A black New York City Police Department commander is receiving sharp criticism from other law enforcement officers…
Let There Be No Mistake: If You’re Outspoken and Black or Muslim, ‘They’ Are Definitely Watching You
Because I am predisposed to take everything with a grain of salt and was born with the inability to have delusions…
A Charleston, S.C., Black Lives Matter leader—who made headlines last year after being seen jumping over yellow…
The Prince George’s County school board voted unanimously on Friday to pass a resolution (pdf) called the “Black…
Black History Month started off with a bang for one Montpelier, Vt., high school that began flying a Black Lives…
The cast and crew of the Netflix series Dear White People are honoring the life and legacy of Jordan Edwards with a…
Here comes New York Fashion Week, again. Everything is about to change—or so it seems—as designers present fashion…

As media partners for the Blackout for Human Rights-produced MLK Now event at New York City’s Riverside Church on…

As an activist, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors says that her home was first raided by Los…

On Monday, at the First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem, supporters, activists and celebrities gathered to mourn…

Maybe we should’ve added “racist marketing at the expense of African Americans” to our list of things to leave in…
Much to the dismay of pro-Palestinian groups, it looks like Chris Rock will be following through on a scheduled…
The old adage “When you point the finger, you have three pointing back at you” rang true in the United Nations on…
It’s been well over three years since John Crawford III was killed in an Ohio Walmart store while holding an air…
After the death of Erica Garner, the 27-year-old daughter of police-brutality victim Eric Garner, many people who…
So it turns out that special counsel Robert Mueller might be a secret Hotep who is an ally of the nation of Wakanda,…

Erica Garner, the daughter of police-brutality victim Eric Garner, who died in 2014 after a New York City police…
This year, for each day of Kwanzaa, The Root is highlighting one person from the community who exemplifies the…