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This is the song that doesn’t...begin.Read more...

U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has received yet another death threat.Read more...

An Asian-American homeowner said that a Black contractor she hired to renovate her home reported that a noose was hanging from a tree in her yard.Read more...

No one should mandate what a pregnant person does with their body, but when it comes to vaccinations against the coronavirus, the advice is clear: Vaccinations provide the best protection against infections that can endanger the lives of both parent and child.Read more...

When you have been in the “business” as long as Kandi Burruss has, you learn a thing or two along the way.Read more...

As a parent, one of the greatest fears imaginable is having your own flesh and blood harmed. So when newly-signed Philadelphia 76ers center Andre Drummond saw that his two-year-old son, Deon, was about to drown after accidentally falling in the pool, he did what any dad would do: He came to the rescue.

This job is hard.Read more...

The police got caught abusing their power again and the American Civil Liberties Union said, “Not on my watch!”Read more...

I’ve been canceled. Thanks, cancel culture!!!Read more...

While Dallas Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd might have championship pedigree as a player, his lengthy history of disturbing off-court behavior and questionable coaching acumen are the elephants in the room that everyone seems to conveniently ignore. However, in sports writer Mirin Fader’s newly released biography, …Read more...

Dasha Kelly was looking for help. She owed two grand in rent for her North Las Vegas home, and she and her three children were facing eviction. She was out of ideas and luck when she launched a GoFundMe donation page, which she titled “Help My Girls & I avoid eviction.”

With the Tokyo Olympics officially over, four-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles has spent her time crashing the Houston Texans’ practices—her boyfriend, Jonathan Owens, plays for the team—and hopping on Twitter to explain just how scary her case of “the twisties” was in Tokyo.Read more...

American Idol finalist and broadway performer Syesha Mercado is fighting Florida authorities for her two children.Read more...

“Black don’t crack.” The phrase is gospel, at this point, and even scientifically proven, to an extent (hey, we’ve got good bones). So, most of us Black folks of a certain age take subversive joy in watching the surprise register on someone’s face as we reveal our true age, confirming that while the hands of time…Read more...

Who puts the “trend” in “trending topic”?! Lizzo and Cardi B!! These two are typically trending topics on social media individually, so imagine the sheer power of a whole-ass collaboration?!Read more...

The stories of the wrongfully convicted are not new in the land of the free.Read more...

Nia DaCosta’s Candyman (produced by Jordan Peele) is finally coming to theaters after a few delays (of course, the pandemic has done this to several much-anticipated films) so it is now time to...say his name...but, not five times in a mirror! Hell, I barely want to type his name five times in this blog post,…Read more...

“The Rooster’s outta the bag!” crowed Tituss Burgess via Twitter on Wednesday, as the Hollywood Reporter exclusively announced he would be joining the cast of NBC’s Annie Live! The six-time Emmy nominee will portray “Rooster,” the calculating, ne’er-do-well brother of harried orphanage manager Miss Hannigan, to be…Read more...

On Wednesday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced a new policy: The agency will no longer detain and deport victims of crimes.Read more...

While all T-Pain does is “win, win, win, no matter what,” on the other end of the spectrum we have former UFC champion Tyron Woodley; who’s collecting Ls at such a fervent pace that Pat Sajak keeps imploring him to buy a vowel.Read more...

When they’re not debating critical race theory in schools, they are fighting about you guessed it: flags. Or maybe you didn’t guess because I sure didn’t.Read more...

Actress. Choreographer. Director. Producer. Kennedy Center Honoree. Icon.Read more...

“Dear Jordan, just take one look at your mother—that will tell you what I think beautiful is.”Read more...

As Black women in America (hell, the world), demanding respect is quite an exhausting, yet necessary journey. In the case of the late Aretha Franklin, her demand for respect was as beautifully loud as her billowing voice.Read more...

While most of us spend our lives being painstakingly risk-averse, being an NBA player requires you to be a bit of a gambler.

White lives matter.

Comedian Sinbad may have been a genie in some alternate universe within your minds, but it looks like his children are reminding y’all this actually did not happen and they have only one wish—“get over it.”Read more...

Bill Cosby is out of prison. As been stated before, this doesn’t mean he’s entirely off the hook—whether that means in the court of public opinion or in the court of law.Read more...

A Michigan police department stands by its officers who pulled their guns on a Black real estate agent, a potential home buyer and his 15-year-old son.Read more...

As local governments consider vaccine requirements to slow the spread of COVID, Black people could be disproportionately shut out of businesses across the country.Read more...

It’s been just shy of a year since we launched our literary podcast, The Root Presents: It’s Lit!. A vehicle borne out of both the deep need for escapism amid an ongoing pandemic and The Root staff’s great affinity for books (in addition to being the natural outgrowth of our years-old vertical of the same name), our…Read more...

Forget Tales from The Hood, it seems this year has been all about tales from T-Pain.Read more...

A white man in Florida was arrested Sunday after he allegedly attacked a Black man, threw up a Nazi salute and threatened a mass shooting during a road rage attack.

Hot Girl Summer 2021 may have fizzled in contrast to our expectations, but it looks like a Hot Girl September may not be entirely out of reach, Delta variant be damned. Megan Thee Stallion is the latest celeb to score a September issue cover—actually, make that the September/October cover of Essence, hitting stands on…Read more...

Remember back in the dark ages of 2020 when the sky was black and the president was orange? There was a drug called Remdesivir, which Trump took after being diagnosed with COVID-19. The then-president was so enamored by the drug that he boasted about it and even bought up all of the stock for Americans. The drug was…Read more...

You know, if I had someone teaching me Ratchetdemics in middle and high school, I might have paid a bit more attention. Honestly, if any of these authors had released books like the ones dropped this week while I was still in school, I might have left a tad more—excuse my language—woke. But alas, learning never ends…Read more...

Former NBA star J.R. Smith, who last we saw baptizing white boys in beatdowns during the George Floyd protests, is a man of many talents.Read more...

Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” is paved with plenty of success.Read more...

I recently had a heated argument with a friend who described Jordan Peele’s award-winning documentary Get Out as a horror movie about a white family trying to kill a Black man.Read more...

Two high school basketball coaches have been indicted by a grand jury in the 2019 heatstroke death of a Georgia teen.Read more...

The family that slays together gets in Formation together...or something like that. So, it was to be expected that after slyly dropping the news that her next Ivy Park would for the first time include kids sizes, Beyoncé would include her own kids in the campaign trailer.Read more...

The family of Alvin Motley, a Black man who was killed by a security guard reportedly during an argument over loud music at a Kroger gas station in Memphis, Tenn. is demanding justice and accountability for their loved one, who they say was nearly blind, unarmed and didn’t pose a threat to anyone.Read more...

When you’re confident and feeling yourself, it’s written plainly across your face—like Allure’s September cover star, Normani. The pop and R&B ingenue and self-proclaimed introvert quietly hopped back onto Instagram in February 2021 but it wasn’t until almost five months later that she finally began posting again,…Read more...

If you’re a Knicks fan, there’s plenty to be excited about.Read more...

Saweetie and McDonald’s are boo’d up! Well, they’re specifically in a business partnership! They have a hot date and they’re enjoying The Saweetie Meal, which consists of a Big Mac, 4-piece Chicken McNuggets (with one pack each of Tangy BBQ sauce and ‘Saweetie ‘N Sour’ sauce), medium World Famous Fries and medium…Read more...

If you are Rudy Giuliani, one minute, you are the man next to the man, and the next, you are now offering folks an opportunity to see you naked on OnlyFans get a personalized message from you.

Glasses of Pinot (Noir or Gris) and Chardonnay splashing/Champagne, Cabernet and Shiraz are smashing/Prosecco, Lambrusco and Rosé for spring/These are a few of my favorite things...Read more...

The latest census numbers are about to drop and boooy, are racists white people going to be mad.Read more...

Wow.Read more...

While the general public may be ready to definitively throw DaBaby out with da bathwater, Wild’N Out host Nick Cannon is advising the opposite approach.Read more...