"To whom much is given, much is required."
Imagine what she'd say about being sold at half the price of white Barbie.
Agency would curb lending abuses that have targeted African Americans.
That message is gaining traction, judging by the furor over anti-abortion billboards featuring black babies and a controversial Georgia bill.
It takes a special kind of talent to take a civil rights novel about black maids to Hollywood. But do you also have to be Caucasian?
Kathryn Stockett, the author of the best-selling novel about white women and their black domestics, does lunch.
To celebrate Women's History Month, The Root staff compiled our favorite empowering anthems. Some tracks make us tap our feet, some make us pump our fists and others make us cry. But every song is worth hearing. Take a look ... and listen.
Plus, the obese go hungry in the South Bronx, Chicago foreclosures, MJ's afterlife payday, and more
In 1951, white doctors took her cervical cells and used them to revolutionize DNA research.
The author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks was drawn to the story by the history of unethical medical research on blacks and Jews.
She'll never live down her past, but the disgraced Olympic track star can overcome it.
A smart approach to finances can narrow the economic disparities between black and white women.
