He had a rock.

When Vice President Mike Pence visited the Virginia Military Institute, the Black students disappeared.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the champion for women’s rights, died on Friday evening from “complications of metastatic…

In December 2019, The Root conducted a scientific study to determine who the most “Blackfamous” person in America.

I’ve been waiting for this.

For years, the investigative team at The Root has feverishly sought an answer to the age-old question: “Do white…

Today’s mailbag is dedicated to the people who inform Black people on how to overcome racism. That’s why we’re all…

It wasn’t Black-on-Black crime. Violent video games and rap songs had nothing to do with it; nor did poverty,…

On Sept. 16, 1968, 51 years before HBO aired the first episode of its groundbreaking horror series, Carol Jenkins…

I’m going to stop being so offensive.

I admit that I don’t know how to feel about this story.

Bereft of logical arguments for why any lucid-thinking human being would ever cast a ballot in favor of an…

During an interview with Faux News’ Laura Ingraham, Donald Trump recounted a story about a plane “almost completely…

If there was one entity Black America dreamed could take the baton of equality and sprint toward the finish line, it…

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If your End Times Apocalypse Bingo Card had the revolution starting in Wisconsin, congratulations, you might be in…

Racist white people hate being called racist white people.

As a nod to the standards of white mainstream journalism, this story is reported in the language used to report…

On August 25, 2017, The Root changed the world when it began a feature called the Clapback Mailbag.

Whatever personal feelings one may hold about vice presidential hopeful Kamala Harris’ history as a prosecutor,…