For years, residents of Greenwood, the neighborhood in Tulsa, Okla., that was once home to Black Wall Street, have…

To the relief of sports heads everywhere, the NBA is officially back in business. However, it looks very different…

Americans agree that racism in the criminal justice system is a problem. Where they’re still divided is how to…

Phew, 2020 sure is something different.

When Andre Perry thinks about American policing and incarceration, he sees an economic issue as much as a human…

Princeton announced Saturday that it was striking the name of former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson from its public…

This is the sobering half-wish offered on page 57 of Black Imagination, an amalgamation of black thought, poetry,…

Ben Carson, whom award-winning author Kiese Laymon affectionately refers to as “Dad”, whom The Root Senior Editor…

Capitalism is an interesting thing.

The theme from last year’s Black AF Gift Guide was self-care; in 2017, it was about being woke. This year, we’re…

“Reparations” is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by…

When Georgetown University students voted this spring to use student fees to pay reparations to descendants of the en…

A slim majority of white Americans agree that hundreds of years of chattel slavery continue to impact African…

It is, to date, the largest monetary commitment of its kind: a $27 million commitment from Princeton Theological…

With the nation’s renewed focus on whether or how to compensate black Americans for the evils of generations of chatt…

The Virginia Theological Seminary, in what is being called a first for an institution of its kind, has set aside…

To commemorate the quadricentennial anniversary of the arrival of enslaved Africans in America, we imagined what it…

Young black people are more likely than their peers to consider themselves Democrats—and “strong Democrats” at…

I don’t know if 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Marianne Williamson believes that she can win, but she’s…

Montgomery, Alabama, exists as a paradox. It is here that slavers sold other human beings at market, and where a…