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 ...

Twin sisters Gianna and Tianna Tout-Puissant, 17 years old and from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, have both been accepted at Harvard University, where they will play basketball and pursue careers as ...

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 ...

Apparently, in some places, not speaking to others gets you placed in a psychiatric hospital. Producer and “Black Panther” star, Letitia Wright, works beside Polish director, Agnieszka Smoczynska, in ...

Black twins buy Woodland Plantation, site of largest U.S. uprising of enslaved people Twin sisters bought back a former slave plantation to preserve and protect the history of their enslaved ancestors ...

*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 ...