I don’t know about you, but even in my most defiant, unapologetic blackness, there is still one group of people I…
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I first learned of my cousin’s lynching when I was 10 years old. During the summer, I often spent time at my uncle…
Updated Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017, 2:19 a.m. EST: On Saturday the Wisconsin Department of Justice released the initial…
In what could arguably be one of black America’s best-kept dirty secrets, there have been years of whispers of…
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Pirelli, the Milan-based tire company, has taken an enduring, mystical story of Alice in Wonderland and blackened it…
The body of Sgt. La David Johnson, the U.S. soldier killed in Niger in the deadliest combat mission during President…
The Root 100 celebrates the best, brightest and most brilliant forms of black excellence across every field you can…
So, the title is somewhat misleading. Even though every time I’m there it’s cold and hot and wet and generally…
The entirety of black geekdom simultaneously caught the Holy Ghost on Thursday when Marvel released posters for some…
A little backstory on how we got to the point where this is even a thing: On Nov. 17, 2016, I wrote a piece called “Q…
Greetings from CrazyTown! These are dangerous times for those of us who live in CrazyTown. Let me explain.
“I feel comforted that what has always gone on sotto voce is now in the open.”
Danica Roem is what I find the most inspiring, and indicative of what the midterms can actually look like. The first transgender state legislature for Virginia unseated the 25 year incumbent? Granted he considered himself “king homophobe” or whatever, but the fact that she was able to pull that win out in the double…
“He is the troll-in-chief.”
In what is being termed a watershed referendum against “Trumpism”—just as the 2016 presidential election was about…
I believe CrunchySock Twitter is the cousin of Hotep Twitter, the nephew of Ashy Larry Twitter, and the son of PickMe Twitter.
I married a corny guy and I hope my daughter does too.
I’ve stayed away from the recent round of Crunchy Sock Twitter’s discontentment with Russell Wilson’s very public…
A Democratic congressman shouted down a black woman Wednesday after she told a congressional subcommittee that…