In the midst of ongoing, global injustice, activist Angela Davis spoke about how Birmingham emboldened her fight for ...

As Angela Davis celebrates her 82nd birthday Monday (Jan. 26), The Root honors the living legacy of the revolutionary, ...

Jeremiah Fears was absolutely livid and had to be walked off the court after he and Lu Dort got into it on Tuesday night. Ben ...

Following Don Lemon's arrest, we look at several Black public figures who were arrested for putting themselves on the line in ...

Angela Davis grew up in segregated Birmingham and became a scholar influenced by Marxism, Black liberation, and global anti-imperialism. As a member of the Communist Party USA and an outspoken ...

MPR’s Angela Davis has returned to the airwaves with the announcement that she is now cancer-free. Davis took a break from “MPR News with Angela Davis” starting in late August 2025, although it wasn’t ...

Sherry “Donnette” Golden Smith, 56, of Signal Mountain, passed away peacefully at her home on Wednesday, January 28, 2026.

On Jan. 26, 2001, a magnitude-7.9 earthquake struck western India, killing more than 20,000 people, injuring tens of ...

Private vs. public: prep classifications The Alabama High School Athletic Association is putting private and public schools ...

In the early hours of the morning on June 1, 2025, Katie Gowell went into labor at her home in Patten, a town on the ...

These are the stories Nia Watkins tells on her TikTok channel, “Arizona, But Make It Black.” It’s her attempt to illustrate ...

Revolutionary freedom fighter Angela Davis has had plenty to say—and write—about Black feminism and prison abolitionism.