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  • 12 Films That Dared to Tackle Slavery

    Quentin Tarantino’s new film, Django Unchained, may feature several signifiers of an ultramodern slave narrative mixed with spaghetti Western bravado — bloody gunfights; n-word-spouting plantation owners; and a soundtrack featuring Rick Ross, Ennio Morricone and the RZA — but if you want to see how slavery was handled on the big screen before it got…

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  • Notables in Black Culture We Lost in 2012

    Carter, who was a civil rights attorney for the NAACP, is best known for developing the legal strategy in cases that led to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954. Carter became NAACP general counsel in 1956 and would go on to win 21 of 22 cases that he argued before the…

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  • 10 Black Films Filled With Christmas Cheer

    The holiday season is often accompanied by laughter, joy, delicious food, board games and lively discussions about sports, pop culture and current events. Many Americans flock to movie theaters to see the latest and often best films of the year trotted out in time for Oscar contention. Jack Reacher, Les Miserables, This Is 40 and…

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  • Year in Review: The Root Staff Edition

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  • Catch 'The Root 100' Show Wednesday at 8

    (The Root) — Actress Gabrielle Union, NAACP President Ben Jealous and more are featured in the ASPiRE network’s The Root 100, a weekly series hosted by Suzanne Malveaux. In each episode, The Root’s Omar Wasow interviews a few of the 2012 honorees from The Root 100 2012 list about their roads to success and their…

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  • Fixing Your Debt Woes From the Bottom Up

    (The Root) — Many people start out the new year with the best of intentions — getting out of debt, saving for a rainy day — but find themselves failing before they even begin. During the Monday, Dec. 17, webcast of The Root Live — an episode dedicated to achieving prosperity in 2013 — Washington Post…

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  • 'The Root Live' Video: Find Prosperity in '13

    (The Root) — Who doesn’t want tips for prosperity in the New Year? In the latest The Root Live webcast, which aired Monday, Dec. 17, host Harriette Cole tackled the topic with three experts: Teri Williams, president of OneUnited Bank; Harris Glasser, author of It’s My Money and I Want It; and Michelle Singletary, personal-finance…

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  • Who Are the Most Giving Black Celebs?

    In this clip from the Monday, Dec. 10, episode of The Root Live, our weekly livestream series sponsored by Prudential, host Harriette Cole chatted with Black Gives Back‘s Tracey Webb about black philanthropy. Watch the clip below to see what she had to say about which celebrities are the biggest givers. You might be surprised!…

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  • Up Next on 'The Root Live': Michelle Singletary

    Watch the video below for a sneak peek at what you’ll see when you tune in to The Root Live, our new weekly livestream series sponsored by Prudential, right here at noon on Monday, Dec. 17. Be sure to bring your questions, and tweet using our hashtag, #TheRootLive.

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  • The Hues of Black Folk

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