It’s been a year of mixed emotions for HBCUs—including a pandemic that forced students back home, months of protests…

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It’s been a long four years, y’all. Since Election Day 2016, we’ve lived in what can only be called a surreality;…

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When The Root first spoke to George M. Johnson (one of our longtime contributors) just ahead of the release of their…

Laverne Cox is already well-known to body an over-the-top look—it doesn’t hurt that the statuesque actress has the…

It’s already a well-documented fact that the outbreak of the novel coronavirus has disproportionately affected Black…

We know, we know—Halloween hasn’t even arrived yet, but we all know it’s a swift slide from there into Christmas,…

One of the best qualities a creator can have is to listen to (constructive) feedback and adjust accordingly—and it…

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There’s been this wild theory going around that now that all of us non-essential workers have been working from home…