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Paul Pierce is a lot of things; a lover of revisionist history, a board-certified hater of all things LeBron James,…

As someone who’s never had even a remote desire to pay somebody to get naked, I will never understand the allure of…

I don’t know how you spent your Tuesday night, but since the coronavirus won’t let any of us be great, I hope you…

As we’ve been documenting here at The Root for a while now, Ebony Magazine has been going through it.

Damn, the NBA is back already?!

For most of Malik Beasley’s NBA career, he’s been relegated to staying in the background, but in recent months, the…

If you cracked open the New York Times on Sunday, you might’ve been greeted by the following full-page ad:

Not only is Milwaukee Bucks guard Jrue Holiday a beast on both ends of the court, but by all accounts, he’s long…

There was football this weekend? Oh. Let’s get to it.

Since March, the coronavirus has unleashed all types of unbridled hell on both professional and collegiate sports.…

Once upon a time, when NBA players were still allowed to play defense and the New York Knicks were still a…

On the same day that the NBA Foundation named Greg Taylor its first-ever executive director, it also made another…

For hoop heads, March 11 is a day that will live on in infamy.

Throughout the course of the past year, we’ve seen the profiles of HBCUs continue to escalate, as everyone from Chris…

After hundreds of years, white people have yet to develop a cure for racism—though it only took them nine months to…

Since establishing itself as a major league franchise in 1901, the Cleveland Indians have won a pair of World Series…

Another week of NFL football is in the books. Let’s get to it.

Whether the NBA likes it or not, Kyrie Irving is undergoing a metamorphosis.

As the Grammys have proven time and time again, the winner isn’t always the most deserving. But when it comes to…

2020 has been a rough year for all of us, but it’s been a particularly ugly year for the Los Angeles Temecula…