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Black excellence >Apollo Theater in Harlem on Tuesday evening for the annual Root 100 Gala. It was an evening >Root 100 honorees, a ranking of the most impactful Black Americans for the 14th year in a row.

Comedian Roy Wood Jr. and The Root’s Editor-in-Chief, Tatsha Robertson, hosted the event, which honored changemakers in the fields of “social justice, entertainment, entrepreneurship, media, sports, STEM and the arts.”

“We have a job of chronicling the Black experience. We are the ear of Black America,” said  Robertson. 

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