On Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice showed once again that it is more concerned about police morale than it is…
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I just watched the 30 for 30 with Doc and Darryl a few weeks ago and it pretty much confirmed everything I always thought of him. Let’s just say that this new revelation does nothing to change my initial appraisal. Again, what is the going rate for selling souls these days? With so many on the market, I’m sure the…
Because 53 percent of white women decided to turn their collective backs on America, Donald Trump is in office, and…
Although the U.S. Virgin Islands, which include St. John, St. Croix and St. Thomas, are part of the United States,…
The new story of Detroit is, by now, old. Over several decades, a once prosperous automotive mecca fell into…
When I broke up with my college sweetheart in 2005, I was living and working as a newspaper reporter in God’s…
Trump voters are very complex. They are conservatives who believe big government is getting out of hand. They want…
How do white people who don’t see color know they have a black friend?
On July 5, 1969, a group of musicians waited in the wings in London’s Hyde Park before singing at a free concert.…
It is Labor Day. Before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Labor Day was the only black holiday. I’m pretty sure it…
Yeah...no. Cam can’t even celebrate a win without hurting some white lady’s feelings.
I have wondered whether the popularity of rappers among whites has both caused more young whites to identify with blackness while at the same time having the stereotype of blackmen that are violent, high on drugs, super attractive/attracted to white women and criminal burned into our brains, particularly for those of…
Editor’s note: Yeats (or perhaps Achebe) was right: Things fall apart. And for The Root’s Senior Editor Kirsten West…
LAS VEGAS, Nev.—“Man, I’m usually in a suit, but it’s too fucking hot today,” a scalper told me a few hours before…
On Sunday, as Hurricane Harvey began to crush parts of Texas, Joel Osteen, pastor of Houston megachurch Lakewood,…
Pastor Joel Osteen found himself in a heap of trouble when a social media posse came looking to burn the Houston…
In an event called “Car Week,” it shouldn’t come as surprise to anyone that there’s a lot to see. There were so many…
By now we shouldn’t have to discuss how Game of Thrones parallels the social, political and economic climate of…
Precisely. Very true, white-owned media and their supporters have tried to dehumanize Mayweather because they are white. Mayweather moved on with his life. Here are some other white domestic abusers some of the commenters will never go in on and give a pass to: Marv Albert, as stated, Jim Lampley (who tried to sh_ on…