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For Mariah Moore, voting is a ritual.

Ciara and Russell Wilson are the latest celebrities to fund a charter school, a move they say extends the couple’s philanthropic commitment to education.Read more...

One of the best qualities a creator can have is to listen to (constructive) feedback and adjust accordingly—and it appears Beyoncé and Adidas have done exactly that with their second collaborative drop of Ivy Park. Following criticisms that the relaunch of the brand was both cost-prohibitive to most and lacking…Read more...

Have we entered the season of forgiveness? In his 2020 bestselling memoir, The Chiffon Trenches fashion legend André Leon Talley referred to his former boss, Condé Nast Artistic Director Anna Wintour, as “ruthless” and “not capable” of human kindness.” Following Wintour’s much-publicized apology for “mistakes” made…Read more...

Black communities have been dealing with a multitude of crises this year. We’re all collectively outraged and emotionally exhausted by police violence, COVID-19 and the recession. That’s why we’re already seeing a larger early voter turnout than previous years. People are energized to show up and vote because they…Read more...

Video footage has surfaced showing that during the first night of civil unrest over the shooting death of Walter Wallace Jr. by Philadelphia police, officers surrounded a slow-moving SUV, smashed its windows, pulled the driver and passenger out of the vehicle, threw them to the ground and then moments later, removed a…Read more...

Toronto Raptors guard Terence Davis was arrested and charged with third-degree assault and criminal mischief after allegedly striking a woman, according to ESPN and Yahoo Sports.Read more...

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham just can’t stop begging with his begging ass, and you know who is sick of it? Fox News. Do you know how much Lindsey Graham, Donald Trump’s favorite ass pimple, has to beg for Republican PornHub to be so tired of his begging that they cut him off mid-beg?!

It’s no secret that in recent years, the Young Adult—or “YA”—book category has been booming. But not everyone who browses young adult books is making a purchase for the teen or tween in their life. Half of these titles—some available for pre-order, some already on sale—are as excellent as reading choices for folks…Read more...

Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, the United States Congress has given only one stimulus check to help Americans weather the public health crisis and its ensuing economic downturn.

Y’all, this continues to be one of the strangest console launches I’ve lived through. Typically there are multiple events throughout the year, each giving you more information about the new console, before culminating in some star-studded, over-the-top launch event. For obvious, virus-related reasons, that hasn’t…Read more...

There’s been this wild theory going around that now that all of us non-essential workers have been working from home (shout out to the essential workers keeping us all afloat), we have ample free time to engross ourselves in reading. In my case, that would entail finally diving into at least a hundred books I’ve long…Read more...

After district officials sent a memo informing school faculty they couldn’t visibly express their support for Black Lives Matter, students at a Maine high school decided to protest.Read more...

As a Black girl born in Minneapolis, you’d think I’d have closely tracked the ascension of Somali refugee turned American political firebrand Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). But as I graduated high school just outside the Twin Cities and made a new life as a college student in New York City, Omar was a new arrival in the…Read more...

NBA star Chris Paul led a march on Tuesday to an early voting site at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina.Read more...

2020 is ending without any Respect.Read more...

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On Monday, The Root reported that Donald Trump’s senior advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner showed the world that racism is a family tradition when he fixed his lipless mouth-flaps to say that “President Trump’s policies are the policies that can help [Black] people break out of the problems that they’re complaining…Read more...

It’s a tumultuous time for our country.

Wait.

I’m an Ivy League-educated white woman.Read more...

In a year defined by grief, dancer Kevin Boseman, one of late actor Chadwick Boseman’s older brothers, took a moment to celebrate an important milestone: two years without cancer.Read more...

Nana Gyamfi has the 2020 election on the brain, specifically what the future holds for Black immigrant populations in the United States.Read more...

If the Trump administration’s tenure in office were a metaphor it would be the rally at Omaha’s Eppley Airfield Tuesday. As the racism pep rally wound to a close and the temperature nosedived to near freezing, Trump sat in the warmth of Air Force One while thousands of MAGAts stood on the overcrowded runways with no…Read more...

Jemele Hill was clear in 2017 when she called Donald J. Trump a white supremacist. While her series of tweets cost Hill a job at ESPN, the Detroit-native has no regrets. Make no mistake: Hill was publicly targeted by the White House for her statements (calling for Hill to be fired), but please believe that the …Read more...

2020 has been quite the year for a soldier of white supremacy who’s been dead for just over 150 years.Read more...

In news that can only be described as “y’all niggas is tripping,” the White House’s science policy office released a list of President Donald Trump’s first term accomplishments and right at the very top as if America doesn’t have news stations and Google alerts on their phone, they listed “ending the COVID-19…Read more...

Philadelphians turned out for the second night of protests on Tuesday night in the wake of the fatal police shooting of 27-year-old Walter Wallace Jr. Police and elected officials took a much more aggressive stance against protesters than they did on Monday, with Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) enlisting the help of…Read more...

If you’re anything like The Root crew, month upon month of quarantine has deepened your relationship with your kitchen—or, perhaps gotten you newly acquainted. Whether it’s perfecting your sourdough starter (we’re looking at you, Managing Editor Genetta Adams), starting an entire Insta-feed for your culinary creations…Read more...

The drought is over.Read more...

Cori Bush doesn’t often take the time to rest. During the 400 days of protests that erupted in Ferguson in 2014, where Bush rose to prominence as an organizer, she rarely missed a day, often arriving still in her nursing scrubs and sneakers. Earlier this year, just days after being hospitalized with what she suspected…Read more...

There are some who believe that should Trump somehow pull out a victory on Election Day, America is headed for armageddon. They believe that the president will ride to a podium on the White House lawn on the backs of two unfriendly, fire-breathing dragons, wearing the black hood of a guillotine executioner in which…Read more...

The following fairy tale is based on a true story.Read more...

One of the bright spots in these dark times is that all this extra downtime has provided new opportunities to educate ourselves, often via creative new ways of engaging with tech. Designers of color advocacy platform Harlem’s Fashion Row (HFR) has been leveraging both throughout this year, producing summits and a…Read more...

On Monday, the CW unveiled two first-look images for its new Batwoman, played by Javicia Leslie, the first Black woman to portray the superhero in a live-action TV or film. While superhero costumes are ostensibly meant to disguise (skintight latex be damned), there’s no mistaking the new Batwoman is a Black woman, and…Read more...

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You in the virtual hood now, baby! The 2020 BET Hip Hop Awards debuted on Tuesday night and we’re here to give you that awards show scoop.

A postal worker in Kentucky was hit with federal charges after it was found he allegedly dumped a large amount of mail in the dumpster, including over 100 absentee ballots.Read more...

Having lived in Arizona for the last 17 years, I can safely testify that Scottsdale is the fucking worst. I’m currently apartment hunting and I haven’t even looked in Scottsdale because it’s, empirically, The Worst™. Think I’m being hyperbolic? Well, a Scottsdale man was arrested this weekend after telling a Black man…Read more...

For some reason, white people haven’t made the correlation that racism often comes at a hefty price these days. Columbus, Ohio, learned this lesson the hard way after the city voted to settle a former officer’s discrimination suit against the Columbus Division of Police for nearly half a million dollars.Read more...

At some point, folks are gonna stop worrying about how Cardi B spends her money, and Cardi is going to stop rising to take the bait. But today is not that day, and what y’all not about to do is project your racism onto her retail therapy—namely, her extensive and much-written-about collection of Birkins. Anyone…Read more...

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is looking into a police shooting involving a teenager that occurred in Sylvester, Ga., Saturday.Read more...

Atlanta might have one of the highest concentrations of Black folks in the country, but it also ranks among the lowest in economic mobility within our communities. So in being the largest nonprofit center in the country that’s devoted to empowering Black entrepreneurs and small business owners, the Atlanta-based …Read more...

Allegations about a racist, sexist culture at the Virginia Military Institute, the oldest state-funded military academy in the country, are certainly not new—particularly for a school that has such unapologetically close ties to the Confederacy. But a series of reports about racism at the school, followed by a call…Read more...

Do you know why the Department of Justice was trying to get a defamation lawsuit against President Trump by magazine columnist, E. Jean Carroll, who claimed that the president raped her in a department store dressing room, thrown out?

Buying Black may be more on-trend than ever, but how do we celebrate and sustain Black businesses to ensure they’re built to last? A new video podcast series by American Express aims to do exactly that, Built to Last, hosted by New York Times bestselling author, journalist, producer, and former Editor-in-Chief of Teen…Read more...

Darnella Frazier, the teenager who recorded the footage of George Floyd’s death, will be presented the PEN/Benenson Courage Award in December for capturing the video that acted as a catalyst for what has arguably been the largest and most continuous Black Lives Matter movement push that the nation and the world have…Read more...

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If there was ever a time to cocoon yourself in the escapism and solace of books, it’s been this three-quarter year pandemic. We’ve had more unscheduled free time available for reading, a hobby that gets so easily de-prioritized in our gotta-be-here, need-to-do-that schedules, and in a presidency and COVID-embattled…Read more...

White people looooove to police Black bodies, and within the sports landscape, there’s no greater example of this phenomenon than embattled quarterback Cam Newton.Read more...