2/29/2020 - Trump Is the 'First Black President’ According to Ex-NFL Player Turned Pastor Jack Brewer

2/29/2020 - Black History, Black Stories: 7 Books That Center Our Legacies for Longer Than a Month

2/29/2020 - Kevin Richardson, of Exonerated Five, Warns Voters to Not Be 'Bamboozled' by Bloomberg

2/29/2020 - NDAs Aren't Just a Bloomberg Thing: Bernie Sanders Campaign Group Handled Racial Discrimination Allegations With Nondisclosure Agreement

2/29/2020 - Laurence Fishburne Tapped to Narrate Seminal 'Autobiography of Malcolm X' For Audible

2/29/2020 - You Want Fries With That? Nike Fuels the Coming 2 America Craze With a McDowell's-Inspired Blazer Mid

2/29/2020 - What Better Way to Celebrate the Last Day of Black History Month Than...a Conference Honoring the Confederacy?

2/29/2020 - Bloomberg Really Just Wants to Stop and Frisk Everybody Not White: Democratic Candidate Defends Muslim Surveillance Program

2/29/2020 - Ayanna Pressley's Pitch for Elizabeth Warren

2/28/2020 - How Ford Inspired Young Black Girls to Believe They're 'Built Phenomenally' to Create Production Magic

2/28/2020 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Our Formal Endorsement for President of White America

2/28/2020 - 1st Grade Teacher Brings Black Excellence to the Classroom by Dressing Up as Historical Figures During Black History Month

2/28/2020 - Black Movie Fridays: A Fun Story About Cool Runnings, 'Gummies' and a New York City Evening in 2017

2/28/2020 - For the Culture: Apollo Theater Announces First-Ever Multidisciplinary Commissioning Initiative

2/28/2020 - A Clapback to Russian Trolls

2/28/2020 - Hotline Bling: Want a Personal Motivational Message From Rod Blagojevich? It’ll Cost You $100

2/28/2020 - Trump Isn’t Going to Like This: Fox News Poll Projects Him Losing to Sanders, Bloomberg and...Robinette?

2/28/2020 - Police Departments Spreading Disinformation By Falsely Claiming Meth Is Being Laced With Coronavirus

2/28/2020 - Your Friday Boost: Watch This UCLA Gymnast Crush Her Beyoncé 'Homecoming' Routine

2/28/2020 - Trump Voters Big Mad at Garth Brooks Because They Can’t Tell NFL Great Barry Sanders and Bernie Sanders Apart

2/28/2020 - For Better or Worse: After a Devastating Accident, the Family Behind BLK + GRN Talk Survival, Faith, and Love

2/28/2020 - Confederate Flags, Symbols Officially Banned From All Marine Corps Installations

2/28/2020 - Finding Friendship With My Boyfriend's Ex Freed Me From His Abuse

2/28/2020 - Every Democratic Candidates' 'Black Agenda,' Ranked

2/27/2020 - Four More Alleged Neo-Nazis Arrested for Harassing Journalists

2/27/2020 - South Carolina Sued Over LGBTQ Sex-Ed Ban

2/27/2020 - Findings Show That Right-Wing Extremists Responsible for The Majority of Hate Crimes in 2019

2/27/2020 - Ex-Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh Given 3 Year Sentence For Fraud

2/27/2020 - Louisiana Judge Who Shot Off N-Word Laced Text Messages After Her Affair Was Uncovered Resigns

2/27/2020 - Get Your Crying Michael Jordan Memes Ready: Malik Monk Suspended Indefinitely for Violating NBA Anti-Drug Program

2/27/2020 - Bernie Sanders to Mike Pence: Is the Coronavirus Going to Catch Your Prayer Hands Like the Last Epidemic You Faced?

2/27/2020 - Obama to Pro-Trump Super PAC: Don’t Play With Me or My Homeboy

2/27/2020 - The Candyman Can Because Yes, Gentrification Deserves Its Own Horror Flick

2/27/2020 - America's Top Business School Names First Black Woman as Dean

2/27/2020 - There Were Red Flags Waving All Over Snoop Dogg’s Red Table Talk

2/27/2020 - Let's Step Into the Girls Room and Unpack What Happened Between Nina Lee, Lena Waithe and Dove

2/27/2020 - Move Over MAGA Hats, Trump Campaign’s Black Outreach Includes ‘Woke’ T-shirts

2/27/2020 - Elizabeth Warren Supporters Worry About Sexism as South Carolina Primary Nears

2/27/2020 - UT Arlington's Men's Basketball Team Honors Black Historical Figures With Pre-Game Shirts: 'We Want to Educate, We Want to Inform'

2/27/2020 - Preparing for Outbreaks Like Coronavirus Is Always Difficult. For Marginalized Communities, It’s Crucial

2/27/2020 - Who Is the Face of Italy? The Movement to Reform Italian Citizenship Law Makes a Fashion Statement

2/26/2020 - House Approves Bill to Make Lynching a Federal Crime in Rare Bipartisan Vote

2/26/2020 - Feds Arrest Neo-Nazi Who Plotted 'Swatting' Attack on a Cabinet Member

2/26/2020 - In 2020, Who Is Helping Black Women Start Their Own Businesses?

2/26/2020 - Ex-Amazon Manager Was Told to Use Social Media to Determine Applicants Race and Gender

2/26/2020 - 10 Thoughts, Prayers and Concerns About Netflix's Love Is Blind, Which Is Absolutely Worth Watching

2/26/2020 - Heroin Overdose Ends U.S House Candidate’s Campaign

2/26/2020 - Black to the Future: This Scientist May Hold the Key to Time Travel

2/26/2020 - Everyone Is Fine: Trump Says the ‘Caronavirus’ Isn’t as Bad as CDC Reports

2/26/2020 - Mike Bloomberg Is Full of Shit and So Are His Surrogates

2/26/2020 - Dozens of South African Women With HIV Were Forcibly Sterilized, Report Finds

2/26/2020 - Twizzlers vs. Red Vines: Civil War Erupts on Twitter After LeBron Celebrates Lakers Win With a Snack

2/26/2020 - An Open Letter to the (White) Men in Airport Restrooms Who Refuse to Wash Their Hands

2/26/2020 - The Rumors Are True: Steph Curry Will Return Before Jesus Does

2/25/2020 - This Is Us: Sterling K. Brown Gives Us a Peek Behind the 'Clouds' of Randall Pearson's Anxiety

2/25/2020 - Officials Responsible for Racist Fashion Show Put on Leave [Updated]

2/25/2020 - Supreme Court Rules Parents of Child Shot By Border Patrol Can't Sue

2/25/2020 - One More Time: Another Professor Has Said The N-Word at the University of Oklahoma

2/25/2020 - Live Blog: From Charleston, S.C., the Democratic Debate. What's at Stake for Tonight's Candidates?

2/25/2020 - Florida Officer Who Detained a 6-Year-Old for Throwing a Tantrum Caught on Bodycam Bragging About Arrest: 'Now She's Broken the Record'

2/25/2020 - Anybody But Bloomberg: New Yorkers of Color Pen Open Letter Rooting for Everybody Except Mike Bloomberg

2/25/2020 - Salt-N-Pepa's Here, and They're in Effect...With a Musically Inspired Makeup Collab With Milani

2/25/2020 - Alleged Altercation Over a Juice Box Results in Student Being Airlifted to Hospital

2/25/2020 - Everyone Can Relax. The White House Is Very Close to a Vaccine for...Ebola?

2/25/2020 - The 'First Black' Fact I Look Forward to Hearing About During Black History Month

2/25/2020 - Dear Debate Moderators, There Are More 'Black Issues' Besides Crime and Poverty

2/25/2020 - Multicultural Film Fund AUM Group Is Here to Empower Creatives of Color and Save Hollywood From Itself

2/25/2020 - The Ancestry Trap: This Geneticist Wants to Shift the Focus From DNA Testing to Black Futures

2/25/2020 - Alabama Prepares to Execute Man Found Responsible for Murdering 3 Police Officers—Without Pulling a Single Trigger [Corrected]

2/25/2020 - People Keep Vandalizing Michael Bloomberg's Campaign Offices and the Blame Is Being Pinned on Bernie Sanders

2/25/2020 - Watch CNN’s Jim Acosta Dunk on Trump: Our Network’s ‘Record on Delivering the Truth Is a lot Better Than Yours’

2/25/2020 - 'When Kobe Bryant Died, a Piece of Me Died': Kobe, Gianna Bryant Remembered During Beautiful Celebration of Life in Los Angeles

2/25/2020 - A Moderate Millennial Out of Houston Wants to be Texas' First Black U.S. Senator

2/24/2020 - Supreme Court To Hear Case Regarding Same-Sex Adoptions

2/24/2020 - Trump's 'Public Charge' Ruling Takes Effect; Makes Legal Immigration Harder

2/24/2020 - Vanessa Bryant Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Helicopter Company

2/24/2020 - Saudi Authorities Call for Arrest of Black Saudi Woman Over Her Music Video 'Girl From Mecca'

2/24/2020 - ABFF Honors 2020: The House That Black Hollywood Built

2/24/2020 - The Furious Fight for Alabama’s Senate Seat Is Crazier and More Racist Than Ever

2/24/2020 - Matthew A. Cherry Shares Why Being Recognized at the 2020 NAACP Image Awards Means Just as Much to Him as the Oscars

2/24/2020 - Trump’s Meat Heavy Diet Isn’t Playing So Well in India

2/24/2020 - Your Lady's #MCM: Winston Duke and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Fan Out Over Black Women

2/24/2020 - Livestream: Kobe and Gianna Bryant's Memorial at the Staples Center

2/24/2020 - A Eulogy for 'But What About Harvey Weinstein, Tho?'

2/24/2020 - Clarence Thomas’ Wife, Ginni, Has Been Pushing Hires for Trump's Administration

2/24/2020 - Oklahoma School District Apologizes for High School Basketball Announcer Who Called Players' Names 'Pretty Disgusting'

2/24/2020 - Katherine G. Johnson, the Groundbreaking NASA Mathematician Featured in Hidden Figures, Has Died at 101

2/24/2020 - Jussie Smollett Expected To Plead Not Guilty To Six Counts of New Charges Alleging He Lied to Police

2/23/2020 - BET Networks to Honor Kobe Bryant With Full Coverage of Memorial, Other Programming

2/23/2020 - From Baltimore to 'Broadway' to Bloomberg? Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake Named Co-Chair of Mega Billionaire's Presidential Campaign

2/23/2020 - Greyhound Is Saying No to Border Patrol Immigration Checks on Their Buses

2/23/2020 - B. Smith, Trailblazing Fashion Model and Entrepreneur, Dead at 70, Husband Confirms

2/23/2020 - White Supremacist Group Arrested for Murder Plot, Found to Have More Targets in Mind Than Previously Known

2/23/2020 - Rihanna Wants People to Know It's Imperative That We Use Our Voices

2/23/2020 - Won't We Do It! NAACP Image Awards Weekend Proves Black Glamour Is Winning

2/22/2020 - As Erykah Badu's Vagina-Scented Incense Sells Out, She Sings on Morning TV with Daughter Puma In Celebration of Her Forthcoming 49th Birthday

2/22/2020 - Bustin’ The Beat: Go-Go Officially Designated As the Music of Washington D.C.

2/22/2020 - Cardi B Claps Back and Clears Air About Emani Ellis' Assault Lawsuit, Says She's Not 'A Colorist'

2/22/2020 - Bloomberg Vows to End Resolving Sexual Harassment Accusations With Nondisclosure Agreements. Warren Responds, 'Boy, I Guess.'

2/22/2020 - Black Man Sues After Hospital Co-worker Calls Him 'Boy' and Another Admits Fear of 'Big Black Men'

2/22/2020 - A Racist Judge, An Alleged Affair and N-Word Laced Text Messages Put 8 Years of Cases Under Review

2/21/2020 - UConn Students Argue Their First Amendment Right to Say the N-Word

2/21/2020 - Task Force of Physicists to Raise $50 Million to Encourage More Black Students

2/21/2020 - Minnesota Lawmakers Seek to Amend State Constitution to Remove Slavery Punishment

2/21/2020 - Black Movie Fridays: I Probably Quote The Wood More Than Any Other Black Movie

2/21/2020 - Stop and Frisk These Empty Pockets: Michael Bloomberg’s Campaign Wants to Pay Folks $2,500 a Month to Push Him on Social Media

2/21/2020 - Will Lynching Finally Become a Federal Hate Crime? House to Decide Next Week

2/21/2020 - 'A Malfunctioning SIMS Character': Twitter Did Not Give The Greatest Love to the Whitney Houston Hologram

2/21/2020 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: The Last Refuge of the Scoundrel

2/21/2020 - BET META 2020: Are Black Male Voters Forgotten? T.I. Says the Government Has an 'Agenda to Remove Us Out of the Picture'

2/21/2020 - #BlackExcellenceWeekend: BET, NAACP Image Awards and ABFF to Pay Tribute to Us in the Same Weekend

2/21/2020 - Drawing Inspiration from Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade Makes His Rap Debut on Rick Ross Banger 'Season Ticket Holder'

2/21/2020 - Trae Young Charged With Assault, Felony Elder Abuse for Filthy Crossover on Andre Iguodala

2/21/2020 - Russia Wants Trump in 2020 and the President Is Pissed That Intelligence Officials Keep Saying So

2/21/2020 - BIST, or the 'Black EGOT': Celebrating the Elite Who've Won a BET Award, NAACP Image Award and Soul Train Award

2/21/2020 - President Parasite Slams Foreign Movie for Winning Best Picture Oscar, and They Clap Back, ‘Understandable, He Can’t Read’

2/20/2020 - Tennessee Barbershop Partners With Vanderbilt to Provide Basic Healthcare Services

2/20/2020 - Federal Judge Rules Conditions in Migrant Holding Cells to be Unconstitutional

2/20/2020 - School District in New Jersey Pays $25K to Settle Racial Harassment Lawsuit

2/20/2020 - The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Will Officially Become a Part of Oklahoma School Curriculum Beginning in the Fall

2/20/2020 - OK, So SZA May Not Love Her Rolling Stone Cover, but It Sparked a Necessary Word About Mental Health

2/20/2020 - My Daughter Came Down With The Flu and I Learned All About My Family Medical History

2/20/2020 - Trump’s Tweets Worked: Roger Stone Sentenced to 40 Months in Prison

2/20/2020 - USC Will Eliminate Tuition for Families Making $80,000 or Less

2/20/2020 - Racing Champion Willy T. Ribbs Reminds Us All of His Place in Black History With Brilliant Victory Lap Uppity

2/20/2020 - Bigger Is Better With a Season 2 Pickup, and You Should Be Watching It On BET+

2/20/2020 - Debate Steel Cage Match: Elizabeth Warren Came to Slay, Michael Bloomberg Died Inside and Amy Klobuchar Almost Cried

2/20/2020 - A-Tisket, A-Tasket, A-Barbie: Ella Fitzgerald Is One of Barbie's Newest 'Inspiring Women'

2/20/2020 - Unsatisfied With Being a 1st Round Bust, Cleveland Browns Lineman Greg Robinson Caught With 157 Pounds of Weed

2/19/2020 - Professor That Called the Cops on Student Has Been Suspended

2/19/2020 - Reports Of Amari Cooper Being Shot Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

2/19/2020 - Court Rules in Favor of Ex-Felons Over Florida Voting Law

2/19/2020 - Will the 'Royal' Go, Too? Meghan and Harry May Be Forced to Renounce 'Sussex Royal' Along With Their Duties

2/19/2020 - Black Folks Who Need to be Pardoned to Offset Trump’s White Clemency Spree

2/19/2020 - Mississippi Police Investigating Hate Crime After 12-Year-Old Is Given Racist Doll With Noose Around Its Neck

2/19/2020 - Why Is Fried Chicken Fashion a Thing? KFC Makes Its Bid for Pop-Cultural Relevance With...a Croc?

2/19/2020 - We Calculated How Much We Pay Trump to Play Golf. It Turns Out, He's America's 10th Highest Paid Athlete

2/19/2020 - 100% That Chocolate: Lizzo Served a Sweet and Sassy Look at the 2020 Brit Awards

2/19/2020 - Spotify Proves Black History Is Now With Phenomenal Black Music Campaign

2/19/2020 - Mayor 'Stop and Frisk' Qualifies for Democratic Debate, Wants You to Think He and Obama are Besties

2/19/2020 - George Zimmerman Files Lawsuit Against Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg for Trayvon Martin Birthday Tweets

2/19/2020 - 2 Fyre 2 Furious: What’s Up With the Lovers & Friends Festival? Because I Really Need It to Happen [Updated]

2/19/2020 - North Carolina's Latest Scheme to Suppress Black Votes Gets Shut Down in Court

2/19/2020 - Attorney General William Barr Isn’t Quitting. He Just Wants People to Think He’s Still a Man

2/19/2020 - Shine Bright Like a Diamond: GLAAD Launches Neon to Bring More Visibility to the Black LGBTQ Community

2/19/2020 - Boyz N the Hood, 90210 Actress Esther Scott Dead at 66 After Suffering Heart Attack

2/19/2020 - Rebels of Black History: How 'Joy Goddess' A'Lelia Walker Created Revolutionary Spaces for the Artistic and the Sensual

2/19/2020 - A Blazer for Black Royalty: Crown Royal Released a New Slick Blazer, and Ya Boy Tried It

2/19/2020 - Elizabeth Warren Exists

2/18/2020 - School Resource Officer Faces Battery Charge After Pulling Girl's Hair On Video

2/18/2020 - Professor's Lawsuit Over Using Transgender Pronouns Is Dismissed by Judge

2/18/2020 - Report Shows Racial Divide in Academic Success in Progressive Cities

2/18/2020 - Will Somebody Please Take Boosie’s Phone?: Boosie Badazz Has a Message for Dwyane Wade and Zaya, and It’s Exactly as Stupid as You’d Imagine

2/18/2020 - Ja'Net DuBois Has Died At 74

2/18/2020 - Black Patriots: NBA Legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Puts the Spotlight on the Overlooked Black Heroes of the American Revolution

2/18/2020 - You Get a Pardon! And You Get a Pardon! Career Criminal Donald Trump Passes Out Get Out of Jail Free Cards to Disgraced Gov. Rod Blagojevich, Others

2/18/2020 - 'I’m Not Scared to Be Different': Swae Lee's New Collab With Giuseppe Zanotti Makes a Bop Out of Gender Blurring

2/18/2020 - Netflix and Sit Still: Man Tries to Cure Racism by Kidnapping Woman, Forcing Her to Watch Roots

2/18/2020 - New Ordinance in Oakland Prohibits Landlords From Checking Renters’ Criminal Records

2/18/2020 - My Life as a Black Who Flies First Class

2/18/2020 - White House Correspondents' Dinner Taps Kenan Thompson to Bring Back the Funny

2/18/2020 - Rosario Dawson Purportedly 'Came Out' as Queer. Here's What It Can Teach Us About How We Talk About Sexuality

2/18/2020 - Alive at 89: For Her First Posthumous Birthday, Toni Morrison Is Getting an Epic Party at the Brooklyn Museum

2/18/2020 - 'Feeling Grateful and Free': Tiffany Boone Makes Statement Regarding Exit From The Chi and Jason Mitchell Allegations

2/18/2020 - Rebels of Black History: How Bad Brains Redefined the Spirit of Defiance

2/18/2020 - Obama Tweets, Trump Freaks, Reporters Fact-Check His Lying Orange Bleats

2/17/2020 - Border Patrol Agents to Be Deployed to Sanctuary Cities Because That Makes Sense

2/17/2020 - Good News Everyone: A Federal Investigation Results in Sentencing for 64 White Supremacists

2/17/2020 - Philadelphia Police Investigate After Cecil B. Moore Mural Is Defaced

2/17/2020 - Another Black Man Wrongfully Convicted: New DNA Screening Process Puts Lydell Grant Close to Exoneration

2/17/2020 - 'Queen of Katwe' Star Nikita Pearl Waligwa Dies of Brain Tumor at Age 15

2/17/2020 - NBA All-Star Game Highlights: Jennifer Hudson Sangs and Chaka Khan...and Team LeBron Takes Victory

2/16/2020 - Sambo Be Damned! Black Fashion Model Refused to Wear ‘Racist’ Accessories at Fashion Institute of Technology Show

2/16/2020 - 'Nothing is More Heartbreaking,' Obama Says of The Kobe Bryant Tragedy During NBA All-Star Weekend

2/16/2020 - Dwyane Wade Conjures Up the Emotions of Telling Gabrielle Union About Baby He Conceived With Aja Metoyer

2/16/2020 - Hair Love Across the Nation: 3 States Passed Laws Ending Black Hair Discrimination Within a Week

2/16/2020 - There May Be a New Investigation Underway Into James Brown's Death

2/16/2020 - In True 'Stop and Frisk' Fashion, New Jersey Police Admit to Targeting Minority Neighborhoods in What They Call 'Hunting at the Border'

2/15/2020 - 90,000 People Vying for Tickets to Kobe Bryant's Memorial Within First 24 Hours of Sale

2/15/2020 - Wendy Williams Issues Tearful Apology After Being Blasted for Homophobic, Transphobic Comments

2/15/2020 - Three People Wounded During Valentine's Day Shooting At Kandi Burruss' Old Lady Gang Restaurant Near Atlanta

2/15/2020 - Black Swim Team Member Suing Police for Putting Gun to His Head After Mistaking Him for Suspect and Continuing to Detain Him After Realizing They Were Wrong

2/15/2020 - Killing R. Kelly With Criminal Charges Is My Favorite Jam of 2020: New Indictments for Kelly From Chicago Federal Court

2/15/2020 - For Black History Month, Someone Thought Harriet Tubman on a Debit Card Throwing Up the 'Wakanda Forever' Salute was Clever

2/14/2020 - Close to 66,000 Marijuana Convictions to Be Dismissed in Los Angeles

2/14/2020 - Body Cam Footage Raises Questions Why 6-Year-Old Girl Was Sent to Mental Institution by School

2/14/2020 - Navy Yard Worker Gets 6 Months for Lying About Being A White Nationalist

2/14/2020 - Ladies and Gentlemen, We Present Your 2020 NBA All-Star Weekend Preview

2/14/2020 - When Former Mayor 'Stop and Frisk' White Rap Battles President ‘Grab 'Em by the Pussy,’ Hilarity Ensues

2/14/2020 - Gayle King Says She Accepts Snoop’s Apology; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Calls Him Out

2/14/2020 - Bloomberg Is the Real 'Slim Shady,' Warren Says 'Call Me Maybe' and Voters Ask Biden, ‘What Have You Done for Me Lately?’: 2020 Presidential Black Power Rankings, Week 29

2/14/2020 - 'The House Didn’t Define Us': Michelle Obama Talks Life Post-White House; She's Also Over Talking About Herself

2/14/2020 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Valentine's Day Edition

2/14/2020 - The Photograph: We Love Black Ass Love, So Let's Play Black Ass Game!

2/14/2020 - Black Movie Fridays: Love Jones Is the Iconic Black Love Movie but for Me, Brown Sugar Is the GOAT

2/14/2020 - Exclusive: On the 2-Year Anniversary of the Parkland Shooting, Black Violin Takes 'One Step' Against Gun Violence, Police Brutality

2/14/2020 - F*ck Your Diet—and Other Things My Thighs Tell Me Is the Self-Love Story We Deserve This Valentine's Day

2/14/2020 - Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Moms 4 Housing as Group Continues Fighting for 'Fundamental Right' to Safe, Affordable Shelter

2/14/2020 - LeBron James Surprises 193 Students With Free College Tuition: 'It's Probably the Best Thing I've Ever Done'

2/14/2020 - Is Wendy Williams OK?

2/14/2020 - Trump Forgot He Lied, Now Admits He Sent Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine to Dig Up Dirt on Bidens

2/14/2020 - Attorney General William Barr to Donald Trump: Please Stop Tweeting About Us, You’re Making It Obvious

2/14/2020 - My Quirky Valentine: Luke James has a Love Letter for Black Women

2/13/2020 - Chicago High Schoolers Hold Sit-In After Teacher Told Student 'Go Back to Your Country'

2/13/2020 - Court Says "Ha, You Thought" and Reverses $2.5M Settlement to Protect Confederate Monument

2/13/2020 - Man Convicted of Double Murder 25 Years Ago Is Free After New Evidence Emerges

2/13/2020 - Trump Couldn’t be Briefed on America Because He Was Too Busy Asking About Badgers: ‘Are They Mean to People?’

2/13/2020 - Detroit, State of Michigan Sued Over Failure to Properly Notify Detroiters of Property Assessment Notices

2/13/2020 - 10 Very Black (Non-Spoiler) Reasons to Go See The Photograph

2/13/2020 - A Grand Slam for Glamour: Serena Williams Stages an Intimate Showing at New York Fashion Week

2/13/2020 - Luke's Game of Love: Watch Musician Luke James Talk Love, Sex and Attraction

2/13/2020 - Well, This Is Cute: Janet Jackson Does a Classroom Instrument Remix of 'Runaway'

2/13/2020 - Colin Kaepernick Launches Book Publishing Company, Reveals Plans to Release Memoir in 2020

2/13/2020 - Simone Biles Speaks Out on Limiting Beauty Standards: 'I'm Tired of Everything in Life Being Turned Into a Competition'

2/13/2020 - Now Former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly Wants to Tell His Truth. GTFOH

2/13/2020 - White Amateur Historian Says He Stole Slave Auction Block Plaque Because It Didn't Do Enough to Honor Descendants of Slavery

2/13/2020 - Sick of Her Son Ruining Her Good Name, Snoop's Mom Makes Him Apologize to Gayle King: 'Two Wrongs Don't Make No Right'

2/13/2020 - The Truth From Ruth: As Her Collaboration With H&M Drops in Stores, Ruth E. Carter Drops Some Knowledge on Us

2/13/2020 - Trump Was Asked What He Learned Since His Impeachment Acquittal. His Answer Went Viral

2/13/2020 - Black Men Need to Talk With Each Other About Rape Culture

2/12/2020 - A Nurse Accused An Inmate of Faking His Illness. Days Later He Died

2/12/2020 - Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley Drops Some Black History on the Fed Chairman

2/12/2020 - PNC Bank Owes Black Employee $2.4M After She Was Sexually Harassed

2/12/2020 - Alabama Lawmakers Want to Force One of America's Blackest Cities to Celebrate White Supremacy

2/12/2020 - You Can't Make This Up: Black Man Reports Racial Discrimination at Work to His Boss, Somehow Gets Arrested for His Trouble

2/12/2020 - London Breed Plans to Use Her Historic Mayorship to Fight for Black San Francisco

2/12/2020 - And the Skippy Goes To!: The Root's Inaugural The Blackest Awards Winners

2/12/2020 - Honest Question: Who Needs Fashion Week When We've Got Harlem's Fashion Row?

2/12/2020 - Boomer, Please: Oklahoma Journalism Professor Apologizes for Comparing 'Boomer' Meme to the N-Word

2/12/2020 - Rep. John Lewis to Receive Prestigious Honor at 51st NAACP Image Awards

2/12/2020 - Gentrification Remains Undefeated: DC Cultural Landmark Horace & Dickies Closing After 30 Years

2/12/2020 - All 4 Roger Stone Prosecutors Resign From Case as Trump Congratulates DOJ Head for Cutting His Boy Some Slack

2/12/2020 - It Took Zion Williamson Only 28 Minutes to Score 31 Points Last Night: 'I Don't Think He's Even Scratched the Surface'

2/12/2020 - Kobe and Gianna Bryant Laid to Rest at Private Funeral: Report

2/12/2020 - I Can't Believe Black People Might Actually Vote for Michael Bloomberg

2/12/2020 - White Supremacist Propaganda Doubles for 2nd Straight Year With Subtler Messaging, According to New Report

2/11/2020 - A 'Surging' Amy Klobuchar Gets Pressed on The View

2/11/2020 - A Maryland High School Had a Nazi Flag Hanging in a Classroom Window

2/11/2020 - Erika Alexander Calls Out The Erasure of Black Art

2/11/2020 - Better Together: This Valentine's Day, Choose Gifts That Let You Share the Love

2/11/2020 - Vanessa Bryant Says She Knows What She's Feeling Is 'Normal'

2/11/2020 - UCLA Just Dropped Its 2020 Hollywood Diversity Report and...It's Heavy on the Mayonnaise

2/11/2020 - When Cops Get a Taste of Their Own Medicine, Hilarity Ensues

2/11/2020 - The DOJ Originally Set Roger Stone’s Sentencing at 7 to 9 Years. Then Trump Tweeted and They Changed Their Mind

2/11/2020 - Ava DuVernay's Nipsey Hussle Doc Lands at Netflix After Major Bidding War

2/11/2020 - NYPD ‘Stop-and-Frisk’ Numbers Up 22 Percent in 2019

2/11/2020 - Dwyane Wade Reveals His 12-Year-Old Will Go By 'Zaya,' Use Female Pronouns: 'This Is Our Opportunity to Allow You to Be a Voice'

2/11/2020 - School Resource Officer Suspended for Choking Black Student

2/11/2020 - 33 Democrats Are on the New Hampshire Primary Ballot, Including Folks Who Aren’t Even Running Anymore

2/11/2020 - Toronto Raptors President Masai Ujiri Sued for Assaulting Police Officer, Leaving Him Permanently Disabled...But I Call Bullshit

2/11/2020 - The Department of Justice Gave Over $500,000 to 'Hookers for Jesus.' I Wish I Was Joking

2/11/2020 - I Only Appreciated Kobe in His Totality After His Death

2/11/2020 - Why Does Chuck Todd Exist?

2/10/2020 - New York Sues Trump Administration Over Global Entry

2/10/2020 - Suspect in Burning of Black Churches in Louisiana Changes Plea to Guilty

2/10/2020 - Fair Fight, Stacey Abrams' Voting Rights Group, Has Raised $20 Million Since Its Founding

2/10/2020 - #IStandWithGayle Is Trending...But If We Really Believed in What Kobe Tried to Stand For, It Wouldn't Be Necessary

2/10/2020 - Forget the Awards. Everyone Knows We're Really Here for the Afterparty

2/10/2020 - Rebels of Black History: The Women Who Freed a Thousand Slaves

2/10/2020 - Jackson State University President Among 17 Arrested in Prostitution Sting

2/10/2020 - Netflix's Malcolm X Documentary Forces Manhattan District Attorney's Office to Reexamine Murder Convictions

2/10/2020 - Hoodwinked History: How False Civil Rights Narratives Distort Modern Freedom Struggles

2/10/2020 - Stand Up! The Oscars May Not Give Cynthia Erivo Her Flowers (Yet), But We Will

2/10/2020 - Snoop Doesn't Love Kobe, He Just Hates Black Women

2/10/2020 - Oscars 2020: 80 Years After Hattie McDaniel Became the 1st Black Academy Award Winner, Hair Love Somehow Became The Night's Only One

2/10/2020 - Trump’s Mob-Boss Mentality Has Only Strengthened Since His Impeachment Acquittal

2/10/2020 - Mo'Nique & Friends: 'A Bitch Is Back' and We Love to See It

2/10/2020 - Haters Gonna Say It’s Photoshopped: Trump’s Face Is Out Here Looking Like Stained Tupperware

2/10/2020 - Oscars 2020: Matthew A. Cherry Manifests #HairLove Success and Janelle Monáe Welcomes Us to the Neighborhood

2/9/2020 - Former Pro Football Player and Republican Congressman J.C. Watts Spearheads First Black News Channel, Launching Nationally This Week

2/9/2020 - Donald Trump, Jr. Gets Clowned For Channeling Johnnie Cochran's Famous O.J. Simpson Defense Regarding His Pappy's Impeachment Acquittal

2/9/2020 - #BlackGirlMagic in Sports as the Washington Redskins are Set to Make NFL History With First Black Woman on Coaching Staff

2/9/2020 - Another Achievement For Tyler Perry: Leading The Pack For Worst Movies of 2019 With Eight Razzie Award Nods For A Madea Family Funeral

2/9/2020 - In True White Savior Fashion, Trump Announces Scholarship to Save Black Student From 'Failing Government Schools', Only She Already Goes to a Great Charter School

2/9/2020 - A White Nationalist Group Marches Through Washington and, Surprising to Nobody Black, Everyone Seems Perfectly Fine With It

2/8/2020 - As EGOT Status Draws Near, Double Oscar Nominee Cynthia Erivo Commends Joaquin Phoenix For Condemning Hollywood Racism

2/8/2020 - '[N-Word] Hating' White Student Arrested, Kicked Out of California College After Drunken, Racist, Homophobic Rant

2/8/2020 - Former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice Has Fighting Words For Snoop Dogg Over Gayle King’s Kobe Bryant Controversy

2/8/2020 - Light One Up for Progress: Boston Opens Its First Recreational Cannabis Shop and It's Black Owned

2/8/2020 - Like the Good Ol' Boy He Is, Ben Carson Wants You All to Know That Donald Trump Is 'Not a Racist'

2/8/2020 - 'We Are the Table': I Attended the Essence Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon for the First Time and It Was Magic

2/8/2020 - CEO Loses His Cool and Then His Job After Calling an Uber Driver the N-Word

2/7/2020 - Postal Worker Saves Missing Toddler

2/7/2020 - 200 Medical Professionals Oppose Bills Aimed at Trans Youth. If Only Republicans Believed in Science

2/7/2020 - Carnegie Mellon University Apologizes After Campus Map Whites Out Black Neighborhoods

2/7/2020 - White Judge Placed on Administrative Duty After Calling Black Woman Juror in a Head Wrap 'Aunt Jemima'

2/7/2020 - Thank God for Marsai Martin

2/7/2020 - Which One of Y’all Called Heidi Klum a ‘White Woman’?

2/7/2020 - Bloomberg Is an Oligarch, Biden May Have Jumped the Shark and Warren’s Campaign Is Still in Park: 2020 Presidential Black Power Rankings, Week 28

2/7/2020 - #BlackStoriesHavePower: Barnes & Noble Suspends Plans to Publish Diverse Editions After Backlash

2/7/2020 - Because Nobody Asked for It, Erykah Badu Is Giving Us Incense That Smells Like Her...Badussy

2/7/2020 - Chrystul Kizer, Accused of Murdering Her Alleged Sex Trafficker, Has $1 Million Bond Reduced—to $400,000

2/7/2020 - Elizabeth Warren Apologizes After 6 Women of Color Quit Her Campaign

2/7/2020 - This 11-Year-Old Is Helping NYC Families Afford College

2/7/2020 - ICE Agents Shoot Innocent Man in the Face During Arrest Attempt in New York

2/7/2020 - Student-Teacher Dismissed for Teaching ‘Willie Lynch Letter’ to 4th-Graders

2/7/2020 - Where Misplaced Loyalty and Misogynoir Collide: On Snoop, Cosby, and Why Protecting Black Women Always Seems the Last Priority

2/7/2020 - Oscars Still White: April Reign Explains Why 'Diversity' Alone Isn't Cutting It

2/7/2020 - 10 Reasons Why Inviting White People to the Mythical 'Cookout' Is Stupid and Silly and Needs to Stop Forever

2/7/2020 - ‘Smoke Your Weed, Baby’: Memories of My Mother’s Truth or D.A.R.E.

2/7/2020 - So Fresh and So Clean: An Empowered Ayanna Pressley Claps Back at Alopecia-Shaming Trolls

2/7/2020 - An Artist Ahead of Her Time: Remembering Makeup Artist Vanessa Evelyn

2/7/2020 - The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: The State of the Clapback Is Strong

2/7/2020 - Black Movie Fridays: Just Wright Is a Fun Romantic Comedy But It Couldn’t Have Happened in Real Life

2/6/2020 - FBI Elevates Racial Extremists to 'National Threat Priority'

2/6/2020 - Justice Department to Investigate Conditions in Four Mississippi Prisons

2/6/2020 - Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin Pardoned 67 Years After Being Jailed For Having Sex With Men

2/6/2020 - Sorry to Those Brands: Keke Palmer Is the New Face of Olay, Okay?

2/6/2020 - Public Memorial Service for Kobe Bryant at the Staples Center Planned for Feb. 24: Report

2/6/2020 - Charleston News Broadcast Confuses U.S. Senate Candidate Jaime Harrison With Shoplifting Suspect: 'It Is Shocking and Disturbing'

2/6/2020 - Game, ‘Scarfs’: Our Favorite NBA Face-Off of the Season Might Be Serge Ibaka and OG Anunoby’s Fashion Feud

2/6/2020 - 'HBCU Caravan' Offers On-the-Spot Admissions, Scholarships to Hundreds of Southern California High Schoolers

2/6/2020 - High School Principal Suspended After Suggesting Kobe Bryant Deserved to Die

2/6/2020 - Watch: Nancy Pelosi Dry Snitches on Trump’s Alleged Drug Use

2/6/2020 - Russia Is Still All Up in America’s Elections, Dancing

2/6/2020 - An Immigrant’s Story: Acclaimed Author Edwidge Danticat Wins $100,000 Prize for Her ‘Genre-Spanning Work’

2/6/2020 - Insufferable Trump Holds Up Newspaper With ‘Acquitted’ Headline and Blasts Dems During National Prayer Breakfast

2/6/2020 - Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Bernie Sanders in Tight Race for 1st in an Iowa Caucus That Has Been a Damn Disaster

2/6/2020 - About Last Night: Andre Iguodala Lands in Miami and Other Moves You Might've Missed Ahead of the NBA Trade Deadline

2/6/2020 - Gayle King Asked Lisa Leslie About Kobe Bryant's Rape Case. The Response Revealed How Much Further We Need to Go

2/5/2020 - Viola Davis to Play Michelle Obama in 'First Ladies'

2/5/2020 - California Police Respond to a Teenager Having a Seizure by Handcuffing Him

2/5/2020 - David Schwimmer Responds to Erika Alexander

2/5/2020 - To Trayvon, on Your 25th Birthday

2/5/2020 - Trump Is Acquitted. Right, in Fact, Doesn't Matter in America

2/5/2020 - A Year After Its Blackface Scandal, Prada Agrees to Longterm Structural Changes

2/5/2020 - America's Got Ash: Where Does Terry Crews Fit On The Ash Spectrum?

2/5/2020 - Trump’s Impeachment Trial, Day Who Cares Anymore: The End Is Almost Here

2/5/2020 - Books in Blackface: Barnes & Noble Celebrates Black History Month by Showcasing White Books

2/5/2020 - Trump Refused to Shake Nancy Pelosi’s Hand and Other Petty Moments From the State of the Union

2/5/2020 - A Rose for a Racist? Bachelor Contestant Outed as Former ‘White Lives Matter’ Model, Loses Cosmo Cover

2/5/2020 - On What Would've Been Trayvon Martin's 25th Birthday, Black Twitter Celebrates His Life and Legacy

2/5/2020 - Tavis Smiley’s Upcoming Trial Against PBS Will Raise Important Questions About Consent and Workplace Relationships

2/5/2020 - Jay-Z Might Be Past Kneeling, But He’s Not Past Explaining Why He and Beyoncé Sat During the Super Bowl National Anthem

2/5/2020 - At the 2020 State of the Union Address, Democratic Congresswomen Once Again Made a Statement With Style

2/5/2020 - From Kickstarter to Kickin' It At the Oscars: Matthew A. Cherry and Karen Rupert Toliver Talk Hair Love

2/5/2020 - They've Gotta Have Us and We've Gotta Have It: What's New and Black on Netflix During February, The Blackest Month?

2/5/2020 - Black History Month Is for White People

2/4/2020 - Deborah Batts, The Nation's First Openly LGBTQ Federal Judge, Has Died at 72

2/4/2020 - Illinois Cancels Voter Registrations for Almost 800 Former Inmates

2/4/2020 - Michigan State University Displays Dolls of Historical Black Figures Hanging From a Tree. Happy Black History Month?

2/4/2020 - In Logo's LGBTQ State of the Union, Billy Porter Delivers the Truth the World Will Never Hear From Trump

2/4/2020 - Media Outlets, Politicians Get Roasted by Twitter for Treatment of Black Women in Parliament: ‘This Is Due to Institutional Racism’

2/4/2020 - Wave of House Democrats Announce Boycott of Trump’s ‘Sham State of the Union’ Address

2/4/2020 - Former Neurosurgeon in the Buttermilk: Can You Spot Ben Carson in This Group of White Trump Supporters?

2/4/2020 - PSA of the Day: Black Women—and Megan Thee Stallion, Specifically—Are Not Avatars for Your Sexual Fantasies and Insecurities

2/4/2020 - Watch: Where Are All the Flag Lovers Now? Trump Plays and Points During the National Anthem

2/4/2020 - Police Obtain Warrant for Ancestry.com DNA Database

2/4/2020 - The Root Got an Early Copy of Trump’s State of the Union Speech

2/4/2020 - Welcome Home: $50 Million Amistad Paintings Returned to HBCU Talladega College

2/4/2020 - The Root Presents the Inaugural Blackest Awards in Honor of Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., aka 'The Skippies'

2/4/2020 - First Look: Boyz N The Hood Is Now Available on 4K Ultra HD With Bonus Tribute to John Singleton, Who 'Changed Hollywood'

2/4/2020 - Rihanna Will Receive President’s Award During the 51st NAACP Image Awards

2/4/2020 - Sneak Peek: Black Canary Knows It's a Man's World but It'll Be Nothing Without a Woman or a Girl in Birds of Prey

2/4/2020 - #GirlDad: LeBron James to Wear Gianna Bryant’s Jersey Number at NBA All-Star Game

2/4/2020 - Here's What Happened In Iowa Last Night and What We Know Now

2/4/2020 - After Oprah Backs Out, HBO Max Steps in to Stream Film About Russell Simmons’ Accusers

2/4/2020 - The Democratic Candidates, Ranked by Cookoutworthiness

2/3/2020 - GOP-Led States Want Supreme Court to Hold Off Obamacare Ruling Until After the Election

2/3/2020 - Live Blog: The Root Is at the Iowa Caucuses!

2/3/2020 - Derrick Nnadi Pays Adoption Fees for Over 100 Dogs to Celebrate Super Bowl Win

2/3/2020 - East River State Park in Brooklyn to Be Renamed After Marsha P. Johnson

2/3/2020 - The 2020 #BAFTAsSoWhite, but We Were Still Rooting for Everybody Black on the Red Carpet

2/3/2020 - NYC Coughs Up $1 Million in Settlement With Black Teachers Targeted for Their 'Big Lips,' 'Nappy Hair'

2/3/2020 - DNC Debate Rules Forced Diversity Out of the Democratic Presidential Race—and Then They Changed the Rules for a Really Rich White Man

2/3/2020 - 'I'm Part of the Problem': Joaquin Phoenix Calls Out BAFTA's Diversity Problem—Will Hollywood Actually Take Action or Is the Joke on Us?

2/3/2020 - VSB's Damon Young Wins Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers Award for What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker

2/3/2020 - Wendy Williams Is What Happens When You Don’t Cancel a Bitch the 1st Time She Gets Out of Pocket

2/3/2020 - A Star Washington Post Reporter Called Out a Racial Blindspot in an Article. Leadership Threatened to Fire Him

2/3/2020 - Lamar Jackson Kicks Off Black History Month by Making It, Named 2nd Ever Unanimous NFL MVP

2/3/2020 - Cherish The Day: Ava DuVernay, Xosha Roquemore and Alano Miller Discuss the Day that Changed Their Lives

2/3/2020 - Trump Impeachment Trial, Day 11: Only the Winning Team Cares About the Day After the Super Bowl

2/3/2020 - In Iowa City, Sudan and Chicago Take the Lead

2/3/2020 - Mayor Bloomberg’s ‘Black People Like Me’ Super Bowl Ad Was Just as Cynical as Donald Trump’s

2/3/2020 - What’s Better Than One Billionaire Remaining Seated During the Super Bowl National Anthem? Two

2/3/2020 - Where Is Kansas City? Bernie Sanders Is a Communist! All the Ways Trump Tried to Put Raisins Into the Super Bowl

2/3/2020 - Eric Bieniemy Is Good Enough to Win the Super Bowl, Just Not White Enough to Be an NFL Head Coach

2/3/2020 - First Look: The Children Are Our Future In HBO's We Are the Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest

2/3/2020 - Barbara Smith, Who Helped Coin the Term 'Identity Politics,' Endorses Bernie Sanders

2/2/2020 - Billy Porter Graces Sesame Street with Legendary Academy Award Tuxedo Gown and Pro-Life Petitioners Go Apes**t

2/2/2020 - The Color Purple Returning to the Big Screen for Black History Month

2/2/2020 - Chicago Rapper Sentenced to 99 Years for Putting Hit Out on Mother for Life Savings, Insurance

2/2/2020 - OK Trump, We Get It, You Hate Muslims: Nigeria is Unhappy to be Among Six New Countries Banned From U.S. Travel

2/2/2020 - More Georgia Racism: Snellville Business Owners Find 'No More N***er Businesses' Letters Pinned to Their Stores

2/2/2020 - Sexual Assault, Financial Misconduct and Lawsuits, Oh My: Law Firm Representing Giuliani Has Legal Problems of Its Own

2/2/2020 - Kobe Bryant and the Perils of the 'Transcendent' Athlete

2/1/2020 - 'The Game' Over Before It Was to Begin Again? The CW Will Not Move Forward With Mara Brock Akil's Beloved Sitcom

2/1/2020 - New Black History: Louisiana’s Largest HBCU Launches Own CBD Line, Becoming First to Ever Do So

2/1/2020 - Google Kicks Off Black History Month With Greensboro, N.C., Sit-In Doodle by Compton Artist Karen Collins

2/1/2020 - Nothing but Bad Apples in This Bunch: Entire Class of Georgia State Troopers Fired Over Cheating Scandal

2/1/2020 - Terry Crews Finally Apologizes for His Abject Inability to Shut the Hell Up. It May Be Too Little Too Late, Though

2/1/2020 - White Nationalists Are Everywhere. This Time, in the U.S. Coast Guard