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Illustration: Angela Alzona 2020 was a year. And I don’t mean that in a good way. Because this whole endeavor is about positivity, I won’t even speak on any of the negativity. Advertisement What I will say is that 2020 did provide many moments of positivity in the form of movies and television, and the internet straight showed out. I think most of us got into the lemons-int0-lemonade business to laugh in order to keep from crying. And that’s why The Root’s The Blackest Awards exists—known henceforth and throughout this awards season as The Skippies, in honor of the co-founder of

Photo: Darren McCollester (Getty Images) Former President Donald Trump may just be your average run-of-the-mill racist without any power and a belly that hangs over his belt, but that hasn’t stopped South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) from kissing his ass. Advertisement During a recent appearance on Fox News, aka Trump’s OnlyFans, Graham threatened to put Harris through an impeachment trial for her support of Black Lives Matter protests. “If you use this model, I don’t know how Kamala Harris doesn’t get impeached if the Republicans take over the House [in the 2022 midterm electio...

Alerts We’re so happy to bring you the winners for our 2nd Annual Blackest Awards. Around here, we call them The Skippies because we get down like that. Well, as with most awards shows, some awards are televised—unlike the revolution—while others are awarded before the show. Since we don’t have a show, so to speak, but like the idea of awarding folks their awards via video, The Root’s editor-in-chief, Danielle Belton, and Very Smart Brothas’ senior editor, Panama Jackson (along with the fine work of our video department) put together a video where we handed out, virtually and san...

Photo: Shutterstock (Shutterstock) Like many a child of the Great Migration, all my extended family actually lived nowhere near me. My mother “escaped” Arkansas for Iowa right after graduating from Philander Smith College in Little Rock to become a school teacher, but Iowa was too cold, too white, and too far from her ancestral home, so she moved to St. Louis to teach with its much larger Black population and, then, eight-hour drive away from Newport, Ark. Advertisement There she met my Texan father, then an engineer with the former McDonnell Douglas firm (at a chance meeting via a teache...

It’s been just over 400 years since the unintentional founding of Black America—when “20 or so odd Negroes” in captivity were delivered to the shores of Jamestown, Virginia in 1619. In the intervening centuries, much—and yet, not enough—has changed. This much-needed conversation was only brought into its full historical context at the national (and even global) level with 2019's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1619 Project for the New York Times; but just like the arrival of those enslaved Africans, that was only the beginning. Advertisement Accordingly, the recently published Four Hundr...