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 over.…
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, we…
Who doesn’t want to be Shuri? The self-assured, witty and unapologetically brilliant younger sister of T’Challa has not…
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 science…
Google is doling out a cool $1 million grant to an Oakland, Calif.-based organization that is dedicated to increasing…
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 Texas…
NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism is an art installation and virtual reality experience recently featured at the Tribeca…
If you’re on this website, I’m going to take it as a given that I don’t need to tell you about the relationship between…
Uber is a tech company, and like most tech companies, it’s mostly white and mostly male. This is what the…
The timing is impeccable.
It’s not a book about princesses, castles or your regular fantastical adventures.
I feel like I’m in a pretty enviable position in life. Since I was 18-years-old, I’ve been surrounded by Black people…
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