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Cornel West is tired.

Can we not even get our panties in peace? Apparently not at the Short Hills Mall in New Jersey, where Ijeoma Ukenta went to cash in her coupon for a free panty at the mall’s Victoria’s Secret store—but ended up in the midst of a viral “Karen” incident, instead.Read more...

Actor Charlie Robinson has died at the age of 75, Variety reports. The beloved actor died in his Los Angeles home on Sunday due to cardiac arrest and cancer.Read more...

The current crop of Republican politicians is filled with grifters, racists, predators, and people who are generally fucking weirdos. North Carolina’s Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn (allegedly) checks just about all of those boxes. The congressman recently drew controversy after he tweeted a picture of a swastika in…Read more...

I don’t remember my third birthday. I’m sure it was fine.

One thing about Republicans, they really don’t know how to debate any issue in a way that doesn’t center the Democrat vs. Republican paradigm. To let them tell it, everything begins and ends with those pesky Dems—the Black Lives Matter movement, calls for police reform, the Critical Race Theory extravaganza that lives…Read more...

Texas is already one of the hardest states to vote in, but that hasn’t stopped Texas Republicans from trying to add even more restrictions to their already restrictive voting process. Their latest attempt at suppressing the vote has run into pushback, as state Democrats plan to leave the state to prevent the latest…Read more...

Naomi Osaka already aced the ESPY Awards on Saturday, winning Best Female Athlete and Best Female Tennis Player. Now, she may well be on track to win Best Barbie, as the tennis phenom has also earned a permanent place in the brand’s Role Model line.

Cedric the Entertainer, an original King of Comedy, is about to entertain a whole room of folks eager to return to Hollywood awards season in-person.Read more...

Stephen A. Smith has a habit of doing this thing where he says really dumb shit a lot. His takes aren’t just bad these days, they are downright horrible AF.

Everyone loves an educated adult fight, but it’s a bit unfair when one of the said adults is the majestic and pristine Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the other is a gun-toting trash can who has been arrested more times than Kim Kardashian has been married.

White people appear to be really afraid Critical Race Theory is being taught in K-12 schools even though evidence that it’s actually happening is scarce. Meanwhile, Black people tend to be far more concerned with a Black-ademic study known as Critical Racist Might be Teaching My Child Reality, which is backed by an…Read more...

The ESPY Awards may celebrate “the best players, moments, coaches and games in sports,” but many of this year’s Black award winners are equally adept at advocacy and compassion, as evidenced during the ceremony that took place Saturday in New York City, hosted by The Falcon and the Winter Soldier star Anthony Mackie.Read more...

Say what, say what, say what? We’re about to see what’s up with Carl Thomas, Dave Hollister and Donnell Jones!Read more...

Zaila Avant-garde, the 14-year-old girl who won both the Scripps National Spelling Bee, and all of our hearts last week, has been offered full-ride scholarships by multiple colleges.

Barack Obama is the coolest president we’ve ever had.Read more...

Come torrential rain or blazing sunshine, Kerby Jean-Raymond knows how to stage a Black-stravaganza. The award-winning designer and creative director of Pyer Moss is the first Black American designer to be invited to present during Haute Couture Week; a historic achievement he doubled down on by centering Black…Read more...

In case you missed it (which was actually pretty hard to do if you’re active on social media even as an American who says “soccer” instead of “football/futbol”), England’s team was defeated by Italy at Sunday’s Euro 2020 final.Read more...

Anti-Blackness is a global phenomenon that rears its ugly head whenever white people are displeased and negroes are involved. That’s why three Black soccer players became victims of racial abuse after they missed penalty kicks while playing for England against Italy in the European Championship shootout on Sunday.…Read more...

I don’t know how former President Trump did it, but he’s finally reached the point where even Fox News is tired of his bullshit.

Jodie Turner-Smith has been the victim of a recent jewelry theft during her time at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.Read more...

If you ask a Black person working as a manager at your local Walmart store whether you should get a job there, chances are they might invoke the great Reggie COUZ to answer you: “Oh hell noooooooo-ohh-aaahhhhhhhhhh!”

Breonna Taylor’s family has filed a lawsuit against the Louisville Metro Police Department, alleging that the department is withholding records and body camera footage of the night officers shot and killed the 26-year-old in 2020.

Surveillance footage that captured the moments leading up to Marvin Scott III’s death while in custody at a Texas jail was released by officials on Friday.

Earlier this week, prosecutors in Suffolk County, Mass. released excerpts of racist rhetoric written in journals by Nathan Allen, who murdered a Black man and woman last month in Winthrop, Mass.

Work to remove two statues erected in honor of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in Charlottesville, VA began Saturday morning.

You may remember seeing or reading about Hervis Rogers, a Texan who went viral waiting six hours to cast a ballot at Texas Southern University last March.

Conservatives are still pretending they actually know anything about white people’s latest propaganda target Critical Race Theory, and now it has caused students to lose their spot at a private school in Gahanna, Ohio, after two mothers violated its enrollment agreement by going on some right-winger podcast to…Read more...

It seems something in the spandex ain’t stretching to authentic diversity and inclusion at Lululemon. The activewear and lifestyle brand—which boasts over 500 storefronts and over $4.4 billion in 2020 revenue—was one of many companies to proclaim their support for Black lives in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder…Read more...

With more and more high school athletes opting to forgo college in favor of securing the bag, five-star recruit Jalen Lewis just became the youngest prospect in the history of ever to turn pro in the U.S., per ESPN and The Athletic.Read more...

Last week, The Root reported that Toyota defended itself after receiving backlash for being a top donor to Republican legislators who voted against certifying the election results which declared President Joe Biden America’s new leader.Read more...

I want you to know we have a lot of fun working at The Root.Read more...

The word “Black” is now synonymous with “Critical Race Theory,” for white people across the nation. A West Virginia school has paused a program called “Black Math Genius” because white parents felt it somehow represented CRT.

In recent months, much has been said about some of our favorite female athletes. But now, just a few weeks ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, Time Magazine has provided the perfect platform to allow these transcendent women to speak on their own behalf.Read more...

A judge sentenced a Michigan man to five years in prison on Thursday for striking a Black teen with a bike lock last summer.

Edward Cagney Mathews has been having a rough go of it ever since a viral video showed him harassing a Black resident with racial slurs while asserting his right to be wherever he wants to be besides wherever Humpty Dumpty-ass white men go to mind their own damn business and leave Black folk alone.Read more...

“Maybe you should wear your UCLA sweatshirt to your appointment. You have to wear something that will make them take you seriously.”

At this point, you almost have to feel bad for Giannis Antetokounmpo.Read more...

Few things boost the profile of a fashion item like it being worn by a celebrity, and there are few (if any) celebrities as major as Beyoncé. So when fans and fashion lovers spotted the star out and about in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Thursday sporting a white Telfar shopping bag, heads understandably exploded at the sight of…Read more...

Spelling bees buzzed throughout my entire childhood.

The month of July is the most important of the year by sheer virtue of the fact I was born in it.

Clap if you’ve ever witnessed the complete circus that is The Wendy Williams Show.Read more...

When we say protect Black women, we mean it. Even if it comes at the expense of one of rap’s favorite artist’s seemingly infallible legacy. (No, not him or him. A different one this time.)

A hate crime investigation is underway in Long Beach, Calif., after it was discovered last week that some pitiful racist vandalized the city’s statue of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.Read more...

Former President Donald Trump and alleged attorney Rudy Giuliani have been down bad since last November. Trump is apparently still fixated on what was probably the biggest L of his life, and Giuliani is currently the subject of multiple state and federal investigations. The hits keep coming, as Arizona Secretary of…Read more...

Naya Rivera’s 5-year-old son Josey is apparently just like his late mother. That’s what Yolanda Previtire, mother of the actress best known for her groundbreaking role on Glee, told ABC News’ Juju Chang during a Thursday morning appearance on Good Morning America commemorating the first anniversary of Rivera’s…Read more...

Anyone who actually possesses the ability to think critically can see that all of this Republican anti-Critical Race Theory nonsense amounts to nothing more than a propaganda campaign to promote jingoism, protect white people’s feelings and obfuscate any and all references to slavery and racism in the telling of…Read more...

At this point, there’s very little that can change my opinion that cops are the most inhumane group of people in the country. If they’re not brutalizing Black bodies in the middle of the street, then chances are they’re violating them while confined in a jail cell. Example: A Black woman in Illinois was pinned, tased,…Read more...

The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is vast—it’s full of sequels, spin-offs, prequels and even…hypothetical possibilities.Read more...

Don’t call it a comeback. (Like seriously, please don’t. Nobody wants this news.)Read more...