“Let’s Get It On”...in court!

The late, great Marvin Gaye once sang that he “heard it through the grapevine.” Little did I know I’d be expressing…

Editor’s note: The Root was a media sponsor of this year’s Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference…

It’s time to send your snail mail with the most soulful stamps in these United States of America. I heard it through…

As the story goes, around 1975, God was having a conversation with a few of his apostles about the blackest city in…

Remember when Robin Thicke tried—and tried, and tried again—to get that old thing back a few years ago? Well, if you…

So, boom.

On Nov. 2, 2018, Bohemian Rhapsody, the biopic about the group Queen, but mostly about the Freddie Mercury, hits…

Since my daughter was born, I’ve had two very clear objectives: 1) Raise a good human being who goes to Spelman…

What I’m about to do will possibly be THE most controversial and contentious list ever created. I want you to know…

You could say that music usually reflects where we are as a society. The height of soul and funk music ran roughly…

I was in the fourth grade when my white best friend told me a racist joke.

As I wrote a couple weeks ago, The Wife Person and I are expecting. A child. An actual human baby. An actual human…

I’m keeping the intro simple this time.