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Join Tony Award Winner Hinton Battle For “Something New” Tonight!

HINTON BATTLE    ----    Three-time Tony Award - NAACP Image Awards - Fred...

Dr. Dre & Jimmy Iovine Very Close to Selling Beats to Apple for Billions

May 8, 2014 According to TMZ, Dr. Dre could be days away from being the first rapper turned BILLIONAIRE ... thanks to a mega-deal for Apple to snatch up...

Pastor Marlon Lock Is Planting “Good Seed”

April 4, 2014 By Hasan James (MILWAUKEE, WI) - Since Root Magazine started five years ago, I have been on hundreds of assignments but this one...

Kidnapped Boy Sings Hezekiah Walker’s “Every Praise” And Is Set Free From Kidnapper!

ABDUCTED 9-YEAR OLD ATLANTA BOY SINGS HIS WAY TO FREEDOM Tuesday, April 8, 2014 By Deborah Champagne (ATLANTA, GA) According to Atlanta's...

Vashawn Mitchell Graces New Cover of Root and Set to Release New Music

  August 1, 2012 By Hasan James Vashawn Mitchell will have a busy month of August, as...

Game Day with Chaz Shepherd, “Trey Wiggs” of BET’s “The Game”

Game Day with Chaz Shepherd, “Trey Wiggs” of “The Game” January 10, 2012  A Hasan James Interview

Martin Luther King, Jr. Monument Dedication Service

By Aries Jordan & Hasan James Photography By...

Andrae Crouch- Still on “The Journey”

As told to Hasan James Photography by Ta-Tanisha Thomas The name Andrae Crouch is synonymous...

Denzel donates over $2 Milli to Fordham University

By Sarah Anne Hughes According to the  Washington Post, Denzel Washington (John McConnico - AP)Denzel Washington...

Steve Jobs- 1955- 2011

By NED POTTER and COLLEEN CURRY According to Yahoo News: Steve Jobs, the mastermind behind Apple's iPhone, iPad, iPod, iMac and iTunes, has died, Apple said. Jobs was 56. "We...