TheRoot

Of three Slate spinoff sites launched in the beginning of 2008, two have already folded. Will The Root, a site targeting African-American audiences, succeed where its siblings failed? There's some reason to think it might.

In a 30-year journalism career that ended with an eight-year stint at the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, staff writer Sam Fulwood III crafted the kind of columns and long-form profiles that made his subjects and personalities spring to life on the page.There was only one problem: When Fulwood took a...