The more things change, the more they stay the same. A year after the country’s recession due to the COVID-19 pandemic slowed down, America’s economic recovery continues to be unequal in regard to race and ethnicity.

Due to “a pattern of egregious violations of principles of academic governance and persistent structural racism,” the American Association of University Professors is investigating University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Only a few days after a teacher in a Kansas City high school used the n-word during class, the Raytown school district is now investigating a second racial incident that took place last week, according to the Associated Press.

Hulu has just given a limited-series order to an upcoming adventure series, Washington Black, based on the international best-selling novel from Esi Edugyan, The Root has learned.Read more...

Since trading in their YouTube exploits for boxing gloves, serial idiots Jake and Logan Paul have brought plenty of attention (and embarrassment) to the sport of boxing while being surprisingly effective at either taking down or standing up to a respectable list of accomplished fighters.Read more...

The life and work of the late Chadwick Boseman continues to create a lasting impact as it relates to his alma mater, Howard University.Read more...

Omarosa Manigault Newman Ferguson Johnson Jr. is back in the news doing her whole Whoopi Goldberg in Ghost thing in which she can speak to the competence of despicable white people.

A Black female therapist in Alabama found a noose hanging from a tree at her home after going to her employer with allegations of racism on the job, according to a lawsuit.Read more...

In 1995, Ernest Lee Johnson was convicted in the horrific killing of three Missouri convenience store employees—46-year-old Mary Bratcher, 57-year-old Mable Scruggs, and 58-year-old Fred Jones—with a claw hammer. Johnson’s lawyers have argued that in 2008 an operation on a brain tumor left him with a fifth of his…Read more...

Two white television reporters in Little Rock, Ark., were suspended after they wore Afro wigs during an on-air broadcast in September. KATV’s news director, Nick Genty was also fired.Read more...

On Sunday morning, a statue of George Floyd, whose death sparked a summer of protests last year, was vandalized in New York City. In a surveillance video released on Monday by the New York Police Department, an unidentified man approached the statue in Union Square Park while riding a skateboard before throwing gray…Read more...

In a hopeful turn of events, Syesha Mercado posted an Instagram Live video on Friday to announce that her son, Amen’Ra, was finally back home. In the video captioned “AMEN’RA IS OFFICIALLY HOME!!!”, Mercado’s partner, Tyron Deener, said the family has to undergo six months of supervision by the Department of Children…Read more...

As has been widely reported, cities like New York City and San Francisco have imposed local coronavirus guidelines that require anyone over the age of 12 to provide proof of vaccination prior to entering arenas, gyms, restaurants, and other indoor venues. This also applies to professional athletes, which means that…Read more...

As Haitian families began landing on the lily white sands of Texas–all of them seeking a better life away from a country ravished by earthquakes and political strife–some dozens hoped to be resettled across America, but unfortunately for the U.S., Florida has not defected and that means Florida, the Karen of states,…Read more...

Last week, we told you about Ellen Pompeo’s unnecessary tea spilling in reference to a “tense” exchange between her and Denzel Washington on the set of Grey’s Anatomy years ago.Read more...

In case you didn’t hear, one of the most anticipated games in NFL history took place this weekend. Shall we get into that and the rest of Week 4 of the NFL?Read more...

Nine New York City firefighters have been suspended after an investigation found they were sharing several racist messages and memes on their phones.

An Oregon grand jury has indicted a 27-year-old man who prosecutors said shot and killed a Black man after he spoke to his girlfriend.Read more...

A 24-year-old Texas man admitted in federal court that he traveled to Minneapolis solely to create mayhem during social unrest that followed former police officer Derek Chauvin’s murder of George Floyd.

I’ve seen some fairly extra homecoming proposals in my day. Like messages on billboards, performances of “Call Me Maybe” in the hallway and various others.

Remember when we told you about the lawsuit filed over a Confederate monument that has stood in the mostly Black Tuskegee, Ala. for over a century?

Not too long after signing a bill that would downgrade the act of illegal voting from a second-degree felony to a misdemeanor, Gov. Greg Abbott said “Sike!” and is now pushing to reverse that decision.

In January 2020, Rep. Ayanna Pressley came to a The Root video studio and opened up about a part of herself that she’d kept close despite being an extremely popular progressive Congresswoman and member of “the Squad” who stayed in the public eye. Pressley revealed that she was living with alopecia.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing Skils’kin for allegedly retaliating against a Black employee who complained about racism in the workplace.Read more...

At this point, it’s not exactly a secret that Ben Simmons, who holds the dubious distinction of being one of the best defenders in the NBA while also being its most reluctant shooter, wants no parts of the Philadelphia 76ers.Read more...

Fans of The Wendy Williams Show will have to wait a little while longer for their beloved host to return.Read more...

One day, God was walking on the soft grass of an abandoned field. He was wearing his usual all white Air Force 1s, when he stepped in what he knew was dog shit. With nothing to clean his shoe, he tossed the shoe into a nearby empty lot and thus Florida was born.

Bodycam footage of the Chicago cop who violently wrestled with a Black woman walking her dog in a park was released Thursday, and it looks even more violent than the witness cellphone video capturing the altercation late August.Read more...

Charlotte, N.C., officials have numbers from a new report showing Black and Hispanic drivers are far more likely to be stopped by police than white drivers, but they aren’t sure if racial bias is at play.Read more...

A new study found that not only are police killings undercounted by more than half, but Black men’s killings are mislabeled at higher rates than any other race. From 1980 to 2019, more than 55 percent of the 31,000 killings by cops were assigned other causes in federal death data.Read more...

Given all the turbulence and turmoil of the last two years, I, like many of you, have been yearning for the days of yore, when things weren’t so *gestures wildly* .Read more...

I know, I know!Read more...

In the post-Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake Super Bowl Halftime Show era, the NFL has gone to great lengths to produce family-friendly entertainment (while we refill our drinks and nachos) with varied results. But thanks in part to Blue Ivy’s daddy, the first-ever Super Bowl in Los Angeles this century will not only…Read more...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law Thursday that returns beachfront property, known as Bruce’s Beach, to descendants of a Black couple who had the land taken away from them after they were forced out of Manhattan Beach nearly one hundred years ago.Read more...

Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black father, was fatally shot on April 11, 2021.Read more...

Louisiana law enforcement is once again being accused of abusing another Black man.

Is there anything Lil Nas X can’t do well?Read more...

According to recent data, the disparity in vaccination rates among Black and white Americans has essentially closed.Read more...

Last week, we told you that The Real Housewives of Atlanta (RHOA) star and model Cynthia Bailey would be turning in her peach and saying goodbye to the Bravo series after 11 seasons.Read more...

If you are an unvaccinated NBA Player, I want you to think about one thing and one thing only: Texas Sen. Ted “I left my constituents freezing while I took my family to Cancun” Cruz stands with you.

Editorial note: This article includes descriptions of rape, sexual assault.

Either Democratic (allegedly) Sens. Joe Manchin III (W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) are doing some The Spook Who Sat by the Door shit in which they are actually Republicans who ran as Democrats only to mess everything up from the inside, or….there is no other option. Of course they are Republicans. Their states…Read more...

Raise your hand if you thought 2020 was going to be a magical year—bonus points if you used phrases like “20-20 vision” when describing the new vistas you expected to open to you in what turned out to be a deeply disturbing year. Suffice to say, 2020 scoffed at our best laid plans, a moment comedian, actress, producer…Read more...

Schools across the country are making the news as sites of heated political debates and culture wars as parents and teachers waste the school board meetings on defining Critical Race Theory and political flags. Students in one school district are doing something about the sudden uptick in racist incidents at their…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...

Paul Nicholas Miller was calling for a race war and using ethnic slurs when he spoke to his thousands of followers on social media before the law caught up with him in March. Tuesday, Miller cried in court as a judge sentenced him to 41 months in prison on multiple firearms charges, according to NBC Miami.Read more...

Ellen Pompeo is spilling some arguably unnecessary tea about her time working with Denzel Washington.Read more...

“Racism has no place here. We support the Black community.”Read more...