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  • Double Standard: Bike 'Thief' Experiment Highlights Racism

    Primetime co-anchor John Quiñones hosted a segment of “What Would You Do?” On this particular segment, he held an experiment with two bicycle thieves, one white and the other black. The men were dressed the same and had tools to break the locks off of the bikes, which were located in an exposed area. Each…

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  • The Root's Black Caucus Weekend Party List

    The Root’s Black Caucus Weekend Party List: Most parties require an invitation or an RSVP; if a party is open, the price of admission is listed above. The Root is a sponsor of events marked with an asterisk.*

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  • The Best of the Black Caucus Weekend

    The Root’s Best Picks of the CBC’s 40th Annual Legislative Weekend in Washington, D.C.: *The Root is a co-sponsor of “Shut Out: Evaluating Madison Avenue for Disparity in Advertising Media and Creative Services”

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  • Black Labor's Laborious Road Ahead

    Notwithstanding Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s late-summer paean to a phantom economic recovery (does he have imaginary playmates as well?), this Labor Day will be the bleakest for America’s workers since the nadir of the Great Depression in 1932. Back then, the unemployment rate was closing in on 25 percent. Foreclosures were up, morale down, and…

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  • The Street Soldiers of the Omega Boys Club

    My grandfather was from Texas, and he used to say that most people in life are “fixin’ and finnin’” as in they’re fixin’ to do this, and finnin’ to do that. But in the end, they end up doing nothing. Well, don’t put Dr. Joseph Marshall, Jr. in that fixin’ and finnin’ column. With his…

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  • Download The Root's iPhone App

    The Root has launched its new iPhone/iTouch app. Now you can always get all the content you enjoy from your favorite Web site with a black perspective on the go. The new app is free until the end of September, so take advantage of the opportunity now. Go to your the Apple iTunes store and…

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  • We Want Nominees for The Root 100

    Once again The Root, the news and analysis site with a black perspective, is seeking nominations for our 2010 Root 100 list. The list was first published last year and helped identify many talented individuals who have not received the recognition they deserve. We are seeking blacks of outstanding achievement between the ages of 25…

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  • EVENT: Are You Young, Fabulous and Female?

    Update: Due to an overwhelming response to this event the guest list is now closed. Please join the conversation on Twitter on June 30 starting at 7:15 p.m. at #youngfab. Join The Root for a panel discussion and cocktail reception on June 30 in NYC about black women who are young, fabulous and changing the…

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  • Desiree Rogers Joins Johnson Publishing as Consultant

    Linda Johnson Rice is finally bringing in the big guns to turn around the battle to save Johnson Publishing. Former White House social secretary and longtime friend Desiree Rogers is working in a consultancy position with the company “to assist with corporate strategy,” says Wendy Parks, a spokeswoman for the publisher of Ebony and Jet…

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  • Todd Bridges: Coleman Had a Secret Will

    Poor Gary Coleman. From the moment we heard the less-than-stressed-sounding 911 call made by his ex Shannon Price after he fell and split his head open, or the claim that she had to have the plug pulled on him so he wouldn’t end up like Muhammad Ali, or the plea she made via TMZ for…

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