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Wells Fargo Ordered to Pay $3.7 Billion Over Widespread Financial Mismanagement
Messing with people’s money finally caught up to the big bank, which now has to pay the largest fine ever imposed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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Reverend William Barber Says: Leaders Need To Offer More Than Partisanship
“The language of left versus right, Democrat versus Republican was too puny, too small, and it automatically creates adversaries,” Rev. Barber told the Root.
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Rev. William Barber To Lead Yale’s New Center for Theology and Public Policy
“I’m excited to move from…pastoral work with the congregation, to, in a sense, pastoring the movement with this center,” Rev. Barber tells The Root.
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R Kelly’s Former Manager Gets Prison Time For Threatening to Shoot-up Manhattan Theater
Donnell Russell, the disgraced former manager of R Kelly, was sentenced to one year for threatening violence at a theater playing Surviving R Kelly.
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Twitter is on Life Support: What Do Black People Lose If It Dies?
As a young Black woman in journalism, Twitter defined my story-telling. What happens if Elon Musk succeeds in killing it?
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Why Did it Take So Long to Dismiss Murder Charges Against Tracy McCarter?
In part three, The Root dives into the legal issues behind Tracy McCarter, a domestic violence survivor accused of murders, case in her epic final court battle.
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Black Students in Texas Were Allegedly Called the “N word” and Harassed by Students and Staff.
Parents of Black Texas students filed a civil rights complaint say that their kids suffered constant racist bullying, and the district allegedly did nothing.
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The Boston City Council Is Looking into Reparations for Black Bostonians
Although a check would have been better, the Boston City Council has officially voted to study reparation distribution for the Black community in Boston
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Kehlani and Megan Thee Stallion Truly Deserve So Much Better
Why is it that when someone owns their sexuality in the public sphere, that our society treats them like public property?
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Black Lives Matter is Setting up a Student Debt Relief Fund
Student Debt Forgiveness is looking a little shaky right now, but in the meantime, BLM is taking matters into its own hands.
