It is hard to sum up civil rights icon and longtime congressman John Lewis’ legacy—much less find suitable ways of…

While the Trump administration is considering holding a nationwide speech on race and national unity, (yes, you read…

Most of America’s 2020 political press corps is braving COVID-19 inside of their homes, so we aren’t reporting the…

For months, former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has played coy on the topic of being someone’s…

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) have been lining up behind former Vice President Joe Biden for…

Reps. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) and G.K. Butterfield (D.-N.C.), both former chairs of the Congressional Black Caucus,…

I’ve known about the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Legislative Conference for years, but I have…

The Root’s Senior Writer Michael Harriot will be documenting his first time attending the Congressional Black…

Keisha Lance Bottoms, mayor of what is arguably the blackest city in America, threw her support behind former Vice…

Shortly before he was gunned down in front of the clothing store he owned in South Los Angeles in March, rapper,…

Everyone can stop worrying about how the Democrats are going to defeat President Donald Trump with only one dragon…

The rise in the suicide rate for black children ages 5 to 12 is an overlooked national emergency, according to a…

Nobody knows what to call them yet.

Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge joined the ever-rising chorus of people calling for California Rep. Nancy Pelosi to step down…

Ben Jealous is aiming to become the first black governor of Maryland and the first NAACP president to hold such a…

Some families have a mom and a dad or just a grandma or two moms or some variation of adults who take responsibility…

Ask U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.), chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, what’s on his mind for 2018 and…

On Tuesday, May 8, the Congressional Black Caucus will be hosting a Twitter town hall focused on community policing…

Shirley Chisholm is a history-making black woman.

Chisholm first made history in 1968 when she became the first black…

I was on a flight from Washington, D.C., to Pittsburgh during the State of the Union, so I missed the entire thing.…