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  • GOP Candidate Ben Carson Maintains Charleston Massacre Was Fueled by Racism

    Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson wrote in a Monday USA Today op-ed that leaders ought to be clear in articulating that last week’s church massacre in Charleston, S.C., resulted from racism. To Carson, it’s clear that the gunman, Dylann Roof, was fueled by racial hatred because he is alleged to have uttered racially charged statements during the…

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  • Cousin: Dylann Roof ‘Went Over the Edge’ When His Girl Crush Started to Date a Black Guy

    Editor’s note: After speaking with two members of Dylann Roof’s family, The Intercept, the outlet from which this piece obtained its information, can no longer stand by the premise of this story. Read The Intercept’s full retraction statement here. Dylann Roof’s hatred for black people—in horrific display during his shooting spree last week inside a historically black church—may…

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  • Why Won’t GOP Candidates Speak Honestly About Racism?

    Last Thursday the nation awoke to the tragic news out of Charleston, S.C., that a white gunman shot and killed nine black parishioners during a weeknight Bible study. The avowed racist deliberately targeted these black Christians, driving over 100 miles from his home to murder the six women and three men who had congregated in…

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  • Secondhand Smoke Is Making Us and Our Children Sick

    Earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a study (pdf) describing nonsmokers’ exposure to secondhand smoke, the toxic vapors given off by a smoldering cigarette, pipe or cigar, or by a smoker exhaling smoke fumes.   Even though blacks and whites smoke at approximately the same rate—and despite a two-decade-long public health…

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  • Photos: The Root Took Over Hot-lanta With Its manCODE Event

    On Wednesday The Root continued its manCODE discussion series for 2015 at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. Approximately 200 young black professionals, seasoned executives, fathers and a few young sons gathered to discuss entrepreneurship, the social-justice issues affecting our communities and the legacies that black men strive to leave behind.  The event was sponsored by Prudential. The conversation was shepherded by a…

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  • New Orleans Cops Nab Escapee Who Fatally Shot Officer

    After an intense manhunt, New Orleans police on Sunday arrested a 33-year-old man accused of shooting and killing a 22-year veteran of the Police Department, according to NOLA. Officers arrested Travis Boys, 33, a suspect in the Saturday shooting death of Officer Daryle Holloway, the report says. Boys was captured in the city’s Lower 9th Ward after…

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  • Ex-Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. Is Scheduled to Begin House Arrest Monday

    Former Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is scheduled to be released from prison Monday to serve out the remaining three months of his prison term under house arrest, according to the Chicago Tribune. The 50-year-old entered prison on Oct. 29, 2013, after a conviction for misuse of about $750,000 in campaign funds, the report says.…

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  • Emanuel AME Church Opens Doors for Sunday Worship

    If Dylann Roof’s goal was to halt worship at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., it did not work. The church held service Sunday after police say Roof shot and killed nine people, including the beloved pastor, at the historically black church last week in an effort to start a race war, according…

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  • SC Judge Who Urged Support for Family of Racist Church Killer Will Not Oversee Trial

    Charleston County Magistrate James Gosnell Jr. sparked outrage Friday when he appealed for sympathy for the family of Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old self-professed racist who last week gunned down nine African Americans at prayer service at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. But the good news in this sad and disturbing story is…

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  • The Lessons My Father Taught Me

    There are few holidays that elicit a more complex set of emotions than Father’s Day. Some people use the day to think about the challenges they faced (and overcame) growing up without a father. Others see the third Sunday in June as another chance to highlight the tremendous work single mothers do to raise children.…

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