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A judge in Wisconsin has amended Kyle Rittenhouse’s bond conditions to bar the 18-year-old from drinking or associating with known white supremacists and other bigots.

We all knew Trump was going off the rails in his last few weeks in office—that is “off the rails” for him, a man who has always been a little off kilter to say the least.

We can’t say President Joe Biden hasn’t hit the ground running. In his first week in the Oval Office, Biden has already directed federal law enforcement and national intelligence officials to complete an assessment of the threat posed by domestic violent extremism in America.

The on-again, off-again, played-out-in-front-of-the-cameras (sometimes) marriage of Brooklyn restaurateur Marc Daly and Bravo’s Real Housewives of Atlanta star, actress and former Miss USA, Kenya Moore, is on the outs again.Read more...

As America recovers from the act of domestic terrorism committed against the U.S. Capitol earlier this month, some participants have expressed regret for...*snickers*...I’m sorry, let me start again.Read more...

A $641 million settlement that would go towards Flint residents who suffered from being exposed to lead-contaminated water was granted preliminary approval by a judge on Thursday.

Regina King (also known as Regina Thee King and Regina BEEN King) will be making her hosting debut in the upcoming new season of Saturday Night Live.Read more...

Before we get into today’s list, I humbly request that you please press F to pay respects to our Xbox friends in the comments. On Friday, it was announced that the price of one year of Xbox Live Gold has doubled from $60 to $120. While I’m a Game Pass Ultimate subscriber and I’m basically already paying that, my…Read more...

President Biden reversed a Trump administration order that banned federal agencies, contractors, and any agency that receives federal funding from conducting certain types of diversity training. I can’t lie, even knowing we were in for a change, after the last four years I’m still not quite acclimated to the general…Read more...

If I were a member of Congress, I’d still be looking sideways at some of my colleagues (GOP ones, specifically) even though we’re now weeks removed from the Capitol insurrection and Republicans are suddenly all in for “unity.” That a Republican member of Congress, Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland, decided to try and bring…Read more...

Facts are evil.Read more...

Sundance has announced their Film Festival Jury for 2021, highlighting some of the best and brightest across film, art, and culture.Read more...

I’m an HBCU (historically Black college or university) enthusiast. There was a time in my life that whenever I went to a city with an HBCU, I tried to get to the bookstore to buy a t-shirt from the institution. My collection of HBCU shits was top notch. And I’d go out and wear them, too. It was nothing to see me…Read more...

You know what’s really wild—albeit not super surprising to Black people—about the siege on the U.S. Capitol earlier this month? Those who took part in it weren’t just idiotic civilians; some were idiots who are also largely considered to be this nation’s heroes. It’s bad enough that cops and government officials were…Read more...

How was your 2020?Read more...

Just because death is inevitable doesn’t mean that we’re ever truly prepared for its arrival.

On Saturday, Lifetime will debut its latest original biopic about one of hip-hop’s most iconic duos—Salt-N-Pepa.

Ever since I can remember, from a very young age, I have known all the lyrics to every single song on Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On album in the order that they appear on the LP. Both sides.Read more...

Wednesday’s inauguration was a breath of fresh air in many ways. We saw the swearing-in of the first woman, Black person, and South-Asian to be this country’s vice president. We saw a young and brilliant poet, Amanda Gorman, state undeniable truths about this country’s harrowing and recent past and declare powerful…Read more...

I do not remember the first time I went to Red Lobster. Which is fine. I also do not remember the first time I saw Halle Berry. But I know that my reaction was the same: How does something so perfect exist and are there more of these in Cleveland?

To say that Michelle Buteau keeps it real would be an understatement. The comedian, actress and now author of Survival of the Thickest: Plus-Sized Essays in a Small-Minded World, published in December by “Simon and Schu Schu,” as she affectionately calls it, is proudly unfiltered—and hilariously so on this week’s…Read more...

What do you call a person who commits a crime, lies about it, comes clean after getting caught in the lie and then makes up a lame excuse for committing the aforementioned crime? Would you call them a criminal? A hooligan? An undesirable member of society? Well, in this instance, the thing to call said person is “Mr.…Read more...

Patrick Mahomes is much more than a superstar talent, he’s redefined the quarterback position and quite literally is doing things that we’ve never seen before on the football field.Read more...

By a vote of 93-2, the Senate has confirmed Lloyd Austin to be the next Secretary of Defense and the first Black man to serve as the chief of the Pentagon.

It’s like the Notorious B.I.G. said: President Joe Biden kicked in the door waving his Bic and then commenced to signing some shit.

Oh, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, you tried it. We saw your sad ass up there trying to fight for Trump, claiming that the impeachment article filed against him so soon after leaving office wouldn’t give him enough time to mount a defense. McConnell was trying to get the House to wait until Jan. 28 to send…Read more...

Cori Bush is a renaissance woman. Not only is the Missouri congresswoman the first Black woman to represent the state’s First Congressional District, she’s also a registered nurse, ordained pastor for the people of St. Louis, community organizer, single mother, and the first activist from the Black Lives Matter…Read more...

Universally regarded as one of baseball’s greatest players, Hank Aaron became the all-time home run king, a title he would hold for more than 30 years. Aaron, who was also the last of the Negro League players to move to Major League Baseball, died Friday at age 86. His daughter confirmed his death with Atlanta station…Read more...

It goes without saying that at this point in the pandemic, we’re well beyond wanderlust; almost a year spent primarily indoors will make even the most ardent homebody long for distant climes. Apparently, Virgil Abloh isn’t immune to cabin fever, since the Louis Vuitton Menswear designer’s latest collection got fairly…Read more...

With the various coronavirus vaccines now circulating throughout the nation, the conversation about the pandemic has shifted to include the logistics of distributing doses efficiently, sufficiently and, to a lesser degree, equitably. A number of Dallas County Commissioners in Texas recently tried to tackle that issue…Read more...

Although the MAGA Games’ closing ceremony has been ridiculed for the fourth-shittiest fireworks display since Francis Scott Key penned his magnum opus (Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Pearl Harbor still finish with medals), when we realized that white people were going to have a lot of time on their hands for the foreseeable…Read more...

Comedian Dave Chappelle has tested positive for COVID-19, The Root has learned.

After being criticized for allowing members of the Proud Boys to speak at a previous meeting, a lawmaker in Michigan decided the most appropriate response was to grab his rifle during an online meeting.

Portland is just weird, y’all. I don’t know how else to explain the fact eight people were arrested for damaging a Democratic Party office and an ICE facility after President Joe Biden was inaugurated on Wednesday.

Despite what may be trending on Twitter right now, the charges against Daystar Peterson (aka Tory Lanez) as it relates to the shooting of Megan Thee Stallion have, in fact, not been dropped.Read more...

A white woman in Georgia has filed a lawsuit against City Schools of Decatur alleging discrimination and retaliation after she defended a video of her son using racial slurs. Oh white people, y’all never change.

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, hundreds of demonstrators marched over New York City’s Brooklyn Bridge in honor of King’s legacy. The march—called the Black Liberation March—reportedly started out peaceful but ended in clashes between participants and police officers. Twenty-nine people were arrested, several officers…Read more...

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Have you ever gotten one of those notices from the IRS that says something like, “You owe us $10,000 but maybe you don’t. Fill out this paperwork and tell us why or why not. Kthxbi.”? I didn’t exactly get one of those—I don’t actually owe the IRS anything, much less $10,000; it’s complicated—but something in that vein…Read more...

We did it, y’all. We half-survived.

We made it, y’all! We’ve survived four crazy years of a Trump Presidency and now we can all go outside and bask in the glow that is the Biden administration. Actually—scratch that. We still can’t go outside (umm...hello, worldwide pandemic.) But we can still bask and we can still virtually attend some fun and…Read more...

In case you somehow missed the memo, on Wednesday, Kamala Harris became the first Black woman in the history of ever to be sworn in as vice president.Read more...

I’m going to begin with a confession: I didn’t watch much of President Joe Biden’s inauguration. Not because I wasn’t excited that not-Trump was officially being sworn into office, it’s just...Look, I was playing video games, OK? Whatever, I follow the news all day for a living.Read more...

There is power in the president’s pen, and America’s newest President Joe Biden is expected to sign the fuck out of some executive orders Thursday in an attempt to ramp up “COVID-19 testing and vaccinations, tightening enforcement of workplace safety rules and funneling more federal dollars to states struggling…Read more...

On Wednesday morning in Washington, D.C., the world watched as a Black and South Asian woman took a well-earned position of power in the nation’s government. Kamala Harris embodies the ideal of a multiracial, gender-equal democracy, but it was another Black woman, Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman, who captured the…Read more...

If you were to create the perfect point guard, you’d want a floor general with court savvy and a high basketball IQ, who’s a tremendous and willing passer that also plays suffocating defense.

I know what the headline says, but we’re not actually gonna talk about the inauguration today—at least not the formalities of it.

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It’s been 12 years since I last felt how I felt while I begrudgingly watched some of the inauguration yesterday. Whatever relief experienced in ridding of the outgoing president (minimal) or pride in witnessing history (eh), was flattened by anxiety that something terrible was going to happen. And so from the time…Read more...

From Selma to Queen Sugar to When They See Us to whatever the hell else has dominated the pop culture landscape, Ava Duvernay has made it her mission to bang us in the head with an endless ARRAY— (see what I did there?)—of dope content. And after conquering the film and television industry, the 48-year-old Oscar…Read more...