Inexplicably, there’s an ongoing argument happening across the country about sending kids back to school even as…

If Donald Trump and a pair of discarded seersucker shorts had a baby boy and that little bastion of racism, idiocy…

Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. just lost two players from the school’s football team because Falwell…

Rapper, actor and Pro Era collective co-founder Joey Bada$$ tells The Root that each year, he creates a list of…

For many of us, 2020 has been a year we’d prefer to fast forward through. From losing Kobe and Gianna Bryant in late…

I have a curiosity that I’ve been pondering since schools shuttered and our kids have been home around the clock:…

America has a long history of racial oppression and, apparently, just as long a history of sweeping racism under the…

The American education system is rife with problems. Schools go underfunded, teachers barely can make a living wage…

A teenager once believed to be the “third son” of 50 Cent has allegedly been bullied and beaten in school. Now, his…

Beginning Jan. 27, students in seventh through 12th grades in Fairfax County Public Schools in Northern Virginia…

On Monday, I had the misfortune of reporting about a Vance County, N.C., school resource officer who was put on paid…

School resource officers are hired to help provide a safe learning environment in schools throughout the country,…

Amid concerns of racial insensitivity, a New York high school has pulled the plug on its upcoming production of…

Richard Sherman was already Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl superstar but now the NFL baller is a superhero for young…

Nina Simone opened her banned 1964 song “Mississippi, Goddamn” with the line: “Alabama’s got me so upset…”

Stupid is as stupid does.

If ever there was a perfect justification for throwing hands, it’s the discovery that staffers at your 7th grader’s…

The Penn-Trafford School District is in deep shit after their active shooting drill training video hit the Internet,…

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Authorities in Walterboro, S.C., are demanding answers after Raniya Wright, a fifth-grader at Forest Hills…