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Let’s get the obvious out of the way—we know the British monarchy is a racist institution. The U.K.’s royal family…
2/08/21 5:00PM
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Political unrest in Haiti resulted in the arrest of more than 20 people in the nation’s Port-Au-Prince capital over…
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Megan Thee Stallion, a.k.a Ms. My Knees Don’t Quit (I made that up. It was either going to be that or “Twerkocalypse…
12/15/19 9:30AM
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Black women across the world are being recognized as the royalty they are.
10/10/13 12:23AM
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(The Root) — Last month, representatives from member states of CARICOM (the Caribbean Community and Common Market)…
10/10/13 12:17AM
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(The Root) — To hear 22-year-old Nice Nailantei Leng'ete answer questions from across a table, you have to lean in.…
10/08/13 12:50AM
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Editor's note: The spelling of the ethnic term "Coloured," used within the context of South African history and…
9/22/13 3:47PM
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(The Root) — For many of Kenya's well-off, Saturdays are for shopping, drinking lattes, nibbling on international…
9/16/13 12:41AM
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(The Root) — Jean Claude "J.C." Wenga, 24, expected to spend the last weekend of August performing in front of…
8/21/13 12:13AM
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(The Root) — This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Martinican polymath Aimé Césaire. If anyone truly…
8/16/13 12:44AM
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(The Root) — Cork Street in Mayfair, nestling just behind Savile Row and the sartorial panache of its world-famous…
8/11/13 12:51AM
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(The Root) — After 30 years of teaching African history, I am still fascinated by the idealism and innocence…
6/21/13 4:57PM
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5/25/13 9:31AM
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(Special to The Root) — When the African Union (known then as the Organization of African Unity) was founded, the…
5/25/13 12:05AM
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(The Root) — This year, African heads of state are celebrating 50 years of Pan-Africanism through the African Union…
5/22/13 12:28AM
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(Sahara Reporters) — Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has described Africa's most well-known novelist, Chinua Achebe, as…
5/19/13 12:21AM
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(The Root) — Whenever northern Nigeria has been in the news in recent months, the stories are usually about killings…
4/24/13 12:23AM
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(The Root) — The American story has too long been told through a racial lens and always vis-à-vis "whiteness." This…
4/22/13 1:27PM
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(The Root) — Exactly 20 years ago today, Stephen Lawrence woke up like a typical 18-year-old student. Studying…
4/21/13 12:57AM
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(The Root) — The "new" South Africa turns 20 next year.