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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onApril 26, 2012
Twenty years after the acquittals in the Rodney King beating, black leaders reflect on then and now.
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by William Jelani Cobb onSeptember 22, 2011
Racial bias and other issues must be addressed in death-penalty cases, William Jelani Cobb writes at Loop 21.
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by Abdul Ali onAugust 19, 2010
The historian-author of an important work on the hip-hop aesthetic talks to The Root about President Obama's 2008 election, the problems of black leadership and black self-definition.
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June 11, 2009
Black public intellectuals are clashing. New book shows that Harlem radical Hubert Harrison had been there and done that.
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by Jack White onJanuary 8, 2009
We don't have the luxury of a protest vote.
