6/30/2021 - Grand Jury Declines to Indict Former Georgia State Trooper Who Fatally Shot Black Motorist

6/30/2021 - Despite Conservative Attempts to Cancel Her, University of North Carolina (Finally) Grants Nikole Hannah-Jones Tenure

6/30/2021 - 10 of 17 Diversity and Inclusion Council Members Quit After NH Gov. Chris Sununu Signs Bill Restricting, Well, Diversity and Inclusion

6/30/2021 - Carmelo Anthony Is the Inaugural Recipient of the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Social Justice Champion Award

6/30/2021 - Federal Authorities Warn That Extremist Violence Could Rise as COVID-19 Restrictions Are Eased

6/30/2021 - What If White People Are Wrong?

6/30/2021 - Still Black, Still Proud: Unpacking the Untold Story of Harlem's 'Summer of Soul'

6/30/2021 - Bye, Phylicia: Social Media Reacts to Phylicia Rashad's Message of Support for Bill Cosby's Overturned Sexual Assault Conviction [Updated]

6/30/2021 - PageTurners: It's Getting Hot in Here

6/30/2021 - Federal Investigation Alleges Active-Duty Marine Was Linked to Hate Group, Plotted to Bomb DNC and Kill Black People

6/30/2021 - Pennsylvania Supreme Court Overturns Bill Cosby's Sexual Assault Conviction [Updated]

6/30/2021 - Lil Nas X Reveals Trailer for Montero Cinematic Universe, aka His Debut Album, and Wow, This Kid Is Really Iconic

6/30/2021 - Hey Swizz Beatz and Timbaland—the BET Awards 2021 Red Carpet Stars Have Some Verzuz Matchup Ideas!

6/30/2021 - The Future 25: A New Name for the Next Generation of Changemakers Who Are Doing Big Things

6/30/2021 - Not Like This

6/30/2021 - House Votes to Remove All Confederate Statues From US Capitol. Some Republicans are Predictably Big Mad

6/30/2021 - Here We Go Again

6/30/2021 - The Truth About This Verzuz? It Belongs to Bobby Brown and Keith Sweat!

6/29/2021 - WNBA Legend Maya Moore to Receive Arthur Ashe Courage Award at 2021 ESPYS

6/29/2021 - Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar Appears to Defend Fundraising Event Co-Hosted With White Supremacist.

6/29/2021 - H.E.R. Brings Back 'Lights On' Festival With Erykah Badu, Ari Lennox, Lucky Daye, Masego and More

6/29/2021 - Mural of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and David McAtee Vandalized in Louisville

6/29/2021 - Phylicia Rashad Joins Cast in Nikyatu Jusu's Supernatural Thriller Nanny

6/29/2021 - Gird Your Loins and Grab Your Stacy Adams, Because Cat Daddies Are Back on the Prowl in Detroit

6/29/2021 - The Funk Boutique: The Season Ushers in a Bevy of Star-Studded Collabs—and Ballet

6/29/2021 - Still Sprung: T-Pain Takes The Root Down Memory Lane With Behind-the-Scenes Stories of His Biggest Hits

6/29/2021 - KKK Applications Asking for Race, Address and Blood Type Distributed in Indiana

6/29/2021 - Watch: Melissa Butler Is the True Beauty Behind The Lip Bar

6/29/2021 - Y'all Want to Reminisce About DMX? These Stars From the BET Awards 2021 Red Carpet Gon' Give It to Ya

6/29/2021 - Georgia’s Emory University Is the Latest School to Rename Buildings Named After a Racist Dead Guy

6/29/2021 - 'Bring More Black Farmer Voices Together': How the Black Farmers Collective Is Growing a Black-Led Food System Rooted in Black Liberation

6/29/2021 - How Come Nobody Told Me Phil Jackson Was Racist?

6/29/2021 - 76-Year-Old Black Woman Released From Prison Amid Pandemic, Sent Back for Missing Phone Calls While Taking a Class

6/29/2021 - Ice Cold: Migos Take a Deep Dive Into the World of Drip in New Docuseries for YouTube Originals

6/29/2021 - Mario Golf: Super Rush Is a Good Sports Game and an Even Better Friendship Killer

6/29/2021 - Die Another Day

6/29/2021 - NeNe Leakes Reveals Husband Gregg Leakes Is Battling Cancer Once Again

6/29/2021 - If It's Up, Then We're Stuck On Cardi B's Beautiful Pregnancy Photos

6/28/2021 - United Nations Human Rights Chief Releases Report Calling for Reparations as a Way to Address Anti-Black Racism

6/28/2021 - Case Files for 1964 Lynchings of Civil Rights Activists Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner Made Public for the First Time

6/28/2021 - Politicians, Lawyers and Military Officials Found to Be Members of Neo-Confederate Groups. In Other News, Water Is Still Wet

6/28/2021 - Who Is LeVar Burton? He's the Jeopardy! Host Frontrunner and So Much More

6/28/2021 - Tyrese Gives Update on Friendship With ‘The Rock’ Following Years-Long Feud: 'I Think We’re Both Better Men On The Other Side of All That Stuff'

6/28/2021 - Apparently, There's a Right Way to Be Black and Gay. Thankfully, Lil Nas X Is Having None of It

6/28/2021 - Y'all Coming to the Summer Olympics? Who All Gon' Be There?

6/28/2021 - The 'Thotyssey' Continues: Zola Cast Talk Sex Positivity and the Makings of a Perfect 'Ho Trip'

6/28/2021 - Toyota Defends Being Top Donor to Republicans Who Voted Against Certifying 2020 Election Results

6/28/2021 - Fatal Shooting of 2 Black People in Massachusetts Being Investigated as a Hate Crime

6/28/2021 - Da Brat Is Soooo, Soooo, Soooo Funkdafied in Love in New WE TV Series Brat Loves Judy

6/28/2021 - Hey Queens and Kings, How Are You Celebrating CROWN Day?

6/28/2021 - Behold the Queen

6/28/2021 - 'Wanna Battle You'll Be Baffled at the Stuff Stated': In Tribute to Gift of Gab, One of My Favorite Hip-Hop Lyricists Ever

6/28/2021 - The Big Reveal: The 2021 BET Awards' Biggest Trend Was Skin

6/28/2021 - Anti-CRT Republican Senate Candidate Claims Military Has Been ‘Colorblind’ for Nearly 200 Years

6/28/2021 - Everybody Hates Khris

6/28/2021 - Would Lil' Kim Proceed in a Verzuz Battle Against Nicki Minaj? Yes Indeed!

6/28/2021 - We Traveled as a Family During COVID

6/28/2021 - We Outside at the 2021 BET Awards!

6/27/2021 - Gabby Thomas Sets The Track on Fire With Second-Fastest 200 Meter Dash of All Time

6/27/2021 - Activists Follow the Example of the Freedom Riders During a Trip to Promote Rights for Black Voters

6/27/2021 - Skeletal Remains Exhumed Near Tulsa Race Massacre Site Had Bullet Wounds to Head and Shoulder

6/26/2021 - Let's Check Back on How the Black TikTok Creators' Strike Is Going

6/26/2021 - An Iowa County Once Named for a Slave-Owning Vice President is Now Named After a Trailblazing Black Woman

6/26/2021 - Blackalicious Emcee Gift of Gab Dead at 50

6/25/2021 - Gov. Ron DeSantis Signs Florida Mandate to Survey College Students' Views...Because He's Worried About 'Indoctrination'

6/25/2021 - Mic Drop: Songs That Make You Go 'Ooh'

6/25/2021 - Off Broadway: The Theater Industry's Overdue Reckoning Gets a Satirical Sendup

6/25/2021 - The Hair Tales: Tracee Ellis Ross and Oprah Winfrey Join Bestselling Author Michaela Angela Davis to Present a Series Celebrating Black Hair

6/25/2021 - Kevin Durant Reveals Struggles With Pre-Game Anxiety Early In His Career: 'I Can't Be Too on Edge'

6/25/2021 - Judge Sentences Derek Chauvin to 22.5 Years in Prison, Denies Request for New Trial

6/25/2021 - Florida Trooper Tases 'Suspicious' Biracial Teen He Caught Cutting Through Bushes to Get to His Girlfriend's House

6/25/2021 - The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Are White People OK?

6/25/2021 - 'I'm Still Spending Money from '88': 9 Thoughts About Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt, One of the Best Albums of All Time on Its 25th Birthday

6/25/2021 - Auntie Unfiltered With Uncle Michael Harriot

6/25/2021 - Malcolm Spellman Deconstructs Challenges of Being Black in Hollywood: 'Racism Is Coming From People Who Truly Don’t Want to Be Racist'

6/25/2021 - Vandalism of George Floyd Statue in Brooklyn Being Investigated as Hate Crime

6/25/2021 - The Talented Mr. June

6/25/2021 - Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against Georgia and Its Racist and Voter Suppressive Ways

6/25/2021 - Kanye West Is Suing Walmart for Selling Knockoff Yeezys

6/25/2021 - 'I Was Just Depressed and Didn’t Want to Live': Mary J. Blige Reflects on My Life in New Amazon Prime Documentary

6/25/2021 - The Backlog: After 6 Months of Patches Is Cyberpunk 2077 Worth Playing? Wellll, Let’s Talk About It

6/25/2021 - Not a Kopykat Karen? Director Coke Daniels Insists He Did Not Rip Off Jordan Peele's Get Out

6/24/2021 - Whose Mans Is This? Bouncer Denies Entry to Rihanna and A$AP Rocky at Popular NYC Venue

6/24/2021 - Virginia School Board Meeting Disrupted by Critical Race Theory Protesters Ends in Fights and Arrests

6/24/2021 - Debt Relief for Black Farmers at Risk After Federal Judge Files Injunction

6/24/2021 - Feds Launch Investigation Into Potential Pattern of Racist Abuses by Louisiana State Police

6/24/2021 - The Academy Will Honor Danny Glover and Samuel L. Jackson at the 2022 Governors Awards

6/24/2021 - You Hate to See It: Election Lies Lead to Rudy Giuliani Having His License to Practice Law Suspended in New York

6/24/2021 - Celebrity Skin: New Swim Lines From Megan Thee Stallion and Beyoncé Hit the Horizon

6/24/2021 - Major League Baseball Is Spreading the Gospel of Black Sports History With 101 Negro League Facts

6/24/2021 - Rev. Jesse Jackson, Bishop William Barber II and More Arrested During Protest Against Republican Filibuster

6/24/2021 - Get Back, Get Back: Did Lil Duval Really Just Say That?

6/24/2021 - Meghan and Harry's Son Archie May Never Be a Prince, but Thanks to His Parents, He Also Won't Be 'Earl of Dumbarton' [Updated]

6/24/2021 - John Boyega’s Rebel Ridge Exit and the Narrative of the 'Difficult' Black Actor

6/24/2021 - 'It Always Starts With People': The Root Presents: It's Lit! Revisits Such a Fun Age With Kiley Reid

6/24/2021 - Jay Williams Congratulates Ime Udoka for Becoming the Boston Celtics' 1st Black Coach. Slight Problem: He's the 6th

6/24/2021 - General Defends Critical Race Theory in the Military Against Rep. Matt Gaetz. Nobody Defended Gaetz Against Twitter, Though

6/24/2021 - 'Say His Name, Say His Name': A New Teaser for Nia DaCosta’s Candyman Is Here—and Wow, I’m Traumatized All Over Again

6/24/2021 - Shimmy, Shimmy Ya

6/24/2021 - Here They Come: The Harder They Fall, Starring Beaucoup Black Actor Faves, Debuts Teaser Trailer

6/24/2021 - Rep. Ayanna Pressley: We Need to Talk About Healing and Liberation for Black Students

6/23/2021 - “I Felt a Social Responsibility to Take On This Role:’ Taryn Manning Explains Why She Said Yes to Playing Karen

6/23/2021 - 'I Hear You': Michael B. Jordan Apologizes for Cultural Appropriation, Will Rename 'J'Ouvert' Rum Brand

6/23/2021 - Connecticut Becomes First State to Make Video and Voice Calls Free for Incarcerated People

6/23/2021 - Is Student Loan Debt Hurting Black Homeownership? HUD Secretary Says Yep!

6/23/2021 - Spotify's Mogul Returns to Give Houston Legend DJ Screw His Much-Deserved Flowers

6/23/2021 - Democrats' Failed Attempt to Pass Voting Rights, Explained

6/23/2021 - Black Excellence: First-Time Candidate India Walton Set to Become Buffalo’s First Female Mayor After Upset

6/23/2021 - I May Destroy You Earns a 2021 Peabody Award, Raises Emmy Expectations

6/23/2021 - Nikole Hannah-Jones Tells UNC-Chapel Hill She Won't Join Faculty Unless She Has Tenure

6/23/2021 - 'You Have All of the Soul:' Ciara Wilson on Black Womanhood, Self Care and Her Present Prayer

6/23/2021 - Stephanie Mills Says a Battle Between Her and Chaka Khan Almost Happened but 'The Verzuz People Weren’t Interested'—Until Now!

6/23/2021 - Texas Grand Jury Declines to Indict the 8 Officers Involved in Marvin Scott III's Death

6/23/2021 - With the Tokyo Olympics on the Horizon, Gwen Berry's Time Is Now

6/23/2021 - Yes, Kenya Barris Pays Attention-ish to the -Ish Universe Jokes

6/23/2021 - Swizz Beatz, Timbaland, D-Nice Honored With ASCAP Voices of Culture, Culture Creators Awards

6/23/2021 - Eric Adams Leads Primary in NYC’s Mayoral Race, but Ranked-Choice Voting Means Results Are Far From In

6/23/2021 - Introducing 'Wayoff P'

6/23/2021 - Watch Out World, They're College Seniors Now—Somebody's Getting Married in Grown-ish Season 4 Teaser Trailer

6/23/2021 - We Traveled The South to Rediscover Our Roots

6/23/2021 - Dignity and Pride: The Relevant and Important Backstory of 'The Dap'

6/22/2021 - Self-Representation—How Can It Expand the Boundaries of Black Fashion?

6/22/2021 - Take a Look, It's in a MasterClass Book—LeVar Burton's Storytelling Rainbow!

6/22/2021 - Traffic Deaths Increased During the Pandemic, and Black People Died at a Higher Rate, Report Shows

6/22/2021 - Dear Kyrsten Sinema: Who the Fuck Is 'We'?

6/22/2021 - Erykah Badu Revisits Mama's Gun on the Latest Episode of Fader Uncovered

6/22/2021 - No Guidance: Chris Brown Under Investigation for Reportedly Slapping a Woman

6/22/2021 - Indiana Man Sentenced to 46 Months in Prison for Racially Harassing Black Neighbor

6/22/2021 - Michael Sam Offers Words of Encouragement After Carl Nassib Comes Out as NFL's 1st Gay Player

6/22/2021 - Newsmax Guest Says Critical Race Theory Will Lead to Nazi-Style Death Camps for White People

6/22/2021 - Telfar's Going to the 2021 Olympics—With Team Liberia

6/22/2021 - Michigan Cop Who Said He’d Kill Himself If He Had Been Born Black Fired Over Racist Comments

6/22/2021 - Atlanta Ikea Introduces Juneteenth Menu So Bad That 33 Black Employees Didn't Show Up for Work

6/22/2021 - ‘Can’t Believe It:’ T-Pain Reveals He Was Depressed for Four Years Following Unpleasant Conversation With Usher

6/22/2021 - The Miseducation of Wypipo: 10 Reasons Why America Needs White History Lessons

6/22/2021 - Tucker Carlson Pretends to Care About Racism While Calling Out Don Lemon for His Blackface Cookie Jar

6/22/2021 - Khadeen and Devale Ellis Prove There's an Infinite Well of Strength In Vulnerability

6/22/2021 - A Black TikTok Creator Came Up With the Most Brilliant New Dance—It's a 'Challenge' for Content Colonizers

6/22/2021 - 'Beyonce Can't Sing': Trick Daddy Triggers the Beyhive After Coming for Beyoncé and Jay-Z on Clubhouse

6/22/2021 - Get Out of Jordan Peele's Head: Yes, There's an Upcoming Movie Called Karen and the Trailer Is...Something

6/21/2021 - 'Mansion Guy' Mark McCloskey Ordered by Court to Turn in Gun He Used to Threaten Protesters Last Year

6/21/2021 - Sons of Confederate Veterans File Lawsuit to Have Monument Restored in Predominantly Black Decatur, Ga.

6/21/2021 - Concerns Rise That Delta Variant May Become Predominant Coronavirus Strain in the U.S.

6/21/2021 - Jay-Z Sues Dame Dash for Trying to Auction Off Reasonable Doubt NFT

6/21/2021 - Study Finds That Detroit is the Most Segregated City in the Country

6/21/2021 - The Song That Never Ends: New Report Shows Music Industry Barely Passes Diversity Test, Changes Are 'Surface'

6/21/2021 - Whitehouse, Indeed: Rhode Island Senator Can’t Explain Why He Still Belongs to an All-White Private Beach Club

6/21/2021 - ‘I’m No Longer Making Myself Available to The Bachelor Universe’: Rachel Lindsay Reflects on Her Time as The Bachelorette, Parts Ways With the Franchise

6/21/2021 - Jury Convicts Former St. Louis Police Officer in Beating of Black Undercover Cop

6/21/2021 - Supreme Court Slams the NCAA, Sides With Student-Athletes in Compensation Case

6/21/2021 - Sha’Carri Richardson Is Not to Be Played With: 'I'm That Girl'

6/21/2021 - Will Smith Is Releasing a Memoir, and He Sat at the Red Table to Talk Fatherhood With Kevin Hart

6/21/2021 - QAnon Supporters Big Mad Over Trump’s December Tour With Bill O’Reilly Because It Means He Won’t Be Reinstated as President in August

6/21/2021 - Exclusive: Brittany Packnett Cunningham Presents the Peabody Award for 'Full Disclosure'

6/21/2021 - 11-Year-Old Black Girl Killed After NY State Trooper Rams Family's SUV After Traffic Stop. Father Says Trooper Is to Blame

6/21/2021 - Good Morning to Everyone but Doc Rivers...and Ben Simmons

6/21/2021 - Auntie Maxine to Her Haters: 'Does the Truth Make You That Mad?' She Wants Trump Investigated for Capitol Insurrection

6/21/2021 - Dave Chappelle Covers 'Creep' With the Foo Fighters During Surprise Appearance, Debuts New Documentary at Tribeca Festival

6/21/2021 - I Travel the Globe Preaching Sermons—And I Love It

6/21/2021 - Nina Simone's Granddaughter Actually Loved Chloe Bailey's Performance, But She Did Have Words for Kamala Harris

6/20/2021 - Black WWII Veteran Finally Receives Purple Heart After Initially Being Denied Due to Racism

6/20/2021 - Video Shows Montreal Police Officers Kneeling on the Neck and Back of a Black Teenager

6/20/2021 - Senator Who Once Voted Against Making Juneteenth a National Holiday Gets Booed at Juneteenth Event

6/20/2021 - The Beginning and End of My 11-Year Relationship With My Father

6/19/2021 - Honolulu Councilman Reposts Video of Himself in Blackface on Instagram

6/19/2021 - Here We Go Again: Georgia Purges 100,000 Voters from Registration Files

6/19/2021 - South Dakota Is the Last State That Doesn't Have a Law Officially Recognizing Juneteenth as a Holiday

6/18/2021 - Auntie Unfiltered Has a Fangirl Moment With Stephanie Mills

6/18/2021 - Newark, NJ, Honors George Floyd With 700-Pound Bronze Statue

6/18/2021 - Did You Realize That You Were a Champion In Our Eyes?

6/18/2021 - 'Juneteenth is Soooo Lame': Candace Owens Continues to be the Candace Owensiest of All the Candace Owenses in the Sunken Place

6/18/2021 - Naomi Osaka Pulls Out of Wimbledon to Take 'Personal Time With Friends and Family'

6/18/2021 - Kevin Hart Reimagines the Black Dad in Fatherhood

6/18/2021 - Solo Travel Makes Life Rich

6/18/2021 - Juneteenth Is More Than a Federal Holiday. We Need Reparations Now

6/18/2021 - Things to Read and Watch to Celebrate and Honor Juneteenth

6/18/2021 - Watch: This Father's Day, Very Smart Brothas Is Giving Some Flowers to a Few of Our Favorite Unsung TV Dads!

6/18/2021 - Make Juneteenth Great Again: The Caucasians' Guide to Celebrating Juneteenth

6/17/2021 - Proud Boys Leader Is Too Broke to be Proud, So Now He's Selling Black Lives Matter T-Shirts and...What? No, I'm Not Making This Up

6/17/2021 - The San Jose Sharks Incite the Wrath of Our Ancestors After Celebrating Juneteenth by Abolishing Slavery—With Their Teeth

6/17/2021 - Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Protecting Obamacare

6/17/2021 - Gov. Greg Abbott Makes Texas a ‘2nd Amendment Sanctuary State’ by Legalizing Carry of Handguns Without License or Training

6/17/2021 - President Joe Biden Signs Bill Officially Making Juneteenth a Federal Holiday

6/17/2021 - Fox News and the GOP Are Now Blaming the Capitol Riot on the FBI

6/17/2021 - Commemorate History and Celebrate Juneteenth 2021 With These Events Happening All Across the Country

6/17/2021 - BET Awards 2021: Andra Day, Jazmine Sullivan, Kirk Franklin, Tyler the Creator Among Performers

6/17/2021 - The LGBTQ Freedom Fund Is Doing the Work to Bail Out People In U.S. Jails and Immigration Facilities

6/17/2021 - With Fight the Power, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Chronicles America's History of Social Justice

6/17/2021 - Tucker Carlson Guest: Black People Succeed Less Because They Have Lower IQs Than White People, Not Because of Racism

6/17/2021 - Commemorating Hope: On Juneteenth Author Annette Gordon-Reed Reflects on the Meaning of the Holiday

6/17/2021 - 'I Love the Way Voices Play With Each Other': The Root Presents: It's Lit! Trips Through Rock History With Dawnie Walton and The Final Revival of Opal and Nev

6/17/2021 - Can I Get a 'Soul Clap'?: A Musical Journey In a Cadillac With Pop

6/17/2021 - Nick Cannon and Abby De La Rosa Welcome Twin Boys Zion Mixolydian and Zillion Heir

6/17/2021 - There's Losing, and Then There's the Philadelphia 76ers

6/17/2021 - In Case You Didn't Already Know, Juneteenth Is a Beyoncé and Solange-Endorsed Holiday

6/17/2021 - Adding Another Chapter to the Gorilla Glue Saga, Tessica Brown Launches a Haircare Line

6/17/2021 - Black News Channel Broadcasts Heinous Double Murder on Live Television

6/17/2021 - Rita Moreno Backtracks on 'Dismissive' Comments About Afro-Latinx Representation Onscreen, Says She's 'Disappointed' in Herself

6/16/2021 - A North Carolina Museum Loses County Contract Over Racist-Ass Juneteenth Event

6/16/2021 - Black Female Cashier Fatally Shot in Georgia After Asking Customer to Adjust His Face Mask

6/16/2021 - Regé-Jean Page Talks Bridgerton, Bond and His Backside With Chris Rock, John Boyega and Jonathan Majors

6/16/2021 - South Carolina Coroner Changes Jamal Sutherland's Cause of Death to Homicide

6/16/2021 - Scratches Head in BLM: Congressman Claims Capitol Police ‘Executed’ Ashli Babbitt, the White Woman Who Stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6

6/16/2021 - Gina Torres Wants Us to Know 'This Is Also a Face of Latinidad'

6/16/2021 - A Resurfaced James Baldwin Interview Gives an Intimate Look Into His Life and Prescience on White Fragility

6/16/2021 - Bill Maher Is Just Another White Man Whitesplaining Racism to Black People

6/16/2021 - Exclusive: After Years of Turmoil, Ebony's Newly-Appointed Editor-in-Chief Marielle Bobo Is Ushering in the Brand's Rebirth

6/16/2021 - Black Man Fatally Shot by Honolulu Police After Walking Into Couple's Home. Video Shows He Apologized Before Leaving

6/16/2021 - Texas Governor Signs Law Banning Teachers From Talking About Racism

6/16/2021 - Phoenix Suns' Guard Chris Paul Out Indefinitely Due to NBA's COVID-19 Health and Safety Protocols

6/16/2021 - This Is Rich: Senate Passes Bill Making Juneteenth Federal Holiday While Republicans Are Working to Keep Slavery From Being Taught in Classrooms

6/16/2021 - Welcome To The Cookout (Juneteenth Edition)

6/16/2021 - On Juneteenth: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian Annette Gordon-Reed Explores the Origin of an American Holiday

6/16/2021 - Miles Davis, Brown Liquor and a Night I Didn't Want to End

6/16/2021 - Singer Leona Lewis Turns the Tables on Teigen Accuser Michael Costello, Says 'Bullying Comes in Many Different Forms'

6/16/2021 - Rita Moreno Enters the In the Heights Colorism Chat, Says 'Can’t You Just Wait a While and Leave It Alone?'

6/16/2021 - The Complete List of Marxist, Un-American, Anti-White Things (According to White People)

6/15/2021 - Protests at D.C Gay Bar After Black Woman Is Dragged Down Stairs by Her Hair

6/15/2021 - Nintendo Woke Up and Decided to Put E3 On Its Back

6/15/2021 - Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine Launch LA School Aimed at Providing Inner-City Students With Career-Building Tools

6/15/2021 - 'Glad I Wasn't Born Black. I Would Kill Myself': Michigan Cop Under Investigation Over Racist AF Facebook Posts

6/15/2021 - Hundreds Gather to Protest Sen. Joe Manchin for Being Sen. Joe Manchin

6/15/2021 - Kevin Hart Comes Down on Cancel Culture, Says 'I Can’t Be the Comic Today That I Was When I Got Into This'

6/15/2021 - Five Georgia Cops Fired After Man Dies While in Custody at Police Headquarters

6/15/2021 - NC Rep. Madison Cawthorn Hires Friend as Lead Staffer, Who Makes $127,000, Despite Having No Work Experience

6/15/2021 - Whose World Is This? The (Black Design) World Is Theirs

6/15/2021 - Exclusive: The Smithsonian Channel Recruits Storytellers to Explore the Meaning of Juneteenth

6/15/2021 - Summer of Milestone: Writer Vita Ayala and Artist Nikolas Draper-Ivey on Turning Static: Season One Into a Certified Banger

6/15/2021 - Sigh, I Guess We Must Talk About Hunter Biden Using the N-Word

6/15/2021 - New Bullying Accusations Hit Chrissy Teigen as Designer Michael Costello Accuses Her of Career Sabotage; John Legend Shows Support

6/15/2021 - Bonding Over Jazz and Kintsugi With My Father

6/15/2021 - A Black Man Was Shot by Georgia Cops Serving Drug Warrant. Attorneys Say Details Mirror Breonna Taylor Case

6/15/2021 - 'I'm Listening': Lin-Manuel Miranda Releases Statement Amid In the Heights Colorism Controversy

6/14/2021 - Black Ross Employee Remains Calm While KK-Karen Calls Her a 'Black Bitch'

6/14/2021 - Simone Biles Reveals the Inspiring Words That Unlocked Her Potential in Latest Trailer for Simone vs. Herself

6/14/2021 - 10 Books Celebrating the Rich History of Black Cuisine to Honor Juneteenth

6/14/2021 - America, Bernie Mac Is Getting a Biopic. But Who Should Play Him?

6/14/2021 - Redfall Steals the Spotlight During an Otherwise Meh E3

6/14/2021 - ‘I Was a Troll, Full Stop. And I Am Sorry’: Chrissy Teigen Issues Lengthy Apology Following Bullying Scandal

6/14/2021 - They're All Gonna Laugh At You

6/14/2021 - Maryland Officers Caught on Video Tasing and Kneeing Black Teens While Enforcing Anti-Vape Laws on the Boardwalk

6/14/2021 - Minneapolis Woman Dead After Car Drives Into a Crowd of People Protesting Against Police Violence

6/14/2021 - Drake Says Certified Lover Boy Album Is Coming Before the End of Summer. We’ll See About That

6/14/2021 - Newsmax 'Reviewing' Host's Racist Tweets About How White People Being in the Military 'Made a Big Difference With Morale'

6/14/2021 - Lying Ass Liar Kayleigh McEnany Says She ‘Never Lied,’ and That May Be the Biggest Lie of All

6/14/2021 - The Phoenix Suns Are Breaking Generational Basketball Curses In Real Time

6/14/2021 - Ted Cruz Continues Courting Trump, Files Lawsuit for His Boo to Reclaim Millions He Gave to Campaign

6/14/2021 - 5 American Cities That Thrive on Black Culture

6/13/2021 - Thousands of Teachers Protest Laws that Dictate What They Can Teach About Race in Class

6/13/2021 - The Grave of a Former Slave Turned Florida State Senator May Be Buried Under What's Now A Tampa Parking Lot

6/13/2021 - Students Help the School From Remember the Titans Forget Its Racist Namesake

6/12/2021 - $4 Billion in Federal Relief for Black Farmers on Hold After White Farmers Cry Discrimination

6/12/2021 - Two White Families Got Riled Up After Two Black Students Beat Their Kids for School Honors in Mississippi

6/12/2021 - NC Plantation Cancels Juneteenth Event Where 'Massa' Would Have Waxed Poetic About the Confederacy

6/11/2021 - Derek Chauvin Attorney Seeks to 'Impeach the Verdict' in Ex-Cop's Murder Conviction, Citing Jury Bias

6/11/2021 - In Honor of Black Music Month, Cari Champion Treats Us to A Life in Tracks

6/11/2021 - School Board in Georgia's Cobb County Bans Critical Race Theory

6/11/2021 - Beyoncé's Internet Made Me Listen to Destiny's Child's 'Cater 2 U' for the First Time in Like 15 Years. I Have Thoughts

6/11/2021 - Louisville Metro Police Department Set to Fire Officer Who Struck Kneeling Protester With a Baton

6/11/2021 - How We Do: What to Gift Your 'I Do' Crew

6/11/2021 - Why Everyone Is Wrong About Critical Race Theory In Schools: A Very Special Clapback Mailbag

6/11/2021 - Black Creativity Abounds in These Latest Project Announcements From Issa Rae, Kenya Barris, John Legend and Sanaa Lathan

6/11/2021 - 2021 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced; Darnella Frazier Receives Special Citation [Updated]

6/11/2021 - Auntie Unfiltered Discusses the 'Panic After the Panny'

6/11/2021 - Chiney Ogwumike Takes One Step Closer to Broadcast Superstardom With Chiney

6/11/2021 - Megan Thee Stallion, Doja Cat, Nicki Minaj and SZA Are All Coming in Hot, Just in Time for Hot Girl Summer

6/11/2021 - White House Finally Moving Forward With Investigations Into Civil Rights Cold Cases Related to Unsolved Murders of Black People

6/11/2021 - How We Do: Haki and Safisha's Legacy of Black Love

6/11/2021 - Cincinnati Racist Accused of Calling Black Uber Driver Racial Slur and Vandalizing His Car Over Malfunctioning GPS

6/11/2021 - What's Beef? Quavo, Kendrick Perkins Squash Their Social Media Feud

6/11/2021 - Girls Inc. Launches Inaugural Film Festival in Partnership With Marsai Martin; Amber Ruffin Set to Host

6/11/2021 - Hey Y'all, We Need to Stop Sleeping on Sea of Thieves

6/10/2021 - It's E3 This Weekend! So Let's Talk About Everything That's Not Going to Happen

6/10/2021 - Police Officers in Ohio Charged With Dereliction of Duty for Actions During George Floyd Protests Last Year

6/10/2021 - KK-Karen Vandalizes Statue of Only Black Person to Travel With Lewis and Clark

6/10/2021 - Michigan State Rep. Cynthia Johnson Continues to Receive Racist, Sexist Death Threats

6/10/2021 - Dove and the CROWN Coalition’s Latest Collaboration Is a Love Letter to Black Hair, Black Beauty and Nina Simone

6/10/2021 - The Queen of Basketball Gives Lusia Harris Her Long-Overdue Flowers

6/10/2021 - Sasha Obama Is 20 Today, and I'm Not Old, You're Old

6/10/2021 - Ronald Greene's Death Prompts Internal Investigation Into Louisiana State Police Unit's Handlings of Black Motorists

6/10/2021 - White People Are Crazy!

6/10/2021 - 'I Grew a Sense of Wonder': The Root Presents: It's Lit! Mines the Miracle of A Little Devil in America With Hanif Abdurraqib

6/10/2021 - New Number, Who Dis?

6/10/2021 - How We Do: Scott & Tara's Work-Life-Love Balance

6/10/2021 - Black Joy and Plants: A Guide to Growing Into a Plant Parent

6/10/2021 - Ready to Shake Your 'Tambourine' and 'Get Fresh Azimiz?' If So, These Next Verzuz Battles Are for You

6/10/2021 - Eager to Exorcise His Playoff Demons of the Past, Chris Paul's Time Is Now

6/10/2021 - Don't Worry White People, Democracy Ain't Going Nowhere

6/10/2021 - Exclusive: Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis Team Up With Mariah Carey for Brand New Single, 'Somewhat Loved (There You Go Breakin’ My Heart)'

6/10/2021 - Author Brandon Easton Talks How Blackness and a Chance Cosplay Experience Shaped Mister Miracle: The Source of Freedom

6/9/2021 - Tyler Perry Says Madea's Coming Back Because 'We Need to Laugh'

6/9/2021 - PageTurners: Loving, Losing and Learning in Literature

6/9/2021 - Rhode Island Woman Convicted on Disorderly Conduct Charge for Harassing Black Family at Restaurant

6/9/2021 - Black Michigan Boy Shot in Arm After Retrieving Bike From Neighbor's Yard. Neighbor Arrested and Released 3 Days Later

6/9/2021 - How We Do: Naomi and Rashid's Fated—but Never Faded—Love

6/9/2021 - Architect of 'Trickle Down' Economics Says Disenfranchised Minorities 'Aren't Worth $15 an Hour in Most Cases'

6/9/2021 - A Student Headed to Harvard Wants Her $40K Scholarship to Go to Others in Need

6/9/2021 - Tituss Burgess, Lil’ Jon Tapped as Guest Hosts for New Season of Bachelor in Paradise

6/9/2021 - The Circle's Courtney Revolution Discusses Living Out Loud on Shifting Her Experience

6/9/2021 - Let's Talk About In the Heights and the Erasure of Dark-Skinned Afro-Latinx Folks

6/9/2021 - Democratic Rep. Val Demings Announces She’s Running Against Marco Rubio for Florida’s Senate Seat

6/9/2021 - Jada, Willow and Gammy Steamed Their Vaginas on Red Table Talk, and Now We Need a Yoni Intervention

6/9/2021 - Vanessa Williams Reflects on How She Worked Through Miss America Backlash: ‘I Think Was I Really Centered in Knowing...Who I Am’

6/9/2021 - It's Feeling Like a Cool Dad Kind of Father's Day This Year: Very Smart Brothas Has You Covered With Gift Ideas

6/9/2021 - How We Do: M Shelly and Tiffany's Home-steady Love

6/9/2021 - Baltimore Ravens Owner Donates $4 Million to HBCUs in Honor of Ex-GM Ozzie Newsome

6/9/2021 - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Signs ‘1836 Project’ Bill Promoting Texas History. Critics Fear it Will Whitewash Slavery...Because Duh

6/9/2021 - When Tweets Come Home to Roost: UK Columnist Fired for Post Correlating Meghan and Harry's Baby and George Floyd

6/9/2021 - Kevin Durant Calls Jay Williams a Lying-Ass Liar Whose Pants May or May Not Be on Fire: 'Keep Me Out All That Corny Talk'

6/9/2021 - T.I. Mocks Sexual Assault Allegations in New Song and Music Video; Announces Final Album

6/9/2021 - 5 Historic Black Landmarks for Your Must-See List

6/9/2021 - Are You a Racist Senator? A Quiz

6/8/2021 - Charlottesville City Council Votes to Finally Remove 2 Confederate Statues From Local Parks

6/8/2021 - It's Pride Month, So Let's Celebrate With Some of the Best Comics Centered on LGBTQ Characters

6/8/2021 - Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Becomes 2nd Fastest Woman of All-Time After Running Fastest 100m Since Florence Griffith Joyner

6/8/2021 - Chris Harrison Makes Bachelor-Verse Exit Official After Race-Related Controversy, Exchanging the Final Rose for a Major Payday

6/8/2021 - The Funk Boutique: Powerful Pairs and Poses

6/8/2021 - Ava Duvernay’s ARRAY Receives Prestigious Peabody Institutional Award

6/8/2021 - Charles Barkley Calls a Thing a Thing: Teams 'Part Ways' With White Coaches But 'Fire Brothers'

6/8/2021 - Big Beauty Tuesday: Here Comes the Groom With Mr. Baldwin Style

6/8/2021 - Lester Holt Tried It, Presses Vice President Kamala Harris on Why She Hasn’t Visited the Border

6/8/2021 - How We Do: Get on the (Gift) Request Line

6/8/2021 - A Cicada Got Into My House and Tried to Eat My Family

6/8/2021 - Pharrell Williams to Open New Network of Private Schools for Low-Income Families in Virginia

6/8/2021 - Teyana Taylor Becomes First Black Woman to Be Named Maxim’s ‘Sexiest Woman Alive’

6/8/2021 - Civil Rights Leaders Meet With Sen. Joe Manchin In Hopes That He’ll Be Less Racist

6/8/2021 - No Harden, No Problem; Brooklyn Nets Take 2-0 Series Lead After 39-Point Drubbing

6/8/2021 - Yeezy's Takeover of Gap Begins With a Tease of Its First Design

6/7/2021 - Fox News Blocks the Blue, Refuses to Air Ad Featuring Police Officers Condemning Capitol Riot

6/7/2021 - Like a Boss, Tiffany Haddish Is Reportedly Fielding Multimillion-Dollar Offers for Her Next Memoir

6/7/2021 - Issa Rae Will Wear the Mask in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Sequel, Has Been Cast as Spider-Woman

6/7/2021 - Buckhead Community Begins Production on White Flight 2: Electric Boogaloo, Moves to Become Independent from Atlanta

6/7/2021 - Ellie Kemper Responds to Backlash Over Debutante Past in Historically Racist Ball: 'I Unequivocally Deplore, Denounce, and Reject White Supremacy' [Updated]

6/7/2021 - Mic Drop: The Opposite of Summertime Sadness

6/7/2021 - Megan Thee Stallion Makes Her Return to Social Media, Announces New Single Dropping This Friday

6/7/2021 - West Virginia Turncoat Joe Manchin Continues to Blow Up Biden's Agenda from the Inside

6/7/2021 - Misery Loves Company. Unfortunately for the Los Angeles Lakers, It Just Won't Be the Clippers Joining Them—Yet

6/7/2021 - Tessica Brown Debuts Healthy Head of Hair Months After Infamous ‘Gorilla Glue’ Hairdo

6/7/2021 - Simone Biles Is Running Out of Records to Break After Winning 7th Consecutive National Women's All-Around Title

6/7/2021 - Donald Trump May Have Worn His Pants Backwards to Accentuate His FUPA

6/7/2021 - How We Do: Panama and Simona's Very Smart Marriage

6/7/2021 - Mod Squad Actor Clarence Williams III Dies at 81

6/7/2021 - Floyd Mayweather Wins the Degenerate Bowl In Unspectacular Fashion

6/7/2021 - 4 National Parks That Reflect Our History and Culture

6/6/2021 - Sex-Trafficking Victim Chrystul Kizer Allowed to Use 'Affirmative Defense' in Trial for Killing Alleged Abuser

6/6/2021 - Nevada Passes Law Banning Racist School Mascots and *Checks Notes* 'Sundown Town' Sirens...in 2021

6/6/2021 - She's Arrived! Meghan and Harry Welcome Daughter Lilibet Diana

6/6/2021 - US Marshals Fatally Shoot Black Man in Minneapolis. Investigators Say There is No Video Evidence of What Led to the Shooting

6/5/2021 - Black Woman Accosted by Crazy and Racist White Man Who Damaged her Sacramento Business Trying to Force His Way In

6/5/2021 - 'It’s Never Too Late': Meet Attorney-turned-actor Medina Senghore Who Is Kicking Butt on Screen

6/5/2021 - Ohio High School Football Coaches Fired After Being Accused of Forcing Hebrew Israelite Student-Athlete to Eat Pork

6/5/2021 - Top UNC-Chapel Hill Candidate Turns Down Job Because the University Chose White Supremacy Over Nikole Hannah-Jones

6/4/2021 - Former Cop Who Issued Warrant in Breonna Taylor Raid Is Trying to Get His Job Back

6/4/2021 - Apple Music to Release Juneteenth 2021 Freedom Songs, Featuring New Songs and Covers

6/4/2021 - I'm Here for 'The Bando,' a Trap-Experience Restaurant in Atlanta Where You Can Get 'Crack Wings' (Along With Various Other Food Items, of Course)

6/4/2021 - Claressa Shields Gives Serena Williams Her Flowers: 'When I First Saw Her, That’s Who I Wanted to Be Like'

6/4/2021 - A County in North Carolina Cancels Coke Machines Because CEO Believes People Should Be Able to Easily Vote

6/4/2021 - White Lives...'Mater?': Racist Targets Michigan Houses Displaying BLM Signs for Vandalism. Also, Racists Can't Spell

6/4/2021 - Auntie Unfiltered, Bevy Smith, and the Joys of Finding Yourself After 40

6/4/2021 - Doing Gov. Brian Kemp's Bidding, Georgia Board Passes White Fragility Resolution Denouncing CRT, Declaring Slavery a 'Deviation' From Founding Principles

6/4/2021 - Mark Your Calendars for June 6 Because The Kings Cometh

6/4/2021 - 'I Want to Make Readers Think Twice': The Root Presents It's Lit! Does a Double Take With Zakiya Dalila Harris and The Other Black Girl

6/4/2021 - How We Do: Malcolm and Matt's Instagram-to-Engagement Story

6/4/2021 - Spokane, Wash. Middle School Gives Class Cotton Picking Assignment. Black Kids in the Class Are Like, 'Uh...No.'

6/4/2021 - I Love This Game!

6/4/2021 - Blue Ivy, Who's Never Seen a Ceiling in Her Whole Life, Wasn't Really Impressed With Jay-Z's Hall of Fame Induction

6/4/2021 - Good-Ass Games: Knockout City Packs a Lot of Punch in a Small Package

6/3/2021 - Tiffany Haddish to Portray Olympic Gold-Winner Florence Griffith Joyner in Upcoming Biopic

6/3/2021 - District Attorney in Pennsylvania Responds to Accusations of Systemic Racism by, uh, Being Systematically Racist

6/3/2021 - PSA: Y'all, This is Probably the Best Time Ever To Be a Blerd

6/3/2021 - Dr. Fauci, Please Come Get This Beverly Hills Housewife Who Said Being Called Racist Is a 'Virus Worse Than COVID'

6/3/2021 - Ohio Memorial Day Organizers Cut Veteran's Mic When He Began Talking About Freed Slaves Being First to Commemorate the Holiday

6/3/2021 - Calm App Rides for Naomi Osaka, Offers to Pay Fines for Players Declining Media Interviews: 'Mental Health Is Health'

6/3/2021 - Derek Chauvin Wants Probation for Murder. First I Was Like, 'What America Does He Live In?' Then I Was Like, 'Oh Yeah'

6/3/2021 - High on the Hog Is the Most Satisfying Meal on TV. Let's Dig In, Shall We?

6/3/2021 - The Trump Administration Secretly Seized the Phone Records of 4 New York Times Reporters

6/3/2021 - Not-So-Empowering: This Hollywood Pole Dance Studio Reportedly Caused 'Direct Harm' to BIPOC Women

6/3/2021 - Still Shining Stars: Earth, Wind & Fire Talk Musical Legacy and Share the Stories Behind Their Most Iconic Songs

6/3/2021 - Vanessa Bryant Comes for Nike After Mambacita Sneakers Leak Without Her Permission: 'I Hope These Shoes Did Not Get Sold'

6/3/2021 - How We Do: Dawnie and Anthony's Love Story Is Better Than Fiction

6/3/2021 - Karen Brigade Harasses Black Women Kissing at the Pool. Hilarity Ensues as They Get Thrown TF Out

6/3/2021 - Barack and Michelle Obama Are Bringing a ‘Civics Remix’ in New Kids Series for Netflix

6/3/2021 - After Being Banned on Twitter, Trump Started a Blog. It Lasted Less Than a Month

6/3/2021 - Respect the Villain

6/3/2021 - Antoine Fuqua to Direct Series Highlighting Hypocrisy of Enslaved People Owner George Washington

6/2/2021 - Marjorie Taylor Greene Tweets ‘Babies Are Not Born Racist.’ Now I’m Wondering When TF Her Racism Was Taught

6/2/2021 - A New York Gallery Dedicated to the Tulsa Race Massacre Has Been Vandalized

6/2/2021 - Surprising No One Black, Resurfaced Documents Confirm 'Coloured Immigrants or Foreigners' Were Once Banned From Clerical Roles in Buckingham Palace

6/2/2021 - 18-Year-Old Gives Inspiring Speech After Becoming 1st Black Male Valedictorian at California High School

6/2/2021 - 'We Have Given More Than Has Ever Been Given to Us': California's 1st-in-the-Nation Slavery Reparations Task Force Meets

6/2/2021 - PageTurners: Let's Go!! A Plethora of Summer Reads to Add to Your #TBR

6/2/2021 - TKO Now Means Thirst Knockout Because Jonathan Majors May Co-Star in Creed III Opposite Michael B. Jordan

6/2/2021 - Top UNC Journalism Donor Outed as Being Against the University Hiring Nikole Hannah-Jones Over 1619 Project

6/2/2021 - Judge Rules Derek Chauvin Is a Broke Bitch, Unable to Hire an Attorney in Federal Civil Rights Case

6/2/2021 - Amid the Naomi Osaka Saga, Venus Williams Won't Let the Media Steal Her Joy: 'You’ll Never Light a Candle to Me'

6/2/2021 - Sorry, Portland, But Y'all Don't Deserve Dame Lillard

6/2/2021 - How We Do: Laini and Reese's Pandemic Love TKO

6/2/2021 - Roll Bounce: DWade and Gabrielle Union Celebrate Zaya Wade’s 14th Birthday With Retro Roller Skating Party

6/2/2021 - Illinois Set to Become First State to Bar Police Officers From Lying to Minors to Coerce Confessions

6/2/2021 - Ulta Is the Latest Retailer to Join the Fifteen Percent Pledge, Promising a Bigger Assortment of Black-Owned Brands

6/2/2021 - President Biden, Much Like America, Is Waiting for the Black Woman to Fix It

6/2/2021 - RHONY’s 1st Black Housewife Eboni K. Williams Calls Out Castmembers’ ‘White Fragility’ During Group Argument

6/1/2021 - Wilberforce University Cancels Student Debt for Graduating Class

6/1/2021 - Virginia Seminary Built on Free Black Labor to Pay Reparations to Descendants of Workers

6/1/2021 - Students Build Websites to Commemorate Black Wall Street Businesses That Were Destroyed During the Tulsa Race Massacre

6/1/2021 - Rapper DaBaby Interviewed by Miami Police Over Alleged Involvement in Memorial Day Shooting [Updated]

6/1/2021 - Let's Electric Slide Down This Newly Announced List of Performances at Essence Fest 2021

6/1/2021 - Let the Fashionable Black Pride Collaborations Begin

6/1/2021 - Let’s Get It Crunk! Mary J. Blige’s My Life Documentary to Debut This Month on Amazon Prime

6/1/2021 - Only a Florida-Sized Asshole Would Sign a Transgender Sports Ban on the First Day of LGBTQ Pride Month

6/1/2021 - Hollywood Reporter Takes Us Behind the Screen of Barry Jenkins' Underground Railroad

6/1/2021 - We Outside! This Summer, We Have the Chance to Experience Club Quarantine in Person With D-Nice

6/1/2021 - Delusional Former President Is Telling People He Will Be ‘Reinstated’ as President by August, New York Times Journalist Reports

6/1/2021 - Serena Williams, Steph Curry Among Athletes Who Lend Support After Naomi Osaka Withdraws From French Open

6/1/2021 - Memoirs of an Imperfect Sibling: Mariah Carey Says Inspiration, Not Defamation Was the Goal of Her Book

6/1/2021 - Why Andrea Pitter Has Us Saying Yes to Pantora Bridal's Dresses

6/1/2021 - On the 100th Anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dr. Tiffany Crutcher Reflects on the City's Journey to Justice

6/1/2021 - Biden Plans to Address Racist Stuff by Saying Things at Tulsa Ceremony

6/1/2021 - Ellie Kemper, Who Appeared on TV Show That Actually Starred Tituss Burgess, Outed as Former 'KKK Princess' on Twitter

6/1/2021 - Journalist Tricks Republicans Into Tweeting Photo of JFK’s Killer on Memorial Day, and Candace Owens Proves She’s the ‘I’ in Idiot