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After 11 seasons, two marriages and countless dustups and business ventures, Cynthia Bailey—now Cynthia Bailey-Hill since marrying Mike Hill last October—is laying her Real Housewives of Atlanta peach to rest. On Monday, the longtime cast member announced on social media that she’s departing the franchise, writing on…Read more...

I remember sitting in an elementary school classroom while my teacher showed the class photos taken during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.

In an interview with the Cut, Olympic champion Simone Biles made a powerful admission: “If you looked at everything I’ve gone through for the past seven years, I should have never made another Olympic team.”

Here at The Root, I’ve written extensively about the inevitable showdown between the NBA and players who refuse to get vaccinated, local coronavirus guidelines in cities like San Francisco and New York City that will prohibit unvaccinated NBA players from playing in home games, and how COVID-19 has impacted members of…Read more...

Well, that was fast. Arguments in R. Kelly’s New York case were put to rest on Friday with outlandish closing arguments from his defense team, but on Monday afternoon, the jury delivered a verdict. The seven men and five women who comprised the jury found the disgraced entertainer guilty on all nine counts in Brooklyn…Read more...

So, I don’t look into white supremacy that often. I mean, I used to watch the NFL, and I accidentally saw this song back when MTV played videos, but I don’t often wade in the “not all white people” pond.

The View cohosts Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro were back at the table healthy and in good spirits on Monday.

A Black product manager at Google says he was riding his bike around the tech giant’s campus when he was approached by security. According to Angel Onuoha’s Sept. 20 tweet, someone there apparently didn’t believe he was an employee. In a Sept. 22 tweet following up on the incident, Onuoha said his badge was taken away…Read more...

Officials announced Thursday that a Rochester, N.Y., police officer faces departmental charges in the case of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died following his arrest last March.Read more...

Despite a well-publicized “racial reckoning” and ample nominations, Black talents are still struggling for recognition in the mainstream awards circuit. This disappointment has been well evidenced by the recent outcomes of this year’s Academy Awards and, more recently, the 2021 Emmys, which has a record number of…Read more...

A white woman has been fired from her job after being caught on video harassing a Black couple at a dog park in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn on Saturday night, telling them to “Stay in your hood.”Read more...

Oh, there was football this weekend? Let’s talk about it.Read more...

The 74th annual Tony Awards took place on Sunday, with a fully vaxxed, in-person ceremony airing live across CBS and Paramount+.

A conservative nonprofit group has created materials to train people on how they can fight the teaching of critical race theory in their communities, because how dare anyone learn about systemic racism’s hold on our society?

Here’s something you might not have expected to hear this weekend: during one of his seemingly never-ending rallies, former President Donald Trump suggested that Stacey Abrams might have been a better governor than Republican Brian Kemp.

A Texas school board has voted to move forward with a process that could end with the firing of James Whitfield, a Black principal that became embroiled in controversy over critical race theory allegedly being taught at his school.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is launching a commission dedicated to rectifying the agency’s history of discriminating against Black farmers.

Activists in Bethesda, Maryland are working to prevent the sale of an asphalt parking lot that was once a historic Black cemetery and preserve the bodies of several freed slaves and their descendants that may lie below.

Jacob Brown, a former Louisiana state trooper who was caught on body camera footage as he struck Black motorist Aaron Larry Bowman 18 times with a flashlight, has been indicted by a grand jury for a civil rights violation.

It seems things are starting to look up for Wendy Williams!

From exposés written on police brutality to the influx in racial hate crimes, everything going on in America right now has made me a lot more suspicious of white antics. Some things are genuinely a misunderstanding, but most times Black people are right to assume something sinister is happening.Read more...

While Gov. Ron DeSantis is completely botching the state’s COVID-19 response, other Republican lawmakers have their eyes set on ruining their constituents’ lives another way.Read more...

It’s been almost a year since we’ve seen superstar wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. on the football field. And barring any last-minute setbacks, he’ll be making his season debut for the Cleveland Browns on Sunday, according to ESPN.Read more...

What, and I cannot stress this enough...the hell?

On Wednesday night, Robyn Rihanna Fenty hosted a viewing party for the Savage x Fenty Vol. 3 movie that premiered today. The party started at 9:30 p.m. on a Wednesday and featured caterers walking through the party with cajun style shrimp, chicken and waffles, mini-burgers and towers of chocolate.

Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are having a moment. This happens every so often, usually after some period of social unrest where racial divisions divide and the desire for safe spaces becomes not only a need, but a must. In the wake of the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis…Read more...

On Friday morning, Vice President Kamala Harris joined the ladies of The View where she discussed among other things, the current Haitian migrant crisis and Texas’ anti-abortion law.Read more...

Earlier this month, we reported that due to newly imposed coronavirus guidelines in New York City and San Francisco, this upcoming NBA season could lead to players for the Golden State Warriors, Brooklyn Nets and New York Knicks being forced to sit out home games should they decline to receive the COVID-19 vaccine:Read more...

Each of the two authors who spoke with Michael Harriot for The Root Institute have committed to telling our stories in ways that best represent the texture and richness of our lives. That mission has propelled them to take their passion on the road to learn more about their ancestry.Read more...

We’re at a quintessential moment in our democracy. Without a shadow of a doubt, voting rights is one of the major issues facing our country today. So much of our future depends on our ability to have access to the polls and the levers of power it holds. Yet, Congress went on recess with no voting rights legislation…Read more...

On Thursday night, Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted in the murder of George Floyd, filed an appeal to overturn his conviction without an attorney.Read more...

In the news these days, we hear a lot about Boomers, Millennials and Gen Z and their impact on various parts of our society, including culture, politics and the world of work. Generation X—my generation—is the generation that is often left out of or forgotten during these discussions.Read more...

As the sex-trafficking trial of disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly nears its end, the defense team presented closing arguments in Brooklyn federal court on Thursday.Read more...

Ladies and gentlemen (non-binary folks, too), the WNBA Playoffs are here! What a time to be alive. But before we dig into Thursday night’s festivities, allow me to bring everyone up to speed on the WNBA’s playoff format that’s been in place since 2016:Read more...

Black women have to carefully navigate the workplace to avoid the Angry Black Woman trope when speaking up about injustice. This much is true for the former and current Black women officers who filed a class-action lawsuit against the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.Read more...

Whitney Houston will be getting the biopic treatment (albeit, for the 50-leventh time) soon, thanks to the upcoming feature from Sony and TriStar Pictures, I Wanna Dance With Somebody.Read more...

This weekend, Steph Curry is setting aside his love for basketball in order to embrace another one of his passions: golf.Read more...

“Black Lives Matter” has become a rallying cry for racial justice—as well as a highly organized movement—around the world, but for its co-founder Alicia Garza, its was a childhood spent with a mother who never hesitated to call out injustice in everyday life, and raised her firstborn child to do the same. Now…Read more...

In this episode of “Gov. Ron DeSantis Is Trying to Kill Floridians,” the Florida governor announced a new “symptom-based” approach to COVID-19 quarantine rules, allowing children without symptoms to go to class even if they were exposed to the virus.

We are experiencing the next frontier of digital assets with a peer-to-peer system called Bitcoin, founded in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto and various brave internet visionaries. Today, bitcoin and cryptocurrency have taken over the financial market space. The next generation of internet investors are flocking to this…Read more...

In this multipart series, HBCU alums share their favorite moments from their alma mater as a testament to what these institutions have meant to them.Read more...

Lawmakers hoping to reach a bipartisan compromise on revamping America’s broken policing policies watched it all go the same route as the Fat Boys; despite best efforts, the talks ended with the same issues that have haunted these talks for more than a year.

The world of technology seems to shift and transform every nanosecond, making it that much more difficult to stay on top of what’s new. But staying on top is exactly what Mutale Nkonde and Angela Benton, our experts in this episode of The Root Institute, encourage us to do. Nkonde’s expertise in AI, and Benton’s deep…Read more...

“For many years, what happened in the defendant’s world stayed in the defendant’s world. But no longer.”

After scoring four touchdowns in Monday night’s showdown against the Detroit Lions, you would think Green Bay Packers running back Aaron Jones would have plenty to celebrate. However, during the game, ESPN reports that something awful occurred: The football-shaped medallion he was wearing that contained his father’s…Read more...

“When I show up in a room, there are three things I just know automatically,” says former White House Director of Political Affairs Minyon Moore, also the co-author of the NAACP Award-winning For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics. “One, I walk in the room knowing that I’m Black...I walk in the room knowing…Read more...

On Tuesday, Methodist University announced the suspension of one of their sororities after social media outrage over a racist presentation made by a member featuring Black student football players.Read more...

Nine Oakland police officers have been disciplined following an independent investigation into some racist and sexist posts shared on social media.Read more...

Actor-writer-director-composer Melvin Van Peebles—a Renaissance man who promoted Black economic empowerment and helped usher in a new era of Black filmmaking with his best-known work, the 1971 film Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song—died Tuesday night at 89.

If you told me you didn’t play pretend as a child, I wouldn’t believe you. Even as adults, a made-up world from our imagination is probably better than what we have going for us in reality.Read more...