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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 …

Around 4 a.m. on Wednesday (June 10), the body of a Black man in his 20s was discovered hanging from a tree in Palmdale, CA. According to authorities, the man, who has now been identified as Robert Fuller, committed suicide by hanging himself from the tree. “Words can’t describe …

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 …

The Minneapolis City Council on Friday (Jun. 12) unanimously passed a resolution to pursue a community-led public safety system to replace the police department following the death of George Floyd at the hands of the city’s police. The move comes days after a veto-proof majority of the council voted …

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 …

(Photo: Adobe Stock) “How can we say that we don’t want African-American influencers applying for this campaign without offending anybody?” That was the start of a very real conversation with a colleague at a marketing agency I worked at. During a campaign planning meeting for a beauty brand, filled with …

Entertainment journalist and TV writer Jasmine “Jas” Waters’ cause of death has been revealed. The 39-year-old, who also went by the moniker “JasFly” and wrote for a number of popular TV shows like NBC’s This Is Us and Showtime’s Kidding, died on June 9th as a result of suicide by …

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 …

George Floyd’s death, the most recent in a series of deaths of black Americans while in police custody, has set off days and nights of protests across the country. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) SEATTLE (AP) — After hitting the streets to protest racial injustices, Sharon Chuter was disillusioned by …