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On Sunday, the highly-anticipated HBO series Watchmen set the internet ablaze with America’s shocked reactions to a…

A few blocks away from Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood sits the city’s oldest existing cemetery, Oaklawn. On Monday,…

You know how kids have a list of things they want to be when they grow up and toggle between them until they…

A newly uncovered speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered in 1967 sounds curiously like the civil rights icon…

To commemorate the quadricentennial anniversary of the arrival of enslaved Africans in America, we imagined what it…

Montgomery, Alabama, exists as a paradox. It is here that slavers sold other human beings at market, and where a…

On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties…

Netflix’s new documentary, The Lion’s Share, chronicles the history of the song “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” how it…

A newly discovered photo of Harriet Tubman is now on display for the first time at the Smithsonian’s National Museum…

As the country this year commemorates the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans being brought to what was…

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom…

The Root is black as the rest of y’all. We can collectively name all the members of Dipset; at least half of us have…

A new exhibit at a Washington, D.C., museum featuring an abridged version of the Bible sheds light on how Christian…

In the early morning hours of Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago police—acting at the behest of the Cook County State’s…

When I was growing up, The Autobiography of Malcolm X was like manna; it was part of my introduction to “black…

“The more things change. The more things stay the same.”

Three days before a national tragedy would shake the entire world, on September 8, 2001, George Bush issued a…

If there was ever an inverse example of a Confederate monument, it might be the Lorraine, the Memphis motel where…

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J. Kenneth Lee, one of four black students who joined a lawsuit that would ultimately lead to the desegregation of…