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Remember zines? Okay, maybe we’re dating ourselves, but younger versions of The Root’s Editor-in-Chief Danielle…

When it comes to living American presidents, it’s indisputable (and infuriating, if you’re Donald Trump), that…

Jason Reynolds famously didn’t read a novel cover-to-cover until he was nearly 18. At 36, he is one of the…

The effort to explain why so many extraordinary Black women are involuntarily single has initiated one study after an…

Because he’s been pretty low-key about it, you might not be aware that a promising politician that we’ve been…

As we endure the last 65 days of an American presidency that has continually undermined the dignity of the office…

“So, it turns out that we’re better than this, but just barely,” laughs Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings in the days…

“If I were able to run for a third term, Michelle would divorce me.” Barack Obama told Jimmy Kimmel in October of…

Former President Barack Obama will sit down with two very familiar faces as his long-awaited new memoir, A Promised…

In a role that couldn’t prove to be any more iconic, Blue Ivy Carter, aka Beyoncé’s firstborn and lowkey manager, is…

Before “diversity and inclusion” were buzzwords and hashtags, Monique Patterson had been actualizing them in the…

When we grow up, we want to be like Marley Dias. At 15, the founder of #1000BlackGirlBooks—which she launched in…

If you’re an avid reader or writer, you might have three bucket-list-style ambitions in life: 1. to have your own…

“I think I’m relevant past Halloween,” laughs Rachel True, who first broke into our pop-cultural consciousness as…

When The Root first spoke to George M. Johnson (one of our longtime contributors) just ahead of the release of their…

It’s the time of year where I try to decipher whether I’d prefer to channel my inner pumpkin or Catwoman. It’s…

On the social media surface, the country is engaged in a big embrace of Blackness. Companies vowing to hire and…

It’s no secret that in recent years, the Young Adult—or “YA”—book category has been booming. But not everyone who…

There’s been this wild theory going around that now that all of us non-essential workers have been working from home…

Darnella Frazier, the teenager who recorded the footage of George Floyd’s death, will be presented the PEN/Benenson…