Another violent arrest shared online has raised more questions about how fairly and safely the NYPD is enforcing…

New York is built for the tough, the impatient, the bold, the ones who live to take risks. Basically, it’s a city…

Who was it who once said that social media will be the death of society?

On Thursday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a state grant of $3.75 million to be awarded to help the formation…

Updated Tuesday, 12/17/19 at 7:25 PM ET: Just hours after soliciting the public for information about the…

In what would seem to be the very definition of a stupid human trick, a woman was captured on Instagram video…

In a political case of what was good for the goose may be good for the gander, a Bronx, N.Y., middle school…

Great things come out of the Bronx.

Imagine forgetting that you’d purchased a scratch off ticket and only noticing it as you were sitting on a toilet.…

When is your “wash day”? Saturday mornings? Sunday afternoons after church? However a black woman wears her hair,…

Janice limply heaves the thick unabridged dictionary into the metal trash can at the corner of Vandam and crosses…

Eight years after learning that her daughter had tested positive for dangerous levels of lead—the result of living…

If you’re like me, you can’t stand how the mainstream news has devolved into a series of 45-second “hot takes.”…

A Bronx, N.Y., teen who allegedly stabbed two fellow classmates with a switchblade, one fatally, was indicted on…

The Kidd Creole, one of the founding members of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five (and not to be confused with…

The Tribeca Film Festival, the badass downtown sister to golden girl Sundance, is back on these screens April 19-28.…

Editor’s note: For Women’s History Month, The Root is celebrating women from a wide range of professional industries…

Robert Bishun, 36, was found strangled in the back of his BMW in the Fieldston section of the Bronx, N.Y., Tuesday…

I was in New York City for two days last week. I was also there for a couple days in February, 36 hours or so in…