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Artist Nick Cave Teaches Me How to ‘Let Go’ at The Let Go
I needed this. That’s what I told myself as I walked into the Park Avenue Armory on Wednesday, June 6, to see the premiere of performance artist Nick Cave’s newest installation: The Let Go. I didn’t really know what to expect. I knew that there would be music and, obviously, dance, considering Cave’s background as…
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Cardi B Is a Real Muva on Her New Rolling Stone Cover With Offset
Rappers are definitely the real rock stars of our era. They work hard, play hard, party hard, trash the occasional hotel room and get into fights. They live and love and make music worth shaking one’s ass to. (Don’t deny the power of “Bickenhead.”) Cardi B and the one-third of Migos known as Offset have…
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Note From the Editor
This Monday, The Root separated from our associate editor, Kirsten West Savali, because of an editorial-standards issue. After the Drug Policy Alliance discovered and brought to our attention a previously undisclosed and improper arrangement, Gizmodo Media Group conducted a thorough investigation and made the difficult decision to terminate her. Because of this, we will be…
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Kendrick Lamar Gets His Pulitzer, but It’s Pulitzer Administrator Dana Canedy Who Is a Prize
There are no acceptance speeches at the Pulitzers. You get your prize. You pose for your photo and you politely exit the stage. Yet there was definitely something different about this year’s award luncheon at Columbia University’s Low Library on Wednesday, where hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar strolled in about 30 or 40 minutes into the…
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Queen Sugar and Ava DuVernay Had the Sweetest Garden Party in NYC
First things first: When it comes to Queen Sugar and director Ava DuVernay, I’m a total fan. I am biased. I am prejudiced. I am not objective at all. I love the show she created, which is beautiful and heartfelt. I love the actors who were cast to star in it, who are charming and…
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4 Hospitalizations, 3 Diagnoses, 2 Scared Parents and 1 Very Sad Woman
Editor’s note: Until recently, mental health and illness were taboo subjects in the black community. But thanks to the efforts of those brave enough to speak on it, that’s changing. In that vein, The Root team is taking this week during Mental Health Awareness Month to write about how mental health has touched our lives.…
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Once Upon Once on This Island With Tamyra Gray
There are probably a few ways to read the wondrous musical Once on This Island, which originally debuted in 1990 and was revived on Broadway in New York City in December 2017. Perhaps it’s a lesson about following your heart against incredible odds. Maybe it’s a tale about the occasional perils of falling in love…
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How Physics Works and Other Things I Learned at All Star Code’s 5th-Anniversary Celebration
So I’m at All Star Code’s fifth-anniversary event at the High Line Hotel in New York City on Wednesday, and one of the program’s students, Alex Reyes, asks me if I know how the video game “Pong” works. I—who haven’t thought about “Pong,” a table tennis simulation game, in eons—realize that I have no clue…
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I Got Goddess Locs and Now I Feel (and Look) Very Regal, but … Boy, Was It a Journey
First things first, I have a lot of hair. It’s a lot even though I cut if off by several inches nearly a year ago after I decided to stop getting blowouts to give my hair a break. It’s just dense, thick hair that does what it wants when it wants and has more than…
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They Said It Was Private. She Said It Was on-the-Record. The Reality? It’s Complicated
In the nine years of BET Networks’ Leading Women Defined summit, Jeanine Liburd, chief marketing and communications officer at BET, had never seen anything like this. A journalist, Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion critic Robin Givhan of the Washington Post, was booted from this conference, a first for the gathering of professional women. These women, about 150…
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