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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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Black Panther Is Finally Here; Before You ‘All Hail the King,’ Here’s Some Background
Let’s face it: This, to quote former Veep Joe Biden, is a big effin’ deal. Black Panther, the motion picture, is by all accounts a watershed event soon to be upon us, starting Thursday night with early screenings. He is the very first mainstream black superhero ever to appear in and receive his own comic…
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Once on This Island’s Opening Night Gives Me Jitters While I Consider Reginald F. Lewis’ Billion-Dollar Deal
OK, first off, in this revival of the 1991 Tony Award-nominated musical Once on This Island, I had no clue that it was Merle Dandrige from Greenleaf playing the death demon, Papa Ge. I’ve watched one-and-a-half entire seasons of the OWN religious drama, and I thought I could pick her out of a lineup, but…
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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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‘Brand’ Trump Takes Another Hit: Trump Name Coming off SoHo Hotel
Don’t you know that you’re toxic? The Washington Post is reporting that the Trump name is coming off one of the best-known hotels in New York City’s lower Manhattan: the Trump SoHo. It will be the third building to lose the eponymous name since the election of President Donald Trump last year. The Trump International…
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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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Tidal X Was an Epic 6-Hour Musical Marathon I Wasn’t Fit Enough to Run
I’m out of shape. It’s a reality. I just recently started working back out again because stairs were looking like obstacles I could not surmount without sounding like Lord Vader when I was through. I can’t run a marathon. I can’t even run the block. And I definitely wasn’t prepared to run the race of…
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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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