An eighth-grader teaching his fellow students math for a month when the teacher quit. Third- and fourth-grade…
If you grew up during the ’80s when The Dukes of Hazzard ruled the TV airwaves, then you’re probably familiar with…
After six decades in the entertainment industry, Berry Gordy is calling it quits.
In what has become an all too familiar outcome, another officer of the law will go unpunished for his role in taking…
Nearly a month after a framed KKK application was found in his home, the Muskegon Police Department has fired…
Jean Cramer, a city council candidate in Michigan who publicly said she wanted to keep her community as white “as…
When we at The Root note that President Trump emboldens white supremacy, we aren’t just talking about the marching th…
In what serves as the latest example of #ExistingWhileBlack, I present 20-year-old Devin Meyers, who was stopped by…
Inspiring comparisons to the water crisis in Flint, Mich., New Jersey’s biggest (and predominantly black) city,…
Rob Mathis was ready to make an offer on the house—a grand five-bedroom home sitting on 22 acres in the small town…
DETROIT—Here in the Motor City, locals are looking for Democratic candidates to prove one thing: Can you beat Donald…
In the latest case of what one apparently cannot do and be black in this country, a 10-year-old black child is…
Delegates to the NAACP voted unanimously Tuesday to have the nation’s oldest civil rights organization press the…
Presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris is proposing a law to safeguard access to clean water for everyone,…
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar struck back Thursday against Donald Trump and his “Send her back”-braying fans, saying the…
Four Democratic congresswomen shared harrowing accounts about conditions facing migrant detainees at the southern…
Throughout the course of 2019, it seems like everyone and their mother has unveiled their stance on reparations.…
After the years Flint, Mich., residents have spent living without a drop of safe water from their taps and the…
How much is an incarcerated person’s life worth? At one Michigan jail, about the cost of a Subway sandwich.
It seems the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, had a will after all—maybe even three.