For the most part, Rep. John Lewis had the right idea.

Whenever I hear Cubans talk about their nation’s advancements in health care, and when I think about where the U.S.…

Donald Trump may be on his way to claiming the Republican presidential nomination, at least in part, by vowing to…

Eleven years before Emmett Till’s bloated and brutalized corpse was displayed on the pages of Jet magazine as proof…

Replace Donald Trump’s New York accent with a Southern drawl, then replace his use of “illegals” with the n-word,…

Since President Barack Obama restored diplomatic relations with Cuba—culminating with the reopening of the U.S.…

Two weeks before President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. and Cuba would reopen embassies that had been…

Once upon a time in Florida, for many law-enforcement officers, being in the Ku Klux Klan was almost akin to being…

On one level, I can see how Shona Carter-Brooks got it twisted.

If Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis weren’t worthy-enough victims for people to push for “Stand your ground” laws to…

Michael Dunn got away with murder.

The slaying of 17-year-old Jordan Davis by a white man who didn’t appreciate his taste in music had some black…

I’m worried that Marissa Alexander might end up becoming another Claudette Colvin.

It’s hard to get excited about a handshake. It is just a courteous gesture, after all.

Since Barack Obama made history as the nation’s first black president in 2008, efforts to whitewash all the other…

In "a society dominated by forces bent on breaking" black boys "instead of nurturing them," it's important for…

(Special to The Root) — In June of 2007, I was eating breakfast at a restaurant in downtown Caracas when a sea of…

BlackAmericaWeb blogger Tonyaa Weathersbee writes that with an unemployment rate of 13.8 percent, blacks in America…

In a post at BlackAmericaWeb, Tonyaa Weathersbee dismantles a plan by Arizona's controversial Sheriff Joe Arpaio to…

Writing at BlackAmericaWeb, Tonyaa Weathersbee explains the importance of the civil rights issue currently before…