Mississippi was at the heart of the civil rights movement, and now the state is building two museums to highlight its role in one of the country’s most turbulent periods. The Civil Rights Museum will be housed inside the Museum of Mississippi History, and both are scheduled to open in 2017. The groundbreaking ceremony for…

When the fourth season of Boardwalk Empire premieres on HBO this Sunday, Sept. 8, at 9 p.m. EDT, fans of the show will have another opportunity to glimpse a fictionalized account of power, politics and personal struggles in Prohibition-era Atlantic City, N.J. This season Jeffrey Wright joins the cast as Harlem gangster Dr. Valentin Narcisse,…

A growing number of black British actors and actresses are booking roles in blockbuster films and television shows in the U.S., and yet most Americans learn of their British background only when the King’s English flows out of their mouths — ever so eloquently — during press interviews. The Root rounded up a list of…

The more things change, the more they stay the same. That old adage was definitely illustrated in the signs hoisted on the shoulders and above the heads of participants at Saturday’s commemorative March on Washington, celebrating the iconic demonstration’s 50th anniversary. Thousands of people marched through the same streets that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.…

The Washington Government Relations Group’s fourth annual Tin Cup Awards Dinner was held July 24 at the French Embassy. WGRG Tin Cup Dinner Co-Chair Tiffany Moore with WGRG members Tasha Cole, Joi Sheffield and Kimberly Woodard. The Root’s publisher, Donna Byrd (center), with Kneeland Youngblood and 2013 WGRG President’s Award winner Lamell McMorris, president and…