FLINT, Mich—Political surrogates for presidential candidates have a tough job.

Alas, to be a fly on the wall at Memorial Hall at Harvard University Thursday afternoon.

The Root spent an hour speaking to Cornel West on Dec. 8 on a wide range of issues, including former President…

I love Cornel West. Part of the reason I am a fan of his is that, before my nonfame and lack of fortune at The Root, …

As a result of Cornel West’s public criticism of Ta-Nehisi Coates in the New York Times last month, we at The Root…

I’m writing this from the third floor of the brownstone in Pittsburgh’s Northside that my wife and I have been…

Did President Barack Obama let us down?

A few months ago, I was at a Bernie Sanders rally in Birmingham, Ala., surrounded by white people excited to see…

Hillary Clinton cares more about police officers getting away with killing black people than Donald Trump does,…

Cornel West recently continued down his long, winding road to breaking my heart.

In this day and age, there is little reward in seeking the truth, and less profit in sharing that truth once you…

I'm not a fan of Ta-Nehisi Coates. I respect the hell out of the man, but a fan? Nah. I understand, however, that…

Everything that could have been said about Michael Eric Dyson's 170,000 word critique of Cornel West has likely…

1. It's not terribly uncommon for the type of people who'd even be interested in reading Michael Eric Dyson's…