This story originally appeared on The Root, our sister site, on Tuesday, April 8. Remember the “Power Rangers”? The massive franchise launched countless sequels and spinoffs, but when it ...

The first Black leader of the U.S. Department of Labor, former Secretary Alexis Herman, has died at the age of 77. Former President Bill Clinton nominated Herman to the role, which she held from ...

cast a Black actor in the role of the black Power Ranger and an Asian actor as the Yellow Ranger. The decision was widely viewed as insensitive and, in a new documentary, Oliver calls it a "mistake." ...

One of the key creative minds behind Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is owning up to a pair of casting choices widely decried as racially insensitive. That's why he says that the series was able to ...

who played the Black and Yellow Power Rangers, respectively, in the kids’ TV show. Oliver reflected on the series in Investigation Discovery’s newest episode of Hollywood Demons, per ...

Civil rights groups, labor organizations and politicians praised Alexis Herman as a "trailblazer" who fought for the rights of women, Black people... The first Black leader of the U.S. Department ...