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!

“I’ll do something that makes me happy.”

They tried to make it nice.

When I call my father on the weekends, we talk about a myriad of things. How the family is doing, politics, food, my…

The numbers are staggering.

I think we’re alone now. There doesn’t seem to be anyone around.

When I was a child watching reruns of Star Trek, one of the things I always wondered was … where did all the black…

There’s a Christmas song by Jackson 5-era Michael Jackson that appears on the 1973 double album—A Motown Christmas—th…

Some of the hardest conversations my sister and I have are about our mom.

There’s something special about a portrait of Earth, Wind & Fire, the masterminds behind hits like “September” and…