Johnson Publishing will leave the publishing business behind, having sold Ebony and Jet to Clear View Group, an Austin, Texas firm....

A federal judge ruled Dylann Roof, suspected in the June 2015 shootings in a Charleston, S.C., church in which nine people died, will face a trial by jury....

History was made when four black actors took home the biggest awards of the night. But what’s the takeaway?...

What you can do after a gunman killed 49 people and injured 53 others in the deadliest mass shooting in US history....

The decline in labor force participation rates has been widely documented, but the growing gulf in the work gap between the bottom third and the rest of the population is truly striking...

The shooter, identified by police as 29-year-old Omar Mateen, called 911 before the attack and professed allegiance to the Islamic State group, authorities say....

Why Denzel Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Vin Diesel and more are celebrating the new book....

“I don’t think there’s ever been someone so qualified to hold this office,” the president said in an endorsement video released Thursday....

2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is now the presumtive nominee for her party, according to the AP, which will make her the first woman to be a major party’s top pick....

A wide and growing optimism gap has opened between poor and middle-class whites and their counterparts of other races—and the former are the congenital pessimists....

Muhammad Ali, the silver-tongued boxer and civil rights champion who famously proclaimed himself “The Greatest” and then spent a lifetime living up to the billing, is dead....

Jasmine Richards was found guilty of attempting to unlawfully remove a suspect from police custody during a protest....

“Black Lives Matter, this is what we’ve been waiting for,” Davis said to Steinem....

A new government ban in Ghana shines a light on the seriously dangerous side effects....

Black Twitter came through with a treasure trove of essential writing on slavery....

Two people were injured in a shooting at UCLA on Wednesday morning, according to a university spokesperson....

“Always remember, a struggle is not easy – that is why it is called a ‘struggle’ rather than a ‘picnic.’”...

Police allege a resident shot the 23-year-old guard after he broke into his apartment....

Black women are the fastest-growing population across all branches of the armed forces, so why won’t politicians talk to them?...

In 2007, Kevin Morton Jr. was shot in the abdomen after a botched robbery attempt. Nine years later, he is set to begin his residency at Detroit’s St. John Hospital, where doctors helped save...

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....