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The trial of Dylann Roof, accused in the murder of nine church goers at the Emanuel AME in Charleston, S.C. last summer, has been delayed, and is now rescheduled for Jan. 17, 2017, Reuters reports. 

Growing up, I was fortunate enough to play several organized sports at varying levels from early youth through high school. I played soccer and basketball, ran both track and cross-country, gave football a short stint. In college I took badminton as one of my physical education requirements, and apparently my particular class was so good, our instructor thought about petitioning the school to institute a badminton team.

"Affluenza" teen Ethan Couch, who recently turned 19, has been ordered by a Texas judge to serve nearly two years—720 days—in a county jail, the Associated Press reports. 

It's not quite clear what exactly Sprint was trying to accomplish with its ill-fated, rather tasteless ad, but a few hours of Twitter outrage took care of the controversial video: It was pulled Tuesday night, the Washington Post reports. 

The owner of a tire shop in Ann Arbor, Mich., is coming under quite a bit of fire after trying to defend himself for saying that he doesn't want the business of black or "ghetto" people, Mic reports. 

Chances are, if you were a normal college student, you were a terrible person to date. Who really knows anything about being a quality partner at 18, 19 or even 20, 21 years old? Most of us at that age were just trying to find ourselves (or find ourselves in someone else’s pants). Now that I’m safely in my 30s, I would never tell my daughter (or any high school girl) to go looking for a husband among baby-faced undergrads.

The Kappa Alpha Order at Tulane University has come under fire since constructing a wall of sandbags around its frat house last Thursday, boasting pro-Donald Trump slogans like “Make America Great Again,” USA Today College reports. 

The Waller County, Texas, jail where Sandra Bland died in July is in serious need of an upgrade, according to a report issued Tuesday by a panel put together after Bland's death, the Associated Press reports. 

Next up in The Root’s minority-health video series during National Minority Health Month is yoga.

Hillary Clinton is leaving the answers to all questions about the controversial "CP Time" skit she did with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to de Blasio himself, distancing herself a bit from the matter, New York Times reports.

New Orleanians are planning to celebrate former NFL player Will Smith's life with style, holding a second line (brass band parade) in the slain player's memory.

Dear Demetria: 

We’ve been with President Barack Obama since the beginning. As three of his senior advisers, we worked closely with the president on a host of important issues—few more important than assisting him with the judicial nominations and confirmations of Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Elena Kagan. Nominations are not taken lightly, and they can’t be, for too much is at stake for the American people.

On a Saturday evening in February of 1966, over a thousand mostly white Republican men and women crowded into a Cleveland hotel banquet hall, eager to hear Jackie Robinson’s opening keynote for the annual Ohio Republican Conference. The baseball icon-turned-political activist did not disappoint.

Getting older seems to come with a fair amount of side effects—increased joint pain, indigestion, tooth sensitivity, general peckishness against sleeping after 11 on a weeknight. Some of these are just general consequences of your body letting you know that you, too, are slowly decaying from years of treating your body like Play-Doh with no remorse. Others are just the impact of increased administrative responsibilities—if 14-year-old me had any idea of the clusterf--k that is tax season, I am... Читать дальше...

Last week the first issue of Marvel’s new Black Panther comic broke sales records and sold 300,000 issues in the first printing. Meaning that a comic book about a black superhero sold more copies than the daily circulation of the Baltimore Sun, Washington Times or Boston Globe. Why? It probably has a lot to do with who’s writing it. This latest incarnation of Black Panther is penned by critically acclaimed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates.

As Barack Obama’s second presidential term winds to a close, black Americans are contemplating the sad prospect of holding their noses when they cast their votes for the next commander in chief. Instead of choosing the lesser of the remaining evils, here are five choices you should consider for the next black president of the United States: