Nia-Malika Henderson, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Wesley Lowery Make The Root's 100 Black Influencers List

While Queen B is the queen bee of The Root 100, the publication’s annual list of black influencers between the ages of 25 to 45 includes media world names like The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates (No. 12), CNN senior political reporter Nia-Malika Henderson (No. 22) and Washington Post national reporter Wesley Lowery (No. 39). Luke Lawal Jr., founder of HBCU Buzz, a news site covering America’s historically black colleges and universities, also makes it in at No.