The Root publisher Ashley Allison is talking to political candidates in key races around the country about what this midterm ...

In Episode 2 of The Root ’s docuseries America Amended, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Trymaine Lee travels to Detroit to explore how Black artists use the First Amendment to carry forward their ...

Singer and actress Deborah Joy Winans, who starred in the church drama “Greenleaf,” has deep gospel roots. She is the ...

According to the 2026 Black Census Project, only 3% of Black Americans said they trust the federal government. Yet more than 90% said they plan to vote. Read that again. We don’t trust them. We’re ...

Charles Tillman, a former Chicago Bears Pro Bowl cornerback, earned a criminal justice degree from the University of ...

Jason Lee announced his resignation as Stockton, California's Vice Mayor However, city council members rejected his ...

From celebrity defendants to police accountability, these high-profile cases expose the questions about race, justice and ...

Al “A.C.” Cowlings, the man who led police on a slow-speed chase with O.J. Simpson in the back seat of a white Ford Bronco in 1994, was spotted in Malibu the day after Simpson’s death. The former NFL ...

Ahead of the midterms, Charles Booker, the U.S. Senate Democratic nominee in Kentucky, delivers a message Black folks and ...

If you visit her tombstone, you’ll see a plethora of X marks in threes. Legend has it that if you draw the symbols, turn ...

Hedda wasn’t just a red flag. She was practically an entire emergency alert system. Between manipulating her former lover Eileen, sabotaging her relationship, and destroying her manuscript, Hedda made ...