Despite fielding one of the most diverse groups of presidential candidates, based on most recent poll numbers, the…
Bernie Sanders has all the answers.
This week in the Power Rankings are just messy. We’re talking Real Housewives of Atlanta-TMZ-Get her, Jade-level of…
During a week where there is a Democratic debate the Power Rankings usually focus on who performed best, and how…
Three out of four members of “The Squad”—the influential freshmen congresswomen who have become the face of the…
Earlier this week, Marcus Ferrell (former African-American outreach director for Bernie Sanders for America 2016,…
This is by far one of the strangest weeks in the history of The Root Presidential Black Power Rankings. We had a…
Bernie Sanders—the 78-year-old three-term senator from Vermont who is the longest serving independent member of…
The Root 2020 Presidential Black Power Rankings take a one-week snapshot of the campaign season and imagine, using ju…
HOUSTON—Let’s get straight to the point: Joe Biden showed his ass on the debate stage last night and there is no way…
Between two and four times a week, I come home from whatever it is I was doing before, I change into gym-appropriate…
HOUSTON—Will Kamala Harris drag Joe Biden up to high heaven before her colored brethren at Texas Southern…
Barack Obama may still be Democrats’ (and just about everyone else’s) fave, but party leaders weren’t too happy when…
Everybody has hip-hop dreams. For some, it’s showing up to the club in a stretch limo full of groupies and Cristal.…
Former Vice President Joe Biden is learning quickly that he’s not President Trump and he can’t just run out here…
We made it. After eight full weeks of Twitter spats, campaign gossip, polls and memes, we’ve reached our first bye…
Most candidates push criminal reform packages that often lack the requisite muscle to make a dent in a system that…
“Smart white people know how to hire black people who actually KNOW black people.”
Cardi B sat down with presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders to “educate” her followers on the issues fans told her…