Gabby Douglas is aiming to be the rare woman gymnast to compete in multiple Olympics....

Dr. Rob Gore, a clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine at New York City’s SUNY Downstate-Kings County Hospital, spoke to The Root about the Kings Against Violence Initiative, a school-, community- and hospital-based program...

Publisher Conde Nast hires its second black EIC after more than a century in business....

Serah Luka, who was among the more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped two years ago in Chibok, Nigeria, by the terrorist group Boko Haram, has been rescued days after another of the schoolgirls was saved,...

Two of the most rare and iconic documents of American history will soon be auctioned....

Symone Marshall’s sisters say police refused to get her proper medical care after a severe car accident....

Just Like Me! is the subscription box every black parent needs....

For many former convicts, punishment extends far beyond the time they spent in prison....

The three scholars, one of them white, each graduated with a 4.0 GPA....

The winning numbers came to Pearlie Smith in a dream, her daughter says....

ColorComm is making sure these professional women are seen, heard and connected with each other....

Top central bank officials are disproportionately white, male and from the finance or business sectors....

Jones, who had been ill for 10 days, died at a public housing facility for seniors in Brooklyn, N.Y., where she had lived for the last 30 years....

The 16 female, African-American cadets who appeared in a photograph with raised fists in uniform will not be punished for their controversial “Old Corps Photo.”...

But Josh Williams vows to continue fighting for social justice during his eight-year term....

The death rate from asthma is three times higher for blacks than for whites....