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  • Jackie Robinson West Team Stripped of Little League Title
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  • Yes, A Different World Is a Moment in Black History
  • Blues Singer Gladys Bentley Broke Ground With Marriage to a Woman in 1931
  • Should We Keep the ‘White’ and ‘Colored’ Sections on Jim Crow War Memorials?
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BREAKING

  • Leader of Prison Drug Ring, Who Impregnated 4 Guards, Gets Reduced Sentence for Testimony
  • 3 Charged in Craigslist-Ad Murder
  • Wikipedia’s ‘Black History’ Gets Taught a Lesson by Howard Students
  • Indian Man Left Partially Paralyzed After Ala. Police Stop Him for Walking
  • 3 Muslim Students at UNC Chapel Hill Shot to Death
  • NC Teen Walks Into Target Looking for a Tie, and This Happens  
  • Girl, 11, Charged With Murder of 2-Month-Old  
  • NYPD Cop Indicted in Stairwell Shooting Death of Akai Gurley
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Jackie Robinson West Team Stripped of Little League Title
By Stephen A. Crockett Jr.
Feb. 11 2015 9:56 AM
Yes, A Different World Was a Moment in Black History
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Kanye Acted an Ass After the Grammys
Feb. 10 2015 4:47 PM

Blues Singer Gladys Bentley Broke Ground With Marriage to a Woman in 1931

By Steven J. Niven
Feb. 11 2015 3:00 AM
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How the Concepts of Evil and Darkness Became Linked to African People
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In Ferguson, Education Can Be the Great Equalizer
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How ‘Selling a Home While Black’ Nearly Broke Me
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Indianapolis Woman Celebrates 106th Birthday
Feb. 11 2015 7:47 PM
 
Chandra Wilson Celebrates 11 Years: The Queen Latifah Show
 
Obama: It Is Time for Marriage Equality
 
Bobbi Kristina Brown’s Family Addresses Recovery
 
Arraignment for Officer Charged in Shooting Death of Akai Gurley
 
Man Arrested in Death of 3-Year-Old Boy
 
Terry Crews Is in Touch With His Feminine Side
 
Anthony Anderson Took a Sleeping Questlove Selfie
 
US to Send $273M in Aid to South Sudan

 
Politics

  • Why Black Folks Should Care About the President’s 2016 Budget

  • Yeah, if He’s Eligible, 2 Chainz Should Definitely Run for Mayor

  • CBC Offers Training and Support to Ferguson Activists

  • As Conservatives, We Believe School Choice Provides Better Opportunities for Students of Color

  • I Spent MLK Day With Presidential Hopeful Ben Carson. Here’s What I Learned

  • 5 Political Reasons Obama Seems Soft on Race When He’s Not

  • 5 Takeaways From the President’s Muscle-Flexing SOTU

  • Kamala Harris: Are We Looking at the Next US Senator From Calif.?

  • BuzzFeed’s Plagiarism Report Probably Isn’t the Way Ben Carson Wanted to Kick Off His Campaign

  • Sorry, Sen. Rand Paul, You’re No Civil Rights Hero

  • Newark’s Mayor Meets One-on-One With Gangs to Forge Peace

  • Cornel West’s New Book, Black Prophetic Fire, Drives Home His Critique of Obama

  • Secret Service: You Can’t Slip Up With This President

 
Culture

  • Black in Amsterdam: Should I Return to the US to Expose My Son to ‘the Struggle,’ or Nah?

  • Wynton Marsalis Takes Concertgoers Through a Symphony of Blues

  • Serena Williams Returns to the Indian Wells Tournament Unbought, Unbossed and Unbound

  • How Reality TV Has Changed Our Daughters

  • 20 Reasons to Praise Beyoncé

  • As Black Transgender Women Continue to Die, It’s Time for a Call to Action 

  • The Black Panthers and the Rise of Revolutionary Culture

  • Larry Wilmore’s The Nightly Show Is the Black Talk Show We’ve Been Waiting For

  • One Night in Miami Brings the Meeting of Ali, Malcolm, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown to Life

  • X: A Novel: How Malcolm X Grew From ‘Little’ to the Leader of a Revolution

  • Straight Out of Brownsville: A Student’s Viral Image Salutes Revolutionary Brooklyn School Principal Nadia Lopez

  • It’s Hard Out Here for a ‘Redbone’: What Light Girls Gets Wrong ... and Right

  • The Price a Cop Paid for Crossing the Blue Line

 
HISTORY

  • Carol Taylor’s 1st Flight Made History for African Americans

  • A Black Whaling Captain Escaped Prejudice at Sea

  • How Did My Free Black Ancestor Live Under the Confederacy?

  • John Hope Franklin: A Life of Firsts and Flowers

  • How to Hire a Professional Genealogist You Can Trust

  • Why This Image of a Black Demon Leading St. Francis Was Sort of a Good Thing 

  • I’m White, but Tests Show I Have East African DNA. How?

  • The Very Human MLK Portrayed by David Oyelowo Is the King We Should All Remember

  • Nubian Figure Made of Ivory Comes Bearing Gifts

  • I Found My Ancestor in a Slave Schedule. What Now?

  • The Complexities of Race Hidden Within a Simple Display of Everyday Life 

  • How a Black Man’s Head Became a Staple of the Mediterranean Dinner Table

  • Did Trouble With Horse Rustling Do in My Texas Ancestor?

  • High Cheekbones and Straight Black Hair?

  • Why Did Malcolm X Go to Oxford?  

  • Unearthing a Historic Free African-American Community

 
THE ROOT TV

  • Kanye West Plans on Making Music with Taylor Swift

  • Police: UNC Shooting Deaths Motivated by Parking Dispute

  • Carter G. Woodson's Contribution to African-Americans

  • Langston Hughes Recites 'The Weary Blues'

  • Jackie Robinson West Little League Team Stripped of Title

  • Three Charged with Murder Tied to Craigslist Ad

  • 'Parks and Recreation's' Retta Says Goodbye to Pawnee

  • Celebrity Apprentice's Vivica A. Fox: Kenya Stole My Phone

  • Lupita Nyong'o Behind the Scenes of 'Lucky Magazine' Cover Shoot

  • Entrepreneurs for Social Change: 'Running the Streets with Felice León'

  • Handing Out Instructions for the Next Heartbreak

  • Designer Customizes It All, From Bikes To Backpacks

 
ADVICE

  • What to Do When Your Fiance’s Baby Mama Wants to Attend Your Wedding

  • Meeting Up With an Abusive Ex to Collect a Debt Isn’t Worth It

  • Maintain Marital Bliss by Compromising on Conflicting Family Obligations

  • Living Under Mom’s Roof Gives Her the Right to Control Your Life, Even if You Are Grown

  • A ‘Good’ Friend Wouldn’t Do What You Just Did

  • My Boyfriend Hates How Much Time I Spend Doing a Job That I Love

  • If You’re Withholding Sex to Make Your Man Stay Faithful, You Need to Let Him Go 

  • I Love Her, but She Doesn’t Measure Up to My Friends. Should I Move On?

  • He Did What to Your Phone?! Aw, Girl, It’s Over

  • What Exactly Can a White Man Safely Say About a Black Woman’s Hair?

 
LISTS

  • Grammy Red Carpet: Stars Shine on Music’s Biggest Night

  • Eye Candy From The Root’s Young, Fabulous and Female Event

  • Black Films Are Buzzing at This Year’s Sundance Festival

  • Here Are 14 People We’d Like to Be Snowed in With During the Blizzard of 2015

  • White Celebrities Who Have Adopted Black Children

  • Glitz and Glam on the Red Carpet at the Golden Globes

  • All of King’s Men: Actors Who Have Played MLK

  • The Top 20 Most Searched African Americans in 2014

  • The Top 15 Videos of 2014

  • Colorblind Casting: Black Actors in Traditionally White Roles

  • The 15 Best Works of Fiction by Black Authors in 2014

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Prison Drug Ring Leader Who Impregnated 4 Guards Gets Reduced Sentence for Testimony
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3 Charged in Craigslist-Ad Murder
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Ava DuVernay Says She’s Still ‘Hurt’ by David Oyelowo’s Oscar Snub
STEPHEN A. CROCKETT JR.
Jackie Robinson West Team Stripped of Little League Title
DAVID SWERDLICK
Explain It Any Way You Want, but Kanye Acted an Ass After the Grammys
KIRSTEN WEST SAVALI
Serena Williams Returns to the Indian Wells Tournament Unbought, Unbossed and Unbound
DEMETRIA LUCAS D’OYLEY
What to Do When Your Fiance’s Baby Mama Wants to Attend Your Wedding

Blogs

  • Ava DuVernay Says She’s Still ‘Hurt’ by David Oyelowo’s Oscar Snub
  • By Yesha Callahan
  • Feb. 11 2015 12:56 PM

  • Should We Keep the ‘White’ and ‘Colored’ Sections on Jim Crow War Memorials?
  • By Richard Prince
  • Feb. 10 2015 8:40 PM

  • How Many People Get Hurt if Republicans Get Rid of Obamacare?
  • By Charles D. Ellison
  • Feb. 7 2015 3:00 AM

The 2015 Young Futurists

The 2015 Young Futurists

by The Root Staff
Feb. 10 2015 10:25 AM

Meet 25 Young People Who Will Inspire You and Everyone You Know

by Lyne Pitts
Feb. 10 2015 3:03 AM

Young Futurists: Allyson Carpenter

Feb. 11 2015 7:47 PM
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