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With heavy-hitters like Stacey Abrams and Ava DuVernay, The Root Institute was a must-watch online event this past…

Director Julius Onah had no way of knowing back in 2019 how prescient his adaption of the play Luce would be in…

As The Root Institute winds down for its final day, we’re happy to present a panel and film that is more relevant…

When protesters took to the streets in 2020, it was clear—the status quo wouldn’t do. There needed to be a change,…

For Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) our economic plight is a political issue.

In 2005, I was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder while staying at UCLA’s medical center in Los Angeles for several…

It’s week three of The Root Institute, meaning it’s time to talk about the health of our minds and our finances…

“Art is the foundation of any movement,” is how director Ava DuVernay began our interview as we unpacked the…

A visionary film director with an activist’s spirit, Ava DuVernay makes art that is rooted in her conscious. From…

The right to vote is one that has been fought over, died over and challenged again and again, as it was expanded to…

It’s happening! A gathering of the minds—from politics featuring Stacey Abrams and Ayanna Pressley to entertainment…

I once threw a party for myself that lasted 10 years.

A long, dusty time ago I saw an article title that jokingly—but seriously—said: “Oops, I Forgot to Have the Baby.”…

I have very nice hair. Coveted hair sometimes! Hair that people make a “big deal” about. Once, when my hair was down…

Today, June 25, marks the 7th anniversary of the Shelby County v. Holder case, in which the U.S. Supreme Court found…

My mother hated to cook.

I wouldn’t know Juneteenth without my father.

At The Root, we’ve had a long-standing debate over capitalizing the “B” in black. Some of us are adamantly for it,…

I knew what I was getting into.

Saturday during journalist Alicia Menendez’s broadcast on MSNBC, The Root’s Editor-in-Chief Danielle Belton (meeeeee!