@tstidhum

My Name Is My Name (aka my personal dot com)

My Bylines at The Root

[Video Interview] Let's Zen TF Out With Big Sean and Get Our Minds Right With His Mom, Myra Anderson

[Video Junket] Circle or Spiral of Life? Chris Rock Reminisces About Meeting Co-Star Samuel L. Jackson for the 1st Time

My Mama Gives the Best Hugs—I Haven’t Had One of Hers in Two Years

[TV Spot] Breaking Down Hollywood's Biggest Night: Diverse Wins and a Bumpy Ending

[Video Junket] 'Black Americans Built America': The Cast of Without Remorse on the Complexities of Black Patriotism

Entitled Mediocre White Men Join Writers’ Room for Fantasy TV Series Called Reverse Racism

[Video Junket] Mortal Kombat: Mehcad Brooks Speaks on Portraying Jax and 'Transmuting Anger Into Purpose'

Exclusive: Danielle Belton to Star in Tyler Perry’s The HuffPost That Preys

[Video] 'You've Left an Indelible Mark on The Root': Giving Danielle Belton Her Flowers

Sundance 2020: Zola, the Theatrical Twitter Story of How She and ‘This Bitch Here Fell Out’ Is Wild AF

[TV/Media Spot] Lil Nas X Embraces Sexuality in ‘Montero' Video and Shakes the Internet

[Press] BeenWorthy.com - Commit to the Dream & The Dream Will Commit to You: Writer, Director, Producer Tonja Renée Stidhum

[Video] Swizz Beatz and Timbaland Assures Us the Triller Acquisition Ain't Changing a Thing When It Comes to 'the Culture' of Verzuz

Nadria Tucker Discusses 'Seemingly Out of Nowhere' Dismissal From Superman & Lois Writers' Room and WB Investigation

[TV/Media Spot] Hollywood Foreign Press Association Under Fire for Racial Inequity in Press Conferences, Membership

[Video] What Did Cynthia Erivo Learn From Aretha Franklin? How to Ask for What She Deserves Without Being Afraid

[Video] Split opinion on Meghan, Harry's Oprah interview

[Video] Coming 2 America: Now Y'all Know We Had to Take Black Ass Game on the Road to Zamunda!

[Video] Here's Why Your Favorite Coming to America Characters Are Not That 'Fun' for Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall to Play

[Video] You Get Some Black Joy! And You Get Some Black Joy! Everybody Black Gets Some Black Joy! Love, The Root

How Debbie Allen Is Choreographing a Healthier Lifestyle After Receiving a Pre-Diabetes Diagnosis

28 Days of Black Joy: Nicknames That Cancel Out the Need for Government Names

[Panel] Community Forum Live - Race, Religion, Resistance w/ Ebenezer A.M.E. Church

'My Daddy Had the Nerve to Dream': Robin Roberts Reflects on Her Father's Legacy Ahead of Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage

Exclusive: I Spent a (Lady) Day on the Set of Lee Daniels' The United States vs. Billie Holiday

28 Days of Black Joy: Harold's Chicken Shack

Sundance 2021: Questlove's Directorial Debut Summer of Soul Is a Televised and Reminiscent Revolution

[Video] Malcolm & Marie: Zendaya and John David Washington Discuss the Gray Areas of Love

[Speaker Event]: KADIST x The Root Presents "The Radical, Ancient

This Is Us Writer-Director Kay Oyegun and Actor Jennifer C. Holmes Introduce the 'Spirit' of Randall's 'Birth Mother'

Sundance 2021: A List of Black Movies to Watch While You’re in the (Virtual) White Mountains

[Video] Cautious, But Optimistic: How The Root Staff Is Approaching the New Year

[Video] 'Give Yourself Some Self Love Because You Did It': The Root Staff Looks Back at Navigating 2020

[GQ Magazine Byline] How One Little Company Is Making Backpacking Cheaper—and More Inclusive

[EBONY Magazine Byline] No, Viola Davis is Not the ‘Black Meryl Streep’

[Hello Giggles Magazine Byline] Not as bad? When an adult pressured me to kiss him in grade school, I told myself it wasn't "real" assault

2021 So Black: 21 Black Films and TV Worth Looking Forward To

[Video] Need a Creative Spark? The Cast and Crew of Pixar's Soul Got You, Boo

An Exclusive Interview With Tyrese's 90-Degree Thermostat—Which He Believes Prevents COVID-19

Patrisse Cullors Has Been 'Craving Nuance' in Black Activists' Stories—and She Plans to Create That With Warner Bros. TV

[Speaker Event] BET+'s Tyler Perry's Ruthless at Paley Front Row 2020

Negro Noir: I Watched Tyler Perry's Ruthless and My Confusion Is at Its 'Highest'

[Panelist] Black Women In Media (BWIM) - Get Tickets

[Video] Debbie Allen's Story About Snatching Jenifer Lewis' Wig on the Set of Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square Is a Gift

[Video] We Take a Trip Down Memory Lane With Larenz Tate

[Video] Amber Ruffin Has Some Advice for Election Day 2020 (Because She Went to Bed Too Early in 2016)

[Video] Let's Get Our Hair Did and Play a Round of Black Ass Game With the Cast and Crew of Bad Hair!

[Video] The Trial of the Chicago 7: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Knows He Has a Responsibility to Protect the Interests of His People

Phylicia Rashad, Mamoudou Athie and Jay Ellis Relive the Earliest Memories Tucked Away in Their Own Black Box

[Video] Matthew A. Cherry on Directing Black-ish's Election Special: 'There's a Certain Side Working Hard to Make Sure Our Voice Isn't Counted'

Cuties: Maïmouna Doucouré Will Not Be Erased in the Controversy Obscuring Her Coming-of-Age Story

Exclusive: Regina King Explains Why She Chose Kingsley Ben-Adir to Portray Malcolm X for One Night in Miami

[TV Spot] 'Sister, Sister' Begins Streaming on Netflix, More Black Sitcoms to Come

P-Valley—and the 'P' Stands for Prosper While Bingeing This Endearingly Turnt Series

Chadwick Boseman Forever

[Junket] 21 Bridges: Yes, Chadwick Boseman Was Conflicted Portraying a Black Cop

Exclusive: You're Officially Invited to the DC FanDome Blerd & Boujee Afterparty With DJ D-Nice On the 1s and 2s

Lovecraft Country and the Horror Story of America

[Video] 'Billie Holiday Is Probably One of Our First Civil Rights Leaders': Lee Daniels Discusses His Upcoming Biopic at The Root Institute

[Video Junket] I May Destroy You: Weruche Opia, on the Importance of Showcasing Different Stories Within the African Diaspora

[Video Junket] I May Destroy You: Paapa Essiedu Rejects the 'Violent Erasure of the Black Male Experience Spectrum' by Portraying Kwame

This Is Bad, Real Bad

[Video Junket] I May Destroy You: Michaela Coel Has Full Autonomy and it Shows

Fatal Affair Is Obsessed With Insert Shots

[Video Junket]: Fatal Affair: Nia Long and Omar Epps Discuss Hollywood 20 Years Later—Has It Changed?

[Video Junket] Gina Prince-Bythewood Speaks on the 'Black Female Gaze' Contributing to KiKi Layne's 'Integral' Part in The Old Guard

Exclusive: Oprah Winfrey, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Lionsgate and The New York Times to Adapt The 1619 Project Into Film, TV Programming and More

By Sheer Miracle (or Twitter), I Came Across Smokey Robinson Singing About 'Gang Banging'

An Exclusive Interview With Ann Marie Lastrassi Who Would Love to Be Beyoncé, But Is Not Actually Beyoncé

[Video Junket] 'All of These Guys Are Complicit in the Brutal Practice of Slavery': The Cast and Crew of Hamilton Have a Reckoning

Felicia Pride, on the 'Vulnerability, Sensuality, Softness and Hardness' of the Women in Her Short Film, Tender

Frankly My Dear, We Don't Give a Damn About These Woke Gestures If We Don't See Systemic Change in Hollywood

[Speaker Event] SXSW - Elevating Voices: Donald Albright & Deniese Davis Talk Leveraging Media to Address Social Injustices

The Music Industry’s Utter Disrespect of Black Women Feels Like Constant White Noise

The Timeless Freedom of Miss Juneteenth

[TV Spot] Platforms Pull Controversial Content, Netflix Launches 'Black Lives Matter' Category

[Video Junket] Da 5 Bloods: Spike Lee on Black MAGA Supporters Drinking the 'Orange Kool-Aid' From 'Agent Orange'

The George Floyd Homicide Video Is Not Cinéma Vérité—WTF Is Wrong With You, Ross Johnson?

The Hollywood Black Squares: A Reckoning on Whether Solidarity With Black Lives Matter Is Fact or Fiction

[Video Junket] Black Ass Game: Tracee Ellis Ross Wants to Hit The High Note With Rihanna

Exclusive: A Cover Reveal of L.L. McKinney's Nubia: Real One—She's Much More Than Wonder Woman's Twin Sister

Drew Dixon, Sil Lai Abrams and Sheri Sher Go On the Record About Russell Simmons and Dismantling the Misogynoir System

Sorry Lawrence Hive—Issa Rae Would Exterminate You in a Lovebirds Game of 'Frame, Marry, Kill'

On Riding the Waves of Grief

How to Get Away With Murder: Five Questions for a Fine Man Named Rome Flynn

Rob Morgan Is a Leading Man

An Exclusive Interview With ‘Tyrone’ of Erykah Badu Infamy