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Jasmine Mans may be best known for her viral poem, Footnotes for Kanye, but her latest volume of poetry, Black Girl,…

The more things seem to change, the more they stay the same. Walter Dean Myers first published Monster in 1999; over…

It’s safe to say Father’s Day will look a little different for the Sussexes this year, for better and for worse.…

Shame is a universal condition—no one is immune. In fact, it might be argued that shame is also one of the strongest…

Bzzzzz—you hear that? That’s the sound of Lil’ Kim reclaiming her time!

In a country where Black lives are consistently under threat, it is in some ways understandable that many of us are…

How’s your money these days? It’s a loaded question ask, but given the impact of the ongoing global pandemic upon…

How does trauma affect the way we live our day-to-day lives? Is inherited or intergenerational trauma more…

On-screen, on the air, and now, on the page, Zerlina Maxwell is a force. Having held positions on both Barack Obama…

Magic. What is it exactly? Some will debate wholeheartedly that the confines of magic exist in fantasy novels and…

Real talk? The Root’s Editor-in-Chief Danielle Belton and I consider ourselves to be pretty smart people—but…

Performance occurs in a myriad of ways, from spoken and written poetry to taking the stage, to playing a game of…

When’s the last time you had a good kiki? With our social lives deeply lacking during quarantine, many of us have…

It seems as though authors this week are gearing us up for some sort of fight. Whether it be of the fictional kind…

The relationship between poetry and music is intrinsic. While all music isn’t lyrical and poetry isn’t musical, it’s…

Now, this is a story all about how one life got flipped, turned upside down...life after The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,…

Here’s my take: books that are about history—fiction or nonfiction—guide us in the decisions we make about setting…

He may be a former “Sexiest Man Alive,” but never forget that Idris Elba is for the children. HarperCollins…

What does it feel like to be heir to a renowned legacy? For Michelle Duster, great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells, it…

Y’all already know that here at The Root, we like big books and we cannot lie. Accordingly, we love big book news…