The Root

The 2022 Grammy Awards celebrating Music’s Biggest Night, has officially been postponed.

Well you can mark the Grammys on your cancellation bingo card.

Here’s a suggestion: If you’re a white Trump fundraiser whose last name is “White” and you’re hawking the idea of seceding the richest, whitest neighborhood from America’s Blackest city, retweeting white supremacists ain’t the best way to help your cause.

If you are an Airbnb host in Oregon, this is for you because you will soon be blocked from initially seeing the full names of the guests that will be staying on your property, according to NBC News.Read more...

Prime Video is celebrating one of the most influential institutions in Black comedy. The streamer is set to premiere documentary Phat Tuesdays Friday, Feb. 4.

It hasn’t been a whole week into his tenure, but New York City Mayor Eric Adams loves himself a soundbite. Whether it be declaring that swagger is back in the city and fights over solitary confinement, four days may feel like a lifetime. Right now, he has directed his focus on remote working and “my low-skilled…Read more...

In a revealing interview with the New York Times, Hall of Fame running back Eric Dickerson touched on a myriad of topics, including the need for improved health benefits for former NFL players.Read more...

After 125 years, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards pardoned on Wednesday Homer Plessy of the 1897 U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v Ferguson for sitting in an “whites only” train car. The case paved the way for “separate but equal” segregation laws for nearly half a century. The posthumous pardon ceremony took place on…Read more...

Remember when the Hollywood Foreign Press Association didn’t have any Black members, rarely nominated Black artists and didn’t provide access for Black journalists?

On Tuesday, seven historically Black colleges and universities were temporarily evacuated and placed on lockdown due to bomb threats. The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Florida Memorial University, Howard University, Norfolk State University, North Carolina Central University, Prairie View A&M University in…Read more...

Fans may know Marsai Martin from her role as Diane on black-ish, but the actress is also passionate about interior design. It’s something she showcases in her new discovery+ series Remix My Space with Marsai Martin.

Thanks in part to this global pandemic—which feels earlier similar to Thanos bidding au revoir to half the universe with a snap of his finger—2016 feels likes a lifetime ago.Read more...

A shooting that occurred on New Year’s Day in Houston, Texas injured a 4-year-old girl, Arianna Delane, while she was sleeping. The girl turned out to be the niece of George Floyd, who was killed last year after a Minnesota Police Officer put his knee on Floyd’s neck, according to ABC13.

US Department of Homeland Security agents have arrested a suspect in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse at his private residence last July. Former member of the Columbia military Mario Antonio Palacios was taken into custody by authorities in Miami, Florida on Tuesday.Read more...

Maxine McNair, mother of Denise McNair, one of the four little girls killed at the 16th Street Baptist Church in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, passed away on Sunday, announced by a press release from her family. She was 93.Read more...

It’s often said that in regard to the rampant racism and discriminatory behavior that permeates this God-forsaken planet, that silence is complicity. But what’s it called when you’re loud and proud about being inconvenienced by treating marginalized groups—of which you don’t belong to—with dignity and respect?Read more...

Black Panther star Lupita Nyong’o is now unfortunately the latest celebrity to test positive for COVID-19.

It took way too long for players in the Negro Leagues to be recognized as part of baseball history. Now it seems it’s time for basketball to explore the untold stories of its past.

I think it’s time for us to put some “respeck” on Omarion’s name—and by us, I mean “y’all” because I’m going to continue naming this new COVID variant after him until the cows come home and that’s just how this cookie’s going to crumble.Read more...

A candidate who represents steel towns on the outskirts of Pittsburgh has the inside track on becoming the first Black nominee for lieutenant governor from either party.Read more...

It looks like the dawn has finally arrived for fans of The Weeknd who have been patiently waiting for the followup to his wildly successful 2021 album After Hours.Read more...

In Hazlehurst, Mississippi, Officer Laquandia Cooley responded to a shooting in the city, according to WLBT.Read more...

Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush announced that he is retiring from Congress and will not seek a 16th term in an office he’s held for 30 years. Rush held a news conference Tuesday to announce his retirement at a place fitting for a civil rights legacy he’s trailblazed: Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ, where Emmett…Read more...

Another day, another Broadway delay.

When it comes to the 2022-24 election season, the Democrats face an uphill battle. The incumbent President almost always has a bad outcome historically regarding midterms. There’s an avalanche of anti-voting rights bills and redistricting, which will adversely impact communities of color. Looking at the midterms and…Read more...

Mr. West had a busy year in 2021, but it looks like he’s in for another one in 2022.Read more...

Despite their amazing chemistry throughout black-ish’s eight seasons, Anthony Anderson admits Tracee Ellis Ross wasn’t always his biggest fan.

New year, new updates on the forthcoming Janet Jackson documentary—or however the saying goes!

Some of the critiques (and I use that word loosely) go as follows:Read more...

Tariq is getting a new professor in Season 3 of Power Book II: Ghost. Deadline reports, Keesha Sharp will join the Starz hit as a series regular.

A city that already gets an unfair rep for being known more as violent than anything else just reached a disturbing milestone. In 2021, Chicago went through one of its deadliest years in the last quarter-century. The medical examiner’s office handled more than 1,00 homicides last year: 836 were in Chicago alone, the…Read more...

Within his first days of being sworn in as New York City Mayor, Eric Adams went on a “we are staying open” tour-de-force right to welcome us into the new year. This included stops at MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and ABC’s “This Week.” The message was clear–despite NY hospitalizations topping 2021 levels, New York is open for…Read more...

Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene rang in the new year with a permanent Twitter ban and a 24 hour suspension from Facebook. The bans follow repeated violations of both platforms’ COVID-19 misinformation policies. Greene was suspended from Twitter twice for the same violation over the summer.

Looks like The View is going to be a little more chaotic than usual, as host Whoopi Goldberg tested positive for Covid-19, and won’t return until next week.

This past Friday, Louisiana judge, Michelle Odinet quietly exited the bench after a video that surfaced earlier this month displayed Odinet and people in her home using racial slurs.Read more...

Wakandans, rejoice! A petition to recast Black Panther’s T’Challa is gaining traction. While Marvel announced in late 2020 that the character would be retired upon the death of the late, great Chadwick Boseman, fans are calling for the role to be recast as a tribute to his legacy.Read more...

Fall back, Ryan Seacrest, Don Lemon is coming to take over NYE television screens for the 2022. This past Friday night, during CNN’s New Year’s Eve broadcast, Lemon was passed a few too many—leading to a full on rant, popping out of a lemon cake, and a good bit of on-air twerking.Read more...

After the 2017 White Nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, the state began removing Confederate statues– first with Charlottesville’s own Robert E. Lee monument. Charlottesville Mayor Nikuyah Walker said in a speech that taking the statue down is a step toward helping the city and country “grapple with the…Read more...

It appears things are about to get a bit “slippery” when it comes to Migos rapper Quavo and his legal woes.Read more...

Pensole founder D’Wayne Edwards had a mission to re-open the Lewis College of Business. It was a Detroit-based historically Black college and university founded by the late Violet T. Lewis that sadly closed in 2013. Thankfully, after proposing draft legislation back in October to re-open the school, Governor Gretchen…Read more...

Farewells have never been my forte. In fact, I’m better known for the French (or Irish, or English, etc.) exit: make a big entrance, help get the party going, then quietly slip out before the evening loses its luster (after paying your share of the check, of course). Though some may find it rude, the art of the French…Read more...

In 2021, a total of 132 people received exonerations: 81 of them were Black. Just a decade ago in 2011, only 40 Black people were exonerated. Since 1989 there’s been a 1,057 percent increase in the number of Black people released from prison because they were wrongfully convicted. Of the high-profile exonerations in…Read more...

A sheriff’s office in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana settled on federal civil rights lawsuits over the death of 22-year-old Keeven Robinson, who was choked during a tussle with undercover narcotic officers, according to NOLA.com.Read more...

New year, new name?Read more...

Well, here’s an NBA face-off we didn’t anticipate this holiday season: NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had words for his equally iconic fellow Laker LeBron James after the latter posted to his Instagram page a version of the popular pointing Spider-Men meme equating COVID-19 with the flu and common cold.Read more...

We did it, Joe. We made it through another grueling year of a global pandemic (and white supremacy, and celebrity shenanigans, and all manner of political nonsense)...and all we got were these matching sweatsuits. So with a new year swiftly approaching, it’s understandable if you’re looking to hit “refresh” on this…Read more...

A Black attorney with a record of voting-rights advocacy was just named to the top elections post in Pennsylvania, a state where the GOP-controlled legislature might stir up lots of trouble during next year’s critical midterm elections.

Married at First Sight season 12 alum Ryan Oubre is finally speaking out about the difficult decision to divorce his now ex-wife Clara Berghaus.Read more...

Sigh.Read more...