Leave it to the Windy City to not let shit go.

After Billboard, tapping into a long and cherished tradition of erasing black people from country music, decided Lil…

In front of a packed ballroom, Tiffany Crutcher reached into her purse and pulled out a stapled letter, folded and…

If there’s one thing we’ve learned about Beyoncé, it’s that when the Queen Bey is silent, it usually means she’s…

Lezley McSpadden, mother of Michael Brown, lost a hotly contested 3-way race for a seat on Ferguson’s city council…

The University of North Carolina has obtained arrest warrants for two people accused of defacing a monument to…

Starting today, Baltimore City Council President Bernard “Jack” Young will assume mayoral duties in place of the…

Sex work is legal in the Dominican Republic. But despite this, sex workers are still vulnerable to…

It’s a shame there isn’t a tag for stories on The Root called “dumbassery on your tax dollars,” because I promise…

There are bestsellers, and then there’s Michelle Obama.

By the time Tennessee representative London Lamar tells me she’s “a softy and a sweet person,” she had already…

Freshman congresswoman Ilhan Omar was a frequent target at this year’s American-Israel Public Affairs Committee…

This year, a Supreme Court stacked with conservative judges may finally decide the fate of political gerrymandering.…

The body of a young woman recovered from the Scioto River in Ohio on Saturday has been identified as 28-year-old…

Attorney General William Barr sent a letter to Congress on Sunday summarizing special counsel Robert Mueller’s…

Perhaps no other city in America is as synonymous with gentrification as San Francisco.

On Tuesday, a Multnomah County, Ore., jury delivered a guilty verdict against Russell Courtier, a member of a white…

Offers to black students at New York City’s elite public schools are dropping—and the numbers are absolutely dismal.

A Virginia school resource officer has been identified as an active member of the white nationalist group Identity…

A federal judge ruled Patricia Okoumou, known around the world as the “Statue of Liberty Climber,” will not spend…