The Root hates Bernie Sanders.

On Saturday, voters in South Carolina will sound the starting gun for the race to the Democratic nomination for…

More than 90 New York activists, citizens, politicians, city officials, and religious leaders who survived the…

I’m obsessed with race.

In Alabama’s 2018 special elections, black women saved their state from sending an alleged teenage dating…

A wise man (I think it was Rakim...or maybe my cousin Geet) once said: “Patriotism is the last refuge of a…

The great ones play through pain.

Once upon a time, in a kingdom far, far away, an evil, pumpkin-colored king named Dottard Grump ruled the land.

Iowa authorities (hopefully not the same ones who count caucus votes) have arrested a black man, who may be Black…

Every Friday, we clap back at hateful emails, tweets, DMs and comments from our readers. But, since today is the day…

The mayor of the city with one of the highest percentages of black residents in America spoke out on Tuesday against…

First, you try to get free.

An Arkansas police officer has been relieved of duty after authorities saw disturbing footage of him fulfilling his…

Look, I get it.

I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. I can tell you that I don’t have money. But what I do have is…

A Tennessee instructor’s Black History Month lesson on a fake historical document backfired when school…

My fellow Americans,

Dear Trayvon,

I always knew Mrs. Bookman was wrong.