In 1992, when Stacey Abrams was in college, she participated in a protest where there was a burning of a Georgia state…
Here’s a question: If the Confederate flag has nothing to do with racism, and it’s all about Southern pride and…
Proving that black women do not possess the genetic predisposition enjoyed by people who forget about past events like…
I had really, honestly and truly hoped that we had left all this Confederate flag/monument/symbolism bullshit in 2017,…
Annie Caddell had been flying a Confederate battle flag outside her home for some seven years, standing at odds with…
A black hero Capitol police officer out of Mississippi was fired after confronting some protesters who were waving…
Two South Carolina politicians have proposed a commission to erect a monument honoring the legacy of black soldiers who…
If you’re gonna talk the talk, you’re gonna have to walk the walk. At least that’s what the Montgomery County, N.C.,…
It’s been a tense Spirit Week at one New Jersey high school, where a group of students thought it was appropriate to…
“Southern heritage” strikes again, and one California mom is upset after her 15-year-old son was called racist because…
American University (alas, a perfect metaphor for America) continues to be the site of racist paraphernalia meant to…
Y’all, there’s dumb and then there’s dumb. And one Liberty, Mo., resident is literally the representation of being…
A Clarksdale, Miss., judge has been the target of a slew of violent, threatening social media posts, and police believe…
From the white supremacist “rally” and terror attack in Charlottesville, Va., to the current president’s public defense…
After previously announcing that it would not do so, the Six Flags theme park Six Flags Over Texas has removed the…
I’ve tried very, very, very hard over these past few years, but I just can’t muster much anger toward Ben Carson for…
When I asked a few of our readers to come in to The Root’s offices and share their personal experiences of being called…
Symbols of the Confederacy have been the subject of two very different events over the last few days. In…
What you see pictured above is possibly the ugliest “haircut” ever. But one black barber in Oklahoma wasn’t going to…
A black Mississippi man who argues that the state’s flag is a symbol of white supremacy is taking his fight to the…
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