The families of nine of the 26 victims of the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., have filed a lawsuit against “the manufacturer, distributor and seller” of the rifle that was used by the gunman, Al-Jazeera reports. “The negligence and wrongful death lawsuit, filed in Bridgeport Superior Court on Monday, asserts…

Jonathan Jayes-Green immigrated to the U.S. from Panama when he was 13, but it wasn’t until his senior year in high school, when he began to fill out college applications and financial-aid forms, that he realized how much of an impact his status as an undocumented immigrant would have on his ability to attend college…

On Saturday from noon to 1 p.m. EST, The Root’s Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele will be moderating a Twitter panel with three professionals to discuss this new wave of activism sweeping the nation in light of the recent grand jury decisions in the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner and the killings of unarmed black men and…

American audiences will get to relive the O.J. Simpson murder trial through a new television series that is set to premiere on FX in 2015. Academy Award winner Cuba Gooding Jr. will play the NFL icon who fell from grace after being accused and tried in 1995 on charges that he murdered his ex-wife Nicole…

Activism is contagious. Just one day after medical-school students across the nation staged die-ins as a way to bring attention to institutional racism in health care, congressional staffers on Capitol Hill walked out of their offices Thursday afternoon to protest the lack of indictments in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner killings by police officers.…

Medical school students across the nation put on their white coats on Wednesday and staged die-in’s as a way to protest the recent killings of unarmed black men by law-enforcement, Al Jazeera reports. “Participants say the same structural racism that results in police brutality against blacks manifests itself in the health care system, leading to poorer health, shorter…

Medical-school students across the nation put on their white coats Wednesday and staged die-ins as a way to protest the recent killings of unarmed black men by law enforcement and the racial biases that also exist in health care, Al-Jazeera reports. “Participants say the same structural racism that results in police brutality against blacks manifests itself in the…

The U.S. Census Bureau just announced its latest round of projections regarding the U.S. population and revealed that by the year 2045, black and Hispanic Americans will likely be in the majority, Al-Jazeera reports. “The non-Hispanic white population is barely growing, and today’s projections show that it will start to decline after 2025,” the news site explained,…