If the ongoing pandemic has reignited your passion for reading (or simply deepened it), say no more, Fam. Shawn…
Walter Mosley may be best known for writing mysteries—though his bestselling Easy Rawlins series are among the…
Deadline announced today that Moonlight and All Day and a Night star Ashton Sanders has secured both TV and film…
Toni Morrison would be proud. The Center for Fiction’s Annual Awards Benefit was dedicated to the memory of the…
Fun fact: we highly considered naming this week’s episode of The Root Presents: It’s Lit! “All I Want for Christmas…
“Adults struggle to discuss race and racism. But what if we were discussing race since we were kids? What if we were…
If you’ve been trying to decipher the mystery behind writing great fiction, let acclaimed mystery writer Walter…
Remember zines? Okay, maybe we’re dating ourselves, but younger versions of The Root’s Editor-in-Chief Danielle…
When it comes to living American presidents, it’s indisputable (and infuriating, if you’re Donald Trump), that…
Jason Reynolds famously didn’t read a novel cover-to-cover until he was nearly 18. At 36, he is one of the…
Because he’s been pretty low-key about it, you might not be aware that a promising politician that we’ve been…
“So, it turns out that we’re better than this, but just barely,” laughs Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings in the days…
Former President Barack Obama will sit down with two very familiar faces as his long-awaited new memoir, A Promised…
In a role that couldn’t prove to be any more iconic, Blue Ivy Carter, aka Beyoncé’s firstborn and lowkey manager, is…
When we grow up, we want to be like Marley Dias. At 15, the founder of #1000BlackGirlBooks—which she launched in…
When The Root first spoke to George M. Johnson (one of our longtime contributors) just ahead of the release of their…
It’s no secret that in recent years, the Young Adult—or “YA”—book category has been booming. But not everyone who…
There’s been this wild theory going around that now that all of us non-essential workers have been working from home…
Darnella Frazier, the teenager who recorded the footage of George Floyd’s death, will be presented the PEN/Benenson…
The opening lines of one of Lucille Clifton’s best-known poems read: “Won’t you celebrate with me, what I have…