The Root spoke with Bakari Sellers, attorney and son of civil rights legend Dr. Cleveland Sellers, about the impact of ...

Kentucky authorities have launched an investigation after racist Ku Klux Klan (KKK) flyers telling immigrants to "leave now" ...

Federal prosecutor Brendan Ballou, who jailed numerous Capitol rioters, issued a chilling claim in The New York Times that ...

Ed McGinty is back and offering his thoughts on Trump’s first days in office. Read his Letter to the Editor.

The Trinity White Knights, a faction of the Ku Klux Klan, have reportedly been distributing flyers in parts of Ohio and ...

Saturday, Feb. 1 is George Washington Carver Day in Iowa , a well-deserved honor for the recipient of the Spingarn Medal, Roosevelt Medal, fellow of the Royal Society in London, and posthumous ...

Jalise and Mark Middleton, a married couple from Texas, trespassed onto the Capitol grounds and joined thousands of rioters ...

Only one copy of a single issue still exists. In fact, one of the only things known about the Messenger is that in 1921, the white-dominated Charlottesville Daily Progress reprinted a Messenger ...

I Have a Dream’ speech included pointed criticisms often left out of conservative understanding of King’s message ...

Employees of an Australian cruise ship dressed up as 'snow cones' that were suspiciously similar to Ku Klux Klan uniforms.

There is a renewed debate in Virginia over whether Confederate organizations like the United Daughters of the Confederacy should be exempt from paying certain property and real estate taxes.