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The Root 2020 Presidential Black Power Rankings take a one-week snapshot of the campaign season and imagine, using ju…

Blood is the jet fuel of the body. It helps you jump, run, breathe and move with ease through the world. So imagine…

In the immortal words of Bill Duke in Menace II Society:

We’re back! Yes, after a short break, The Root 2020 Presidential Black Power Rankings are back just in time for the…

Everybody has hip-hop dreams. For some, it’s showing up to the club in a stretch limo full of groupies and Cristal.…

We made it. After eight full weeks of Twitter spats, campaign gossip, polls and memes, we’ve reached our first bye…

“Smart white people know how to hire black people who actually KNOW black people.”

Mass shootings hit in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas; the stock market crashes; and Toni Morrison passes away. Why…

Before you read The Root’s 2020 Presidential Black Power Rankings for Week 5, we want you to close your eyes and use…

This week’s power rankings had a one-week gap because we had a lot of events we wanted to cover to make sure…

The Joe Biden campaign for president has been a spectacle to behold this year. On the one hand, if you wrote out…

Do you know what a henchman is? They’re faceless, nameless, losers who do the dirty work for the villain in movies…

This week’s Root 2020 Presidential Black Power Rankings is full of surprises. We have a new No. 1 after several…

When news broke last week that Halle Bailey had been cast as Ariel for the new live-action remake of The Little…

Welcome back to The Root’s 2020 Presidential Black Power Rankings, where our select committee of activists,…

Thursday’s debate was Donald Trump’s biggest nightmare: A loud, creative, diverse and television-ready slugfest that…

Nobody won Wednesday night’s first 2020 Democratic presidential debate, but a couple of people lost. Rep. Tim Ryan…

Welcome to The Root’s Black Power Rankings, where we assess the eleventy-billion Democrats currently running for the…