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A woman has agreed to accept a payout of $205,000 from the city of San Antonio, Texas, to settle her suit charging…

Years after an Oklahoma mom was released from prison after being handed a 12-year sentence for making $30 in weed…

With tears of misspent white privilege streaming down her face, actress Felicity Huffman was sentenced Friday to 14…

A little more than a year after Sacramento, Calif., police gunned down an unarmed Stephon Clark as the 22-year-old…

An NYPD trainer testified Tuesday that the maneuver used by police officer Daniel Pantaleo to force an unarmed black…

When remembering Martin Luther King Jr., society often removes some of his most radical politics from discussion.

It was a story so ridiculous it seemed destined to go viral: A new Harlem resident, a white woman going only by the…

Editor’s note: This week, The Root will examine the many facets of law enforcement and its effects on the black…

Updated: Saturday, May 12, 2018, 10 a.m. EDT: The Alpharetta Police Department released a statement Friday saying…

RETRACTED (6/12/18):

With the number of lethal and nonlethal shootings, robberies and assaults on the rise in Baltimore, police and…

A Brooklyn, N.Y., woman says that officers with the New York City Police Department held her hostage in her…

He uses the hashtag #ProtestSeason like it’s a period set aside for hunting demonstrators as if they were deer. The…

T-Boz wants justice for her mentally ill 25-year-old cousin who was shot 18 times by Peoria, Ill., police after…

According to the new, reflexively defensive school of thought, it is not fair to call people racist. The proponents…

In 1881, British colonial authorities in Trinidad attempted to suppress the Canboulay, a predawn ritual with…

The mere threat of murder isn’t really enough because inviting a murder squad to your house just because you heard a…

For working-class and poor black and brown communities in the United States of America, the concept of…

In what may be the greatest protest ever, two Philadelphia police precincts received pairs of underwear from a local…

Take a deep breath. Can you smell the weed smoke billowing in from Colorado and California? Have you read about the…