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Will Cherokee Freedmen Gain Tribal Rights?
The newly elected chief may leave it to the courts to decide whether to grant descendants citizenship.
Revising the Civil War Record
The 54th Massachusetts Regiment, featured in Glory, was not the first black unit to fight. The Root presents this feature from our archives as the nation remembers the 150th anniversary of the Civil War's start.
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.
Teddy the Radical
Sen. Kennedy was a white liberal who believed in black power.
It’s the Teachers, Stupid
All the time and money we spend on education reform will mean nothing if we don’t grow the pool of qualified teachers.
Pakistan’s Biggest Problem? It’s Not India
How could two countries with so much common history find themselves looking at such drastically different futures?
Slaves to Denial
The Cherokee Nation is determined to deny black folks citizenship. Descendants of Freedmen cannot let that happen.
Is Anything Black About the American West?
The black American experience is more than just Harlem and Mississippi, North and South, ghettoes and Jim Crow. There was a Western front, and it wasn’t all that quiet.
