Social Studies

Every week, just outside of Charleston, S.C., hundreds of (mostly white) people pay for tours of the beautiful…

I admit that I don’t know how to feel about this story.

My grandmother once said: “If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything.”

After watching a recent viral video showing a white woman biker getting her pants ripped by a buffalo at South…

I was today years old when I discovered that Tucker Carlson is not Ben Shapiro’s father.

I’m calling it now: Oprah Winfrey is going to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Biblical scholars, theologians and people who have common sense are dragging a right-wing celebrity you’ve never…

When we began curating this column on social media, we discovered that many people assume the cultural phenomenon…

A secret police force is roaming the streets of Portland, Ore., snatching up protesters and violating their civil…

Entertainment giant Viacom CBS fired television host, comedian and former Atlanta A&T percussionist Nick Cannon on…

I am a certified asshole.

The coronavirus changed me.

No one knows John Winsmith or John McQueen.

It was white supremacy.

I use social media as a learning tool.

Shaun King is not wrong.

There is a popular misconception that the death of George Floyd has ignited Black America to finally unleash the…

Have you ever wondered what social media would have looked like on the first Juneteenth?

The Root presents a dramatic reenactment of the entire history of America:

My grandmother had a “pork pan.”