2/28/2021 - Slavery Yoga Was Taught to Kindergarteners in Delaware for Black History Month. No, Seriously.

2/28/2021 - Recap: 28 Days of Album Cover Blackness with VSB

2/28/2021 - Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley Said Systemic Racism is Fake and America 'Liberated Slaves'. I Translated His White Fragility Speech for You

2/28/2021 - What's Good? Black History Month Collabs That Will Make a Difference Well Past February

2/28/2021 - Louisiana State Trooper Suspended Without Pay After Video Shows Him Kicking and Dragging Ronald Greene Before He Died in Police Custody

2/28/2021 - 28 Days of Album Cover Blackness With VSB, Day 28: Wilson Pickett's Pickett In The Pocket (1974)

2/28/2021 - 28 Days of Black Joy: Chosen Family

2/27/2021 - Why Does LeBron James Have to Keep Telling White People He Will Not Shut Up and Dribble? This Time, It's a Fellow Athlete

2/27/2021 - Mitch McConnell Says He'd 'Absolutely' Support Another Trump Presidency Despite Trump Calling Him a 'Political Hack'

2/27/2021 - Georgia High School Teacher Tells Class Breonna Taylor's Death Was Her 'Criminal' Boyfriend's and Her Own Fault

2/27/2021 - Black Dog Lovers? The Complex Relationship Between Black folks and Man’s Best Friend

2/27/2021 - 28 Days of Black Joy: Cannabis Is the Blackest Thing Ever

2/27/2021 - 28 Days of Album Music Blackness With VSB, Day 27: Public Enemy's It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back (1988)

2/26/2021 - University of Tennessee, Knoxville Renames 2 Dorms After Black Activists Who Fought to Desegregate Higher Education

2/26/2021 - Black Lives Matter Says $3 Million Fund for People Struggling From Pandemic Depleted After One Day, Seeks More Donations

2/26/2021 - During His Presidency Obama Found That White Hate of Black People Made Reparations a Pipe Dream

2/26/2021 - Golden Globes' HFPA States the Obvious: 'We Need to Bring in Black Members'

2/26/2021 - Deathloop and Sifu Come Out Swinging During Sony’s First State of Play of 2021

2/26/2021 - PageTurners: The Literary Journey of Black Voices

2/26/2021 - Former NFL Player Montee Ball Reveals How Locker Room Culture Contributed to His Addiction: 'You Got a Pat on the Back for It'

2/26/2021 - Federal Judge in Texas Rules Government's COVID-Related Eviction Moratorium Is Unconstitutional

2/26/2021 - Comic Creators Denys Cowan, L.L. McKinney, and Kwanza Osajyefo on What the Future Holds for the Rise of the Black Superhero

2/26/2021 - Las Vegas Police Say They Fatally Shot BLM Protester After He Raised Rifle. Video Appears to Show Something Different

2/26/2021 - Auntie Unfiltered Sits Down With Vanessa Bell Calloway

2/26/2021 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: How to Be an Anti-Antiracist

2/26/2021 - Senate Referee Shoots Down Minimum Wage Increase, Now Some Democrats Want Her Fired

2/26/2021 - Make It Rain With TwitCoins: Is There Anyone You'd Pay to Read Their 'Super' Tweets?

2/26/2021 - O-T Fagbenle Will Be the Barack to Viola Davis' Michelle in Showtime Anthology Series, The First Lady

2/26/2021 - It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! Nah, It’s Ta-Nehisi Coates Writing the Script for the Next Superman Movie

2/26/2021 - 'Love Is the Strut. Hate Is a Stumble': The Root Presents It's Lit! Salutes the Black Bottom Saints With Alice Randall

2/26/2021 - Conservative-Funded Group Asks Supreme Court to End Affirmative Action in College Admissions

2/26/2021 - Michigan, Northwestern Announce George Jewett Trophy to Honor Big Ten's 1st Black Player

2/26/2021 - Michigan Police Officer on Unpaid Leave After Being Accused of Sharing Racist George Floyd Meme

2/26/2021 - Bundles on Bundles in This Week’s Good-Ass Games at Good-Ass Prices

2/26/2021 - From Uptown to World Wide Funk: Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak and Bootsy Collins Made an Album, Y'all

2/26/2021 - Infinitum: An Afrofuturist Tale: Illustrator-Author Tim Fielder Looks to the Future With a Modern Epic

2/26/2021 - 28 Days of Album Cover Blackness With VSB, Day 26: Michael Jackson's Off The Wall (1979)

2/26/2021 - 28 Days of Black Joy: The Art of Chuck Styles

2/25/2021 - Los Angeles Sheriff’s Deputies Allege a Gang Targeting Black and Latino Communities Exists in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

2/25/2021 - Wisconsin Group Tried to Purge Nearly 17,000 Eligible Voters Because Voter Suppression Is the Republican Way

2/25/2021 - Alleged Capitol Rioter Identified After Ex-Girlfriend Shared Berating Texts Sent From the Capitol With the FBI

2/25/2021 - Black Renaissance & Chill: Finish Black History Month Strong With This Week's Virtual Events

2/25/2021 - Students and Staff Rally Behind Black Principal of Massachusetts Middle School After He Faces Racist Backlash for Condemning the Confederate Flag

2/25/2021 - Alabama's New Anti-BLM 'Riot Bill' Targets Peaceful Black Protesters. I Know Because I Was One of Them

2/25/2021 - The Empire of Ebony: Lisa Cortés to Direct Documentary on the Rise and Impact of the 1st Black Media Empire

2/25/2021 - Get Your Popcorn Ready Because a Russell Wilson Trade Is Expected 'In the Near Future'

2/25/2021 - Capitol Chief Says Extremists Want to 'Blow Up the Capitol' at Biden's State of the Union Address

2/25/2021 - The Mothership: Halle Berry to Star in, Executive Produce Upcoming Sci-Fi Feature for Netflix and MRC Film

2/25/2021 - Nostalgia-palooza: Paramount+ Is Rebooting Behind the Music, Yo! MTV Raps and Unplugged

2/25/2021 - The W Stands for 'Why': What Is Going on With This Shoot for W Magazine—and What's With the Trees?

2/25/2021 - Thasunda Brown Duckett Will Be the Next CEO of TIAA, Making Her 1 of 2 Black Women to Lead a Fortune 500 Company

2/25/2021 - Biden Administration Will Send Masks to Low-Income Communities Across the Country

2/25/2021 - Kyrie Irving, Vanessa Bryant Push for Kobe Bryant to Become the NBA's New Logo

2/25/2021 - 'I Wants Us to Feel Seen So Bad': Amber Ruffin to Air on NBC, Making Her the Only Black Woman With a Network Late-Night Show

2/25/2021 - Black Oklahoma Student Says White Teacher Berated Him Over ‘Black King’ T-shirt, Called for White History Month

2/25/2021 - It’s Finally Happened: Manhattan District Attorney Has Trump’s Tax Returns

2/25/2021 - Pentagon Report Spotlights White Supremacism in U.S. Military That Can Increase ‘Potency of Planned Violent Attacks’

2/25/2021 - One of Biden’s Cabinet Picks Is Looking Doomed, but Her Replacement Could Be a Black Woman and That’s Fine by Me

2/25/2021 - Andra Day Calls Out Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover: 'He Is the Hitler for Black People. The Man Was a Demon'

2/25/2021 - All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt: Barry Jenkins and A24 Reunite for New Film; Jenkin’s The Underground Railroad Gets Premiere Date on Amazon Prime Video

2/25/2021 - Q Is Smart, Q Is Kind, Q Is Important: A Response to Tucker Carlson's Allegation That QAnon Doesn't Exist

2/25/2021 - You Get Some Black Joy! And You Get Some Black Joy! Everybody Black Gets Some Black Joy! Love, The Root

2/25/2021 - 'By Means Fair or Foul': America's Conspiracy to Assassinate Black Power

2/25/2021 - 28 Days of Album Cover Blackness With VSB, Day 25: Sonny Sharrock's Black Woman (1969)

2/25/2021 - 28 Days of Black Joy: My Lush, Opulent, and Juicy Pandemic Beard

2/24/2021 - The Devil Has a New Blue Dress to Wear—Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins Books Are Being Adapted for TV

2/24/2021 - A String of Recent Carjackings Has Spurred an Illinois State Representative to Call for Grand Theft Auto to Be Banned

2/24/2021 - Georgia Historical Markers Commemorating Jackie Robinson and Victims of Lynching Shot Up by Vandals

2/24/2021 - Third COVID-19 Vaccine, This Time From Johnson & Johnson, Could Soon Be Available in the U.S.

2/24/2021 - Showtime Sets Premiere Date for New Sketch Comedy Series From Comedian Ziwe Fumudoh

2/24/2021 - Black Lives Matter Global Network Reveals Its Finances Amid Criticism for Lack of Transparency

2/24/2021 - WNBA Partners With Anthem to Address Social Justice, Health Inequities

2/24/2021 - lllinois Becomes First State to End Cash Bail After Governor Signs Historic Criminal Reform Measure Into Law

2/24/2021 - ‘Be Less White’: Coca-Cola Faces Backlash for Giving Wypipo Wonderful Advice in Diversity Training Program

2/24/2021 - We, As Ourselves: Me Too, Time's Up and the National Women’s Law Center Launch a Landmark Campaign to Support Black Survivors

2/24/2021 - How Debbie Allen Is Choreographing a Healthier Lifestyle After Receiving a Pre-Diabetes Diagnosis

2/24/2021 - United States vs Billie Holiday Is Rewriting Billie Holiday's Legacy

2/24/2021 - Another Day, Another NBA All-Star Game Without Devin Booker

2/24/2021 - From Blackest Night to Brightest Day: How the Present Has Seen the Glorious Rise of the Black Superhero

2/24/2021 - Spike Lee and Stefon Bristol Team Up for New Feature, Gordon Hemingway & The Realm of Cthulhu for Netflix

2/24/2021 - NYC Mayoral Candidate Maya Wiley Believes Political Leaders Need to Broaden Their Imaginations to Better Serve the Public

2/24/2021 - TikTok Launches Incubator Program Featuring 100 Black Creators Up for the Challenge

2/24/2021 - Jay-Z, Tiffany Haddish, Common, Stacey Abrams Among Guests to Help Celebrate Legendary Artist and Activist Harry Belafonte

2/24/2021 - Prosecutors Say 20-Year Veteran of NYPD Attacked Cop at Capitol ‘Like a Junkyard Dog,’ Beat Him With Metal Pole

2/24/2021 - Biden’s Nominees of Color Facing More Intense Republican Scrutiny Than His White Picks. If Only We Knew Why

2/24/2021 - Grand Jury Declines to Charge Rochester Police Officers in Daniel Prude’s Death

2/24/2021 - 28 Days of Album Cover Blackness With VSB, Day 24: Leon Thomas' Full Circle (1973)

2/24/2021 - Tiger Woods Foundation Asks for Privacy, Details 'Significant Injuries' Following Single-Car Accident

2/24/2021 - 28 Days of Black Joy: To the Unforgettable Natalie Cole...With an Everlasting Love

2/23/2021 - Video Shows Louisiana Cop Apparently Placing Black Child in Chokehold

2/23/2021 - Southern Poverty Law Center Estimates 160 Confederate Monuments Were Taken Down in 2020. We Need to Pump Those Numbers Up

2/23/2021 - Douglas Turner Ward, Co-Founder of the Negro Ensemble Company, Dies at 90

2/23/2021 - Tiger Woods Suffers Serious Leg Injuries in Car Crash, Was Conscious at the Scene [Updated]

2/23/2021 - Ahmaud Arbery’s Mother Files Civil Lawsuit Against Son’s Killers, Glynn County Officials on Anniversary of Death

2/23/2021 - Black Rapper Cut From White Freaknik, aka CPAC, for Anti-Semitic Tweets

2/23/2021 - In Living Color: Vanity Fair's Annual Hollywood Issue Is Here—With a Predominantly Black Cast on Its Cover

2/23/2021 - Clean Slate: Laverne Cox, George Wallace to Star in New Comedy From Norman Lear and Sony Pictures TV

2/23/2021 - Bobby Shmurda Is Free and Yes, We're All Waiting for the Fitted Cap He Flung Into the Air to Return to His Head

2/23/2021 - That Warm Dr. Hibbert Chuckle We All Know From The Simpsons Will Finally Be a Black Man's Voice

2/23/2021 - Security Officials Testify to Senate That Violent Capitol Insurrection Was Unforeseeable, Blame Breakdown in Intelligence

2/23/2021 - 'I Felt Seen': This Conversation Between Megan Thee Stallion and Rep. Maxine Waters Made Our Week

2/23/2021 - Nubia: Real One Is a Poignant, Heartfelt Portrayal of a Black Girl’s Journey Into Herodom

2/23/2021 - Since Ted Cruz Couldn’t Stay In Cancun, Someone Sent a Mariachi Band to His House

2/23/2021 - COVID Death Toll in America Tops 500,000, Black Americans and Other Communities of Color Still Have Highest Rates of Loss

2/23/2021 - Birth of Cool Series From Lena Waithe’s Hillman Grad and Macro Finds a Home at BET+

2/23/2021 - Thinking Creatively: The CFDA Launches the IMPACT Initiative to Build a Pipeline for Black and Brown Talent

2/23/2021 - What I Hear on Clubhouse: For Black People, Will Silicon Valley’s Hot New Thing Be More Terrordome Than Mecca?

2/23/2021 - Merrick Garland Gets Emotional During Senate Confirmation When Talking About Race, and I Owe Him an Apology

2/23/2021 - 28 Days of Album Cover Blackness With VSB, Day 23: Ohio Players' Honey (1975)

2/23/2021 - 'This Lacks Respect and Tact': Vanessa Bryant Calls Out Meek Mill for His Kobe Lyric

2/23/2021 - 28 Days of Black Joy: Nicknames That Cancel Out the Need for Government Names

2/22/2021 - Charges Dropped Against Black Texas Teen Who Was Arrested Simply for Walking Home From Work During the Winter Storm

2/22/2021 - Pennsylvania Man Arrested for Threatening to Kill Members of Congress and Shoot Black People to ‘Keep Them in Line’

2/22/2021 - What If: What The Skippies Winners Would Be Wearing If We Could Actually Party

2/22/2021 - Pennsylvania Cop Charged for Participating in Capitol Riot

2/22/2021 - From Scratch: Director Nzingha Stewart Tapped for New Limited Series From Netflix

2/22/2021 - Independent Probe in Elijah McClain Case Accuses Aurora Cops and Medics of Wrongdoing and That Internal Investigation of Incident Was Suspect

2/22/2021 - A Case of Bad Manors: André Leon Talley Embroiled in Eviction Battle

2/22/2021 - 'Get Your Hand Out of My Pocket': Dr. Dre References Divorce Proceedings and Aneurysm in New Song

2/22/2021 - Mic Drop: Let's Take a Genre Trip

2/22/2021 - Kerry Washington and Charlize Theron to Star in School of Good and Evil for Netflix

2/22/2021 - We Sure Aren’t Living in a Post-Racial World: U.N. Head Says White Supremacy a ‘Transnational Threat’

2/22/2021 - Jay-Z Shares His 'Empire State of Mind' With LVMH, Forms Partnership With Moët Hennessy

2/22/2021 - The Supreme Court Just Told Trump He Must Hand Over His Tax Returns

2/22/2021 - Letter From Deceased Black Cop Implicates FBI and NYPD in Malcolm X’s Death; Daughters of Icon Call for Investigation

2/22/2021 - 28 Days of Album Cover Blackness With VSB, Day 22: Max Roach's We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite (1960)

2/22/2021 - Trump to Speak at White Freaknik, aka the Conservative Political Action Conference

2/22/2021 - Who’s That Queen?: Grammy-Winning Rapper Eve Set to Star In Upcoming Musical Drama for ABC

2/22/2021 - The Lightning and the Storm: How an Imperfect Past Shaped the Rise of the Black Superhero

2/22/2021 - Awards Unseasoned: Golden Globes Organization Reportedly Has No Black Members

2/22/2021 - 28 Days of Black Joy: Black Sisterhood

2/21/2021 - Black Man Sues Chicago Police Accused of Brutalizing Him After Stopping Him Because He Had 'A Shocked Look on His Face'

2/21/2021 - Ohio Woman Arrested for Leaving Children In Motel Room While She Worked Receives More Than $150,000 in Financial Support

2/21/2021 - Black Kentucky Police Officer Fired for Sharing Information on Fellow Cops With Black Lives Matter Protest Leader

2/21/2021 - 28 Days of Album Cover Blackness With VSB, Day 21: Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly (2015)

2/21/2021 - 28 Days of Black Joy: Video Games Are a Wonderful Thing

2/20/2021 - Newly Released Video Shows Altercation Between California Deputies and Fatally Shot Homeless Black Man Stopped for Jaywalking

2/20/2021 - From No Power to Unaffordable Power: Texas Households Receive Electric Bills as High as $10,000 Due to Snowstorm

2/20/2021 - Gov. Ron DeSantis Still Pushing Voter Suppression Bills Despite Claim That Florida Election Was Most Secure in the Nation

2/20/2021 - 28 Days of Album Cover Blackness With VSB, Day 20: Dee Dee Bridgewater's Afro Blue (1974)

2/20/2021 - 28 Days of Black Joy: The Imminent Return of D'Angelo

2/19/2021 - Florida Woman Charged for Threatening to Shoot FBI Agents Investigating Her for Possible Capitol Riot Participation

2/19/2021 - Minnesota House Votes Against Additional Security Funding for Derek Chauvin Trial

2/19/2021 - Watchdog Report Finds Chicago Police Response to George Floyd Protests Was Defined by 'Tactical Incoherence'

2/19/2021 - Head of Indianapolis Art Museum Resigns After Tone-Deaf Job Posting For Someone to Maintain Institution’s ‘Core, White Art Audience’

2/19/2021 - Russell Westbrook Helps Varo Bank Secure $63 Million Investment, Will Address Financial Inequality as Advisor

2/19/2021 - Indiana Republicans Boo Black Lawmakers Speaking About Discrimination

2/19/2021 - Erika Alexander Wants to Know Where The Money Resides With New Podcast Reparations: The Big Payback

2/19/2021 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: The Wypipolympics

2/19/2021 - Florida County Commissioner Prioritized COVID-19 Vaccine for County’s 2 Richest Zip Codes, Then Created a 'VIP List'

2/19/2021 - The Graduate: Megan Thee Stallion Covers Harper's Bazaar's Spring Fashion Issue and Talks Earning Her Degree

2/19/2021 - Freezing Texas Residents Aren't All Ted Cruz Left Behind

2/19/2021 - 6 Capitol Officers Suspended (With Pay) for Behavior During Jan. 6 Insurrection; 29 More Under Investigation

2/19/2021 - 'No Revolutionary Act Is Without Risk': The Root Presents It's Lit! and Charles Blow Dance With The Devil You Know

2/19/2021 - Beyoncé's BeyGOOD Foundation Teams Up With Adidas and Bread of Life to Provide Texas Winter Storm Relief

2/19/2021 - A History of Black Excellence: The Black Women Who Won Reparations

2/19/2021 - Fight a Star War or Two in This Week’s Good-Ass Games at Good-Ass Prices

2/19/2021 - Luka Doncic Starting Over Dame Lillard In 2021 NBA All-Star Game and Twitter Is Having None Of It: 'I'm Done'

2/19/2021 - After Going Virtual in 2020, Essence Festival Announces a 'Hybrid' Format for 2021

2/19/2021 - A Year After 'Megxit,' Harry and Meghan Opt to Permanently Exit Their Roles as Working Royals

2/19/2021 - The Best Example of the Sneaky Evil of Copaganda? The 'Redemption' of Reginald VelJohnson's Kid-Killing Cop in Die Hard

2/19/2021 - 28 Days of Album Cover Blackness With VSB, Day 19: Mary J. Blige's My Life (1994)

2/19/2021 - 28 Days Of Black Joy: Connecting Mind, Body and Spirit Through Yoga

2/19/2021 - Prince Markie Dee of Pioneering Hip-Hop Trio The Fat Boys Dead at 52

2/19/2021 - 'I Can’t Win With the Internet': Tessica Brown Tells The Root How Going Viral Affected Her and Her Children

2/18/2021 - Arizona Republican Says 'American Citizens' Should be Prioritized for COVID-19 Vaccine, Not 'Hispanics'

2/18/2021 - Abortion Ban Signed by South Carolina Governor Immediately Triggers Lawsuit From Planned Parenthood

2/18/2021 - Democrats Introduce Sweeping Immigration Legislation, Offering 3 to 8 Year Path to Citizenship for Undocumented Immigrants

2/18/2021 - Mario Golf: Super Rush and Splatoon 3 Among the Highlights of Wednesday’s Nintendo Direct

2/18/2021 - Biden Nominates Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to Head Medicare; If Confirmed She Will Become First Woman to Hold the Post

2/18/2021 - Virtual Meeting Between Iowa State Lawmakers Crashed by, You Guessed it, Racist Trolls

2/18/2021 - This Week’s Virtual Events Are Filled With Sips, Stanzas, and Snowfall

2/18/2021 - Michigan Man Hangs KKK Flag in Window Facing Black Neighbor’s Home

2/18/2021 - Conversations for Change: #1000BlackGirlBooks Creator Marley Dias Shares Her Story With American Girl

2/18/2021 - Black People in America Have Lost Nearly 3 Years of Life Expectancy Since the Pandemic

2/18/2021 - Donald Glover Reportedly Secures Overall Deal With Amazon, Malia Obama to Join His Writers' Room

2/18/2021 - How Is Black Twitter Reacting to Meek Mill's Song Referencing Kobe Bryant? Spoiler Alert: It's 'Going Bad'

2/18/2021 - Chicago Mayor Spent Millions of COVID Relief Money on Police Payroll

2/18/2021 - Fashionistas Nikki and Lola Ogunnaike Are Well Suited With New IMG-Backed Podcast

2/18/2021 - After Throwing His Wife, His Dad, His State, His Country, His Name, and His Nuts Under the Bus, Ted Cruz Throws His Daughters There, Too

2/18/2021 - Alicia Garza and Black to the Future Action Fund on What Democrats Owe Black Voters

2/18/2021 - Democrats Are Stuck With a Republican Party Rife With Conspiracy Theorists, Anarchists and Terrorist Sympathizers

2/18/2021 - Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Proposes Overhaul to Citizen’s Arrest Law Amid Death of Ahmaud Arbery

2/18/2021 - Zendaya Will Be Honored With the SeeHer Award at the 2021 Critics Choice Awards

2/18/2021 - Ted Cruz Caught Flying to Cancun While Nearly 3 Million Texans Are Still Freezing Without Power and Heat

2/18/2021 - 28 Days of Album Cover Blackness With VSB, Day 18: Shut Up and Dance's Dance Before The Police Come! (1990)

2/18/2021 - Whiteness Anonymous: A 12-Step Program for QAnoners and 'Not All White' People Suffering From Trump Withdrawal Syndrome

2/18/2021 - VIDEO: Celebrating Moments of Peak Blackness from Some of Our Distinguished Nominees for 2021 Skippies

2/18/2021 - Sulwe: Netflix and Lupita Nyong’o Team Up for New Animated Musical Based on Her Bestselling Children’s Book

2/18/2021 - Naomi Osaka Sweeps Serena Williams, Advances to Australian Open Final

2/18/2021 - 20 More Things I Cooked, Baked and Fried While Surviving the Pandemic, Pt. 2

2/18/2021 - 28 Days of Black Joy: Candy Ladies

2/18/2021 - 'Writing to Make a Difference in This World,' Roxane Gay Launches a MasterClass

2/17/2021 - Black McDonald's Franchise Owner Files Lawsuit Accusing Company of Discrimination

2/17/2021 - Whoopi Goldberg and Jasmine Guy Cast in Tracy Oliver Dating Comedy Series, Harlem

2/17/2021 - Washington State to Enact New Plan to Ensure Non-White Communities Receive Proper Access to COVID Vaccines

2/17/2021 - Giving Insight Into the Spiral of Abuse, FKA twigs Details 'Calculated, Systematic, Tricky, and Mazelike' Relationship With Shia LaBeouf

2/17/2021 - Hip-Hop and Hoops Meet In Diddy's New Web Series The Crew League

2/17/2021 - Los Angeles School Board Cuts $25 Million From School Police Force to Go Instead Into Black Student Achievement Plan

2/17/2021 - White AF Wisconsin Superintendant Candidate Says She Was Called N-Word Because Her 'Lips Were Bigger Than Most.' *Sigh*

2/17/2021 - Rush Limbaugh Died Today. Here Are Some More Sneakers I Own.

2/17/2021 - Stiff Where?! Blue Ivy Has Never Seen a Ceiling In Her Whole Life—Which Is Why She's So Icy Park

2/17/2021 - Massive Racial Disparity in Kentucky’s Vaccination Numbers Underscores the Enduring Power of Structural Racism

2/17/2021 - Regina King to Portray Political Icon Shirley Chisholm in Upcoming Biopic From John Ridley

2/17/2021 - Federal Court Gives NYC Green Light to Release Police Disciplinary Records. Police Unions Are Predictably Mad

2/17/2021 - Please Stop Attacking 'Gorilla Glue Girl' Tessica Brown

2/17/2021 - The Cast of Coming 2 America Is Very Happy to Be Here and Show Out on These Essence March/April Covers

2/17/2021 - Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Begs Black Folks Not to Come to Atlanta for NBA-All Star Weekend

2/17/2021 - I Got a Story to Tell: Netflix to Air New Documentary on the Life of Legendary Rapper Biggie Smalls

2/17/2021 - Black and Jubilant: Unpacking Black Joy From the Revolutionary to the Ordinary

2/17/2021 - Rush Limbaugh, Spouter of Racist Hate-Filled Garbage, Dead at 70

2/17/2021 - Rihanna Under Fire (Again) for Cultural Appropriation—and 'Interference' in Indian Politics [Updated]

2/17/2021 - Heartless Texas Mayor Resigns After Telling Powerless Residents Facing the Freezing Cold That He’s Tired of Them Looking for Handouts

2/17/2021 - IMDb TV Announces LeBron James-Produced Top Class: The Life and Times of the Sierra Canyon Trailblazers

2/17/2021 - Florida Teacher Under Investigation for Teaching That Slaves Weren’t Whipped and the N-Word Isn’t Racist

2/17/2021 - Time Reveals Time100 Next List, Brit Bennett, Telfar Clemens, Marcus Rashford Among Honorees

2/17/2021 - 28 Days of Album Cover Blackness With VSB, Day 17: Mystique's Mystique featuring Ralph Johnson (1977)

2/17/2021 - Ruth E. Carter to Receive a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Feb. 25

2/17/2021 - ‘I Will Not Make That Happen’: Biden Says No to $50,000 Student Debt Forgiveness

2/17/2021 - New Jordan Peele Project We Know Nothing About Has a Release Date, Stars Keke Palmer and Maybe Daniel Kaluuya

2/17/2021 - Trump Wanted to Mock Mitch McConnell’s Multiple Chins in Scathing Statement but Settled for ‘Unsmiling Political Hack’

2/17/2021 - 28 Days of Black Joy: Experiencing Black Joy Together

2/16/2021 - Ray Fisher Says Joss Whedon and WB/DC Execs Aren't Suing Him Because They Know He's Telling the Truth

2/16/2021 - As Coronavirus Cases Drop, Elementary Schools in Los Angeles County Are Set to Return to In-Person Learning

2/16/2021 - JetBlue Fires Employee Who Sparked Hostage Rumors Because She Had to Quarantine in Jamaica After Positive COVID Test

2/16/2021 - 'I Am Battle-Tested': Va. Gubernatorial Candidate Jennifer Carroll Foy Says Her Commitment to Black Maternal Health Is Personal

2/16/2021 - Senate Democrats Make ‘Historic’ Move Towards Providing Aid for Black Farmers

2/16/2021 - Big Beauty Tuesday: How Brother Vellies' Aurora James Is Helping Retailers Make a Giant Step for Black Businesses

2/16/2021 - Passing Star Ruth Negga to Star as Josephine Baker in Upcoming Limited Series for ABC Signature

2/16/2021 - Simone Biles Gives Us a Glimpse Into Her Journey to the Tokyo Olympics With Docuseries Simone vs. Herself

2/16/2021 - Oprah Winfrey Will Have an 'Intimate Conversation' With Meghan Markle and Prince Harry on CBS in March

2/16/2021 - Number of New Daily COVID-19 Cases Decreasing; Biden Says He’ll Surpass Goal of 100 Million Vaccine Doses

2/16/2021 - I Thought I'd Never See a Finale as Bad as Game of Thrones's. Then I Watched Showtime's Your Honor

2/16/2021 - AAFCA Awards 2021: Mariah Carey, George C. Wolfe, Stacey Abrams All In Documentary Among Honorees

2/16/2021 - Rashida Jones, Naomi Wadler and. Rep. Ayanna Pressley Kick Off Inaugural Black Girl Freedom Week

2/16/2021 - Charges Dropped Against Amy Cooper, the Woman Who Called the Cops on a Black Man in Central Park Last Year

2/16/2021 - 'How Does It Feel' to Know D'Angelo Is Doing a Verzuz at the Apollo and Has a Possible New Album Coming Soon?

2/16/2021 - Ex-NFL Star Vincent Jackson Found Dead at 38

2/16/2021 - NAACP Sues Trump, Giuliani and Two White Nationalist Groups for Failed Jan. 6 Coup

2/16/2021 - Draymond Green Is Big Mad (Again) and He Might Have a Point

2/16/2021 - St. Louis to Pay $5 Million to Black Cop Who Was Beaten By Officers While Undercover as a Protestor

2/16/2021 - And the Skippy Goes To! Here Are The Root's 2nd Annual The Blackest Awards Winners

2/16/2021 - Bridgerton Star Regé-Jean Page to Host Saturday Night Live

2/16/2021 - 28 Days of Album Cover Blackness With VSB, Day 16: Outkast's Aquemini (1998)

2/16/2021 - Lindsey Graham Threatens to Impeach Kamala Harris as Valentine’s Gift to His Boo

2/16/2021 - The Black Church Exclusive Clip: The Significance of White Supremacy Targeting Our Sacred Sanctuaries

2/16/2021 - Watch: The 2nd Annual Blackest Awards Winners!

2/16/2021 - 28 Days of Joy: Shoutout to the Black YouTubers Who Stay Bringing the Joy

2/15/2021 - America's Oldest Juvenile Lifer Is a Black Man Who Was Released in Philadelphia After 68 Years in Prison

2/15/2021 - Mic Drop: These 10 New Songs Are All Over the Map of Love

2/15/2021 - Tessica Brown Says She Has NOT Made Any Plans to Sue Gorilla Glue...But Summa Y'all Still Gon' Hate Anyway

2/15/2021 - Facebook Watch to Premiere New Black History Month Special Featuring Erykah Badu, Chance the Rapper, John Legend, and More

2/15/2021 - Father of Nicki Minaj Dies in Hit-And-Run Crash on Long Island

2/15/2021 - Ready for the (Virtual) Runway? The Black Fashion Lover's Guide to New York Fashion Week This February

2/15/2021 - Ma Rainey Director George C. Wolfe Teams Up With the Obamas' Higher Ground for Upcoming Bayard Rustin Biopic

2/15/2021 - 28 Days of Album Cover Blackness With VSB, Day 15: Minnie Riperton's Perfect Angel (1974)

2/15/2021 - 28 Days of Black Joy: Going Down South to 'Infinite' Cousins

2/14/2021 - Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Announce Their Second Pregnancy, Sparking Joy and Love This Valentine’s Day

2/14/2021 - Phoenix Cops Caught on Body-Cam Allegedly Upset They Forgot to 'Stomp' and 'Gas' BLM Protesters Who Were 'Leaving'

2/14/2021 - LAPD Officers Accused of Sharing George Floyd Valentine's Day Photo That Reads 'You Take My Breath Away'

2/14/2021 - Virginia Supreme Court Will Hear Appeals to Block Robert E. Lee Statue Removal Because Wypipo Really Love Their Ode to Slavery

2/14/2021 - 28 Days of Album Cover Blackness With VSB, Day 14: Marvin Gaye's I Want You (1976)

2/14/2021 - Black Joy Is in the Way We Create the Culture

2/14/2021 - Love for the Long Haul: AphroChic's Founders Talk Partnership, Marriage and Surviving COVID-19

2/13/2021 - Twice-Impeached Non-President Donald Trump Acquitted for the 2nd Time

2/13/2021 - Family of Dijon Kizzee Files $35 Million Claim Accusing LA County Sheriff's Deputies of Using Unreasonable Deadly Force

2/13/2021 - Would-Be Jacksonville Jaguars Coach Resigns One Day After Hiring Amid Backlash Over Alleged Racism

2/13/2021 - 28 Days of Album Cover Blackness With VSB, Day 13: Preston Love's Preston Love's Omaha Bar-B-Q (1969)

2/13/2021 - 28 Days of Black Joy: Mountain Hiking In Ukraine

2/12/2021 - 9 Movies Embodying the Diversity of Black Love Across Decades

2/12/2021 - Extended Rochester Police Body Cam Footage Shows Cops Who Pepper-Sprayed 9-Year-Old Girl Just DGAF About Black Children

2/12/2021 - ‘I Know I Failed’: Justin Timberlake Issues Long-Awaited Apology to Janet Jackson and Britney Spears

2/12/2021 - Auntie Unfiltered Pictures the Possibilities With Danielle Young

2/12/2021 - 2021 SXSW Online Taps Stacey Abrams As Keynote Speaker, Announces Full Speaker Sessions and Film Festival Slate

2/12/2021 - Jacksonville Jaguars Hires Former College Football Coach Accused of Racism and Abuse Because...Why Not?

2/12/2021 - 'I Was Just Consistently Blown Away': The Root Presents: It's Lit! Honors Four Hundred Souls With Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain

2/12/2021 - Judge Denies Motion to Rearrest Kyle Rittenhouse and Raise Bond Over False Address Filed in Court

2/12/2021 - PageTurners: Children's Books Guaranteed to Make Everyone Smile

2/12/2021 - Rap Sh*t: HBO Max Announces New Comedy Series Order from Issa Rae

2/12/2021 - Exclusive Lovecraft Country Featurette: Showrunner-EP Misha Green on Exploring Worlds Beyond Whiteness

2/12/2021 - 28 Days of Black Joy: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered New Content When the Reruns Are Enuf

2/12/2021 - 28 Days of Album Cover Blackness With VSB, Day 12: Diana Ross' Diana (1980)

2/11/2021 - Kick Off Your Shoes and Relax Your Scrolling With This Week’s Virtual Events

2/11/2021 - Derek Chauvin Agreed to 10-Year Prison Sentence for George Floyd's Murder Before the Plea Deal Was Quashed. Here's Why That's Interesting

2/11/2021 - Meghan Markle Wins the First Legal Battle in Her Lawsuit Against Tabloid Publisher

2/11/2021 - Who Is Dr. Obeng? What You Need to Know About the Plastic Surgeon Who Un-Did Tessica Brown’s Hairdo

2/11/2021 - 2 Louisiana Sanitation Workers Save Kidnapped 10-Year-Old by Blocking Abductor From Escape

2/11/2021 - John Fetterman Has Had Eight Years To Apologize For Pulling a Shotgun on a Black Jogger in 2013, But Still Refuses. Why?

2/11/2021 - A History of Black Excellence: The Mad King and Black Queen Who Built Black Wall Street (No, Not That One)

2/11/2021 - Free At Last: Tessica Brown’s Gorilla Glued Hairdo Finally Becomes Undone

2/11/2021 - PageTurners: Where There Is Strength There Is Joy

2/11/2021 - Trump Impeachment Trial, Day 3: House Managers Make Their Final Arguments

2/11/2021 - Black BTS Fans Share Why They 'Purple' This K-Pop Group

2/11/2021 - Real Hot Girl Hair: Mielle Organics Announces Megan Thee Stallion as Its First Global Ambassador

2/11/2021 - 28 Days of Album Cover Blackness With VSB, Day 11: Kay-Gees' Keep On Bumpin' & Masterplan (1974)

2/11/2021 - 28 Days of Black Joy: To Brandy, Our Black Cinderella

2/10/2021 - Essence Enters a New Era: The Legacy Media Brand Announces Its New Executive Team

2/10/2021 - Proud Boy Capitol Rioter Says Trump's 'Deception' Made Him Do It. Here's Why Nobody Should Care

2/10/2021 - Black Teens Kicked Off Allegiant Airlines Flight for Allegedly Not Wearing Masks

2/10/2021 - That's a Reach: Washington Post Claims Financial Problems Could Have Helped Fuel Capitol Insurgents

2/10/2021 - Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools Reach Agreement for Return to In-Person Learning

2/10/2021 - Tina Turner, Mary J Blige, Dionne Warwick and Chaka Khan Among Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2021 Nominees; HBO's Turner Doc Tina Slated for Release

2/10/2021 - We Can Be Anime Trash Together in This Week’s Good-Ass Games at Good-Ass Prices

2/10/2021 - ‘Slavery Has Never Been Properly Addressed’: Reparations Bill Reintroduced to Congress

2/10/2021 - Could Russell Wilson Be on the Move?

2/10/2021 - Janet Irvin Arrested in Case of Quawan Charles, 15-Year-Old Whose Body Was Found in Louisiana Sugar Cane Field

2/10/2021 - Fulton County District Attorney Opens Criminal Investigation Into Trump's Efforts to Overturn Georgia Election

2/10/2021 - Grand Closing? Rihanna and LVMH Agree to Shutter Fenty Maison

2/10/2021 - The 2021 Skippies: An Interview With the Bay Area About Whether or Not They Were Snubbed In the 'Best Verzuz' Category

2/10/2021 - Are Black Women Getting More Opportunities In Entertainment Just a Trend? Issa Rae Offers Her Opinion on Pharrell's OTHEROne Podcast

2/10/2021 - Ava DuVernay’s Naomi Gets Pilot Order at CW, The 4400 Also Set to Make Its Debut

2/10/2021 - All Power to the People: Judas and the Black Messiah Cast Discuss the Revolutionary Spirit of Fred Hampton and How White Fear Tried to Destroy It

2/10/2021 - ‘Pearl Milling Company’ Is the New ‘Aunt Jemima’: PepsiCo Announces New Name for Old Racist Brand

2/10/2021 - In Revealing Interview, Ex-Girlfriend of Chad Wheeler Details Abuse She Suffered: 'I'm Gonna Have to Deal With This the Rest of My Life'

2/10/2021 - After 64-Year-Old Inmate Dies of COVID-19, Lawyers Decry Conditions at Texas Jail Overcrowded With People Unable to Pay Cash Bail

2/10/2021 - Royal Watch: That Time Meghan and Harry Popped Up in a Youth Poetry Class for Black History Month

2/10/2021 - Trump Impeachment Trial, Day 2: House Impeachment Managers Set to Unveil Unreleased Footage of Capitol Riot

2/10/2021 - Malcolm D. Lee and Dayna Lynne North Are Bringing Us a TV Show Based on The Best Man—Which Is Just Like Candy

2/10/2021 - ESPN's The Undefeated Is Giving Us a Glimpse into HBCU Sports With Why Not Us: North Carolina Central Basketball

2/10/2021 - 'My Daddy Had the Nerve to Dream': Robin Roberts Reflects on Her Father's Legacy Ahead of Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage

2/10/2021 - 28 Days of Album Cover Blackness With VSB, Day 10: The Brothers Johnson's Winners 1981

2/10/2021 - 28 Days of Black Joy: Here's Why There's Nothing More Therapeutic Than Jogging Through a Black Neighborhood

2/10/2021 - NYC Mayoral Candidate Shaun Donovan Unveils Criminal Justice Plan

2/9/2021 - Early Report Finds Denver Program That Sends Healthcare Workers to Handle Mental Health Calls Instead of Police Has Been a Success

2/9/2021 - Impeachment Trial, Day 1: Senate Votes to Proceed With Trial, Rejecting Trump's Argument That It Was Unconstitutional

2/9/2021 - Black Woman in Florida Claims She Was Acting in Self-Defense After Firing at a Police Officer During Raid

2/9/2021 - Black Michigan Republican Thirsty for Racist Support Pledges to Cancel 'Offensive' Black History Month

2/9/2021 - Big Beauty Tuesday: I Spent a Month With Alicia Keys' Soulcare Line...Am I 'Fallin' for It?

2/9/2021 - Man Charged With Storming the Capitol Formerly Worked for the FBI and Held Top Secret Clearance

2/9/2021 - Melina Matsoukas, Howard University and Instagram Launch Share Black Stories ‘Future First’ Reels Challenge

2/9/2021 - The D&I We Deserve: Ulta's Newest Diversity and Inclusion Advisor Is Tracee Ellis Ross

2/9/2021 - Tessica Brown Is Reportedly Bound for Beverly Hills, Renowned Plastic Surgeon Set to Undo Gorilla Glued Hairdo

2/9/2021 - National Transportation Safety Board Determines Pilot 'Abandoned His Training' in Kobe, Gianna Bryant Helicopter Crash

2/9/2021 - Maryland Considers Allowing Civilians to See Police Misconduct Records; Police Union Complains That Cops’ ‘Privacy’ Will Be Exposed

2/9/2021 - Can a Short Film About Police Brutality Win an Oscar? Van Lathan, Travon Free and Nicholas Maye Set Out to Make History With Two Distant Strangers

2/9/2021 - Georgia to Investigate Trump's Attempt to Overturn State's Election Results

2/9/2021 - Building a Broader Brand, Sephora's Incubator Program Announces 8 BIPOC-Owned Prestige Beauty Brands in Development

2/9/2021 - Super Bowl Draws Its Smallest Audience Since 2007

2/9/2021 - Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society and Amazon Broaden Relationship, Ink First-Look Film Deal

2/9/2021 - Michelle Obama Is Making Potato Salad and Much More With New Netflix Show, Waffles + Mochi

2/9/2021 - Donald Trump's Second Impeachment Trial, Explained

2/9/2021 - Marjorie Taylor Greene Continues to Push Conspiracies on Twitter, This Time About the Capitol Insurrection

2/9/2021 - Critics Choice Awards 2021 Nominations Announced; Taye Diggs to Host

2/9/2021 - Lee Daniels' The Spook Who Sat by the Door Finds a Home at FX

2/9/2021 - Mary Wilson, Co-Founding Member of The Supremes, Dies at 76

2/9/2021 - 28 Days of Album Cover Blackness With VSB, Day 9: Amii Stewart's Knock On Wood (1979)

2/9/2021 - 28 Days of Black Joy: Surrounded by the Black Gaze (A Collector's Story)

2/8/2021 - Voting Rights Activists Push Congress to Make Substantial Election Reforms as GOP-Led States File Over 100 Bills to Restrict Voting Access

2/8/2021 - University of Alabama Removes Name of Noted Segregationist George C. Wallace From Building

2/8/2021 - Utah School Walks Back Letting Parents Opt Their Kids Out of Black History Month Following Backlash

2/8/2021 - Mic Drop: Music to Shake Your Ass To

2/8/2021 - Unrest in Haiti as President Rejects Call to Step Down, Arrests Opponents for Alleged Coup Attempt

2/8/2021 - Woman Who Used Gorilla Glue Spray to Style Her Hair Gives Update on Her Condition, Says Removal Could Take 20 Hours

2/8/2021 - Invasion of the Antibody Snatchers: How White People Colonized the COVID Vaccine

2/8/2021 - Black Girl Writer Cinematic Universe: Stacy Osei-Kuffour Will Write Marvel's Blade, Starring Mahershala Ali

2/8/2021 - The Biggest Winners From Super Bowl Sunday Had Nothing to Do With Tom Brady

2/8/2021 - You Can Read George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue—and You Can Experience It Live, Too

2/8/2021 - New York Times Reporter Resigns After Report on His Racist Remarks, But Now 'Woke' Journalists Are Being Blamed

2/8/2021 - The Obama’s Higher Ground and Netflix Team Up for 6 All-New Projects

2/8/2021 - Eat Your Grits However The Hell You Want To

2/8/2021 - Popular Financial Literacy Podcast Earn Your Leisure Joins The Black Effect Podcast Network

2/8/2021 - Exclusive: I Spent a (Lady) Day on the Set of Lee Daniels' The United States vs. Billie Holiday

2/8/2021 - 'Blinding Lights': Let’s Talk About The Weeknd’s Super Bowl LV Halftime Show, Shall We?

2/8/2021 - 28 Days of Album Cover Blackness With VSB, Day 8: Guy Warren of Ghana's Afro-Jazz (1969)

2/8/2021 - Democrats Plan to Go After Child Poverty With $3,000 Payment Per Child Under COVID Relief Package

2/8/2021 - Well, Damn. Mahomes Is Human After All

2/8/2021 - Yeah, Yeah, Tom Brady Won Another Ring, but Black Women Made the Super Bowl Their Runway

2/8/2021 - 28 Days of Black Joy: Harold's Chicken Shack

2/7/2021 - We Need to Talk About These White Texas Pastors Who Referred to Vice President Kamala Harris as a 'Jezebel'

2/7/2021 - Former NY Police Chief Says Cops Did Nothing 'Egregious' in Daniel Prude Death Because There Were No 'Strikes' or 'Punches'

2/7/2021 - Legendary Boxer and Former Heavyweight Champ Leon Spinks Dies at 67

2/7/2021 - 28 Days of Album Cover Blackness with VSB, Day 7: Miles Davis' On the Corner (1972)

2/7/2021 - 28 Days of Black Joy: Mama's Hands

2/6/2021 - Students Protest Firing of Arkansas Teacher Who Called Lawmakers Out for Being Fragile AF Over 1619 Project Curriculum

2/6/2021 - Judge Clears Capitol Rioter Who Said She'd 'Do it Again in a Heartbeat' to Travel to Mexico...Because America Loves White Terrorists

2/6/2021 - Dianne Durham, First Black Woman to Win a USA Gymnastics National Championship, Dies at 52

2/6/2021 - 28 Days of Album Cover Blackness With VSB, Day 6: Queen Latifah's Nature of A Sista' (1991)

2/6/2021 - 28 Days of Black Joy: Watching This Soul Train Dancer Makes Me Feel Free

2/5/2021 - Martellus Bennett Exposes the Rotten Underbelly of NFL Football: 'It’s a Traumatic Experience'

2/5/2021 - NAACP and BeBe Winans to Educate Country Singer Morgan Wallen on Why the N-Word Is Bad

2/5/2021 - Better Late Than Never to Have Loved at All: Our Pandemic-Perfect Valentine's Day Gift Guide

2/5/2021 - Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to Become First Black Woman to Lead World Trade Organization

2/5/2021 - 'QAnon Shaman' Moved to Virginia Jail So He Can Be Provided With Organic Foods

2/5/2021 - Mother of 9-Year-Old Who Was Pepper Sprayed by Cop Says She Will Sue; Rochester Mayor Announces Police Reform Proposals

2/5/2021 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Unseasoned Salt

2/5/2021 - Angela Bassett Reflects On One of Her Most Iconic Roles: 'Nothing Has Been as Difficult as Tina Turner'

2/5/2021 - Van Jones Goes on The View and Gets Roasted Like a Two-Faced Potato Because Ain't No Such Thing as Halfway Activists

2/5/2021 - Auntie Unfiltered: Worry About Yourself

2/5/2021 - 'A Lot of My Favorite Hip-Hop Writers Have Been Women': The Root Presents: It's Lit! Hits The Motherlode With Clover Hope

2/5/2021 - Because Absolutely Nobody Asked, Here's My Pick for Sunday's Super Bowl

2/5/2021 - Black Police Officer Dies by Suicide After Lambasting Police Brutality

2/5/2021 - Senate Approves Biden’s $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Package But Rejects $15 Minimum Wage Increase [Updated]

2/5/2021 - Nick Cannon Tests Positive for COVID-19, Restores Relationship With ViacomCBS After Anti-Semitic Comments

2/5/2021 - There’s a Little Something for Everyone in This Week’s Good-Ass Games at Good-Ass Prices

2/5/2021 - 28 Days of Album Cover Blackness With VSB, Day 5: Betty Davis' Nasty Gal (1975)

2/5/2021 - The Joy of Living Past Your Problems

2/4/2021 - Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Orders ‘Stand Down’ Across the Armed Forces in Effort to Address Extremism in the Ranks

2/4/2021 - House Votes to Eject Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene From 2 Committees

2/4/2021 - Lift Evr’y Voice and Chill: Start Your Black History Month Off Right With These Virtual Events

2/4/2021 - Department of Justice Dismisses Case Against Yale That Basically Alleged Reverse Discrimination

2/4/2021 - GOP-Led States Still Mad About The 1619 Project, Considering Legislation to Dictate How Slavery Is Taught

2/4/2021 - Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Fox News Sued by Voting Tech Company Over Voter Fraud Propaganda

2/4/2021 - Love the One You're With: 8 Black-Owned Services Nurturing Self-Love

2/4/2021 - The Film Adaptation of Nella Larsen's Passing Secures an Over $15 Million Netflix Deal at Sundance

2/4/2021 - Sticky-Fingered Man Holds Pasadena, Calif., Restaurant Employees at Gunpoint Over Some Fried Chicken

2/4/2021 - Stiff Where? Stiff Here: Woman Uses Gorilla Glue to Slick Down Hair, and I Am Now in Shambles

2/4/2021 - SAG Awards 2021: Michaela Coel, Regé Jean Page, Viola Davis, Daniel Kaluuya Among Nominees

2/4/2021 - Minnesota Police Orgs Suggest Some Cops May Not Do Their Jobs During Derek Chauvin Trial Due to ‘Demonization’ of Police

2/4/2021 - Does the NFL's Concussion Settlement Program Discriminate Against Black Players? Clinicians Who Apply the Protocols Seem to Think So

2/4/2021 - NYPD Anti-Discrimination Head Fired for Virulently Racist Internet Posts, But, of Course, Keeps His Pension

2/4/2021 - Former Ohio Police Officer Charged With Murder in Fatally Shooting Unarmed Black Man Andre Hill

2/4/2021 - A History of Black Excellence: The Man Who Invented Laughter

2/4/2021 - That's How I Beat Lamar Odom: Former Child Star Aaron Carter to Fight Ex-NBA Player In Celebrity Boxing Match

2/4/2021 - Prosecutors Seek Arrest Warrant and Increased Bond for Kyle Rittenhouse After He Flips Off the Law, Again

2/4/2021 - Cicely Tyson’s Public Viewing to Take Place at New York's Abyssinian Baptist Church

2/4/2021 - Black Renaissance: Ibram X. Kendi Partners With Time to Claim a New Era for Black Creativity, With Amanda Gorman as Cover Star

2/4/2021 - 28 Days of Album Cover Blackness With VSB, Day 4: Black Ivory's Don't Turn Around (1972)

2/4/2021 - 28 Days of Black Joy: The Ties That Still Bind Us Together

2/3/2021 - Raising Awareness on a Virtual Runway, the 5th Annual Blue Jacket Fashion Show Takes a Stylish Stance Against Prostate Cancer

2/3/2021 - Morehouse College to Offer Online Program for Black Men Who Have College Credits but No Degree

2/3/2021 - Crunchyroll Announces New Afro-Futuristic Anime-Inspired Series Produced by Idris and Sabrina Elba

2/3/2021 - Capitol Insurrectionist Who Says She’d ‘Do It Again’ Asks Court to Let Her Vacation in Mexico

2/3/2021 - Republicans Try to Normalize Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Crazy Talk by Calling for Ilhan Omar’s Ouster

2/3/2021 - Principal of Tennessee Middle School Apologizes for Choosing ‘All Lives Matter’ as the Theme for Black History Month

2/3/2021 - ICE Deports Black New York Man to Haiti, a Country He Wasn’t Born in and Had Never Been To

2/3/2021 - A Stitch in Time: A Partnership Crafted to Empower the Legendary Quilters of Gee's Bend Is Bringing Their Treasures to Etsy

2/3/2021 - Can't Let Go: Mariah Carey's Sister Sues for 'Emotional Distress' Caused by the Singer's Bestselling Memoir

2/3/2021 - Stacey Abrams Discusses the Georgia Senate Runoffs on Pharrell's OTHERtone Podcast: 'I Have No Right to Victory'

2/3/2021 - Clubhouse Is Worth $1 Billion Off the Backs of Black Folks. Now What?

2/3/2021 - PageTurners: Manifesting Black Joy Across All Genres

2/3/2021 - Joe Biden and the Lie of the Great Stimulus Check

2/3/2021 - ‘I Feel Like This Is Very Unfortunate’: Salt-N-Pepa Respond to DJ Spinderella’s Claims of Exclusion From Their Lifetime Biopic

2/3/2021 - 'They're Harboring a Murderer': Protest Erupts After Officer Who Killed Tamir Rice Is Welcomed By Cleveland Football Team

2/3/2021 - Sundance 2021: Questlove's Directorial Debut Summer of Soul Got Double-Documentary Awards, Y'all

2/3/2021 - OneUnited Bank Creates OneTransaction Campaign to Help Black Americans Close the Racial Wealth Gap

2/3/2021 - 'Courtside Karen' Is Sorry, Y'all

2/3/2021 - Chadwick Boseman, Delroy Lindo, John David Washington Among Honorees at Critics Choice Association’s Celebration of Black Cinema

2/3/2021 - Board Reverses Firings of Atlanta Cops Who Tased HBCU Students, Dragged Them From Car During Protest

2/3/2021 - Trump’s Lawyers Submit Impeachment Response, Misspell ‘United States’ in Opening Line

2/3/2021 - Golden Globes 2021: Regina King, Chadwick Boseman, Viola Davis, Andra Day, Daniel Kaluuya and Leslie Odom Jr. Among Noms

2/3/2021 - 28 Days of Album Cover Blackness with VSB, Day 3: Big Bear Doin Thangs (1998)

2/3/2021 - Navy Investigating After Noose Found in Black Sailor’s Bed Aboard Naval Ship; Fellow Soldier Reportedly Admits to Doing It, Says It Was a Joke

2/3/2021 - 28 Days of Black Joy: How I (Lost and) Found My Fit Family During the Pandemic

2/2/2021 - EA Announces the Return of College Football, Just Don’t Expect to Play as Any of Your Favorite Players

2/2/2021 - Tennessee Cop Reprimanded for Posting Picture of Daughter as Blackface Bubba From Forrest Gump

2/2/2021 - Minneapolis Police Must Now Keep Their Body Cameras Activated at All Times When Responding to a Call

2/2/2021 - Comedic TV Writer Marc Wilmore, Brother of Larry Wilmore, Dies at 57

2/2/2021 - Georgia Does What Georgia Does, Introduces Legislation to Suppress the Black Vote

2/2/2021 - Ain't No #SoWhite Over Here: 2021 NAACP Image Awards Nominations Are Out

2/2/2021 - Amazon Reveals Stacked Cast for Upcoming Anthology Series Solos

2/2/2021 - I’m Going to Need Rep. Nancy Mace to Keep Auntie Maxine’s Good Name Out of Her Mouth

2/2/2021 - A Literal Chorus of Claimants Are Suing Kanye West for Mistreatment and Unpaid Wages; Class-Action Suit Now Totaling $30M

2/2/2021 - You Know It’s Bad When Mitch McConnell Thinks Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Telling ‘Loony Lies’

2/2/2021 - Netflix and Will Smith Team Up for a New Docuseries, Amend: The Fight for America

2/2/2021 - 'We Are Holding Everyone Else to a Higher Standard': Halle Berry on Shifting Hollywood's Sexism—and Starting Early With Her Son

2/2/2021 - First Look: The Filmed Reading of George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue Is a Coming-of-Age in Three Acts

2/2/2021 - Missouri Man Dies After Being Denied Emergency Room Care 3 Times

2/2/2021 - America Predicts Six More Weeks of Whiteness (at Least)

2/2/2021 - So...President Obama Showed Up to the Latest Very Smart Brothas x MahoganyBooks Book Club Meeting. Here's What Happened

2/2/2021 - Arizona Repairman Captured on Camera Telling Black Customer He'd Beat Him Like a 'Slave'

2/2/2021 - Yeah I Said It: Rihanna Calls Out Daniel Cameron’s Black History Month Post, Demands Justice for Breonna Taylor

2/2/2021 - Senate Democrats Draft Resolution Condemning White Supremacy

2/2/2021 - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Reveals She’s a Sexual Assault Survivor as She Recounts Traumatic Moments During Capitol Insurrection: 'I Thought I Was Going to Die'

2/2/2021 - In the Fight for Black and Brown Lives, the Obama Foundation's My Brother's Keeper Alliance Has Answered the Call

2/2/2021 - Big Beauty Tuesday: Time Traveling in Style With The African Lookbook

2/2/2021 - 28 Days of Black Joy: Durags

2/2/2021 - Rapper Silento Arrested and Charged in Murder of His Cousin [Updated]

2/2/2021 - 28 Days of Album Cover Blackness with VSB, Day 2: A Taste of Honey A Taste of Honey (1978)

2/1/2021 - Black Panther Director Ryan Coogler Lands 5-Year Exclusive Deal With Disney Television

2/1/2021 - Sharing Passwords Is Community Building: Here's What's Available to Watch During Black History Month 2021

2/1/2021 - Black Woman Says She Received 'African American, African' Service Charge From American Airlines. Seriously, WTF?

2/1/2021 - Sounds of Blackness: Apple Music, ASCAP, Spotify and TikTok Celebrate Black History Month With an Array of Curated Playlists, Specials and Programming

2/1/2021 - Mic Drop: A Melodious Start to Black History Month

2/1/2021 - 9-Year-Old Black Girl Pepper-Sprayed by Rochester Police After Refusing to Get in Patrol Car After Domestic Disturbance

2/1/2021 - Black People are Still Underrepresented in Coronavirus Vaccinations, Shocking No One

2/1/2021 - For Black History Month, Peloton Makes an Artistic—and Antiracist—Statement

2/1/2021 - Danyel Smith's Black Girl Songbook Is Giving Black Women In Music Their Flowers While They Can Still Smell Them

2/1/2021 - Deborah Archer Becomes First Black Person to Serve as President of the ACLU in Its 101-Year History

2/1/2021 - Black Female Artists Are Taking Over in 2021: The Art Exhibitions You Need to See

2/1/2021 - Fall Into the 15 Percent Pledge: Gap Inc. Commits to Increasing Equity and Inclusion With a $200,000 Donation

2/1/2021 - Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Pushing Teachers to Return to In-Person Learning This Week

2/1/2021 - The Root Presents the 2nd Annual Blackest Awards. Welcome to the 2021 Skippies!

2/1/2021 - Biden Needs to Keep That Same Energy When He Meets With Republicans and Their COVID Relief Counter Offer

2/1/2021 - Chris Paul, Goalsetter Have Big Plans to 'Draft' One Million Black and Brown Kids Into a Path of Financial Freedom

2/1/2021 - Georgia Republicans Are So Afraid of Stacey Abrams That They Created a Group Called ‘Stop Stacey’

2/1/2021 - Black Student Who Was Knocked Unconscious by Florida Officer Is ‘Traumatized’ and Seriously Injured, Family Says

2/1/2021 - Sundance 2021: Questlove's Directorial Debut Summer of Soul Is a Televised and Reminiscent Revolution [Updated]

2/1/2021 - Russell Westbrook Lives to Terrorize Kevin Durant. The Rest of the Nets Were Just Collateral Damage

2/1/2021 - 28 Days of Album Cover Blackness With VSB, Day 1: Al Green I'm Still In Love With You (1972)

2/1/2021 - 28 Days of Black Joy: How to Celebrate Black History Month