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The (Not So) New World Order
Yinka Shonibare MBE’s career retrospective at the Smithsonian just goes to show how strange things get when the empire strikes black.
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Maybe Your Great-Grandmother Really Was Cherokee
A new exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian traces black-Native American relations from the 1500s to the present.
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Is the USDA Still the Last Plantation?
During the Bush administration, 13,999 racial discrimination cases were swept under the rug at the Agriculture Department. What will Secretary Tom Vilsack do about it?
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Rakim's Back
Def Jam is 25. "Rapper’s Delight" is 30. And Rakim is 41. But with his latest album, The Seventh Seal, hip-hop heads can remember the best of the golden age.
Tour of Echoes
On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama takes an inaugural path paved by generations of African Americans before him. From the black men who built the Capitol to the black British military recruits who refused to burn it down the Old Senate Chamber, listen to the echoes of a long-ignored history.
April 4, 1968
April 4, 1968 marks the 41st anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. In this video, The Root takes a look back at the aftermath. Watch a slide show of photographs, and listen to audio footage of Bobby Kennedy delivering the news of King's death at an Indianapolis campaign stop.
India Arie: The Root of My Success
WATCH a Mother's Day video exchange between India.Arie and her mom, Simpson, on tradition, independence and fabulousness.
