Telly Lovelace wants more African-American voters to see the Republican Party as a viable option....

The girls pleaded with the Nigerian government to cooperate with Boko Haram on their release....

Since 2009, Boko Haram has destroyed over 900 schools and forced at least 1,500 to close....

The panel called for major changes in how inmates are screened for medical and mental health conditions....

Charter schools could play a key role in dismantling the nation’s highly segregated schools....

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The curators of Everyday Incarceration talked to The Root about why they started the project and the importance of giving a voice to those most affected by the criminal-justice system....

Will Smith, who was recently released from the Saints, was fatally shot in a tragic case of road rage....

“Allow the time to fit the crime,” says Brown....

The former president admitted his crime bill did some things that “cannot be justified.”...

Al Sanders is ready to sell his vintage comic book collection to help fund his daughter’s college education....

These two Brooklynites met up for the first time and things got real....

With searing honesty, our writer reveals her constant struggle with “the fog” and the mantra she needs to get through each new day....

Roof, the accused shooter in the Charleston, S.C., Emanuel AME Church massacre, faces nine counts of murder in state court, as well as charges of hate crimes and other counts in federal court....

Meanwhile, the university official at the center of the storm apologizes for his disrespectful conduct....

It’s another bump in the road for front-runners Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump....

This is the second year in a row that a student from Long Island’s Elmont Memorial High School achieved this extraordinary feat....