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The winners of the Lee Daniels Entertainment creative workshop have been announced, hopefully breathing new life into Hollywood!

Talk about getting an “n-word wake up call”—to quote legendary comic Paul Mooney.Read more...

A bunch of discounted AmazonBasics kettlebells, a Men’s and Women’s New Balance Flash Sale, and a Joseph Joseph BladeBrush lead off Sunday’s best deals.Read more...

A message has clearly been sent.Read more...

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Leave it to poor POTUS’ pals at Fox News to appropriate a racialized term for when people in power abuse it when dealing with disenfranchised people.Read more...

A now-retired Michigan State Trooper is a whistleblower in an explosive lawsuit that reveals a history of racial discrimination and police brutality in her department.Read more...

Cue the violins.Read more...

David Archy Men’s Micro Modal Trunks, Snappy Popcorn Supplies Coconut Oil, and a $10 off coupon on household supplies from Amazon lead off Saturday’s deals.Read more...

Poor, uninsured immigrants will be denied visas to enter the United States starting next month, the White House announced Friday.Read more...

Full disclosure: I love Despicable Me with the hilarious, sometimes anti-hero, Gru and all his Minions. But a child’s family vacation featuring some of her favorite movie characters from the film was marred when an actor dressed as Gru made a racist gesture while posing in a picture with the little girl.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday announced it would review an anti-abortion law out of Louisiana in a case being seen as a test of the impact Donald Trump’s newly picked conservatives on the court will have on women’s right to choose to have the procedure.

A Wisconsin group that seeks to ensure the separation of church and state has filed a complaint against a murderer-embracing judge for transforming into Reverend Save-a-Heaux and sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with a former police officer who so loved herself that she crucified an unarmed man in his own apartment…Read more...

Today’s mailbag consists of people who called us out about our egregious errors. The writers at The Root often use statistics and facts to back up our point but, according to the emails, tweets, DMs and comments received this week, we left out a few very salient points.Read more...

So, I’m just under a month away from the New York City marathon.Read more...

Kanye West will come out with an album…at some point.Read more...

It’s back on like popcorn.

I’m a master of fright, and a demon of light, and I’ll scare you right out of your pants. Or shoes, in this case. Vans finally dropped their long-awaited Nightmare Before Christmas collection and it will make even Oogie Boogie smile.

On a mild-weathered Wednesday evening, I traveled toward Downey, Calif., to visit the Los Angeles County of Education and was swept with an immense sense of pride.Read more...

This is by far one of the strangest weeks in the history of The Root Presidential Black Power Rankings. We had a mutiny within our committee, we had a special guest analyst who is just brilliant, and we had half a dozen major events occur this week that scrambled the rankings like an old-school Etch A Sketch. Buckle…Read more...

Earth has just gotten a little less beautiful.Read more...

You know, when I imagine a dream wedding, visions of female subjugation, rape, and forced childbearing don’t dance through my head (nor do barns or mason jars, but I digress). But clearly, my vision of romance is lacking a certain institutionally patriarchal touch—an element a Canadian couple known simply as “Kendra…Read more...

The MAGA dream team of conspiracy theory trolls known for perpetrating such frauds as the Robert Mueller sexual misconduct scandal, the Pete Buttigieg sex scandal, the Ilhan Omar sex scandal and the Kamala Harris birther lie (you thought I was going to say “sex scandal, didn’t you?) has set their sights on Elizabeth…Read more...

The conversation about Brandt Jean’s hug of convicted murderer Amber Guyger has mostly cannibalized both the news of the (still surprising) conviction and the (not surprising at all) sentence. The image of the act is both explosive and saccharine; a molotov cocktail dipped in high fructose corn syrup.

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Libras are extra.Read more...

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An Apple Watch Series 4, an ultra-low price on ExOfficio Boxer Briefs, and a grill that is apartment-sized lead off Friday’s deals.Read more...

The trial for her son’s killer was finally over, but Allison Jean reminded a Dallas congregation on Wednesday night that there was still plenty of work to do.Read more...

Soul mates. Twin flames. #CouplesGoals. All of these phrases have been used to describe the most idyllic relationships, and could be used to describe Barack and Michelle Obama, who once again flagrantly waved their seemingly perfect marriage in our faces as they celebrated their 27th wedding anniversary on Thursday.Read more...

Lights, camera, action—we’re getting some behind-the-scenes scoop about Prince Harry and Megan Markle’s South Africa tour!Read more...

A federal judge has ordered a Mississippi county sheriff’s office to make sweeping changes after a civil rights lawsuit accused the county’s law enforcement agency of targeting black residents for years.Read more...

ExOfficio 3-Pack Boxer Briefs | $20-$21 | Amazon | Small, Large, XL in Charcoal. Small in Black. Medium packs priced at $30, which is still a great deal.Read more...

The WNBA is looking into what was reportedly an expletive- and epithet-laden locker room “pep talk” given by Los Angeles Sparks general manager Penny Toler to her losing team during Game 2 of the WNBA playoffs.Read more...

In a year when Cardi B stayed winning (a Grammy, a BET Award and a Billboard trophy among her victories), it’s obvious she’s good when it comes to the come-up. That appears to explain, at least in part, how the rap star came to decide to dub her next album “Tiger Woods.”

Despite being the subject of a House impeachment inquiry over reports he sought the help of a foreign power for personal gain (aiding his re-election hopes), Donald Trump on Thursday publicly asked a different foreign power—China—to do the exact same thing.

Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security announced that it will be collecting DNA samples from tens of thousands of immigrants detained in federal facilities, including children, and input that genetic data into a national criminal database.Read more...

Noted rapper and tattooed tattletale Tekashi 6ix9ine’s cooperation with federal prosecutors has paid off with the conviction of two of his fellow gang members.Read more...

We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.Read more...

There’s a very short list of onscreen characters we wish we were besties with, let alone actual actresses—Tracee Ellis Ross and Insecure’s Natasha Rothwell immediately come to mind. But if you’re a fan of Netflix’s Dear White People, the character “Joelle Brooks,” played by Ashley Blaine Featherson, is likely another…Read more...

Tech behemoth and Big Brother is Watching purveyor Google—through a third party company—dispatched workers to blackety-black events like the 2019 BET Awards in Los Angeles to get darker-skinned faces for a facial recognition database, but often used skeevy and immoral tactics to do so, according to an explosive report…Read more...

Fresh off the heels of Harriet, Cynthia Erivo will be portraying another beloved woman in black history—Aretha Franklin.Read more...

Right-wing outlets and people who don’t season their wings right are up in arms after a Democratic congresswoman made a statement based on nothing but data, facts and peer-reviewed scientific research.

Dentists say you should floss every day, but let’s be honest: No one flosses every day. And people who do floss every day are probably serial killers.

I don’t pretend to know the mechanics of how most things work. I don’t know why nutmeg matters so much when making french toast, how rainbows are always perfect arcs, or even how Travis Scott has become a megastar when the best parts of his rap albums are when Travis Scott is not rapping. But I don’t need to know…Read more...

You ever leave a movie feeling all warm inside due to the bubbling laughter in your tummy and pure joy in reaction to an underdog’s triumph? That movie, for me, is Dolemite Is My Name.Read more...

It was described as “stunning,” “rare,” and “inspirational”: Brandt Jean, the younger brother of Botham Jean, killed last year at the hands of a Dallas police officer who mistakenly walked into his apartment, asking his brother’s killer if he could hug her.Read more...

We know aunties hold a special place in black culture, but who knew one was the catalyst for one of the most confounding fashion trends of the last few years? But according to A$AP Rocky, it was his auntie who inspired his now well-known “Babushka Boi” image.Read more...

A really nice Dell computer monitor, safety gear to keep you alive in a fire, and cheap-as-hell athletic Amazon Essentials shorts.

On Aug. 14, 2017, racing pioneer and stuntwoman Joi “SJ” Harris died on the set of 20th Century Fox’s Deadpool 2, crashing into the side of a building on the downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, set.