News & Current Affairs

  By Jared Bernstein The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gestures during a speech at a Chicago Freedom Movement rally at Soldier Field in Chicago on July 10, 1966. (Afro…

By Richard Eskow “I’m also very much of a germaphobe, by the way, believe me.” Try not to think too much about the story that led to this comment from…

  By Louis Nevaer Cubans fear the “bromance” between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin could result in a U.S. invasion of the communist island. A day after American voters elected…

By Stephen Bartlett / AlterNet Photo Credit: Tory Field Many people will never hear about how at the end of 2016 on December 19, 38 medical professionals from Cuba’s Henry…

  By: Lawrence Ross Generic image. iStock So The Root asked me, “Hey L, do your best and think about what’s gonna happen in 2017.” And I was like, “Bet!”…

  By Karen Jordan John Henry Jordan, the first black doctor in Coweta County, Georgia, with his wife, Mollie, and his son, Edward Courtesy of Karen Jordan Around 1906, a…

  By Valerie Volcovici A man from the Lakota Sioux tribe with a Native American tattoo on his neck poses for a photograph during a protest against plans to pass…

By: Lauren Victoria Burke Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.), who has been elected as the new chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.), who has been elected as…