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Beyond Fame With Stacie Turner of 'The Real Housewives of D.C.'
Unlike so many other reality stars, Stacie Turner of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of D.C. stays true to the first word in the title of her show. The “diplomatic one” out of her castmates, Turner sat down with Contributing Editor Anji Corley to talk about her Extra-Ordinary documentary, Michelle Obama and the news she discovered…
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Global Africa Project Artists Discuss Their Work
Columbus Circle in midtown Manhattan came to life in vivid African style last week with the grand opening of an even grander art exhibition, “The Global Africa Project,” at the Museum of Arts and Design. Hundreds of artists, art lovers and well-heeled lovers of the African Diaspora ran between raindrops to get a peek at…
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Beyond Fame With Marsha Ambrosius
The term “baller” just got a face-lift from Marsha Ambrosius, the beauty who’s running game in the music industry and burning up the charts with her hit single “Hope He Cheats on You.” Contributing Editor Anji Corley caught up with the singer, formerly of the duo Floetry, backstage at this month’s For Sisters Only concert,…
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The Root Video: Henry Louis Gates and Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson spent 10 years and interviewed more than 1,500 people to write The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, her magnificent opus on the flight of 6 million African Americans from the South to the North and West. Wilkerson has challenged long-standing assumptions that blacks moved simply for economic…