That same boss did WHAT???!!! This is how I keep showing a naivete I think I’ve outgrown even as I know folks can be trifling despite being the recipients of great goodwill. You’re better than me cos I’d still be wishing him every bad thing and a spectacular downfall wherein his incompetence would be on full public…

I wish you’d forget that Alice Walker book. “Precious”, “Slumdog Millionaire” and “Million Dollar Baby” are examples of movies that I’m keeping as a once only experience. That book was worse. The levels of generational trauma were so bad and I kept hoping it’d get better cos I’d gotten invested. In these times, I’d…

I hope you’re able to quickly restore healthy and pleasant sleep cycles. Raggedy sleep and/or insomnia suck big time. I know from experience. I was mouth agape at that story of the boy tickling that girl AND having an entire BUILDING of young children he actively sought out to interact with. This is the thing some may…

Sister-Lady/Honey Chile,

I don’t have it in me to delve thoroughly into 50 cent because I utterly loathe him and it would put me in a very foul mood. I’ll say this: I actually was a fan in 2003. I was happy he survived the attempt on his life and fulfilled his career goal despite a mother who died early and an absent father. Here’s where I…

Girl! The Nancy think irks my spirit for the reasons you mentioned. It isn’t how dare she have premarital sex. It’s that even as they did precisely what they wanted to do to be happy and fulfilled, they stifle(d) others. The Republicans are so deeply hypocritical and hellbent on making others suffer while pretending…

Sis, I often feel this way, but the other way to view it is that we’re now in a time where so many of our folks have written/contributed important work that there’s no way to read everything even if we read 20 hrs a day for a century. It’s affirming to know that others have seen, discussed and worked on the issues…

FeministonFire, thank you, sister! And don’t you dare call my good sis i.e. you, a bad feminist. Nobody knows all of the work of feminists even if we make it specific to Black women across disciplines. Shoot, I haven’t even read all her work. 3 close to my heart are Wounds of Passion: A writing life, Communion: the…

I feel a bit too raw to read this right now, but I’m glad this article is already up. I feel immense gratitude to Dr. bell hooks for her work and it’s impact for sisters across the decades. She comes out of a Southern Black woman’s experience and her work helped Black women from Africa (like me) heal and grow. I’ve…

I was talking about Drake’s flaunting his creepiness with young teen girls. Also, one of his homies was alleged human trafficker. His babymama is another one who gets a pass for being White porn actress. Can you imagine the hell she’d be subjected to if she were Black? There have been comments made about his…

I got chills. ALL of this. No fundraiser for women who are imprisoned for finally killing their abusers. Nothing for young people of various identities who face the all too common problem of aging out of the decrepit foster “care” system and literally without a home, which further makes finding a job nearly…

Girl!!!!!! You had the energy to write. I’d already commented on the demented rapper’s wack event with the teenage groomer and fkboy rapper-impersonator. I’m just exhausted, disgusted. This was HORRIFYING & EVIL. This Older Black Woman was harassed, gaslit and made unsafe in her own home AFTER being subjected to…

So sorry about what you and others have suffered. It’s partly explains why I’m offended by this. Two problematic men with material and social capital caped for another seemingly on the say-so of “gangster” J. Prince with zero description of what makes his a worthy cause. They face few consequences in the Black…

The wanton destruction of the sites known collectively as The Root is occurring out of our view as readers, but its effects are very apparent. Despite that you’re doing what our people have done and continued to do globally- cultivate love, celebrate and challenge, edify and eulogize... US. Thank you for doing it for…

This is Beautiful and Loving. Thank you.

Edit/correction in this article’s final sentence: “He has pleaded NOT guilty to all charges”.

🤣🤣🤣😁😁 I’m so glad you intended to make me laugh cos I definitely felt like a bad person the way I cackled at the toothpaste mishap. I was all like “Sorry, Auntie” aloud as penance. OMG. Whew. Your story left me mouth agape 😯. Poor baby girl. Woo woo woo. There, there. I’ve got one that was plain foolishness. I…

My very dear sister, just coming back to the site now. I was also defending her. And I also had ALL the empathy. I do have a natural and was still not for any spicy comments about any Black woman feeling compelled to wear her hair slicked down for considering the policing of our appearance in professional (and…

Over it and over her. Initially, I had sympathy, empathy, compassion. Unfortunately, since the glue’s taken out, she’s been trying to extend her 15 mins in hella wack ways.

It’s exceedingly clear that is a result of whatever foulness many of us suspect is a deliberate plan to destroy the sound foundation and character of this site as it was lovingly and laboriously built by writers like you. I wish you and your family even greater success and superlative peace. One can only carve out so…