On Thursday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a state grant of $3.75 million to be awarded to help the formation of The Universal Hip Hop Museum, which is planned to be completed in 2023.Read more...

No surprises here.Read more...

An Energizer Emergency Flashlight, a Bird ES1-300 Electric Scooter, and a NutriBullet Blender Gold Box lead off Sunday’s best deals from around the web.Read more...

Is Amanda Seales having the best year ever?Read more...

Cuisinart 7-Qt. Casserole Cast Iron (Red Gradient and Blue) | $60 | WootRead more...

She’s shouting it out for sure.Read more...

She’s a sorry woman for sure.Read more...

Even in one of The Root’s Blackest Cities in America—black girls can’t wear natural hair for a black-themed musical production.

This week, after scrolling through my social media feeds following reports that Real Housewives of Atlanta star Porsha Williams’ fiance Dennis McKinley blamed his ongoing infidelity on lack of interest in pregnancy sex, the world seemed to be confessing how gross they felt having sex during pregnancy. With black women…Read more...

Samsung Galaxy S10 Factory Unlocked Phone + $50 Amazon Gift Card |$600 | AmazonRead more...

Tonight millions of film-goers around the world will bear witness to the conclusion of the 40-year-old Skywalker saga. Fear not though, for as one saga concludes another has continued. I’m speaking of course about actor/game show host/Louis Vuitton Sub-Zero, Nick Cannon and his one sided beef with Eminem.

Matt Bevin, former governor of Kentucky and sentient piece of garbage has come under fire for pardoning 41-year old Micah Schoettle. Schoettle was sentenced to 23 years on charges of rape, incest, and sodomy. His reasoning? The 9-year-old victim’s hymen was intact.Read more...

An Army investigation into the hand gestures flashed during a broadcast of last week’s Army/Navy football game found they were not racist. Disappointing but not surprising.Read more...

The state known as the first to hold a political caucus is the home of a white woman who barreled over a 14-year old girl because she thought she was Mexican.Read more...

Tomorrow, Eddie Murphy will finally return to the Saturday Night Live stage.Read more...

On Friday, a grand jury in Texas indicted a former Fort Worth police officer on a murder charge in the fatal shooting of Atatiana Jefferson.Read more...

For months, Wisconsin police were aware that 34-year-old Randy Volar had hundreds of child porn videos, some of them showing girls who seemed as young as 12. They knew he had his own “home videos” showing him sexually abusing underage black girls—at least 20 recordings featuring about a dozen different girls,…Read more...

With 2019 drawing to a close, not only are we being blessed with a wide assortment of lists celebrating the decade that was, but we are also recognizing a year filled with worthwhile contributions of its own.Read more...

Do you smell that? That’s the scent of a swiftly approaching holiday—and if you’re still looking for something for that special someone, what could be more special than a signature scent; especially one you can gift in time for Christmas?Read more...

In a galaxy far, far away, on a planet teeming with life but suffering from global warming, dirty oceans and way too many streaming services there existed the early stages of an empire. Oh, they didn’t know it was an empire yet; there were no stormtroopers marching down the street, only a curious proliferation of…Read more...

“The Clapback Song”:

Orlando Jones is not here for that culture vulture mess!Read more...

It is with profound sadness that The Glow Up learned today that one of our favorite models and activists, Cacsmy “Mama Cax” Brutus, has died at age 30. Fondly called Cax by her colleagues and clients in the fashion industry, the Haitian-American broke new ground as an in-demand model who’d survived cancer as a…Read more...

The only way that President Trump knows his ass from his hand is because South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham and Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz aren’t crammed up his arm. Other than that, the odds are pretty low that, at any given moment, the president has any fucking clue what’s going on.

When the movie ended and the credits rolled, the whole theater was just a smorgasbord of emotions. People were cheering, clapping, whistling and wiping tears from their cheeks. What a way to end one of the most popular movie franchises in history. Mind you, I’m describing the crowd reaction at the end of Avengers:…Read more...

Three-time NBA champion Dwyane Wade has collected plenty of accolades throughout the course of his illustrious career, but his greatest accomplishment is being a loving husband and parent.Read more...

I don’t spend time thinking much about counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway and her husband George Conway’s relationship but whenever I do, I have a few thoughts:

Joseph Harter says he was beaten so badly by a police officer last year that, for a moment, he was blinded by his own blood in his eyes. But, as brutal as that detail is, it isn’t what makes Harter’s case unique.

John Boyega is a goddamn delight.Read more...

Every man isn’t blessed with the God-given genes to grow a full beard.

A Warner Bros. 4K Film Collections Sale, up to 70% Off Sitewide at Fanatics, and a WizGear Car Mount Gold Box lead off Friday’s best deals from around the web.Read more...

With his NFL career on an involuntary extended hiatus, quarterback turned activist Colin Kaepernick has turned his attention towards outside pursuits. He’s helped Nike’s market value skyrocket in addition to taking home an Emmy for their polarizing “Just Do It” campaign, and now Sneaker News reports that the two are…Read more...

At this point, Trump can call the impeachment proceedings anything he wants, but it isn’t going to stop the inevitable. After meeting turncoat New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew who voted against Trump’s impeachment as a Democrat and then switched to the Republican Party, Trump called the House’s vote to impeach his ass a…Read more...

A white secretary for Pittsburgh Public Schools is alleging she’s the victim of reverse racism.Read more...

The stench of stagnant progression is in the air as we look back at the history of Oscar nominations in the 2010s.

A measure in the National Defense Authorization Act designed to allow for better screening of white nationalism in military enlistees has had the word ‘white nationalist’ removed. That, uh, that makes sense right?Read more...

A federal study released Thursday shows that facial recognition technology used by law enforcement misidentified people of color more often than white people. In other news, water is indeed wet.Read more...

On Wednesday, the Phoenix City Council approved a payment of $1.6 million to Erica Reynolds, a 37-year-old woman illegally body-cavity searched as a part of a drug investigation.Read more...

You almost never hear a judge say “my bad,” but that is exactly what Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Don Willett did this week, reversing his opinion in a First Amendment case legal experts say could chill the right to protest.

On Monday, The Glow Up’s very smart brotha Damon Young made the proposition that perhaps we should just burn down the remaining plantations in America—you know, those sites of the American holocaust that some seem intent on romanticizing as charming and picturesque—hosting tours, reunions and most often, weddings at…Read more...

Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, aka the real-life Saul Goodman, disappeared during Trump’s impeachment proceedings only to reappear in Ukraine earlier this month, which everyone called bizarre. And then we learned that he was there on official Giuliani business, which means that he was being smarmy AF, and was…Read more...

So it turns out the League of Extraordinary Lame Democratic candidates are gearing up for their final debate of the year, and what’s way more interesting than the group that will be on stage, Thursday, is the folks who won’t.

Some people live to say stupid things.Read more...

Kanye West had himself a decade. While he started out on a musical tear that had car speakers and arenas rocking, he ended it as a Donald Trump, MAGA-hat wearing, gospel-ish artist. The one consistency is that when he started out 2010, he thought he was God’s gift to the planet—and he pretty much ended the decade that…Read more...

Sometimes I take for granted how much God* has blessed me.Read more...

Along with hosting what I believe to be the blackest film festival to ever do it, the American Black Film Festival (ABFF) joins Hollywood during awards season to officially honor some of the best films of the year with a formal ceremony called the ABFF Honors.

Does a radical political outsider have a legitimate shot of upsetting a local incumbent in U.S. Rep. Danny Davis? Ask any insider on the ground and they’ll tell you it’ll be an uphill battle. But Anthony V. Clark, a special education teacher and a U.S. Air Force veteran with colorful language to boot, tried to do in…Read more...

Herman Boone, the inspiration behind the classic film Remember the Titans, died Wednesday at his home in Alexandria, Va. He was 84.Read more...

“A lot of the neighborhoods in West Oakland had 20 to 30 liquor stores and an assortment of fast-food restaurants but no full-size grocery stores,” Jeneba Kilgore, a worker-owner at Mandela Grocery Cooperative recalled about her hometown 10 years ago. “You could barely find the stuff to make a salad within walking…Read more...

I forget sometimes that Donald Trump is president.Read more...