The Root was on location at a screening of an episode of the new PBS series Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr. at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He… By ...

Roughly 250 million people in sub-Saharan Africa rely on the root crop for survival. But cassava, which is something akin to a yam, lacks essential nutrients, including pro-vitamin A, iron and ...

The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center has received an $8.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to advance its work to improve the health and wellbeing of farmers, their ...

Graham, walking with a cast on his left foot, greeted guests with The Root’s editor-in-chief, Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., often by his side.

FRANKLIN (WITI) -- Franklin's Root River Center, a popular bowling alley, banquet hall, tavern and restaurant on W. Rawson Ave. is set to close its doors -- much to the disappointment of frequent ...