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2020 June
6/30/2020 - Mahershala Ali to Play Legendary Black Boxer Jack Johnson in HBO Limited Series
6/30/2020 - 4 San Jose Officers Put on Leave After, You Guessed It, Racist Facebook Posts
6/30/2020 - North Carolina Wilmington Professor Retires Amid Calls for His Firing Over Bigoted and Insensitive Tweets
6/30/2020 - Two Florida Officials Fired for Whitewashing the Faces of Black Firefighters on a Public Mural
6/30/2020 - Black Information Network: Introducing the 1st and Only 24/7 Comprehensive All-News Audio Service for Black Voices
6/30/2020 - Georgia History Teacher Suspended for Teaching History
6/30/2020 - After Years of Handwringing, YouTube Finally Bans (Some) White Nationalists From Its Platform
6/30/2020 - Mr. America: Billy Porter Covers Essence's July-August Issue [Corrected]
6/30/2020 - How Oluwatoyin ‘Toyin’ Salau’s Family Remembered Her
6/30/2020 - Felicia Pride, on the 'Vulnerability, Sensuality, Softness and Hardness' of the Women in Her Short Film,
Tender
6/30/2020 - Take Off Your Mask, Terry Crews
6/30/2020 - White Hampton Inn Employee Fired After Calling Police on Black Guests Who Were Using the Swimming Pool
6/30/2020 - Black Mayor of Kansas City, Mo., Threatened With Lynching After Mandating Masks
6/30/2020 - Big Beauty Tuesday: Supermodel and Activist Joan Smalls Explains Why She Launched 'Donate My Wage'
6/30/2020 - Virgil Abloh Gets Clowned, Accused of Plagiarism for Half-Assed Design of Pop Smoke's Album Cover
6/30/2020 - Please Join Me in Roasting Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Executive Editor Keith Burris, the Pigeon Shit Shoulder Boy
6/30/2020 -
Fox & Friends
to Trump: Please Wear a Mask Over Your Anus-Like Mouth (I’m Paraphrasing a Bit)
6/30/2020 - Amy McGrath Wins Kentucky Democratic Primary, but the Establishment Is on Notice
6/30/2020 - 30 Days of Iconic Music Video Blackness With VSB, Day 30: Kendrick Lamar and SZA, 'All The Stars'
6/30/2020 - Louisville City Council Will Probe How Mayor Greg Fischer’s Office Handled the Fatal Shooting of Breonna Taylor
6/30/2020 - As Pride Month Comes to a Close, Google Honors Pioneering Activist Marsha P. Johnson With Her Own Doodle
6/30/2020 - It Took 3 Hours to Delete the President’s ‘White Power’ Tweet Because No One Could Reach Him. He Was Out Golfing...During a Pandemic
6/30/2020 - Aurora, Colo., Officers Under Investigation for Allegedly Appearing in Photos Mocking Elijah McClain’s Death at His Memorial
6/30/2020 - Frankly My Dear, We Don't Give a Damn About These Woke Gestures If We Don't See Systemic Change in Hollywood
6/30/2020 - Trump Was Briefed on Russian Bounties, So Why Is Everyone Lying?
6/29/2020 - Mayor Resigns for His Facebook Comments About Alabama Football's Black Lives Matter Video
6/29/2020 - In the Past Decade, at Least 70 People Have Died in Police Custody After Saying ‘I Can’t Breathe’: Report
6/29/2020 - After Years of Student Protests, Princeton Strikes the Name of Segregationist President Woodrow Wilson From Its Buildings
6/29/2020 - Twitch Joins Reddit in Cracking Down on Hate Speech, Forums Related to Trump
6/29/2020 - Yeezy's Collaboration With Gap Grabbed Headlines—but Its Other Black Designer Collab Has Sadly Been Shelved
6/29/2020 - Police SUV Seen Driving Into Crowd of Protestors in Detroit
6/29/2020 - White Woman Repeatedly Calls New Neighbors N-Word During Noise Complaint
6/29/2020 - Is Donald Trump's Twitter Account Trying to Start a Race War?
6/29/2020 - NBA Players Get the Green Light to Replace Names on Jerseys With Personalized Social Justice Messages
6/29/2020 - Spurred by the 2019 Death of Layleen Polanco, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Moves to End Solitary Confinement in City Jails
6/29/2020 - NASCAR Taps Mike Phillips to Play the National Anthem and He Seasoned It With a Dash of 'Lift Every Voice and Sing'
6/29/2020 - Karen and Ken Point Guns at Protesters Calling for St. Louis Mayor’s Resignation
6/29/2020 - 30 Days of Iconic Music Video Blackness With VSB, Day 29: Erykah Badu, 'Other Side of The Game'
6/29/2020 - Minneapolis Council VP Andrea Jenkins Explains What It Means to Defund the Police and Legislate as a Black Trans Woman
6/29/2020 - #TakeBackEssence? As Essence Celebrates 50 Years, Explosive Allegations Against Its Leadership Spark Controversy
6/29/2020 - Trump Wants Us to Believe No One Told Him Russia Offered Bounties for Killing U.S. Troops in Afghanistan. Have I Told You That Trump Is a Liar?
6/29/2020 - Corporations Withdraw Major Ad Dollars From Facebook Over the Company’s Lackluster Hate Speech Policies
6/29/2020 - Somebody Tell Cam Newton That the New England Patriots Ain't It
6/29/2020 -
Colin in Black & White
: Ava DuVernay and Colin Kaepernick Team Up for New Netflix Dramatic Limited Series
6/29/2020 - Trump Continues to Weaponize Twitter and Sharon Shows Karens How to Be an Ally
6/29/2020 - Anthony Mackie Calls Out Marvel for Its Lack of Diversity Behind the Camera
6/29/2020 - From Black Designers to Drugstore Brands, Meg Thee Stallion and Amanda Seales Served Accessible Beauty for the 2020 BET Awards
6/29/2020 - I Attended the 2020 BET Awards From the Comfort of My Home...Just Like Everyone Else!
6/28/2020 - Mississippi Governor Grudgingly Says He'll Sign a Bill to Change the State's Confederate Flag
6/28/2020 - Trans Women of Color File Lawsuit Against Trump Administration for Discriminatory Rule Change
6/28/2020 - 1 Person Killed, Another Injured After Shooter Fires on Breonna Taylor Protest in Louisville
6/27/2020 - Trump Pens Petty Letter to Chicago Officials, Ironically Calls Out Their Lack of Leadership
6/27/2020 - Colorado Police Officers Involved in Elijah McClain's Death Taken Off Streets
6/27/2020 - The Last Bomber Convicted in Church Killing of 4 Black Girls in Birmingham, Alabama Has Died
6/26/2020 - Talking Loud and Saying Nothing: Unilever Will Strike ‘Fair’ and ‘Lovely’ From Its Branding—but Will Continue to Sell Skin Lightening Products
6/26/2020 - New Jersey Corrections Officer Seen Mocking George Floyd's Death on Track to be Fired
6/26/2020 - Kanye's Spaceship Flies High: Kanye West Inking a Deal with Gap for Yeezy Gap Line Makes All of the (Dollars and) Sense to Me
6/26/2020 - Black Teen Says a Group of White Men Yelled Racial Slur, Sprayed Her With Lighter Fluid and Lit Her on Fire
6/26/2020 - Ms. Foundation Names Trans Writer and Activist Raquel Willis as New Director of Communications
6/26/2020 - As U.S. Faces Surge in Coronavirus Cases, Study Shows Black Americans Most Likely to Know Someone Who's Died from the Virus
6/26/2020 - The Root Jams Weekly (6/26/2020): 'The Definitive Summer Jams'
6/26/2020 - Auntie Unfiltered: How to Be an Ally
6/26/2020 - Alabama Football Drops Video Speaking Out Against Racism: 'All Lives Can’t Matter Until Black Lives Matter'
6/26/2020 - Trailer Roundup: That
Little Voice
in Your Head Is Thanks to the
Hamilton
Soundtrack
6/26/2020 - Planned Parenthood Officially Names Alexis McGill Johnson Its Permanent President
6/26/2020 - Trump’s Latest Comments About Blacks Thanking Him for His ‘Law and Order’ Approach Is Right Out of the Slave Master’s Playbook
6/26/2020 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: The Couchbed Solution
6/26/2020 - 30 Days of Iconic Music Video Blackness With VSB, Day 26: Force MDs, 'Tender Love'
6/26/2020 - Special Prosecutor Appointed in Elijah McClain Case
6/26/2020 - John Legend Discusses Hollywood's Social and Moral Responsibilities (and His
Verzuz
Two-Step) With
The Root
6/26/2020 - Jayson Tatum's Next Contract Could Be an Unexpected Casualty of the Coronavirus
6/26/2020 - 6 Months After Kneeling on a Black Woman’s Neck and Tasing Her Belly, Miami-Area Officer Faces Battery Charges
6/26/2020 - No, Symone Sanders Won't Shut Up—and She Doesn't Think We Should, Either
6/26/2020 - Michael B. Jordan's Outlier Society and Amazon Studios Launch Nostalgic Drive-In Series Highlighting Black and Brown Films
6/26/2020 - Call Sen. Tom Cotton 'White Butter' Because He's on a Racist Roll
6/26/2020 - So NASCAR's Official Response to Bubba Wallace Was 'We Just Have Random Nooses Around Sometimes' and That's It???
6/26/2020 - Aloe Blacc Releases New Song, Announces Next Album
All Love Everything
6/26/2020 - Rapper Huey Dead at 31, Reportedly Shot in St. Louis
6/26/2020 - ‘I Can’t Breathe’: Youth Facility Employees Charged After Black Child Dies of ‘Restraint Asphyxia’
6/25/2020 - Ohio Lawmakers Seek to Remove Slavery as a Punishment From State Constitution
6/25/2020 - Royal and Oratorial: Meghan and Harry Follow in the Obamas' Footsteps With New Public Speaking Deal
6/25/2020 - Disney's Splash Mountain Ride to be Rethemed Around 'Princess and the Frog'
6/25/2020 - Arizona City Councilman Apologizes After Saying 'I Can't Breathe' at Anti-Mask Rally
6/25/2020 - Jeff Bezos Says Black Lives Matter, but Will He Make a Meaningful Stand for Black Amazon Employees?
6/25/2020 - The Newly Formed Black in Fashion Council Will Gauge Industry Accountability With an 'Equality Index'
6/25/2020 - So Now That the Dust Has Settled, Who's In and Who's Out of the NBA Bubble?
6/25/2020 - Whiteness Will Never Be Canceled
6/25/2020 - Dead Folks Out Here Living: Treasury Sent $1.4 Billion in Stimulus Payments to People Who Are No Longer With Us
6/25/2020 - 30 Days of Iconic Music Video Blackness With VSB, Day 25: Busta Rhymes, 'Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See'
6/25/2020 - Colorado Governor Pledges to Look Into Elijah McClain’s 2019 In-Custody Death After Nationwide Outcry
6/25/2020 - ‘If I Had a Gun, I Would Shoot All of You’: San Francisco Man Charged With Hate Crime for Threatening Black Family Over BLM T-Shirts
6/25/2020 - Damn, Y'all. Vince Carter Is Really Done
6/25/2020 - 'I Am Not Able to Rest': Samaria Rice Reflects on the Life and Legacy of Her Son Tamir Rice on His 18th Birthday
6/25/2020 - Beyoncé, Tina Knowles-Lawson and Mothers of the Movement Call Out 'Modern-Day Voter Suppression,' Urge Senate to Pass HEROES Act
6/25/2020 - We Still Need to Talk About Rep. Matt Gaetz’s ‘Son’ Nestor
6/25/2020 - Beyoncé to Receive 2020 Humanitarian Award at the 2020 BET Awards
6/25/2020 - New Report on Layleen Xtravaganza Polanco's Death Highlights the Cruelty of NYC Jails' Policies Toward Trans People [Corrected]
6/25/2020 - 3 NC Police Officers Fired After ‘Accidental’ Recording Catches Them Fantasizing About Killing Black People
6/25/2020 - House Hearing on Bill Barr Quickly Turns Into Petty Version of
Romper Room
6/25/2020 - Bubba Wallace's Mother Spills the Tea on Other Drivers Calling Him the N-Word: 'We’ve Been Through All of That'
6/25/2020 - Animated Allies: Kristen Bell and Jenny Slate Step Down From Cartoon Roles So They Can Be Voiced by Black People
6/25/2020 - Okayplayer/OkayAfrica CEO Resigns Amidst Toxic Workplace Allegations by Black Female Employees, Questlove Shares Company Statement
6/25/2020 - Opting to Stay Inside? There Are So Many Virtual Events to Check Out
6/25/2020 - Everything You Wanted to Know About the Police Reform Bills. No, Seriously...
Everything
6/24/2020 - Walmart to No Longer Display Mississippi State Flag in Stores
6/24/2020 - Two White Men in a Car Yelled Slurs and Chased Down Three Black Teens Who Were Riding Bikes
6/24/2020 - Georgia (Finally) Passes a Hate Crime Bill
6/24/2020 - The Music Industry’s Utter Disrespect of Black Women Feels Like Constant White Noise
6/24/2020 - A Grand Jury Has Indicted All 3 Men Involved in the Death of Ahmaud Arbery
6/24/2020 - Study Finds Black Lives Matter Protests Didn't Lead to Growth in Coronavirus Cases
6/24/2020 - Tennessee Prosecutor Calls for Officers to Be Investigated for Beating Black Man While He Was Handcuffed
6/24/2020 - As Fashion and Beauty Leaders Scramble on Race Issues, Black Insiders Organize to Demand an Industry Makeover
6/24/2020 - One of the Cops Who Killed Breonna Taylor Has Been Fired, but Louisville Plans to Fully Fund the Police Department That Made Him Possible
6/24/2020 - The Washington Redskins Want Nothing to Do With Their Racist Past, But Opt to Retain Their Racist Name
6/24/2020 - Everything I Know About White People I Learned on Social Media
6/24/2020 - Rhode Island Gives Voters a Chance to Remove ‘Plantation’ From Its Official Name
6/24/2020 - Kerry Washington Says Hollywood's Diversity Commitment 'Still Centers Whiteness'
6/24/2020 - 30 Days of Iconic Music Video Blackness With VSB, Day 24: Jodeci, 'Stay'
6/24/2020 - Teflon Don and Nem: How All Trump’s Allies Are Missing Jail Time
6/24/2020 - In Its Efforts to Make Itself a More Inclusive Sport, NASCAR Has Failed Already
6/24/2020 -
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
's Upcoming Season Will Be Reworked in Wake of Police Brutality Protests
6/24/2020 - 'Aunt Jemima Was Canceled' Says Very Sad White Woman Upset About Black Lives Matter and...Pancake Syrup
6/24/2020 - Roger Stone Really Is a Pimp, and Bill Barr Is a Hitman
6/24/2020 - Kendrick Sampson Pens Letter to Hollywood Calling for Police Divestment, Over 300 Black Creators Sign
6/24/2020 - Now We Wait: With Mail-In Ballots Yet to be Counted, Here's What We Know So Far From Tuesday's Primary Races
6/24/2020 - San Jose Police Looking for White Woman Who Intentionally Coughed in 1-Year-Old’s Face After Altercation With Hispanic Family
6/24/2020 - #OscarsSoWhite Creator April Reign Is Launching a Digital Content Studio for People of Color
6/24/2020 - Pennsylvania Supreme Court Allows Bill Cosby to Appeal 2018 Sexual Assault Conviction
6/23/2020 - FBI Finds No Hate Crime Committed In Bubba Wallace's Garage
6/23/2020 - San Francisco 49ers Debut Black Lives Matter Flag at Levi Stadium
6/23/2020 - Trump: ‘I Don’t Kid.’ Well, You Don’t Adult Either
6/23/2020 - Black Mother and Son Discriminated Against in Maryland Restaurant
6/23/2020 - This White Florida Man Really Tried to Bum-Rush His Way Into Walmart After Being Blocked From Entering Without a Face Mask
6/23/2020 - Bernice A. King Gives Moving Speech at Funeral for Rayshard Brooks in the Atlanta Church Where Her Father Preached
6/23/2020 - To the Suprise of Nobody, Some Asshole Just Flew a 'White Lives Matter' Banner Over a Soccer Stadium
6/23/2020 - Climate Change and Air Pollution Linked to Pregnancy Risks—With Black Mothers and Their Infants Suffering the Most
6/23/2020 - Sen. Cory Booker Breaks Down What 'Defund the Police' Means to Him
6/23/2020 - If Damon Lindelof 'Doesn't See It' for
Watchmen
Season 2, 'It's a No’ for Regina King, Too
6/23/2020 - Big Beauty Tuesday: Loving the Skin We're In, With Urban Skin Rx
6/23/2020 - Barack Obama to Address the LGBTQ Community for Pride Live's Stonewall Day
6/23/2020 - 30 Days of Iconic Music Video Blackness With VSB, Day 23: Kriss Kross, 'Jump'
6/23/2020 - Black Woman Repeatedly Called N-Word and ‘Ape’ by Racist White Woman in NYC
6/23/2020 - NYPD's Shake Shack 'Incident' Was a Whole-Ass Lie
6/23/2020 - Rudy Guiliani: Black Lives Matter Wants to Take Your Beautiful Caucasian Homes
6/23/2020 - With Challengers on Her Left, NY Rep. Yvette Clarke Says She Is More Than Progressive Enough to Lead
6/23/2020 - James Dolan Can't Wait to Fire the Next Knicks Head Coach and He Hasn't Even Been Hired Yet
6/23/2020 - In Boots Riley's New TV Series, Jharrel Jerome Portrays a Virgo...Who Is 13-Feet Tall
6/23/2020 - Jesus Can Wait
6/23/2020 - Protesters Attempted to Tear Down an Andrew Jackson Statue Near the White House
6/23/2020 -
#BlackAF
Is Getting Blacker AF With Season 2 Renewal at Netflix
6/23/2020 - Jimmy Kimmel Comes Under Fire for Unearthed Blackface Skit and N-Word Usage
6/23/2020 - Mr. Steal Your Election Is Tweeting Random Videos of Black Men Attacking People
6/23/2020 - A Noble Art: This Fine Photography Sale Helps Support Black Trans Lives and More
6/23/2020 - Chrystul Kizer, Held in Jail for 2 Years After Killing Her Alleged Abuser, Finally Set Free Thanks to Community Bond Fund
6/23/2020 - 2 Athletes Announce Transfers From Liberty University, Citing the 'Racial Insensitivity' of the School's Leadership
6/23/2020 - Best-dressed Black Man? Formula 1 Racer Lewis Hamilton's Tightest Looks
6/22/2020 - American Airlines Sued for Racial Discrimination After Black Passenger Removed From Flight
6/22/2020 - Indiana Politician Resigns After Claiming Some Insane Foolishness About 'Uneducated' Voters Breeding
6/22/2020 - Long Lines for Black Voters Anticipated as Kentucky Cuts More than 95 Percent of Polling Places Ahead of Its Democratic Primary
6/22/2020 - California Sheriff's Office Employee Caught Vandalizing a Black Lives Matters Sign
6/22/2020 - Descendants of Confederate General John B. Gordon Request His Monument Removed From Georgia State Capitol
6/22/2020 - Is Jamie Foxx Bulking Up to Portray Mike Tyson in a Biopic? 'It's a Definitive Yes'
6/22/2020 - NYPD Officer Suspended Without Pay for Using Banned Chokehold During Arrest
6/22/2020 - #SayTheirNames: Angel McCoughtry Petitions WNBA to Allow Players to Wear the Names of Police Brutality Victims on Their Jerseys
6/22/2020 - ‘Everybody’s Life Matters’: Muhammad Ali Jr. Emerges From the Sunken Place to Say His Father Wouldn’t Have Supported Black Lives Matter
6/22/2020 - Exclusive Interview: Confederate Icons Speak Out on Recent Events
6/22/2020 - Jodie Isn't Just Daria's Black Friend—Comedy Central Picks Up New Spinoff Starring Tracee Ellis Ross
6/22/2020 - Supermodel Joan Smalls Commits Half Her Salary to Racial Justice—and Urges Others to Do Their Part Through Donate My Wage
6/22/2020 - Ending White Supremacy Requires White People To Realize That Black Liberation Isn't A 'Zero Sum Game'
6/22/2020 - 30 Days of Iconic Music Video Blackness With VSB, Day 22: Jill Scott , 'Gettin' In The Way'
6/22/2020 - Pharrell Williams, Kenya Barris to Reportedly Develop Juneteenth Musical for Netflix
6/22/2020 - The
Rich Dad Poor Dad
Guy Is a Racist, Idiot Trump Supporter So Please STFU About That Shitty Book Forever
6/22/2020 - Russell Wilson, Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe Deliver Powerful Black Lives Matter Message at 2020 ESPYs
6/22/2020 - When You See It...
6/22/2020 - President Trump Told Me to Go Back to Somalia. So, I Did
6/22/2020 - Kelly Rowland Shares Sweet Photos of Her Biological Father for Father's Day
6/22/2020 - Minnesota Corrections Officers File Lawsuit Claiming All Non-White Officers Were Barred From Guarding Derek Chauvin
6/22/2020 - Man Arrested in Death of 19-Year-Old Activist Toyin Salau Confessed to Killing Her, Say Florida Police
6/22/2020 - In This Commercial, We Find Out What Ja Rule Thinks About Gyros
6/22/2020 - A Presidential Walk of Shame and Everything Else That Happened After Trump’s Tragic Tulsa Rally
6/22/2020 - NASCAR Launches Investigation After Noose Found in Bubba Wallace's Garage Stall: 'This Will Not Break Me'
6/21/2020 - Read This Man's Alleged Racist, Homophobic Threats To Strangers He Believed Didn't Love Trump
6/21/2020 - Government Spy Planes and Drones Were Surveilling Recent Black Lives Matter Protests
6/21/2020 - D.L. Hughley Tests Positive for COVID-19 After Collapsing On Stage in Nashville
6/21/2020 - 30 Days of Iconic Music Video Blackness With VSB, Day 21: Will Smith, 'Just the Two of Us'
6/21/2020 - Ticket Holder Wearing 'I Can't Breathe' Shirt Arrested at Trump's Barely Attended Rally in Tulsa
6/20/2020 - Crowd Pulls Down Confederate Statue in Washington, D.C. on Juneteenth
6/20/2020 - U.S. Attorney for Manhattan Challenges His Late Night Forced Resignation by Trump Administration [Updated]
6/20/2020 - Beyoncé Drops New Song 'Black Parade,' Lifts Up Black-Owned Businesses on Juneteenth
6/20/2020 - 30 Days of Iconic Music Video Blackness With VSB, Day 20: Stepanie Mills, '(You're Puttin') A Rush On Me'
6/19/2020 - Democratic Senators Will Introduce Legislation to Make Juneteenth a Federal Holiday
6/19/2020 - One of the Officers Who Shot Breonna Taylor Is Being Fired...It Ain't Enough, but It's a Start
6/19/2020 - VSB Dads Share Their Father's Day Wish Lists. We Thank You In Advance
6/19/2020 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Juneteenth Edition
6/19/2020 - Auntie Unfiltered: AmeriKKKa Gaslights Black People
6/19/2020 - An Exclusive Interview With an Organizer of the Original Juneteenth Cookout
6/19/2020 - The Root Jams Weekly (6/19/2020): 'Juneteenth'
6/19/2020 - Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Alicia Garza on How to Organize and Stay Inspired During a Crisis
6/19/2020 - On Juneteenth Eve Trump Took a Shot at Race-Based 'Fake News' by...Posting Race-Based Fake News. Twitter Wasn't Having it Though
6/19/2020 - My Ancestors Want Me to Make a Banana Pudding for Juneteenth [Updated]
6/19/2020 - Tim Scott Won’t Acknowledge Systemic Racism and Defunding Police Because He Actually Wants to Stop Systemic Racism...By Defunding the Police
6/19/2020 - John Legend’s
Bigger Love
Wraps Black Joy, Nostaglia and More in a Pleasing Bow
6/19/2020 - When Black Twitter Celebrated the First Juneteenth
6/19/2020 - Finding Black Joy in Times of Crisis
6/19/2020 - The Timeless Freedom of
Miss Juneteenth
6/19/2020 - U.S. Sen. Cory Booker Talks Ending Qualified Immunity in Policing and More With The Root on Instagram Live
6/19/2020 - 30 Days of Iconic Music Video Blackness With VSB, Day 19: Public Enemy, 'Fight The Power'
6/19/2020 - What Juneteenth and My Father Taught Me About 'Expectations'
6/19/2020 - How Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams Envisions the Future of Policing in New York City
6/18/2020 - Georgia Mayor Says 'Privilege Is Wearing $200 Sneakers' In Racist Facebook Post
6/18/2020 - Richmond Judge Won’t Let Virginia be Great, Extends Injunction Preventing the Removal of Robert E. Lee Monument
6/18/2020 - Cream of Wheat Joins Quaker Oats and Mars in Reviewing Packaging Due to Racist Imagery
6/18/2020 - Sorry, LeBron. Bill Russell Makes a Compelling Argument As to Why He's the Greatest Athlete in NBA History
6/18/2020 - FBI to Investigate Nooses Hanging in a California Park as a Hate Crime
6/18/2020 - Tick Tock:
Watchmen
Will Be Free on HBO for a Few Days Starting on Juneteenth—You Must Watch It
6/18/2020 - Don't Expect the Lover's Spat Between Kevin Durant and Kendrick Perkins to End Anytime Soon
6/18/2020 - Trump Now Thinks Colin Kaepernick Can Play in the NFL and It Only Took Him 4 Years and 8 Minutes and 46 Seconds
6/18/2020 - 'Karen McMuffin' Just Had a Human Moment Under Stress...
Which Is Why No Human Should Have the Legal Right to Kill
6/18/2020 - Michelle Obama to Co-Host The Roots Picnic's Virtual Concert
6/18/2020 - Remember the Love:
Noah's Arc
Returns With a 'Rona-Themed Reunion Special for Its 15th Anniversary
6/18/2020 - 30 Days of Iconic Music Video Blackness With VSB, Day 18: Dennis Edwards and Siedah Garrett 'Don't Look Any Further'
6/18/2020 - Christopher Trumplumbus: I Discovered Juneteenth!
6/18/2020 - Atlanta Officers Call in Sick After Former Cop Who Shot Rayshard Brooks Was Charged With Felony Murder
6/18/2020 - Twitter Is in a Frenzy Over Resurfaced Article About Beethoven's Possible Blackness
6/18/2020 - Well What Do Ya Know, New Book Claims Trump Was Out Here Begging China's President to Help Him Get Reelected
6/18/2020 - 10 Thoughts on J. Cole's 'Snow On Tha Bluff'
6/18/2020 - Oscar Winner Matthew A. Cherry Signs First-Look Deal With Warner Bros. Television Group
6/18/2020 - Denver Broncos Safety Kareem Jackson Tests Positive for COVID-19
6/18/2020 - Looking for Things to Do on Juneteenth? We've Got You Covered
6/18/2020 - There's a Real Possibility That Colin Kaepernick Could Be on an NFL Roster This Season
6/18/2020 - 30 Days of Iconic Music Video Blackness With VSB, Day 17: Queen Latifah, 'Ladies First'
6/17/2020 - Publix Supermarkets Ban Black Lives Matters Apparel for Employees
6/17/2020 - Crystal Dunn Was Afraid She'd Lose Her Career If She Kneeled With Megan Rapinoe
6/17/2020 - Former Officer Garrett Rolfe Charged With Felony Murder in Shooting of Rayshard Brooks
6/17/2020 - The Stolen Life of Mecenia Dials
6/17/2020 - 'When You Love Someone, You Hold Them Accountable': Sil Lai Abrams Speaks Her Piece on
The Breakfast Club
6/17/2020 - Karen the Kop Kries Kause She Had to Wait in the McDonald's Drive-Thru
6/17/2020 - Okay, So Maybe Life Inside the NBA's Bubble Won't Be So Bad After All
6/17/2020 - Quaker Oats Will Remove Aunt Jemima Brand From Its Products in Favor of Something ‘Appropriate and Respectful’
6/17/2020 - Exclusive: Issa Rae's Raedio, HBO and Tenderfoot TV to Donate $30K to the Black and Missing Foundation
6/17/2020 - Alleged 'Boogaloo Boy' Charged With Murder in Death of Federal Officer During Oakland Black Lives Matter Protests
6/17/2020 - Dr. Fauci Wouldn’t Attend Trump’s Tulsa Rally, Even With a 6-Foot Pole (I’m Paraphrasing)
6/17/2020 - Netflix CEO Donating $120 Million to HBCUs and the United Negro College Fund
6/17/2020 - A Growing PATTERN: Tracee Ellis Ross Tells The Glow Up About Her Beauty Brand's Next Phase
6/17/2020 - NY Congressional Candidate Jamaal Bowman Has Establishment Democrats Losing Their Shit
6/17/2020 - Republicans Unveil Trash-Ass Police Reform Bill That Discourages Chokeholds But Doesn’t Ban Them
6/17/2020 - 'Performance Doesn’t Fix Systems and Structures': Ava DuVernay and More Get Honest About Hollywood
6/17/2020 - Yes, the Police Are Racist
6/17/2020 - Juneteenth Is Finally Entering the Mainstream American Consciousness. Now Make It An Official Federal Holiday
6/17/2020 - Giancarlo Stanton, CC Sabathia Among MLB Stars in Emotional Black Lives Matter Video
6/17/2020 - LL Cool J's "Rock The Bells" Expands Into a Web Destination Celebrating Hip-Hop's Trailblazers
6/17/2020 - Watch: Kentucky U.S. Senate Candidate Charles Booker Calls for Defunding the Police and Term Limits
6/17/2020 - Teyana Taylor Features Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill on
The Album
, Which Arrives on Juneteenth
6/17/2020 - Ohio Black Lives Matter Demonstration Overrun by Hundreds of Armed Counterprotesters
6/17/2020 - Exonerated 5 Member Yusef Salaam Weighs in on Recent Black Lives Matter Protests: 'This Is Courageous Living'
6/16/2020 - University of California Votes to Restore Affirmative Action 24 Years After Its Repeal
6/16/2020 - Retail on the Rebound? Trump Touts 17.7 Percent Boost in May Retail Sales—Conveniently Ignoring April's Record Drop
6/16/2020 - Oklahoma State's Chuba Hubbard Threatens Boycott, Calls Out Coach for Supporting One America News: 'I Am a Young Black Man That Wants Change'
6/16/2020 - Mississippi Lawmakers Are Drafting Legislation to Remove Confederate Symbol From State Flag
6/16/2020 - The
Insecure
Season 4 Finale Was a Lot, but This Issa Rae-Luther Vandross Mashup Will Never Be Too Much
6/16/2020 - NYPD Disbanding Plainclothes Anti-Crime Unit, aka 'Last Chapter' of Stop and Frisk
6/16/2020 - When a Bad Apple Spoils a New Barrel: New Study Unpacks the Dangers of Hiring Previously Fired Cops
6/16/2020 - The FBI Will Monitor the Investigations Into the Deaths of Two Black Men Found Hanged in California
6/16/2020 - ‘It’s Time We Elevate This’: Gov. Northam Declares Juneteenth a Paid Holiday in the State of Virginia
6/16/2020 - Once Teammates, Now Kyrie Irving and LeBron James Represent Opposing Factions Fighting for the NBA's Future
6/16/2020 - Oscars 2021 Ceremony Pushed to April—How Will the Move Affect Black Filmmakers and Actors?
6/16/2020 - Ted Cruz Challenged Actor Ron Perlman to Wrestle Jim Jordan, Which Further Proves That 2020 Is Trash
6/16/2020 - Ezekiel Elliot One of 'Several' Dallas Cowboys, Houston Texans Players to Test Positive for COVID-19
6/16/2020 - Big Beauty Tuesday: A Look at the
Legendary
World of Ballroom With Makeup Artist La Sonya Gunter & Friends
6/16/2020 - Tyler Perry Reportedly Funding Rayshard Brooks' Funeral
6/16/2020 - A Letter to the Shameless Negroes Marching in Suits to 'Change the Narrative'
6/16/2020 - Top 5 Ways to Erase Racism (According to White People)
6/16/2020 - Uptown Girl: Teyana Taylor's Upcoming Collab With M.A.C. Is an Ode to Harlem
6/16/2020 - Trump Signs Police Reform Executive Order While Rubbing the Heads of Cops and Van Jones Thinks It’s a Good Thing
6/16/2020 - Capitalizing the “B” in Black Is Nice, but Actually Hiring Black People in Your Newsroom Is Nicer
6/16/2020 - 30 Days of Iconic Music Video Blackness With VSB, Day 16: 2Pac featuring Dr. Dre, 'California Love'
6/16/2020 - Trump’s Niece Goes Full 6ix9ine, Spills all the Tea in New Tell-All. We Must Protect Her at All Costs
6/16/2020 - Philadelphia Court Employee Fired After Video Shows Him Tearing Down ‘Black Lives Matter’ Signs: ‘Not to Me, They Don’t’
6/16/2020 -
Emancipation
: Will Smith to Star in Film Based on Historic Photo of Enslaved Man 'Whipped Peter' Gordon
6/16/2020 - Queen Latifah Supports the Removal of
Gone With the Wind
From HBO Max
6/16/2020 - Atlanta Cop Who Killed Rayshard Brooks Was Previously Reprimanded for Use of Force Involving a Firearm
6/16/2020 - Alpha Kappa Alpha Announces Scholarships for George Floyd’s Daughter, Granddaughters
6/16/2020 - Masterclass With 'Mother': Pat McGrath's 1st-Ever Tutorial Benefits the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
6/16/2020 - Gucci Mane May Leave Atlantic Records After Claiming They're 'Polite Racist'
6/16/2020 - Father of Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar Dies of COVID-19
6/15/2020 - NASCAR Team Unveils 'Blue Lives Matter' Themed Car Because White Fragility Had Time This Week
6/15/2020 - Family of Man Found Hanged in California Requests Independent Autopsy; 2nd Man Hanged 50 Miles Away
6/15/2020 - A Black Pastor in Virginia Got Beat Up By a Mob of White People and Then Local Sheriffs Arrested Him
6/15/2020 - Minneapolis Police Officers Are Resigning Apparently Because Protesters Are Hurting Their Feelings
6/15/2020 - Buffalo City Council Calls for Investigation Into Firing of Black Cop, Who Reportedly Stopped a White Cop From Choking Suspect in 2006
6/15/2020 - Death of Oluwatoyin Salau: What We Know So Far
6/15/2020 - Drake, Megan Thee Stallion, Roddy Ricch Lead 2020 BET Award Nominations; Show To Broadcast On CBS Too
6/15/2020 - Thousands Flood the Streets of Brooklyn for Black Trans Lives Matter Demonstration
6/15/2020 - 30 Days of Iconic Music Video Blackness With VSB, Day 15: Cameo, 'Word Up!'
6/15/2020 - Beyoncé Urges Kentucky Attorney General to Bring Breonna Taylor's Killers to Justice
6/15/2020 - The Root Interviews Kentucky U.S. Senate Candidate Charles Booker On Instagram Live Today
6/15/2020 - ABC News Executive Reportedly Made 'Picking Cotton' Comment Aimed at
Good Morning America
's Robin Roberts
6/14/2020 - Stunt Queen Trump Schedules Rally in Tulsa on Juneteenth, Changes It After People Call Out The Obvious
6/14/2020 - Alicia Keys and John Legend Team Up for Juneteenth
Verzuz
6/14/2020 - 30 Days of Iconic Music Video Blackness With VSB, Day 14: The Roots 'What They Do'
6/14/2020 - Protestors in Atlanta Set Fire to Wendy's Where Rayshard Brooks Was Killed by Police
6/13/2020 - Police Shoot and Kill Man at a Wendy's Drive-Thru in Atlanta, Driving New Protests and an Investigation
6/13/2020 - Black Skin Matters Now: Band-Aid Says It Will Start Selling Bandages in Darker Shades
6/13/2020 - 30 Days of Iconic Music Video Blackness With VSB, Day 13: Michael Jackson, 'Thriller'
6/13/2020 - Trump Administration Reverses Obama-Era Rule Protecting Transgender People From Discrimination
6/12/2020 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: The Evidence of Things Not Seen
6/12/2020 - Malcolm Brogdon Says Some Players Are 'Super Interested' in Sitting Out the Return of the NBA 2020 Season
6/12/2020 - NYPD Police Officer Tells Fellow Cops He Kneeled Because the Protesters Were Scary
6/12/2020 - Auntie Unfiltered: Black People Can’t Save You; We Tryna Save Ourselves
6/12/2020 - Exclusive: HBO to Host
Insecure
Season 4 Finale Pre-Show On IG Live in Support of Black Lives Matter
6/12/2020 - The Root Jams Weekly (6/12/2020): 'A Roller Skating Jam Named Blackness'
6/12/2020 - Starbucks Bans, Then Quickly Reverses Ban on Employees Wearing 'Black Lives Matter' Attire
6/12/2020 -
The Bachelor
Dips Toe Into 'Diversity,' Chooses Black Male Lead For the First Time in History
6/12/2020 - Another Day, Another Karen: Apartment Complex Employee Suspended for Blocking Black Residents From Swimming Pool
6/12/2020 - Keke Palmer On Her Conversation With National Guardsman at L.A. Protest: "I Was Just Speaking From My Heart"
6/12/2020 - 30 Days of Iconic Video Music Blackness With VSB, Day 12: Juvenile 'Ha'
6/12/2020 - Dave Chappelle Discusses Police Brutality, Candace Owens and More in Netflix Special
8:46
6/12/2020 - Louisville Bans No-Knock Warrants With 'Breonna's Law,' But Her Killers Still Haven't Been Arrested
6/12/2020 - André 3000 Discusses His New Protest T-Shirt Line and His 'Hope' for Anti-Racism Marches in Rare Interview
6/12/2020 - Fashioning the Future: Gucci Celebrates Its 1st Class of Changemaker Scholars
6/11/2020 - Coronavirus Expected to Wipe Out 40 Percent of Black-Owned Businesses
6/11/2020 - Oklahoma Police Officer Tells Black Man 'I Don't Care' After He Says 'I Can't Breathe.' Man Later Dies
6/11/2020 - Tulsa Police Release Footage of Officers Handcuffing and Arresting Black Teenagers for...Jaywalking
6/11/2020 - After New Video Emerges in Manuel Ellis' Death, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee Orders Independent Investigation
6/11/2020 -
Belly of the Beast
Documentary Aims to Uncover Injustices Faced by Incarcerated Women
6/11/2020 - US Senate Candidate Jaime Harrison of South Carolina Talks Ending Qualified Immunity for Bad Cops, Expanding Obamacare and More With The Root
6/11/2020 - Cover Stories: The #VogueChallenge Is a Black Beauty Revolution for the Fashion World
6/11/2020 - Pittsburgh Paper Removed Police Brutality Stories, Then Republished Them With Pro-Cop Images
6/11/2020 - H.E.R. Debuts Chilling New Protest Song, 'I Can't Breathe'
6/11/2020 - An End to Product Profiling? Walmart Will No Longer Keep Multicultural Beauty Brands Under Lock and Key
6/11/2020 - Byron Allen Settles Racial Discrimination Lawsuit With Comcast
6/11/2020 - Trump’s Economic Adviser Larry Kudlow Doesn’t Believe Systemic Racism Exists. Why Is Anyone Talking to Larry Kudlow?
6/11/2020 - Ohio Lawmaker Wondered Out Loud If ‘Colored’ Folks Are Hit Harder By COVID-19 Because They Don’t Wash Their Hands Properly
6/11/2020 -
Da 5 Bloods
: Spike Lee on Black MAGA Supporters Drinking the 'Orange Kool-Aid' From 'Agent Orange'
6/11/2020 - LeBron James, Trae Young, Jalen Rose Partner to Create Black Voting Rights Initiative, More Than a Vote
6/11/2020 - Thanks to Aurora James, Sephora Just Pledged 15 Percent of Its Shelf Space to Black-Owned Brands
6/11/2020 - This Is Her: Writer Jas ‘JasFly’ Waters Dies at 39; Hollywood and Hip-Hop Insiders Celebrate Her Life
6/11/2020 - Thomas Lane, One of the Former Officers Charged in George Floyd’s Death, Is Free on $750,000 Bail
6/11/2020 - Gabrielle Union Options George M. Johnson's
All Boys Aren't Blue
Memoir for Series Development at Sony TV
6/11/2020 - Kentucky Official Says Louisville Restaurant Owner David McAtee Was Killed by National Guard
6/11/2020 - If You Ever Wanted to See White-on-White Crime, Check Out These Reactions to NASCAR's Confederate Flag Ban
6/11/2020 - Trump’s Holding His First Rally in Months on Juneteenth in Tulsa, Okla., and All of This Stinks of Stephen Miller
6/11/2020 - 30 Days of Iconic Music Video Blackness With VSB, Day 11: Ciara 'Oh'
6/11/2020 -
Live PD
Canceled; Show Reportedly Destroyed Tape of Javier Ambler’s Death
6/11/2020 - Seminars and Concerts and STEM, Oh My: Here Are Some Virtual (And In-Person) Events to Check Out This Weekend
6/11/2020 - LMPD Finally Released Breonna Taylor’s Police Report. It’s Almost Completely Blank
6/11/2020 - Ava DuVernay Has Been Elected to the Motion Picture Academy's Board of Governors for the 1st Time
6/10/2020 - US Navy Latest Military Force to Ban the Confederate Flag
6/10/2020 - Tulsa Police Major Says They're Shooting Black People '24 Percent Less Than We Probably Ought to Be'
6/10/2020 - HBO Max Temporarily Removes
Gone With the Wind
, Will Return With 'Discussions of Its Historical Context'
6/10/2020 - George Floyd and Derek Chauvin 'Bumped Heads' at Nightclub Where They Worked, Co-Worker Says [Update: No, They Did Not]
6/10/2020 - No, Serena Williams Didn't Convince Alexis Ohanian to Leave Reddit—but Daughter Alexis Olympia Helped
6/10/2020 - New Jersey Attorney General Releases Footage Connected to Police Shooting of Unarmed Black Man
6/10/2020 - 'Representation Matters': Vanity Fair's Samira Nasr Becomes the 1st Black Editor-in-Chief of Harper's Bazaar
6/10/2020 - 'Big Gretch,' aka Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Got Some Splainin' to Do!
6/10/2020 - For Years, ‘Qualified Immunity’ Protected Violent Cops. Could a New Court Decision Mark a Shift?
6/10/2020 - 'We Have Made Mistakes Too': Anna Wintour Apologizes for Vogue's Treatment of Black Talent
6/10/2020 - Joe Biden Just Wrote That He Wants to Give Police More Money, and He Totally Needs to STFU
6/10/2020 -
The Breakfast Club
Is Food Poisoning
6/10/2020 - Former NFL Star Brandon Marshall on Colin Kaepernick, National Anthem Protests: 'I Am Ashamed I Didn’t Take That Knee'
6/10/2020 - Solidarity Is in Style—but Is Fashion Media Really Ready to Reckon With Its Race Problem?
6/10/2020 - 30 Days of Iconic Music Video Blackness With VSB, Day 10: D'Angelo 'Untitled (How Does It Feel)'
6/10/2020 - Of Course, the GOP Convention Is Heading to the End of America’s Digestive Tract
6/10/2020 - A Missouri Woman Got Merriam-Webster to Agree to Update Its Definition of Racism
6/10/2020 - After a Very Public Parting, Munroe Bergdorf Rejoins L'Oréal in an Advisory Role
6/10/2020 - White Men in New Jersey Mock Peaceful Protestors by Reenacting George Floyd’s Death
6/10/2020 - What 'Defund' in 'Defund the Police' Actually Means, Explained
6/10/2020 - No More Cop-aganda: Paramount Network Cuts the Cord on
Cops
, America's Longest-Running Reality TV Show
6/10/2020 - Bubba Wallace, the Only Black Driver in NASCAR's Cup Series, Wants Confederate Flags Banned From the Sport [Updated: NASCAR Bans the Confederate Flag]
6/10/2020 - The George Floyd Homicide Video Is Not Cinéma Vérité—WTF Is Wrong With You, Ross Johnson?
6/10/2020 - Tim Scott, the Lone Black Republican Senator, Tasked With Coming Up With GOP's Police Reform Plan, and I’m Not Mad
6/10/2020 - The Root Interviews U.S. Senate Candidate Jaime Harrison of South Carolina Today on Instagram Live
6/10/2020 - When Will There Be a LGBTQ Renaissance in Rap?
6/9/2020 - DeAndre Hopkins, Deshaun Watson Petition Clemson to Remove John C. Calhoun's Name From Honors College
6/9/2020 - Louisiana Family Wants Answers After Father Dies in Police Custody
6/9/2020 - An 1890 Land Deed Halts Removal of Robert E. Lee Statue in Virginia
6/9/2020 - George Floyd Laid to Rest in Houston, Following Weeks of Protests Calling for Racial Justice and an End to Police Brutality
6/9/2020 - The Woman Who Sang the Viral 'Lose Yo Job' Song Is Getting the Recognition—and Coins—She Deserves
6/9/2020 - ‘This Conduct is Abhorrent’: Brooklyn Court Officer Suspended After Posting Image of Obama Being Lynched
6/9/2020 - ‘I Can’t Breathe’: Another Case of a Black Man Dying in Police Custody in Texas Is Under New Scrutiny Amid George Floyd Coverage
6/9/2020 - Pittsburgh Paper Expands Reporting Ban to Reporters Who Stood With Black Journalists Banned From Protest Coverage
6/9/2020 - What Could Possibly Be Going Wrong With Primary Voting in Brian Kemp’s Georgia?
6/9/2020 - 30 Days of Iconic Music Video Blackness With VSB, Day 9: Eddie Murphy 'Party All the Time'
6/9/2020 - Charlotte Hornets, Carolina Panthers End Partnerships With Security Firm After CEO Outs Himself as a Racist Ass Racist
6/9/2020 - Celebrities, Activists, Sports Stars and More to Participate in Instagram Initiative #PassTheMicNow
6/9/2020 - Momma, What Happens When You Make It? Yvonne Orji on Her Comedy Special and Friendships After Success
6/9/2020 - Big Beauty Tuesday: We Don’t Know How Mahisha Dellinger Does It
6/9/2020 - Officer Involved in Breonna Taylor Shooting Accused of Sexual Assault by 2 Women and Planting Drugs on a Suspect
6/9/2020 - Trump Believes the 75-Year-Old Man Pushed to the Ground by Buffalo, NY, Cops May Have Been an Antifa Operative
6/9/2020 - Bonnie Pointer, One of the Founding Members of the Pointer Sisters, Dies at 69 From Cardiac Arrest
6/9/2020 - The Fight for Our Collective Liberation
6/9/2020 - Milwaukee Educators Call for Hate Crime Charges After White Attorney Spits on Teen Protest Leader
6/9/2020 - Relax, Everyone. Sports Is a 'Colorblind Meritocracy' Because NBA Exec Bob Myers Says So
6/9/2020 - Black Second City Alumni Demand Racism and Sexual Misconduct Investigation Within Comedy Industry
6/9/2020 - Best Black-Led Movies and Shows Streaming on HBO Max Right Now
6/9/2020 - Donald Trump Jr.’s Mongolia Trip to Kill an Endangered Sheep Costs Taxpayers Nearly $77,000
6/9/2020 - Gayle King to Host
Justice for All
, a CBS News Special on Racism and Police Brutality
6/9/2020 - Music Industry Heavyweights Sign Open Letter to Repeal New York State Statute That Keeps Police Misconduct Records Private
6/9/2020 - Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Joins The Root Today on Instagram Live
6/8/2020 - Sorry to This Monument: Brits Give Statue of Prolific Slave Trader a Nice New Home at the Bottom of the Bristol Harbor
6/8/2020 - Due to a ‘Misclassification Error’ the Unemployment Rate Looks Like It’s Dropping Faster Than It Actually Is
6/8/2020 - Shocking No One, the Trump Administration Denies Systemic Racism Within Policing Exists
6/8/2020 - 'A Seminal Figure of Her Time, Ahead of Her Time': Cicely Tyson Receives Peabody Award for Career Achievement
6/8/2020 - Bill de Blasio Gestures at...Hints at...Suggests He Will Do the Right Thing by Saying He Will Cut Funding From NYPD
6/8/2020 - Joe Biden Visits George Floyd's Family in Houston; Derek Chauvin Makes First Court Appearance, Has Bail Set at $1.25 Million
6/8/2020 - Nancy Pelosi and 'Nem Just Introduced Sweeping Police Reform Bill While Wearing Kente Cloth
6/8/2020 - Hundreds of Ex- and Current Staffers Turn Out to Protest New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio
6/8/2020 - Until Lil Wayne Learns 'How to Love' Us, Please Stop Going to Him for Social Commentary
6/8/2020 - College Football Has a Serious Coronavirus Problem and the Season Hasn't Even Started Yet
6/8/2020 - Candace ‘Black Karen’ Owens’ GoFundMe Account Suspended Over George Floyd Comments
6/8/2020 - 30 Days of Iconic Video Blackness With VSB, Day 8: Total, 'Kissin' You'
6/8/2020 - A Letter to Terry Crews From the Grand Wiz of Black Supremacy
6/8/2020 - A Thoughtful Rumination on Lawmakers' Performative Wearing of Kente Stoles to Unveil the Justice in Policing Act of 2020
6/8/2020 - Ben Carson Says Protesting NFL Players Should Say They Love America; Colin Kaepernick’s Mom Claps Back With Receipts
6/8/2020 - The Good, the Bad and the Traumatic: Reevaluating the Role of Sharing Black Death on Social Media
6/8/2020 - Amidst Black Lives Matter Protests, Prince's Estate Releases Lyric Video for 2015 Song About Police Brutality
6/8/2020 - The Police Would Rather Kill White People Than Stop Killing Black People
6/8/2020 - Gov. Andrew Cuomo Backs Hate Crime Legislation for People Who Make False 911 Calls to Police Fueled by Bigotry
6/8/2020 - Does the Most Insecure President
Ever
Watch
Insecure
?
6/8/2020 - Bill Russell Comes Out of Retirement to Dunk on Trump From the Free Throw Line: 'You Are Divisive and a Coward'
6/8/2020 - YG Reportedly Shoots Music Video During L.A. Protest
6/8/2020 - Colin Powell Is Voting for Joe Biden and You-Know-Who Went Into an Orange Rage
6/8/2020 - Minneapolis City Council Vows It Will Dismantle Police Department: 'Our Efforts at Incremental Reform Have Failed. Period.'
6/8/2020 - The Obamas, Beyoncé and More Deliver Heartfelt Speeches For YouTube's Virtual Commencement Ceremony
6/8/2020 - Exclusive: A Coalition of Women of Color Pens Letter Accusing NYC Mayor's Administration of Racism [Updated]
6/8/2020 - You’ll Never Believe What This Florida Mom Allegedly Put in Her Baby’s Bottle
6/7/2020 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Bars Black Reporters From Covering Protests, Citing 'Bias'
6/7/2020 - Snoop Dogg Says He's Voting for the First Time in 2020 to Get Trump Out
6/7/2020 - Defund Police vs. #8CantWait Reforms: Differing Calls for Change to Address Police Brutality
6/7/2020 - 30 Days of Iconic Music Video Blackness With VSB, Day 7: TLC, 'Waterfalls'
6/6/2020 - Michael Jordan and the Jordan Brand Commits $100 Million in Donations for Racial Justice
6/6/2020 - Jaime Harrison: How Do I Tell My Black Sons That This Could Be Them?
6/6/2020 - Breonna Taylor's Neighbor Sues Louisville Police Officers for Firing Into Their Home on Fatal Night
6/6/2020 - Black Lives Matter—but Not Black Skin? Indian Celebs Called Out for Expressing Solidarity After Profiting From Colorism
6/6/2020 - NFL Now Says It Supports Players Who Peacefully Protest, But Doesn't Mention Colin Kaepernick
6/6/2020 - 30 Days of Iconic Music Video Blackness With VSB, Day 6: Rick James & Smokey Robinson 'Ebony Eyes'
6/5/2020 - Tennessee Sheriff Uses N-Word in Phone Call But Vows to 'Apologize to All the Citizens in the County.' Sure, Jan
6/5/2020 - Not
All
White Women: Lady Gaga, Selena Gomez and Lili Reinhart Devote Their Instagram Feeds to Black Activists
6/5/2020 - A Letter
Not
From a Birmingham Jail
6/5/2020 - Kanye West Puts His Money Where His Mouth Once Was, Sets Up College Fund for George Floyd's Daughter Gianna
6/5/2020 - Elected Prosecutors Need to Defend Black People—or Get Out
6/5/2020 - 30 Days of Iconic Music Video Blackness With VSB, Day 5: Missy Elliott 'The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)'
6/5/2020 - California Mayor Resigns After Saying 'No Good Person of Color' Has Been Killed by Police
6/5/2020 - Demand for
Dear White People
and
When They See Us
Skyrockets During George Floyd Protest Era
6/5/2020 - Patrick Mahomes, Zeke Elliot Among NFL Stars Demanding the League Condemn Racism, Admit to Silencing Colin Kaepernick
6/5/2020 - The Root Jams Weekly (6/5/2020): 'Say Her Name'
6/5/2020 - What You Can Do to Lift Up Breonna Taylor and Other Female Victims of Police Brutality
6/5/2020 - Here's Everything You Need to Know About the NBA's Return (Before the Clippers Win Their 1st NBA Title)
6/5/2020 - Texas GOP Calling for Chairwoman’s Resignation After She Claimed George Floyd’s Death Was Staged
6/5/2020 - There Are Really Only 2 Kinds of People: Those of Us Who Are Against Lynching and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul
6/5/2020 - Thousands of Black Lives Matter COVID-19 Face Masks Seized by Law Enforcement: a ‘Gross Disregard for Black Life’
6/5/2020 - Viral Sensations Young T & Bugsey Don't Plan on Rushing Their Journey to the Top
6/5/2020 - Sephora's Insider Rewards Are More Rewarding This June—You Can Use Them to Support Black LGBTQ+
6/5/2020 - Judge Rules That 3 Men Will Stand Trial for Murder in Ahmaud Arbery Case
6/5/2020 -
Where Do We Go From Here?
: Oprah to Host Two-Night Conversation Special on Systemic Racism
6/5/2020 - What's the #15PercentPledge? A Way for Major Retailers to Prove They Really Care About Black Lives
6/4/2020 - Audio Released in the Police Shooting of Dion Johnson
6/4/2020 - Louisville City Council Moves Forward With 'Breonna's Law'; Cops Walk Out on Mayor Because They're Big, Whiny Babies
6/4/2020 - George Floyd Remembered at Powerful Memorial Service in Minneapolis
6/4/2020 - Another Black Man Died in Police Custody After Crying Out ‘I Can’t Breathe.’ His Death Has Been Ruled a Homicide
6/4/2020 - Regina King Talks About Discussions With Her Son Regarding Racism: 'It’s an Ongoing Conversation'
6/4/2020 - Where'd All These Woke White People Come From?
6/4/2020 - Trump: Yes, I Went Down Into the Bunker but I Was Just Checking the Food Rations for Hot Fries
6/4/2020 - The Hollywood Black Squares: A Reckoning on Whether Solidarity With Black Lives Matter Is Fact or Fiction
6/4/2020 - 30 Days of Iconic Music Video Blackness With VSB, Day 4: Jade, 'Don't Walk Away'
6/4/2020 - The Revolution Will Not Have a Dress Code
6/4/2020 - Travis McMichael Was Heard Uttering Racial Slur After Ahmaud Arbery Was Killed, Investigator Testifies
6/4/2020 - ‘Richmond Is No Longer the Capital of the Confederacy’: Virginia Will Remove Robert E. Lee Statue, Four Other Confederate Monuments
6/4/2020 - Why Drew Brees Is the Worst Type of White Man, Explained
6/4/2020 - Gabrielle Union Files Harassment Complaint Against
America's Got Talent
Producers, Attorney Issues Statement
6/4/2020 - New York Times Writers Call Paper to Account for Deranged Tom Cotton Op-Ed: 'This Puts Black NY Times Staff in Danger'
6/4/2020 - White-on-White Violence: Piers Morgan and Rudy Giuliani Engage in the Worst
Verszuz
Battle Ever
6/4/2020 - Fed Up but Hopeful: Streams of Childish Gambino's 'This Is America' and Kendrick Lamar's 'Alright' Skyrocket Amid Protests
6/4/2020 - Livestream: Watch Today's Memorial Service for George Floyd
6/4/2020 - Drew Brees Declares He ‘Will Never Agree With Anybody Disrespecting the Flag’ and Other Clueless White People Things
6/4/2020 - NY Rep. Eliot Engel Caught on Hot Mic at George Floyd Press Conference: ‘If I Didn’t Have a Primary, I Wouldn’t Care’
6/4/2020 - 'When the Foundation Is Broken, So Are We': Meghan Markle Invokes Black Lives Matter in Emotional Commencement Speech
6/4/2020 - Da Brat Says She Felt Pressured to Stay in the Closet and Appear Desirable to Both Men and Women to Sell Records
6/4/2020 - Lauren London and Activist Erica Ford Discuss How Gun Violence Affects Women on
Red Table Talk
6/4/2020 - Tony McDade Was an ‘Imperfect’ Victim of Police Brutality. It’s Exactly Why He Matters
6/3/2020 - 'Your Lives Matter': Barack Obama Strikes Optimistic Tone With Young Black Activists, Urges Political Engagement
6/3/2020 - Florida Police Investigating Officer Who Put Knee on Man's Neck
6/3/2020 - Philadelphia Finally Takes Down Monument to Racist, Homophobic Mayor Frank Rizzo
6/3/2020 - DEA Granted Authority to ‘Conduct Covert Surveillance’ on George Floyd Protesters
6/3/2020 - An Artist Without 'Equals': Remembering Artist-Activist Emma Amos
6/3/2020 - For John Boyega, Black Lives Matter More Than the Possibility of Burning Hollywood Bridges
6/3/2020 - ‘Damn That Statue’: Birmingham Proves Protests Work by Forcing Mayor to Confront Racism With ‘Gangsta Shit’
6/3/2020 - Don't Think Voting Is Important? Rihanna Will Correct You on That
6/3/2020 - Wypipo Wite-Out: K-Pop Fans Use Social Media Privilege to Drown Out #WhiteLivesMatter Hashtags
6/3/2020 - Attorney General Keith Ellison Charges Other 3 Officers in George Floyd's Death; Derek Chauvin's Charges Upgraded to 2nd-Degree Murder [Updated]
6/3/2020 - Snapchat Will No Longer Promote Trump’s Content; Facebook Still Being the Kid Rock of Kanyes
6/3/2020 - A Black Psychologist's Guide to Talking With Your Children About Race and Police Violence
6/3/2020 - James Dolan Is a Coward
6/3/2020 - Defense Secretary to Trump: Are You Bugging? We Aren’t Using the Military Against Protesters
6/3/2020 -
Just Mercy
Is Available to Rent for Free Throughout June in Honor of George Floyd
6/3/2020 - 30 Days of Iconic Music Video Blackness With VSB, Day 3: The Whispers, 'Keep On Lovin' Me'
6/3/2020 - 'This Is NOT Okay': Model-Activist Munroe Bergdorf Calls Out the Hypocrisy in L'Oréal's Anti-Racism Posts
6/3/2020 - Don Cheadle Discusses His Experiences With Law Enforcement During Conversation About Race in America
6/3/2020 - From the Ashes of Mike Brown Protests, Ella Jones Becomes Ferguson’s 1st Black and 1st Woman Mayor
6/3/2020 - Tuesday's Protests Were Mostly Peaceful Even as Protesters Defied Curfews Across the Nation
6/3/2020 - 9 Observations About the Video of the News Anchor Getting Hit By a Flying Hennessy Bottle In Cincinnati
6/3/2020 - Iowa Rep. Steve KKKing of Racism Loses Republican Primary
6/3/2020 - Oprah Doesn’t Know One Black Man Who Hasn’t Been Racially Profiled, Including Stedman Graham
6/3/2020 - Minnesota Human Rights Department Files Civil Rights Charge, Will Investigate Minneapolis Police Department Over George Floyd’s Death
6/3/2020 - Keke Palmer Urges National Guardsman to March at LA Protest: 'Let the Revolution Be Televised'
6/3/2020 - Black Music Month: LaFace Records Gave Us More Than Music, They Gave Us a Standard of Excellence to Aspire to
6/2/2020 - TikTok Apologizes for Claims of Suppressing Black Lives Matter-Centered Videos on Its App
6/2/2020 - Two Funds Named for Nina Pop and Tony McDade Will Provide Free Therapy Sessions for Black Transgender Folks
6/2/2020 - President Elected by White Supremacists and Russian Bots Spreads Disinformation From White Supremacists and Russian Bots
6/2/2020 - ‘She’s Playing the Black Card’: NYC Karen Repeatedly Calls Police on Black Woman for...Sitting in a Public Park
6/2/2020 - To Sleep With Anger: Even as America Reckons With Its Racism, Black Pain Remains for Sale
6/2/2020 - Inspired by George Floyd's Death, Former NFL Exec Comes Clean: Colin Kaepernick Was 'Bad for Business'
6/2/2020 - Oh, We Holding Up Bibles? Nancy Pelosi Holds the Good Book While Asking Trump to Become Healer-in-Chief
6/2/2020 - Can Someone Explain #BlackOutTuesday to Me Because I'm Not Real Smart, but This Seemed Real Dumb
6/2/2020 - Samantha Ware Calls Out Lea Michele's Performative Solidarity, Says Lea Made Her Life a 'Living Hell' on the Set of
Glee
[Updated]
6/2/2020 - There Are Two Different Projects About Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre in Development. Both Are Necessary
6/2/2020 - NBA Community Reacts to the Death of Wes Unseld at 74
6/2/2020 - White Bar Owner Won’t Face Charges in Shooting Death of James Scurlock in Omaha
6/2/2020 - 30 Days of Iconic Music Video Blackness With VSB, Day 2: Janet Jackson, 'Rhythm Nation'
6/2/2020 - Social Studies: The Conspiracy Theories Are True
6/2/2020 - Biden Comes for Trump’s Saggy Throat: 'I Won’t Traffic in Hate and Fear'—Unless It’s Trump, Because I Hate Him (OK, I’m Paraphrasing a Bit)
6/2/2020 - What You Need to Know About David McAtee, the Louisville Restaurant Owner Killed After Sunday's Protests
6/2/2020 -
The Breakfast Club
Had a Chat With Rush Limbaugh About George Floyd, Black Lives Matter and White Privilege...Whew
6/2/2020 - Curfews Imposed and National Guard Deployed to Bring Order to Nationwide Protests. Spoiler Alert: It Didn’t Work
6/2/2020 - The Punk-Ass President Had Peaceful Protesters Tear-Gassed So He Wouldn’t Look Like a Bunker Bitch
6/2/2020 - Virgil Abloh Apologizes for Contributing to Negative Looting Narrative, Assures He Donated More Than $50
6/2/2020 - Brother of George Floyd Calls for Peace at the Site of His Death: 'Let's Do This Another Way'
6/2/2020 - What Is Blackout Tuesday? Industries, Brands and More Go Black in Solidarity of Black Lives Matter
6/2/2020 - Louisville Police Chief Fired After It Was Revealed the Officers' Body Cameras Were Turned Off During David McAtee Shooting
6/1/2020 - Sentient Porkpie Hat Jason Whitlock Out at Fox Sports
6/1/2020 - And the Pulitzer Prize for Caucasity Goes to...
6/1/2020 - Facebook Employees Stage Walkout Over Trump’s ‘When the Looting Starts, the Shooting Starts’ Post
6/1/2020 - Gregg Popovich Isn't Feeling Trump's Response to Protests Either: 'He Is a Coward. To Be in His Presence Makes You Die'
6/1/2020 - Outrage in Phoenix After Dion Johnson Shot by State Trooper Who Wasn't Wearing a Body Camera
6/1/2020 - Black Minneapoleans are 6 Times More Likely Than Whites to be Choked Unconscious by a Cop. In Other Cities, It's Even Worse
6/1/2020 - The Apollo Theater Postpones Let’s Stay (in) Together Benefit Event for Blackout Tuesday and #TheShowMustBePaused
6/1/2020 - Independent Autopsy Rules George Floyd’s Death a Homicide
6/1/2020 - As Officials Warn of Second Coronavirus Wave Due to Mass Protests, Demonstrators Weigh the Risks
6/1/2020 - First-Look: In Apple TV+'s
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Spike Lee Talks Hiring Black Filmmakers So Hollywood Looked 'More Like America'
6/1/2020 - ‘The Use of Force is Never Acceptable’: 2 Atlanta Cops Fired After Tasing HBCU Students During Protest
6/1/2020 - 'It's the Least You Can Do': Jackie Aina Rallies Brands Capitalizing on Black Culture to Stand in Support of Black Lives
6/1/2020 - Jay-Z Spoke With Minnesota Governor Tim Walz About the George Floyd Case
6/1/2020 - National Basketball Coaches Association Forms Committee to Combat Racial Injustice: 'We Have the Power and Platform to Affect Change'
6/1/2020 - Here's What Happened During the Week Following George Floyd's Death
6/1/2020 - Music Labels and Industry Giants to Participate in Blackout Tuesday to Stand in Solidarity With Black Community
6/1/2020 - Virgil Abloh's Comments About the #FedUprising Weren't Just 'Off-White,' They Were Way Off
6/1/2020 - 30 Days of Iconic Music Video Blackness With VSB, Day 1: Flying Lotus, 'Never Catch Me'
6/1/2020 - Social Studies: Redemption Songs
6/1/2020 - Black Man Fatally Shot by White Bar Owner During Omaha Fed-Uprising
6/1/2020 - J.R. Smith Beats the Brakes Off 'White Boy' for Allegedly Vandalizing His Truck During Protests
6/1/2020 - Replay, Revisit, Reject: This Was a Rough Weekend, but Did New Music Help?
6/1/2020 - Man Dies After Being Shot at by Louisville Police and National Guard Following 4th Night of Protests [Updated]
6/1/2020 - Kendrick Sampson, Jamie Foxx and More Celebrities Who Have Joined the George Floyd Protest Frontlines