This mailbag is dedicated to all the ones who called the writers at The Root “racists”; to all the ones who wrote us…

Read the full text of Frederick Douglass' iconic speech.

The Root is a hate group.

I am 6.

If you’ve ever wondered why Donald Trump’s skin looks like a piece of Goldfish cracker-flavored beef jerky, it might…

A white woman was forced to call all the managers—the police, corporate headquarters and the actual manager of a…

Authorities in a rural Georgia school district are punishing a history instructor who seemingly dedicated all of his…

The coronavirus changed me.

No one knows John Winsmith or John McQueen.

This week’s Clapback Mailbag is about strawmen.

It was white supremacy.

Right now, two separate and unequal policing bills are navigating their way through America’s highest legislative…

I use social media as a learning tool.

Shaun King is not wrong.

The George Floyd protests against systemic racism have reignited an age-old debate about whether there is a place in…

There is a popular misconception that the death of George Floyd has ignited Black America to finally unleash the…

I have a dilemma:

On June 18, 1865, Union Army General Gordon Granger and 2,000 troops, many of whom were black, arrived at Galveston…

I believe words matter...sometimes.

Have you ever wondered what social media would have looked like on the first Juneteenth?