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There’s something so beautiful about the students-turned-activists who have emerged from the awful tragedy of the…

The Root 100 celebrates the best and brightest of those in the black community who constantly give back to the…

The national leaders of the Black Lives Matter Global Network said Tuesday that their mandate remains unchanged in the…

It’s been two years since the killing of an 18-year-old unarmed African-American teen named Michael Brown in Ferguson,…