Fresh off the critically acclaimed film Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, which is currently racking up hella award…
And we back and we back! The second week of Black History Month is well underway and of course The Root is back with…
I have a lot of respect for Anjanette Young, the Black woman whose dignity and wellbeing Chicago police officers had…
White conservatives love Martin Luther King Jr.
Today, Martin Luther King, Jr. is lauded as an American hero—a direct contrast to the actual reality of an activist…
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Fifty-seven years after Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have A Dream,” speech at the March on Washington for Jobs…
White people (and non-Black people of color for that matter) would do well to just keep Martin Luther King Jr.’s…
His is the epitome of a life well-lived.
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Black history is American history. Full stop.
Cornelius Taylor's cause of death has now been released to the public.
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In the spring of 1969, Coretta Scott King stood in front of a packed church in Charleston, S.C., to address a group…
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This Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It’s a day of remembrance when we honor one of the most renowned civil…
You almost never hear a judge say “my bad,” but that is exactly what Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Don…
Since his assassination in 1968, more than a thousand streets have been named after Martin Luther King Jr. But after…