Happy Clapback Day! Yes, we’re making it a day of the week. The name “Friday” wasn’t imaginative enough. Plus, it…
It’s clapback Friday, and you know what that means: Time for me to sit down and write another introduction for the…

I’m sorry. First, I would like to apologize to the readers who trusted me to bring them the latest and best…
I’m sorry, y’all, but this week we’re featuring only one piece of email. It’s not that we didn’t receive a lot of…
It’s Friday, you ain’t got no job (the U.S. lost 33,000 jobs this month, according to the new unemployment numbers),…
Some debate has emerged about The Root’s Clapback Mailbag that should be settled by the readers. Since this is for…
Welcome to the last Clapback Mailbag. We have thoroughly enjoyed sharing our reader correspondence with you, but…
Welcome back to our weekly interactive look into The Root’s mailbag. Instead of our usual Friday hodgepodge of…
This is a terrible time for our country. Our president has the IQ of a third-place Wheel of Fortune contestant.…
Once again, it’s Friday, which means it is time to sort through The Root’s mailbag and soak in our readers’…
Every day, the staff at The Root receives emails, DMs and tweets about the content. While 83.2 percent of them…