As we continue to celebrate the African American cultural holiday of Kwanzaa, today brings us to Nia, or “Purpose,”…

Today—Dec. 29—the Kwanzaa principle celebrated is Ujamaa, or “cooperative economics,” and there was very little…

The Kwanzaa principle for today, Dec. 28, is Ujima: Collective Work and Responsibility. Ujima means building and…

For each day of Kwanzaa, the African-American cultural holiday that eschews the typical commercialism of the holiday…

As with last year, The Root is celebrating the blackest holiday of them all!

You can call Teddy Riley many things: master of the ’90s R&B jam, baby-making songwriter; The Original Rump Shaker…

Best believe if you love hip-hop, R&B, soul, gospel, or any form of black music, you have quite a few of Teddy’s…

Like me, Sandra Bland hailed from a “girl family.” She was the fourth of five sisters. Her siblings’ names, like…

Last year we did a gift guide on being woke; this year, we desperately want to awaken from this nightmare of the…

Much to our eternal chagrin, Floridians did not elect Andrew Gillum as governor of their deservedly designated…

To attend the LDF’s 32^nd annual National Equal Justice Awards Dinner themed: “Justice. Equality. Democracy,” is to…

When I was growing up, The Autobiography of Malcolm X was like manna; it was part of my introduction to “black…

For filmmaker Yoruba Richen, the germ for Crooked Lines, a documentary about the fight against racial gerrymandering…

Oakland, Calif., has long been a bastion of historical and cultural reverie in blackness. The “Detroit of the West”…

Although may be best known as a player on the Showtime series, Ray Donovan, most of us got to know and love Marion…

In response to claims of sustained racial abuse against the two percent of black students who attend the Visalia…

Two Harris County Texas judges accounted for more than one-fifth of all children sent to the state’s juvenile…

There may never be a full reckoning for prominent men in the public eye accused of sexual assault and rape, such as K…

Looks like that 2003 rape allegation has caught up to Kobe Bryant after all these years.