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If you're wondering why Black History Month is in February, the tradition began in 1926 as just a week-long observance, then expanded into a month-long celebration in 1976. → Read More
Traditionally observed from December 26 to January 1, Kwanzaa is a celebration designed to support the social, cultural and economic fabric of the African-American community in the U.S. → Read More
On the making of gospel music, from Gospel Pearls to Jesus Is King. → Read More
We’ve all heard that mo’ money equals mo’ problems, but on Sunday Lizzo reminded us that mo’ fame equals mo’ trolls, especially when you’re a big, beautiful black woman who unashamedly twerks on demand. → Read More
South Carolina state Rep. Mandy Powers Norrell, a Democrat from Lancaster, issued an apology Monday after an internal military investigation concluded that the hand signals flashed by a group of cadets during the Dec. 14 Army-Navy game were not white nationalist symbols. → Read More
Allee Willis, the prolific songwriter who penned Earth, Wind and Fire’s “September” and the Broadway musical, The Color Purple, has died at age 72. → Read More
Last week The Root reported that Nicole Poole Franklin, a 42-year-old Des Moines woman, told the Clive Police Department she ran over a 14-year-old girl because the girl “was a Mexican.” Now police have charged Franklin with attempted murder again—this time for hitting a 12-year-old black boy with her vehicle, an incident police say took place on the same day, Dec. 9. → Read More
When 7-year-old Sire Jackson told his father, rapper and actor 50 Cent, that he wanted a Toys ‘R’ Us store for Christmas, he didn’t think his dad would shut one down for him, but that’s exactly what the 44-year-old performer did. 50 Cent, also known as Curtis James Jackson III, unveiled “Sires’ Toys ‘R’ Us” on Friday in Paramus, New Jersey. → Read More
We’re getting closer, but there’s something that we haven’t done yet, something that will catapult our relationship into “couple” status… We haven’t taken an “usie.” We haven’t whipped out the cellphones, hit the front-facing camera button and grinned wide for the camera, our faces cheek to cheek in love-soaked glee. → Read More
On the 55th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, U.S. courts are still divided about African Americans’ right to wear their natural hair in the workplace. → Read More
The literary canon we studied and love lacks diversity. That's not our fault, but we can make up for that now. → Read More
Events of the last two years once again show the need for Kwanzaa, which calls African Americans to collective action, but the founder's crimes give one holiday observer pause. → Read More
Yo, it’s been a hard year for black people. Overt racism and microaggressions abound. Here are eight costumes that you can wear to reclaim and proclaim your power. → Read More
From #OscarsSoWhite to #EmmysSoBlack, the conversation about Hollywood’s exclusion and inclusion of people of color — both in front of and behind the camera — has taken center stage in recent years… → Read More
After meeting last week with President Donald Trump, Morehouse President John Wilson Jr. kept it 100, releasing a statement that described the two days of meetings as, well, "troubling." Leaders like Wilson likely wouldn’t have called the meeting “troubling” had they followed any of these steps. → Read More
A Virginia judge sentenced five teens, convicted for spray-painting racial slurs on an abandoned school, to read books about diversity. → Read More
This week’s episode of How to Get Away With Murder took us back to the week before the fateful fire. Annalise’s gang reached new levels of dysfunction, leaving us like, “WTF?!” 1. → Read More
This Election Day kind of feels like the day you’re scheduled to get your wisdom teeth pulled: You’ve gotta do it, and it’s gonna hurt, but you’re not sure how much it will hurt. → Read More
Two weeks before the murder, the Keating Five on How to Get Away With Murder show us that some things can never be undone. Here are five clues that you’ve reached the point of no return: 1. → Read More
This week’s episode of How to Get Away With Murder took us to three weeks before the fire at Annalise’s house. The stuff they did and the tricks they pulled—it was enough to send anyone to the counseling couch. → Read More