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Not many teenagers get to sit in the first lady’s box during the State of the Union address. Then again, not many teenagers build electric cars after school. Brandon Ford, 18, is a member of Hybrid X, a student organization at West Philadelphia High School dedicated to innovative car engineering. When President Barack Obama said,…

Our future, we know, belongs to the young. That is why The Root has decided to put the spotlight on the leaders of tomorrow. We want your help in finding candidates for our “Young Futurists” list of stars of the future. We are looking for young African-American men and women, ages 16 to 21, who are making…

His Purple Highness held a press conference in Harlem’s famed Apollo Theater Thursday night to announce a new tour, called “Welcome 2 America,” that will launch, vaguely enough, “on a purple day in December.” The music legend spoke briefly and was very short on details but noted that no two concerts would be the same…

Click here to go directly to The Root 100 list for 2010. For the second year in a row, we have put together a list of 100 people who we believe represent the ideals of The Root. These individuals are impactful, creative, iconoclastic, innovative, committed to community and, in many instances, defiant of any restrictive definitions…

Click here for a list of all Root 100 profiles. You can share or send individual profiles from that list.

Once again The Root, the news and analysis site with a black perspective, is seeking nominations for our 2010 Root 100 list. The list was first published last year and helped identify many talented individuals who have not received the recognition they deserve. We are seeking blacks of outstanding achievement between the ages of 25…

Take a look at last year’s Root 100 profiles and tell us which of these distinguished honorees should be considered for CNN’s annual philanthropic award.

For more than a decade, policymakers and community leaders have observed a so-called “digital divide,” with Internet adoption by communities of color lagging the broader population. In December 2009, the Pew Internet Project found Internet usage in 2008 to be 76 percent among white Americans, 64 percent among Latinos and 63 percent among blacks. The…