The Prince George’s County school board voted unanimously on Friday to pass a resolution (pdf) called the “Black…

What do they call it? Ah yes. Black excellence. As such, 27-year-old Michael Thomas of New York City’s Brooklyn…

Well, that was fast. The black unemployment rate in the United States, which fell to a record low in December,…

The premiere of Angela Rye’s four-episode special for BET was a riff on President Donald Trump’s first State of the…

The red carpet will be awash in blackness Monday night as the gorgeous melanated cast of Marvel’s Black Panther hits…

It is not lost on this writer that the name of the stadium where the Cleveland Indians play is “Progressive.”

Well, even if Tuesday’s State of the Union by President Donald Trump makes you roll your eyes into the very back of…

Talk about R-E-S-P-E-C-T.

Black people continue to be criminalized for just being in the U.S. of A.

President Donald Trump didn’t have much to say to rapper Eminem, who has been excoriating him on wax (wait—do people…

This story is just too juicy: Authorities say that a young black woman has robbed at least nine banks à la Set It…

There must’ve been an angel by this kid’s side ... because somehow he survived a fall in which a nail attached to a…

The body of a 16-year-old from Alexandria, Va., was found Friday less than a mile from her home.

Although the Winter Olympics used to be a lily-white affair, or what The Root Senior Editor Stephen A. Crockett…

President Donald Trump has no problem whatsoever when it comes to exorbitant expenditures paid for by the American…

The Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, a fierce civil rights advocate and strategist over many generations, died Tuesday at…

Neo-soul singer Jilly from Philly, aka Jill Scott, is the latest celebrity to have her marriage go the way of the…

It’s clear that anti-blackness is everywhere. From Africans in India who face virulent discrimination to Whitenicious…

Sometimes, when I’m feeling a special kind of cynical, I put on Michael Jackson’s “You Can’t Win” from The Wiz and…

Voices seem to be split on Mo’nique and her ask for us to quit Netflix because of what she calls its “gender and…