The civil rights legend and Georgia Rep. John Lewis, who fought the racist Trump administration right up until his…

To find some of the worst recorded coronavirus disparities between Black and white residents, you need look no…

Members of law enforcement making vile and racist comments on Facebook is nothing new. As protests against police…

On March 3, 33-year-old Manuel Ellis died while being restrained by Tacoma police. After new video was released…

Here at The Root, we keep trying to warn white folks that freedom of speech doesn’t equate to freedom from…

Remember just a few weeks ago when the president planned a “my dicktatorship is bigger than yours” July Fourth event…

U.S. presidents traditionally have been hands-off when it comes to the Fourth of July so as to avoid politicizing…

Washington, D.C., and its culture absolutely changed my life. I was first introduced to D.C.—outside of the national…

As the great Beyoncé once said, “You know you that bitch when you cause all this conversation.” And so it seems when…

Try as they may, black excellence can only be denied for so long.

We need to talk about the president.

Early Friday morning, a brave citizen named Natasha Tynes boarded the Washington, D.C., Metro with her pockets and…

An unseasoned collection of white nationalists who apparently are fed up with all this “inclusion and diversity”…

Washington, DC, is in the midst of a culture war between the new residents who want to mold the city into their own…

Last week at the corner of 14 and U, a throng of mostly black people swayed in unison to the beat of a live go-go…

Back in 1498, a few years after Christopher Columbus pillaged the Caribbean and before he set sail to Trinidad,…

With direct access to your credit card, home address and Funyuns infatuation, hotels collect more personal data than…

How do you define the blackness of a city? For Black History Month, we challenged writers to explain why they think…

Let’s be clear, before The National Portrait Gallery unveiled the presidential portraits of Barack Obama, by Kehinde…

When remembering Martin Luther King Jr., society often removes some of his most radical politics from discussion.