Ananda Lewis, Television Host and Model, Dies Following a Long Breast Cancer Fight
Two Days Before Trial, Crucial Evidence is Lost in Decade-Old Cold Case
A Famous Supermodel Just Endorsed Blue Ivy’s On-Stage Catwalk
What’s Happening In Rockland, NY Could Be the Beginning of the End Of Trump’s Reign, Many Americans Believe
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Casting Call: Lee Daniels' 'Selma'
is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University. After her husband died in 1963, Boynton’s home became the planning and meeting center for the voting rights demonstrations in Selma. She attended the signing of the Voting Rights Act at the White House. (In this 2007 picture, she’s over 90. At…
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NEWS STAND: Is Obama's Stimulus Program Shortchanging Minorities?
Minority-Owned Firms Get Fewer Stimulus ContractsThey were hit hardest by the recession but receive less of the money that’s being doled out Latino and black business owners are asking the Obama administration to do a better job of seeing who gets federal stimulus money. According the U.S. Census Bureau, blacks and Hispanics own 5.2 and…
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The Root Goes Mobile
You can access The Root from any mobile phone that has a Web browser. Now there’s no reason to miss reading the latest black news and your favorite articles from The Root. Just go to: mobile.theroot.com using your smart phone’s Web browser. Bookmark us for easy access. Become a fan of The Root on Facebook.…
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A Bit of Light Reading: Obama's Education Reform Blueprint
Want the see exactly how President Obama plans to reform education? Below is the scoop on how On Saturday, March 13, the Obama administration released its blueprint for revising the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which would ask states to adopt college- and career-ready standards and reward schools for producing dramatic gains in student…
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Earthquake Hits Southern California
Millions in southern California received an unfortunate wake-up call this morning as they were shaken out of bed by a 4.4-magnitude earthquake An earthquake east of downtown Los Angeles rippled across Southern California before dawn Tuesday, jolting millions of people awake and putting first-responders on alert but causing no damage, injuries or power outages. The…
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Dodd Bill Supports New Consumer Finance Watchdog
Patricia Nelson took out a $550 payday loan in December 2007. By September 2009, she had rolled the loan over more than 22 times, and paid upwards of $2,700 in interest alone. In the wake of the messy and catastrophic financial market meltdown of 2008, President Barack Obama invited the 64-year-old to the White House.…
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Black Barbie Talks
To Whom It May Concern, After all of the recent controversy over a silly photo that was taken of my friend Barbie and me, I’ve decided it’s time to speak up. We were hanging at Walmart last week when somebody decided to snap our picture. I’m not sure if it was paparazzi or a soccer…
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It 'Helps' to Be White
In one scene in the best-selling novel The Help, a spirited black woman has second thoughts about sharing the gory details of her life as a Mississippi domestic with a white writer who is part of the town’s bridge-and-tennis-playing aristocracy. “What am I doing?” Minny says, in an uncharacteristic attack of self-doubt. “I must be…
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DC High School Hires Female Head Coach
It’s like ‘Wildcats’, except Natalie Randolph would lay Goldie Hawn out When Coolidge High announced in January that it was looking for a new football coach, one of the school’s science teachers was sitting in a conference room in the building when a colleague asked, “Why don’t you put your name in for it?” Natalie…
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Some Black Pro-Lifers Say Abortion Is Genocide
It used to be that the pro-life movement was associated with the white religious right, the most extreme elements of which were bent on saving women from hell and damnation for killing their fetuses. Now as more black women seek abortions, the banner has been taken up by some black pro-lifers. The Root spoke with…