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'Like It Is' Producer Gil Noble Is Dead at 80
He developed Like It Is into one of TV's top public-affairs programs focusing on black America.
Don Cornelius Dead at Age 75
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Black Civil War Re-Enactors Reclaim History
White Southern men aren't the only ones who like to dress up and re-enact the great conflict that began 150 years ago between North and South. Here's what motivates some blacks to join in.
How Racism Tainted Women's Fight to Vote
An 1894 showdown between anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells and temperance leader Frances E. Willard revealed the grip that racial resentment had over the American suffrage movement.
Surviving Japan's Quake, Shaken But Unbroken
Choral director Nate Ingram survived the earthquake in Japan. He told The Root about life in the wake of the cataclysm, with the threat of a nuclear crisis looming.
Greenwood, Okla.: The Legacy of the Tulsa Race Riot
In 1921, Greenwood, a successful, all-black enclave in Tulsa, was the site of the deadliest race riot in U.S. history. For the inhabitants of "the Black Wall Street," life would never be the same.
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