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For the next few weeks, we will select our favorite responses from the nearly 400 emails, tweets, DMs and comments…

Here is the essence of white supremacy.

Every Friday, The Root takes the best (or worst) emails, comments, tweets and messages from our readers and features…

A few weeks ago, while my wife and I were kicking it with some friends at a Pirates game, the subject turned to…

Black Trump supporters have come under increased scrutiny after a recent crowd engaged in racist chants. On…

When I came to this country, America stood as a nation of hope to young children in forgotten and faraway lands. It…

“You are my worst fear realized,” a black woman—and complete stranger—said to me after I concluded my keynote…

If this New York couple’s story is true (it’s totally true because you already know we can’t have anything nice),…

When professor Henry Louis Gates founded The Root 11 years ago, he probably had no idea that its creation would one…

What is an American?

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) was born in Detroit. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was born in the Bronx. Ayanna…

Once upon a time, not long ago, when people wore pajamas and lived life slow, my wife and I were invited to a…

Legally, Lakeith Smith is a murderer.

Of all the things I have ever written for The Root, there are a handful of articles that inspired the most material…

None of us know Christopher Cukor well enough to make cuckold jokes, but trust me, I know we all want to.

When my alma mater—Meharry Medical College (one of only three historically black colleges and universities that…

Since yesterday was America’s birthday, let’s begin the Clapback Mailbag with a patriotic song:

As the nation celebrated the national holiday that symbolizes all men being created equal, a small minority of…

In the 10-plus years since The Root was founded, our writers have always celebrated the Fourth of July with the…

 



Remember the Clapback day, to keep it holy. Five days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: But the Friday is the…