Reparations

After decades of trying to get America to start the process of reckoning with its history of slavery and its…

A small, Illinois suburb has finally done the thing that America has kept hand-wringing about since the end of…

It isn’t that the first Black president didn’t believe or want to give Black folks their 40 acres and a mule; it’s…

Here at The Root, we strongly endorse any and everything involving the iconic multihyphenate Erika Alexander. Why?…

On Juneteenth in 2019, lawmakers met with Black activists and scholars to discuss H.R. 40—a bill to create a…

“Is the stimmy a form of reparations?” my 1-year-old daughter asked me the other day.

As the historic campaign to distribute COVID-19 vaccines across the country kicked off this week, many lawmakers,…

The topic of reparations is a touchy one...for white people. While the American government hasn’t touched the topic…

Black farming and civil rights groups are giving President-elect Joe Biden an earful about his decision to bring…

Steve King—the white nationalist who can’t understand why people keep calling him a white nationalist and won’t…

Despite its long history as part of abolitionist discourse, reparations for African Americans have, for many years,…

I’ve had a lot of conversations with Black people who have a bit of a defeatist attitude when it comes to the…

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…