Ledisi will perform 'Lift Every Voice and Sing', often known as the Black national anthem, at the Super Bowl in New Orleans. The performance marks its fifth appearance at the championship since the ...

John Sheeran was only 14 years old when he and another Mass. teen bullied a Black kid to the point of near death. The Root previously reported two Cape Cod teens, including Sheeran, threatened to ...

One way to end racism is to choose love. However, to end injustices, we have to name them, and address them with action. The ...

A federal jury on Friday ruled in favor of a former Metro fire captain, awarding him $1.7 million in damages in a free speech ...

A memorial for George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died in police custody last week, filled the Huber Park stage in Shakopee June 1. It was small, but it carried weight. As onlookers walked or ...

I have been mulling over the article by Ben Carter, “Mindset needs to shift for real change to occur” (June 4) and the letter by Roxanne Muchko, “This is not about other people” (June 11), ...

A series of resurfaced tweets showed Oscar-nominee Karla Sofia Gascón making offensive comments about George Floyd.

Some of America's biggest businesses have been scaling back their diversity initiatives, years after pushing for more inclusive policies in the wake of protests against the police killings of George ...

George Floyd's family filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the city of Minneapolis and the four police officers charged in his ...

Avoiding offense with a sports team name isn’t complicated. Why can’t Kansas City do it?

Amazon.com eliminated a reference to "inclusion and diversity" in its annual report filed on Thursday, after telling ...

There has never been a statue of George Floyd at the National Mall in Washington, contrary to a false claim online that a ...