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Henry Louis Gates Jr. talks to Columbia Provost and Professor of Psychology Claude Steele about de-fanging the “stereotype threat,” changing white colleagues’ attitudes and “hypnotizing” black people. Video provided by the Du Bois Review. The full interview can be seen on the site of the Du Bois Institute.

Poet DJ Renegade breaks it down about those 12 days and what his true love really gave to him. On the black nationalist, spoken word, power-to-the-people, incense-burning tip.

If it’s sweet potato pie that Barack Obama wants, then it is sweet potato pie that Barack Obama must have.

In this extended version of their conversation, filmmaker Spike Lee and The Root Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discuss the social and political meaning of the film, 20 years later.

Spike Lee, in a conversation with Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Root’s Editor-in-Chief, calls out the critics who predicted violence at the release of his groundbreaking 1989 film and clarifies what the “right thing” really was. ALSO: To read Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s thoughts on the movie and the director; find out why the Obama’s rarely…

In this vintage footage from 1990, film critic Armond White sounds off on the mainstream coverage of Do the Right Thing, dissecting how American racial angst affected the film’s critical reception. Arguably the country’s most famous black film critic, Armond White has served as staff film critic at the New York Press since 1994. He…

In our ongoing video series Bookmark, The Root talks to authors to find out the personal stories behind their talked-about books. Here, Walter Mosley talks about life after Easy Rawlins, the critically acclaimed hero of his noirish crime series. The novelist talks about the shift from looking at the black-and-white 1950s-era Los Angeles to the…

WATCH VIDEO of Bryant Terry’s recent book signing in San Francisco.