black lives matter

Black history is American history. Full stop.

Today is Trayvon Martin’s 25th birthday.

Jay-Z and Beyoncé are taking a stand…or actually, taking a seat.

Move over Rachel Dolezal.

If it were possible to encapsulate the sentiment of an entire decade, the last 10 years could be distilled down to…

A roomful of potential rogue cops and prosecutors breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday after the chief law enforcement…

As the world prepares to enter into a new decade, we’d be remiss if we didn’t revel in nostalgia about some of our…

As Solange once crooned, “this shit is for us.”

Black lives matter to some, but not all.

Throughout their careers, actors tend to portray characters that challenge their beliefs and/or have morals that…

If you follow The Root on a regular basis, you know white women warrant a surprising amount of our coverage. This is…

Well, that didn’t take long. The former Dallas cop convicted of murder this month for fatally shooting her upstairs…

A woman has agreed to accept a payout of $205,000 from the city of San Antonio, Texas, to settle her suit charging…

NBA star Harrison Barnes has offered to pay for the funeral of Atatiana Jefferson, the 28-year-old woman shot and…

An 8-year-old’s eyewitness account of what preceded his aunt being violently taken from him in an instant, felled by…

While all of this might sound like innocuous content for a high school student, one Georgia school district…

The Fort Worth, Texas, cop who shot into Atatiana Jefferson’s bedroom window and killed her as she was playing a…

The then off-duty Chicago cop who fired his gun out of his car window, striking and killing Rekia Boyd, an innocent…

I do not want to die.

I mean, why wouldn’t he be charged with murder?