If you’re reading this, they don’t want to count your vote.Read more...

Arkansas is one of three states that has no laws regarding hate crimes on its books, but a new bill recently introduced by the state’s legislature will hopefully change that.Read more...

A four-day event meant to honor Breonna Taylor and amplify calls for justice is set to take place in late August, in Louisville.Read more...

On Tuesday, a new video was released detailing the 2016 shooting death of an unarmed Black man by an Atlanta Police officer.Read more...

Ever since Mark Meadows left Nickelodeon’s Double Dare his life has been trending downhill.

We are in the midst of a renewed focus upon Black safety and survival—and Black female political power—and yet, as we were reminded by our peers at Essence today, “While Black women have the highest turnout rate at the polls, they also have the [second] highest rates of sexual assault,” eclipsed only by Native…Read more...

Conservatives can be mad at the Black Lives Matter movement—the protests, the civil unrest, the calls to defund the police—all they want, but nobody can deny that the movement is beginning to yield results. A prime example of those results comes to us from the state of Virginia, where a legislative panel approved on…Read more...

If the calls for justice on behalf of any Black victim of police violence should be considered a no-brainer, we should definitely be uplifting the name of someone who was fatally shot during the botched serving of a drug warrant while unarmed and in the confines of her own home where no drugs were found.…Read more...

If the president doesn’t walk his ass into Jerry Jones’ empty Cowboys stadium and have all of the seats after calling for a boycott of Goodyear Tires upon learning that they don’t want their employees wearing that “Make America Great Again” shit.

Tracee Ellis Ross isn’t boss-ish, she’s a whole boss.Read more...

Nearly two weeks after he was released by the Washington Football Team over disturbing charges of strangulation and assault and battery of his girlfriend, former LSU star Derrius Guice has been accused of rape by two former students who attended the same school.Read more...

You cannot read Ethan Strauss’s piece on the NBA’s rating problems without a subscription to The Athletic. Fortunately, you do not need to read it to have read it, because his 25-character tweet accurately synopsizes the 2,000 words behind the paywall.

Season Four of Insecure was not the best for Molly Carter. Fans of the show took to the Twitter streets to discuss how poorly Issa Dee (Issa Rae) was treated by her lawyer best friend, and Yvonne Orji—the now-Emmy-nominated actress who portrays the fictional character—often found herself having to explain that the…Read more...

“Pour it up,” indeed.Read more...

There are two groups of people that I don’t trust under any circumstances: cashiers when they say I can’t have extra napkins (y’all greedy with the oxtail gravy, too) and police officers when they insist that they’re acting in the best interest of Black and Brown folks.

Can y’all keep a secret?Read more...

Day 1 was the day. The tone was set. The big Joker was played. They could’ve dropped the mic and walked off after one day of a virtual Democratic National Convention and America would’ve been just as hype and ready to take down one of the worst administrations this side of Belarus.

In today’s episode of Now, Sis, a Black Army veteran learned a valuable lesson after she showed up to a Back the Blue rally on Sunday in Wayne County, N.Y., and was met with an unexpected discovery—they racist AF up in there. Just as Black people discovered long ago that not all skin folk are kinfolk, this proud…Read more...

Another woman has come forward with accusations against Cuba Gooding Jr.Read more...

Tyler Perry will receive the prestigious Governors Award at the 2020 Primetime Emmys, which is granted to an individual who has provided outstanding contributions to the television industry.Read more...

Stick to sports.Read more...

The Issa Rae machine won’t stop, y’all!Read more...

Planes, Trains & Automobiles—the 1987 Steve Martin and John Candy-led comedy film from the late John Hughes—is set to get a 21st-century reboot, with Will Smith and Kevin Hart reportedly locked to star and produce. The original film is centered around two men attempting to use various modes of transportation in order…Read more...

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Multiple homeowners in Cleveland, Ohio, have reported their Black Lives matter signs were set on fire.Read more...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but...Read more...

Neo (Keanu Reeves) may be “The One” of The Matrix franchise, but we can’t ignore the impact of the one and only Morpheus, portrayed by Laurence Fishburne. Whether it was his wise words or his royal style (shout-out to those sunglasses without temples), Morpheus was the man.Read more...

On Monday evening, a Texas federal judge ruled in favor of a Black teenager who was told he had to cut his hair or he couldn’t attend school.Read more...

If there is one thing white people refuse to do, it’s let Black people live in peace.Read more...

You can take the woman out of Hollywood, but you can’t take the Hollywood out of the woman—or, at least that seems to be the case with Los Angeles-born actress-turned-duchess-turned-prodigal daughter Meghan Markle, who returned to her home state with her royal husband and son earlier this year. Newly settled into what …Read more...

My grandmother once said: “If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything.”Read more...

In 2005, I was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder while staying at UCLA’s medical center in Los Angeles for several weeks over Christmas. Back then, to me, the severity of my diagnosis was already scary, but what was even scarier? Feeling I was alone.Read more...

For Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) our economic plight is a political issue.Read more...

There is little to be found in the way of pick-me-ups during these dark days, but if there’s one beauty staple that reliably turns this writer’s frown upside down, it’s red lipstick. So imagine how wide I’m grinning at the news that my favorite makeup maven, Pat McGrath has teamed up with legendary streetwear brand…Read more...

I’m sure you’ve heard this before—more than likely here at The Root—but the NCAA is big business for everybody but Black players.Read more...

I knew it would happen.Read more...

Dear Evan Hansen, the Tony Award-winning musical centered around a teenager’s life experiences while struggling with anxiety and depression, will be getting the film treatment. Actress and singer Amandla Stenberg will reportedly take part in the musical’s big-screen adaptation.Read more...

Of the several nits I have to pick with Watchmen—a show I am still infatuated with—the most prominent (and also the pettiest) is that the murderous racists didn’t die violent and painful enough deaths.Read more...

Despite the multitude of stories popping up in our newsfeed that show white people facing consequences after their racism was caught on camera, a lot of white people still appear to be comfortable showing off the extent of their bigotry even after they realize they’re being recorded.Read more...

G.I. Ken and Karen, the white St. Louis couple who had trouble sitting in their living room and minding their own business, the same cop-loving couple who felt deputized by their whiteness to pull guns on Black Lives Matters demonstrators—who weren’t even fucking with them—will participate in the virtual Republican…Read more...

I have a thing about being touched.Read more...

Gosh, I really miss Barack Obama every single day. Every time he posts on Instagram, I’m quick to “double-tap” whatever he’s put up, solely based on the fact that it’s Barack Obama who posted it. However, on Monday, I ‘liked’ what he posted because it shows his incredible musical palate.Read more...

Turn the page and get into this news! Netflix has announced it will debut Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices, a new young children and family series hosted by author and activist Marley Dias!Read more...

As the 26th annual—and first virtual—Essence Festival dawned this year, #BlackFemaleAnonymous, a group of “former and current employees” of the 50-year-old magazine published an indicting missive titled “The Truth About Essence.” The open letter (subsequently legally referred to as “the Article”) alleged a toxic…Read more...

Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award-winning actor and singer Billy Porter closed out Night One of the Democratic National Convention with his rendition of Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth,” likely better known as “Stop, Hey, What’s That Sound?”Read more...

We all saw this coming.

It only took a global pandemic, a four-month hiatus and a tab of approximately $150 million, but all is right in the world because the NBA Playoffs have officially begun. To the delight of sports fans far and wide, August Madness kicked off on Monday, and here are some takeaways from Day 1.Read more...

White conservatives have to be some of the most manipulative, delusional and disingenuous people on Earth. They’ve made being deliberately obtuse an art form, and you could almost admire them for it if their willful ignorance superpowers weren’t used almost exclusively to perpetuate white supremacy while denying that…Read more...

It’s week three of The Root Institute, meaning it’s time to talk about the health of our minds and our finances featuring actress Taraji P. Henson and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ).Read more...

Quinn Coleman, the Senior Director of A&R at Capitol Records and son of former BET Chairman and CEO Debra Lee, has died at the age of 31, Billboard reports. Coleman’s cause of death hasn’t been confirmed at this time.Read more...