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  • Toluwanimi Obiwole

    Toluwanimi Obiwole lets her poetry show her strength. Toluwanimi was selected as Denver’s first youth poet laureate in 2015. “The poets teaching me how to be even braver in my writing are Warsan Shire, Nayyirah Waheed and Suzi Q. Smith,” she told The Root. “They’re all unafraid to be vulnerable in their writing, yet never…

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  • Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna

    Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna

    Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna is dedicated to making sure the world’s infrastructure is solid as a rock. Seriously. Augusta has spent the last several years researching cement and how to make it sustainable. The Harvard College freshman told The Root that her “first love” and “first passion” is cement. CATEGORY: Science and TechAGE: 18HOMETOWN: Elmont, N.Y.EDUCATION: Harvard…

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  • Alanna Wall

    Alanna Wall

    Alanna Wall is determined to add a little polish and sparkle to the lives of hospitalized children and girls with special needs. Alanna founded Polished Girlz when she was just 10 years old after being turned down for several volunteer organizations because she was too young. Inspired by her love of drawing and cool nail…

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  • WATCH: Obama's Final Press Conference

    The hour-glass of President Barack Obama’s last days in office is almost empty and during his last press conference, he told reporters gathered that he didn’t always like the stories they filed, but he appreciated and respected them for speaking truth to power. “You’re not supposed to be sycophants; you’re supposed to be skeptics,” Obama…

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  • D.L. Hughley to Donald Trump: ‘F–k You Now and F–k You Forever’

    Comedian D.L. Hughley is letting President-elect Donald Trump know how he really feels in a Facebook Live video posted to his page Friday night. Hughley basically pulled a post-Katrina Kanye and said that Trump doesn’t care about black people. From the nomination of Alabama good ol’ boy Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III to his racist Birtherism…

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  • The Art Speaks for Itself

    Every year, our congressional representatives hold an art contest for students in their districts, with the prize being a yearlong exhibition at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. It typically does not cause a murmur. This year’s unanimous winner in Missouri’s 1st District was my friend David Pulphus, a quiet, gentle, unassuming student. David’s painting…

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  • Racial Justice Cannot Happen Without Gender Equality

    For most of my adult life I’ve been a journalist and writer blessed, or possibly cursed, to witness some of the worst things imaginable done by human beings to one another­—particularly women—in places that most people can conjure only in their imaginations, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, post-genocide Rwanda, Colombia, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka.…

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  • David J. Johns: Thanks for Making Me Feel All the Feels, President Obama

    The illustrious poet Maya Angelou taught me that most often, people will forget what you say; they may struggle to recall what you did; but if you show up, on purpose, they will never forget how you made them feel. As I sat Tuesday night in a television studio in the middle of Times Square…

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  • The President Had Us All in Tears During His #ObamaFarewell Address

    The Obama farewell wasn’t a funeral. Far from it. In fact, it was a revival. At the close of a historic two-term presidency, as the nation’s first African-American president of the United States, Barack Obama had one last benevolent act: to remind the country not to give up on hope or the belief that it…

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  • Get Away From Reality With These 5 Inauguration Day Escapes

    We can’t escape the reality that Donald J. Trump will become the 45th president of the United States. And although the last few months have felt like the end of the world as we know it, we can literally escape watching, hearing about or even giving a second thought to the Trump inauguration in Washington,…

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