Twenty-five years ago, Martin hit the airwaves. The sitcom showcased comedian Martin Lawrence and was a cult…

Black and Proud is a video series on The Root that focuses on the pride that our favorite black celebrities,…

The look has been given many names over the years: the “high and tight,” the“fashy,” the “synth” and the “undercut.”

The first black actor Brian Tyree Henry saw on television was Jasmine Guy, in A Different World. Henry was…

Some might say that Maxine Waters’ career in politics was a prophecy.

Christian Herrera started dancing when he was 4 years old. He said he knew that he would be a dancer when he did his…

They’re on our butts, arms, thighs and breasts. You name it.

For centuries, black women have been measured by a white standard of beauty.

If there is one thing that Sammy Sosa, an Afro-Latino man, and his skin-bleaching fiasco has taught us, it’s to be…

In the 1980s, San Francisco Bay Area native Damani Baker and his family migrated to the Caribbean to join the…

So, what, exactly, is jazz? We know it’s black music, we know that many of the artists of the genre are political.…

Loyalty. It’s not something to be bought or sold. In life, one could only wish to find a tribe of loyal people.

A black woman owning the narrative on a Broadway stage is an act of power.

Three women of color—Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Jessica Sabogal and Melinda James—traveled from Los Angeles to…

What’s nearly 100 pounds and made out of 7,000 sheets of paper? If you guessed a sculpture of one of the greatest…

“We think of artists usually in history as European, as male, as being trained in a certain way,” said Rujeko…

Very seldom does one encounter a leader as valiant, sharp and fearless as Malcolm X (aka el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz),…

To be clear: There is no ambiguity about what Laila Ali wants and the path she is willing to take to get there.

The saying goes, “Healthy mind, healthy body.” But how often do we tend, acknowledge and nurture our mental health?

Jessamyn Stanley describes herself as a fat, black, queer femme. The best part: She couldn’t care less about what…