Black feminism

“You don’t need to be brave when you’re writing; you need to acknowledge that you’re terrified—and do it anyway,” so…

“Sometimes you just got to remind people that you’re magical and everything about you down to your vagina and to…

“There is no Black Freedom Project if you don’t care about Black women.” If there’s one belief upon which “crunk…

Welcome back to Lovecraft Country! Wow! Talk about the Afrofuture! Talk about Black feminism! Episode 7, “I Am.” hit…

This book isn’t just for white women.

Black History Month may be over, but for black women (and those who love them), the party’s only half-over, because…

Jamilah Lemieux is a millennial working mother—emphasis on working. The acclaimed journalist, activist, cultural…

“We women people, we are used to saving other folk; we’ve been doing it a very long time,” said Oprah Winfrey,…

Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from adrienne maree brown’s Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, a…

Actor Lorraine Toussaint got a call from director Julie Taymor, who was working on a biopic, The Glorias: A Life on…

Real talk? One of the funniest, yet most common misconceptions about feminism—aside from the lie that we are…

Publisher Synopsis: Originally published in 1982, All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us…

As feminist activists and allies across the country prepare to join the third wave of Women’s Marches in as many…

If you ask activist and author Charlene Carruthers whom she hopes will read her new book, she’ll mention teenagers…

Editor’s note: This story was written for an event where The Root was a media sponsor.

Long before social media liberated unadulterated images of black women’s beauty, there was Kamoinge.

Now, this is what we call pretty in pink: Perennial fave Yara Shahidi looks poised to take flight on the cover of…

If the future is female, what of the present? Former editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue and now Black-ish writer and Ms.…

Here’s a conversation we don’t want to miss: Black-ish actress and all-around brilliant bae Tracee Ellis Ross will…

Death by a thousand cuts. A thousand micro (and macro) aggressions, a thousand dismissals, a thousand violations,…