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Photo: Courtesy of Caitlin Douglas National media have honed their attention on the impact of freezing temperatures in Texas, but residents in Louisiana have been enduring crisis-level weather challenges of their own. Advertisement The state endured sub-freezing temperatures around February 12 and some days after, which have led to burst pipes and unsafe drinking water, leaving residents and businesses in Alexandria, Lake Charles and Shreveport without clean water going on two weeks. A water bo...

Watch DAngelo Duet With H.E.R., Method Man, Redman and Himself in Unconventional Verzuz Team-Up A.D. Amorosi, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail When Verzuz announced on Valentine’s Day that the reclusive R&B superstar D’Angelo, who has been under the radar since his brief tour in support of 2014’s “Black Messiah” album, would come out of his lair to perform with unnamed “Friends” at Harlem’s historic Apollo Theater on February 27, the Internet immediately lit up with speculation...

Another year, another Black History Month coming to a close. For the past 28 days, The Root has been celebrating Black Joy and how that looks—whether it’s through art, family, food or music. Panama Jackson, senior editor of Very Smart Brothas, has brought us all the joy through the most iconic and Blackest album covers of our time. Granted, there are probably more than 28 out there, but it would be hard to top this series in all of its Blackness. A slew of my personal favorites made this ...

Advertisement Welcome back, true believers! Our journey so far has taken us across decades, from the bell-bottomed ’70s to the lit af present. As much as I would like to bend the fabric of space-time, and tell you exactly what the future holds, I’m going to keep it a buck: I ain’t got that kind of power, b. I’m just a man on a laptop who spends an inordinate amount of time reading comics. If I have any kind of superpower it’s having a job that makes people open to talking with a weird...

It would be nice to live in a world where everything made sense. For example, I’d love to know why Taylor Swift is so popular in America, yet I don’t know one Black person who can sing three of her songs. I’d love to know why Colin Kaepernick doesn’t have a job yet a Trump-loving white boy can quarterback the Washington Football Team. It would be great to know why liquor stores in white neighborhoods are usually called wine and spirits but some things will just have to remain unanswered....

At a Senate hearing on Tuesday, the former chief of Capitol Police, Steven Sund, stridently denied that the violent takeover of the U.S. Capitol by white supremacists on Jan. 6 was able to happen because of poor planning by security officials.

On Monday, the U.S. marked nearly a year since the ongoing coronavirus pandemic arrived on our shores by reaching a horrid milestone: 500,000 Americans dead from the virus.

Photo: Sean Rayford (Getty Images) One year to the day that 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery was gunned down by Travis McMichael and his father Greg McMichael while jogging through a neighborhood in Glynn County, Ga., Arbery’s mother has filed a civil lawsuit in federal court seeking $1 million in damages for his death. Advertisement Wanda Cooper-Jones filed the suit at a U.S. District Court in Georgia on Tuesday, according to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution. The complaint names the McMichaels as d...

Alerts From Left to Right: Black Lightning, created by Tony Isabella and Trevor Von Eeden, John Stewart/Green Lantern, created by Dennis O’Neil and Neal Adams, Storm, created by Len Wein and Dave Cockrum, Spawn created by Todd McFarlane, Black Panther, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, and Static, created by Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, Michael Davis, and Derek T. Dingle Illustration: Benjamin Currie Editor’s Note: The Rise of the Black Superhero is a three-part series breaking down th...