“No man has been taken down at the height of his powers,” my coworker and fellow staff writer Anne Branigin said to me in Slack earlier.

Wait ... I’m not going to meet Michelle Obama?

According to President Trump, the women who have accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct are bit players in a political drama drummed up by Democrats merely trying to discredit “a high-quality person.”

Last week, in the wake of intensive community advocacy, litigation and media scrutiny, the state of Wisconsin agreed to shut down two large youth prisons and reform its treatment of incarcerated youth. This is the perfect moment to ask—what should real justice for youth look like, and how do we get there?

The president of the United States is a joke.

Bill Cosby, in the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era, was sentenced to three to 10 years for one count of sexual assault on Tuesday. Cosby will serve his sentence in a state prison.

Whenever anyone brings up the subjects of injustice and inequality, or comes across a demonstration or event asserting the value of black lives, someone will invariably attempt to deflect and invalidate the issue by asking about personal responsibility and community involvement.

You have a better chance of becoming a Shaolin monk then you do working at The Root. To work at The Root requires a written examination, then there is a talent competition, and a rigorous oral exam that includes questions on black history, Spades bidding, Kool-Aid making and the proper kick-turn technique when…

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Sen. Ted Cruz was just trying to enjoy a meal of boiled monkey parts flavored with braised deer scalp and a tall glass of iced bat blood at a Washington restaurant when he was forced to leave after activists learned of his location and began peppering him with questions.

The effects of Hurricane Florence will be with us for quite some time, given that 44 people have been killed; hundreds of roads remain partially underwater or heavily damaged; the storm is expected to be among the 10 costliest natural disasters in U.S. history; and the worst of it lays ahead for thousands of people in…

A South Carolina high school student and his mother filed a lawsuit accusing the boy’s math teacher of coercing him to have sex with her and then changing his grades when the boy would turn down her advances.