Here's a roundup of untold music stories from The Root to celebrate Black History Month.
Miami, Florida's Mayor Francis Suarez made the announcement on Thursday. At this point, all we can say is the jokes…
“A riot is the language of white people”
— History
It’s 2021, and we kicked off the first full week on Monday night by getting to know the first-ever Black Bachelor.…
The official countdown to the debut of Pixar’s first film with a Black lead has officially begun!
As we watch history being made with Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris, we can’t help but uphold Rep. Shirley…
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This blog may be the umpteenth article you will read today about the upcoming presidential election, but I do think…
If you’ve been keeping up with our ongoing coverage so far, you may know that The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts…
In a rare moment of bi-partisanship, a Republican and Democratic senator have called for the nation’s highest…
On Sept. 16, 1968, 51 years before HBO aired the first episode of its groundbreaking horror series, Carol Jenkins…
We will never forget the image of Emmett Louis Till’s grotesquely disfigured face, after his mother Mamie Till…
A group of community leaders in Illinois are working with a state lawmaker to abolish the current history curriculum…
These days (well, every day if you’re really about that life), the M.O. is to uplift Black people, our stories and…
What can you say about the legendary Reginald Hudlin? Well, because I can’t let this blog post start without making…
It’s been just under a century since Tulsa, Okla., saw one of the most brutal and evil acts of American racism…
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Forget the 4th of July! Juneteenth is the day that should be celebrated by all as a pivotal point in America’s…
Today, May 19, 2020 is the 95th birthday of the late historic icon El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, commonly known as…
Niles Fitch, who is best known for portraying the teenage version of Sterling K. Brown’s Randall Pearson in NBC’s Thi…
“No scene from African American literary history is more familiar than that of Frederick Douglass’s learning to…