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Another day, another instance in which conservatives find yet another meaningless battle to wage in their ongoing “culture war.” Dr. Seuss Enterprises pulled six books from publication because of their racist imagery, and you already know conservatives were quick to yell “cancel culture.”Read more...

We can’t think of a better way to spend the first week of Women’s History Month—or “Black HerStory Month,” as it’s known here at The Root—than with our forever first lady, Michelle Obama. Indeed, Obama made history herself with her 2018 memoir, Becoming, which was not only an instant international bestseller, with…Read more...

This week at VSB, in dedication to and preparation for Friday’s release of Coming 2 America, we’ll be digging deep-ish and having fun with the original, 1988's Coming to America.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, once hailed as the antithesis of President Trump for his handling of the coronavirus, is now facing calls for his resignation as another woman—making three in total–has come out to claim that Cuomo sexually harassed her at a wedding in September 2019.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is the congressman who refuses to wear a blazer. As such he’s earned the moniker “Jacketless Jim Jordan.” Jim Jordan is also the former assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State accused of aiding in a coverup of sexual assaults by team doctor Dr. Richard Strauss, who reportedly abused team…Read more...

Rachel Lindsay, the first Black Bachelorette of the long-running ABC reality competition franchise of the same name deactivated her Instagram following racist online harassment following an interview with series host and producer Chris Harrison. The now-viral interview, which took place in mid-February, regarded…Read more...

Black Panther and Us star Winston Duke will be stepping into the role of political activist Marcus Garvey soon, The Root has learned.Read more...

This year was supposed to be different.

Vernon Jordan, an iconic civil rights leader, presidential adviser and lawyer who held leadership roles at the United Negro College Fund and the National Urban League, and who worked as a Georgia field secretary for the NAACP and director of the Voter Education Project for the Southern Regional Council at the height…Read more...

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After a grueling 28 days of watching corporations, institutions and random white people pretend to care about the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman and that other Black guy with the big part in his afro (I think it’s Booker T. Douglass), we now return to our regularly scheduled program.Read more...

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I’m not much of a Twitch streamer, but on the few occasions that I do dabble, I’m hit with a very real fear that I’ll forget to turn off my stream. It’s not even that I do anything that salacious, I just don’t need the internet watching me cry while rewatching Steven Universe: Future. (I’m single and we’re in a…Read more...

Just hours after Hulu announced the news of its limited series order about the life of Mike Tyson, the heavyweight boxing champion is speaking out against the streaming platform.Read more...

Y’all ever just get tired of white people? I do. Especially in the month of February, when Black History Month sees them spewing their anti-Black hot takes en masse. Take for instance a school board in Wisconsin, where a board member argued against Black History Month.Read more...

When you think of golf, one of the last things to come to mind is the attire that players wear when they hit the green. But a cursory glance at “Tiger Woods” in Google Images reveals that yes, the man tied for first in all-time PGA Tour wins might not wear a jersey or shoulder pads, but he does have a signature…Read more...

White men of a certain age just keep making the same, predictable mistakes and facing the same, entirely avoidable consequences. I’m pretty sure the “Congratulations, you played yourself,” meme exists entirely for men like Seth Jahn, who lost his spot in the U.S. Soccer Federation’s athletes council after giving a…Read more...

As we approach the anniversary of the day the World Health Organization officially declared the COVID-19 pandemic (which happened on March 11, to be exact), the organization is cautioning that 2021 is unlikely to mark the end of the virus that has claimed millions of lives around the globe.

National media have honed their attention on the impact of freezing temperatures in Texas, but residents in Louisiana have been enduring crisis-level weather challenges of their own.

The Minnesota Court of Appeals heard arguments this afternoon from prosecutors who wish to reintroduce a third-degree murder charge against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd, the Star Tribune reports.

A duke and a duchess are about to have a sit-down with a queen—to discuss, among other things, their departure from the royal family and concerns about outside interference on their growing family. No, it’s not another “Sandringham Summit.” It’s Oprah With Meghan and Harry: A CBS Primetime Special, airing this…Read more...

On Monday, Ebony Magazine relaunched in digital format and announced a subsequent panel discussion set to touch on all things new at the legendary magazine.

The Conservative Political Action Conference is a lot like prison.

In anticipation of the upcoming Coming to America sequel, we decided to devote a week to some observations, questions, and theories we’ve always had about the iconic original.

Soul, man it’s what drives music as a whole. As with all things, music adapts to what’s current, already going on. In recent years, the concept of the genre has transformed into whatever a specific artist identifies with, whether that’s the backing tracks, lyrics or melodies, soul has become a much more approachable…Read more...

Irv Cross accomplished quite a bit in life.

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Don’t get it twisted: Claressa Shields has been knocking people out for a long time.

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As it stands, two women who worked for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo have accused him of sexual harassment and this might be the undoing of the Italian with the chin divot who still hasn’t told us what the fuck happened to the residents in nursing homes who died of coronavirus because he’s an asshole.

If you’ve ever wondered what it might be like to have Al Pacino on your biweekly Zoom meeting, you likely found out Sunday night. In addition to all the woker-than-thou snide remarks about the all-white Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the 78th Annual Golden Globes, were, in a word, awkward.Read more...

Horrific and senseless killings continue in America on top of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, which has caused the deaths of more than half a million people in this country.

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So, that happened. It’s always happening.

Just Saturday, I wrote in a report that “It’s about time we have a serious conversation about how a lot of white teachers have no business whatsoever teaching Black students.” I based this statement on three separate stories—all of which occurred during this Black History Month—involving white teachers being racist…Read more...

Another year, another Black History Month coming to a close. For the past 28 days, The Root has been celebrating Black Joy and how that looks—whether it’s through art, family, food or music. Panama Jackson, senior editor of Very Smart Brothas, has brought us all the joy through the most iconic and Blackest album…Read more...

So, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley is out here pretending that he’s not the Meg Griffin of the Republican party again. On Friday, the clout-chaser-in-lying-about-antifa-attacks delivered a speech during Republican PornHub Live, aka the American Conservative Union’s annual CPAC conference in Orlando, Fla. Hawley gave a…Read more...

“You good?” read the motif on one of the designs in Target’s Black History Month 2021 assortment, a now-annual rollout featuring collaborations with Black makers—and one arguably ahead of the curve of last year’s so-called “racial reckoning.” In the wake of the current racial justice movement, which was tragically …Read more...

Last October, The Root reported on the mysterious and fatal story of 49-year-old Ronald Greene—a Black man who died in police custody after leading officers on a high-speed chase in Louisiana in 2019. It’s a wild yet familiar story where a Black man is brought to the hospital bruised and bloodied. The cops claimed his…Read more...

I mean, bruh. If this ain’t one of the Blackest album covers of all time then I don’t know what is. Wilson Pickett is out here rocking a red pleather suit with gold or green shimmery accents. He has beautiful Black women by his side who are clearly about to ruin his shot, or would if he wasn’t such the motherfucking…Read more...

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Friends, how many of us have them? I do, and it’s been life-saving during this global ponderosa.

It’s been more than three years since Fox News white supremacy-wench Laura Ingraham went full KKK-Karen on her show and told NBA superstar LeBron James to stay away from the social and political commentary game and to just “shut up and dribble” for the game that he knows. James responded by not only refusing to be…Read more...

That’s it: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell shall henceforth be known by the name Trump’s-Lil’-Bitch McConnell.Read more...

It’s about time we have a serious conversation about how a lot of white teachers have no business whatsoever teaching Black students.Read more...

You know those videos where the dad, who didn’t want the dog at first, slowly becomes his friend? Yeah, that’s me for the most part.

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I have been smoking weed since I was 14 years old.

I don’t need a ton of words to describe the way I feel about the cover for Public Enemy’s sophomore album, 1988's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. Mostly, I just need to say how bad ass it is. And especially how bad ass it was to a 9-year-old whose big sister was into Black Power and hip-hop with…Read more...

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