I couldn’t read this word for word, because I kept tearing up at my desk, so I skipped over those parts. I lost my mom three years ago, to COPD and congestive heart failure. I haven’t mourned her death so much as I’ve mourned the relationship I thought we might someday have. She, like your mom, was a complex person,…

“You know, it was terrible. Truly, and - hey! It was, and really, I know terrible. A lot of people tell me all the time, “You really know terrible.” I do! It’s true, because in this world, hey, in this world, there are two kinds of people: People who are fantastic and know a lot about most everything. Well, most as in…

You could’ve just asked people in the breakroom - educated, reasonably informed multiracial group of millennial people on the left - why they didn’t support her for president. They didn’t - we didn’t. “Kamala is a cop” was widely understood to be shorthand referencing her prosecutorial record instead of just a low-info…

The level of Trump ass kissing is actually more disturbing than Trump, because he’s just being the regular ass he’s always been. These guys should know better and are just repeating his BS and defending him because he’s a sap that lets them get their way.

I feel some kind of way about the title of this article and labeling. Either way, congrats little lady. Hopefully, we’ll get more people of color in predominantly Caucasian spaces.

...K. Negroes know that you can leave the Democratic party and go Independent, right? Or Socialist? Green Party?

Whoa, am I missing something here? You rightfully criticize Judge Joe Brown for his sexist rant about Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill etc., yet you end the article by recommending the movie Harriet? Umm, Harriet is a movie gone astray with it’s on form of deep sexism, this time aimed at Black men and put together by a…

I wonder what the exchange was before he said that. I don’t get what could be funny about it, at all, I’m just curious. I also want people to keep the same energy when a woman threatens to hit a man, which seems to happen every 23 seconds. Power dynamic aside.

He never was much of a role model.

Also, watch her NPR Tiny Desk performance - she’s hilarious

Personally, these are the songs that hooked me on her (in order from best to less best, and not including the obvious “Good as Hell”, “Juice” or “Truth Hurts”. She also has some super early stuff that I don’t love but don’t mind, “Paris” for example):

“he’s like the Black Obama”

Even as Sanders and Warren get top ranking, it’s with darts flying into their backs. Ouch! And frankly, it was time Sanders get some love at theRoot; too much negativity directed at his campaign here.

When candidates like Castro are the only ones bringing truth to power on behalf of black folks, it says a lot about what the Democratic Party really thinks about its base.

this is who is going to get past the primary. mark my words.

I read the ESPN thing, but the NFL never asked any of the teams.

Were that true, they would have at least asked the teams if it were possible, but they didn’t do that.

Doing the Lord’s Work, one incredibly uncomfortable moment at a time. ;-)

Wasn’t this the plot of the movie “Undercover Brother”?

As a KC resident, it certainly feels like most people want an MLK Boulevard in the city... just not shoehorned into the easily-referenced and well-known Paseo Blvd. When the name was changed in the first place it felt a lot like “hey here’s a road that runs through the black part of town, I bet we could slap MLK on…