The Root

If you’ve been daydreaming about a date with actor Aaron Pierre, take notes. The “Mufasa: The Lion King” star is dishing about what he’s looking for in an ideal mate. Pierre, who has had practically e...

Four years ago, police conducted a routine traffic stop when they discovered a disturbing stench from the driver’s car. They later found the smell came from the decaying bodies of two children. The tw...

In light of Kendrick Lamar’s 2025 Super Bowl halftime show performance and the subsequent online chatter about the symbolism and hidden messages riddled throughout, it made us ponder what role artist’...

In this digital age of disinformation, it’s easy for simple facts about the Civil Rights Movement to get misconstrued. During this era, which rose to prominence in the 1950s, Black folks worked dilige...

Updated as of 5:00p.m. ET on 2/13/2025: A rep for Kanye West has denied reports that he and his wife Bianca Censori are getting divorced. In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday, Milo Yia...

Days after her surprising guest appearance at Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime performance, many talking heads have used it as an opportunity to criticize the tennis legend…including ever-co...

At the beginning of this month, TIME Magazine published a cover that visually says what most of us have been thinking about the state of things over on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. And it should scare the h...

While Kendrick Lamar’s hit songs “Not Like Us” and “luther” may be climbing the charts following his epic 2025 Super Bowl halftime show performance, there’s one bar that many are still puzzled by. Tha...