2020 - Wendy Bell, America's Worst White Woman, Is Back (and Wants to Kill Your Grandparents)

4/8/2020 - Per Usual, Black Women Tried to Tell Y'all: A Black Lady Sketch Show's Apocalypse Sketch Was Ahead of Its Time

4/8/2020 - #FreeTory: Tory Lanez Gets Booted from Instagram Live for Doing Too Damn Much and Black Twitter Ain't Havin' It

4/8/2020 - BET Networks Has Partnered With United Way and NAACP for COVID-19 Relief Efforts

4/8/2020 - Breaking the Bernie Sanders Bubble

4/8/2020 - Ray Allen Challenges Shaquille O'Neal, LeBron James to the #GeorgeJeffersonChallenge...and Hairlines Will Never Be the Same Again

4/8/2020 - Senate Democrats Propose COVID-13 ‘Heroes Fund’ to Give Essential Workers $25,000 Raise

4/8/2020 - What the Coronavirus Is Doing to Black People Ain't a Conspiracy. It's Just America

4/8/2020 - Lil Nas X Initially Planned to Take the Secret of His Sexuality to the Grave

4/8/2020 - 'MmmmGurl,' I'm Sharing My Life as the Daughter and Little Sister of Kem Fans

4/8/2020 - Sen. Bernie Sanders Finally Makes It Official and Ends His Floundering Fish on Sand Run for President

4/8/2020 - If NBA Owners Get Their Way, LeBron James, Kevin Durant Among Players Who Could Be Forced to Return Salary

4/8/2020 - Baltimore Officer Appears to Intentionally Cough on Black Public Housing Residents

4/8/2020 - You’ll Never Guess W.H.O. Trump Is Blaming for Coronavirus Pandemic Response Failure

4/8/2020 - The 'Rona Isn't a Joke: Black New Yorkers Share Their Frightening COVID-19 Experiences

4/8/2020 - The True King of R&B, O.T. Genasis Returns With His Rendition of a Mariah Carey Classic

4/8/2020 - Are They Ready for Love in the Age of Corona? Tiffany Haddish and Common Are Reportedly Self-Isolating Together

4/8/2020 - Kanye West, Mariah Carey, Tyler Perry Will Reportedly Join In on Joel Osteen's Easter Sunday Service

4/8/2020 - How 27 Years in Prison Prepared Me for the Coronavirus

4/8/2020 - In Coronavirus Economy, Somehow Trump's Friends Keep Getting Richer

4/7/2020 - Family Sues Walmart Over Coronavirus Death

4/7/2020 - Trump Removes Inspector General Who Was Set to Oversee Stimulus Spending

4/7/2020 - Appeals Court Revives Lawsuit Alleging Racial Disparities in Mississippi Schools

4/7/2020 - Mississippi Gov. Declares April ‘Confederate Heritage Month’ as Global Pandemic Rages On

4/7/2020 - Supreme Court Forces Wisconsin Voters to Choose Between Their Health and Their Ballot

4/7/2020 - Archewell: Meghan and Harry's New Nonprofit Shares a Namesake With Son Archie

4/7/2020 - Does This Haircut Look Hypocritical? Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Eschews Social Distancing for a Shape-Up

4/7/2020 - Exclusive: Yes, Ebony Magazine's Website Is Down. But Why? Here's an Explanation

4/7/2020 - A Self-Isolation Joint: In the Age of Corona, Richie Loco Drew Inspiration From Spike Lee

4/7/2020 - #SocialDistancingWhileBlack: Video Allegedly Shows Doctor Allegedly Strangling Black Teen for Not Social Distancing...Allegedly

4/7/2020 - Stephanie Grisham Out as White House Press Secretary

4/7/2020 - New York City to Release Data Showing Racial Disparities in Coronavirus Impact

4/7/2020 - 'Thanks Black One': This TikTok Video Perfectly Encapsulates Being the Black Sidekick in a Movie

4/7/2020 - Rep. John Lewis Endorses Joe Biden, Pushes Former Veep to Pick Woman Running Mate

4/7/2020 - Understandable AF: Issa Rae Tells Teen Vogue Why Insecure Was on Hiatus

4/7/2020 - Locked in the House (Like the Rest of Us)? Here Are Five Ways to Stay Civically Engaged

4/7/2020 - Michigan State Rep. Tested Positive for COVID-19, Says Hydroxychloroquine Helped Save Her Life

4/7/2020 - SNL's Michael Che Loses Grandmother to COVID-19

4/7/2020 - Karen vs. Becky: An Instagram Live Battle Featuring 20 Back-to-Back Hits

4/7/2020 - I Don't Want to Die Poor: In His Newest Book, Michael Arceneaux Articulates the Angst of a Generation

4/7/2020 - Teddy Riley Explains Why His Instagram Battle With Babyface Was Postponed

4/7/2020 - Earl G. Graves Sr., Black Enterprise Founder, Dies at 85

4/7/2020 - An Exclusive Interview With Netflix's Tiger Queen

4/6/2020 - Jay-Z and Meek Mill's Reform Alliance to Send 100,000 Masks to Prisons

4/6/2020 - Trump Keeps Promoting Unproven Coronavirus Cure Despite Actual Doctors Saying He Shouldn’t

4/6/2020 - Tyler Perry Presents a $21,000 Tip to Out-of-Work Restaurant Servers in Atlanta

4/6/2020 - Black Men Kicked Out of Walmart for Wearing Masks During Pandemic

4/6/2020 - H.E.R. Announces Weekly Instagram Live Series Girls With Guitars

4/6/2020 - Growing Number of Minority and Low-Income Students May Miss Out on Online Learning After Coronavirus Closures

4/6/2020 - 9 Reasons The T-Pain Versus Lil Jon 'Verzuz' Battle Was the Saturday Night Show We Didn't Even Know We Needed

4/6/2020 - NFL Hall of Famer Bobby Mitchell Dies at 84

4/6/2020 - The Difference Between a 'Karen' and a 'Becky,' Explained

4/6/2020 - Coronavirus Is Exposing America's Separate but Unequal Healthcare System. But Will It Change It?

4/6/2020 - Naughty by Nature Teams Up With Rita Wilson for 'Hip Hop Hooray' Remix

4/6/2020 - Who All Gon' Be There? With Social Distancing a Thing Now, the NFL Draft Might Be the Next Big Virtual Party

4/6/2020 - Bubble Guppies, Explained

4/6/2020 - The 1st Rikers Island Detainee to Die From Coronavirus Complications Was Jailed for Parole Violation

4/6/2020 - Celebrities Are Embracing Their Natural Hair—and You Should, Too

4/6/2020 - No Filter With Naomi: Making the Most of the Moment, Naomi Campbell's YouTube Channel Launches a Daily Series

4/6/2020 - Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Decides This Is a Good Time to Reopen Beaches. Local Officials Disagree

4/6/2020 - Oprah Donates $10 Million for Coronavirus Relief, With $1 Million Going to America's Food Fund

4/6/2020 - The Roots Announce Live Performances, Behind-the-Scenes Stories to Deliver Us All From Cabin Fever

4/6/2020 - The Last O.G. First Look: Tracy Morgan Knows Finding an NYC Apartment 'Is Harder Than Finding a Puerto Rican in a Woody Allen Movie'

4/6/2020 - Stevie Wonder and Bill Withers Planned on Collaborating Before Withers' Death

4/5/2020 - Blacks and Latinos Affected Most by Job Losses During the Coronavirus Pandemic

4/5/2020 - Mississippi State Football Player Announces He's Transferring Days After Coach Posts Tweet With a Noose

4/5/2020 - Detroit Bus Driver Who Complained About a Woman Coughing on His Bus Has Died of COVID-19

4/4/2020 - Hold Your Popcorn: Candyman Postponed Until September

4/4/2020 - Kobe Bryant Gets His Roses, Is Elected to Basketball Hall of Fame

4/4/2020 - Report: Black People Are Contracting and Dying of Coronavirus at Higher Rates

4/3/2020 - You Have a Lot of Time on Your Hands. Why Not Play a JRPG?

4/3/2020 - Trailer Roundup: Chance the Rapper Is Grabbing the Punk'd Baton and Nick Cannon Is Finally Dropping the Dr. Sebi Doc

4/3/2020 - Melted My Little Pony Tekashi69 Gets Early Release Due to Coronavirus Concerns

4/3/2020 - Two Dollars and a Dream: Stanley Nelson's 1st Documentary Separates the Fact From the Fiction of Self Made

4/3/2020 - A Navy Captain Wrote a Letter Begging for Help With the Coronavirus Onboard His Ship. He Was Removed From Duty

4/3/2020 - Simone Biles Publicly Addresses Olympics Postponement: It 'Takes a Toll on Your Mind'

4/3/2020 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Coronavirus Is Racism

4/3/2020 - Home Theater: One of the Most Anticipated Plays of the Chicago Theatrical Season Premieres Online

4/3/2020 - Trump Campaign to Jeff Sessions: Stop Trying to Act Like We’re Still Gang Gang

4/3/2020 - Ain't No Sunshine: Bill Withers Dead at 81

4/3/2020 - The 'Forgotten Population': Yusef Salaam Speaks Out About COVID-19 and the Prison Industrial Complex

4/3/2020 - Let's Argue! Teddy Riley Versus Babyface Is Happening. Here Are the 20 Songs I'd Choose for Each

4/3/2020 - Marsha Ambrosius Reminded Everyone She Sang the Ad-Libs in 'Cry Me a River,' Not Justin Timberlake

4/3/2020 - I'm Not Crying, You're Crying: Frank Ocean Returns With Two New Singles Guaranteed to Put You in Your Feelings

4/3/2020 - Leaked Memo Shows Amazon Exec Using Racist Talking Points to Smear Fired Warehouse Worker: 'He's Not Smart or Articulate'

4/3/2020 - Jared Kushner Is a Goddamn Idiot

4/3/2020 - Black People Represent Majority of Coronavirus Cases, Deaths in Michigan

4/3/2020 - Omar Comin', So #StayAtHomeBoxOffice: You Can Now Watch All 5 Seasons of The Wire for Free

4/3/2020 - 8 of the 10 Worst Coronavirus Hot Spots Are in the South. Apparently, Republican Governors Just Found Out About the Pandemic

4/2/2020 - Restrictions on Gay Men Donating Blood Eased by FDA

4/2/2020 - Cops in 4 of NJ's Blackest Cities Are Now Conducting Coronavirus Traffic Stops

4/2/2020 - Bay Area Bans Reusable Shopping Bags Amid Coronavirus Pandemic. Yes, You Read That Right

4/2/2020 - Federal Appeals Court Allows Block on Florida Law That Makes Voting Harder for Ex-Felons

4/2/2020 - Because Indoors Doesn't Mean Invisible: Angelica Ross and Friends Give Us the #BrushItOffChallenge

4/2/2020 - Georgia Mayor Lifts Social Distancing Order After Residents Pull the Most Selfish ‘Let Me Speak to Your Manager’ Ever

4/2/2020 - Trump-Supporting Piece of Shit Robert Kraft Does the Least He Can Do

4/2/2020 - New England Patriots Owner Robert Kraft Brings Over 1 Million COVID-19 Masks From China on Team Plane

4/2/2020 - Fake Cops Pulling People Over in Colorado to Enforce Stay-at-Home Order

4/2/2020 - Netflix's Uncorked Reminded Me of a Fun Story About Unconventional Support From My Father

4/2/2020 - Black People Can’t Have Online Conferences Without Facing Racism Thanks to ‘Zoombombing’

4/2/2020 - As Coronavirus Spreads in Nation's Jails, Inmates Sue Correctional Systems for Soap and Paper Towels

4/2/2020 - 'It Was Everything': Viola Davis' Favorite HTGAWM Memory? That Old-School Hair Moment With Cicely Tyson

4/2/2020 - Wait, Who Wants to Hurt Dr. Fauci? America’s Only Hope for Coronavirus Honesty Forced to Beef Up Security

4/2/2020 - Wigging Out: How Ari Lennox, Snoop and an Unsolicited Opinion Became an Affirmative Moment

4/2/2020 - Down for the Cause: Here Are Some Celebrities Who Have Donated to COVID-19 Relief Efforts

4/2/2020 - Negro Noir: I Watched Tyler Perry's Ruthless and My Confusion Is at Its 'Highest'

4/2/2020 - Legendary Jazz Pianist Ellis Marsalis Jr. Dead at 85

4/2/2020 - Baltimore Just Approved the Use of Privately Funded Surveillance Planes. This Will Not End Well

4/2/2020 - The Coronavirus Killed My Friend. His Blood Is on Donald Trump's Hands

4/2/2020 - Auntie Maxine Is Not Here for the President or His Coronavirus Congratulations

4/2/2020 - You Wanna See a Dead Body? Scott Storch Destroys Mannie Fresh in Epic Instagram Live Battle

4/2/2020 - Memphis NAACP Wants Expedited Inquiry Into Black Woman’s Arrest

4/2/2020 - Andrew Cuomo Is Trash

4/2/2020 - Her Gloves Fit: O.J. Simpson Believes Tiger King Star Killed Her Husband

4/2/2020 - Kanye West's High School Artwork Appraised on 'Antiques Roadshow'

4/1/2020 - The Hate U Give Author Angie Thomas Is About to Hit Us With a New Novel, Concrete Rose

4/1/2020 - For the Love of God: Rev. Al Sharpton Urges Religious Leaders to Take Easter and Holy Week Services Offline

4/1/2020 - It's Official: NFL Expands Postseason to Include Pretty Much Everyone but the Bengals

4/1/2020 - SheaMoisture Just Announced a $1 Million Fund to Support Women of Color Entrepreneurs Affected by the COVID-19 Crisis

4/1/2020 - Wimbledon Tennis Tournament Canceled for 1st Time Since World War II Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

4/1/2020 - Make Money, Don't Let It Make You—Plus, Check Out What's New and Black on Netflix in April 2020

4/1/2020 - Trump Won’t Open Obamacare Enrollment in a Pandemic Because He Hates Obama That Much

4/1/2020 - Please Say 'Sike'

4/1/2020 - 10 People I Hate the Most on Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness, Ranked

4/1/2020 - Beth Got Bars: This Is Us' Susan Kelechi Watson Drops Instagram Rap Verse About COVID-19

4/1/2020 - In What Has To Be the Dumbest April Fools' Day Prank in Recent Memory, Public Enemy Admits Their Breakup Was a Hoax

4/1/2020 - T.C. Carlson Reveals He Was Fired From Living Single, Says He Served as Spokesperson When Cast Felt Disrespected

4/1/2020 - Obama Is Getting Tired of Trump’s Cheetos-Dusted Fingers Staining His Legacy

4/1/2020 - 10 Things Everyone Loves but I Pretty Much Hate

4/1/2020 - Kobe Bryant’s ‘Mamba Out’ Towel Just Sold for Over $30,000

4/1/2020 - A Death Sentence: As Jails Struggle to Stem Coronavirus Outbreaks, Delays Could Spell Disaster

4/1/2020 - The President Finally Got the Seriousness of Coronavirus After Seeing New York Morgue Truck on TV

4/1/2020 - Lizzo Treats Workers in Several Hospitals to Lunch

4/1/2020 - Michael Jackson Is Somehow Linked to Tiger King and It's a Reptilian Thriller

4/1/2020 - In The Scheme, a Basketball Mastermind Provides the Perfect Playbook to the NCAA's Biggest Scandal

4/1/2020 - The 2020 Census Is Critical for Black People. Here's Why We Need to 'Make Black Count'

4/1/2020 - Samuel L. Jackson's Spirited Reading of 'Stay The F**k' At Home' Should Brighten Your Day

4/1/2020 - Can Coronavirus Cure White Supremacy?