If you are a person of a certain age and musical tastes, you no doubt remember exactly where you were when you learned of the tragic death of entertainer Aaliyah on August 25, 2021. It was the kind of seismic cultural shift that forever impacted a generation already deeply influenced by the singer’s music, image and…
Star Georgia running back and mediocre NFL running back Herschel Walker (Don’t look at me like that. If he was so great then why isn’t he in the NFL Hall of Fame?) has filed to run for the U.S. Senate to represent Georgia with the support of his friend and savior, Donald Trump.
So far, Kanye West has slept in the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, reconstructed his childhood home in Chicago’s Soldier Field, pushed back the release date of Donda multiple times and, most recently, legally filed to change his name from Kanye Omari West to just “Ye.”
A few years ago, Yelitsa Jean-Charles, the 20-something founder of Healthy Roots Dolls, was pleasantly surprised to see Serena William’s daughter Olympia photographed with Zoe, the Healthy Roots signature doll. As she tells The Root, “I look at all of my orders and obviously I would have noticed the name,” she says…
In a past life, I used to watch ESPN’s First Take religiously.