“Hands up, don’t shoot” has become the mantra for local residents in Ferguson, Mo. and those who have come to the St. Louis suburb following the shooting of 18-year-old black man Michael Brown. The ...

Ready for The Root DC’s latest candid peek inside the minds of black men? This week BrotherSpeak, which last asked for its subjects to reflect on the word “fear,” is focusing on an even more intimate ...

“Black men are experts at hiding their fear,” Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) says in this first video in The Root DC’s “BrotherSpeak” series, a project in cooperation with the Maynard Institute for ...

Through the voices of African American men, The Washington Post unpacks the anger expressed by tens of thousands nationwide in the wake of the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown and Tamir Rice.