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 ...

LONDON — Bernardine Evaristo doesn't like boundaries. For the Booker Prize -winning novelist, rules about genre, grammar or what a working-class biracial woman can achieve are all to be challenged and ...

Yayoi Kusama is one of the world's most successful living artists, and we're taking a look back at her six-decade career.

South Dakota’s Poet Laureate Bruce Roseland wants to hear from you. He’s putting together an anthology of poems about South Dakota persons, events, fauna, flora … anything that happened in ...

Ron Chernow’s exceptional biography devours the life’s work of Mark Twain, the perfect American writer who lived an imperfect ...

Marking the February release of Eve L. Ewing’s latest book, “Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children ...

In “Democracy and Beauty,” Robert Gooding-Williams explores the arguments and intellectual legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois.

Sinclair Lewis is quoted as saying, “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” He ...

American Dirt author talks about her experience of becoming a hate figure, and writing her latest novel Speak to Me of Home ...

Black Lives Matter street murals appeared in cities across the U.S. following the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery. The artworks came in solidarity with ...

Our poetry editor recommends collections that ... with free verse and visual art to lay out a damning indictment of American racism; its title inevitably calls to mind Langston Hughes’s proud ...

The poem focuses on the impact of racism, injustice, and unequal treatment toward Black people and the underserved communities. He reminds us that the “American dream” has not been realized by ...