A new book that examines the close relationship between race, gender and equality.

Mos Def and Jeffrey Wright team deliver a frantic -- and tragic -- comedy about early New Orleans.

Even if we could convince 95 percent of white people that black Americans are still mistreated in the U.S., there's no chance for a second civil rights revolution.

When it comes to race, Cuba is far from a utopia. As part of The Root's series exploring the island's color complex, one of Cuba's esteemed social scientists writes about the aftermath of an open letter decrying racism there.