Michael Brown's death helped spark a whole movement. The Root looks back at other incidents of police brutality that…
Her comment reflects the concern on how gun rights are only protected when it comes to white people.
Gun-rights advocates speak on Amir Locke's death and how Black gun owners face dangers due to racism and implicit…
The Minnesota prosecutor who indicted the cop who killed Philando Castile announced a policy that protects and…
To mark the one-year anniversary of his death, activists, citizens, and members of Floyd’s family gathered to…
We already know that cops are state-sanctioned killers who get away with murdering people all of the time. They are…
Fundamentally, I’m a begrudging optimist. Pessimism just seems counterproductive so, no matter how awful things…
A woman in Oklahoma repeatedly refused being given a traffic ticket, authorities say, apparently going so far as to…
Leonard Pitts Jr., a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Miami Herald, was laying in his bed in Bowie, Md.,…
It’s just one of the ways Valerie Castile is upholding her son’s legacy.
As a black person in America, we’ve all been there.
Editor’s note: For Pride Month, The Root and Jezebel are teaming up once again for JezeRoot, with content by writers…
When Wyatt Cenac unveiled his new late-night show, Problem Areas, at HBO’s New York City headquarters in midtown…
If you had to make a list of the top 10 people whose opinions on Martin Luther King Jr. you could have gone the rest…
Minneapolis police are searching for the gunman who fatally shot a community activist just outside his mother’s home.
Following Wayne LaPierre’s rigorous commitment to arming educators in the wake of yet another school shooting,…
I’m rarely shocked by racism. It often angers me. But knowing you live in a world co-existing alongside such evil…
Diamond Reynolds, Girlfriend of Philando Castile, Reaches Settlement With City of St. Anthony, Minn.
It’s been more than a year since Philando Castile was shot and killed in St. Anthony, Minn., mere seconds after…
A fundraising campaign that was started to honor the memory of school-cafeteria supervisor Philando Castile has…