The upgrade of thousands of Smartrider readers to allow for credit card and mobile phone payments was announced in September ...

At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...

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 ...

I remembered this experience vividly as I read Imani Perry’s new book, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My ...

Howard Twilley died at age 81, according to his alma mater, the University of Tulsa. No cause of death was given. Twilley was ...

On Saturday morning, math and Eagles mania collided inside a classroom at St. James School. Atiyah Harmon, an educator since ...

The Feb. 12 talk at Temple Beth Tikvah in Wayne will feature Avi Dresner and Donzaleigh Abernathy, the children of civil rights activists.

Kevin Costner appeared in a mood to party as he he hung out with some famous Philadelphia Eagles fans at a Super Bowl ...

Segregation was an impetus for me. It was my life. It's my lived experience,” said Ninth Circuit Judge Johnnie Rawlinson. “No ...

By Jeff Russo Click here for updates on this story BUFFALO, New York (WKBW) — Dawnavyn James, a doctoral student and researcher at the University at Buffalo, is pioneering efforts to teach Black ...

The mother of a 6-year-old girl whose body was found in the bathtub of their Brooklyn apartment told police she was baptizing her daughter when the child tragically drowned, prosecutors revealed ...