Sixteen girls share stories of poverty, racism, sexism, police brutality, and more in a new book, Speak, Young Brown People, Speak. We Are Listening! The book was independently published by Alberta Lampkins of A.L. Savvy Publications in North Carolina. She issued a national call in 2020 seeking essays, poems, art …

Shaquille O’Neal is a big man who isn’t too big to admit that the cause of his divorce was entirely his fault. According to the New York Post, the NBA Hall of Famer opened up about the cause of the divorce from his ex-wife, Shaunie O’Neal. The TNT announcer appeared …

420: Weed Has Come A Long Way Marijuana is now legal in 18 states and Washington, DC. But New York shows the most promise in righting the wrongs of the war on drugs. Latest on The Root 420: Weed Has Come A Long Way Laquan McDonald’s Killer, Already Released Early, …

“How to Build a Life” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. Click here to listen to his podcast series on all things happiness, How to Build a Happy Life. Here’s some very bad happiness advice based on very solid happiness research: Feel important. …

The city of Detroit overtaxed its homeowners by more than $600 million in the years following the Great Recession, but the city has yet to pay anyone back. According to The Detroit News, the Michigan constitution prohibits property taxes from being assessed at more than 50% of their market value. …

Photo: Sundry Photography (Shutterstock) In 2013, Jamaican immigrant June Barrett (they/them) had landed a new care working job as a live-in aid to an elderly man. Because of the wage increase, they were excited to have the job, however, on the very first night, the client had asked them to …

This article contains spoilers for Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. The final showdown in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is supposed to be epic. Albus Dumbledore, the mighty wizard played by Jude Law, comes face-to-face with his former lover turned nemesis, Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen), breaking the pact …

Hip-hop artist Snoop Dogg is ready to help artists get what’s rightfully theirs. He intends to launch an app for Death Row Records that will exclusively stream the label’s catalog of artists. He says the streaming companies are paying “pennies” for millions of streams. The new Death Row Records owner …

Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a rally at The Farm at 95 on April 9, 2022 in Selma, North Carolina. Trump’s lawyers in New York and elsewhere are trying to help him fight off multiple investigations.Photo: Allison Joyce (Getty Images) Lawyers for ex-president Donald Trump are trying to …

The magic of Robert Eggers’s breakout first film, The Witch, a horror fable about a Puritan family besieged by supernatural forces, lay in its authenticity. Not from the close attention to period detail, though that was itself impressive, but from the earnestness of its tone, which presented every supernatural element …