A growing wave of African Americans are relocating to Kenya, citing the need to connect with their history and culture, or ...

Other African countries have attracted even larger numbers of African Americans. Ghana, which launched a “Year of the Return” ...

The bill, authored by Rep. Shelia Stubbs (D, Madison), would create a taskforce examining why Black women are at higher risk of experiencing violence in the state ...

The cemetery, historically known as the “Old Colored Cemetery,” spans 2.5 acres and is owned by First Baptist Church of ...

The Americans with Disabilities Act prevents discrimination against people with disabilities. Retired U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin ...

Benin has appointed American director Spike Lee and his wife, Tonya Lewis Lee, as its ambassadors in the US for African ...

As the country continues to deal with the fallout of the infamous Jeffery Epstein files, The Root is taking a closer look at ...

One of Kazeem Famuyide’s earliest memories is sitting on his father’s lap watching Hulk Hogan wrestle in the 1988 Survivor ...

NAIROBI: Kenneth Harris spent most of his days in Atlanta yearning for a life in a place where his dark skin color is not a ...

A Democratic Wisconsin lawmaker is reviving her proposal to create a state task force on missing and murdered African ...

The Army West Point Black Knights won the American Conference title last year. The Navy Midshipmen would love nothing more than to succeed them.

President Donald Trump’s National Garden of American Heroes was allotted $40 million in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.