On Christmas Day, Rev. Jackson Jackson Sr. posted the bonds of a handful of inmates at Cook County Jail in Chicago…

A photo posted to Instagram on Sunday showed Rio Arriba County Sheriff James Lujan of New Mexico flashing what…

Just in time for Jesus’ birthday, Kanye West released his anticipated Jesus Is Born album on Christmas.

South Carolina state Rep. Mandy Powers Norrell, a Democrat from Lancaster, issued an apology Monday after an…

Allee Willis, the prolific songwriter who penned Earth, Wind and Fire’s “September” and the Broadway musical, The…

Last week The Root reported that Nicole Poole Franklin, a 42-year-old Des Moines woman, told the Clive Police…

He said, they said. Rapper DaBaby was detained and cited by police after his concert in Charlotte on Monday night.…

It’s official: the kicks don’t lie, and the numbers don’t either. Colin Kaepernick’s Air Force 1 sneakers sold out…

Thirteen people were shot at approximately 12:40 a.m. Sunday during a memorial party held for Lonell Irvin, a…

Imagine walking into a restaurant at a truck stop to apply for a job and being stabbed instead.

Wanda Sykes’ recent tweet in support of fellow comedian Mo’Nique showed the power of black sisterhood in its full…

Yo, it’s been a hard year for black people. Overt racism and microaggressions abound. Here are eight costumes that…

First, let me say that I ain’t mad at Pepsi for trying to capitalize on millennials’ activism. They do, after all,…

Everyone knows someone like Nova Bordelon from the hit TV show Queen Sugar. She is fierce and fearless­—a true…

He’s just like Andre "Dre" Johnson from Black-ish. As old as he is, your dad (or uncle) has made a personal pledge…

This week’s episode revealed who was under the sheet, and it had us screaming at our TV screens from start to…

This week’s episode of How to Get Away With Murder took us back to the week before the fateful fire. Annalise’s gang…

This Election Day kind of feels like the day you’re scheduled to get your wisdom teeth pulled: You’ve gotta do it,…

Two weeks before the murder, the Keating Five on How to Get Away With Murder show us that some things can never be…

This week’s episode of How to Get Away With Murder took us to three weeks before the fire at Annalise’s house. The…