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Colorado club shooter Anderson Lee Aldrich has been slapped with more than 300 charges in the mass shooting last month which claimed the lives of five people, according to CNN. Aldrich, who uses they/them pronouns, faces life in prison without possibility of parole if convicted on the charges.

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There are likely a lot of sweaty palms down in Mar-A-Lago today. The chair of the House Committee investigating the January 6th insurrection announced that they will be making criminal referrals to the Justice Department as they wrap up their probe.Read more...

Well, that didn’t last that long. On Monday, nearly a month and a half after Tory Lanez was ordered to house arrest by a Los Angeles judge, he was released, according to Rolling Stone.Read more...

Let’s be real, the commentary around a scandal is often more entertaining than the scandal itself. Here, we have an alleged affair between Good Morning America hosts Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes, both of whom are married to other people. Though, after the leaked pictures of their meet-cutes were exposed, one Twitter…Read more...

It’s no secret that when it comes to the wine game, most of the players are white men. But twin sisters Nichelle and Nicole Nichols are on a mission to change that and bring a lot more Black folks with them. If the name sounds familiar, actress Nichelle Nichols, who played Nyota Uhura on Star Trek is their aunt.Read more...

Today is the last day for voting in the Georgia run-off election between Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker. The most shocking outcome fr0m the 2022 midterms left the Georgia Senate seat up for grabs, since neither candidate managed to reach the 50% threshold to secure it.Read more...

On Monday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case about a web designer who wanted to be legally allowed to not work on same-sex weddings. Her reasoning? It goes against her values as a conservative evangelical Christian. And somehow during the session, Justice Alito couldn’t help from making a joke about the Ku…Read more...

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In Kenya Barris’ upcoming directorial debut, You People, Eddie Murphy and Nia Long star as protective parents to their daughter Lauren London who is engaged to be married to Jonah Hill.

Let’s be real, the commentary around a scandal is often more entertaining than the scandal itself. Here, we have an alleged affair between Good Morning America hosts Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes, both of whom are married to other people. Though, after the leaked pictures of their meet-cutes were exposed, one Twitter…Read more...

Shannon Sharpe is not known for keeping his hot takes to himself. And while most people would have read the room and kept their HBCU opinions to themselves this week, the Undisputed host went full steam ahead.Read more...

Art Basel 2022 has just about wrapped down in Miami Beach, but that doesn’t mean I’m over all the Blackity-black goodness that I witnessed while I was down there last week.Read more...

If there’s a fault that Deion Sanders should own as he leaves Jackson State University for the University of Colorado—and one that’s earned him the most smoke from his critics—it’s that he was always an HBCU short-timer who held himself out instead as a savior, or at minimum a zealot for the institutions, their…Read more...

Former Texas police officer Aaron Dean is headed into his murder trial for the fatal shooting of Atatiana Jefferson in 2019, per The Associated Press. Dean’s attorney argued that he saw Jefferson pointing a gun at him from inside her home. However, Jefferson’s nephew, the last person who saw her alive, may have …Read more...

You know we couldn’t completely say goodbye to this weekend without giving some well-deserved congrats to Keke Palmer. Yes, we’re very happy for her as she celebrates her pregnancy, but we also want to highlight how amazing she was in her Saturday Night Live hosting debut.

The state of Georgia has 10 historically Black colleges. Seven of those schools are private, meaning they don’t get the majority of their funding from state government and they aren’t under the supervision of the University of Georgia system.Read more...

While fans of Rihanna and A$AP Rocky are extremely excited about the couple’s baby boy coming into the world, we’re still awaiting the news on what they will ultimately name him.Read more...

Rapper Boosie Badazz is emerging from the depths of wherever the hell he’s been in to respond to a year-old interview between actress Gabrielle Union and Jemele Hill.Read more...

The holiday movie schedule is longer than Santa’s naughty or nice list. Just when you think you’ve seen them all, a whole crop of new films is announced. Plus, as the genre becomes increasingly popular, there are always new networks jumping into the Christmas movie game. To help you power through the last leg of the…Read more...

Kanye West with a jump shot, better known as Kyrie Irving, has officially been dropped by Nike nearly a month after he was suspended from the popular sports apparel company, according to The Athletic.Read more...

An elderly woman is suing a Denver police detective after he ordered a SWAT team to raid her home, per NBC News. The detective obtained the warrant by using the iPhone’s Find My feature, which falsely identified the woman’s home as the location of stolen firearms and a stolen iPhone.

The only thing more exciting than a baby announcement is a celebrity baby announcement. It’s always fun to share in the news of our favorite A-listers growing their families, especially when it comes as a complete surprise.

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Trump is yet again running around his mouth about things that will only benefit his corrupt agenda. This time, he’s commenting on the Constitution. The remarks were courtesy of his “Truth Social” media platform that were posted on Saturday.Read more...

Updated on 12/5/22 at 11:58 a.m: Daniel de la Rosa Anaya—the attorney general for Mexico’s Baja California Sur where Shanquella Robinson died—confirmed to media outlets that Robinson’s death will be investigated as a femicide. Femicide is a kind of gender-based violence that is recognized as a hate crime globally. …Read more...

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The long-awaited new film from Will Smith, Emancipation, is finally out in theaters. And while his commentary about the film expectedly made headlines—given his months-long hiatus post-Oscars Slap—it’s the actions of the film’s producers that’s drawing ire from folks online. I’ll explain.Read more...

It came as no surprise to any of us at The Root when former First Lady Michelle Obama decisively took the top spot on this year’s Root 100 list. Between the triumphant release of her second book, The Light We Carry, and her proactive efforts before the midterm elections to persuade all of us to exercise our right to…Read more...

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Loni “I Stay With A Check” Love is excited to be the host of this year’s The Root 100 gala, taking place on Thursday, December 8th at the Apollo Theater. As always, the beloved host, comedian, author and actress has had another booked and busy year. From ending an epic run as co-host of Emmy-winning talk show The Real…Read more...

Though the Soul Train Awards may have aired a week ago, the 2022 Lady of Soul award-winning group Xscape still can’t seem to get past their issues. Recently, three members of the foursome, Tameka “Tiny” Harris, Kandi Burress, and Tameka Scott addressed some of the drama they’ve been dealing with during a radio…Read more...

While doing press for her latest Savage X Fenty fashion show, Rihanna was asked about her and partner A$AP Rocky’s plans to share their son’s name with the world. The Fenty-made billionaire recently spoke out about how fans shouldn’t ever expect to know any more about the child than they already do.Read more...

We’re breaking out the bottles of bubbly in honor of America’s zennial sweetheart Keke Palmer! As reported early Sunday morning, the actor and producer confirmed her pregnancy during her opening SNL monologue. And while we’re over the moon for the mother-to-be, we couldn’t help but think, didn’t she try to fake us out…Read more...

Those of you who’ve been hotly anticipating the new ride dedicated to Disney’s first Black princess won’t have much longer to wait. Ever since the new attraction was announced in 2020, Imagineers have been hard at work designing an immersive experience inspired by both the Walt Disney Animation Studios film, “The…Read more...

Adrianna Kiri Taylor, 23, was reported missing Nov. 13. On Thanksgiving Day, she was found dead in the backyard of a home in Wilkinsburg, Pa., according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Though a warrant has been filed in connection to her death, her case poses a question many families ask when their loved ones go…Read more...

T’is the time of the month when we reconsider how much we’re paying for TV content. If you want to get the best bang for your Black dollar with streaming services that highlight, empower, and amplify Black voices and media, keep scrolling. We about to lay it out for you...

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Suddenly all of the fit-and-flare fashion lewks we’ve seen as of late on our 2022 Root 100 honoree finally make sense.Read more...

It looks like the Drake fan base in Harlem will have to wait just a while longer to see his highly-anticipated Apollo Theater performance. According to The News International, the rapper has postponed the concert for a second time.

Now you know we do not care what the paperwork says: the Friday movie franchise belongs to Ice Cube. And this week, the man himself shared that he’s been trying to get that point across to the powers that be for years. During a recent appearance on Mike Tyson’s podcast “Hotboxin’,” Cube calls out the Warner Bros.…Read more...

As the internet chatter continues to grow louder around the GMA love affair between co-hosts T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach, an old Facebook post from Holmes has resurfaced, only adding more kindle to the dumpster fire. As if T.J.’s estranged wife, Marilee Fiebig Holmes, couldn’t be any more publicly embarrassed, leave it…Read more...

In part two of our series, we explore Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s treatment of Tracy McCarter, a Black domestic abuse survivor, who was charged with killing her white husband.Read more...

When the weather outside is frightful, it gets harder and harder to get me outside. So I have even more time to hibernate in my apartment with a good book. And this December, we found lots of titles that will be great reads or great gifts during the holiday season.Read more...

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Are we about to see what large-scale, monetary reparations looks like in real time?

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The day is finally here. Friday, Dec. 2, 2022, is the final day of Angela Yee’s stint with the most notorious morning show on radio, The Breakfast Club.Read more...