In a first-of-its-kind investigation, USA Today found that black people in the U.S. have been killed in police…
Cuban President Raúl Castro said Saturday that Cuba will not name any streets or erect an public monuments in honor…
Unbeknownst to the vast majority of folks, there are more than 10,000 black elected officials nationwide on the…
Updated Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016, at 11:55 p.m. EDT: Searchers have now found 33 bodies in the rubble of the so-called…
Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein said early Sunday that she was moving forward with her recount efforts…
I am a Cuban Muslim in Miami in mourning for Fidel Castro Ruz. And I have been wearing my black armband all week…
We don’t know exactly when the fried-chicken chunks bathed in a sweet, spicy sauce became such a hit, but there is…
About a year and a half after brash sports pundit and NBA legend Charles Barkley gave Morehouse College $1 million in…
An East Harlem, N.Y., clinic dedicated to the needs of transgender individuals will expand its services to that…
The death of a 20-year-old Montclair, N.J., college student whose parents reported her missing days before…
Tupac Shakur’s All Eyez on Me was released in February 1996, shortly after the rapper was bailed out of prison by…
Don't romanticize the death of Fidel Castro, or the tales of his revolution, or the political asylum granted to…
Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian Nobel Prize-winning author, said that he has fulfilled his vow to leave the United States…
A woman named "Jasmine" allegedly robbed an Atlanta man she met on Snapchat, according to the Atlanta Journal…
Zaida Pugh, 21, the Bronx, N.Y., woman who dropped live crickets in the New York City subway in August, told a court…
Eight weeks ago, The Root published an article I wrote, titled, “Is Insecure Preying on Black Women’s Insecurities?”…
I am seeking help to learn more about my third great-grandmother Elizabeth Bettie Lane Dickey. She was raised on…
Singer, songwriter and activist Solange Knowles has another notch on her belt: honorary chairwoman of the Alvin…
Children from a public school in the Brownsville neighborhood of New York City's Brooklyn borough and officers from…
Datara Davis waited three days in jail before a suburban judge accepted her no contest plea to red-light and…