Year In Review

In 2018, The Root embarked upon a mission to prove our commitment to the “It’s OK to be White” movement by honoring…

The year 2019 took us on a rollercoaster ride of emotions: It began with the swearing-in of the most diverse Congress

We’d like to welcome you to the fifth annual Wypipo Awards.

At first, it felt easy enough to laugh at them.

We lost yet again, America.

As we stand on the precipice of a brand new year, the staff at The Root is hopeful that everyone can use the past 12…

As we reach this final day of the year in 2018, The Root takes our annual look back at the people, organizations and…

This year, we lost many of our black firsts, black female firsts, survivors of tragedies, civil rights activists,…

If there’s anything 2018 showed us, it’s that America needs to do better—to say the least.

Just about every hip-hop critic and cognoscenti has had the same response about the amount of new music released in…

It’s been another wild-ass year of news here at The Root. In 2018, we saw both a blue wave—one propelled by women…

Welcome to the fourth annual Wypipo Awards. For those in attendance for the first time, all of our winners are of…

The Emmys snubbed Atlanta in its major categories in 2018, Blackish didn’t receive any nods at the Golden Globes for…

Let’s talk about books because, as usual, the past year has been an amazing one for books by black writers. The only…