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Earlier this month, The Root reported that in Murdock, Minn.—a small city of around 280 residents—white nationalist…

In 2003, Myron Burrell was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the death of an 11-year-old girl who was…

Religious freedom is certainly an essential concept in America and much of the world, but it’s also a value that has…

The death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police officers has transformed the city into one of…

Can’t even lie, it felt incredibly good to see the whole world reenact the end of Return of the Jedi this weekend.…

A truck driver who drove through a group of protesters on a bridge in Minneapolis now faces two criminal charges.

The presiding judge in the criminal case facing Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer captured on…

You know, when one of your officers is alleged to have been responsible for the unnecessary death of a Black man,…

Oh, the pundits waxed on about how Rep. Ilhan Omar, a member of the progressive group of congresswomen known as “The…

I feel like anytime a Republican is faced with a mild inconvenience, their first instinct is to compare it to Nazi…

In May, as protests over the death of George Floyd initially got underway in Minneapolis, a video went viral showing…

If NBA Hall of Famer Kevin Garnett gets his wish, he will soon become something that the league he once played for…

It unfortunately took a global pandemic and the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor for the nation to realize…

Henderson, Minn., is the new home of a life-size bronze statue of the one and only Prince, a fitting memorial…

Minority corrections officers at the Ramsey County Jail filed a lawsuit with the Minnesota Department of Human…

Former Vice President Joe Biden is tired of Trump’s hateful and divisive speech. He’s tired of Trump speaking out of…

The U.S. is world-renowned for its short memory—whether it’s our fraught history of uprisings, fighting pandemics,…

Jay-Z reportedly called the governor of Minnesota in order to demand that all four officers who were involved in the…

The country has been reeling this week after graphic footage of George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minnesota…

I don’t know exactly when I decided to stop writing about whiteness and focus purely on blackness. What I do know is…