The Extreme Kimbo Slice earned his respect from the street up. That's why he's earned mine.

Now that Swiss voters rejected a racist political ad campaign, will this be the end of a 10-year-run of xenophobia?

Disillusioned with the woman candidate, I found my heroine in a children's book.

After threats of a "girlcott," race and gender still battle for the title of king.

Orlando and Los Angeles are more evenly matched than you think. This could be the best NBA finals in a long, long time.

Before you label exercise a luxury item, get a few tips on making your workout recession-proof.

A conversation between The Root Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Nobel laureate and DNA pioneer James Watson about race and genetics, Jewish intelligence, blacks and basketball and Watson's African roots.

Last fall, James Watson, the father of DNA, spoke the unspeakable, saying that blacks are intellectually inferior. In a conversation with The Root  Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates Jr., Watson clarified his views about race and genetics. Read what he says now — and why Gates regards him as "a racialist."

Obama used the black church to buttress his political credentials and then discarded the man who helped most.

A conversation with composer Joseph C. Phillips Jr. about his sublime marriage of jazz and classical music.