Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens explores the history of African American roots music through the stories of forgotten black pioneers. Show more String bands, hoedowns, square dances ...

RIO DE JANEIRO—Growing up in Rocinha, one of Brazil’s biggest slums, Maxwell Alexandre was reluctant to call himself Black. His mother, a Black woman herself, would have none of it.

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When you put some of the most influential Black Americans together at New York ... The men who attended this year’s The Root 100 Gala did not disappoint. Guys showed up in tailored suits ...