Food and restaurants played a surprisingly important role in the civil rights movement ... shine a light on the movement's famous activists as well as on the small, Black-owned businesses that ...

Kendrick Lamar, Ledisi and others are creating the soundtrack for this cultural inflection point and for the legacy of ...

He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create, and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his environment and many different ...

So now, The Root is taking a closer look at the anti-racist white heroes who were just as down for civil rights as Black ...

The Black Cultural Heritage Trail, a first-of-its-kind in Palm Beach County, spotlights stories often overlooked in the ...

Lesser-known Black female heroes are taking center stage ... which is a core principle of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Did you anticipate that she who dared would be so relevant today?

The Black church was the catalyst for Civil Rights Movement. In light of deep cuts to federal and state programs, as well as rising utility and food costs, the Black church will be called upon to ...

Reporter Kevin Sack's new book is a history of Charleston's Emanuel AME Church, the oldest Black congregation in the South, ...

Since then, African American churches continue to support faith and the fight for civil rights across the country and in Chicago. The origins of the Black ... a movement born inside a church ...

President Donald Trump, who campaigned in 2020 on making Juneteenth a federal holiday, used the occasion this year to criticize the number of federal holidays—a comment many viewed as a direct slight ...

Washington’s Black Lives Matter Plaza stood as a place to mourn, celebrate, argue and ultimately renew the nation’s commitment to the fight for equality. Then, amid a recent shift in political winds ...

A new biography about New Jersey native Marsha P. Johnson details how she inspired a revolution through her joy.