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Can’t stop, won’t stop...making food!
2/15/21 9:30AM
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Like many a child of the Great Migration, all my extended family actually lived nowhere near me. My mother “escaped”…
2/07/21 9:00AM
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I’m one of those people who falls asleep in the salon chair.
1/23/21 10:00AM
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The on-again, off-again, played-out-in-front-of-the-cameras (sometimes) marriage of Brooklyn restaurateur Marc Daly…
1/12/21 2:30PM
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It’s Big Beauty Tuesday here at The Glow Up, and in lieu of our regularly scheduled programming, there’s a glow I…
9/21/20 9:52AM
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With heavy-hitters like Stacey Abrams and Ava DuVernay, The Root Institute was a must-watch online event this past…
8/27/20 5:00PM
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Director Julius Onah had no way of knowing back in 2019 how prescient his adaption of the play Luce would be in…
8/27/20 10:30AM
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As The Root Institute winds down for its final day, we’re happy to present a panel and film that is more relevant…
8/25/20 12:00PM
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When protesters took to the streets in 2020, it was clear—the status quo wouldn’t do. There needed to be a change,…
8/18/20 5:00PM
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For Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) our economic plight is a political issue.
8/18/20 5:00PM
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In 2005, I was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder while staying at UCLA’s medical center in Los Angeles for several…
8/18/20 10:00AM
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It’s week three of The Root Institute, meaning it’s time to talk about the health of our minds and our finances…
8/11/20 5:00PM
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“Art is the foundation of any movement,” is how director Ava DuVernay began our interview as we unpacked the…
8/11/20 1:06PM
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A visionary film director with an activist’s spirit, Ava DuVernay makes art that is rooted in her conscious. From…
8/04/20 6:50PM
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The right to vote is one that has been fought over, died over and challenged again and again, as it was expanded to…
8/04/20 4:34PM
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It’s happening! A gathering of the minds—from politics featuring Stacey Abrams and Ayanna Pressley to entertainment…
7/23/20 9:00AM
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I once threw a party for myself that lasted 10 years.
7/08/20 10:13AM
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A long, dusty time ago I saw an article title that jokingly—but seriously—said: “Oops, I Forgot to Have the Baby.”…
7/01/20 12:30PM
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I have very nice hair. Coveted hair sometimes! Hair that people make a “big deal” about. Once, when my hair was down…