What are you doing to greet 2026? Our suggestions include fancy parties, all-night dance-a-thons, choose-your-own movie double features and a pasta-making class.
This year marks 40 years since the "The Color Purple" hit theaters. Two writers from "The Root" debate whether you can call the Oscar-nominated picture a "Black film."
Her 1960 essay about the frustrations of educated women prefigured Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique." She later wrote books on John Quincy Adams and others.