A University of North Texas official and future candidate for dean of white fragility took to Twitter to protest an…
To be a person of color in America is to always be tangled between dueling worlds. What was different in 2017, more so…
Karma is real. Although I’m generally happy for most people’s success, there are times when karma bites others on the…
This weekend, scientists at one of the country’s most heralded bastions of journalism unearthed a living, breathing…
In what may be the worst episode of the new show Law & Order: White Supremacy, lawyers representing Taylor Swift sent a…
Updated Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017; 1:45 p.m.: Sayonara, Brianna! After widespread scrutiny and a big social media push,…
The white woman who tossed a beverage on a black man for kneeling during the national anthem is a student at a Baptist…
This is a terrible time for our country. Our president has the IQ of a third-place Wheel of Fortune contestant.…
Once again, it’s Friday, which means it is time to sort through The Root’s mailbag and soak in our readers’ reactions…
No one ever taught me about Emmett Till. When I was 11 years old, I was sitting in a room filled with black men at my…
May I present to you the latest nominee for The Root’s annual Wypipo Awards, in the category of Becky of the Year:…
Maybe we have been too harsh on Beckys. We often unfairly paint them as dumb, unfeeling white women when we don’t take…
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