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Black Excellence, Culture

20 Black People in Tech You Should Know [Update]

Today is STEM day, so we at The Root wanted to celebrate Black people in tech you need to know

By

Amira Castilla

Published

November 8, 2022
Culture

Live to Tell: 25 Years After Genocide, Miracle in Rwanda Sheds Light on a Tragic Legacy

It’s been 25 years since the civil war that resulted in genocide against the Tutsi tribe of the East African nation of Rwanda. During a three-month period in 1994, as many as one million Rwandans were killed, including approximately 70 percent of the Tutsi population. Among those who lived to tell the massacre was Immaculée…

By

Maiysha Kai

Published

April 29, 2019
Antisocial, News, Opinion

How Physics Works and Other Things I Learned at All Star Code’s 5th-Anniversary Celebration

So I’m at All Star Code’s fifth-anniversary event at the High Line Hotel in New York City on Wednesday, and one of the program’s students, Alex Reyes, asks me if I know how the video game “Pong” works. I—who haven’t thought about “Pong,” a table tennis simulation game, in eons—realize that I have no clue…

By

Danielle C. Belton

Published

April 14, 2018
Black History Month, Culture

Billion-Dollar Legacy: Reginald F. Lewis’ Incredible Life Story Comes to Film

Reginald Lewis may not be well-known to today’s youth, and that’s a shame because his life and work is Black excellence personified.

By

Angela Helm

Published

February 15, 2018
Antisocial, News, Opinion

Once on This Island’s Opening Night Gives Me Jitters While I Consider Reginald F. Lewis’ Billion-Dollar Deal

OK, first off, in this revival of the 1991 Tony Award-nominated musical Once on This Island, I had no clue that it was Merle Dandrige from Greenleaf playing the death demon, Papa Ge. I’ve watched one-and-a-half entire seasons of the OWN religious drama, and I thought I could pick her out of a lineup, but…

By

Danielle C. Belton

Published

December 6, 2017