Los Angeles plans to give recently deceased rapper Nipsey Hussle a farewell fit for a hometown king.

In a move that flies in the face of more than 45 years of practice with no incident, the Washington State Department…

You know how the extrajudicial killings of Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, and Philando Castile moved so many of us to…

Well, bowl me over with a feather, the police are actually protecting someone from the hood.

Big things were bubbling in Brooklyn two years ago.

The Last O.G., the number one show on TBS, is heartening, sly and oh-so-real. It portrays in popular culture the…

Following a slew of states with Republican-led legislatures, Georgia lawmakers approved a “heartbeat” abortion bill…

In 2006, Demetrius Anderson walked out of a Connecticut state prison a free man.

Early Friday morning, a building at the Highlander Research and Education Center, one of the nation’s oldest social…

Don’t come for me Beyonce fans, but before there was Queen Bey, there was that Queen Bitch—Brooklyn spitta, down-ass…

An Ohio minister is in jail for having sex with a girl starting when she was a 14-year-old, and encouraged two other…

The irony that Andre “Dr. Dre” Young and another integral part of hip-hop culture, Dee Barnes, host of ’90s TV show P…

If A=B, and B=C, does A=C? Well, not always, but in the case of stress, racism and preterm birth, one researcher…

A fired San Antonio, Texas, police officer, who was ratted out by fellow cops for giving a homeless man a sandwich…

When we got word Papa John’s Pizza got a new (black) face, Shaquille O’Neal, the crew at The Root had a field day.…

Police have killed yet another black person in mental health distress, this time in State College, Pa. The most…

Baltimore, a city that has some serious disparities in almost every measure but remains a beautiful black city…

Guided by a coalition of 40 New York City social justice organizations, dozens of students, parents and advocates…

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Marie Cullors wears many hats: activist, author, abolitionist, white…

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the appeal of Lee Boyd Malvo, who participated in one of the most…