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  • The Root Recommends: 'Treme'

    HBO’s highly anticipated drama Treme, which follows New Orleans residents as they struggle to rebuild their lives after Hurricane Katrina, is back for a second season.  The new season picks up in 2006 and chronicles the lives of the residents as they move beyond the grief and try to restore all they lost in the storm. Fans of the…

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  • The Root Recommends: Yotuel Romero

    The rapper in the Cuban trio Orishas has embarked on new solo effort, but he’s collaborating with some big names along the way. Yotuel Romero recently released his newest single, “Rock & Roll Con Canchleta,” with Puerto Rican rapper Tego Calderón. The single, with its mix of hip-hop, rock and conga, is available on iTunes.…

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  • The Root Recommends: 'A Level Playing Field'

    Gerald L. Early’s new book, A Level Playing Field: African American Athletes and the Republic of Sports, brings a smart perspective to the myriad ways that sports often tested out integration, long before it hit the nation’s highest courts, became a slogan appearing in a newspaper headline or started a movement that changed the nation…

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  • The Root Recommends: 'Happy Endings'

    It’s not a secret that the Wayans family has a knack for starring in hit TV shows. The latest to join the family TV biz is Damon Wayans Jr., who stars in the new ABC sitcom Happy Endings. The show tells the story of six friends who suddenly find themselves in unchartered territory after one…

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  • The Root Recommends: See Sculptor Elizabeth Catlett

    Join Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University and editor-in-chief of The Root, in a rare interview with sculptor and printmaker Elizabeth Catlett, who is 96 and still creating. What distinguishes Catlett‘s career, aside from her longevity, is her ability to focus on the black experience while living…

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  • The Root Recommends: Black Military Exhibit

    Fredericksburg, Va.’s Museum and Cultural Center will host the traveling exhibit Take Our Stand: The African-American Military Experience in the Age of Jim Crow through this summer. The exhibit chronicles black military history from the Spanish-American War to the desegregation of the U.S. military in 1948. The exhibit features reproduced images and documents from the…

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  • The History of Slavery Isn't All About African Americans

    Did you know that less than 5 percent of the 11.2 million enslaved Africans who landed in the New World between 1502 and 1866 came to the United States? Most of the rest went to Latin America and the Caribbean. Their story is being told with the help of The Root’s editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates…

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  • The Root Recommends: 'Born to Be Wild'

    Six years after lending his voice to the Oscar-winning March of the Penguins, Morgan Freeman is narrating a new documentary about the animal kingdom, Born to Be Wild. The 3D IMAX film, about two women who have dedicated their lives to rescuing orphaned elephants and orangutans, puts the viewer in the environs of rural Kenya.…

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  • New Exhibit on Black Military Experience through Jim Crow Era

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  • The Root Recommends: Al Green's 'Greatest Hits'

    Chances are you’re not Facebook friends (or real-life friends) with soul legend Al Green, who turns 65 today, so you can’t give him a call or write “Happy birthday” on his wall. All is not lost! You can still celebrate his brilliant career by listening to his Greatest Hits album. The Rock and Roll Hall of…

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