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It’s not even June yet and Dwyane Wade is already making a serious bid for Father of the Year.Read more...

An Arkansas police officer has been relieved of duty after authorities saw disturbing footage of him fulfilling his duties by choking a black high school student.Read more...

Don’t worry if you didn’t know that the New Hampshire primary is Tuesday. It’s OK; it just means one of three things:

In the immediate aftermath of his first championship as an NBA executive, Toronto Raptors President of Basketball Operations Masai Ujiri did what any of us would do: He turned up.Read more...

An Instant Pot, Bose headphones, Cuisinart cast-iron cookware, an AKRacing gaming chair, and a copy of The Outerworlds are some of the best Tuesday deals on the world wide web.

I believe in hookers.

It has been two whole weeks since Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others perished in a helicopter crash near Los Angeles. I have spent the entire time trying to put my thoughts on his death together in a sensible way. So many of my friends and colleagues have said it much more eloquently than…Read more...

Look, I get it.Read more...

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Last week, the Trump administration abruptly issued a ban on Global Entry for New York citizens as a result of recent laws in support of undocumented immigrants.Read more...

Last spring, over the course of 10 days, three black churches in Louisiana were burned down. It was a heinous act that evoked memories of a much darker time in our country’s history.Read more...

Look, I’m sure at this point in the game you don’t need me to tell you that Stacey Abrams is nothing short of a force of nature. She ran for governor of Georgia in 2018 and in doing so became the first black woman ever to be nominated for governor by a major party. While she gained a record number of votes statewide,…Read more...

What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done—or been implicated in? What’s the worst mistake you ever made? Were you entirely innocent, or at least, in some minor way, culpable? If innocent, did you let the anger at the injustice define you, or allow your goodness to speak for itself? If not, do you consider yourself a…Read more...

Real talk? No shade—okay, maybe just a little—but if we had a choice between being invited to the Oscars and being invited to the legendary Vanity Fair Oscars afterparty, well...we’re disco-napping and will see y’all after the Best Picture is announced. And apparently, much of Hollywood feels the same way, since the…Read more...

Editor’s Note: This week, The Root commemorates Black History Month with a series on little-known or forgotten rebels, celebrating black America’s legacy of defiance.Read more...

I believe the phrase is “not like this.”Read more...

In what serves as the latest example of a popular documentary forcing authorities into action, the Manhattan district attorney’s office will reexamine the circumstances surrounding the 1965 murder of civil rights icon Malcolm X.Read more...

Black history is American history. Full stop.Read more...

Did you watch the 2020 Academy Awards? No? Was it because the #OscarsSoWhite? I mean, they were (and accordingly, we’re going to have our lightest Oscars slideshow ever today), but in a year that denied both people of color and women their nomination shine (shoutout to Natalie Portman for having the names of this…Read more...

Unless you belong to an arbitrarily specific religion that prays exclusively to Gayle King and/or Oprah Winfrey, neither of those women are gods. Which means that neither is infallible. And if, for instance, you allowed Gayle to borrow your last $20 and she refuses to pay you back, or you invited Oprah to a game night…Read more...

On February 29, 1940, Hattie McDaniel, arguably the most well-known black actress in the entire world at the time, took to the podium at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub inside the legendary Ambassador Hotel, in Los Angeles, to accept her Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress—the first ever for a black entertainer.Read more...

During Trump’s impeachment trial, a rumor began circulating that the president of the United States had threatened GOP senators that their heads would be on a “pike” if they didn’t support Trump. Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) noted that the president was mob-bossing from the White House, but South Carolina Sen.…Read more...

Mo’Nique has been through it.Read more...

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President Trump, like most IG “models,” refuses to admit that he doesn’t wake up this naturally orange. We all know that his daily makeup routine includes, at the very least, painting his face with decayed coyote blood. Yet and still, the president keeps claiming that his images have been photoshopped by haters.

It’s the biggest (and whitest) night of film once again and we’re here to give you the scoop.

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Did it really take a former Republican congressman to finally launch the first black news network?Read more...

Is this another messy AF case of cultural appropriation?Read more...

I must say, I’m at least slightly conflicted about this one.Read more...

Tyler Perry is nominated among the worst achievements in film for 2019 but the history-making Hollywood mogul is not in bad company.Read more...

It should be clear to most everybody by now that President Donald Trump has a great affinity for showing America just how popular he is among “the blacks.” This is simply to say that the man loves parading black faces around on political stages as a way of saying, “Look, Black America, look how I’m helping you so!”…Read more...

America is white nationalism.Read more...

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Can I get a soul clap for Cynthia Erivo.Read more...

Dayton Kingery got an education he didn’t initially apply to school for.Read more...

Oh what a tangled web we weave.Read more...

As more and more states legalize the recreational use of marijuana, there exists a bit of conflict within the black community. On one had, it’s good to know that partaking of the sticky-icky will no longer result in us being locked up and trapped in the probation racket. On the other hand, knowing how many black…Read more...

Every black person with good sense can see that President Donald Trump likes to surround himself with conservative black people so he can point in any random direction and exclaim, from the book of whypipo proverbs: “How can I be racist? I have a black friend!”Read more...

Sisterhood is unmatched. And for black women, it isn’t just a concept, it is actually lifesaving.Read more...

I imagine a lot of white people miss the good ol’ days before dashcams, internet, social media, digital activism, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, integrated lunch counters, all-white governments and the God given right of every color redacted American to call a black person “nigger” and go on about their business like…Read more...

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I don’t know about y’all but I prefer to end the week with some good news. After a week as exhausting as this one, I think we’re all in need of it.Read more...

So by all accounts medical professionals and researchers have come to the conclusion that transgender people are just, you know, people. Yet, since Republican lawmakers are driven by a bizarre desire to destroy everything they don’t understand, if that means targeting children.Read more...

So I’ve been at this job for about two months now and it’s been quite the learning experience. One of the things I’ve learned in my short time here is that universities are like, really fucking racist. It seems that every week there’s yet another school that does some racist thing and then tries to back peddle it with…Read more...

While most people probably have more pressing things on their minds when they’re selected for jury duty, apparently we need to be scrutinizing what we wear too.Read more...

If anyone needed a visual tonic (and a literally gin and tonic) for this terrible, no-good, very bad week in The Discourseâ„¢, I submit this photo of the wonderful, absolutely good, very excellent Marsai Martin at the Lexus Uptown Honors Hollywood earlier this week.Read more...

I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. I can tell you that I don’t have money. But what I do have is a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. So, if you admit that you besmirched and bullied Germanic female…Read more...

It’s that time of year again when we get a little sad. Football is over (I was right; the team with the black quarterback won!), our favorite shows are coming to an end (Power’s series finale is Sunday but I feel like anything other than Tariq ending up in jail is a downer) and we are nearing the end of the Power…Read more...

On this week’s episode of “Books in Blackface,” the book retailer Barnes & Noble decided to “suspend” its controversial Diverse Editions series that was supposed to launch Wednesday in Honor of Black History Month.