1/31/2021 - Memorial to Rep. John Lewis Will Replace a Confederate Monument at Georgia's DeKalb County Courthouse

1/31/2021 - Police Chief and Officer in Hamilton, Ga., Caught on Body-Cam Footage Being Disgustingly Racist

1/31/2021 - Trump's Lawyers for the Impeachment Trial Have All Dumped Him

1/30/2021 - T.I. and Tiny Deny 'Egregious' Sexual Abuse Allegations, Threaten to Sue

1/30/2021 - Black Lives Matter Nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize

1/30/2021 - Rep. Cori Bush Reveals She Moved Offices After Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Berated Her at the Capitol

1/29/2021 - Louisiana Family Denied Burial Plot for Black Man at 'Whites Only' Cemetery...In 2021

1/29/2021 - Kickin’ It Old School in This Week’s Good-Ass Games at Good-Ass Prices

1/29/2021 - Channeling the Spirit of Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Drew Brees Just Terrorized Us All With Ashy Red Beans and Rice

1/29/2021 - Independent Audit Breaks Down All the Ways the Louisville Metro Police Department Has Damaged Public Trust

1/29/2021 - Video Shows Suspect Likely Placed Pipe Bombs Near Capitol Ahead of Jan. 6; Police Chief Calls for Permanent Fencing Around Capitol

1/29/2021 - Trailer Roundup: Let’s Boogie Down on TikTok Like the Fake Famous

1/29/2021 - The Choice Is Simple: If Deshaun Watson Wants to Win a Super Bowl, He'll Join the Denver Broncos

1/29/2021 - Federal Judge Reverses Arkansas Judge's Ruling to Set Free the 'Entitled' Asshole Who Sat at Nancy Pelosi's Desk During Capitol Riot

1/29/2021 - Everything You Need to Know About the GameStop, Reddit, and Stock Market Story, Explained

1/29/2021 - Auntie Unfiltered: Put Your Best Face Forward in 2021

1/29/2021 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: White History Months

1/29/2021 - Malcolm & Marie Writer-Director Sam Levinson on How Zendaya and John David Washington Reclaim the Classic Black & White Film Motif

1/29/2021 - Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and More Than 50 House Dems Tell Biden the American People Need Recurring Stimulus Checks

1/29/2021 - 'That Ideology of Colorism Affects All of Us': The Root Presents It's Lit! Talks Prose, Passing and the Power of Black Women With Brit Bennett

1/29/2021 - Corporate Monopolies Are a Racial Justice Issue. We Need Federal Regulation Now

1/29/2021 - Ex-KGB Spy Says Russia Wanted Trump to Be President So Bad and Cultivated Him as 'The Perfect Target' for 40 Years

1/29/2021 - Tracee's Take on Tradition: Pattern Beauty's Newest Products Evoke Cherished Rituals

1/29/2021 - My Brother's Keeper Alliance, ESPN Launch Mentorship Program for Boys and Young Men of Color

1/29/2021 - 10-Year-Old Wins Big on GameStop Shares His Mother Got Him for Kwanzaa

1/29/2021 - John Ridley Talks Reshaping Both the Past and Future of DC Comics With The Next Batman and The Other History of the DC Universe

1/29/2021 - 'Watch This Space': Could Naomi Osaka's Future Plans Include Fashion Design?

1/29/2021 - Hollywood Pays Tribute to Our Queen Matriarch Cicely Tyson 'On This Land'

1/29/2021 - To Washington, D.C. With Love: The Commes Des Garcons x Nike Foamposite 1 Collaboration Might As Well Come With Mambo Sauce

1/29/2021 - Florida Republican Wants to Exclude Felons From Minimum Wage Increase Because Florida Republicans Are Terrible People

1/28/2021 - Cicely Tyson, Who Spent a Lifetime Portraying Positive Black Womanhood on Screen, Dies at 96

1/28/2021 - Truth, Tea, and Receipts, Oh My! Wendy Williams Talks Her Brand New Biopic on Lifetime

1/28/2021 - 2 Kenosha Police Officers Who Were Present at Jacob Blake Shooting Are Back on Active Duty

1/28/2021 - Emmett Till's Childhood Home Approved as Chicago City Landmark

1/28/2021 - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Disclosure, I May Destroy You, Twenties and P-Valley Among 2021 GLAAD Media Award Nominees

1/28/2021 - PageTurners: Historic Black Women and the Literary Legacies They've Paved

1/28/2021 - Pipe Bombs, Guns and Fake ‘White Privilege’ Credit Card Found at Home of Trump Supporter Accused of Plotting Attack on Democrats

1/28/2021 - Union Calls Out Capitol Police Leaders for Leaving Cops Vulnerable to Insurrection Attack; Another Police Officer Has Died by Suicide

1/28/2021 - Capping Off a Winning Week, Amanda Gorman's First 3 Books Have Preemptively Garnered a Million First Prints

1/28/2021 - Newer, More Contagious Coronavirus Strains Has Some Medical Professionals Urging People to Wear 2 Face Masks

1/28/2021 - For the Love of God, Would Somebody Please Rescue Bradley Beal From the Washington Wizards?

1/28/2021 - 'I Technically Should Be Dead': Black Trans Women Discuss Targeted Violence in Peace of Mind With Taraji Exclusive Clip

1/28/2021 - From Sundance to Cicely Tyson, Kick Boredom to the Curb With This Week's Virtual Events

1/28/2021 - No Filter Necessary: Danessa Myricks and Shayla Mitchell Debut Morphe's Filter Effect Foundation

1/28/2021 - San Francisco Will Rename 44 Schools—Including Ones Honoring Abraham Lincoln and George Washington

1/28/2021 - Kirk Franklin, Sony Music Combine Super Powers to Bring Us Some Good Words

1/28/2021 - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Can Be a Conspiracy Theorist, But She Shouldn’t Be a Member of Congress

1/28/2021 - Proposed Bill Allows Florida Police to Use Drones to Surveil Large Crowds. What Could Go Wrong?

1/28/2021 - Nicole Beharie Joins the Upcoming HBO Limited Series, Scenes from a Marriage Starring Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain

1/28/2021 - Remember This Face Because This Monster Should Never Play Another Down In the NFL Ever Again

1/28/2021 - 9-Year-Old From Haiti Detained by Immigration in Trump’s Final Days in Office Is Released Home to Family

1/28/2021 - Man Charged With Sending Threatening Texts to Congressman’s Family During the Capitol Riot

1/28/2021 - Michael Strahan Tests Positive for COVID-19

1/28/2021 - Shondaland Teaches Us How to Get Away With Murdering Netflix’s Streaming Record

1/28/2021 - How to Be a Black Ally

1/28/2021 - Why Your Education and Job Could Mean You’re Paying Too Much for Car Insurance

1/27/2021 - You Hate to See It: Repeatedly Yelling 'Trump 2020' Gets Man Kicked Off a Plane and Charged for His Role in Capitol Riot

1/27/2021 - Army Adopts More Inclusive Grooming Standards for Black Women

1/27/2021 - Racist Florida Woman Would Like to Inform You That Yes, She is Indeed Racist

1/27/2021 - Proud Boys Leader Was a Not-So-Proud Snitch: Records Show Enrique Tarrio Was a Criminal-Turned-FBI Informant

1/27/2021 - Homeland Security Issues Bulletin Warning That the Threat of Domestic Terrorism Is Still Alive and Kicking

1/27/2021 - Federal Judge Blocks Tennessee Judge’s Order to Release ‘Zip Tie Guy’ Charged in Capitol Riot

1/27/2021 - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Liked Facebook Post That Called for a Bullet to Nancy Pelosi’s Head

1/27/2021 - Booked and Busy: Amanda Gorman to Recite Original Poem at Super Bowl LV

1/27/2021 - 'Black Women Built My Business': Pantora Bridal Designer Andrea Pitter Brings Her Brand of Black Love to The Knot's Spring Cover

1/27/2021 - GOP House Leader Kevin McCarthy Believes All Americans Are Responsible for Capitol Riot. Ummm...Who’s Going to Tell Him?

1/27/2021 - The New Colonial Frontier? Rich White People Traveled to Indigenous Community in Yukon and Schemed to Get COVID-19 Vaccine

1/27/2021 - Starbucks COO Roz Brewer Will Be the New CEO of Walgreens—and the Only Black Female CEO in the Fortune 500

1/27/2021 - Black Vets Weren't Surprised Military Members Stormed the Capitol. Now They Want the Department of Defense to Root Out Far-Right Extremism in Its Ranks

1/27/2021 - Because We Can Never Get Enough of Black Is King, Spotify's Dissect Podcast Is About to Break It All the Way Down

1/27/2021 - Video Shows Florida Sheriff’s Deputy Slamming Black Student to the Ground, Appearing to Knock Her Unconscious

1/27/2021 - Mike Pence Is Homeless

1/27/2021 - Biden Signs Order Halting Federal Private Prison Contract Renewals, But Falls Short on Ending For-Profit Immigration Detention Centers

1/27/2021 - Celebrated NBA Analyst Sekou Smith Dies of COVID-19

1/27/2021 - Madea Gets the Vaccine: BET & Tyler Perry to Air COVID-19 Vaccine Special

1/27/2021 - Malcolm & Marie: Zendaya and John David Washington Discuss the Gray Areas of Love

1/26/2021 - Proposed Missouri Bill Would Authorize Deadly Force Against Protesters, Provide Immunity for Those Who Run Over Protesters

1/26/2021 - Mic Drop: Are We on the Come-Up?

1/26/2021 - New York’s Vaccine Rollout Doesn’t Include a Set Timeline for Prisons to Receive the Vaccine

1/26/2021 - Florida Cop Fired Over Racism and Support for Capitol Riot...and Because Bigots Never Learn to Delete Their Facebook

1/26/2021 - Philadelphia International Records Celebrates 50 Years With the Help of Legacy Recordings and Warner Chappell Music

1/26/2021 - 2 CBS Execs Accused of Making Racist and Sexist Comments, Cultivating ‘A Hostile Work Environment’

1/26/2021 - The 2021 Film Independent Spirit Award Noms Are Out; One Night in Miami to Receive Robert Altman Award

1/26/2021 - I've Got a Meme for That: Unpacking the Racist Practice of Digital Blackface in the Information Age

1/26/2021 - Yes, I'm Talkin' to You...and Guess What? John Boyega Is Starring in a Getaway Driver Film With Robert De Niro

1/26/2021 - American Beauty: Inaugural Poet Amanda Gorman Signs With IMG Models

1/26/2021 - All Boys Aren't Blue: George M. Johnson's Bestselling Memoir-Manifesto Becomes a Star-Studded Filmed Reading

1/26/2021 - Everything We Know About Kellyanne Conway, Her Daughter and That Nude Photo

1/26/2021 - On the Anniversary of Kobe Bryant's Death, the Sports World Reflects on His Life and Legacy

1/26/2021 - Biden to Reopen Affordable Care Act Health Plans, Because Pandemic

1/26/2021 - Funko’s Gotta Have It: Spike Lee Set to Get His Own Funko Pop! Figurine

1/26/2021 - A List of People Who Asked for Apple's Limited Edition, Black History Month, 'Black Unity Collection' Watch

1/26/2021 - New Podcast Series Return Man Explores the Mysterious Death of Former NFL Star Jim Duncan

1/26/2021 - Black Family That Was Handcuffed After Being Wrongfully Suspected of Riding in Stolen Vehicle Sues Aurora, Colo., Police

1/26/2021 - Biden to Sign Executive Orders for His Racial Equity Agenda. So Can We Still Talk About the Crime Bill or Nah?

1/26/2021 - Deion Sanders, Deshaun Watson Among Big Names Taking Part In NFL's Virtual Pro Bowl Festivities

1/26/2021 - Lara Lovecraft: Misha Green to Make Feature Directorial Debut With New Tomb Raider Film

1/25/2021 - Black Pastors Consider Leaving Southern Baptist Convention Due to Racial Insensitivity

1/25/2021 - A Black Lady Sketch Show Head Writer Lauren Ashley Smith to Develop Remake of British Time-Travel Comedy for ABC

1/25/2021 - Protesters Take to the Streets in Tacoma, Wash., After Video Shows Cop Driving Into a Crowd and Running People Over

1/25/2021 - Ohio Senator Who Suggested Black People Were More Vulnerable to COVID Because of Poor Hygiene Chosen to Lead State's Senate Health Panel

1/25/2021 - After Killing Black Man and Destroying Evidence, Florida Man Claims 'Stand Your Ground,' Gets 1 Year in Jail

1/25/2021 - Biden Looking to Speed Up $20 Bills Featuring Harriet Tubman

1/25/2021 - Jazmine Sullivan's Heaux Tales Album Is Amazing AF. Here Are 10 Thoughts About It

1/25/2021 - Rand Paul Says Biden’s Plan to Raise the Minimum Wage Means He Hates Black Teenagers. Read That Again

1/25/2021 - Soulja Boy's Former Assistant Files Lawsuit Against Rapper Alleging Rape and Abuse

1/25/2021 - Dripped Up, Iced Down: Adidas Reveals New ‘Icy Park Collection’ From Beyoncé

1/25/2021 - Black, Magic and Real: Where Were You When Nia Dennis Broke the Internet–Again?

1/25/2021 - Jodie Turner-Smith Will Star as 'an Elite Warrior' in Prequel to Netflix's The Witcher

1/25/2021 - New Book Highlights How Joe Biden Almost Lost the Presidency by Ignoring a Black King Maker’s Request

1/25/2021 - More Than an Athlete: Reigning WNBA MVP A'Ja Wilson Is a Winner Both On and Off the Court

1/25/2021 - Four Hundred Souls: A Landmark Anthology Announces a Star-Studded Audiobook Cast

1/25/2021 - California Target Apologizes After Black Teens Were Wrongfully Accused of Theft, Handcuffed and Detained

1/25/2021 - Trey Songz Arrested Following Altercation With a Police Officer at Kansas City Chiefs Game

1/25/2021 - Trump’s Final Lie Count Is Insane and More Than 10,000 Came in the Final 5 Months

1/25/2021 - Spinderella Says She Was 'Wrongfully Excluded' From Lifetime's Salt-N-Pepa

1/24/2021 - Michigan Cop Fired For Arresting Black Man Who Was Collecting Petition Signatures in His Neighborhood

1/24/2021 - Federal Law Enforcement Might Let Some Capitol Attackers Get Away Without Charges for Insurrection

1/24/2021 - Grand Jurors in Breonna Taylor Case Seek Impeachment of Daniel Cameron, Say He Lied to Them and Public

1/23/2021 - Kyle Rittenhouse's Bail Terms Amended After Footage of Him at Bar Flashing 'White Power' Signs

1/23/2021 - Report: Trump Was Planning to Fire His Acting Attorney General This January in Another Effort to Steal the Presidential Election

1/23/2021 - Biden Administration Orders National Intelligence Office and FBI to Assess Threat of Domestic Violent Extremism

1/23/2021 - Exclusive: RHOA Star Kenya Moore and Marc Daly Call It Quits Again

1/22/2021 - Capitol Rioters to Trump: 'I Literally Beg Your Pardon and You Just Gon' Do Me Like This?'

1/22/2021 - #Flint: Preliminary Approval Granted by Judge on $641 Million Settlement for Victims of Flint Water Crisis

1/22/2021 - Live From New York, It’s Regina King Making Her Hosting Debut on Saturday Night Live

1/22/2021 - Lowkey Heat Tops This Week’s Good-Ass Games at Good-Ass Prices

1/22/2021 - President Biden Reverses Trump Order That Banned Certain Types of Diversity Training in Federal Agencies

1/22/2021 - Republican Rep. Andy Harris Caught by Capitol Police Trying to Bring a Concealed Weapon Onto the House Floor

1/22/2021 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Richard Petty

1/22/2021 - Sundance Announces 2021 Film Festival Jury, Cynthia Erivo, Julie Dash Among the Jurors

1/22/2021 - The Case For and Against Rocking Gear From a College You Didn't Graduate From (Or Attend)

1/22/2021 - Nearly 1 in 5 Charged in Capitol Riot Are Current or Former Military Members: Report

1/22/2021 - I Ain't One to Gossip, But Word On the Street Is That COVID-19 Concerns Could Derail the Summer Olympics–Again

1/22/2021 - Baseball, the Black Community and Beyond React to the Death of Hank Aaron

1/22/2021 - Salt-N-Pepa Talk Their New Biopic, How They Came Up With Their Stage Name and Advice for Up-and-Coming Artists

1/22/2021 - Auntie Unfiltered Explores the Power of Music

1/22/2021 - Where Do We Go From Here? Why Biden Needs a Plan for Tackling White Supremacy

1/22/2021 - Red Lobster Is the Greatest Place on Earth and I'm Tired of Y'all Pretending Like It Ain't

1/22/2021 - 'I’m the Whole Damn Aisle': The Root Presents: It’s Lit! Gets Into the Thick of It With Michelle Buteau

1/22/2021 - Houston Cop Charged in Capitol Riot After Photos He Thought Were Deleted Placed Him in the Building

1/22/2021 - Eric Bieniemy Is Proving Yet Again That Black Head Coaches Don't Matter

1/22/2021 - Lloyd Austin Confirmed as America’s First Black Secretary of Defense

1/22/2021 - Biden’s Pen Game Is on Ballpoint, Signs Executive Actions to Increase Food Stamps and Speed Up Stimulus Money

1/22/2021 - Pelosi to Trump: Wait a Minute, You Thought I Was Finished? Impeachment Article On Its Way to the Senate

1/22/2021 - From the Uninsured to the Unhoused: Rep. Cori Bush Advocates COVID-19 Vaccine Education for Our Most Vulnerable

1/22/2021 - Hammerin’ Hank Aaron, Once Baseball’s Home Run King, Dies at 86

1/22/2021 - Getting Crushed by Buildings: Virgil Abloh's Latest for Louis Vuitton Menswear Is...a Trip

1/22/2021 - Dallas Wanted to Prioritize Vaccines for Hard Hit Black and Latino Neighborhoods, But Texas Officials Blocked That Plan

1/22/2021 - The Caucasian's Guide to Post-MAGA America

1/22/2021 - Dave Chappelle Tests Positive for COVID-19

1/21/2021 - Michigan Lawmaker Grabs Gun During Online Meeting in Response to a Woman’s Criticism

1/21/2021 - 8 People Arrested in Portland After Damaging Democratic Party Office and ICE Facility Following Biden’s Inauguration

1/21/2021 - Megan Thee Stallion Corrects Fake News Story, Says Charges Against Tory Lanez Have Not Been Dropped

1/21/2021 - White Woman Files Discrimination Suit Against Georgia School District After Being Transferred for Defending Son’s Racist Remarks

1/21/2021 - NYPD Commissioner Says Anti-Racism Protesters at MLK Day March That Turned Violent Were Trying to 'Destroy Our Way of Life'

1/21/2021 - I Sat on Hold for Almost An Hour and 40 Minutes Only to Be Told The Call Could Not Be Completed And I'm Hoppin' Mad

1/21/2021 - One Moment in Time: Black Excellence, Joy and Honor at the 59th Presidential Inauguration

1/21/2021 - Bridgerton, Sundance and Strange Fruit: Virtual Events to Help Wrap Up Your January

1/21/2021 - Golden State Warriors Honor 'Oakland's Own' Madam Vice President With Signed Jersey, Video Presentation

1/21/2021 - Rand Paul Thinks Joe Biden Called Republicans Racists and Liars. He Didn’t, But If He Did, Where’s the Lie?

1/21/2021 - Biden to Sign 10 Executive Orders Just to Fight the Coronavirus Pandemic

1/21/2021 - Who Is Amanda Gorman? The Youth Poet Laureate Who Gave Voice to the Promise of the Biden-Harris Era

1/21/2021 - Where Brooklyn At? Collin Sexton Ruins the World Premiere of the Nets' Big 3

1/21/2021 - Celebrating America: Let’s Talk About the 2021 Inauguration Celebration, Shall We?

1/21/2021 - Yup, That Image of a Mitten-Clad, Socially-Distant, Errand-Running Bernie Sanders Is the Greatest Meme Ever

1/21/2021 - Ava Duvernay's ARRAY Partners With Spotify to Produce Scripted, Unscripted Podcasts: 'We Couldn't Be More Excited'

1/21/2021 - What Do Trump’s COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Plan and Bigfoot Have in Common? They Both Don’t Exist

1/21/2021 - Why Activists Are Frustrated by the Appointment of Louisville’s New Police Chief

1/21/2021 - Biden Is Already Draining the Swamp, Fires 3 of Trump’s Worst Appointees

1/21/2021 - Delonte West Now Working at Rehab Center That Helped Get Him Back On His Feet

1/20/2021 - Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 5-Year Run on Black Panther Coming to a Close in April

1/20/2021 - Nooses Placed Outside Illinois School Over MLK Day Weekend Spur Police Investigation

1/20/2021 - PageTurners: In With the Old and In With the New

1/20/2021 - Florida Deputy Charged for Making Written Threats Against Federal Officers After Capitol Riot

1/20/2021 - VP Kamala Harris Swears in 3 Democratic Senators, Flipping Control of Senate and Effectively Running Things

1/20/2021 - Joe and Kamala, I'm Gon' Let You Finish, But Nikolas Ajagu Rocking Jordan 1 Diors to Inauguration Brought a Joyous Tear to My Eye

1/20/2021 - Amanda Gorman Stuns With Powerful Inaugural Poem, ‘The Hill We Climb’

1/20/2021 - 'Enough Is Enough': Anjanette Young Declares That She Will Not Be Taking Her Foot Off Chicago PD's Neck at MLK Day Rally

1/20/2021 - Remember Me: Ledisi to Star in Upcoming Mahalia Jackson Biopic

1/20/2021 - Maryland ACLU Releases ‘Chasing Justice’ Report Detailing Baltimore Police Misconduct Allegations

1/20/2021 - Republican Chairwoman of Election Board in Gwinnett County, Ga., Calls for Election Laws to Be Changed So Her Party Can Win

1/20/2021 - America's Long Racist Nightmare Is Over

1/20/2021 - The Return to Boredom America Deserves

1/20/2021 - Jemele Hill, Spotify Developing Podcast Network to Amplify Black Women: 'Content That Is Unique to Them Is a Priority'

1/20/2021 - Oregon Lawmaker Proposes Reparation Bill for the State’s Descendants of American Slavery Victims

1/20/2021 - For Her Historic Inauguration Event Wardrobe, Kamala Harris Has Chosen African American Designers

1/20/2021 - Because God Is Good All the Time, a Senate Seat Isn't the Only Thing That Kelly Loeffler Is About to Lose

1/20/2021 - GTFOH Trump Watch: And Just Like That, the Devil Is Gone

1/20/2021 - Jazmine Sullivan, H.E.R. Set to Perform at 2021 Super Bowl LV

1/20/2021 - On Biden’s To-Do List Today Is Rescinding the Racist 1776 Commission [Updated]

1/20/2021 - Kamala Harris May Reshape How People View the Vice Presidency Forever

1/19/2021 - Selma, Ala., Lawmaker Announces Legislation That Would Allow Voters to Change the Name of Edmund Pettus Bridge

1/19/2021 - White Man in Texas Harasses Black Woman at Her Home; Law Enforcement Tells Her to Stay at a Hotel

1/19/2021 - How to Be an Antiracist Author Ibram X. Kendi Teams Up With Netflix to Create Three New Projects

1/19/2021 - NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund Launches Scholarship for 50 Future Civil Rights Attorneys After Receiving $40 Million Anonymous Donation

1/19/2021 - Man Who Filmed Ahmaud Arbery's Death Accuses Georgia of Systemic Racism...Against White People

1/19/2021 - Trump Warned Not to Pardon Republican Lawmakers Connected to Capitol Coup

1/19/2021 - Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris to Be Escorted by Howard University’s Showtime Marching Band on Inauguration Day

1/19/2021 - The Unholy Alliance Between the NFL and Verzuz, Explained

1/19/2021 - Coronavirus Disparities Continue as Black People Have Been Vaccinated at Much Lower Rates Than White People: Report

1/19/2021 - Unify With Deez Nuts

1/19/2021 - Biden’s Plan in the First 100 Days: Stimulus Checks, COVID-19 Relief and Fixing Damage Done by Trump

1/19/2021 - Around a Dozen National Guard Members Removed From Inauguration Security Team, Including 2 for Ties to Far-Right Militia Groups [Updated]

1/19/2021 - Mic Drop: Music for Every Mood

1/19/2021 - Love’s in Need of Equality: Stevie Wonder Calls on Biden-Harris to Form ‘Truth Commission’ to Address Racial Inequalities in Open Letter to MLK

1/19/2021 - Trump Administration Releases 1776 Commission Report on MLK Day. Spoiler Alert: It’s Racist AF

1/19/2021 - GTFOH Trump Watch: The End Is Near

1/19/2021 - Former NBA Star Stephen Jackson Reveals Kyrie Irving Purchased Home for Family of George Floyd

1/19/2021 - Capitol Police Are Actually Members of a Massive Hate Group—The Fraternal Order of Police

1/18/2021 - Maryland White Supremacist Arrested After GPS Monitor Places Him at U.S. Capitol During Riot

1/18/2021 - 'I Can’t Breathe Until I Know Justice is Happening': Son of Unarmed Black Man Killed by Texas Cop Speaks Out

1/18/2021 - FBI to Screen Around 25,000 National Guard Members Fearing Possible Insider Attack on Inauguration Day

1/18/2021 - Question for 2021 America: Is This MLK’s Dream?

1/17/2021 - Capitol Terrorists Seek Trump Pardons, Some Already Freed from Jail

1/17/2021 - 'I'm Just a Country Boy': Man Arrested Near Inauguration Checkpoint With Guns, Ammunition and Unauthorized Credentials Pleads Ignorance

1/17/2021 - Kamala Harris To Be Sworn in as VP on Thurgood Marshall's Bible by Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor

1/16/2021 - Army Veteran Charged With Attempted Murder for Shooting 15-Year-Old Black Girl at Trump Rally

1/16/2021 - CDC Says New COVID-19 Strain Could Drive Increased Infections by March, While Government is Accused of Flubbing Vaccine Distribution Again

1/16/2021 - Trump Administration Executes 13th Person, Dustin Higgs, Days Away from Inauguration

1/16/2021 - Meet Two Unapologetic Chicago Activists Calling for Defunding Police to Save Black Lives

1/15/2021 - Both Illinois Senators Ask Joe Biden to Designate Site of 1908 Springfield Race Riot as a National Monument

1/15/2021 - Celebrate Your 3-Day Weekend With Some Good-Ass Games at Good-Ass Prices

1/15/2021 - To Protect Herself Against White Supremacy, Roxane Gay Reveals She's Purchased Firearms: 'I Got Me a Berretta'

1/15/2021 - Hi, She's Janice Johnston, and This Is the 1st Woman and 1st Black Executive Producer of 20/20

1/15/2021 - For the 1st Time in Over 100 Years, Virginia Won’t Celebrate Lee-Jackson Day. Trust Me, It’s Exactly as Racist as It Sounds

1/15/2021 - The NRA Just Filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. Here Are Some Hoodies I Own.

1/15/2021 - Focusing on a Fairer Shopping Experience, Sephora Unveils a New Action Plan Against Racial Profiling

1/15/2021 - Deion Sanders Calls Out Inequity, Lack of Resources at HBCUs: 'It's Unacceptable'

1/15/2021 - Sacramento Man Forced to Resign From California Republican Assembly After Boasting About Capitol Coup Involvement

1/15/2021 - Trailer Roundup: Lupin Presents the Drip Report

1/15/2021 - Would Charles Barkley Just STFU Already?

1/15/2021 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Whitenotes

1/15/2021 - White Man Convicted of Killing Black Army Lt. Richard Collins III Sentenced to Life in Prison

1/15/2021 - ‘QAnon Shaman’ Lawyer Wants Trump to Pardon His Grass-Fed Client

1/15/2021 - Auntie Unfiltered Spreads Black Girl Magic With CaShawn Thompson

1/15/2021 - Unarmed Black Man Fatally Shot by Texas Police Officer Responding to Mental Health Check

1/15/2021 - Biden Chooses Jaime Harrison to Head Democratic National Committee, Taps Keisha Lance Bottoms for Vice Chair Role

1/15/2021 - Tessa Thompson Launched Her Production Company and Already Has a First-Look Deal With HBO/HBO Max

1/15/2021 - Now or Never: D-Nice and Issa Rae's Raedio Collab on the Official Inauguration Playlist Featuring Kendrick Lamar, Mary J. Blige and More

1/15/2021 - Black Americans Are 'Glad Their Ancestors Were Brought Here as Slaves,' Says North Dakota Legislator

1/15/2021 - 'This Is Not a Fight That Is Over': The Root Presents: It's Lit! Has a Word About Anti-Racism With Kenrya Rankin

1/15/2021 - Federal Watchdogs Launch Investigations After Lackluster Defense Against Capitol Attack

1/15/2021 - Kingmaker Stacey Abrams Has Unfinished Business, Will Run for Georgia Governor, Allies Say

1/15/2021 - On a Scale of 1 to 'Marvin Gaye and Jesse Jackson Playing Pickup Basketball,' How Black is My In-Home Workspace?

1/15/2021 - Living in 'Reel' Time: Ryan Michelle Bathé on the Craft of Acting and Her Foray Into Production

1/15/2021 - Some Capitol Insurgents Were on a Terrorist Watch List, and Trump’s Extremists Are Planning to Keep Up the Violence in the Lead Up to Inauguration Day

1/15/2021 - Wet Ass Production: Cardi B’s 1st Leading Role Will Be in a Heist Film

1/15/2021 - After Decades of Crime TV Shows, It’s Time We Shift the Narrative

1/15/2021 - How Joe Biden’s $2,000 Stimulus Promise Turned Into $1,400 Overnight

1/15/2021 - Is This a Mob? A Quiz for the Unintentional Domestic Terrorist

1/15/2021 - A New Era for a Modern Museum: The Guggenheim Names Naomi Beckwith Its New Deputy Director and Chief Curator

1/15/2021 - A Discussion About The Term 'SpelHouse,' Ownership, Business and Culture Vultures

1/15/2021 - Say Her Name: Dr. Susan Moore and Medical Apartheid

1/14/2021 - #Flint: Former Michigan Officials Face Charges of Involuntary Manslaughter, Willful Neglect Over Flint Water Crisis

1/14/2021 - OWN Renews Queen Sugar for a 6th Season Ahead of the Season 5 Premiere

1/14/2021 - Texas Coach Steve Sarkisian On Racist History of School Song: 'That's Our Song, We're Fired Up to Sing It'

1/14/2021 - New York Attorney General Sues NYPD for Brutality Against Peaceful Protestors Last Summer

1/14/2021 - More Capitol Rioters Arrested, Including Man Pictured With Confederate Flag Inside Capitol Building

1/14/2021 - One Conversation With Regina King

1/14/2021 - Imagine How Tired We Are: Upcoming Virtual Events to Get You Back Into the Social (Distance) Groove

1/14/2021 - Massachusetts Woman Fired From Hospital After Being Identified in Capitol Coup Photo by Her Own Daughter

1/14/2021 - Tyler Perry to Receive the Academy’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

1/14/2021 - 2 Virginia Police Officers Face Federal Charges After Posting About Participation in Capitol Riot

1/14/2021 - Researchers Find That ‘Less Lethal’ Measures Deployed by Police During George Floyd Protests Weren’t ‘Appropriate for Crowd Control’

1/14/2021 - MLB Pulls the Plug On Political Donations In the Aftermath of Capitol Insurrection

1/14/2021 - NBCUniversal Launches NBCU Academy, Part of a Multiyear Commitment to Address Systemic Racism and Inequality

1/14/2021 - Secret Service Spends $3,000 a Month for Bathroom, Because Jared and Ivanka Won’t Let Them Use Their Toilet

1/14/2021 - Don't Call Them 'Urban Issues': Why the Biden-Harris Administration Needs to Address Black Interests for What They Are

1/14/2021 - Illinois' Rep. Emanuel 'Chris' Welch Is the State's First Black Speaker of the House, but Past Allegations Cast a Shadow

1/14/2021 - Got Love on the Brain? Rihanna Sent Us an Early Valentine—and an Iconic Essence Cover Collab With Lorna Simpson

1/14/2021 - ‘QAnon Shaman’ Gets Organic Diet in Prison, Because of Course He Would [Updated]

1/14/2021 - Exclusive: Rhino Records to Release Iconic Classics on Limited Edition Colored Vinyl Throughout Black History Month

1/14/2021 - OK, So James Harden Is a Net. Now What?

1/14/2021 - New Bond Conditions Requested for Kyle Rittenhouse After Teen Was Seen Drinking and Flashing ‘White Power’ Signs With Proud Boys

1/14/2021 - Pat McGrath May Be the Mother of Makeup, but This Groundbreaking Cover Has Us Coveting Her Skincare

1/14/2021 - If the Capitol Is Closed to the Public, Why Did Some Republican Congress Members Give Tours the Day Before Insurrection?

1/14/2021 - Ray Fisher Confirms Warner Bros. Dismissed Him From The Flash, Claims DC Films President Undermined Abuse Investigation

1/14/2021 - And Still She Rises: Dr. Maya Angelou Is One of Barbie's 'Inspiring Women'

1/14/2021 - Derek Chauvin to Stand Trial Separately From Other Cops Charged in George Floyd’s Death

1/14/2021 - The Biggest Lie: Why Mainstream Media Is Telling the Whitewashed Version of the MAGA Insurrection

1/13/2021 - Researchers Say Radical Trump Supporters Are Using Encrypted Platforms Now That They've Been Booted From Twitter

1/13/2021 - Black Man Who Spent 25 Years on Mississippi's Death Row Released From Prison After Evidence is Discredited

1/13/2021 - U.S. Military Chiefs Remind Troops of Their Oath to the Constitution as Investigations Begin Into Service Members Who May Have Participated in Capitol Riot

1/13/2021 - Trump Impeached for the Second Time

1/13/2021 - It’s 2021 and America Just Recorded Its Highest Single-Day Number of COVID Deaths

1/13/2021 - PageTurners: We’re in for a Helluva Literary Year

1/13/2021 - The Story of Chicago’s 1st Black Mayor Will Be Told in a New Limited Series From Fosse/Verdon Writer Ike Holter

1/13/2021 - Virginia Man in ‘Camp Auschwitz’ Shirt Arrested in Connection With Riot in US Capitol

1/13/2021 - Nate Robinson, Donald Trump and Other Celebs I Would Looooove to See Lamar Odom Fight In His 1st Celebrity Boxing Match

1/13/2021 - The Whitest Insurrections of All Time

1/13/2021 - Virtual Memorial to Phoenix Civil Rights Activist Calvin C. Goode Disrupted by Hackers Yelling Racial Slurs

1/13/2021 - Insecure Is Lowkey Done—HBO Series to End With Fifth Season

1/13/2021 - Everything We Know About Biden’s Stimmy Package. Plus, Sen. Cory Booker and Rep. Ayanna Pressley Want to Give Babies Bonds

1/13/2021 - Satchel and Jackson Lee, Daughter and Son of Spike and Tonya Lewis Lee, Are the 2021 Golden Globe Ambassadors

1/13/2021 - Democratic Lawmakers Ask HHS to Allocate Portion of COVID-19 Relief Funds to Grassroots Groups in Communities of Color

1/13/2021 - Always on Time? Ashanti Verzuz Keyshia Cole’s ‘New and Final’ Date Confirmed

1/13/2021 - New York City to Trump: Everything You Own Is in a Box to the Left

1/13/2021 - Apple Announces New Details in $100 Million Racial Equity and Justice Initiative, Including an Education Hub for HBCUs

1/13/2021 - We Love Ciara—but Are We the Only Ones Who Find Her Latest Cover Look Weirdly Triggering?

1/13/2021 - Suspicions Build in Capitol Attack as Democrats Call Out White Supremacists in Congress

1/13/2021 - GTFOH Trump Watch: It’s the Remix to Impeachment

1/13/2021 - John Wall Claps Back After James Harden Insists the Rockets 'Just Aren’t Good Enough'

1/13/2021 - This Is Us Writer-Director Kay Oyegun and Actor Jennifer C. Holmes Introduce the 'Spirit' of Randall's 'Birth Mother'

1/12/2021 - Anti-Masker Claims He's Being Kicked Out of NC Walmart 'Because I'm White'

1/12/2021 - Mic Drop: Music Releases From the First Week of January to Get You Ready for 2021

1/12/2021 - #Flint: Several Former Michigan Officials, Including Ex-Governor Rick Snyder, to Face Charges Over Flint Water Crisis

1/12/2021 - Watch Out World, We’re in Smoakland: Freeform to Develop New Series From Yara and Keri Shahidi

1/12/2021 - Negro Southern League Museum to Honor Negro Leagues With Virtual 100 Year Anniversary Celebration

1/12/2021 - Naomi Osaka Is Louis Vuitton's Newest Global Ambassador

1/12/2021 - The FBI Knew Ahead of Time and Did Nothing About the Capitol Insurrection: Report

1/12/2021 - Charges Will Not Be Filed Against 2nd Officer Involved in Oscar Grant Shooting

1/12/2021 - Trump on Mob Violence: Riots Happen Every Day, B

1/12/2021 - Shawna Thomas Secures Executive Producer Spot on CBS This Morning, CNN’s Abby Phillip to Take Over Inside Politics

1/12/2021 - Richard 'Dimples' Fields' 10 Simple Rules for Successful Living 'Straight from the Dimples' Mouth

1/12/2021 - Bill Belichick Leaves Trump on Read. Oh, and PGA Golf Wants Nothing to Do With Trump's Ass Either

1/12/2021 - My Daily, Less-Than-5-Minute, Quarantine Skincare Routine

1/12/2021 - With a $2 Million Gift, Spelman Will Launch the First-Ever HBCU Queer Studies Chair in Honor of Audre Lorde

1/12/2021 - Everything Y'all Say About Clubhouse Makes It Sound Like the 4th Ring of Hell, So Please Stop Inviting Me to It

1/12/2021 - Strong Black Year: Y'all, Netflix Is Dropping a New Movie Every Damn Week in 2021

1/12/2021 - FBI Warns That ‘Armed Protests’ Are Being Planned in All 50 States Ahead of Inauguration Day

1/12/2021 - Judas and the Black Messiah, Starring Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield, Will Premiere at Sundance 2021

1/12/2021 - Second Congresswoman Tests Positive for COVID-19 After Capitol Lockdown With Maskholes

1/12/2021 - Anna Wintour Addresses Kamala Harris Cover Controversy, Says It Was Chosen to 'Reflect This Tragic Moment in Global History'

1/12/2021 - Punks Jump Up to Get Beat Down: Alabama Slaps Up Ohio State for 18th National Football Title

1/12/2021 - GTFOH Trump Watch: You Better Go Look at That Border Wall While You Can

1/12/2021 - Chadwick Boseman’s Widow Simone Ledward Makes Rare Appearance to Receive Actor’s Tribute at 2020 Gotham Awards

1/12/2021 - NYPD Anti-Discrimination Deputy Accused of Online Bigotry Retires Following Suspension

1/12/2021 - You're About to Engage in Hella Learning Because Issa Rae Is Teaching a MasterClass

1/11/2021 - New Jersey Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman Has Tested Positive for Coronavirus Following Last Week’s Riot at the Capitol

1/11/2021 - After Writing a New Chapter for Georgia, Stacey Abrams Is Publishing a New Legal Thriller

1/11/2021 - Corporate America Cancels Political Donations for GOP Legislators Who Objected to Electoral College Votes

1/11/2021 - Part 2 of Gayle King's Interview With Miya Ponsetto Has Dropped and OH MY GOD, I HATE THIS WOMAN. I HATE HER, I HATE HER, I HATE HER!

1/11/2021 - OK, NBA. Enough Is Enough

1/11/2021 - Mayoral Candidate Dianne Morales Doesn't Want to Return New York City Back to 'Normal'

1/11/2021 - Memphis Cop Faces Charges for Kidnapping and Killing Man While on Duty

1/11/2021 - Making 'Megxit' Official, Meghan Markle Has Reportedly 'Abandoned Plans' to Apply for UK Citizenship

1/11/2021 - A Republican AG Once Ruled It Was 'Reasonable' for Officer to Kill a Black Man Amid Chaos. His Group Helped Organize the Coup Klutz Klan Attack

1/11/2021 - Watch: The United States vs. Billie Holiday Trailer Debuts as a 'Call to Arms'

1/11/2021 - 9 Artists I Cannot Be Objective About Because All They Make Is Beautiful Music (and Things)

1/11/2021 - Go, Mary! The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul Turns 50 Today—and It’s Truly a Family Affair

1/11/2021 - New York Bar Association Considers Revoking Rudy Giuliani’s Membership Over Violent and False Voter Fraud Rhetoric

1/11/2021 - House of Representatives Formally Introduces Resolution to Impeach President Trump on Grounds of ‘Incitement of Insurrection’

1/11/2021 - Hell Predictably Breaks Loose After Trainer Names Horse 'Grape Soda' to Antagonize Black Announcer

1/11/2021 - NFL Wild Card Weekend Had Its Fair Share of Winners and Losers, But Drew Brees' Shirt Might've Been the Biggest L

1/11/2021 - Delroy Lindo, Angela Bassett, Jamie Foxx and Jurnee Smollett Among Winners at Inaugural Critics Choice Super Awards

1/11/2021 - From Bridgerton to Bond? Regé-Jean Page Addresses Internet Rumors About Him Becoming the Next 007

1/11/2021 - Capitol Police Officer in DC Riot Dies by Suicide; Chief Steps Down Earlier Than Expected Amid Criticism of Police Response

1/11/2021 - Is This Your King—and Queen? Yes, Michael B. Jordan and Lori Harvey Went Public as a Couple on Instagram

1/10/2021 - As Democrats Seriously Consider How to Remove Trump, Republicans Plea to Biden to Save Him 'in the Spirit of Healing'

1/10/2021 - Surprise, Surprise: Off-Duty Cops From All Over the Country Were in D.C. During Capitol Coup Attempt

1/10/2021 - No Charges for Aurora, Colo., Cops Who Detained Black Children At Gunpoint and Laid Them Face Down on Asphalt After Wrongly Suspecting They Were in Stolen Car

1/10/2021 - Skee-Why? Kamala Harris' 1st Vogue Cover Sparks a Slew of Questions—Namely, What Was Anna Wintour Thinking? [Updated]

1/9/2021 - Rep. Maxine Waters and Others Raise Questions About How Easily Mob Broke into Capitol as Congress Plans Investigations into Police Response

1/9/2021 - Report: D.C. Police Made At Least 5 Times More Arrests During One Day of BLM Protests Than at Capitol Insurrection

1/9/2021 - Trump Is Finding It Hard To Let Go of Twitter as More Platforms Begin Cracking Down on Incitements To Violence

1/8/2021 - Some Good-Ass Games at Good-Ass Prices for a Totally Normal, Not at All Horrific Week

1/8/2021 - West Virginia Lawmaker Who Recorded Himself Breaking Into the Capitol Faces Criminal Charge

1/8/2021 - Twitter Permanently Suspends Donald Trump’s Account for Violating 'Glorification of Violence' Policy

1/8/2021 - LeBron James and More Than a Vote Release Ad Calling Out the Double Standard in Police Response to Capitol Riot

1/8/2021 - The Sheepskin Trenches: André Leon Talley Is Ugg's Newest Ambassador

1/8/2021 - Man Photographed Sitting in Nancy Pelosi's Office Arrested and in FBI Custody; Now Let's Focus on How Dumb He Is

1/8/2021 - Hate Crime Legislation in Arkansas Facing Roadblock From GOP Lawmakers

1/8/2021 - Trailer Roundup: We've Been Locked Down in 2021 for a Week...What a Mess!

1/8/2021 - Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes: Sen. Lindsey Graham Mobbed and Called 'Traitor' by Trump Supporters at Airport

1/8/2021 - Pay Me What You Owe Me: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Reintroduces Reparations Bill

1/8/2021 - Gayle King Interviews America

1/8/2021 - Tracy Chapman Wins $450K Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Nicki Minaj

1/8/2021 - Nancy Pelosi Contacts Top General About Keeping ‘Unhinged’ President Away From the Nuclear Codes

1/8/2021 - White Extremist Groups Could Descend on D.C. Again on January 19. Meanwhile, Trump Says He Will Not Attend Biden’s Inauguration

1/8/2021 - 'A Goal Is a Dream With a Deadline': Auntie Unfiltered on Manifesting in the New Year

1/8/2021 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Nobody Knows the Trouble Whites See, Nobody Knows Their Sorrow

1/8/2021 - Giant Steps: Nike Invests $500,000 in New Partnership With Black Girl Ventures

1/8/2021 - 11 Thoughts About Power Book II: Ghost Now That the 1st Season Is Over. All the Spoilers, Fam

1/8/2021 - Labor Department Suspends Trump’s Federal Diversity Training Ban—Because It’s Racist and Dumb

1/8/2021 - 'Suddenly, You See the Story More Clearly': The Root Presents: It's Lit Talks Transcendent Writing With Yaa Gyasi

1/8/2021 - When They Go Low: Michelle Obama Responds to the Capitol Insurrection, Says 'I Hurt for Our Country'

1/8/2021 - Sundance 2021: A List of Black Movies to Watch While You’re in the (Virtual) White Mountains

1/8/2021 - Miya Ponsetto Mouths Off to Gayle King in Interview, Then Resists Cops During Arrest for Her Attack on Black Teen

1/8/2021 - Y'all Tired Yet?

1/8/2021 - Trump Supporters Are Blaming Antifa for the Capitol Riot Because White People Are Racist Against Themselves

1/8/2021 - Police Academy Franchise and Broadway Star Marion Ramsey Dead at 73

1/8/2021 - GTFOH Trump Watch: Look Straight Into the Camera and Pretend to Love America

1/8/2021 - Capitol Police Officer Among Dead as Fallout From Siege Continues Amid Questions About Police Preparation

1/8/2021 - Verzuz Is Returning to Its Origins, Y’all—With Its Performers in Separate Locations

1/7/2021 - Republicans in Pennsylvania Refuse to Seat Newly Elected Democrat, Which Seems to Be What the GOP Is About Now

1/7/2021 - Make Shopify Great Again: The E-Commerce Giant Deactivates Sites Selling Trump Merch

1/7/2021 - Brick With Racial Slurs Thrown at Window of Black-Owned Business in Chicago

1/7/2021 - Tonya Pinkins to Replace Niecy Nash in Upcoming ABC Limited Series Women of the Movement

1/7/2021 - 'I'm Just Getting Cornered by 30, 40 People': A Trump Mob in Los Angeles Attacked a Black Woman on Same Day as U.S. Capitol Terror

1/7/2021 - Congress to Trump: Call Tyrone and Tell Him to Come On and Help You Get Your Shit

1/7/2021 - Black People Risked Their Lives to Get Biden Elected. Here's What He Owes Us

1/7/2021 - Tennessee Football Coach Fired for Calling Stacey Abrams ‘Fat Albert’ and ‘Big Girl’ Over Georgia Runoff Results

1/7/2021 - Video Shows West Virginia Lawmaker Was Among Those Who Rioted at the Capitol

1/7/2021 - She’s Been Identified as Ashli Babbitt. No, We Will Not #SayHerName

1/7/2021 - We Need to Hold Corporate Enablers Accountable for the White Supremacist Insurgency at the Capitol

1/7/2021 - For Black People, Wednesday Was Just Another Day in America

1/7/2021 - White People Need Better Hobbies

1/7/2021 - Their Eyes Were Watching Tyler Perry: Some Thoughts on Escapism, Responsibility and White Rage

1/7/2021 - Now That Kelly Loeffler Has Lost Her Senate Seat, LeBron James Would Love Nothing More Than for Her to Lose Her Ownership Stake in the WNBA, Too

1/7/2021 - Trump Banned From Social Media Site He Rarely Uses

1/7/2021 - 'Could You Imagine Today, If Those Were All Black People?': Here's How the NBA Reacted to White Privilege Appreciation Day

1/7/2021 - California Board Recommends Routine Checks of Police Cell Phones, Computers and Social Media for Racist Content

1/7/2021 - Shonda Rhimes Called Trump an 'Ignorant Bitch Baby': How Black Hollywood Responded to the D.C. Dumpster Fire

1/7/2021 - GTFOH Trump Watch: The Boredom of White-on-White Violence

1/7/2021 - 5 Black People That Would’ve Been a Better Choice for Attorney General Than Merrick ‘Milquetoast’ Garland

1/7/2021 - After Siege of the Capitol by Pro-Trump Mob, Congress Finally Certifies President-Elect Joe Biden's Election Victory

1/6/2021 - SZA Talks Taking CTRL of Her Music and Legacy for Cosmo Magazine

1/6/2021 - Former California Police Officer Charged With Filing a False Report After Arrest of Black Man Accused of Smoking in Public

1/6/2021 - 2 Louisville Police Officers Involved In Fatal Breonna Taylor’s Raid Formally Fired

1/6/2021 - Jon Ossoff Defeats David Perdue in Georgia Runoffs, Giving Democrats Control of the Senate

1/6/2021 - President-Elect Biden Calls on Trump to ‘Step Up,’ Then Trump Issues Video Pushing Election Fraud Lie While Telling Supporters to ‘Go Home’

1/6/2021 - 'We've Got to Keep People Engaged': LaTosha Brown, Co-Founder of Black Voters Matter, Dishes On How She Helped Turn Georgia Blue

1/6/2021 - Dear Jordan 3s, I Owe You an Apology

1/6/2021 - Stunning at 65, Iman Reflects on Love, Liberty and Life With Bowie, Says She'll 'Never' Remarry

1/6/2021 - Justice Department Makes Moves to Undo Certain Civil Rights Protections

1/6/2021 - Trump Supporters Storm U.S. Capitol, Electoral College Certification Paused and Capitol Put on Lockdown [Updating]

1/6/2021 - Stacey Abrams Is Not Your Superhero, Mule or God. She Is a Black Woman With a Vision You Can Honor by Showing Up for Black Women, Too

1/6/2021 - Oh When It All, It All Falls Down [Updated]

1/6/2021 - ‘Soho Karen’ Attorney Says Incident Was Not ‘A Race-Related Issue’ and Other Standard Lawyer Things

1/6/2021 - LeBron James, Milwaukee Bucks Speak Out After District Attorney Declines to File Charges In Jacob Blake Shooting

1/6/2021 - Meghan McCain's Face Is a Face

1/6/2021 - Chuck Schumer to Mitch McConnell: I Thought a Broke Senate Majority Leader Said Something

1/6/2021 - Ding, Dong, the Witch Is Dead—and the WNBA Helped Usher In Her Demise

1/6/2021 - Body-Camera Footage of Chicago Police Running Over Black Woman With Car in 2019 Released After Court Order

1/6/2021 - New Jersey Karen Arrested and Charged After N-Word-Laced Racist Attack on Black Woman

1/6/2021 - Here’s Everything You Need to Know About the Electoral College Certification in Congress Today

1/6/2021 - Raphael Warnock Takes Over Seat Once Held by Senator Who Called for Lynchings of Black Men

1/6/2021 - Lashana Lynch to Join Netflix’s New Matilda Movie Musical

1/6/2021 - Dr. Dre 'Doing Great' After Brain Aneurysm—Meanwhile, 4 Suspects Arrested for Attempting to Burglarize His Home During Hospitalization

1/5/2021 - Two Black Men Who Spent Nearly 18 Years in a Michigan Prison for a Crime They Didn't Commit File $160 Million Lawsuit

1/5/2021 - National Guard to Be Deployed to DC Ahead of Pro-Trump Protest Wednesday

1/5/2021 - To Georgia, and Black People, Who Are One and the Same

1/5/2021 - Officers Involved in Shooting of Jacob Blake Will Not Face Any Charges

1/5/2021 - The Undoing's Noma Dumezweni Will Be Part of the Live-Action World of The Little Mermaid—as Brand New Character

1/5/2021 - Beloved New York Times Best-Selling Author Eric Jerome Dickey Dies at 59

1/5/2021 - My Family Celebrated Kwanzaa For The First Time. Here's How It Went

1/5/2021 - Welp, the 2021 Grammys Have Been Postponed [Updated]

1/5/2021 - New Jersey Karen Repeatedly Hurls N-Word at Black Woman; NJ Official Wants Her Investigated

1/5/2021 - Ohio Governor Thinks There Needs to Be Gun Reform, Signs ‘Stand Your Ground’ Law. I Guess That’s Reform?

1/5/2021 - Lighten Up: Pattern Beauty's Newest Formula Is a Whole 2021 Mood

1/5/2021 - The Bachelor Is Making Black History—but Folks Are Wondering if It'll Actually Include Black Love

1/5/2021 - Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley Wants Desperately to Be Important

1/5/2021 - 'I’m a Very Sexual Person, but Not Around My Child': Cardi B Claps Back at Criticism of Her Refusal to Let Her Daughter Listen to 'WAP'

1/5/2021 - 'I’m Grateful for All You Young Leaders': Kyrie Irving Pays Tuition for Students at HBCU Lincoln University

1/5/2021 - After Making History at Teen Vogue, Lindsay Peoples Wagner Will Return to The Cut as Editor-in-Chief

1/5/2021 - Proud Boys Leader Arrested and Charged With Burning BLM Banner Displayed in Black DC Church

1/5/2021 - Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin Hospitalized With COVID-19

1/5/2021 - Cautious, But Optimistic: How The Root Staff Is Approaching the New Year

1/5/2021 - Raiders Running Back Josh Jacobs Arrested, Charged With DUI After Single-Car Collision In Las Vegas

1/5/2021 - Tiffany Haddish to Star in Landscape With Invisible Hand Adaptation From MGM and Plan B

1/5/2021 - GTFOH Trump Watch: The Devil Went Down to Georgia

1/5/2021 - Jordan Peele Wants to Get Out of a Career in Front of the Camera, He Confirms at Georgia Runoff Fundraiser

1/4/2021 - The Most Anticipated Games of 2021

1/4/2021 - Should Meghan's Public Humiliation Be Resolved Privately? Royal Sources Certainly Hope So.

1/4/2021 - Claim Notices Filed by Victims of Kyle Rittenhouse Allege Negligence on Behalf of Kenosha Police and Sheriff’s Department, Seek $20 Million in Damages

1/4/2021 - Introducing Bianca Smith, the 1st Black Woman to Coach Major League Baseball: 'The Opportunity Is Amazing!'

1/4/2021 - Beats by Dre and Flo Milli Apparently Wanted Us to ‘Flex That Clapback,’ and Now I Have Questions

1/4/2021 - Oregon COVID-19 Relief Funds Reserved for Underserved Black People in Jeopardy Due to Lawsuits

1/4/2021 - Candace Owens Is Big Mad at Netflix and Uber Eats for Having Black Categories, Calls it 'Segregation'

1/4/2021 - You Can Keep Buying Sweatsuits Because Zendaya Has Preemptively Been Named 'Most Fashionable Woman of 2021'

1/4/2021 - Churches in Washington DC Request Police Protection Ahead of Pro-Trump Protest, File Lawsuit Against Proud Boys Over Vandalism During Previous Protest

1/4/2021 - BBHMyAlbum: Rihanna Sets Fans Straight for Demanding New Album in 2021

1/4/2021 - 'I Feel Like I'm Finna Die': Why Everyone in Alabama's Prison System Has a Death Sentence [Updated]

1/4/2021 - 'And I Took That Personally': Steph Curry Goes Full Michael Jordan Meme, Silences Critics With Career-High 62 Points

1/4/2021 - Attorneys for Gregory and Travis McMichael Request That Ahmaud Arbery Not Be Called a ‘Victim’ in Court

1/4/2021 - Zoë Kravitz Files for Divorce After 18 Months of Marriage to Karl Glusman

1/4/2021 - Cleveland Ends Their Playoff Drought, Derrick Henry Shows Out and Other Takeaways from Week 17 of the NFL

1/4/2021 - That's Dame 'Mother' to You: Pat McGrath Is the First Makeup Artist to Be Granted Damehood

1/4/2021 - Welcome to Good Burger, Home of the Good Burger, Can I Tell You What's New and Black on Netflix in January 2021?

1/3/2021 - U.S. Army Drill Sergeant Jessica Mitchell Shot Dead on New Year's Day, Military and San Antonio Police Investigating

1/3/2021 - Florida Man Formerly Known as 'Dr. Love' Arrested Again on Fraud Related Shenanigans

1/3/2021 - Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell's Homes Vandalized By People Who Appear to Be Peeved At Tiny Stimulus Checks

1/2/2021 - Opposition To the Term Karen Continues Because an Unwillingness To Tackle Racism Continues, Despite the Brief Reckoning in 2020

1/2/2021 - Vaccine Rollout Plagued By Slowdowns, Health Care Worker Refusals, Sabotaged Doses, and More

1/2/2021 - Dolal Idd the First Person Killed By Minneapolis Police Since George Floyd, City Releases Body Cam Footage of Shooting

1/1/2021 - 'That's Not Who I Am': Soho Karen Has Been Identified and is *Yawn* Speaking Out About the Incident

1/1/2021 - 'We Just Basically Share One Brain': The Root Presents: It’s Lit! Gets Collaborative With Maika and Maritza Moulite

1/1/2021 - Man Dubbed 'Mr. TeaKO' After Smacking N-Word Spewing White Man With Twisted Tea Can Tells the Whole Story

1/1/2021 - Hip-Hop Legend MF DOOM Dies at 49

1/1/2021 - Having Faith: Giving Back in the Spirit of Imani, the Seventh Day of Kwanzaa