It’s Friday. After wading through the emails, tweets and direct messages from The Root’s readers, I noticed a disturbing trend: Some people have assumed that some of our articles have attacked them.

The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: The Top 10 Clapbacks of All Time, Part 1 For the next few weeks, we will select our favorite responses from the nearly 400 emails, tweets, DMs and comments we have ...

You may remember the infamous Clapper...clap on, clap off… Well, now it comes with upgrades! But will it get a round of applause? The instructions are simple -- two ...

Hand clapping is ubiquitous behavior for humans across time and cultures, serving many different purposes: to signify approval with applause, for instance, or to keep time to music. Acousticians often ...