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Never Bring Cicely Tyson Water in a Bottle, and Other Lessons From AT&T’s Humanity of Connection Event
If I am lucky enough to make it to 93, I want to be a fly 93 just like Harlem’s own, the legend, actress Cicely Tyson. One, she dresses impeccably. Two, she’s both wondrous and intimidating. As someone who loves (and still fears) her soon-to-be 90-year-old grandmother, I can only imagine what Tyson is like…
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Harlem Haberdashery’s 5th Annual Masquerade Ball Was ‘a Mood’
I’m back, Antisocialites! After spending most of the winter trying to both not freeze outdoors and not die from the sauna that is my radiator-heated apartment, I have to say, I really didn’t go to any parties. Oh, I went out on the rare occasion, but my social life (and this column about my social…
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So … Will Hollywood Finally Learn This Lesson, or Nah?
When writer-director Jordan Peele won his Best Original Screenplay Oscar for 2017’s biggest hit, Get Out, I cheered. When cast members of 2018’s biggest hit so far, Marvel’s Black Panther, walked the red carpet at the 90th Academy Awards, I swooned. And when I looked out at the sea of (mostly) white people attending the…
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Jezebel + The Root + Women’s History Month = JezeRoot
We shouldn’t need a Women’s History Month. We also shouldn’t need a Black History Month or a Hispanic Heritage Month. Considering the long-standing contributions of women and people of color in our society, it’s both lazy and insulting to shoehorn our national recognition into 31-days-or-less pockets. Instead, we like our history like we like our…
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Fast Company Offers Us Warm Wishes About Our Cold Offices
Breaking news: Our office is cold! And it sucks. But management is on it and they’re trying to fix it. If this sounds like a slow-news-day story to you, it’s not, because Fast Company totally wrote an entire post about some lovable snitches within our blog family at Gizmodo Media Group who spoke about the current…
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The Glow Up With Supermodel Veronica Webb Is on The Root
Beauty is more than what you look like. It’s more than when you’re dressed nice or you bothered to dust on a little foundation. It’s more than when your shoes are both comfy and cute (or wildly impractical but still to die for). It’s more than when your nails are freshly polished, your melanin is…
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SportsBalls and Benefit Galas: I Went to All These Things and Managed Not to Almost Kill Myself (Yet)
There are literally too many things to go to in the fall. During that season in New York City, every charity group, institution, media company and rando (including The Root) throws a ball, gala or fancy party of some kind. Our own shindig, The Root 100, goes down Nov. 9. So October, for me, has…
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Too Sick to Socialize, but I Went to the NY Urban League’s Black & White Champagne Brunch and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Conference in DC Anyway
Three weeks. That is how long I’ve been sick with an unknown virus (the thing doctors tell you when they don’t know what it is but know it won’t kill you). It’s not the flu. It’s not a cold. But it is one thing—a jerk. Just the biggest jerk of a disease ruining my social…
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NaturallyCurly’s ‘Texture on the Runway’ Laid My Edges
I went natural before going natural was cool, back in 2000, 17 years ago, when curly-hair products for black hair were garbage. Armed with some stuff called “CurlUp” (which was clearly made for white hair), a tub of clear hair gel, the only book on natural hair I could find in 2000 and some hot-oil treatments,…
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Harlem’s Fashion Row Celebrates 10 Years While I Contemplate Whether I’m Over- or Underdressed
First off, I didn’t realize check-in was at 7, not 8:30. It was just the beginning of a series of disasters that led to my living out one of my nightmares: showing up late for … anything. I abhor being late. I have recurring nightmares about it, and normally I’m the spy who shows up…