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 that…
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 apartment…
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 of…
In 1881, British colonial authorities in Trinidad attempted to suppress the Canboulay, a predawn ritual with drumming,…
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…
Recently surfaced video shows two New York City police officers apparently taunting students from a Brooklyn high…
If a new bill authorizing the use of weaponized drones passes, Connecticut police officers would have the ability to…
Perhaps the worst thing about America’s mistreatment of black people in this country has nothing to do with the…
I first met Jacqueline Craig in an investigation room of the Fort Worth (Texas) City Jail the night she was arrested.…
A little over a month after the U.S. Department of Justice released findings from a yearlong study that showed the…
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