Inside Roots Bookstore & Market on Liberty City’s historic 15th Avenue, sunlight filters through greenery, and mirrors line ...

Ben Ready can’t write about gang membership from firsthand experience. But his new urban adventure novel, “The Nock Abouts,” puts readers on the streets with him to understand some roots and ...

The recently released biography “Burning Down the House” (HarperCollins, 512 pages) from New Yorker contributor Jonathan Gould (“Can’t Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain and America”), takes its name ...

Author Jo Snider documented the plantation's history in her book "Claiming Sunday," shedding light on the lives of nearly 80 enslaved African people whose labor built its wealth.

So, the finding of the shipwreck caused you all to go back to the community and to be like, Elders, you must hold some of this knowledge. Please tell us. RODRIGUEZ BROWN: They start with Miss Elena.

Wendy A. Gaudin, a professor at Xavier University in New Orleans, investigates her family's Creole and mixed race history while also examining Creole history in Louisiana and in postwar California.

Harry Freedman tries to show the impact Bob Dylan's Jewish heritage had on his early career in “Bob Dylan: Jewish Roots, American Soil.” The Associated Press' Andrew DeMillo writes that ...

As soon as Robert Prevost was elevated to pope in May, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the team he works with for PBS's Finding Your Roots began digging into the pope's family history.

One of the most challenging things about any biography of Bob Dylan is piercing the reticence the legendary singer and songwriter has displayed in talking about his roots. In addition to that, ...

Black Thought discusses The Roots' 30-year journey, returning to Ravinia, alien lyricists, and advice for building lasting ...