Protesters gathered in downtown Fort Worth, Texas, on Thursday night in response to the now viral video of a Fort…
Updated Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016, 4:12 p.m. EST: The Fort Worth Police Department has released a statement regarding…
After a letter sent out by the president of the national Fraternal Order of Police, the largest police organization…
A new study from the American Journal of Public Health, published Tuesday, reveals that black men are nearly three…
The family of an unarmed black motorcyclist who was gunned down by a Washington, D.C., police officer in September…
The official Black Lives Matter website was the target of more than 100 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)…
A Belding, Mich., firefighter has been fired after allegedly posting racist remarks to Facebook over the weekend, Fox…
In a statement released Monday afternoon, Charleston County, S.C., prosecutor Scarlett A. Wilson said that she will…
Birthday parties for babies tend to be more for the adults present than the actual baby celebrated, and my…
The Root 100 celebrates the best and brightest of those in the black community who constantly give back to the…
The jury in the trial of Michael Slager, the police officer who shot and killed Walter Scott, says it's deadlocked…
It feels fitting that in a time of the Movement for Black Lives and the last months of the first black president,…
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Ernest Walker has moved his family out of their Ovilla, Texas, home because of racially charged threats he's…
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Yet another Chicago police officer has shot and killed a 19-year-old black teen he says twice pointed a gun at him,…
Black Lives Matter protesters who were arrested in July while demonstrating after the shooting death of Alton…
Hamilton County Prosecuting Attorney Joseph Deters announced Tuesday that he will retry former Police Officer Ray…
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Another young person of color is dead after being shot by two New York City police officers Saturday.
Symone Sanders is a force to be reckoned with, which is why she was named to The Root 100, our annual list of the…
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The St. Anthony, Minn., police officer who shot and killed Philando Castile earlier this year during a traffic stop…