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.

Drag balls in the 19th century, the Black Pearl Awards and, of course, the High Heel Race. Why might Washington, a famously ...

The title of the exhibition would make you think he’s been working on this project for the past 25 years, but artist Kip ...

SPOKANE, Wash. – The Boulevard Race has revealed its 2025 race poster, designed by local artist Art Mercz. The poster highlights Spokane's iconic Gateway Bridge, a key landmark along the event's ...

On May 5th, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute held its annual fundraising gala. The event showcases the extraordinary imaginations of people who design exorbitant clothes and ...

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In the early 1900s, Tulsa’s Greenwood District had more than 600 Black-owned businesses and stretched ... memorialize the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, when an armed white mob — supported and provided ...