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 folks throughout history. At age 18, Rev. Bruce Klunder knew he had to join the ...

Ultimately, very few marriages were recorded, but the number of children born of these relationships increased significantly over time, from several thousand in the 1930s to over 10,000 in the 1950s ...

Garland Jeffreys was friends with Lou Reed and Bruce Springsteen, and highly praised in the Seventies for his songs about ...

The president said he had fired the museum leader — setting up a standoff between the White House and the Smithsonian.

Shaped by early hip-hop culture, his documentaries put race in the foreground, whether the topic was hip-hop fashion, the ...

In the latest work by Chase Hall, on view at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, material investigations explore race and identity.