The Root

It’s official: I am a prodigal naturalista. If you haven’t been following along, that means that after 18 months of transitioning and protective styling, I finally made the long-awaited move to cut the remainder of my keratin-straightened strands off in a return to my natural texture. And while it’s been a journey, I…Read more...

For decades, we’ve been told of the courage and fortitude of Rosa Parks. Now, for the first time ever, the story of the woman who invigorated the Civil Rights Movement will be shared in her own words.Read more...

A white woman who made headlines for summoning plantation overseers police officers after she was threatened by an aggressively napping black woman has now taken up the mantle for criminal justice reform, criticizing law enforcement officials for being “hostile” and for refusing to release bodycam footage of the—Read more...

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In 2018, Stacey Abrams ran for governor of Georgia as the first black woman to be nominated by a major party. Despite gaining more votes than any Democrat ever during a statewide election, the slew of voter suppression tactics that swept Georgia ultimately prevented Abrams from becoming the first black female governor…Read more...

TCS New York City Marathon—done and done.

The pathologically un-rewatchable Joker has become the highest-grossing R-rated movie in history, surpassing Deadpool 2. I am not surprised by this, as the audience for depictions of maladjusted and sexually frustrated white men finding catharsis in violence is, well, bottomless. Add a mundane mythos, a…Read more...

We’ve set our clocks back and our streaming services black. Netflix is serving more Strong Black Lead content for November to go with your sweet potato pie!Read more...

Move over, Lulu. You’ve got some competition.

Donald “I have a great relationship with the blacks” Trump will put that theory to the test this Friday when he heads down to downtown Atlanta to launch a new black voter initiative.Read more...

On Aug. 3, 1990, former president George H. W. Bush declared the month of November as National American Indian Heritage Month for the purpose of paying tribute to the rich heritage and traditions of indigenous people. Now, nearly 30 years later, our alleged President Donald Trump has sparked outrage after seemingly…Read more...

On Oct. 25, 2019, Kanye Omari West released his ninth studio album, Jesus Is King. The album was released on the heels of his at-best popular, but always well-attended “Sunday Service” performances and is a succinct 11-track album that clocks in at just over 27 minutes. There’s been a ton of news surrounding Kanye and…Read more...

Remember when we predicted Hot Girl Summer would be followed by Haute Girl Fall? Well, we’re now verging on the most wonderful time of the year...and “Hot Girl Summer” trademark holder Megan Thee Stallion is letting us know she’s a girl for all seasons, scoring her first fashion campaign with Coach.Read more...

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has some explaining to do.Read more...

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Just when you thought blackface had been relegated to old college yearbooks, a California teacher provided the latest proof of white superiority—at least in the field of “trying it”—after he wore blackface in the classroom to buttress the bona fides of his Halloween costume.Read more...

While most of us spent our Sunday basking in the triumphant return of the Popeye’s chicken sandwich, others—like exiled NFL quarterback turned activist Colin Kaepernick—spent theirs being far nobler.Read more...

In the immortal words of Darell J. Hunt, you can’t outdo black people. That truth was once again made manifest at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) on Saturday night, as many of black Hollywood’s hottest talents converged for the museum’s annual Art + Film Gala, presented by Gucci.Read more...

You give these hooligans on Tina Knowles’ internet an inch of transparency, and they take a mile’s worth of rumors. That’s what happened in the wake of Solange’s Instagram announcement that she and her husband, filmmaker Alan Ferguson, were ending their 11-year relationship.Read more...

Less than two weeks after a new, bulletproof Emmett Till memorial plaque went up on the banks of the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi, a group of white supremacists was captured on camera attempting to film a propaganda video.Read more...

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After accusing Donald Trump of sexual assault in her memoir, What Do We Need Men For?, advice columnist E. Jean Carroll is suing Donald Trump for defamation.Read more...

Yeah, yeah...we know Tyler Perry retired the controversial yet enduring character known as Madea earlier this year, but she instantly came to mind when we heard about Perry’s latest coup: hosting the 2019 Miss Universe pageant at his newly opened Tyler Perry Studios.Read more...

Jason Mitchell has done his first extended interview following misconduct allegations on the set of Showtime’s The Chi, his firing from Netflix’s Desperados, and subsequent terminations by his lawyer, manager, and agent. Mitchell appeared on The Breakfast Club Monday morning.

Less than two months after Donald Trump hailed his dumb border wall as a “virtually impenetrable” barrier that couldn’t be breached by “world-class climbers,” officials report that industrious border-crossers have figured out a clever way to bypass the wall:Read more...

“Though she be but little, she is fierce!” wrote William Shakespeare, and the phrase proves equally true for fellow Brit Cynthia Erivo, the multitalented phenom currently dominating the box office in the titular role of Harriet, the black-helmed Harriet Tubman biopic, released on Friday.Read more...

South Carolina’s statewide investigative agency is looking into one of America’s oldest black churches after a former employee raised questions about donations to the victims of a racial terrorist attack.Read more...

Some funny things happen when you try to tell the truth.Read more...

I don’t watch a lot of soccer, primarily because I hear so much about all the racism that black players are forced to endure. In the latest example of exactly that, we’ve learned that Brescia striker Mario Balotelli was showered with monkey chants and other racial abuse while trying to do his damn job.Read more...

The world became a little less funny when longtime actor and comedian John Witherspoon died in his home on October 29. No one talked nor ate on camera the way Mr. Witherspoon did. There was truly no one like him. Along with F. Gary Gray’s Friday, one of the most common projects associated with Witherspoon was his role…Read more...

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HOUSTON—I had no idea what to expect when I agreed to interview hip-hop legend Scarface back in September. A child of the 1980s, I was a keen listener of the Geto Boys and their hood tales of trappin’ in Houston, getting women (to put it mildly) and pullin’ out the chrome on niggas who stepped to them sideways. Each…Read more...

Is it better to be loved or heard? In an interview published Friday by British news outlet the Telegraph, Meghan Markle said she doesn’t want the public’s love; she just wants to use her newfound platform to advance the causes she cares so deeply about, according to journalist and friend Bryony Gordon.Read more...

Miles Morales is coming back to awkwardly place his hand on your shoulder and say, “Hey.”Read more...

A Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant in the Chicago suburb of Naperville has terminated multiple employees after a group of customers alleged they were asked to move to another table due to the color of their skin.Read more...

The Instant Pot isn’t just the fastest rice cooker you’ll ever own. Or a magical appliance that can turn frozen-solid chicken breasts into an edible meal in like 15 minutes. It’s also going to be your favorite Thanksgiving dinner assistant.

There’s a famous quote that has been attributed—perhaps falsely—to Harriet Tubman through the years about how she would’ve been able to free many more slaves only if they realized they were actually enslaved.Read more...

Kim Kardashian West for the people!

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A Milwaukee man is afraid to live in his own city after being attacked with acid outside of a Mexican restaurant on Friday night.Read more...

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Poor POTUS done up and abandoned his longtime hometown.Read more...

Solange Knowles is opening up about a secret she’s been holding since “early this year.”Read more...

In less than 48 hours, I’ll be running the New York City Marathon. And I’m not sure how to process things.

A J.Crew sale on Amazon, a huge collection of discounted home goods, and a deal on the most popular Bluetooth speaker in Kinja Deals history lead off Saturday’s best deals from around the web.Read more...

African American health advocates are taking aim at the Trump administration’s decision to go after flavored e-cigarettes—except for menthol, a flavor long popular among, and known to be more addictive for, African Americans.

Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, head of Maryland’s Democratic Party, says she’s considering running for the 7th Congressional District seat that was held by her late husband, Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings.Read more...

Former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke on Friday took himself out of the running for the Democratic presidential nomination, bowing to low campaign coffers and even lower poll numbers.

Ahh, black love...that deep, dark and magical force the luckiest among us experience, but is too rarely shown on film. No wonder that we’re eagerly anticipating The Photograph, the romantic drama starring Issa Rae and Lakeith Stanfield, dropping into our hearts on—you guessed it—Valentine’s Day, 2020.

Motherless Brooklyn, directed by Edward Norton, is a film based on a crime mystery novel by Jonathan Lethem. It follows an investigator with Tourette’s Syndrome who is on a mission to uncover who killed his only friend. Norton, who also stars in the film, along side Gugu Mbatha-Raw, chose to weave in some of the…Read more...