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Hulu has announced that it will be releasing the original documentary, “Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told,” for audiences to relive the memories of the legendary spring break event.Read more...

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In the early hours of the morning on Tuesday, Cash App founder Bob Lee was stabbed to death in the wealthy Rincon Hill neighborhood of San Francisco. Lee was taken to the hospital, where he died, leaving behind his two children.Read more...

New York State Police issued a statewide endangered adult alert after reports of a woman being kidnapped at gunpoint. The suspect’s vehicle was tracked down I-95 south crossing into Virginia when police engaged in a speed chase which ended in a shootout, according to WUSA 9 News. The victim was found dead with a…Read more...

Kanye West may have been lying low as of late but it looks like that tide is about to change thanks to a new wrongful termination suit filed on Thursday against him and three directors of his controversial Southern California private Christian school, Donda Academy.

In September, “Gangster’s Paradise” rapper Coolio was tragically found dead at a friend’s house in Los Angeles. Now, his cause of his death has been revealed. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, Coolio died of an accidental overdose of heroin, fentanyl and methamphetamine on September 28.Read more...

Sadly, I am not in London at Star Wars Celebration, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have news on all the cool announcements and premieres happening at the convention. Day One started with a bang, as we got the first trailer for the new Disney+ series Ahsoka, starring Rosario Dawson.

The war against transgender youth in the United States has taken another disturbing turn. On Friday, Republican legislators in Kansas approved a plan to end gender-affirming care for transgender youth. The move comes amid a year of unprecedented legislative attacks on trans youth.Read more...

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You’d think that as one of the most successful acts in music, TLC would have their pick of magazine covers. However, Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas is revealing the truth about how the group was treated during its heyday. On Tuesday, while accepting the Legacy Award at Variety’s Power of Women event, the “Waterfalls” artist…Read more...

In a scathing new report published Wednesday (April 5) by Variety, CNN host Don Lemon faces disturbing accusations regarding how he has treated his women colleagues. Lemon came under fire in February when he said that Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley wasn’t “in her prime” after she announced a bid for the…Read more...

Crosley Green, now 65, spent 32 years in prison claiming he was wrongfully convicted in the murder of a man back in 1989. After winning an appeal and spending two years home, he’s now facing prison time again, according to Florida Today.

The Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District is investigating a middle school teacher accused of forcing the lone Black student in class to take on the role of slaves in her History lesson, per Click2Houston. Apparently, this teacher was caught up in a previous problematic incident.

Singer and actor Marques Houston may have been a tertiary character on the popular 90's show Sister, Sister, but this week, he’s become the main character on social media thanks to a viral new interview where he discusses the nearly 20-year age gap in his marriage.Read more...

Weeks ago, I attempted to convince readers that Cam Newton deserved another shot in the NFL. Not as a starter, but as a backup.Read more...

Racism in sports is still alive. Look no further than the Tuesday matchup between Italian soccer clubs Inter Milan and Juventus F.C.Read more...

Nowadays, Donald Glover is known for hit shows like Atlanta and Swarm, but one of his earliest TV gigs was working on an NBC favorite. Between 2006 and 2009, he was a writer on the hit series 30 Rock. In a recent interview with GQ, the Emmy winner opened up about his time on the Tina Fey comedy and discussed an aspect…Read more...

On Wednesday, Irvin Cartagena—the man suspected of selling beloved Lovecraft Country and The Wire actor Michael K. Williams a fatal dose of fentanyl-laced heroin back in September 2021—pleaded guilty to “conspiring to distribute heroin, fentanyl and fentanyl analog.”Read more...

Exonerated Central Park 5 member Yusef Salaam, who called Donald Trump’s legal woes “karma,” took out a full-page ad in The New York Times addressing the former president. The move comes after President Trump was arraigned Tuesday on 34 felony counts stemming from hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy…Read more...

Here are two names you probably never thought you’d hear in the same sentence: Flavor Flav and Emily Dickinson. If you’re scratching your head, I’ll explain.Read more...

Last month, a Black teenage boy was shot and killed by a U.S. Park Police officer after being woken out of his sleep to a group of cops surrounding his vehicle, according to NBC News. The body camera footage of the incident was released publicly Wednesday and caught the interest of the FBI to investigate the incident…Read more...

Spoiler Alert! If you haven’t seen The Mandalorian “Chapter 22: Guns for Hire” stop reading now!

When Durand Bernarr appears onstage at the Roxy Theater in Los Angeles for the second-to-last stop on his Wanderlust tour, the energy in the room is palpable.Read more...

For pro wrestling fans, WrestleMania weekend is the Super Bowl, Christmas and your best birthday party all rolled into one. The four-day extravaganza includes Friday Night SmackDown; the WWE Hall of Fame; NXT Stand & Deliver; WrestleMania Nights 1 and 2; and WWE Monday Night Raw. Plus there are other wrestling events…Read more...

A group of 30 local advocates created a human barricade outside the home of Taura Brown, a terminally ill Detroit resident who claims she’s being retaliated against with an unlawful eviction, per the Detroit Metro Times. The protest turned violent after they clashed with bailiffs as they forced their way through to…Read more...

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Early Monday morning, four Harvard University students were sleeping in their undergraduate suite trying to get as much rest as possible before the new school week began. But, at around 4 a.m., they were awoken by noises of banging on their suite door and commands for them to open it.Read more...

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While everyone in the sports world has been focused on Angel Reese, LSU and the conversation surrounding their women’s national championship victory over Iowa, I’ve been more focused on a particular hand gesture.Read more...

Issa Rae always has several projects cooking at the same time. With that in mind, she’s definitely making summer 2023 The Age of Issa. With two high-profile films set for release, the Insecure creator is set to take over movie theaters. On Tuesday, we got our first look at the latest trailers for Barbie and …Read more...

Harvard University admitted 3.41 of applicants to their next class, nearly as low as the 3.19 percent they accepted last year, according to The Harvard Crimson. However, the demographics of applicants show a record low for Black students and a record uptick for Asian students. The dean of admissions says this has been…Read more...

For all the discourse it inspired, it’s hard to imagine Donald Glover (a.k.a. Childish Gambino’s) thought-provoking, symbolic imagery-boasting, 2018 hit “This Is America” having a connection to Drake. But in a new interview, the Atlanta creator confirmed that it does—just not in the way you think.Read more...

Stacey Abrams, a two-time Georgia gubernatorial candidate, author, and political activist, is a well-known figure to The Root’s audience—and now she’s forging a new path. On Wednesday, Howard University announced that Abrams will be joining the historically Black university faculty.Read more...

Brandon Johnson won a marvelous victory for the Democratic Party progressives being elected as Chicago’s next mayor following the ousting of former mayor Lori Lightfoot, according to The Associated Press. Johnson’s defeat of Paul Vallas was recorded to be the slimmest margin of victory in Chicago’s political history.

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As the sale of BET Media Group turns into the latest season of Succession, one of the interested parties is very publicly staking his claim. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, filmmaker Tyler Perry made it abundantly clear that he plans to acquire the company that includes BET and VH-1.

Most people know Salaam Remi as a GRAMMY-award winning producer who has worked with artists like Nas, Alicia Keys and the late Amy Winehouse. But what you may not know is that Remi is also a visual artist who has curated an art installation dedicated to some of his favorite musicians.Read more...

The murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin sparked a racial reckoning across the United States in 2020. Now, the city of Minneapolis, Minn., has reached an agreement with the state to transform its police department and address racially-biased policing practices.Read more...

An equal mix of cheers and jeers erupted from the crowd waiting outside of the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse on Tuesday. For the first time in our nation’s history, a former President of the United States was arraigned on criminal charges. Inside the courthouse, Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 charges of falsifying…Read more...

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As The Root observed, white folks worked overtime to humble LSU forward Angel Reese for taunting Caitlyn Clark and her Iowa Hawkeyes in the NCAA Women’s Championship. This outrage wasn’t present when Clark was the one throwing shots, but as we know America loves to humble Black women.Read more...

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On Tuesday, Former President Donald Trump was arrested. He surrendered to authorities at the courthouse in Manhattan at around 1:30 p.m. ET. Trump was fingerprinted and then arraigned in court before Judge Juan Merchan around 2:30 p.m. ET. He entered the courtroom, looking solemn. Trump was indicted on dozens of…Read more...

In 2015, Owen Diaz started working at Tesla’s factory in Fremont, Calif. as an elevator operator. He claimed he was called racial slurs by his supervisor and co-workers for the next year and that his co-workers would draw racial epithets and symbols around the factory.Read more...