ROSEVILLE – This Black History Month, we'd like to bring you a story that impacts African American women in this country. We're talking about high levels of mortality rates in maternity wards. African ...

The valedictorian and salutatorian of a New York high school are a pair of ambitious Black twin sisters. Last week, fraternal twins Gloria and Victoria Guerrier claimed the top two spots in West ...

This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, part of ...

In their eighth-grade social studies class at Sacajawea Middle School, twins Emzayia and Zyeshauwne Feazell couldn't believe what was happening. Their teacher said the class was going to do a "fun ...

*Last week, Alaska Airlines announced its recruitment of a new pilot who has an identical twin. At that time, the airline was unaware of who the other twin was. Once the truth came out, the airline ...