Some white people are doubling down on efforts to keep their white supremacist trophies. Alabama’s Republican Gov.…
There are lots of things university students can do to occupy their time. The workload alone is one thing; then…
When Donald Trump nominated Jeff Sessions—the love child of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and the Keebler elf—as…

A 10-year-old boy is being racially terrorized by little inbred elementary schoolers in Attorney General Jeff…
It has been some 45 years since the horrific “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male,” also known as…
A judge told a mostly white suburb near one of the blackest cities in the country that—after reviewing all of the…
Because many people have accused The Root of not being inclusive and focusing on issues of race too much, please…
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley resigned Monday as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors, who allege that Bentley…

An Alabama nursing student is sharing the harrowing story of how she was kidnapped and then made a daring escape…
Remember John Lewis?
The Mobile, Ala., Police Department on Friday held its promotion ceremony, one that must have seemed like any other…
Updated Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, 1:02 a.m. EST: Elizabeth Warren attempted to read Coretta Scott King’s letter about…
Warrick Dunn has been giving back to the community for almost half his life. For the past 20 years, Dunn has been…
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is currently undergoing a weird process of schmoozefest and hard-hitting interrogation…
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) could barely get through the opening lines of his speech during his confirmation hearing…
Voter suppression is alive and well, and a case in Alabama’s Black Belt proves it.
Six NAACP members were arrested late Tuesday at Sen. Jeff Sessions' Mobile, Ala., office ending a sit-in to protest…
Gardendale, Ala., is a majority-white city that happens to be located in the mostly black Jefferson County school…

The Mannequin Challenge has jumped the shark, but apparently those in Alabama weren't made aware of this, since two…