For Women’s History Month, Jezebel and The Root are partnering for JezeRoot, a series that focuses on women of color, domestic workers and sex workers.
A few weeks before his death, 77-year-old Frederick Douglass was asked what advice he would give to a young black American.
Black History Month started off with a bang for one Montpelier, Vt., high school that began flying a Black Lives Matter flag Thursday in what officials are calling a commitment to make the majority-white school more inclusive.
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. Governmental neglect left majority-black wards destitute. Seventy-three percent of those displaced by Katrina were black, and more than one-third of them were estimated to have been poor.
