Over the weekend, the Belmont Plateau transformed into a two-day cultural celebration as the Roots Picnic returned to Philadelphia for its 18th year. The festival — created by Grammy-winning band the ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Knox County Schools Superintendent Jon Rysewyk wrote the Knox County Board of Education on Tuesday, informing them that KCS was to return "Roots" by Alex Haley to circulation in KCS ...

With third-highest number of books banned, state removes renowned work about slave trade from library shelves A Tennessee school district has banned Roots, the author Alex Haley’s groundbreaking novel ...

IT researchers have discovered a vulnerability in the Linux kernel that attackers can exploit to gain root privileges. The discoverers have named the vulnerability “Copy Fail.” Virtually all Linux ...

Jay-Z is making his grand return to the stage for the first time in nearly a year with a headlining performance alongside the Roots at the Roots Picnic 2026. The rapper, who recently changed the ...

At the juncture where the French Quarter meets Treme, where the ramparts originally separated "back of town" from the rest of the city, is Congo Square, the birthplace of our cultural heritage."It's ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Block is the latest business to announce layoffs, with the operator of payment platforms Square and Cash App opting to cut jobs in favor of ...

Buying large numbers of shares in a company would be expected to drive the price up for other investors, because such purchases imply a commodity in demand. Researchers have now gained their best ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Monty Python’s “Spamalot” is embarking on a quest to hit more than two dozen cities over the next nine months, and Cleveland is the first stop. Based on the cult comedy classic ...

Years ago, no math education was complete without understanding how to compute a square root. Today, you are probably just reaching for a calculator, or if you are writing a program, you’ll probably ...

The Root is officially Black-owned. CNN commentator and former Obama-Biden White House Administration official, Ashley Allison acquired the digital media outlet through her company, Watering Hole ...