Viola Davis has a story to tell—and no, it’s not How to Get Away With Murder. On Wednesday, it was announced that Davis will be releasing a memoir titled Finding Me in April of next year.Read more...

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s big moment as a superhero is getting closer...well, kind of. We have a bit of a longer wait until we finally see it, but he’s talking about it while promoting his upcoming movie Jungle Cruise.Read more...

First, Logan Paul took on Floyd Mayweather and then, Logan’s father, Rand, was looking for a dust up with America’s most beloved immunologist, Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Sooner or later, white people are going to have to learn there is no context in which their use of the n-word is anything less than inappropriate and racist. It doesn’t matter what form of the word they use, if they used it while telling a story in which it was used or if they were repeating what they heard some Black…Read more...

One of my favorite parts of Blackness is the very specific shared knowledge-set that so many of us have about very specific people, places and things. There is an entire universe that exists within Blackness—The Black Mainstream—where people like Kirk Franklin are household names and Clifton Powell might as well be a…Read more...

Sometimes, you should just sit there and enjoy your show. That’s the main takeaway from the Twitter melée that ensued on Tuesday afternoon after Tony-nominated playwright and screenwriter Jeremy O. Harris (Slave Play; Zola) spontaneously tweeted his admiration for the writing of the always controversial creator of …Read more...

I will admit that I was wrong.

The first episode of Tiger Woods’ miniseries is out now.Read more...

(This is part one of a two-part series where writer Christina Blacken takes the Ford Bronco Sport to Chicago’s surrounding wilderness).Read more...

Hump Day has a specific meaning this week because we have to get over the hump to finally make it to Thursday—which will likely focus a lot on Kanye West. I’m already tired!

I gathered my things as quickly as I could. I left school in a rush and ran to my bus.

Forget having a moment, Normani is the moment.

White people prove time and time again they are far too fragile and wrapped up in privilege and denial to even consider the possibility that race played a part in the way a thing unfolded.Read more...

Elevated and luxury streetwear brands are on the come-up and Virgil Abloh is king. From establishing his luxury streetwear brand Off-White, to being named artistic director of Louis Vuitton’s men’s wear, Abloh has been bringing the concept of elevated streetwear to life for almost fifteen years.Read more...

Don’t you hate when you’re just trying to promote your podcast and cigar brand and then get caught up in a failed insurrection? That’s supposedly what happened to an agent of the Drug Enforcement Agency who was arrested for trespassing on Capitol grounds during the Capitol riot.

What does the world looks like for our trailblazers of tomorrow? To find out, OshKosh B’gosh believes we can all benefit from taking a look back at where some of our icons began. On Tuesday, an inspiring new back-to-school campaign, Today is Someday, was unveiled by the much-beloved babies and children’s apparel…Read more...

I don’t think it comes as a surprise to anyone that the 2021 Olympic games feels like a bit of a shitshow. We’re still in the midst of a global pandemic, with the more contagious Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus quickly becoming the dominant strain stateside. As more and more Olympic participants contract the…Read more...

If you don’t know their names, you either know their iconic look and style...or their iconic songs. Whether it’s Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, New Edition, Sounds of Blackness, Yolanda Adams, Usher, Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, Barry White, Boyz II Men, Karyn White and beyond, you can thank this legendary…Read more...

Last week, The Root reported that the Texas state Senate voted 18-4 to pass Senate Bill 3—another white fragility bill masquerading as anti-Critical Race Theory legislation. The GOP in Texas—which is fast becoming the sanctuary state where terrible and oppressive laws go to thrive—wants to ditch requirements for…Read more...

We may know him U-S-H-E-R-R-A-Y-M-O-N-D, but to Usher’s three—soon to be four—kids, he’s just Dad.Read more...

It only took more than 600,000 deaths in the United States from COVID-19 for some Fox News hosts to finally take the virus seriously.

Before the Capitol riot even took place, groups like the Proud Boys were already making it known they were prepared to act a fool on Jan. 6. The leader of the group pleaded guilty to burning a Black Lives Matter banner during a violent demonstration in Washington D.C., last December.Read more...

There are nuances and challenges to navigate in every marriage—and certainly in every pregnancy. But as actor Joshua Jackson (The Affair, Little Fires Everywhere) recently shared with Esquire, his marriage to fellow actor Jodie Turner-Smith (Queen & Slim, Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse) has been one punctuated by not…Read more...

No debate about it; Black female excellence won Harvard University’s annual summer debate competition this year. Sixteen-year-old Jayla Jackson and seventeen-year-old Emani Stanton just made history as the first Black female duo to win the Harvard Debate Council’s annual summer debate competition at Harvard University.Read more...

Kanye West is doing a thing.Read more...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, (R-Ga.), the quack who makes the other Republicans look moderately sane, was kicked off of Twitter for the second time for sending out crazy tweets about COVID-19 that violated the company’s misinformation policy.

I wanted to tell you a great story about the first time I read The Coldest Winter Ever. I wanted to tell you who told me about it and which parts they raved about and the exact words that were said to convince me to read it. It could have been my college roommate. Or my Mom. Or even some guy I was dating because in…Read more...

On Monday, Naomi Osaka made history once again as the first Black female athlete to grace the cover of Sports Illustrated’s 2021 Swimsuit Issue.

On Monday, a Missouri legislative committee held an invite-only hearing on Critical Race Theory and how the state’s educators should teach racism in K-12 schools. The committee is now under heavy criticism for excluding an enormously important element needed to have any critical and productive discussion on the…Read more...

Dr. Ian Smith has filed an “unlawful discrimination” complaint against ViacomCBS and Dr. Phil’s Stage 29 Productions in relation to being fired as sole host of the CBS show The Doctors. Smith, who first joined the health advice talk show in 2014 as co-host before becoming the single host in September 2020, claims he…Read more...

So for this to make sense for you now the way it made sense to me then, we have to start at the beginning, which is in my living room, in Pittsburgh, on either a Monday or a Wednesday in the winter of either 1987 or 1988.

Republicans are just soooo oversensitive these days. They storm school board meetings, post vitriolic rants on Facebook, and generally act like a 2-year-old who had their favorite toy taken away whenever the topic of critical race theory (CRT) is brought up. Michelle Leete, the Virginia PTA vice president of Training,…Read more...

Michael B. Jordan is opening up about his time working with his Without Remorse costar Lauren London.

It seems things may finally be getting “back on the good foot” when it comes to the circumstances surrounding the James Brown estate.Read more...

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Black conservatives really only exist to parrot narratives for white conservatives. They almost never have an original thought of their own, so they willingly sit on the hands of Republican puppeteers and serve as their “Black friends” who will tow their false narratives…Read more...

It looks like Audible Inc. is adding to its A-list of partnerships such as LeBron James, Steph Curry, Kevin Hart and Kenya Barris—and bringing in a little “U.N.I.T.Y.” On Monday afternoon, the audio storytelling platform announced a multi-project first-look development deal with Queen Latifah and Shakim Compere’s…Read more...

Although the National Football League claims to have 32 franchises—all those logos, mascots and jerseys really mean nothing. When it comes down to it, there are only two NFL teams:

A Florida man became the first person sentenced on felony charges as a result of the Capitol riot on Monday.

On Friday, congressional Democrats introduced a bill to rename forests, streams, lakes, mountain peaks and other landmarks in the country that include offensive language such as racial slurs for Black people, Mexicans and Native Americans. That’s right, good people: The totally non-white supremacist nation which is…Read more...

Remember last week, when The Root reported that Jada Pinkett Smith had been encouraged by daughter Willow to shave her head? While Jada’s cropped locks were at likely in response to the prolonged alopecia she’d discussed on Red Table Talk, we got a little more context on the origin of Willow’s fade on Friday, when she…Read more...

The story of this Formula 1 season has largely been the battle between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton for the World Driver’s Championship. While Verstappen handily won the previous three races, Hamilton took the victory at Sunday’s British Grand Prix after a collision between the two drivers in the opening lap took…Read more...

Francine “Frankie” Lons, the biological mother of R&B singer Keyshia Cole, has died, reportedly due to an overdose, at the age of 61.Read more...

Nike, are we for real still doing this?

Watching the Phoenix Suns and the Milwaukee Bucks play in the best of seven series can teach you a lot about life.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed the state budget, and included in the budget is $75 million in reparations for survivors of forced sterilizations of prison inmates allowed under the state’s eugenics laws. Thousands of women—some of whom were sterilized without their consent as early as 11 years ago—are set to…Read more...

From afros to box braids to high-top fades, Black hair is always a fun discussion to have. Everybody’s personal hair journey is different even if we all—well, mostly all—have similar experiences no matter where you’re from in African America. And what’s super interesting is that if you grew up in a Black household of…Read more...

If “hot girl summer” was a magazine cover...well, now it is, thanks to Sports Illustrated having the profound wisdom to make thee hot girl herself, Megan Thee Stallion, one of its 2021 cover stars. In fact, it’s a woman of color trifecta this round, as Meg joins tennis star Naomi Osaka and model-actress Leyna…Read more...

On December 2, 2020, Chicago rapper G Herbo and a bevy of his associates were indicted on 14 federal charges, ranging from wire fraud to identity theft.

First the U.S. banned the fastest woman in the world—for the uninformed, that’s Sha’Carri Richardson—and now COVID-19 is coming through and crushing the building.

Yeezy is coming! Yeezy is coming! (Or whatever Paul Revere said.)