#TheRoot

Happy Juneteenth! I want to thank @TheRoot and @RhapsoDani for allowing me to post this video about the significance of today, June 19th, and why it should be celebrated as

The Tattooed Trowel

One of the most important people in North American archaeology was a Black cowboy named George McJunkin, who was born in Texas, enslaved, prior to the end of the Civil

I knew history education in this country — the South in particular — was bad, but this... I don’t have words for some of this, or at least none that

This is... not exactly right.To start, like w the rape case, Barrett didn't write this. Manion did (like, strangely, in the rape case).Second, it doesn't say this. It's about handcuffs--bc

A combined net worth of more than $1 billion and can't give fans an hour of free content lmao.https://twitter.com/theroot/status/1252676810934009857 Fans of Dr. Dre and Diddy have bought their albums, bought

photo 1: white people absolving themselves of participation in racism using a racist take. seen this floating around more times than i can count, it is missing the point as

THIS IS WHY PEOPLE ARE TELLING YALL NOT TO SPREAD PEOPLE’S FACES. THIS ISNT A JOKE https://www.cbsnews.com/video/death-of-civil-rights-activist-ruled-a-homicide/ https://www.theroot.com/body-recovered-from-scioto-river-identified-as-missi

Space Force Squadron Leader Brian E. Ford

It’s not really my place to argue against this, or critique it — so, some thoughts: (1/X)https://www.theroot.com/pete-buttigieg-is-a-lying-mf-1840038708 It IS, for better or worse, @PeteButtigieg’s job to respond to it. More

And just in case you didn’t hear us the first time, this should INCLUDE college studentshttps://twitter.com/theroot/status/1258798637909450756 A full-time college student shouldn’t have to switch to being an independent in the

Michael Harriot

I am not one for Twitter beefs but I also am not on to allow someone to blatantly lie on me.Kamala Harris did not do an interview with The Root.

Terrell Jermaine Starr

I was just discharged from the hospital after a non-COVID-19-related emergency (appendix removed), but the gravity of how bad this virus is ravaging NYC is terrifying. I’m safe but I

On the night MLK was killed, Petey Greene stayed on the radio airwaves to talk to and sooth an angry Black community in Washington, DC. Right now Black America, and

I don't think enough attention has been paid to this element of black political thinking when it comes to voting in the Democratic primary. It explains alot about Buttigieg, Harris,

Jeffery Anderson-Burgos

jandersonburgos

This may be unpopular among #TeamPete, but I see value to the piece in #TheRoot written by @michaelharriot. I support @PeteButtigieg and I want to see him get elected, but

I think this is the right take of Christian Cooper. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/nyregion/amy-cooper-christian-central-park-video.html?smid=ig-nytimes&utm_source=curalate_like2buy&utm_medium=curalate_like2buy_3euQ1BMQ__530aaab

Benjamin Doxtdator

When teaching critical media analysis research and essay writing this year, I constructed a model w students based on how Dr. Martin Luther King is misrepresented to suggest he was