The Root

In this world, white men are to blame for a host of tragedies, and Chuck D would like to add the recent Astroworld fatalities to the list. As lawsuits continue to amass following the concert crowd surge that left 10 dead, and countless others injured, the Public Enemy frontman penned an open letter to Live Nation.Read more...

The latest digital roll out for the NMAAHC is first class, and the time to board is now. This past Thursday, the museum launched its first digital initiative, aptly named, The Searchable Museum. The innovative platform will host a wealth of rotating exhibitions, archives, and videos of the museum’s 40,000 artifacts.

Although President Biden often voices questionable statements, here’s one we can get behind. This Saturday, Biden honored Transgender Day of Remembrance with an official statement to commemorate the lives of transgender people lost to violence this year within the United States and beyond.Read more...

Basketball Wives star Tami Roman recently extended quite an interesting offer to her husband Reggie Youngblood.Read more...

“How am I going to tell my babies that daddy is never coming home?” Mia Jaye pens in an Instagram Story post. The text overlays a video clip of their daughter showing off her sit up skills while Dolph looks on proudly. Jaye, the long term partner of Young Dolph, and the mother of two of the rapper’s children is in…Read more...

A judge found a white Kansas City Police officer guilty with the 2019 killing of a Black man on his own property.Read more...

The balls on this guy.Read more...

Tampa Bay Bucs receiver Antonio Brown isn’t exactly known for making sound decisions—especially when it comes to sexual assault, amongst a myriad of other allegations—so it should come as absolutely no surprise that according to the Tampa Bay Times, he’s now being accused of obtaining a fake COVID-19 vaccine card.…Read more...

Now, this is what we call a serve. We’re admittedly excited to wax nostalgic as we finally dig into the highly anticipated King Richard, the tennis-fueled Williams family biopic which debuts today in theaters and on HBO Max, starring Will Smith as patriarch Richard Williams. But we’d be remiss if we didn’t also…Read more...

One of the key issues we see in workout culture is the lack of representation. Many of the advertised programs feature white women—which isn’t necessarily a problem, except it doesn’t show a range of trainers (or culturally relevant bodies, music and styles) in the videos or classes they produce. It can be very…Read more...

I know. That headline is weird, but it’s true. And now the Black man arrested for stealing his own car is suing the city of Miami.Read more...

On Tuesday came the news that Staples Center, the downtown Los Angeles home of the Lakers, Clippers (who returned to L.A. after a brief stint in Temecula), the WNBA’s Sparks, and the NHL’s Kings, will be known as Crypto.com Arena beginning on Christmas Day. Per the Los Angeles Times, the $700 million naming rights…Read more...

The Kyle Rittenhouse trial is over. After days of deliberation, a Kenosha County jury found the 18-year-old teenager who brought an AR-15 to Kenosha, Wisconsin, and killed two protesters while wounding another not guilty on all counts, finding that the teenager acted in self-defense.Read more...

Mark this date on your calendars: Nov. 19, 2021, is the day the United States will have its first Black woman President—if only for a few hours.

‘Tis the season for self-care, according to Essence magazine—and it’s safe to say Christmas came early for fans of the legacy outlet, because it blessed us with not one but three gorgeous covers for its November/December holiday issue, themed “The Year of Radical Self-Care.”Read more...

After taking a year off, ABC is bringing back its award winning Live in Front of a Studio Audience special. Premiering Tuesday, Dec. 7 at 8 pm ET, this time it revives ‘80s classics Diff’rent Strokes and The Facts of Life.Read more...

The Wednesday to Sunday that encompass Thanksgiving weekend can be hectic at best, chaotic at worst. Unfortunately, if you’re not a sports fan, there’s not much on TV to help you escape. That’s why it’s the perfect weekend for a good binge.Read more...

Trigger Warning: This article contains graphic details of domestic violence.Read more...

Apparently, we spoke too soon when we reported Wednesday that a $750 million lawsuit brought by 125 Astroworld attendees was the largest resulting from the tragedy that claimed 10 lives on November 5. On Thursday, a $2 billion lawsuit was filed on behalf of 282 plaintiffs, naming as its defendants Travis Scott, Drake,…Read more...

Julius Jones, a man who has been on death row for almost 20 years and has always maintained his innocence, was granted clemency by the Governor of the State of Oklahoma, Kevin Stitt.

After last year’s awards were pushed back to March, things are back on schedule for The 53rd Annual NAACP Image Awards, which will air live Saturday, February 26 at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT on BET.Read more...

Julius Jones gets to live.Read more...

Ahhh, finally!Read more...

Fans of The Wendy Williams Show have remained loyal, as despite the host’s absence while she deals with health issues, the show has continued to perform well in the ratings. According to The Wrap, for the week ending Nov. 7, episodes with guest host Sherri Shepherd had a 0.9 rating.Read more...

“A southern belle doesn’t give you insults like just ole anybody. She gives it like a southern belle,” says Keke Palmer, actress, singer, host, producer, and author of the new Amazon Original Stories Southern Belle Insults on this week’s episode of The Root Presents: It’s Lit! “She does it very undercut, you know what…Read more...

Former Real Housewives of Atlanta star Porsha Williams is opening up about her frightening experience with disgraced R&B singer and convicted sex trafficker R. Kelly.Read more...

Today’s episode of Unnecessary Money Cops Cost the Public Because They Can’t Control Themselves comes from Aurora, Colo., where ABC News reports that the family of Elijah McClain has reached a $15 million settlement with the city over his death at the hands of cops and EMTs.

Sometimes history can be made by just being your authentic self.

In 1963, Henry Montgomery was skipping school when a plainclothes officer walked up on him. As a Black teen living in the South, he was startled by the white man so he shot him. Montgomery was just 17 and didn’t know the man he’d just shot was East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Deputy Charles Hurt. Montgomery was initially…Read more...

Feels good when you get compensated for the terrible things someone did to you, especially when it’s a cop. That’s the case of Clarence Gailyard, a Black man who was stomped on by a white South Carolina police officer. Gailyard will get a $650,000 pay out from the city of Orangeburg.Read more...

Fresh off the announcement that Queen Sugar will end with its upcoming seventh season, OWN already has its new family drama The Kings of Napa ready to hit screens Jan. 11 at 8 pm.Read more...

An associate of convicted sex trafficker R. Kelly was sentenced to 96 months in prison for witness intimidation on Wednesday.

If you have been paying attention to any parts of social media over the past few weeks then you know Kanye West—excuse me, Ye—went on Drink Champs, the talk show podcast hosted by Noreaga and DJ EFN and said all manner of shit. One of the things he said was that Beanie Sigel, the Philadelphia, Pa. rapper signed to…Read more...

It was hot; iron cast skillet hot. And God was at a cookout going crazy on the deviled eggs. Maybe because they had paprika sprinkled on the top, or maybe he was trying to prove something to the devil by eating all of the eggs named after him, but at one point, onlookers began chanting “Go! Go! Go!” as God began…Read more...

“Karen” died today. Or maybe yesterday, I can’t be sure.Read more...

Did you forget about the Julius Jones case? If you did, Jones is on death row for the July 1999 murder of Paul Howell, who was shot outside of his parents’ home in Edmond Oklahoma. Jones has many supporters who believe he is an innocent man going on death row for something he did not do.Read more...

Young Dolph, Memphis rapper best known for his feature on O.T. Genesis’ 2015 single “Cut It,” was shot and killed at the age of 36.Read more...

Who loves Kanye?Read more...

In what can only be called a judicial “my bad,” some 57 years after Malcolm X was gunned down, two men convicted as accomplices will have their sentences vacated.

Does the beloved host of “Black Jeopardy!” have a book in the works? According to Page Six, the correct answer is yes, as “publishing insiders” told the outlet Saturday Night Live star Kenan Thompson has inked a million-dollar deal for his first book, which is expected to be a “humorous memoir.”Read more...

The cop who killed Atatiana Jefferson while she played video games with her nephew will finally go to trial — next year.

If you, like us, couldn’t stop cringing at the idea of immortalizing the iconic Whitney Houston as a hologram (which most definitely happened), here’s some news you might find somewhat more appealing. The late songstress’ digital legacy is growing with the announcement of a debut NFT collection produced by OneOf, the…Read more...

Howard University students were tired of the poor housing conditions they were dealing with on campus.Read more...

The asshole who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 wearing a dead animal on his head was sentenced to 41 months in prison for his role in the mayonnaise-laced insurrection—or failed coup, as history will call it.

Though the Friday film franchise has continued on without Chris Tucker and his hilarious role as Smokey in the 1995 cult classic, his absence from the subsequent sequels has arguably felt like having Kool-Aid but no sugar, peanut butter but no jelly, and ham with no burger.Read more...

Sometimes those last few months of college are the hardest, but they can also be the most important. We’ll get to see where Zoey Johnson lands when grown-ish season 4B premieres Thursday, Jan. 27 at 10 pm on Freeform.Read more...

Longtime cast member Rockmond Dunbar exited the Fox drama after request for medical and religious vaccine exemptions were rejected by the series’ production company.Read more...

The widow of basketball legend Kobe Bryant was dealt an emotional blow in her bid for damages related to her late husband’s and daughter’s deaths last year.

A crowd surge among approximately 50,000 attendees of the 2021 Astroworld festival caused a mass casualty event on November 5 which left 10 dead and hundreds injured. Now, 125 of those concertgoers have collectively filed a $750 million lawsuit against the festival’s creator and headliner, Travis Scott, along with …Read more...