Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman has died at 43 after a four year battle with colon cancer.  The tragic news was confirmed via the actor’s official Instagram. “It is with immeasurable grief that we confirm the passing of Chadwick Boseman,” the post reads. “Chadwick was diagnosed with stage III colon …

Illustration: Oscar Bustamante Clapback MailbagEach Friday, we select the best (or worst) emails, tweets, DMs and comments from our readers and respond to them in the The Root’s Clapback Mailbag. On August 25, 2017, The Root changed the world when it began a feature called the Clapback Mailbag. Back then …

Laurence Fishburne has never shied away from projects that tackle race in America, from School Daze to Boyz n the Hood to Black-ish. And his newest series is a perfect fit as the Black Lives Matter movement addresses police violence across the country. Fishburne stars in the new Quibi series …

This versatility and talent made an entire industry take notice. When Boseman was promoting Get On Up, he got a call from Marvel Studios—they were preparing to introduce the character of Black Panther into their byzantine cinematic universe, and there was only one person they wanted. “You hear people say …

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UPDATE [12:08 P.M.]: The extradition hearing for Kyle Rittenhouse, who is charged with two fatal shootings and the wounding of another man during the Kenosha, Wisconsin protests has now been postponed for a month while his family hires a private attorney.  Chicago Sun-Times confirmed that the Illinois judge will see …

Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman has died at 43 after a four year battle with colon cancer.  The tragic news was confirmed via the actor’s official Instagram. “It is with immeasurable grief that we confirm the passing of Chadwick Boseman,” the post reads. “Chadwick was diagnosed with stage III colon …

Photo: OverHope.STP (Shutterstock) On Tuesday, Twitter removed two fake accounts that spammed tweets about Black people leaving the Democratic Party. According to NBC News, the fake accounts used pictures of Black men as their profile pictures to create the illusion they were run by Black people. One of the accounts, …

Writers have already begun responding to the uncertainty of this pandemic era in their work, but sometimes we need to turn to the past to help make sense of the present. Recently, we’ve been publishing poetry from archival issues of The Atlantic, short pieces that can serve as lyrical salves …

‘);var c=function(){cf.showAsyncAd(opts)};if(typeof window.cf !== ‘undefined’)c();else{cf_async=!0;var r=document.createElement(“script”),s=document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0];r.async=!0;r.src=”http://srv.clickfuse.com/showads/showad.js”;r.readyState?r.onreadystatechange=function(){if(“loaded”==r.readyState||”complete”==r.readyState)r.onreadystatechange=null,c()}:r.onload=c;s.parentNode.insertBefore(r,s)}; })(); Chadwick Boseman, the actor best known for starring in “Black Panther,” has died at 43 years old following a 4-year battle with colon cancer. Chadwick recently sparked concern after he appeared very thin in videos shared via social media. Fans’ concerns with …