8/31/2020 - 'We Set the Tone': Bubba Wallace Defends NASCAR's Decision Not Postpone Races in Protest of Police Violence

8/31/2020 - 'More Is More': Vogue Italia Raises the Bar on Inclusion With 100 September Covers

8/31/2020 - Ayo Edebiri Is Now the Voice of Missy in Big Mouth

8/31/2020 - Police Union Criticizes NHL Team for Opposing Racism

8/31/2020 - Always Hope That You Remember…If You Don’t Know Shit About Sade, Shut Up

8/31/2020 - Seattle Seahawks’ Pete Carroll Calls on Other Head Coaches, White People to Tackle Systemic Racism: ‘This Is a White People’s Issue’

8/31/2020 - Portland, Ore. Police Investigating White Suspect in Caucasian-Involved Shooting Death at Trump Rally

8/31/2020 - It's Been 30 Years Since Mariah Carey's 1st Album Debuted and She's Earned Over $60 Million in Royalties for 1 Song

8/31/2020 - ‘He Can Say It to Me, But I Can’t Say It to Him?’: White South Carolina Officer Suspended After Repeatedly Using N-Word

8/31/2020 - Herman Cain Tweets the Coronavirus Is Not That Deadly, Weeks After Dying From the Disease Caused by the Coronavirus

8/31/2020 - Chadwick Boseman Forever

8/31/2020 - Lafayette, La., Where Police Recently Shot and Killed a Black Man, Says It Will Not Shelter Hurricane Evacuees Because of ‘Outside Agitators’

8/31/2020 - It's Fine to Just Cry, Too

8/31/2020 - Trump Calls Armed American Terrorists Who Stormed Portland ‘Great Patriots,’ Completely Ignores Their Violent Actions

8/31/2020 - Is It Fine When It's a Fave? Adele's Bantu Knots Reveal the Subjectivity of the Appropriation vs. Appreciation Debate

8/31/2020 - ‘My Environment Has Been Harmed by This African Black Person’: El Segundo Karen’s Racist Rant Recorded

8/31/2020 - Family of Layleen Polanco Reaches History-Making $5.9 Million Settlement Over Solitary Confinement Death

8/31/2020 - The 2020 VMAs Were Virtual and It Was Like MTV Started Playing Music Videos Again

8/31/2020 - ‘Larger Than Life’ Georgetown Basketball Coach John Thompson Dead at 78

8/30/2020 - Arkansas County Sheriff Recorded Ranting at Woman for Talking to a Black Person, Resigns After Outcry

8/30/2020 - White Man in Alaska Demonically Screams in the Face of Walmart Worker, 'You Have No Authority Over Me'

8/30/2020 - Man Shot and Killed in Portland, Ore., Protests After Caravan of Trump Supporters Travel There to Rally

8/29/2020 - Obama Advised NBA Players to Push for Social Justice Initiatives and Get Back in The Game

8/29/2020 - Ole Miss Football Players Walk out of Practice, Protest Police Brutality in Front of Confederate Statue

8/29/2020 - Chadwick Boseman, the Black Panther, Has Died at 43

8/28/2020 - Civil Rights Activist Marsha P. Johnson to be the First Transgender Person Given a Monument in America

8/28/2020 - Fake Black Accounts That Spammed Pro-Trump Tweets Removed by Twitter

8/28/2020 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: The More Things Change

8/28/2020 - Top Kenosha Police, Prosecutor Under Increased Scrutiny in Wake of Jacob Blake, Protest Shootings: ‘Some People...Aren’t Worth Saving’

8/28/2020 - Trailer Roundup: What Is The Forty-Year-Old Version of Noughts & Crosses?

8/28/2020 - NBA, NBPA Announce Social Justice Initiatives; NBA Playoffs to Resume on Saturday

8/28/2020 - GQ's September Issue Features the 'Godmother of the Movement,' Trans Activist Ceyenne Doroshow

8/28/2020 - Twitter Sets Former NFL Star Brian Urlacher Straight After He Comes for Jacob Blake

8/28/2020 - VAN JONES IS AARON BURR!

8/28/2020 - We're Sensing a Pattern Here: Tracee Ellis Ross, Kerry Washington and More Center Black Hair This September

8/28/2020 - Earn Our Votes: The Black National Convention Aims to Set an Agenda That Both Political Parties Must Address

8/28/2020 - Day 4: Satan Slept, and What We’ve Learned Now That the Republican National Convention Has Ended

8/28/2020 - The Root Jams Weekly (8/28/2020): 'Walkout'

8/28/2020 - Turning Pain Into Policy: Kamala Harris, Ben Crump Explain Why Police Reform Starts With Economic Justice

8/28/2020 - Chinonye Chukwu Is Directing a Film About Mamie Till Mobley's Relentless Pursuit of Justice Following Emmett Till's Brutal Murder

8/28/2020 - Livestream: Watch the March on Washington: 'Get Your Knee Off Our Necks'

8/28/2020 - Lake Charles Voted to Keep a Confederate Monument Up. Hurricane Laura Had Other Plans

8/28/2020 - Mets, Marlins Walk Off the Field After Honoring Jackie Robinson With 42-Second Moment of Silence

8/28/2020 - Jacob Blake Is No Longer Handcuffed to His Hospital Bed, Attorney Says [Updated]

8/28/2020 - Ledisi Has a Few Sonic Tricks Up Her Sleeve for Latest Album, The Wild Card

8/28/2020 - The Big Bounce Back: Hurricane Katrina Devastated Black New Orleans, but Bounce Music Helped Revive the City

8/28/2020 - I Took My Kids to Visit Theodore Roosevelt Island Outside of Washington, D.C. I Had No Idea It Was a Former Plantation

8/28/2020 - First Look Clip: Ava DuVernay Reveals to Oprah What She Felt Right After Kamala Harris Was Announced as VP Candidate

8/27/2020 - Building at Troy University Formerly Named for KKK Leader Renamed After John Lewis

8/27/2020 - Missouri Lawmakers Advance Bill Allowing Adults to Give Children Guns Without Parental Consent

8/27/2020 - R. Kelly Attacked by Fellow Chicago Prisoner, per Attorney

8/27/2020 - Black Staff Member at Iowa State Victim of Racist Vandalism

8/27/2020 - Los Angeles Teacher Forced to Flee Home After Wypipo Lost It Over Her 'I Can't Breathe' T-Shirt

8/27/2020 - Marches, Movies and Megan Thee Stallion: Virtual Events to Keep You Busy This Weekend

8/27/2020 - Dawn of a New Day? Bon Appétit Names Dawn Davis, Award-Winning Publishing Exec, to Helm Magazine

8/27/2020 - 'Trust, Consistency, and Accountability' : Darnell Moore, David Johns, and Steven Pargett Discuss Black Liberation, Movement Work, and Love at The Root Institute

8/27/2020 - 'Let's Just Start A Dialogue': Actor Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Director Julius Onah Get the Conversation Going About Social Justice

8/27/2020 - 'Our Activism Has to Have Legs': Brittany Packnett Cunningham, Monique Judge and Chloë Cheyenne Say That Movement Building Must Go Beyond Social Media

8/27/2020 - With New Shows Coming and a Big Announcement from Joe Budden, It's Quite the Day for Black Podcasts

8/27/2020 - After Bringing the Sports World to a Standstill, NBA Players Agree to Resume Playoffs

8/27/2020 - With a Major Statement for Black Lives and Dual Covers, Naomi Osaka Comes Into Her Own, Off-Court

8/27/2020 - So Maybe It's Time to Defund Sports, Too

8/27/2020 - Jermaine Dupri, Bakari Sellers Strive to Engage Black Male Voters With Shop Talk

8/27/2020 - Trump Wants Biden to Take Drug Test Before First Debate

8/27/2020 - September's NYFW Announces Its Virtual Schedule—Which Will Kick Off With Harlem's Fashion Row

8/27/2020 - Kenosha Police Release Incomplete Report of Jacob Blake Shooting, Claims He Had a Knife in the Car; FBI to Investigate

8/27/2020 - OWN Announces Straight-to-Series Order for Delilah, From the Creator of Greenleaf

8/27/2020 - Darnell Moore, David Johns and Steven Pargett Examine Black Men, Allyship and the State of Our Communities at The Root Institute

8/27/2020 - Before Magic Mike, There Was 'Sparkling Shemar' on Soul Train

8/27/2020 - Without Riot Gear Clad-Police and Armed Militias, 4th Night of Kenosha Protests Is Peaceful

8/27/2020 - Brittany Packnett Cunningham, Monique Judge and Chloë Cheyenne Unpack Movement Work in Social Media at The Root Institute

8/27/2020 - Because Police Refuse to Stop Shooting Unarmed Black People, We Now Live In a World Without Professional Sports

8/27/2020 - Media and Law Enforcement Response to White Vigilante Shooter Proves There Are Two Americas

8/27/2020 - ABFF Founders Jeff and Nicole Friday Launch Social Justice Now Film Festival, Michael B. Jordan and BLM's Opal Tometi Named Co-Ambassadors

8/27/2020 - Day 3 of the How to Make White Friends and Ignore Black Death Conference, aka the Republican National Convention

8/27/2020 - Director Julius Onah and Actor Kelvin Harrison Jr. Talk Race and Aggressions—Both Micro and Macro—in Their Film Luce

8/27/2020 - At Age 73, I Feel Younger and Bolder Because of the Movement for Black Lives

8/27/2020 - Jharrel Jerome, Janet Mock and Yara Shahidi Among Next Round of Casting for Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me HBO Adaptation

8/26/2020 - Pennsylvania Governor Wants to Legalize Marijuana to Help With COVID-19 Recovery Effort

8/26/2020 - This Is Patriotism

8/26/2020 - You Can Count on One Hand the Number of Days the U.S. Has Gone Without a Police Killing Since George Floyd Died

8/26/2020 - Black Child Slapped, Called Racial Slur By White Woman in Florida

8/26/2020 - How This Week's March on Washington Has Adjusted Its Political and Social Justice Goals to the Coronavirus

8/26/2020 - March for Breonna Taylor Resulted in Over 60 Protesters Arrested

8/26/2020 - Politicos Want Biden Out of the Basement. Stay Your Ass Right There, Joe

8/26/2020 - Idris Elba's Fight School Docuseries Aims to Teach More Than Just Boxing

8/26/2020 - Milwaukee Bucks Won't Let America Look Away, Refuse to Play Game 5 to Keep Focus on Police Shooting of Jacob Blake [Update: NBA Postpones Today's Playoff Games]

8/26/2020 - I Ain't One to Gossip, but Word on the Street Is That the Celtics and Raptors Might Boycott Their Game on Thursday

8/26/2020 - When a Black Man Yearns to be the Worst White Man

8/26/2020 - Interracial Couple’s Home Receives Higher Appraisal After Removing All Signs of Blackness From the House—Including the Wife

8/26/2020 - Gabrielle Union Noticed Isis Was a 'Bad Stereotype' in the Original Script for Bring It On—So She Made Changes

8/26/2020 - Detroit Lions Cancel Practice to Protest the Police Shooting of Jacob Blake: 'Football Isn’t Important Today'

8/26/2020 - Netflix and Chill at a Social Distance: Danielle Brooks, Asante Blackk and Mike Colter to Star in Isolation Anthology Series

8/26/2020 - Batwoman's Javicia Leslie Speaks on the Importance of Representation in the Comic Book Universe

8/26/2020 - Satan’s Starting 5 Took the Stage for Day 2 of the Republican National Convention

8/26/2020 - Paul George Fights Through Depression, Anxiety to Drop 35 Points in Blowout Win

8/26/2020 - Here's the Rundown—Robin Thede Is Winning With Her New Warner TV Overall Deal

8/26/2020 - Angela Davis and Ava DuVernay Discuss America's 'Racial Reckoning' for Vanity Fair Digital Cover Story

8/26/2020 - 17-Year-Old Arrested and Charged With 1st Degree Murder In Shooting Death of 2 During Jacob Blake Protests in Kenosha, Wis. [Updated]

8/26/2020 - Vogue Enlists Black Artists Kerry James Marshall and Jordan Casteel to Paint History-Making September Covers

8/26/2020 - 8 Reasons Why The Five Heartbeats Are the Best Fictional Black Movie Music Group of All Time

8/25/2020 - Shots Fired at Black Activists Marching to DC For MLK Event

8/25/2020 - 'Lawless Revolutionaries': Pennsylvania GOP Denounces District Attorney Over Black Lives Matter Support

8/25/2020 - New Footage Shows Phoenix Police Mocking Muslim Man's Faith as They Kneel on Neck, Killing Him

8/25/2020 - 'This Is Sick and Is a Real Problem': NBA, NFL Players Speak Out After Jacob Blake Shooting

8/25/2020 - Black Family Who Had Phoenix Cop Pull Gun on Them Over 'Stolen Doll' to Receive $475K From the City

8/25/2020 - Nashville Police Break Into Black Woman’s Home During Botched Raid at Wrong Apartment (Sound Familiar?)

8/25/2020 - The Movement Will Be Intersectional: Tarana Burke on Inclusion, Integrity and the Evolution of Me Too

8/25/2020 - Beyond the Buzz: Vernā Myers and Reggie Van Lee Chat Diversity and Inclusion at The Root Institute

8/25/2020 - Conversations Are Being Had to Dust Off Aaliyah's Catalog and Try Again to Make It Available for Streaming

8/25/2020 - A Black Professor Asked by Police to Prove She Belonged on Campus Talks About the ‘Surreal’ Experience of Racism in Higher Ed Spaces

8/25/2020 - Kentucky Attorney General Denies Breonna Taylor Announcement Is Forthcoming: ‘The Investigation Remains Ongoing’

8/25/2020 - Usain Bolt Can Outrun Everything but the Coronavirus

8/25/2020 - We’ve Got to Talk About This Jerry Falwell Jr. Cuckold Mess

8/25/2020 - Abolish All These Damn Zoom Work Calls So I Can Be Naked While Working at Home Again

8/25/2020 - Toronto International Film Festival Taps Denzel Washington, Ava DuVernay and Barry Jenkins for Virtual Conversations

8/25/2020 - Black Virginia Vice Mayor Facing Criminal Charges for Calling for the Firing of the Police Chief

8/25/2020 - Glamour's September Cover Story Focuses on the Stigmas Surrounding Black Hair in the Workplace

8/25/2020 - Los Angeles City Council Announces Street Will Be Renamed Kobe Bryant Boulevard: 'He Is the City'

8/25/2020 - Tune In: Queen Latifah to Host Change Together: From the March on Washington to Today on Facebook Watch

8/25/2020 - Everybody Wants a Diversity and Inclusion Officer, but How Can They Reshape the Face of Corporate America?

8/25/2020 - Was Donald Trump Jr. on Cocaine? And Other Questions From the First Day of the Republican National Convention

8/25/2020 - Black Is King Director Blitz Bazawule to Direct The Color Purple Musical Film

8/25/2020 - LeBron James, Cardi B, Michael B. Jordan and Others Express Outrage Over Shooting of Jacob Blake

8/25/2020 - Protests, Chaos in Kenosha Following Police Shooting of Jacob Blake; Father Says Blake Is Paralyzed From Waist Down

8/25/2020 - The Safe Negro Travel Guide to Lovecraft Country: 'Whitey's on the Moon'

8/25/2020 - More Than a Hashtag: Tarana Burke Joins The Root Institute to Talk Movement Building, Me Too and Maintaining Momentum Amid COVID-19

8/24/2020 - 'Black Lives Matter' Poster in Georgia Classroom Gets White Parents Big Mad

8/24/2020 - After Jay-Z's Billboard is Rejected, Milwaukee Council Members Call Out Advertising Company

8/24/2020 - Trump Might Not Know New York Attorney General Letitia James, But He’s Gonna Learn Tuhday

8/24/2020 - Candace Owens Snubbed by RNC Because She Has a Crush on Obama or Something Like That

8/24/2020 - ‘I’m With Joe’: Punch-a-Nazi Poster Child Richard Spencer Tweets His Endorsement of Joe Biden

8/24/2020 - You Can Watch These Films for Free During the 'Black Stories Matter' Series From AFI and Universal

8/24/2020 - Exclusive: Photos of the Los Angeles Clippers Guarding Luka Doncic During Sunday's Overtime Thriller

8/24/2020 - Computer Curtain Call: Yes, the 2020 Tony Awards Are Going Virtual

8/24/2020 - NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell Sheds White Tears for Colin Kaepernick: 'I Wish We Had Listened Earlier'

8/24/2020 - 'A Beautiful Life': Vanity Fair Unveils Breonna Taylor Cover for Justice-Themed September Issue

8/24/2020 - Hot 97 Employee Pasquale 'Paddy Duke' Raucci Fired for Involvment in Shooting Death of Yusuf Hawkins

8/24/2020 - 'We Still Live in Katrina': This New Orleans Resident Lived in Life-Threatening Conditions Before the Storm

8/24/2020 - Kellyanne Conway Is Leaving Trump Administration to Keep Daughter From Posting Family Business on Social Media

8/24/2020 - Portland 'Back the Blue' Rally Erupts in Violence. Police Stand and Watch Because Fights Involved 'Willing Participants'

8/24/2020 - Who Invited Luka Doncic to the Cookout?

8/24/2020 - Wisconsin Officers Shoot Black Man Multiple Times in the Back; Curfew Imposed as Police Clash With Protesters

8/24/2020 - Are You Static Shocked at What Went Down at DC FanDome 2020?

8/24/2020 - Day 1 of Satan’s Workshop, aka the Republican National Convention: It’s All About the Trumps

8/24/2020 - Lauryn Hill Performs 20-Minute Set in Louis Vuitton's Latest Ad

8/23/2020 - Organizers Behind BreonnaCon Respond to Online Criticism, Say Breonna Taylor's Family Was Integral to Its Creation

8/23/2020 - Maryanne Trump Barry Describes Her Brother As the Cheating Cretin He Is in Secret Recording

8/23/2020 - This Is Not A Drill: Brandy and Monica Confirmed for Next Verzuz

8/22/2020 - Tennessee Passes Law That Would Punish Protestors By Taking Away Their Right to Vote

8/22/2020 - Trump Bragged About Low Black Voter Turnout, Disparaged John Lewis in Meeting With Black 'Leaders' in 2017

8/22/2020 - Pharrell and Jay-Z Release Music Video for New Song 'Entrepreneur,' Featuring Some Familiar Faces and Shade to Black Twitter

8/21/2020 - New York Civil Liberties Union Releases More Than 323,000 Allegations of Misconduct Filed Against the NYPD

8/21/2020 - Missouri Newspaper Criticized for Racist Martin Luther King Jr. 'I Have a Dream' Caricature Cartoon

8/21/2020 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Fire and Light

8/21/2020 - Texas Department of Public Safety Spent Hundreds of Hours Investigating, Finding and Arresting Black Lives Matter Protesters

8/21/2020 - Trailer Roundup: It's Time to Unpack Black Love

8/21/2020 - Auntie Unfiltered: On Generational Trauma and Healing

8/21/2020 - Postmaster General Imitates the ‘This Is Fine’ Meme During Senate Hearing

8/21/2020 - Tune-In: The AAFCA TV Honors Are Going Virtual in 2020 and Janet Mock Has Been Named Creative of the Year

8/21/2020 - Jalen Rose, New York Post Unveil Multiplatform Partnership, The Renaissance Man

8/21/2020 - Fate Continues to Laugh In the Face of the New York Knicks After Minnesota Timberwolves Win No. 1 Pick In NBA Draft

8/21/2020 - 'These Intergenerational Wounds Continue': How Trauma From Hurricane Katrina and COVID-19 Are Affecting Black New Orleanians

8/21/2020 - It's Official: Joe Biden Has His Night, The Chicks are Aight, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus Had Twitter Tight

8/21/2020 - Exclusive: You're Officially Invited to the DC FanDome Blerd & Boujee Afterparty With DJ D-Nice On the 1s and 2s

8/21/2020 - Tika Sumpter and Thai Randolph's Sugaberry to Celebrate Black Breastfeeding Week With the Milk & Suga Summit

8/21/2020 - Terry Crews Twitter Wants to Speak to the Manager After Kansas City Chiefs Ban Headdresses, Face Paint

8/21/2020 - Young Black Gamers Get a Pathway Into the Industry Through the ESA Foundation

8/21/2020 - Megan Thee Stallion Names Tory Lanez as Her Shooter, Says She Tried to Protect Him Because 'Police Are Killing Black People for No Reason'

8/21/2020 - 20 Years of Bringing It: What Bring It On Did for the Culture and the Conversation Around Cultural Theft

8/20/2020 - Georgia Cop Put on Administrative Leave After Tasing Black Woman on Her Own Front Porch

8/20/2020 - Chicago Public Schools Significantly Cuts Budget for School Resource Officers

8/20/2020 - Study Shows Police Killings Haven't Slowed Despite There Being A Whole-Ass Pandemic

8/20/2020 - 'Those Not Real People': Master P Pushes New Food Brand Aimed at Replacing Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben

8/20/2020 - The Health of Our Communities Begins With Black Women: Planned Parenthood’s Alexis McGill Johnson, Dr. Joia Crear-Perry, and EHE Health's Joy Altimare Join The Root Institute

8/20/2020 - 9 Years a Slave: Black Combat Veteran Freed After Being Legally Enslaved Over $30 Worth of Weed

8/20/2020 - New York City Is Dead, Because I Killed It When I Left and Went Back Home to Pittsburgh: An Essay About Murder

8/20/2020 - Judge Rejects Trump’s Challenge to Subpoena, Tells President to Show Manhattan DA What Those Taxes Do

8/20/2020 - ‘You Black Hanging Out With White Kids’: Arizona Drive-Thru Karen Recorded During Racist Rant

8/20/2020 - NBA Twitter Destroys Paul Pierce After He Spews More Foolishness About LeBron James

8/20/2020 - The Academy Launches New Series to Discuss Race and Gender Equity in Filmmaking

8/20/2020 - Feeling Stuck on Weekend Ideas? Here Are Some Options to Keep You Occupied

8/20/2020 - A Line-By-Line(s) Breakdown of Alleged Foolywang Jam, Donnell Jones' 'Where I Wanna Be'

8/20/2020 - First Look Clip: Janelle Monáe Breaks Down White People's Fear Masked as Anger in Antebellum

8/20/2020 - Family Launches GoFundMe to Assist Star Trek Icon Nichelle Nichols, Who Allegedly Suffered Elder Abuse [Updated]

8/20/2020 - #Flint: Michigan Expected to Pay $600 Million to Victims of Yearslong Water Crisis

8/20/2020 - Democratic National Convention, Day 3: Kamala’s Big Night, and Wait, There’s Still One More Evening to Go?

8/20/2020 - Feds Indict Steve Bannon for Finessing Racists, and I Don’t Know How to Feel

8/20/2020 - Pharrell Williams Curates TIME's Latest Cover Project, Featuring Conversations Between Leaders of 'The New American Revolution'

8/20/2020 - It's Time to Have a Crucial Conversation About Our Communal Health With Planned Parenthood’s Alexis McGill Johnson, EHE Health's Joy Altimare and Dr. Joia Crear-Perry

8/20/2020 - Charlotte Hornets Announcer Suspended Indefinitely After Tweeting N-Word (With the Hard 'R')

8/20/2020 - Megan Thee Stallion Posted Photographic Proof of Her Gunshot Wound, Which She Shouldn’t Have Had to Do

8/20/2020 - Georgia School Teachers Drop Fire Back-To-School Music Videos, Making Us Wish We Were Still in School

8/20/2020 - About Damn Time! Michael Smith Makes His Triumphant Return to Television With New Sports Talk Show Brother From Another

8/20/2020 - The Safe Negro Guide to Lovecraft Country: 'Sundown'

8/20/2020 - The Complete Guide to Defeating Voter Suppression

8/19/2020 - Arkansas Governor and Lawmakers Unveil Proposed Hate Crime Legislation

8/19/2020 - Social Justice Organization Until Freedom to Hold Four Day 'BreonnaCon' In Honor of Breonna Taylor

8/19/2020 - Lawyers Believe New Video Proves Caine Rogers Wasn't a Threat to Atlanta Officer During 2016 Shooting

8/19/2020 - White House Chief of Staff Claims Trump Is the Only President to Take Out a Terrorist. Osama Bin Laden's Ghost Says That's a Lie

8/19/2020 - Me Too and Essence to Host the Black Women and Girls Survivor Town Hall Featuring Tarana Burke and Angelica Ross

8/19/2020 - Virginia Committee Approves Sweeping Police Reform Bill as the State Considers Reducing Penalty for Assaulting Police

8/19/2020 - Breonna Taylor Billboard Defaced With Red Paint Over Her Forehead Resembling Bullet Wound

8/19/2020 - Trump Calls for Boycott of Goodyear Tires After Claim That Company Banned MAGA Attire

8/19/2020 - Rainbow Was Relegated to 'Lady Chores' on Black-ish, but Tracee Ellis Ross Wasn't Havin' That Ish

8/19/2020 - Former Washington Running Back Derrius Guice Accused of Raping Two Women

8/19/2020 - Abolish Gutless White Journalists Saying 'America' When They Clearly Mean 'White America'

8/19/2020 - When Molly Met 'Vonne-y: Yvonne Orji Has Hilarious Sit-Down Interview With Her Insecure Character

8/19/2020 - Rihanna, Domestic Goddess? Rih Is Rumored to Be Dropping Housewares, but Her Navy Is Sending an SOS for R9

8/19/2020 - Men Lie, Women Lie, Cops Don't—Unless We're Talking About the Cop Who Lied on Raptors Exec Masai Ujiri

8/19/2020 - Don't Tell Nobody But There's a Surprise 'Black Party' for Kamala Harris, and Guess Who's Gonna DJ?

8/19/2020 - Clinton Could've Stepped, Biden Accepts and Kamala Got Next: Recap of Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention

8/19/2020 - Black Army Vet Called N-Word Several Times at New York 'Back the Blue' Rally and Somehow She’s Surprised

8/19/2020 - Cuba Gooding Jr. Accused of Raping a Woman in 2013

8/19/2020 - Tyler Perry to Receive Governors Award Honor at the 2020 Primetime Emmys

8/19/2020 - With Stick to Sports, Jemele Hill and Cari Champion Refuse to Do Exactly That

8/19/2020 - Issa Rae Is Producing a Film About Tanya Smith, a Black Girl Who Outwitted the FBI and the U.S. Banking System

8/19/2020 - Will Smith and Kevin Hart Set to Star in, Produce Planes, Trains & Automobiles Reboot

8/18/2020 - Black Lives Matter Signs Reportedly Set on Fire in Cleveland

8/18/2020 - Steve Harvey and Kanye West Were Chilling at Chick-Fil-A...and I Just Want to Know What That Is in Harvey's Pocket

8/18/2020 - There Is No Spoon and No Laurence Fishburne in The Matrix 4 Because He Wasn't Invited

8/18/2020 - Black Teenager Who Was Told to Cut His Locs by School Wins Court Ruling

8/18/2020 - Neighbors Who Allegedly Harassed Black Woman in Long Island Now Face Charges

8/18/2020 - Going Hollywood: Meghan and Harry Are Reportedly Pitching a 'Top-Secret' TV or Film Project

8/18/2020 - Watch: Black Republican Reboots The Wire to Explain How Democrats Ruined Baltimore

8/18/2020 - 'We Have Got to Make Sure We Are Flexing, Showing Our Power': Cory Booker Gets Political About Wealth Building in a Crisis at The Root Institute

8/18/2020 - 'We Don't Talk About This at Home': Taraji P. Henson Gets Real About Our Mental Health at The Root Institute

8/18/2020 - Big Beauty Tuesday: Will the Supreme x Pat McGrath Collab Deliver the Most Iconic Red Lipstick Yet?

8/18/2020 - Can the NCAA Survive Financially If March Madness Is Canceled Again? Coach K Doesn't Sound Too Sure

8/18/2020 - First Black Woman to Lead Virginia Senate Faces Felony Charges After Brutal Attack on Inanimate Object

8/18/2020 - Amandla Stenberg Cast in Film Adaptation of Broadway's Dear Evan Hansen

8/18/2020 - The Best Part of Lovecraft Country's Premiere? What Happens to the Racist-est Racists

8/18/2020 - Black Woman Records Racist Rant of White Man Who Led Florida Deputies in High-Speed Chase

8/18/2020 - White Thugs Who Pulled Guns on BLM Protesters to Take Part in GOP Convention

8/18/2020 - Harlem Globetrotter Demands Apology After TV Anchors Throw Banana At Him on Live Television

8/18/2020 - Barack Obama Shares His 2020 Summer Playlist, Further Solidifies That He Loves a Bop

8/18/2020 - Netflix Announces Family Book Series Hosted by Marley Dias; Cast Includes Lupita Nyong'o, Marsai Martin, Tiffany Haddish and Common

8/18/2020 - Essence Answers Sexual Harassment Claims Against Owner Richelieu Dennis With Results of 1st Internal Review

8/18/2020 - Billy Porter Closes Out Night 1 of the Democratic National Convention With 'For What It's Worth'

8/18/2020 - 'It Is What It Is': Michelle Obama Stole the Show, and What to Expect on Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention

8/18/2020 - Donovan Mitchell Drops 57, Luka Doncic Upsets Our Ancestors and Other Takeaways From the 1st Night of the NBA Playoffs

8/18/2020 - Texas Lt. Gov. Won't Remove Confederate Monuments Because Democrats Won't 'Acknowledge' Slavery Was Their Fault

8/18/2020 - Taraji P. Henson Talks Mental Health, While Cory Booker Takes on the Health of Our Finances at The Root Institute

8/18/2020 - Quinn Coleman, Capitol Records Executive, DJ and Son of Debra Lee, Dies at 31

8/18/2020 - It Cost Me $64 to Vote in the Georgia Primary Elections

8/17/2020 - Kentucky Police Union Predictably Mad Over 'Breonna's Law,' a Bill That Would Ban No-Knock Warrants Statewide

8/17/2020 - White Man in Missouri Wanted After Calling Black Woman the N-Word and Shooting Her

8/17/2020 - Diamond and Silk Call Out Fox News' Racism After They Got Fired as 2020 Continues to be Raggedy AF

8/17/2020 - As US Death Toll Hit 1,000 Per Day, New Study Says COVID-19 Has Become Third Leading Cause of Death for Black People

8/17/2020 - Exclusive Interview With the Buffalo That Attacked a White Woman Trying to Colonize a Bison Herd

8/17/2020 - 3 Mississippi Police Officers Charged With Murder in Death of Elderly Black Man

8/17/2020 - Katt Williams Calls Out Trump, Supports Black Lives Matter in New Supreme Ad

8/17/2020 - If an Album Isn't Streaming Online, Does It Really Exist? A Theoretical Discussion

8/17/2020 - Democratic National Convention, Day 1: Watch Our Livestream of Michelle Obama and ’Dem

8/17/2020 - Fresh Off That 'WAP,' Cardi and Megan Dive Into Political Discourse

8/17/2020 - 2 Men Indicted on Murder Charge in Death of Run-D.M.C.'s Jam Master Jay [Updated]

8/17/2020 - Abolish MAGA Parody Hats

8/17/2020 - Washington Football Team Hires First Black Team President In a League That's 60 Percent Black...Hurray!

8/17/2020 - 10 Staffers From Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith's Westbrook Productions Test Positive for COVID-19

8/17/2020 - Kalamazoo, Mich., Officials Apologize for Arrest of Black Reporter Covering Violent White Nationalist Rally

8/17/2020 - Everything We Know About Trump’s Attempts to Cripple the Postal Service and What Democrats Are Doing to Stop It

8/17/2020 - On the 19th Amendment's Centennial, Michelle Obama Urges Us to Honor Women's Work in Securing the Vote

8/17/2020 - The Office's Leslie David Baker Victim of Racist Trolling After Launching 'Uncle Stan' Campaign

8/17/2020 - 100 Percent That Block: Lawsuit Against Lizzo for 'Truth Hurts' Dismissed by California Judge

8/16/2020 - Some Chicago Schools Vote to Kick Cops Out, but the Schools With Mostly Black Students Will Still Keep Them

8/16/2020 - Armed White Supremacists and Counter-Protestors Violently Clash in Michigan and Georgia as Police Standby

8/16/2020 - OWN's Black Love Called Out for The Glaring Absence of Dark-Skinned Black Women in Promo for New Season

8/15/2020 - 'A Tool to Perpetuate Racism and Xenophobia': Newsweek Apologizes for Kamala Harris Birther Op-Ed

8/15/2020 - Documents Reveal That Federal Agency Monitored Black Lives Matter Demonstrations but Ignored White Supremacist Involvement in Violent Protests

8/15/2020 - Georgia State Trooper Arrested on Felony Murder Charges for Fatally Shooting 60-Year-Old Black Man After Traffic Stop

8/14/2020 - Minneapolis Cop Who Was Fired for Racist Christmas Tree Decorations in 2018 Is Reinstated

8/14/2020 - Alabama Public Housing Put Whites in High-Rise Towers. Says Blacks ‘Prefer’ Substandard Garden Units, HUD Report Finds

8/14/2020 - Despite Leaving Town, Bond Not Revoked for Former Officer Who Killed Rayshard Brooks

8/14/2020 - LeBron James, Los Angeles Dodgers to Turn Dodgers Stadium Into a Polling Center for Presidential Election

8/14/2020 - Trailer Roundup: Zola Does Not Have Bad Hair

8/14/2020 - Pennsylvania Judge Hit With 6 Misconduct Counts Over Racist Comments; Called Juror 'Aunt Jemima'

8/14/2020 - Trump’s COVID-19 Task Force Wasted No Time Throwing Georgia and Gov. Brian Kemp Under the Coronavirus Bus

8/14/2020 - The L.O.X.'s Bond Is Tighter Than Ever...and They Still Have a L.O.T. to Say

8/14/2020 - A Forgotten First: Before There Was Kamala, There Was Charlotta Bass

8/14/2020 - 70 Percent of Sports Fans Support Social Justice Stances Made By Players, Teams. That Number Doesn't Tell the Whole Story

8/14/2020 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Children's Stories

8/14/2020 - From 'WAP' to 'DAP' and Beyond: Michelle Obama's Latest Podcast Talks Women's Health, Aging and Menopause

8/14/2020 - Lovecraft Country and the Horror Story of America

8/14/2020 - In the Aftermath of Black Women's Equal Pay Day, Let's Consider How Our Votes Impact Our Paychecks

8/14/2020 - The Root Jams Weekly (8/14/2020): 'Wet Ass Playlist'

8/14/2020 - Kanye West Met With Jared Kushner to Discuss 'Ideas' About Policy and Black Voters

8/14/2020 - A Call to Action to Ensure That Our Community Is Counted

8/14/2020 - Anxiety Is for Girls, Gays, Wimps, and White People

8/14/2020 - Trump’s Pushing His Racist Birther Theory Again, This Time Against Kamala Harris

8/14/2020 - 7 Quick Thoughts About Nas' New Blackness Jam, 'Ultra Black'

8/14/2020 - DJ Screw's Legacy Is Being Celebrated After TikTok Teens Tried Gentrifying His 'Chopped and Screwed' Style

8/14/2020 - Michael Cohen’s New Book Confirms the President’s Love of Golden Showers and Tax Fraud

8/14/2020 - Seahawks Waive Rookie Kemah Siverand for Being Stupid Enough to Try to Sneak Woman Into Team Hotel...During a Pandemic

8/14/2020 - Dolly Parton Talks Black Lives Matter, Says 'Do We Think Our Little White Asses Are the Only Ones That Matter?'

8/14/2020 - NBA Photographer Fired for Posting Offensive Kamala Harris Meme on Facebook

8/14/2020 - Oprah, Angela Bassett, Courtney B. Vance and Phylicia Rashad Among Cast in Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me HBO Adaptation

8/13/2020 - Of the Nearly 1,800 Confederate Symbols on Public Land, 59 Have Been Removed Since George Floyd's Death

8/13/2020 - The State of Black Women in Corporate America: Why Achievement Can't Close the Gender Wage Gap

8/13/2020 - Georgia's First Capital Votes to Remove Former Slave Market From Town's Center

8/13/2020 - 5 Months After Breonna Taylor's Death, Kentucky Attorney General Finally Meets With Her Family

8/13/2020 - K9 Program Suspended in Salt Lake City After Dog Bites Black Man Who Was Complying With Police

8/13/2020 - No Need to Panic But...A Shipment of Chicken Wings Tested Positive for COVID-19

8/13/2020 - Trump Comes After Kamala Harris and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and AOC Claps Back

8/13/2020 - 'How Will Art Sit in Other People's Hearts?': Aloe Blacc, Arisha Hatch and Kierna Mayo Break Down How Art Transforms Our Lives at The Root Institute

8/13/2020 - 'Joy Is at the Forefront of Our Culture': Chloe and Maud Arnold, Phil Augusta Jackson and Michael Harriot Talk Black Joy During Times of Crisis

8/13/2020 - 'There Is Literally No Way to Catch Up': Black Women Speak Candidly on the Cost of Racism, Sexism and Pay Inequity at Pinterest [Updated]

8/13/2020 - Nike Unveils 'Mamba Week' Just In Time for Kobe Bryant's Birthday

8/13/2020 - My Head Is a Part of My Body and My Middle Name Is Makeba

8/13/2020 - Michelle Obama Encourages Voter Registration and Mail-In Voting in New PSA

8/13/2020 - Why In the Hell Is Pacman Jones Burning Jerseys In His Driveway?

8/13/2020 - Chloe and Maud Arnold, Phil Augusta Jackson and Michael Harriot Talk Black Joy at The Root Institute

8/13/2020 - Wu-Tang Is for the Children: RZA Partners With Good Humor to Replace Minstrel-Ass Ice Cream Jingle 'Turkey in the Straw'

8/13/2020 - Jerry Jones Says Cowboys Games Will Be Played in Front of Fans in His Super-Safe Stadium With Its ‘Naturally Built Airflow’

8/13/2020 - There's Another Mahalia Jackson Biopic—This Time Starring Jill Scott, Produced by Queen Latifah and Jamie Foxx

8/13/2020 - Aloe Blacc, Arisha Hatch and Kierna Mayo Discuss The Transformative Nature of Art at The Root Institute

8/13/2020 - Either Herman Cain Is Tweeting From Beyond the Grave or Someone Is Using His Twitter Account to Bash Biden and Harris

8/13/2020 - Hair Piece: Trump Can't Talk About COVID-19 Deaths Because He’s Busy Changing Shower Regulations to Fix His Mane (No, Really.)

8/13/2020 - HBO Max Will Allow Viewers to Watch On the Record for Free for a Limited Time

8/13/2020 - Summer Is Winding Down, but Weekend Events Continue to Heat Up

8/13/2020 - This Black Women's Equal Pay Day, Addressing the Gender Gap Is Essential Work

8/13/2020 - COVID-19 Made Me a One-Issue Voter: Get the Man Responsible for 165,000 American Deaths the Fuck Out

8/13/2020 - The 'Best' Woman: A Thinkpiece About Kamala Harris Thinkpieces

8/12/2020 - Marjorie Taylor Greene, QAnon Supporter and Purveyor of Racism, Wins Georgia GOP Nomination

8/12/2020 - Fani Willis Wins Runoff Election to Become Fulton County's First Female District Attorney

8/12/2020 - Black Girl Sent to Juvenile Facility for Not Doing Her Homework Released From Probation

8/12/2020 - Jodie Turner-Smith Reflects on 'the Sacred Process of Creating a Family' Amid 'Systemic Racism' in New Essay

8/12/2020 - Property Owner Outraged That a Black Lives Matter Billboard Was Put Up Next to His Confederate Flag

8/12/2020 - Why (Some) Men Seem to be So Bothered by Cardi B's 'WAP,' Explained

8/12/2020 - Since We Know You Were Wondering, No, the Sussexes Aren't Still Holed Up at Tyler Perry's House

8/12/2020 - Three Men Connected With R. Kelly Charged With 'Threatening and Intimidating' Female Accusers

8/12/2020 - After the Lakers Get Swept in the 1st Round of the Playoffs, NBA Bubble Will Open Doors for Friends, Family But Bans 'Casual Acquaintances'

8/12/2020 - Roxane Gay's Graphic Novel The Banks to Receive Film Adaptation

8/12/2020 - The Life Lost But Never Forgotten and The Movie I Struggle to Watch Because Of It (Happy Birthday, Tra)

8/12/2020 - ‘Kill Them All’: Colorado Officer Suspended but Not Fired After Violent Posts Aimed at Black Lives Matter Protesters

8/12/2020 - TikTok Trump Impersonator Sarah Cooper Scores Comedy Variety Show at Netflix, Maya Rudolph to Executive Produce

8/12/2020 - Master P Reflects on Becoming His Own 'Master' and Working With Tupac

8/12/2020 - Black Twitter Erupts After Deion Sanders Sells His Soul to Barstool Sports: 'He's Trading His Morals For a Check'

8/12/2020 - Trump Claims Kamala Harris Is ‘Dream Opponent.’ Wait Till She Destroys Sexless Robot Mike Pence

8/12/2020 - After 61-Point Outburst, Damian Lillard Demands NBA 'Put Some Respect on My MF Name!'

8/12/2020 - Standout Actor Raymond Allen, of Sanford and Son, Good Times, Dead at 91

8/12/2020 - Sterling K. Brown Discusses the Power of Black Storytelling in Media: 'Seeing Yourself on Screen Validates Your Life'

8/12/2020 - Family of Elijah McClain Files Lawsuit Alleging ‘Elijah’s Killers Extinguished the Light of a Beautiful Young Man’

8/12/2020 - Rep. Ilhan Omar Beats Well-Funded Challenger Like He Stole Something in Minnesota Democratic Primary

8/12/2020 - Will Smith to Develop The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Drama Reboot Born and Raised From Viral YouTube Trailer

8/12/2020 - Maya Rudolph, Who Portrays Kamala Harris on Saturday Night Live, Responds to Harris' VP Selection: 'That's Spicy'

8/12/2020 - On Loneliness at 3 A.M. in Lagos

8/11/2020 - NFL to Get Rid of Live National Anthem Performances This Season. Could That Affect Protests Too?

8/11/2020 - Committee Considers Removing Name of KKK Leader From Atlanta School

8/11/2020 - Def Jam Teases a New Fighting Game on Twitter

8/11/2020 - Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best Resigning After City Council Approves Cutting Budget and Reducing Workforce

8/11/2020 - Voter Registration Surged During Height of Black Lives Matter Protests, Study Finds

8/11/2020 - Whitest Man on Earth Performs 'WAP' Despite Hating WAP

8/11/2020 - 'Billie Holiday Is Probably One of Our First Civil Rights Leaders': Lee Daniels Discusses His Upcoming Biopic at The Root Institute

8/11/2020 - Joe Biden Picks Sen. Kamala Harris as His Vice President

8/11/2020 - Ava DuVernay Talks to The Root Institute on How She Creates Art that Makes A Difference

8/11/2020 - Big Beauty Tuesday: Is Gabrielle Union's Revamped Flawless Collection the Rehab My Hair Needed?

8/11/2020 - 'They Were My Balm': Tina Knowles Says Beyoncé and Solange Got Her Through the Difficulty of Divorce

8/11/2020 - Racist Karen Calls Police on Black Man for Parking in a Reserved Spot: ‘You’re Stealing From Me’

8/11/2020 - Democrats Pull Out the Heavy Hitters for Virtual National Convention, Including the Obamas, the Clintons and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

8/11/2020 - NBCUniversal's Peacock Announces 2 New and Timely Late Night Shows With Larry Wilmore and Amber Ruffin

8/11/2020 - Black Major League Soccer Players Speak Out in Documentary Protesting Racial Injustice

8/11/2020 - Tessa Thompson on Acting and Activism: 'If There’s a Risk in Speaking Up, It’s Always Felt Worth It'

8/11/2020 - Sorry, Donald Trump, But It's Looking Like College Football Is a Wrap

8/11/2020 - Ava DuVernay Gets Real About How Art Can Shape Perceptions at The Root Institute

8/11/2020 - 'God' Is 'White'

8/11/2020 - Cardi B, Candid as Ever, Discusses New Album, Breonna Taylor and More for Elle Cover Story

8/11/2020 - Washington Running Back Derrius Guice Released After Charged With Strangulation, Assault and Battery of Girlfriend

8/11/2020 - Klan Enthusiast and BLM Hater Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison After Hitting Protesters With His Truck

8/11/2020 - Destiny’s Child Breakup and Other Events Trump Believes Ended Because of the 1918 Spanish Flu

8/11/2020 - Lee Daniels Discusses How He Juxtaposes Art With Activism at The Root Institute

8/11/2020 - Yes, Baby, Yes: Remember That Shelved Controversial Black-ish Episode? It's Now Available on Hulu

8/11/2020 - Beauty Influencer Jackie Aina to Executive Produce and Star in Social Beauty Documentary

8/10/2020 - New Name, Same Free Stuff: Amazon Rebrands Twitch Prime as Prime Gaming

8/10/2020 - Black Veteran Sentenced to Life in Prison Over $30 Marijuana Sale Set to Be Freed

8/10/2020 - Georgia Officers Who Fired on a Car Full of Minors Have Been Put on Leave

8/10/2020 - 100 Black Entertainers and Celebrities Send Letter to Biden Urging Him to Pick Black Woman as VP. Biden Is Going to Mess This Up

8/10/2020 - Michael Brown's Father Honors 6-Year Anniversary of Son's Death by Attending Memorial for Breonna Taylor

8/10/2020 - The Council of Fashion Designers of America Just Named a Black Woman Its New President

8/10/2020 - Social Cinematography: Ava DuVernay to Produce Docuseries Based on 'One Perfect Shot' Twitter Account

8/10/2020 - From Viola Davis to Carole Baskin of Tiger King Fame, Everyone Has Thoughts About Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's 'WAP'

8/10/2020 - Here's Some Songs, Presented Today for No Reason Whatsoever, About PHAD (Presumably Hard-Ass Dicks)

8/10/2020 - Mid-American Conference Postpones Fall Sports; NFL Could Take Over Saturdays If College Football Is Gone

8/10/2020 - L.A. County Sheriff Deputies Aim Guns at Black Teenagers They Were Called to Protect, Ignoring Pleas of Bystanders

8/10/2020 - Play The Healing Game

8/10/2020 - The Apollo Theater Is Holding Online Auditions So I Decided to Shoot My Shot

8/10/2020 - 'It Seemed Coordinated': Widespread Looting in Downtown Chicago Believed to Be an Organized Attack

8/10/2020 - We Need Leaders: The Designers of Public School NY Pay It Forward With a Digital Sale and Gordon Parks-Themed T-Shirt Collection

8/10/2020 - 'You're Not Actually Anti-Racist': Jurnee Smollett Checks the Hypocrisy of Hollywood Liberalism

8/10/2020 - Trump and Anthony Scaramucci Get Into Twitter Spat After the Former White House Employee Says He’s Voting for Biden

8/10/2020 - Replay, Revisit, Reject: Samples, Sangers and Social Justice Are Ruling My Headphones This Week

8/10/2020 - I Regret to Inform You That Mike Tyson's Return to the Ring Has Been Pushed Back to November

8/10/2020 - The 19th Represents: A Female-Focused Summit Hosts a Bevy of Brilliant Women—and a New Role for Meghan Markle

8/10/2020 - Trumpkashi 45 Has to Be Trolling Us With This Mount Rushmore Bullshit

8/10/2020 - 2Chainz Partners With Michelle Obama's When We All Vote Initiative to Encourage Formerly Incarcerated Voters

8/10/2020 - Zoë Kravitz Calls Out Hulu for Its Lack of TV Shows Starring Women of Color Following High Fidelity Cancellation

8/9/2020 - Black Employees Say Veterans Affairs Has a Serious Racism Problem, and the Stories Are Pretty Damning

8/9/2020 - Democrats Call for Investigation into Changes at U.S. Postal Service Amid Latest Organizational Upheaval

8/9/2020 - Calls for Release of Body-Cam Footage After Police in Georgia Shoot At Car of Teens, Younger Children For Alleged Traffic Violation

8/8/2020 - Facebook Removes A Bunch of Accounts From Romania Posing As African-Americans Supporting Trump

8/8/2020 - Amber Guyger Files Appeal Against Murder Conviction, Arguing That Killing Botham Jean Was Reasonable Self-Defense

8/8/2020 - Deion Sanders Blasts Athletes Who Are Opting-Out of Playing This Year Because of COVID-19: 'The Game Will Go On Without You'

8/8/2020 - Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield Feature in Electrifying New Trailer for Film About Fred Hampton's Assassination

8/7/2020 - Michigan Public Official Facing Calls to Resign After Saying N-Word During a Public Meeting

8/7/2020 - The Death of a Mississippi Teacher From COVID-19 Increases Fears of an Outbreak as Schools Reopen

8/7/2020 - H&M Group Apologizes Again for Racial Insensitivity, This Time Involving The N-Word and a Beanie

8/7/2020 - Milwaukee Chief of Police Demoted Over Handling of George Floyd Protests

8/7/2020 - Utah Black Lives Matter Protesters Could Face Life in Prison Due to Gang Enhancement Added to Their Criminal Mischief Charges

8/7/2020 - Trump Thinks Biden Is Going to Punch the Bible and Drop Kick God if Elected President

8/7/2020 - Reel Pieces: Mudbound Director Dee Rees to Join 92nd Street Y's Racial Justice-Themed Online Film Course

8/7/2020 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: White People Are Crazy

8/7/2020 - All Black Everything: Zendaya Leverages the Power of Black Creatives for InStyle's September Cover

8/7/2020 - Dak Prescott Petitions Oklahoma Governor to Release Black Man from Death Row

8/7/2020 - God-Fearing House Candidate Says He ‘Accidentally’ Heard Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s New Song ‘WAP’...and I Believe Him

8/7/2020 - The Discreet Charms of Malady

8/7/2020 - Oprah Magazine Will Erect 26 Billboards of Breonna Taylor in Lousiville. Local Foundation Will Erect Billboards Praising Police Officers In Response

8/7/2020 - The Root Jams Weekly: 'The Bad Bitch Playlist' (8/7/2020)

8/7/2020 - Nazi or Nah? Oakland A's Coach Apologies for 'Unintentional' Salute

8/7/2020 - If Kanye Somehow Stays in the Presidential Race, It'll Hurt Trump, Not Biden

8/7/2020 - Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion Bring the Heat and Some Surprise Guests in Music Video for Their New Song 'WAP'

8/7/2020 - An Exclusive Sneak Peak at The God of High School, an Anime You Need to be Watching

8/7/2020 - Who All Gon' Be There? 66 Players Opt-Out of the NFL Season Citing Coronavirus Concerns

8/7/2020 - Stop Shoving a Mic in Kanye’s Face When He Really Needs a Hand

8/7/2020 - Hers for the Taking: Tiana Major9 Talks New EP, Self-Care, and Creating Her Legacy

8/6/2020 - Man Pleads Guilty to Threatening to Burn Down a Black Church in Virginia

8/6/2020 - Double the Keke: Keke Palmer to Host the 2020 VMAs and Star as a New Character on Disney's Proud Family Reboot

8/6/2020 - 40,000 Former Inmates in Iowa Have Their Voting Rights Restored After Governor Signs Executive Order

8/6/2020 - Vice Presidential Verzuz Battle: Susan Rice vs. Kamala Harris

8/6/2020 - It's the 55th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. The Phenomenal Campaign Hopes We Honor It

8/6/2020 - Joe Biden Says 'Unlike African Americans' the Latino Community is 'Incredibly Diverse' And...Well...This Election 'Bout to be Long AF

8/6/2020 - Grammy-Winning Producer Noel 'Detail' Fisher Arrested on Multiple Sexual Assault Charges

8/6/2020 - LAPD Response to Reported Suicidal Man Ends With Officer Being Shot by ‘Friendly Fire’

8/6/2020 - 'Democracy Is at Stake': Glynda Carr, Judith Browne Dianis and Rashad Robinson on Wielding Black Political Power at The Root Institute

8/6/2020 - A List of Characters in Hamilton Who Also Should've Shot Alexander Hamilton in the Face

8/6/2020 - Colorado’s Newest Police Chief Addresses Racial Bias in Aurora Police Department and Vows to ‘Do Better’

8/6/2020 - Girls on Fire: Megan Thee Stallion Is the New Face of Revlon; Alicia Keys Announces Upcoming Beauty Brand

8/6/2020 - New York Attorney General Files Lawsuit to Dissolve NRA Over Fraud Accusations: 'No Organization Is Above the Law'

8/6/2020 - Trump Campaign Ad Uses Altered Photos to Smear Biden's 'Radical' Belief in Science, Social Distancing and Prayer

8/6/2020 - Newly Launched NBA Foundation to Invest $300 Million Into Empowering the Black Community

8/6/2020 - Just Like Us, Our Forever First Lady Has Been Experiencing 'Low-Grade Depression' Lately

8/6/2020 - Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Signs Police Protection Bill Into Law After It's Slipped in With Hate Crime Bill

8/6/2020 - 50 Percent of White Folks Admit That They Will Happily Condemn Us All to Four More Years of Excruciating Hell

8/6/2020 - Who's Who at The Root Institute

8/6/2020 - Conservatives Attack Oprah for Being Rich, Black and Believing in the White Privilege 'Conspiracy Theory'

8/6/2020 - Facebook, Twitter Tell Trump Campaign 'You Ain't Gotta Go Home, But You Gotta Get the Hell Out of Here' for Lying About COVID-19

8/6/2020 - A Civil Lawsuit Filed in Los Angeles Accuses Migos' Takeoff of Rape

8/6/2020 - The Root Institute Chats Harnessing the Black Vote in 2020 With Glynda Carr, Judith Browne Dianis and Rashad Robinson

8/5/2020 - Prosecutors Request Bond Be Revoked for Former Officer Who Shot Rayshard Brooks After He Took a Vacation to Florida

8/5/2020 - Virginia Mayor Urged to Step Down for Saying That Joe Biden Chose Aunt Jemima as VP Pick

8/5/2020 - Pennsylvania Teenager Told to Remove Black Lives Matter Mask at His High School Graduation

8/5/2020 - Husband of Los Angeles County District Attorney Faces Gun Charges for Pointing Gun at Black Lives Matter Protesters

8/5/2020 - Black to the Future: GirlTrek's 2nd #BlackHistoryBootCamp Is on the Move—and You Should Be, Too!

8/5/2020 - Reporter to Biden: ‘Have You Taken a Cognitive Test?’ Biden to Reporter: ‘Are You a Junkie?’

8/5/2020 - UConn Becomes the 1st Major College Football Progam to Pull the Plug on Its Season Due to the Coronavirus. It Won't Be the Last

8/5/2020 - 10 Questions I Have in Preparation for the Greenleaf Series Finale Because Whew Chile!

8/5/2020 - 'Why Is This Time Different?': Ta-Nehisi Coates to Guest-Edit Vanity Fair's September Issue on Art, Activism and Power

8/5/2020 - It Is What It Is

8/5/2020 - Do You Know What 'Brolic' Means? (And If Not, Where Are You From?)

8/5/2020 - Trump on NBA Players Kneeling During National Anthem: ‘I Think It’s Disgraceful’

8/5/2020 - ‘I Was Very Young, It Was a Long Time Ago’: Ohio Health Commissioner Apologizes After Blackface Photo Surfaces

8/5/2020 - Oprah's Latest Book Club Pick Is Isabel Wilkerson's Caste: 'A New Way of Seeing Racial Inequality'

8/5/2020 - Zoe Saldana Breaks Down in Tears of Regret About Nina Simone Biopic: 'She Deserves Better'

8/5/2020 - Devin Booker Reminds NBA Twitter He Isn't Human After Buzzer-Beater Breaks the Internet

8/5/2020 - Louisiana Supreme Court Decides a Black Man Should Stay in Prison for the Rest of His Life for Stealing Hedge Clippers

8/5/2020 - New Slaves: Kanye West Is Being Used by Republicans to Help Ruin the Presidential Election

8/5/2020 - Lena Waithe Reportedly Working on New Series About Open Marriages

8/5/2020 - Progressive Cori Bush Just Pulled Off the Upset for the Ages and Is Poised to Become the 1st Black Woman to Represent Missouri in Congress

8/5/2020 - WNBA Players Channel John Lewis, Openly Campaign Against Atlanta Dream Co-Owner: 'We Don't Give AF What You Express'

8/5/2020 - Roc Nation Partners With New York's Long Island University to Launch School of Music, Sports and Entertainment

8/5/2020 - I Just Want to Be 'Normal,' and I Need a Therapist to Convince Me It Doesn't Exist

8/4/2020 - As the Federal Moratorium Ends, 23 Million Americans Are at Risk of Being Evicted in Coming Months

8/4/2020 - 'We Have Been the Table Shakers': Rep. Ayanna Pressley Uplifts Black Women and Honors the Late Rep. John Lewis in Conversation at The Root Institute

8/4/2020 - Fair Fight's Stacey Abrams on How We Can Protect Our Right to Vote

8/4/2020 - Illinois Lawmaker and Community Leaders Are Working to Suspend Current History Curriculum That 'Leads to White Privilege and a Racist Society'

8/4/2020 - #RespectTheArchitects: How Misa Hylton Helped Make Hip Hop a Fashion Statement

8/4/2020 - Black Man Who Didn't Commit a Crime Held at Gunpoint by Omaha Police

8/4/2020 - Rep. Ayanna Pressley Discusses the Power of Black Women at The Root Institute

8/4/2020 - Black Church Bamboozled Into Hosting Blue Lives MAGA Rally Complete With Confederate Flags, Trump Signs

8/4/2020 - Tulsa Protesters Place Symbolic Tombstones With Names of Black Wall Street Victims on Black Lives Matter Mural in Last-Ditch Effort to Stop Its Removal

8/4/2020 - Welcome to The Root Institute, Featuring Interviews With Stacey Abrams, Cory Booker, Taraji P. Henson and Many More

8/4/2020 - Activism Now: British Vogue's September Issue Stars Several Black American Heroes—and a Message of Hope

8/4/2020 - NFL Thinks Players Are Gaming the System by Opting Out of Upcoming Season, Devin McCourty Calls League a 'Joke'

8/4/2020 - 'Jesus Was White. Did He Have White Privilege?': Evangelical Author Roasted for Spreading the Gospel of Mayo Messiah

8/4/2020 - The Only Girl in the World: Rihanna Covers Every Issue of Harper's Bazaar This September

8/4/2020 - Body Camera Footage of George Floyd’s Final Moments Leaked to the Public for the First Time

8/4/2020 - Samuel L. Jackson to Star in Enslaved Docuseries, Which Chronicles the History of Human Trafficking

8/4/2020 - Trump on John Lewis: He Didn’t Come to My Inauguration, So I Didn’t Go to His Funeral, and I’ve Done More for Blacks Than He Did

8/4/2020 - Bill Russell Tweets From the Afterlife to Remind Everyone That Yes, He Is Still Very Much Alive

8/4/2020 - President Jim Crow: Donald Trump's White Supremacy Week

8/4/2020 - Aurora, Colo., Police Apologize After Handcuffing and Detaining Black Children Wrongly Suspected of Riding in Stolen Car

8/4/2020 - They Say It's a Big Rich Sequel: Official Trailer and Release Date for Power Spinoff Revealed

8/4/2020 - I'm Gonna Need the New Orleans Pelicans to Stop Babysitting Zion Williamson

8/4/2020 - Time to Twerk: Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B Team Up for New Collaboration

8/3/2020 - 'Back the Blue' Mural in Tampa Is Almost as Ugly as the Message It Sends

8/3/2020 - US Navy to Investigate Video of a Kaepernick Stand-In Being Used in an Attack Dog Demonstration at Navy SEALS Museum

8/3/2020 - Danielle Brooks to Star in Robin Roberts Presents: The Mahalia Jackson Story

8/3/2020 - Black Family Just Trying to Get Ice Cream Threatened by White Man Carrying a Sword

8/3/2020 - Arizona Man Confronts Black Lives Matter Protesters With a Gun, Doesn't Face Gun Charges

8/3/2020 - Manhattan DA Investigating Trump and His Company for Possible Bank and Insurance Fraud

8/3/2020 - Meet the XFL's New Part-Owner, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson

8/3/2020 - 'Quiet Storm': A 2-Week Series About Mental Health on VSB

8/3/2020 - John Boyega to Star in Steve McQueen Series Portraying a Police Officer Who Wants to Change the Force From Within

8/3/2020 - KFC Trinidad Getting Dragged for Celebrating Emancipation Day With a Chicken Drum-Black Fist Image Is So 2020

8/3/2020 - Lena Waithe Discusses the Power of Creatives of Color and Black Queer Representation on Television

8/3/2020 - Matt Dumba Becomes 1st NHL Player to Kneel During the National Anthem

8/3/2020 - I Hope My Ancestors Were Goat Herders, Not Kings and Queens

8/3/2020 - Republican State Senator and Hater of Pandemic Emergency Measures Tests Positive for COVID-19

8/3/2020 - ESPN Analyst Jay Williams on the NBA Restart, Social Justice and Closing the Racial Wealth Gap

8/3/2020 - ‘The Aryan Nation Will Rule the World’: Florida White Supremacists Charged With Battery After Assaulting Server

8/3/2020 - Congress Is Still Arguing Over Another Stimulus Package. Just Run Us Our Money

8/3/2020 - Replay, Revisit, Reject: Music as a Whole Could Be a Lot Better in 2020

8/3/2020 - Mo-to-the! What's New and Black on Netflix in August 2020

8/3/2020 - Ryan Breaux, Younger Brother of Frank Ocean, Reportedly Killed in Single-Vehicle Car Crash

8/2/2020 - Rumored VP Candidate Rep. Karen Bass Explains Video of Her Praising Church of Scientology, Denounces Fidel Castro

8/2/2020 - Amazing Artists From Africa I Learned About From Watching Africans Celebrate Them In Beyoncé's Black Is King

8/2/2020 - Michigan Appeals Court Grants Release of Black Girl Who Was Detained After Not Doing Online Homework

8/1/2020 - Protests Planned in St. Louis, Mo. After New Prosecutor Says He Won't Make Criminal Charges in Police Killing of Michael Brown

8/1/2020 - After a Summer of Social Media Trolling By Gen Z, Trump Says He's Going to Ban TikTok From America

8/1/2020 - Jamaica's Supreme Court Rules That School Can Ban Child With Dreadlocks (No, We're Not Kidding)