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In 2018, NBA player Sterling Brown was tackled to the ground and tased by Milwaukee police officers. His crime?…

Right now, Republicans across the country are on a mission to whitewash America’s history in a way that protects…

While increased vaccination availability has provided some light at the end of the tunnel with regard to the…

Of course, explosives and weapons are being found at far-right rallies across the country.

That we even have to debate whether a statue of Robert E. Lee should exist tells us how backwards many people in…

Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder for killing George Floyd weeks ago, but his defense lawyers are already trying…

Every now and again, the world gets it right: Rudy Giuliani’s apartment got raided, student loan payments have been…

It’s a story as old as time. The Republican Party rails against a thing, only for Republican voters to be found…

Apparently, there is a “Woman’s Republican Club of New Orleans” and the president of the organization happens to be…

There are a lot of news reports going around that Black kids are not enrolling in in-person learning at the same…

In the latest edition of how racist AND anti-Semitic can one be, a North Carolina man has been charged with ethnic…

Could a BLM T-shirt threaten the conviction of George Floyd’s killer?

As awful as Facebook is, it has single-handedly put more racists out of work than any other social media site. Last…

White people really don’t care about law and order. Sure, they may be big fans of the work of detectives Elliot…

It feels like we’ve been trapped in a never-ending cycle of grief. Even as we felt palpable relief seeing Derek…

A tornado–kind of like one the one that took Dorothy from her Kansas farm to Oz–touched down in the Atlanta area and…

Cops in Columbus, Ohio, have been ordered to use less threatening restraint against protesters who pose no threats…

Given how many tears and anguished faces filled the room during a recent “community conversation” in Eureka, Mo.,…

This may be one of the most horrific stories that The Root has ever reported.

Students at an Arizona high school have been disciplined after a short video of them reenacting the murder of George…