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When the fourth season of Boardwalk Empire premieres on HBO this Sunday, Sept. 8, at 9 p.m. EDT, fans of the show will have another opportunity to glimpse a fictionalized account of power, politics and personal struggles in Prohibition-era Atlantic City, N.J. This season Jeffrey Wright joins the cast as Harlem gangster Dr. Valentin Narcisse,…

A growing number of black British actors and actresses are booking roles in blockbuster films and television shows in the U.S., and yet most Americans learn of their British background only when the King’s English flows out of their mouths — ever so eloquently — during press interviews. The Root rounded up a list of…

A growing number of black British actors and actresses are booking roles in blockbuster films and television shows in the U.S., and yet most Americans learn of their British background only when the King’s English flows out of their mouths — ever so eloquently — during press interviews. The Root rounded up a list of…

When Living Single debuted on Aug. 29, 1993, four single ladies — Khadijah James (Queen Latifah), Maxine Shaw (Erika Alexander), Synclaire James (Kim Coles) and Regine Hunter (Kim Fields) — let us peek into their lives as they juggled men, careers and personal lives. More important, they showed us exactly what black sisterhood was all…

The more things change, the more they stay the same. That old adage was definitely illustrated in the signs hoisted on the shoulders and above the heads of participants at Saturday’s commemorative March on Washington, celebrating the iconic demonstration’s 50th anniversary. Thousands of people marched through the same streets that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.…

Tracy Clayton is a writer, humorist and blogger from Louisville, Ky. The more things change, the more they stay the same. That old adage was definitely illustrated in the signs hoisted on the shoulders and above the heads of participants at Saturday’s commemorative March on Washington, celebrating the iconic demonstration’s 50th anniversary. Thousands of people…

On Saturday, thousands of people streamed onto the National Mall in Washington, D.C., from cities across the country. Called together by the National Action Network — the civil rights organization led by the Rev. Al Sharpton — and labor and other social-justice groups, some seemed content to simply be there or continue what they described as…

As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, it’s clear that while we’ve made strides, Americans have much more work to do in realizing Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream. From fighting social injustice and repealing “Stand your ground” to protecting the rights of women and the LGBT community,…

Keli Goff is The Root’s special correspondent. Follow her on Twitter.  It is perhaps one of the greatest ironies of one of the greatest human rights movements in history. The civil rights movement, which did so much to advance equal rights for African Americans, struggled to demonstrate gender equality in its treatment of female civil rights…

A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders worked together to make the March on Washington a success 50 years ago. However, there were a number of people who worked behind the scenes to put together the event. This slideshow honors nine of those unsung heroes who contributed to the historic…