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    • The Confab -- Jan. 21, 2011

      This week on the Confab: Join Managing Editor Joel Dreyfuss as he chats with Associate Editor Lauren Williams, Office Manager Akoto Ofori-Atta and regular contributor E.R. Shipp about The Root's Obama report-card survey and the high price of instant fame.

    • The Confab -- Jan. 7, 2011

      This week on the Confab: Join The Root's associate editor Lauren Williams as she talks to contributing editor Natalie Hopkinson and frequent contributor Jenée Desmond Harris about the first week of Oprah's OWN network, the franchising of America's schools and deciding to become a single mom.

    • The Confab -- Dec. 31, 2010

      This week on the Confab: Join The Root's associate editor, Lauren Williams, as she chats with Editor-at-Large Nsenga Burton and contributors Paul Devlin and Deron Snyder about the legacy of Teena Marie, 2010 stories that flew under the radar and Barack Obama's thoughts on Michael Vick.

    • The Confab -- Dec. 24, 2010

      This week on the Confab: The Root's deputy editor, Sheryl Huggins Salomon, joins our associate editor, Lauren Williams, and contributors David Kaufman and Lynette Holloway to talk about Barack Obama's relationship with the LGBT community after the repeal of "Don't ask, don't tell," the disproportionate black abortion rate and our celebrity holiday wish list.

    • The Confab -- Dec. 17, 2010

      This week on the Confab: Join The Root's senior editor Teresa Wiltz as she chats with associate editor Lauren Williams and contributor Thomas Chatterton Williams about the top 20 stories of 2010 and a new study that suggests white-and-black biracial Americans are "passing for black."

    • The Confab -- Dec. 10, 2010

      This week on the Confab, join The Root's managing editor, Joel Dreyfuss, as he chats with Senior Editor Teresa Wiltz, Associate Editor Lauren Williams and contributor Jenée Desmond-Harris about Barack Obama's tax-cuts fallout, Liberia's rape epidemic and, on a lighter note, the 19th annual Golden Scissors Awards.

    • The Confab -- Dec. 3, 2010

      This week on the Confab: Join The Root's deputy editor, Sheryl Huggins Salomon, as she chats with contributing editor Natalie Hopkinson and contributor David Swerdlick about the new TSA airport-security pat-downs and the politics of gentrification in our nation's capital.

    • Oral History: David Wilson on Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage

      David Wilson was a plaintiff in the 2004 court decision that legalized same-sex marriage in Massachusetts. Wilson's journey toward the landmark case began 10 years earlier when he lost his first partner, Ron Loso, to a heart attack. Wilson shared his story in a recording for the national oral-history archive StoryCorps.

      Hear the recording below and read NPR anchor Michele Norris' essay on discovering her own family's history.

    • Oral History: John Hope Franklin on Racism in the '20s

      John Hope Franklin -- prominent historian and University of Chicago and Duke University professor -- chronicled, and lived through, racism in America. Before his death, Franklin spoke with his son about growing up in Tulsa, Okla., in the 1920s in a recording for the national oral-history archive StoryCorps.

      Hear the recording below and read NPR anchor Michele Norris' essay on discovering her own family's history.

    • Family Memories: Bradenton, Fla., Sunday School and Miss Divine

      In a recording for the national oral history archive StoryCorps, cousins James Ransom and Cherie Johnson reminisce about time spent at their grandparents' house in Bradenton, Fla. For the children, these visits included Sunday school at the local Methodist church. James and Cherie also remember their neighbor and Sunday-school teacher Miss Divine, who taught two generations of their family.

      Hear the recording below and read NPR anchor Michele Norris' essay on discovering her own family's history.