Anyone familiar with the Black Panther Party knows its genesis was Oakland, Calif.—and the area continues to be a locus…

How do you define the blackness of a city? For Black History Month, we challenged writers to explain why they think…

While at the “MBK! Rising” conference in Oakland, Calif., last week, a student asked Barack Obama how to change the…

There’s a spirit here that takes anything and makes it blacker than it was before. Shit, after you read this, you’re…

If you live under a (non-cocaine) rock, there’s a better than 100 percent chance that you were confused as to why…

There is a rumor that once while getting ready for an unusually brisk day in Oakland, Calif., a young Marshawn Lynch…

As we shuffle into 2018’s conclusion, Time Magazine has named their Person of the Year.

Almost 10 years ago, Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old black man, was fatally shot by a Bay Area Rapid Transit officer in…

Oakland, Calif., has long been a bastion of historical and cultural reverie in blackness. The “Detroit of the West”…

The 27-year-old white man who is accused of stabbing and killing 18-year-old Nia Wilson at a BART train stop in…

Police are searching for a suspect in the brutal slaying of a black teen Sunday at the MacArthur BART station in…

Just watching the trailer for Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You is like taking a mini psychedelic trip. The…

An Oakland, Calif., firefighter doing his duty to serve his community, conducting city-mandated inspections around…

I thought it would take at least a month to find a white man worse than Aaron Schlossberg, the New York City lawyer…

The Root is celebrating Black Music Month with stories that dig into the soul of black artistry and with The Pop Up,…

“Pay it forward” is something you hear a lot in the restaurants and shops of Oakland, Calif. If you see a stranger in…

I recently got back from attending a race and policy symposium sponsored by the Students of Color in Public Policy from…

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