Today, June 25, marks the 7th anniversary of the Shelby County v. Holder case, in which the U.S. Supreme Court found…

My mother hated to cook.

I wouldn’t know Juneteenth without my father.

At The Root, we’ve had a long-standing debate over capitalizing the “B” in black. Some of us are adamantly for it,…

I knew what I was getting into.

Saturday during journalist Alicia Menendez’s broadcast on MSNBC, The Root’s Editor-in-Chief Danielle Belton (meeeeee!

“I’ll do something that makes me happy.”

They tried to make it nice.

When I call my father on the weekends, we talk about a myriad of things. How the family is doing, politics, food, my…

The numbers are staggering.

I think we’re alone now. There doesn’t seem to be anyone around.

When I was a child watching reruns of Star Trek, one of the things I always wondered was … where did all the black…

There’s a Christmas song by Jackson 5-era Michael Jackson that appears on the 1973 double album—A Motown Christmas—th…

Some of the hardest conversations my sister and I have are about our mom.

There’s something special about a portrait of Earth, Wind & Fire, the masterminds behind hits like “September” and…

Jayme Lawson is only 22.

Libras are extra.

In an age where superheroes reign supreme thanks to a successful, multibillion dollar Marvel movies run, New York…

So, I like clothes, right?

As actor Danielle Brooks sings and shines as Beatrice in director Kenny Leon’s production of Much Ado About Nothing,…