Gender Studies

Prior to being portrayed by Kerry Washington in 2016's Confirmation (HBO), few people would’ve associated esteemed…

“Sometimes you just got to remind people that you’re magical and everything about you down to your vagina and to…

On Saturday, Nov. 7, the nation learned that a graduate of Howard University, Kamala Harris, will become the…

They were the breakout star of FX’s much-beloved (and now, much-missed) Pose, and now Indya Moore is breaking even…

My dad emailed me about a week ago, with a barrage of questions: “Did you watch Saturday Night Live? Did you see the…

Now that we have your attention.

“I honestly believe that if you talk to me for an hour, I could change your fucking life.”

The bullet in my right bicep always aches. It reminds me how everything about me is fair game: who I love, how I…

There was a time in the not-too-distant past that seeing women in GQ was simply a signifier of who cis-hetero,…

We are in the midst of a renewed focus upon Black safety and survival—and Black female political power—and yet, as…

Tracee Ellis Ross isn’t boss-ish, she’s a whole boss.

As long as pay disparities for Black women continue, inevitably so will the respectability politics that insist…

It’s once again Black Women’s Equal Pay Day—the day that marks approximately how much longer a Black woman must work…

For anyone familiar with the racial or gender pay gaps, it ought to be a familiar statistic: a typical Black woman…

HBO’s On the Record has served as an important conversation starter across media (including here at The Root), but…

For decades, organizations like the National Organization for Women, Feminist Majority, and the American Association…

Pay Black women what we’re worth. As far as sentence structure, it’s a simple declaration, but when it comes to…

Thandie Newton has a history of being quite outspoken about issues that matter to her. But in her most recent…

In the midst of a global pandemic, discussions about gender wage equality have largely taken a backseat to broader…

This year, Women’s History Month happens to end on a very poignant date; Equal Pay Day 2020 is March 31, marking how…