After the COVID-19 pandemic devastated Black communities throughout the United States, there’s finally a touch of good news. The Centers for Disease Control recently released new data showing that life expectancy for Black Americans, and in fact all Americans, crept up last year.Read more…

We just know this girl’s got a praying grandmother!Read more…

The judge who is responsible for overseeing Aretha Franklin’s estate has recently granted real estate to her sons. The decision was based on a handwritten will that was found between couch cushions in 2014.Read more…

Kanye West is back as the personality who will say whatever the hell he wants no matter the people he hurts in the process.Read more…

Whether kids know it or not, their parents always influence them. In the case of these Black artists, they took after their parents and went on to become successful entertainers in their own right. Read more…

I love it when white people tell on themselves and don’t have to be exposed by an outside party. Just do your racist acts out in the open so we can all see how hateful and discriminatory you are.Read more…

For those of us lucky enough to conquer all those Thanksgiving leftovers, now that Mariah Carey has fully defrosted, the time has come for us to pivot to Christmas. But before we get there, word on the street is that there might be a little bit of shopping we need to knock out beforehand. Thankfully, we at The Root…Read more…

Mark Fisher, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter Rhode Island, took to “Fox & Friends” to pathetically endorse Donald Trump as president and share asinine rhetoric about why Black folks are exiting the Democratic party.Read more…

When you have a blended family, holiday plans can get complicated. In order to accommodate everyone’s schedules, everything has to be worked out well in advance.If you’re Nick Cannon, who has 12 kids with six women, complicated is an understatement. One of those women recently revealed details about how she navigates…Read more…

In today’s era of remakes and reboots, there’s one show that consistently comes up in online conversation from folks begging to see it back on their screens: Girlfriends.Read more…

It’s been more than two years since the infamous Oprah Winfrey sit-down with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, in which the couple shared that a royal family member made comments about the skin color of the couple’s future son, Archie. Markle shared during the interview that there were “concerns and conversations about…Read more…

Kylie Jenner has finally spoken out about the dynamics of her friendship with Jordyn Woods and why they decided to hang out in public after the scandal that rocked their friendship in 2019. Why did it take so long for them to be seen in public? Read more…

While Jada Pinkett-Smith and Will Smith may have joked about having a “bad marriage for life” years ago, it appears their dedication towards doing life well together hasn’t dissipated.Read more…

Very few artists get to have long, successful careers in the music industry. But after 20 years, Alicia Keys is still on fire. Read more…

Former Glynn County, Ga. District Attorney Jackie Johnson is (still) in the hot seat after being charged with misconduct in connection to the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. She filed a motion to dismiss the case but a judge dismissed the request, keeping her on the road to trial.Read more…

We’re living through an extraordinarily difficult period. Between two wars, political divides, financial issues and the everyday struggles that come with being Black in America, the stress can be overwhelming. At times like these Black women often feel like we have to put on a brave face, square our shoulders and take…Read more…

For someone who has spent her entire life in Northern cities, my perception of life in the South has been largely shaped by the media – images of MAGA hats everywhere and headlines of Southern governors like Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Greg Abbott (R-TX) banning books and changing the way Black history is taught in…Read more…

The soundtrack for the remake of “The Color Purple,” announced Monday via Warner Bros. Pictures and gamma., features a beautiful bevy of Black talent including Mary J. Blige, Megan Thee Stallion and Jennifer Hudson.Read more…

Days before Beyonce’s Renaissance film hits theaters in the U.S., her mother Tina Knowles is clapping back at “self-hating” trolls who lobbed allegations of Bey bleaching her skin, being a white woman and more vitriol over her silvery, platinum look at the Renaissance Film premiere.Read more…

While the world was shocked to find out back in September that Teyana Taylor and Iman Shumpert had been separated for months, what proved to be the bigger shock were court documents allegedly “leaked” over the Thanksgiving holiday that showed that Taylor actually quietly filed for divorce from Shumpert back in January…Read more…