This weekend is much like the last and will be a lot like the one after it. While the weather is warming up, it’s…

A negrophobic airline passenger was so concerned that blackness was a communicable disease that he reportedly asked…

America’s “Hidden Figures”—the black women behind NASA’s success in the “Space Race,” continue to be celebrated 50…

Spelman College, the all-women historically black college located in Atlanta, was recently ranked as the best…

What’s hot, cold and giving girls a chance to excel in STEM? ComEd’s 6th Annual Icebox Derby, which took place in…

With less access to traditional bank loans and often saddled with higher student debt burdens than other racial…

Sherrell Dorsey is a data and technology journalist who is putting more black techies on the map. The Root talked to…

Updated Monday, July 2, 2018, 1:25 p.m. EDT: Ishmale Powell’s troubles may have lessened, but they’re not quite…

Although it has been reported that NASA shut down voting after a team of three black girls was handily winning a…

I am not perfect. I hate to fail. For most of my life my fear of failure was so strong, I would not even consider…

Just when we thought we’d recovered from all of the #BlackPantherMagic (yes, it’s a thing) on the premiere circuit,…

Who doesn’t want to be Shuri? The self-assured, witty and unapologetically brilliant younger sister of T’Challa has…

The cultural impact of Black Panther may extend even further than fans originally hoped for.

Black America, we turned out in record-breaking numbers last weekend to see and support the most anticipated film of…

If “Don’t scare me like that, colonizer” wasn’t already enough to give Black Panther’s Shuri (depicted amazingly by…

Google created Howard West last year as a three-month residency program for rising junior and senior computer…

Google is doling out a cool $1 million grant to an Oakland, Calif.-based organization that is dedicated to…

As the numbers of women and people of color in Silicon Valley continue to be elucidated, it has become increasingly…

It seems that the United States has had a change of heart. The Gambian high school students competing in an…

There’s intelligent, and then there’s Carson Huey-You intelligent. Carson just wrapped up his last final exam at…