Brazil once touted itself as free of racism. It turns out that the truth was more complicated — a lot more complicated. In his new PBS series, The Root’s editor-in-chief examines the complexities of race and color in Brazil, the country with the second-largest number of people of African descent in the world after Nigeria —…

Thelma Golden, the director and chief curator of New York’s Studio Museum in Harlem, spoke to The Root recently for the Vine video series on African-American leaders. She told Omar Wasow that art might not seem very important when you take into account some of the serious issues facing the black community, but “the ability…

As part of the Vine series on leadership, The Root’s Omar Wasow interviewed the Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised celebrity chef about code switching, the difference between eating expensively and eating well, and the unique role of today’s African-American leaders. “Being able to be in many different worlds is really an opportunity,” he says. “I can talk to…

The Newark mayor tells The Root, “I have an audience of over 1 million followers on Twitter — that’s bigger than my state’s largest newspaper.” In the latest installment of our Vine series, he talks with Omar Wasow about his building dynamic coalitions and managing his message in the digital age.

Nearly two decades ago, Ellis Cose ripped the veil of contentment off the black middle class and exposed its seething frustrations with racism and the glass ceiling. In his latest book, The End of Anger (due out in May), Cose tells The Root’s Omar Wasow that African-American leaders understand that it is more difficult for President Obama to appear to…