On August 14, 2019, on the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans’ arrival into the English colonies that…

“Slavery was such a long, long time ago. Why can’t you people just forget about it?” —Wypipo proverb.

Rep. Ilhan Omar is drawing fire for basically abstaining on a House vote taken to formally acknowledge, for the…

A few days ago, during a meeting, I asked The Root staff for more mailbag material. “It doesn’t necessarily have to…