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America sure seems to spend a lot of time correcting its history of racism and segregation by updating official…

“Adults struggle to discuss race and racism. But what if we were discussing race since we were kids? What if we were…

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) seems dead set on doing everything but addressing the pandemic currently ravaging…

America is not a “civilized country.”

On Sept. 16, 1968, 51 years before HBO aired the first episode of its groundbreaking horror series, Carol Jenkins…

A group of community leaders in Illinois are working with a state lawmaker to abolish the current history curriculum…

A new Samuel L. Jackson project is coming our way, and it’s something pretty different from the tough-talking acting…

Today is July 4th, a.k.a Independence Day, a.k.a ID4, according to the seminal 1996 film. A day commemorating when…

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on July 4, 2019.

I am 6.

Thanks to a circulated screenshot from the website The Concordian, Twitter has been abuzz since Wednesday night with…

A statue of a prominent slave trader found its proper home on Sunday: at the bottom of a harbor.

Without the proper context, it is impossible to understand the mushroom cloud of uprisings that are exploding across…

An Associated Press poll published on Wednesday found that a “surprisingly low” number of Americans—around 50…

Donald Trump is a white supremacist.

Why aren’t our children exposed to the crucial contributions made by African-Americans toward the independence and…

You know... maybe we should all just go back to celebrating Black History Month by — oh, I don’t know — teaching…

Editor’s Note: This week, The Root commemorates Black History Month with a series on little-known or forgotten…

I must say, I’m at least slightly conflicted about this one.

I don’t know a lot about white history.