The Root spoke to Andre Gaines, the director, and Stanley Nelson, one of the executive producers, about the making…

This film tells the overlooked story of the second wave of Black baseball players after Jackie Robinson that helped…

NFL players get suspended all the time, nobody bats an eye

Slugger reaches milestone on a single in front of home fans

A Tribe Called Quest, The Four Tops, WNYC 9/11 broadcast among other recordings added to the National Registry.

Who will get to 3,000 hits, 200 wins and 2,000 Ks (the bad kind)?

You have to go outside of sports to find anything that even resembles the past 20-plus years of tennis

7 Super Bowls puts TB12 in company with Bill Russell, Yogi Berra, Henri Richard

Here’s what these places should be called instead of that branded nonsense

He can still catch Gretzky’s scoring record, handicaps be damned

It’s time to rectify leaving the Human Highlight Reel off the list of the 50 greatest NBA players

Really want to see long-suffering manager get a ring as skipper... just not his players

A certain previously sinister phrase is creeping back into the public sphere... and sports

Numbers alone make compelling case for Padre as one of the best young players ever

James switches back to his old No. 6, ditching No. 23 for the Lakers

Albert Pujols’ lifetime numbers are utterly staggering. He has 667 home runs, that’s more than Willie Mays. 3,253…

From the time Colin Kaepernick first sat, and later kneeled, during the National Anthem to when George Floyd’s…

At first glance, Forrest Hill Academy might look like just about every other high school in Atlanta. That is, until…

The fallout from Georgia’s new voter suppression laws and the Major Baseball League’s decision to pull the All-Star…