There are far too many to count, those who worship at the altar of Ms. Beyoncé Giselle Knowles Carter.
Chancelor Jonathan Bennett, known to most as Chance the Rapper or Lil Chano, gave a rousing commencement address to…
Now playing
Janet Hubert is known as the “blacktress” in these internet streets, but she’s more widely known and adored as Aunt…
I have done The WrestleMania Weekend Thing once before, back in 2013, but I slept in my own bed that time. The…
We don’t like to think of social justice as a zero-sum game. But there are costs associated with bringing equity and…
For Women’s History Month, Jezebel and The Root are partnering for JezeRoot, a series that focuses on women of…
What if we all paid things at a different according to our own income level? Kind of like paying our income taxes:…
As if the police weren’t scary enough.
The ongoing national debate over race and Confederate monuments reared its ugly head during this year’s Mardi Gras.…
We asked for your New Orleans travel tips and got over 150 comments. Here’s a sampling of the best, featuring tips…
Let’s just straight-up steal the epigraph from the TV Tropes page for New Orleans, taken from journalist A. J.…
New Orleans Mayor-elect LaToya Cantrell didn’t set out to make history. But as the city celebrates its 300th…
Back in 1976, when Brian Mitchell was eight years old, a teacher in his Louisiana school system asked if anyone in…
The answer to the question of whether or not a jury with only one black person on it would be able to mete out…
Secure your wigs and get your best shout-singing voice ready because the 2018 Essence Festival is coming with a…
Christopher San Martin, the tiny boy pedaling the miniature red car, turned six years old in November. It probably…
Now playing
“Professional Black Girl is, like, my favorite thing that I didn’t plan to do.”
It’s dinnertime in the dining hall of the famous New Orleans soul food haven Dooky Chase’s Restaurant. Executive…
When R&B songstress Anita Baker hit the scene in the mid-’80s, it was as if we didn’t know what we’d been missing.…
If you watch television, chances are you’ve watched CCH Pounder. Over the past 38 years, the Emmy-winning Guyanese…