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The evening, Surender Malik recalls, was a blur. Exhausted, he had just sat down to watch television as his wife prepared dinner when Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeared on-screen. It was March 24, and the coronavirus outbreak had been declared a pandemic about two weeks prior. Thus far India appeared …

Teyana Taylor And Iman Shumpert are expanding their family. Taylor announced the news in a beautiful music video for her song “Wake Up Love,” which featured Iman and their 4-year-old daughter Junie.  In the final seconds of the video, the 29-year-old reveals her baby bump. See below: Taylor told PEOPLE, …

Illustration: Oscar Bustamante (The Root/G-O) 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. Nigga, I ain’t shitI just know how to rhyme a lil’ bitI’m just trying to squeeze fit my …

Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox. (TIMOTHY MULCARE “Americans are pretending that the pandemic is over,” Yascha Mounk writes. “It certainly is …

Jahmel Leach is only 16-years old and ended up bloodied in the hospital with a serious gash on his face after a disturbing interaction with the New York Police Department (NYPD.) The teenager was reportedly protesting police brutality and instead became a victim of violence from the NYPD. According to …

Share0 (Image via @munroebergdorf/Instagram) The recent protests over police brutality and racial injustice has sparked a conservation about racism both in the United States and around the world. In 2017, a Black model for L’Oreal named Munroe Bergdorf was fired for speaking up about systemic racism while under contract. In …

On June 1, the women-only social club and coworking space The Wing shared an Instagram post that read “Black Lives Matter” in bold, yellow lettering. The graphic was a far cry from the millennial pink and muted tones that have defined The Wing’s aesthetic since it first opened in 2016, …

I’d also note that in the pandemic, as in virtually everything else, men are heard, promoted, and lauded more than women. So I’m trying to carve out time to elevate the work of incredible people who are dealing with exactly the same professional pressures that I am but don’t benefit …

Tiffany Haddish has opened up about her decision to attend the memorial for George Floyd, saying the recent deaths of unarmed Black people and the protests they’ve sparked has triggered painful memories from her childhood.   “The thing that made me really want to be there was, I have watched …

Share0 (Image: Twitter) A part-time NASCAR driver, who is virtually unknown, says he is not returning to competition after the 2020 racing season is over because NASCAR decided to ban the Confederate flag, according to CNN. Ray Ciccarelli of the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series, went on social …