Best New Artist Grammy nominee Jorja Smith’s star may just be rising on this side of the Atlantic, but in her native…

My mother and I recently decided to do DNA kits together in honor of Mother’s Day. (Please don’t @ me with warnings…

Anna Holmes, the founder of Jezebel and editorial director at Topic.com, recently wrote an op-ed for the New York…

Editor’s note: This piece speaks from the perspective of being biracial with black and white parents. I realize that…

Like many, we here at The Root have been having somewhat heated (I don’t know who was typing in all caps) discussion…

I remember, with painful clarity, the time I ached to be white. I mean that literally, by the way. I stuck a…