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.

Good news for HBCU’s comes as Howard University receives its largest donation in the college’s 153-year history.

“For 400 years, we have been told that black people are a problem. We are indoctrinated into this lie from the…

It’s 2019 and black folks are still making history with “first feats”—in entertainment, of all places.

The Virginia Theological Seminary, in what is being called a first for an institution of its kind, has set aside…