Due to complications from a stroke on April 17, director, screenwriter and producer John Singleton is reportedly in a coma.Read more...

When a movie franchise ends, everything is wrapped up in a bow. Heroes walk off into the sunset and maybe there’s an epilogue 20 years in the future, but basically the story is over and that last scene is frozen in amber forever. When a television series ends, you’re comforted knowing those character’s lives will go…Read more...

Following FBI and IRS raids on her two homes, City Hall and the offices of some of her allies Thursday, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh is said to be in poor health and not “lucid” enough to make a decision as to whether or not she will resign from office amid a financial scandal and controversy surrounding her…Read more...

Make the right choice, and take advantage of this deal from Paula’s Choice. Right now, you can take 20% off one item from the skincare brand with promo code 20OFF1. Kits, sets, sale and new items as noted on applicable product pages are excluded from this sale, but that still leaves tons of products worthy of your…Read more...

Editor’s note: This week, for National Poetry Month, we’re featuring 37 up-and-coming black poets—including one today who is much more well-known but in a different field—who we expect do amazing work over the next decade. We grouped them by categories, though their works often blur boundaries and defy definitions. …Read more...

Tamron Hall is officially a mom! On Thursday, the 48-year-old journalist announced on social media the birth of son Moses, after surprising fans early last month with the announcement that she was both newly married to music executive Steven Greener and 32 weeks pregnant with their first child.Read more...

You may remember #BBQBecky, the white woman who decided to call 911 on a group of black people who were simply barbecuing on a summer day in Oakland, Calif.?

From so-called gang databases to terror watch lists, reports are plentiful about the various lists cops and other law enforcement keep on the people, but who keeps track of police misdeeds?

It ain’t good enough.

Financier Mellody Hobson and her husband, Star Wars movie mogul boss George Lucas, are taking steps to take control of Ebony and Jet’s massive archive of historic photos, chronicling African American life over the last seven decades.

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In 2017, childhood mainstay Crayola had a contest in which they allowed people in North America to submit name choices for a new crayon. After receiving over 90,000 entries, they announced the latest hue would be named “Bluetiful.” Two years later, as millions of fans grieve the loss of recording artist, entrepreneur…Read more...

Joe Biden has officially entered the 2020 presidential campaign, and the mainstream media will inevitably tap him as the frontrunner. Most polling data would support this, but we’re too early in the primary season to really determine if he will win the Democratic nomination.

Eddie Adams is a remarkable young man.Read more...

To understand racism in America, one must first disabuse themselves of the idea that race is a social construct—an idea that has been created and accepted by the people in a society.Read more...

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, aka Big Baby Liar Face, hasn’t held a White House press briefing in some 40 days.

On Thursday, federal agents executed a number of search warrants as the investigations into whether Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh illegally profited from a no-bid book deal intensified.Read more...

An Oregon family was either the victims of a hateful attack or recipients of free LASIK surgery after their racist neighbors approached them on Easter and burned their retinas with visions of Caucasian butthole.

I left something at my mother’s house. And the girl I was with needed to pee.

In November, people in the state of Florida voted “yes” on Amendment 4—an initiative that would restore voting rights to more than one million former felons.Read more...

Editor’s note: This week, for National Poetry Month, we’re featuring 37 up-and-coming black poets—including one today who is much more well-known but in a different field—who we expect do amazing work over the next decade. We grouped them by categories, though their works often blur boundaries and defy definitions. …Read more...

Omarosa Proctor Manigault Newman Foster Brown Johnson, the former aide to the president and the only black woman allowed to come through the front entrance at the White House during Trump’s presidency, has confirmed what we’ve all long suspected: the president has a list of crazy policy ideas that he rolls out to…Read more...

The 18th Tribeca Film Festival invited its attendees to the beautiful blackness of Harlem for its opening night film, The Apollo. Naturally, the documentary screening was held at its namesake theater.Read more...

I’ve spent the past 365 days telling anyone who will listen that Beychella—Beyoncé’s legendary performance at the 2018 Coachella Arts and Music Festival—is the single greatest performance that I’ve ever seen in my entire life, and I will bang that drum until my dying day.Read more...

“Puffy, take care of my babies.”

Is there any network that loves straight white men as much as CBS? A damning—but not altogether shocking—letter published by a former exec makes the beige bar pretty damn hard to clear.

“I don’t know how you ended up so bougie when we came out of the same family,” said my baby sister one day over the phone.

Shannon Sharpe has gone viral many times since his 2016 debut on Fox Sports 1’s Skip and Shannon: Undisputed with sportswriter Skip Bayless. Just last year he set Black Twitter abuzz when he appeared on the show with a Black & Mild dangling from his lips, referencing Hennessy as “yak” and “Henn Dog.”

Winter might be gone, but that doesn’t mean we still don’t want to drink a warm cup of tea. There’s nothing better to sip if you’re feeling under the weather. Don’t be an ignorant American and microwave your water for tea, though. Instead, you can get this KitchenAid kettle while it’s on sale.Read more...

Not all stories about children with parents in jail involve recounts of glass barriers, letters or collect calls. And sadly, many don’t end with reunions and redemption, but with pain and shame; some stories end way too soon.

Over the past year, The Root and The Glow Up have reported on any number of restrictive school dress codes. Recently in Houston, a local high school principal has sparked controversy with its new rules for parents. As the Houston Chronicle reported, in an April 9th letter to parents (pdf), Carlotta Outley Brown of…Read more...

There’s so much to feel good about in the black TV world today.

#MeToo founder and activist Tarana Burke abruptly ended a sexual violence forum at Florida A&M University after getting into a verbal altercation with a FAMU employee.

Facebook has a problem in “black” and “white,” black activists charge, where even pointing out racism or racist posts or mentioning the word “black” as in “black-owned business” can get the post taken down for violating “hate speech” standards and lead to a suspension of the user’s account.Read more...

He gave a “Sunday Service” performance at Coachella; now, Kanye West apparently wants to give Sunday services for real—at a church of his own.

Born from the minds of Angela Burt-Murray and Tracey Edmonds, BET’s new series Games People Play explores the tumultuous lives of three ambitious women navigating the highly competitive world of professional sports.Read more...

Not only is the writing on the walls, but it’s also on a new script of a stage production detailing the evolution of Destiny’s Child.Read more...

President Donald Trump has the recipe to rile up his base.

What do you do when you reach a plateau in life—or your career? How do get over it and move forward? How do you take charge?

Other than being grammatically incorrect and laughable, can anyone name anything that current First Lady Melania Trump’s “Be Best” program has done since it started?

If you ever thought for a second that the things Bun B raps about were fake, here is a story that will make you think again. Bernard Freeman is, as the kids say, about that life.Read more...

This weekend, CBS will be taking its audience on a ride down Chicago’s Red Line in its appropriately titled series, The Red Line.Read more...

Rep. Steve King is a white man, which means that he has rarely, if ever, been told no. He doesn’t know what no feels like. It’s not only foreign to his makeup, his ears don’t even understand it. Historically, white men have had trouble with being told no. So that’s probably why the Iowa representative ran out here and…Read more...

Here we go again.Read more...

President Donald Trump is doing the preemptive threatening thing that he does when he’s not making up nicknames for congressional members or kicking Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) in the back of the knee and watching him buckle. This time, the president is threatening to go to the Supreme Court, where he put Neil Gorsuch…Read more...

Monday marked the 49th annual celebration of Earth Day—have you considered the sustainability of your lifestyle? If you’re like most of us, your carbon footprint may currently be falling low on the list of your many concerns—you know, behind family, work, relationships, politics, etc., etc., etc...Read more...

NBA players live a charmed a life.Read more...

It’s been well documented that while climate change affects everyone, its impact is not evenly shared. In the U.S., black and Latinx communities have been disproportionately hit by environmental disasters like storms and flooding; and a number of recent reports have found even the air they breathe isn’t safe.

Note: This review is spoiler-free but includes obvious references to events in the movie. Proceed with caution.Read more...

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