The Root is an English-language online magazine of African American culture launched on January 28, 2008, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Donald E. Graham. The Root is owned by The Washington Post Company through its online subsidiary, The Slate Group.
Famous quotes containing the word root:
“Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies,
I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
Little flower—but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)