Jemele Hill, senior correspondent and columnist for ESPN’s The Undefeated, has been selected as the 2018 Journalist…
Here at The Root, we talk a lot about things like white privilege, whitesplaining, white fragility, etc. Some of the…
The White House wants desperately to craft this ideology that violent brown criminals are “animals.” Administration…
Colin Kaepernick filed a grievance claiming that NFL owners colluded to keep him out of the NFL. Team owners and…
Now playing
If you have ever wondered what would happen if Tomi Lahren had a baby with Thanos, a Nevada man may have found the…
LeBron James is not here for the “Make America great again” fuckboy-ness that has epitomized white nationalism.
A man who was previously arrested by a cop is now alleging that the same cop has continued to harass him. But this…
Finally some good news, dammit!
Whenever President Donald Trump starts tweeting wildly and furiously, it usually means he’s bothered about the…
Inviting any person of color to party like it’s any time before the 1980s (I’m being super-generous here) is less of…
A Georgia woman was furious after another woman not only insulted her $85 wig but also snatched it off her head and…
Now playing
Donald Trump’s America continues to be grimy as usual, especially to those perceived to be immigrants, and this…
Love Spike Lee to death, but we wouldn’t be throwing that much shade if we said that sometimes the big homie’s films…
Given the recent spike in awareness around implicit bias, and the dubious social media stardom for those who choose…
Samaria Rice, mother of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old who was gunned down on a playground by an erratic “officer of…
A man driving through Winfield, Kan., went live on Facebook during a traffic stop last Sunday after cops told him he…
More than a year ago, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals violated…
In a most tragic incident coincidentally occurring during Mental Health Awareness Month, a former African-American…
New York state troopers arrested two people after a woman and her son reported that a group yelled racial slurs and…
Despite the seemingly overwhelming evidence that the 2017 mass murder on the Las Vegas Strip may have been motivated…