In a June 2008 recording, the historian and author ponders the possibility of seeing a black president in his…
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In our ongoing video series Bookmark, The Root talks to authors to find out the personal stories behind their…
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'A Raisin in the Sun' opened on Broadway on March 11, 1959, rattling the theater world and the country. The Root’s…
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Presidents Day at the museum has a whole new meaning, now that there's a brother on the wall. Read the related…
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In part of a regular conversations series for The Root on the new black visionaries, famed neurosurgeon Dr. Ben…
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A multicultural swirl of faces came to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History for The Root Inaugural…
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The Root's ongoing video series in the newest generation of black thought leaders.
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In this segment of the PBS special, 'Looking for Lincoln,' premiering on Feb. 11, The Root's Editor-in-Chief Henry…
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In this clip from the PBS series 'Looking for Lincoln,' The Root's Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates Jr. talks to…
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Many of us today can remember when it was a huge deal for a black person to enter the White House through the front…
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From the slaves who built the Capitol to King's dream and the Million Man March, watch as Henry Louis Gates Jr.…
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WATCH a Mother's Day video exchange between India.Arie and her mom, Simpson, on tradition, independence…
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