5/31/2020 - Trump's Phone Call With George Floyd's Family Went as Well as You'd Expect

5/31/2020 - White People Are Doing White People Things During the Fed Up-Rising Riots

5/31/2020 - In a Rare Show of Solidarity, Competing Hollywood Heavyweights Join Forces in Support of Black Lives

5/31/2020 - To Black People Who Say Violence Isn't a Solution

5/31/2020 - 'It Haunts Me': Rihanna and Beyoncé Issue Emotional Statements on Police Brutality and the Murder of George Floyd

5/31/2020 - Police Prove Point of Protests by Instigating Violence Across the Country

5/30/2020 - A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 'Fed Up'-rising

5/30/2020 - Official Report Says 'No Sign of Strangling' in George Floyd's Death, Family Secures Independent Autopsy

5/30/2020 - Former Nightclub Owner Says Ex-Cop Derek Chauvin Was Quick to Use Force and ‘Overkill’ on African American Nights

5/30/2020 - National Guard Deployed in Minneapolis After 4th Day of Violent Protests; Riots Spread Across The Country

5/30/2020 - Wife of Cop Accused of 3rd Degree Murder in George Floyd’s Death Filing for Divorce

5/30/2020 - Exclusive: iHeartMedia to Celebrate Black Music Month With Robust Content Featuring H.E.R., Questlove and More

5/30/2020 - Minneapolis and New York Bus Drivers Stand Up To Cops, Refuse to Transport George Floyd Protesters to Jail

5/30/2020 - Recused Prosecutors Ignored State Guidelines When Investigating Ahmaud Arbery's Death

5/29/2020 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: White People Be Knowing

5/29/2020 - Celebrities: Sometimes You Have the Range to Speak Out and Sometimes You Have Philanthropy

5/29/2020 - From Shameik Moore to John Boyega: The Root Grades 2 Presidents and a VP’s Words on George Floyd’s Death

5/29/2020 - Killing of Trans Black Man Tony McDade Marks 3rd Fatal Officer-Involved Shooting in Tallahassee in Less Than 2 Months

5/29/2020 - How 'Spoon Theory' Can Help You Monitor and Manage Your Mental Wellbeing During Turbulent Times

5/29/2020 - Safe Space: Black Imagination Offers a Necessary Respite From the Onslaught of Black Trauma

5/29/2020 - Auntie Unfiltered: Self-Care in the Age of Coronavirus and Racism

5/29/2020 - Derek Chauvin, Officer Involved in George Floyd's Death, Arrested and Charged With Manslaughter and 3rd-Degree Murder

5/29/2020 - Amy Klobuchar Needs to STFU

5/29/2020 - Black Journalists and Covering the Storm That Never Passes

5/29/2020 - Colin Kaepernick, LeBron James Among Sports Figures to Support Protests, Speak Out Against George Floyd's Death

5/29/2020 - The Root Jams Weekly (5/29/2020): 'Protest Music'

5/29/2020 - 911 Call of Breonna Taylor's Shooting Death Released as Protests and Shootings Occur in Louisville, Ky.

5/29/2020 - Shameik Moore Dives Deep Into the Spider-Curse of Respectability Politics

5/29/2020 - Social Studies: I'm Rooting for the 'Thugs'

5/29/2020 - Police Arrest Black CNN Reporter Covering Minneapolis Protests: 'You Don’t Have to Doubt My Story, You Saw It For Your Own Eyes'

5/29/2020 - Icon x Icon: Naomi Campbell Is the 1st Global Face of Pat McGrath Labs

5/29/2020 - We Can’t Breathe: COVID-19 and Police Injustice Are Suffocating Black People

5/29/2020 - Verzuz: Kirk Franklin, Fred Hammond and Bishop T.D. Jakes Are Bringing Us Melodies From Heaven—Well, IG Live

5/29/2020 - Trump Logged Onto John Boyega’s Twitter to Call Protesters ‘THUGS’ and Twitter Wasn’t Having It

5/29/2020 - In a Divided Nation, a Call to Finally Protect Black Lives Reaches a Fever Pitch

5/29/2020 - The Angry Black Person's Guide to Protesting Like Good White People

5/28/2020 - MIT Elects Its 1st Black Woman Student Body President in the School’s 159-Year History

5/28/2020 - Basketball Hall of Fame Enshrinement Postponed to 2021 Amid COVID-19 Concerns

5/28/2020 - Federal Government Partners With HBCU Meharry Medical College to Test COVID-19 Antiviral Treatment

5/28/2020 - Stacey Abrams' Fair Fight Organization to Monitor Absentee Ballot Issues in Georgia

5/28/2020 - Just Don't Forget That Black Pain Isn't All We Have

5/28/2020 - Jerry Falwell Jr. Reveals Blackface Mask Mocking Virginia’s Face Mask Requirement

5/28/2020 - Penn. Democrats Livid After Learning Republicans Hid Member’s Positive Coronavirus Test Fearing Embarrassment

5/28/2020 - Trump Shares Video Claiming ‘the Only Good Democrat Is a Dead Democrat’

5/28/2020 - Social Studies: The Language of the Unheard

5/28/2020 - John David Washington's Youth Football Team Wasn't 'Led Astray'—Denzel Inspired Them With a Malcolm X Speech

5/28/2020 - Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Is Trying to Steal Pandemic Aid From Public Schools to Give to Private Institutions

5/28/2020 - White People Nationwide Mourn the Senseless Murder of a Minneapolis Target Store

5/28/2020 - Cash Money Is an Army: Record Label Pays June Rent for Hundreds of New Orleans Residents

5/28/2020 - Black Ass Game: Tracee Ellis Ross Wants to Hit The High Note With Rihanna

5/28/2020 - Protests Erupt in Minneapolis for 2nd Straight Night after Death of George Floyd; All 4 Officers Involved Identified

5/28/2020 - Kamala and Maya's Big Idea Celebrates the Girl Power That Launched Two Political Powerhouses

5/28/2020 - Minneapolis Man Loses His Lease After Going Full Karen on Black Tenants Using Office Gym

5/28/2020 - 'Pray for the Police Officers': Michael Porter Jr. Ripped After Ill-Advised Tweet Involving George Floyd's Death

5/28/2020 - John Boyega Hates Racists, and You Can Stay Mad About It

5/28/2020 - Exclusive: A Cover Reveal of L.L. McKinney's Nubia: Real One—She's Much More Than Wonder Woman's Twin Sister

5/28/2020 - This Weekend, Treat Yourself to Music, Dance, and Mental Clarity With These Events

5/27/2020 - West Virginia Mail Carrier Charged With Election Fraud for Altering Absentee Ballot Applications

5/27/2020 - 'They Want Us for Our Black Faces on Their Diversity Reports': Delroy Lindo Is Still Fighting The Good Fight in First-Look Clip

5/27/2020 - Red Table Talk Dives Deep Into a Necessary Discussion About Colorism

5/27/2020 - White Pride Graffiti Found in Illinois Park Days After Anti-Racism Resolution Passes

5/27/2020 - White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany aka ‘McEnanyOfTheState’ Has Voted by Mail 11 Times in 10 Years

5/27/2020 - As Police Brutality Draws National Attention, Advocates and Journalists Push for Accountability in Shooting of Breonna Taylor

5/27/2020 - Hearing Set For the Three Men Charged in the Ahmaud Arbery Case

5/27/2020 - Here We Go Again: Video Shows Michigan Cop Repeatedly Punching Black Woman in the Head

5/27/2020 - How to Write About a Vaccine

5/27/2020 - Put Her Name in Ice: Beyoncé Is Only the 2nd Artist to Score #1 on Billboard in 4 Distinct Decades

5/27/2020 - 3 Tips You Can Try Right Now to Improve Your Mental Health

5/27/2020 - The Karenavirus Pandemic: The Diagnosis, Treatment and Causes of KAVID-19

5/27/2020 - Thanks to Congolese Designer Hanifa, We've Glimpsed the Post-COVID Future of Fashion

5/27/2020 - Joe Biden and Trump Face Off in To Mask or To Be ‘an Absolute Fool’

5/27/2020 - Former NBA Star Stephen Jackson Devastated By the Loss of His 'Twin' George Floyd

5/27/2020 - Social Studies: If #AllLivesMatter...

5/27/2020 - Drew Dixon, Sil Lai Abrams and Sheri Sher Go On the Record About Russell Simmons and Dismantling the Misogynoir System

5/27/2020 - New York Lawmakers Propose Hate Crime Legislation in Response to Viral ‘Central Park Karen’ Video

5/27/2020 - Gabrielle Union Speaks Out About America's Got Talent's Workplace Environment: "I'm Not the Only One Being Poisoned at Work"

5/27/2020 - Trump Threatens Social Media With Regulation After Twitter Fact-Checked His Lying Ass

5/27/2020 - Minneapolis Police Confront Protesters After George Floyd's Death; Sister Calls for Cops to Face Murder Charges

5/27/2020 - Venus Williams vs. UV Rays: The Tennis Legend Launches a Sunscreen Line

5/27/2020 - Jimmy Fallon Apologizes for Impersonating Chris Rock With Blackface SNL Skit

5/27/2020 - Thoughts on Forgiving Amy Cooper (aka 'Darth Karen'), Who Got Fired, Banned From Central Park, and Lost Her Dog

5/27/2020 - On the Record: Russell Simmons Finally Faces the Music, But He Shouldn't Be the Only One Listening

5/26/2020 - Megan Thee Stallion Just Raised Her Price With Her 1st Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 for 'Savage' Remix

5/26/2020 - A Disproportionate Number of Black Business Owners Are Out of Work Amid the Pandemic

5/26/2020 - 'I Was Bald as a Rat': Reality Stars Tamar Braxton and Kandi Burruss Talk Hair and Hollywood Beauty Standards

5/26/2020 - Lies Detected: Twitter Fact Checks Trump Tweet For The First Time

5/26/2020 - Florida Woman Arrested for Drowning Her Autistic Son After Telling Police Two Black Men Abducted Him

5/26/2020 - The Root's Michael Harriot Explains Why Biden Needs a Black Woman as VP

5/26/2020 - Black Reporter Harassed by White Man While On-Air

5/26/2020 - Ink, Dye, Duels and 'Pankinis': Summer Unofficially Begins and Celebs Show Our 'New Normal' Is Anything But

5/26/2020 - Universal Music Group Announces Launch of Def Jam Africa

5/26/2020 - The Root's Danielle Belton Talks Biden's Gaffe, Trump's COVID-19 Inactions on MSNBC

5/26/2020 - Social Studies: These Are a Few of My Least Favorite (White) Things

5/26/2020 - A Handmaid’s Tale About the Coronavirus: Why (Some) White People Want to Be Oppressed So Badly

5/26/2020 - 10 Thoughts About the Jagged Edge x 112 Verzuz With the Struggle Sound

5/26/2020 - Big Beauty Tuesday: Yes, You Need Black Girl Sunscreen Because Melanin Isn't Enough

5/26/2020 - Michael Jordan Has Some Explaining to Do

5/26/2020 - Babyface Gave Aretha Franklin Dating Advice and Other Fun Highlights From His Waiting to Exhale IG Session

5/26/2020 - Doja Cat's 'Dindu Nuffin,' Explained

5/26/2020 - Widower of Joe Scarborough Staffer Begs Twitter to Remove Trump’s Conspiracy Tweets Claiming His Wife Was Murdered

5/26/2020 - Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship to Offer Mike Tyson Over $20 Million to Return to the Ring

5/26/2020 - Replay, Revisit, Reject: Did the Long Weekend Give Way to Better Music?

5/26/2020 - Doja Cat Defends Herself Amidst Allegations of Racism, Self-Hate

5/26/2020 - Outrage in Minneapolis After Black Man Dies in Custody Following Brutal Police Arrest : 'I Cannot Breathe!' [Updated]

5/26/2020 - Knicks Legend Patrick Ewing Recovering at Home After Being Hospitalized for COVID-19

5/26/2020 - While the U.S. Nears 100,000 Coronavirus Deaths, Y’all's President Was Busy Golfing and Retweeting Racist, Sexist Trash

5/26/2020 - ‘There's an African-American Man Threatening My Life’: Karen Calls Police on Black Man for Asking Her to Leash Her Dog [Updated]

5/26/2020 - Drummer Jimmy Cobb, Last Surviving Member of Miles Davis' First Great Sextet, Dies at 91

5/26/2020 - Family Attorney Says DOJ Is Investigating Ahmaud Arbery's Death as a Hate Crime

5/25/2020 - A Federal Judge Has Cut Down Florida's Law Requiring Former Felons Pay Fines Before Registering to Vote

5/25/2020 - How the Wider Black Diaspora Is Being Impacted by COVID-19

5/25/2020 - It's Racism, Stupid. It's Always Racism.

5/25/2020 - Private Equity Investor Frank Baker Pays Off Tuition Debt for 2020 Spelman College Graduates

5/25/2020 - Behind-The-Scenes: Aldis Hodge Hoped He Didn't 'Look Foolish' Filming The Invisible Man, Which Is Impossible

5/24/2020 - Klobuchar Seeks Black Support in Race to Be Biden's Running Mate; Trump Campaign Sells 'You Ain't Black' Shirts

5/24/2020 - Naomi Osaka Tops This Year's List of Highest Paid Female Athletes [Corrected]

5/24/2020 - Beenie Man and Bounty Killer Gave Us the Best Verzuz Battle So Far

5/23/2020 - Louisville Prosecutors Reverse Charges Against Boyfriend in Breonna Taylor Police Shooting

5/23/2020 - Over 20,000 Black People Have Died From COVID-19 Nationwide

5/23/2020 - Despite Spike in COVID-19 Cases in Churches, Trump Says Governors Must Allow Them to Open

5/23/2020 - Joe Biden Just Proved Why He Must Have a Black Woman as VP

5/22/2020 - Study Finds Supreme Court Almost Always Rules in Favor of Police In Excessive Force Cases

5/22/2020 - Dennis Rodman Checks Former Teammates Offended By The Last Dance: 'I Don’t Think They Were Strong Enough to Handle That'

5/22/2020 - Quavo Walked It Like He Talked It Across the Class of 2020 Virtual Stage and Is Now a High School Graduate

5/22/2020 - Trailer Roundup: The Pageant Question for Miss Juneteenth Is...WTF Is TENET About?

5/22/2020 - Better Together: This Mother-Daughter Duo Earned MDs in the Same Year and Residencies in the Same Hospital

5/22/2020 - White House Butler Who Served 11 Presidents, Including Obama, Dies From Coronavirus

5/22/2020 - The Root Jams Weekly (5/22/2020): 'What a Bam Bam'

5/22/2020 - FBI to Investigate Police Shooting of Breonna Taylor

5/22/2020 - Nursing Homes With High Numbers of Black and Latinx Residents Twice as Likely to Be Hit by COVID-19

5/22/2020 - Color Correct: A 9-Year-Old's 'More Than Peach' Campaign Meets Its Match in Crayola's 'Colors of the World' [Updated]

5/22/2020 - Social Studies: Black People Invented Social Media

5/22/2020 - Auntie Unfiltered: My Mother-In-Law Won't Eat My Cooking

5/22/2020 - The 10 Blackest Shoes That I Own

5/22/2020 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Old Whites' Tales

5/22/2020 - To Navigate Your Mental Wellbeing, You Need to Use Your Body

5/22/2020 - We Need to Talk About Joe Biden’s The Breakfast Club Interview

5/22/2020 - NBA Expected to Announce Details on Its Return on June 1

5/22/2020 - Donald Trump Is the Most Effective President Ever

5/22/2020 - We Ain’t Gettin No Younger, so We Might as Well Give 112 Verzuz Jagged Edge a Try

5/22/2020 - How to Save Our Voting Rights During the Pandemic

5/22/2020 - Trump Finally Dons Mask, Completes the Final Stage of Becoming Bane

5/22/2020 - In Case You Forgot Oprah Has Much More Lettuce Than the Rest of Us, She Has a Cabbage to Show You

5/22/2020 - Stringer Bell Was Very Dumb, Very Bad at His Job, and Deserved to Die

5/21/2020 - William Bryan, the Man Who Recorded Ahmaud Arbery Video, Has Been Arrested

5/21/2020 - ‘An Absolute Honor’: Howard Alum Makes History as 1st Black Female Officer for the Air Force Thunderbirds

5/21/2020 - Missing Sports? Watch Some of These Anime

5/21/2020 - Trump Ignores Michigan Attorney General, Refuses to Wear Mask While Touring Ford Plant, and We Know Why He Won’t

5/21/2020 - ICON 360: Harlem's Fashion Row Launches a New Nonprofit and Virtual Fundraiser for Designers Impacted by COVID-19

5/21/2020 - Mental Health Evaluation Ordered After Cory Booker Reveals His Top Five Favorite Rappers

5/21/2020 - Davido, Tiwa Savage and Mr. Eazi Cover Billboard for Publication's First Issue Devoted Entirely to Africa

5/21/2020 - Unnamed NFL Player Sues United Airlines for Sexual Harassment, Assault

5/21/2020 - Karine Jean-Pierre Hired as Joe Biden Senior Presidential Campaign Adviser

5/21/2020 - Question for the Singer: An Open Letter to Lana Del Rey

5/21/2020 - She's a Savage: Savage x Fenty Finds a New Campaign Star in Megan Thee Stallion

5/21/2020 - Sorry Lawrence Hive—Issa Rae Would Exterminate You in a Lovebirds Game of 'Frame, Marry, Kill'

5/21/2020 - Trump’s Claimed at Least 6 Times That He’s Been Michigan’s ‘Man of the Year.’ There’s Only One Problem: The Award Doesn’t Exist

5/21/2020 - Paul Pierce Is a Hater

5/21/2020 - ‘I Am Very Serious About Them Losing Their Life’: Alabama Mayoral Candidate Calls for Public Hanging of Drug Dealers

5/21/2020 - First Look: Mary J. Blige Asked for 'No More Drama' but She's Experiencing a Lot of It in Body Cam

5/21/2020 - Happy(?) Memorial Day: Here Are Some Virtual Events to Turn That Frown Upside Down This Weekend

5/21/2020 - Louisiana Cop Fired After Posting Racist Comments About COVID-19 and Black People

5/21/2020 - The BET Experience May Be Cancelled but the 2020 BET Awards Show Must Go On...Virtually!

5/21/2020 - #YouAreEssential Highlights Workers Ignored During COVID-19

5/21/2020 - Karen From Fox News Comes for Symone Sanders and Instantly Wishes She Didn’t

5/20/2020 - Republicans to Drop $20 Million to Prevent Black People From Voting

5/20/2020 - Lawmakers and Advocates Grow Increasingly Frustrated With Lack of Comprehensive Racial Data on COVID-19 Cases

5/20/2020 - Over 600 New Coronavirus Cases Hit One Michigan Prison

5/20/2020 - White Woman Charged With Assault After Putting Hands on an 11-Year-Old Black Girl She Thought Stole Her Mail

5/20/2020 - ‘I Am a Free Human Being’: White Protesters Hold Signs Comparing Slave Muzzling to Stay-at-Home Orders

5/20/2020 - There's a New Frontrunner for the Greatest Karen of All Time—and of Course, She's From Florida

5/20/2020 - 'My Blackitude Was Prominent in Everything I Did': André Leon Talley on Wearing Blackness in White Spaces

5/20/2020 - 2 Churches in Texas and Georgia Reopened. Now They’re Closed as Leaders and Churchgoers Test Positive for COVID-19

5/20/2020 - A Line-by-Line (ish) Defense of Jagged Edge's 'Let's Get Married'

5/20/2020 - Oprah Discusses Partnership With NashvilleNurtures to Provide Food Relief for 10,000 Families

5/20/2020 - Tassels to the Left, to the Left: Beyoncé to Deliver Message to Grads at YouTube's Star-Studded Commencement

5/20/2020 - Social Studies: If a Karen Falls in the Woods...

5/20/2020 - Body of Former WWE Star Shad Gaspard Found on Venice Beach After He'd Gone Missing During a Swim

5/20/2020 - First Look: Sherman's Showcase Is Bringing Black History Month to June and Adding Kente Cloth to Everything

5/20/2020 - 'So, This Isn’t a Prank?': DJ D-Nice Is the 2020 Webby Artist of the Year

5/20/2020 - Val Demings, Potential Vice President Pick for Joe Biden, Speaks With The Root on Instagram Live [Update: The IG Live Is Canceled]

5/20/2020 - Exclusive: Joey Bada$$ Talks Partnership With NYC Fund for Public Schools to Benefit Homeless Youth

5/20/2020 - Watch: Black Texas Man’s Grandmother Stands Between Him and Gun-Wielding Police Officers...All Because He Reportedly Ran a Stop Sign

5/20/2020 - Cynthia Bailey Wants to Know: Are You the 'Next Great Face of Ambi'?

5/20/2020 - When Old Racists Learn How to Use Twitter: Trump Tweet-Threatens to Withhold Funding to Michigan, Nevada Over Mail-in Voting

5/20/2020 - Chris Rock, Babyface, Naomi Campbell and More to Celebrate the Life of Andre Harrell in Star-Studded Tribute

5/20/2020 - Florida Police Release Video of Massive Block Party After Allegations of Racial Profiling

5/20/2020 - An Ida B. Wells Biography, Written by Her Great-Grandaughter, Will Be Released in 2021

5/20/2020 - Blackballed Reminds Us Why 'Shut Up and Dribble' Is Not an Option for Today's Athletes

5/20/2020 - Quarantine, but in Cushnie: Target Makes One of Our Favorite Designers More Accessible—and Affordable

5/20/2020 - Exclusive: TV One Celebrates Black Music Month and the Sound of D.C. With Go-Go Documentary, The Beat Don't Stop

5/19/2020 - Black and Latino Businesses Disproportionately Denied Pandemic Relief Loans, New Survey Finds

5/19/2020 - Civil Liberties Groups, Activists Express Concern Over COVID-19 Data Being Shared With Law Enforcement

5/19/2020 - The Crazy Story of Washington Football Wide Receiver Cody Latimer, the Gun and the Claim of a Sexual Assault on a 4-Year-Old

5/19/2020 - Review Finds Officer Was Justified in Handcuffing Black Miami Doctor in Front of His Own Home

5/19/2020 - Bring Some Trustworthy Potato Salad Because You Are Invited to Questlove's Potluck

5/19/2020 - Picture Me Trolling: Trump Ends American Tradition, Refuses to Host Obama White House Portrait Unveiling

5/19/2020 - Karen's Caped Crusade? Texas Salon Owner Jailed for Violating Quarantine Takes Her Protest to Michigan

5/19/2020 - Post-COVID, Is Indoor Pickup Basketball...Done?

5/19/2020 - Social Studies: By Any Memes Necessary

5/19/2020 - Here and Now: Solange's Saint Heron and Parsons School of Design Announce a Fashion-Focused Virtual Festival

5/19/2020 - Florida Scientist Fired for Refusing to Manipulate COVID-19 Data to Justify Reopening State

5/19/2020 - New Video Shows Ahmaud Arbery Being Harassed by Police in 2017; Family Wants Man Who Recorded Arbery's Death Arrested

5/19/2020 - Louisville Mayor Will Require All Officers to Wear Body Cameras In Aftermath of Breonna Taylor Shooting

5/19/2020 - Nancy Pelosi Throws Stimulus Package-Sized Shade at President, Calls Trump ‘Morbidly Obese’

5/19/2020 - Ponytails and Protective Styles, Meet Pattern: Tracee Ellis Ross Debuts Accessories Made for the Moment

5/19/2020 - Hallelujah! OWN Is Developing a Greenleaf Spinoff

5/19/2020 - Lawsuit Accuses Missouri Police of Brutalizing Black Mother and Son Falsely Accused of Theft

5/19/2020 - Brooklyn Doctor Who Put Off Retirement to Fight Coronavirus Dies From COVID-19

5/19/2020 - Wendy Williams Taking Hiatus From Talk Show to Receive Treatment for Graves' Disease

5/19/2020 - Reimagining Blackness: Remembering the Fullness of Malcolm X's Revolutionary Life

5/19/2020 - The Last Dance Docuseries Sets Highest Viewership Total for an ESPN Original

5/19/2020 - On Riding the Waves of Grief

5/19/2020 - Bakari Sellers' Invisible Black America

5/19/2020 - First Listen: Audible Is Releasing the First-Ever Unabridged Audio of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Performed by Laurence Fishburne

5/18/2020 - Fashion Week Has Lost Its Footing, but the Show Goes on in a New Documentary by Pyer Moss

5/18/2020 - Lawsuit Filed in 2019 Against Cop Involved in Breonna Taylor’s Death Claims He Was Vindictive, Planted Evidence

5/18/2020 - NFL Teams Could Receive Better Draft Picks As Incentive to Hire Non-White Coaches Under New Proposal

5/18/2020 - Search Continues After Ex-WWE Star Shad Gaspard Goes Missing During Beach Swim

5/18/2020 - South Carolina Teacher Quits After Being Accused of Being a Neo-Nazi

5/18/2020 - 'They Broke My Son’s Face in 5 Places’: Des Moines Black Man Beaten in Potential Hate Crime

5/18/2020 - Trump Just Claimed He’s Taking Hydroxychloroquine. He's Probably Lying and 2 More Ways to View This Revelation

5/18/2020 - Georgia Keeps Releasing Misleading Data About Its COVID-19 Cases

5/18/2020 - Eryn Allen Kane's Song 'Fragile' Is One of The Most Beautifullest Things In This World

5/18/2020 - Let’s Stay (In) Together’: The Apollo Theater and DJ D-Nice Will Kick Off Black Music Month With Livestream Dedications [Corrected]

5/18/2020 - Former Georgia District Attorney Calls Out Prosecutor Who Botched Ahmaud Arbery Investigation: 'It Stinks to High Heaven'

5/18/2020 - Texas Was One of the First States to Reopen. It Just Had Its Largest Single-Day Jump In COVID-19 Cases

5/18/2020 - Love, Lockdown Style: Elaine Welteroth's Chic Stoop Wedding Nailed the Social Distance Ceremony

5/18/2020 - Republican State Lawmaker in Alaska Compares COVID-19 Precautions to the Holocaust, Says Hitler Was No White Supremacist

5/18/2020 - Andrea Askowitz Invents New Level of Whiteness, Writes the Worst Essay You'll Ever Read

5/18/2020 - Social Studies: The New Negro Spiritual

5/18/2020 - Kansas City Police Officers Charged With Assault a Year After Brutal Arrest of Black Trans Woman

5/18/2020 - The Most Grossly Incompetent President Just Fixed His Anus-Shaped Mouth to Come for Obama

5/18/2020 - Rev. Al Sharpton, Stevie Wonder and Rep. Ayanna Pressley Join List of Performers and Speakers for #MalcolmXDay Livestream Event

5/18/2020 - Magic Johnson Offers $100 Million in Loans to Minority Businesses Left Behind by the Government

5/18/2020 - White Nationalist, Far-Right Groups Actively Promoting Lies to Paint Ahmaud Arbery as a Criminal

5/18/2020 - Fired Inspector General Was Getting Too Close to Solving Dog Walker, Dry Cleaning-Gate

5/18/2020 - Da 5 Bloods Trailer: The 'Time Has Come Today' for Spike Lee's 1st New Joint Since His Oscar Win

5/18/2020 - Big Ballerina Energy: Misty Copeland Talks 'Swans for Relief' and 80 Years of American Ballet Theatre

5/18/2020 - Suspect Arrested in Killing of Missouri Trans Woman Nina Pop

5/17/2020 - KKK Hoods Are Apparently the New COVID-19 Fashion Statement

5/17/2020 - New Texts in Ahmaud Arbery Case Raise More Questions About Glynn County Police

5/17/2020 - Nelly's Choppy Wifi Made for an Underwhelming Verzuz Battle Between Him and Ludacris

5/16/2020 - Barack Obama Comments on Ahmaud Arbery Killing in Speech to 2020 HBCU Graduates

5/16/2020 - Beyoncé, Doja Cat, Megan Thee Stallion and Nicki Minaj Made Billboard History

5/16/2020 - NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Says Police Will No Longer Enforce Mask-Wearing Order

5/15/2020 - Indianapolis Officer Who Made 'Closed Casket' Remark in Dreasjon 'Sean' Reed Shooting Has Been Suspended

5/15/2020 - Trailer Roundup: You're Invited to Sherman's Showcase! BYOB and the 'B' Stands for Blood & Water

5/15/2020 - Michigan NAACP Branches Call on State Senator to Resign Over Apparent Confederate Flag Mask

5/15/2020 - Ice Cube's AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted Is 30 and I Pretty Much Had No Business Listening to This as an 11-Year-Old in 1990

5/15/2020 - L'Oreal's Newest Spokesperson Is a Women's Rights Activist Who Was Nominated for a Whole Nobel Peace Prize

5/15/2020 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: True or False Equivalency

5/15/2020 - Pittsburgh Steelers Coach Mike Tomlin Almost Got Caught Up In Some Nonsense Because of James Harrison's Mouth

5/15/2020 - Gabrielle Union on Parenting: Love and Support Have to Start In The Home

5/15/2020 - Mitch McConnell: My Bad, Obama Did Leave a Pandemic Playbook But I Couldn’t See It From Inside Trump’s Ass

5/15/2020 - Auntie Unfiltered: Friendship, Favors, and Why Molly And Issa Are Trash

5/15/2020 - There Are No Summer Movies, So Play These Games Instead

5/15/2020 - Why Were the Louisville Police Who Fatally Shot Breonna Taylor Not Wearing Body Cameras?

5/15/2020 - Social Studies: Black Twitter 'Verzuz' White Twitter

5/15/2020 - The Root Jams Weekly (5/15/2020): 'A Long Walk'

5/15/2020 - The Tekashi 6ix9ine We Need: Ousted U.S. Vaccine Official Rick Bright Gives It All Up

5/15/2020 - Zoom Is Taking Too Long to Fix Its Cyberterrorism Problem

5/15/2020 - How Not to Quarantine: NFL Cornerbacks DeAndre Baker, Quinton Dunbar Accused of Robbing Partygoers at Gunpoint

5/15/2020 - It’s Her Turn: Tracee Ellis Ross Debuts Her First Ever Song, ‘Love Myself’

5/15/2020 - Georgia Officials Investigate Note Left at Ahmaud Arbery Memorial; Lawmakers Press DOJ for Civil Rights Investigation

5/14/2020 - Armed Black Men Show Up In Neighborhood Where Armed White Men Lynched Ahmaud Arbery

5/14/2020 - Kentucky Attorney General to Serve as Special Prosecutor in Breonna Taylor Case

5/14/2020 - Black Man in Vermont Pulled Over and Told to Leave the Entire State by White Man

5/14/2020 - Racists Built a Website to Doxx White Women in Relationships With Black Men

5/14/2020 - Yes, Kaavia James Union Wade, Reigning Champ of Facial Expressions, Has Taken on the #FruitSnackChallenge

5/14/2020 - Social Studies: Who in the Hell Left the Gate Open?

5/14/2020 - With No Games to Play, Boston Celtics Rookie Grant Williams Creates Virtual Mentorship Program for Black and Brown Youth

5/14/2020 - Current and Former Employees Say Google Cut Diversity Programs To Not Appear Anti-Conservative

5/14/2020 - Sanctuary for the Devil: The Church Service That Birthed a COVID-19 Outbreak and the Black Women Who Fought It

5/14/2020 - Republican Sen. Richard Burr’s Cell Phone Seized, Steps Down From Senate Intelligence Committee Amid Investigation Over Stock Trade

5/14/2020 - How to Get Away With Murder: Five Questions for a Fine Man Named Rome Flynn

5/14/2020 - Texas Began Opening Businesses May 1. Now, They’re Averaging 1,000 New Cases of COVID-19 a Day

5/14/2020 - Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson and Tarik 'Black Thought' Trotter Sign First-Look Deal With Universal Television

5/14/2020 - Trump Doesn’t Care for Dr. Fauci or Coronavirus Science Unless They Agree With Him

5/14/2020 - Living Single's Erika Alexander Reveals She Almost Wasn't Cast in Role of 'Maxine'

5/14/2020 - Black Delivery Driver Held Against His Will in Gated Oklahoma City Community by White Homeowners

5/14/2020 - Big 3 Postpones Season, Reality Show Tournament Amid COVID-19 Concerns

5/14/2020 - ‘Many Are Concerned That Justice is Not Blind’: Gov. Andy Beshear Calls for Review of Breonna Taylor’s Case

5/14/2020 - 'Jog for Ahmaud' Ain't Activism, It's Respectability

5/14/2020 - Amanda Seales Calls Out White Celebrities Who Support Black Causes but Turn Off Instagram Comments

5/14/2020 - Ahmaud Arbery Murder Suspect Had Confrontation With Black Man Days Before Shooting; New Light Shed on Glynn County Police

5/14/2020 - From Poetry to Music Battles, Here Are Some Events to Check Out This Weekend

5/14/2020 - Psychology Professionals Discuss How Quarantine Affects Mental Illness Sufferers

5/13/2020 - Ludacris and Mike Will Made-It Donate 3,000 Reusable Masks to MARTA Employees in Georgia

5/13/2020 - Cleveland’s Only Black Female Firefighter Retires After 30 Years

5/13/2020 - NFL Star Malcolm Jenkins Calls on Department of Justice To Investigate Ahmaud Arbery Death

5/13/2020 - If Snoop Dogg Gets His Way, the Next Verzuz Battle We'll See Will Involve Him vs. Jay-Z

5/13/2020 - Who Would Allow Wages to Be Garnished During a Pandemic? Certainly Not Betsy DeVos

5/13/2020 - Los Angeles Stay-At-Home Order To Be Extended to July

5/13/2020 - Philadelphia City Council Members Issue Formal Apology for the MOVE Bombing of 1985

5/13/2020 - MAGA-nificent Idiot: Congressman Came for Rep. Ilhan Omar and May Have Fumbled Trump’s Bag

5/13/2020 - Report: Adam Silver to Decide NBA's Fate in 2-4 Weeks

5/13/2020 - I'm Finally Good Enough to Die

5/13/2020 - Melanie Fiona Will Portray Chaka Khan on Season 2 Of American Soul

5/13/2020 - Same Man Who Feigned Concern Over Zaya Wade Admits He Allowed 'Grown Women' to Perform Oral Sex on His Son and Nephews

5/13/2020 - St. Louis Assistant Police Chief Files a Lawsuit Claiming He Was Denied a Promotion Because He’s White

5/13/2020 - Social Studies: May 13, 2020

5/13/2020 - Tyler Perry's Sistas and The Oval Will Be the First TV Series to Return to Full-Time Production Amid Pandemic

5/13/2020 - UK Railroad Worker Dies of COVID-19 After Being Spat on at Work; Union Says Death 'Wasn't Inevitable'

5/13/2020 - This 'Genius' Designer Is Selling Masks With a Straw-Sized Mouth Hole, Because Drinking With Friends Is Way More Important Than Safety

5/13/2020 - Trump’s Former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort and His Precious White Lungs Released From Prison

5/13/2020 - Sammy Watkins on How Depression, Alcoholism Nearly Destroyed His NFL Career: 'My Whole Life Was In Shambles'

5/13/2020 - Want to Party Like It's 1985? Prince and the Revolution: Live Concert Will Stream on Youtube For a Limited Time

5/13/2020 - Trump Is So Obsessed With Being Loved That He’s Willing to Steal Praise He Didn’t Earn

5/13/2020 - Happy Birthday to Ya: Stevie Wonder Honored With 24-Hour Instagram DJ Set Featuring Questlove, D-Nice

5/13/2020 - 'You Don't Have to Know Somebody to Grieve Them': How Black People Can Process Collective Trauma and Grief

5/12/2020 - 3 Black Men Get $18 Million Settlement After Spending Nearly 40 Years in Prison for a Crime They Didn’t Commit

5/12/2020 - Black Choir Director Shot and Killed by Police; Family Demands Video Be Released

5/12/2020 - White Man Who Wore KKK Hood to Store Won't Face Charges

5/12/2020 - Georgia Attorney General Names a New Prosecutor in the Ahmaud Arbery Case

5/12/2020 - 'Meet Me Inside,' Because the Filmed Production of Hamilton Is Coming to Disney+ Sooner Than We Thought

5/12/2020 - Dr. Fauci Doesn’t Go Tekashi 6ix9ine on Trump, But He Does Warn That Reopening the Country Too Soon Could Be Disastrous

5/12/2020 - Social Studies: The Black Internet, Curated

5/12/2020 - A List of the Dumbest Sneakers I Own

5/12/2020 - How Machiavelli Mitch McConnell Got Kicked Out of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

5/12/2020 - Rob Morgan Is a Leading Man

5/12/2020 - People in Custody in Los Angeles County Accused of Intentionally Exposing Themselves to COVID-19 to Get Out of Jail

5/12/2020 - Big Beauty Tuesday: Is Dove's 'Amplified Textures' a Drugstore 'Do'?

5/12/2020 - Trump Believes Giving Black Voters Access to Voting Is Stealing the Election

5/12/2020 - Dr. Fauci Calls NFL 'Perfect Setup' for Spreading COVID-19—Even Without Fans

5/12/2020 - Three Games That Have Kept Me Sane While Staying at Home

5/12/2020 - Yo, 2000 Was a Really Good Year for Soul Music

5/12/2020 - Hold Up. Is Mike Tyson Really Staging a Comeback?

5/12/2020 - Trump Throws Racist Jab at Reporter, Then Throws a Temper Tantrum and Storms Out of Press Conference

5/12/2020 - ‘If You Ran for Ahmaud, You Need to Stand for Bre’: Breonna Taylor’s Death Isn’t Getting Enough Attention

5/12/2020 - Joe Biden Surrogates, Aides Say Kamala Harris Tops List of Potential Running Mates

5/12/2020 - Ahmaud Arbery's Mother Wanda Cooper-Jones Says Oprah Surprised Her With a Phone Call for Her Late Son's Birthday

5/12/2020 - Diddy and Mary J. Blige Commemorate Andre Harrell in Instagram Tributes

5/11/2020 - Jay-Z and Meek Mill Donate 10 Million Additional Masks to Prisons

5/11/2020 - Maryland Inmate Who Was Granted Parole Twice but Denied by Governors Has COVID-19

5/11/2020 - Nashville Police 'Dismissive' After NAACP President Reports Finding Bullseye in His Front Yard

5/11/2020 - Battle of the Dons: A Compilation of Don Lemon's Pettiest Trump Moments

5/11/2020 - Rep. Maxine Waters' Sister Dies From COVID-19

5/11/2020 - The Root Is Going Live on Instagram With Politicians to Discuss the 2020 Elections and COVID-19

5/11/2020 - 'Miss You So Much': Karl-Anthony Towns Shares Beautiful Mother's Day Tribute After Losing Mom to COVID-19

5/11/2020 - Savage x Summer: Rihanna's Lingerie Line Celebrates Its 2nd Birthday With a Selfie-Based Campaign

5/11/2020 - An Exclusive Interview With ‘Tyrone’ of Erykah Badu Infamy

5/11/2020 - A Good 'Cry': Current and Former Women of Alvin Ailey Reunite for an Iconic Virtual Performance

5/11/2020 - Former Agent Accuses Zion Williamson of Receiving Improper Benefits From Damn Near Everybody But Fashion Nova and Fenty

5/11/2020 - ‘It Feels Empowering’: Princeton University Names Its First Black Valedictorian

5/11/2020 - Jordan's 1st Retirement, Gary Payton's Got Jokes, and Other Takeaways From the 4th Night of ESPN's The Last Dance

5/11/2020 - But Molly Wasn't That Wrong, Though

5/11/2020 - Saturday Night Live Shows How Difficult Church Services on Zoom Can Be

5/11/2020 - Obama Owns a Penthouse Loft in Trump’s Head as President Spends Mother’s Day Tweeting About Barack

5/11/2020 - 'We Are All Ahmaud Arbery': Jay-Z's Team Roc Urges Georgia to Take Quick Action in Open Letter

5/11/2020 - The White House Is a Coronavirus Petri Dish, Yet Mike Pence Still Won’t Wear a Mask

5/11/2020 - As Media Focuses on Black Lives, Activists Call Attention to Nina Pop, the 5th Trans Woman of Color to Be Killed in the Last Month

5/11/2020 - It's Goin' Down, Down, Baby: Nelly and Ludacris Are Next Up for Verzuz Battle

5/11/2020 - #RenegadeChallenge Creator Jalaiah Harmon Secures the Bag With Her 1st Brand Partnership

5/11/2020 - Ava DuVernay Says Little Richard Tipped Her $100 Weekly When She Was a Waitress

5/11/2020 - Anti-Lockdown Demonstrators Walk Into North Carolina Subway Armed With Guns and Rocket Launchers

5/11/2020 - Ahmaud Arbery Updates: Georgia Attorney General Asks for Federal Help, Surveillance Footage From Construction Site Emerges

5/11/2020 - The 19 Things I Cooked in Self-Isolation and What They Say About My Mental State

5/10/2020 - Barack Obama Calls Trump Administration's COVID-19 Response an 'Absolute Chaotic Disaster'

5/10/2020 - We've Lost Another Icon: No Pain (No Gain) Singer Betty Wright Has Died at 66

5/10/2020 - Erykah Badu and Jill Scott Brought the Healing Vibes We Needed in Their Verzuz Battle

5/10/2020 - Black Mothers Shouldn't be in Prison on Mother’s Day

5/9/2020 - Off-Duty Cop Among Mob in North Carolina That Forced Its Way Into Black Woman's Home

5/9/2020 - Meet Magnolia, Gerber's New Spokesbaby

5/9/2020 - Uptown Records Founder Andre Harrell Has Died at 59

5/9/2020 - Little Richard, a Founder of Rock 'n' Roll, Has Died at 87

5/8/2020 - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Extends Eviction Moratorium to August

5/8/2020 - Mikki Kendall and L.L. McKinney on Writing Marvel's Black Widow: Bad Blood

5/8/2020 - Yes, We've Heard the Sussexes Are Living in Tyler Perry's Mansion. No, We Don't Know Why—but Why Y'all So Mad?

5/8/2020 - Stop and Frisk, but in a Pandemic: Data Confirms Black New Yorkers Targeted for Social Distancing Violations at Higher Rates

5/8/2020 - Nikes for Nurses: A GoFundMe Campaign Takes a Necessary Step in Supporting Frontline Healthcare Workers

5/8/2020 - 26-Year-Old Black Woman Dies Giving Birth After She Was Neglected by Doctors for Weeks, Family Says

5/8/2020 - Auntie Unfiltered: White People Using Black and Brown Emojis

5/8/2020 - Trailer Roundup: Momma, I Made It to Lovecraft Country

5/8/2020 - Charlie Wilson Becomes 1st Artist to Score No. 1 Hits In Each of The Last Three Decades

5/8/2020 - Turns Out That Mike Pence Hot Mic Empty Box Moment Was Just a Joke [Corrected]

5/8/2020 - Big Ole Teeth: This Fusion of Megan Thee Stallion and Steve Harvey Is Hauntingly Hilarious

5/8/2020 - After 74 Days of Nothing, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Needed Just 36 Hours to Find 'Probable Cause for Felony Murder' in the Death of Ahmaud Arbery

5/8/2020 - Everything Is Love: Meet the 20-Year-Old Photographer Who Immortalized His Grandparents in Ivy Park

5/8/2020 - God, Are You Listening? Senate Democrats Are Proposing $2,000 Monthly Payments

5/8/2020 - In His Own Words: Unpublished Jerry Krause Memoir Reveals He Might Not Be The Villain We Thought He Was

5/8/2020 - The Root Jams Weekly Playlist (5/8/2020): 'Bring Me Peace'

5/8/2020 - Wait a Minute...Princess Love Filed for Divorce From Ray J

5/8/2020 - Nurses Honor Fallen Colleagues Outside of White House, Protest for PPE: ‘We Are Not Getting What We Need’

5/8/2020 - Get Her a Gift That Gets It: The Cocoiv Collection Captures the Wit, Warmth and Magic of Black Moms

5/8/2020 - Ain't Nowhere to Run: An Open Letter to Ahmaud Arbery

5/7/2020 - Two Men Involved in Shooting of Ahmaud Arbery Have Been Arrested and Face Murder Charges

5/7/2020 - Michael Flynn is the Latest White Man Whose Actions Have No Consequences

5/7/2020 - Black Man Shot and Killed by Indianapolis Police While He Was Livestreaming on Facebook

5/7/2020 - 'It's Handled'...on Hulu! All 7 Seasons of Scandal Will Have a New Streaming Home Soon

5/7/2020 - Ahmaud Arbery's Shooting Death Spurs Calls for Justice, New Hate Crime Laws in Georgia

5/7/2020 - Historic Approaching Polar Vortex Is Just God Telling Us to Get the Fuck in the House

5/7/2020 - Growth Opportunities: Are You a Beauty Professional? You're Invited to the 1st Brown Beauty Summit!

5/7/2020 - An Interview with My 11-Year-Old My Daughter, Who Has Been Out of School Since Super Bowl Sunday

5/7/2020 - In Case You Forgot That the Los Angeles Clippers Were Once Owned By a Racist, Blackballed Will Kindly Remind You

5/7/2020 - Video Shows Birmingham, Ala., Police Officer Body Slamming Black Woman to the Ground for Not Wearing a Mask

5/7/2020 - Becoming: Yes, Malia Obama Does 'Cry a Little Bit' Every Time She Hears a Stevie Wonder Song

5/7/2020 - Hot or Haute? Issa Rae Took Cosmo's 'Expensive Taste Test'—and Made Us Reconsider Our Quarantine Spending

5/7/2020 - Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods Gets June Release Date on Netflix

5/7/2020 - While Black

5/7/2020 - Earl Thomas Is Having the Worst Birthday Ever

5/7/2020 - Stop Me If You've Heard This Before, But Jason Whitlock Is a Special Kind of Stupid

5/7/2020 - Welcome to the Jungle, Steve Mnuchin: Axl Rose Brings the Treasury Secretary to His Knees, Knees

5/7/2020 - One of Trump’s Personal Valets Tests Positive for Coronavirus

5/7/2020 - T.I. and Killer Mike Donated 500 Meals to Atlanta Families in Need, and They're Not Close to Being Done Yet

5/7/2020 - Trump Hires Donor With No Experience to Run the U.S. Postal Service. What Could Go Wrong?

5/7/2020 - Here’s How You Can Score 3 Months of TIDAL’s Premium Subscription for Free While You’re Staying Home

5/7/2020 - Armed Black People Escort Michigan Lawmaker Into State Capitol Building

5/7/2020 - Misty Copeland Launching Virtual Ballet Performance to Benefit Dancers Affected by COVID-19

5/6/2020 - Kweisi Mfume Fills Seat Left Vacant by Elijah Cummings

5/6/2020 - Alabama Sheriffs Are Refusing to Enforce Governor’s ‘Safer at Home’ Order

5/6/2020 - Birthdays, Books and...Breast Milk Facials? How These Celebrity Moms Are Staying Busy During Stay-at-Home

5/6/2020 - Karen Jailed for 7 Days for Refusing to Close Hair Salon During Quarantine

5/6/2020 - 'My Boy Lollipop' Singer Millie Small Dead at 72

5/6/2020 - Pennsylvania County Declares Racism a Public Health Crisis

5/6/2020 - Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp: I Totally Messed Up Reopening the State, Growing Outbreak Is Stressing Resources

5/6/2020 - Counties With High Proportion of Black People Made Up More Than Half of All Coronavirus Cases and Deaths, Study Finds

5/6/2020 - The Last Dance Has Charles Barkley Reminiscing on His Failed Friendship With Michael Jordan: 'The Guy Was Like a Brother to Me'

5/6/2020 - Barack Obama Surprises 3 Chicago Educators With Video Call for Teacher Appreciation Week

5/6/2020 - In Her Shoes: Serena Williams Is the New Face—and Feet—of Stuart Weitzman

5/6/2020 - Teddy Riley Says Bobby Brown Stormed Out During Recording of 'My Prerogative'

5/6/2020 - Trump Walks Out to ‘Live and Let Die,’ Says He’s Willing to Lose Some Lives to Save the Economy

5/6/2020 - The Way My Kids Are Eating Snacks at Home, I'm Starting to Wonder If They Were Starving at School

5/6/2020 - More Than 3/5: Stacey Abrams' Nonprofit Wants to Make Sure Black Men Aren't Left Out of the 2020 Census

5/6/2020 - Ousted Vaccine Scientist Files Whistleblower Complaint, Claims Trump Administration Ignored Coronavirus Warnings

5/6/2020 - After The Last Dance: Metta Ford-Artest On the Time He Broke Michael Jordan's Ribs And Somehow Lived to Tell the Tale

5/6/2020 - White Man Fatally Shoots Unarmed Black Man After Car Accident in St. Paul, Minn.

5/6/2020 - As Graphic Video of Black Jogger's Killing Goes Viral, Georgia Prosecutor Recommends Case Go Before Grand Jury

5/6/2020 - D-Nice to Spin at Virtual Prom Night Held by Houseparty App

5/6/2020 - Always on Beat: Jackie Aina Tells Us How She's Slaying Quarantine—and The Knot's Summer Cover

5/6/2020 - Taraji P. Henson, Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation Offering Mental Health Initiatives Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

5/6/2020 - Even 20 Years Later, Lucy Pearl's Sole Album Is Still as Perfect as Ever

5/6/2020 - Janelle Monae, Verizon Donate $10,000 Grants to Women and Minority-Owned Small Businesses

5/6/2020 - Multiple Violent NYPD Arrest Videos Highlight Racial Disparities in 'Social Distancing' Enforcement

5/5/2020 - Democrats File Lawsuit to Make Absentee Mail-In Voting Accessible to Everyone During Pandemic

5/5/2020 - French Montana Concedes Drake Could 'Probably' Beat Him in Head-to-Head Hits Battle; Water Declares It Is 'Likely' Wet

5/5/2020 - Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose Reopening Most Non-Essential Businesses, According to Poll

5/5/2020 - Beast Mode Back? Marshawn Lynch In Talks to Return to the Seattle Seahawks

5/5/2020 - Numa Perrier Will Be Bringing Us 'Black Kink' With Toxic, an Upcoming TV Series Developed by MACRO

5/5/2020 - General Managers Express Reluctance to Put Older NBA Coaches 'In Harm's Way' Due to Significant COVID-19 Risk

5/5/2020 - Oprah Gives Sound Advice on Failure During 'Some Good News' Appearance

5/5/2020 - Trump Is a Fuckboi and Fauci Is the Homie Who’s About to Expose His Lying Ass

5/5/2020 - The Last Dance Just Confirms That Mike Is Salty About (and Threatened by) LeBron

5/5/2020 - Barack and Michelle Obama to Give Commencement Addresses During YouTube's Graduation Ceremony

5/5/2020 - Big Beauty Tuesday: I Get It From My Mama

5/5/2020 - OWN's Greenleaf Is 'Goin' Up Yonder'—5th and Final Season to Premiere in June

5/5/2020 - Essence and Naomi Campbell Celebrate Their 50th Birthdays Together—With a Supermodel Self-Portrait

5/5/2020 - George Conway Video Places Coronavirus Mishaps on Trump; President Calls Him 'Moonface' in Twitter Rage

5/5/2020 - Billboard Big Breaks: Kid Cudi Lands His 1st No. 1 Hit and Megan Thee Stallion Scores Her 1st Top 10

5/5/2020 - Teen Sister and Brother Host Virtual ‘We Are Well Prom’ to Honor the Class of 2020

5/5/2020 - Houston, Stand Up! Megan Thee Stallion and Beyoncé to Be Honored With Commemorative Days in the City

5/5/2020 - DJ Jazzy Jeff Looks to 'Break the Monotony' With Virtual Block Party Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

5/5/2020 - Former NJ Gov. Chris Christie Wants to Reopen Country, Says People Die Everyday, B.

5/5/2020 - Rep. Ayanna Pressley Addresses Joe Biden Assault Allegations: 'We Still Don't Know What Survivor Justice Looks Like'

5/5/2020 - Tina Knowles-Lawson and Beyoncé's BeyGOOD Initiative Offering Free COVID-19 Testing in Houston

5/4/2020 - FBI Finds Pipe Bombs in the Home of Colorado Man Who Was Organizing Coronavirus Protests

5/4/2020 - Nikole Hannah-Jones, Creator of the New York Times' 1619 Project, Awarded 2020 Pulitzer Prize

5/4/2020 - That Awkward Moment When You're The Only One Who Shows Up to an IG Live

5/4/2020 - From Lee Everett to Lucius Fox: The Black Actor Who Has Voiced Gaming’s Most Memorable Characters

5/4/2020 - Michigan Police Searching for Two Suspects Who Reportedly Killed a Security Guard for Asking a Woman to Wear a Mask

5/4/2020 - It Took 7 Months for a St. Louis County Officer to Be Charged in the Death of the 12-Year-Old Black Girl He Hit With His Car

5/4/2020 - For Lawmakers, Protecting Black and Brown People from a Recession Hinges on Passing Rent Protection Legislation

5/4/2020 - LL Cool J Believes If He Didn't 'Need Love,' Drake Wouldn't Have Been Able to 'Find Your Love'

5/4/2020 - When Instagram Models Attack: DJ Khaled Shuts Down Twerker Gone Wild In Viral Video

5/4/2020 - Drake's Dark Lane Demo Tapes, Reviewed (in 200 Words)

5/4/2020 - Shopper Wears KKK Hood as Face Covering in California Grocery Store

5/4/2020 - Trump Claims He’s Been Treated Worse Than President Who Was Assassinated

5/4/2020 - Monica Is Open to a Brandy 'Verzuz' Match-Up...But There Are Conditions

5/4/2020 - What We’re Reading Now: Mikki Kendall’s Hood Feminism

5/4/2020 - A Kobe Sighting, 'Republicans Buy Sneakers, Too,' and Other Takeaways From the 3rd Night of ESPN's The Last Dance

5/4/2020 - Michigan Governor Describes Stay-at-Home Protests as ‘Some of the Worst Racism’ She’s Seen

5/4/2020 - Replay, Revisit, Reject: For Last Week's New Music, R&B Prevails While Hip-Hop Features Fail

5/4/2020 - This Little House on the Prairie Clip Has Resurfaced and Todd Bridges Dropped Some White Privilege Wisdom

5/4/2020 - Video Shows NYPD Violently Arresting Bystander in 'Social Distancing' Arrest

5/4/2020 - Don Lemon Asks Trump Why He Can’t Stop Obsessing Over Obama: Is It Because He Didn’t Need Daddy’s Help?

5/4/2020 - Controlling the Narrative: Meghan and Harry Reportedly Cooperated on an Upcoming Biography

5/4/2020 - What's New and Black on Netflix in May 2020? Dust Yourself Off and Try to Find Out!

5/4/2020 - How to Win Friends and Influence People in a Psychiatric Ward

5/3/2020 - 'Savage Remix' Inspires Some Equally Savage Choreography

5/3/2020 - Chicago Mayor Tells Black Teens on Playground to Go Home, Gets Roasted in Response on Camera

5/3/2020 - Prosecutors Know Who Killed This Black Man in Georgia but Have Made No Arrests

5/2/2020 - During COVID-19, Black Women Are Still Dying From Not Being Taken Seriously

5/2/2020 - HBO Renews Insecure, Promising Us More Issa & Molly Shenanigans After 2020

5/2/2020 - Trevor Noah Is Paying Daily Show Crew Furloughed by COVID-19 Out of His Own Pocket

5/1/2020 - Reclaiming Our Sourdough Starter: 'Rage Baking' Began With a Black Woman—and Right Now, We Want It Back

5/1/2020 - Tara Reade Says She Feels 'Discounted' by Democratic Party in Wake of Joe Biden Sexual Assault Allegations

5/1/2020 - And Now We Know Where Karens Come From: The Root Examines Kids' Obama Blackface Dance Routine

5/1/2020 - The Happiest Place on Earth Could Become the NBA's New Home, Thanks to COVID-19

5/1/2020 - Joe Biden 'Categorically' Denies Former Staffer Tara Reade's Sexual Assault Allegations: 'This Never Happened'

5/1/2020 - May Is Mental Health Awareness Month. You Hanging in There?

5/1/2020 - Vice President's Staff Threaten Retaliation Against Reporter for Tweeting About Pence’s Mask Off Antics

5/1/2020 - This Is Dedicated to All the Unfiltered Aunties I Have Known and Loved

5/1/2020 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Black People Are Stupid

5/1/2020 - Trailer Roundup: Your Mission Is To Catch a Beautician...But I May Destroy You

5/1/2020 - I Think You Better Call Tyrone to Cook Some Griiiiits Because the 1st Female Verzuz Is Erykah Badu vs. Jill Scott

5/1/2020 - The Root Jams Weekly (5/1/2020): 'Guilty Pleasures'

5/1/2020 - For the First Time in a Year, the White House Press Secretary Is Going to Speak, and It’s Going to Be a Disaster

5/1/2020 - Drake Drops Dark Lane Demo Tapes and the Internet Weeps With Joy

5/1/2020 - Fela Kuti Drummer and 'Father of Afrobeat' Tony Allen Dead at 79

5/1/2020 - Today Would Have Been Gigi Bryant’s 14th Birthday

5/1/2020 - Snoop Perrito? Your Favorite Rapper Blends G-Funk With Mexican Folk Music and It Slaps

5/1/2020 - More Love for Mom: Mother's Day Gifts to Help Make Staying-at-Home a Sanctuary

5/1/2020 - For White People Who Have Considered Genocide When Coronavirus Wasn't Enough