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  • Fashion Week 2012 Trends: Photos

    Harriette Cole is the author of the book of meditations 108 Stitches: Words We Live By and a contributing editor at The Root. Follow her on Twitter.  Good girls were on the runway wearing simple sleek sheaths, retro shoulders and slim skirts, but somehow the look wasn’t so innocent after all — in a good way. Tracy…

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  • Hot Trends From Fashion Week 2012

    Black and white, leather and fur, prim and edgy — these are some of the trends you will be looking for when fall comes back around. Fashion Week was full of innovative design from a swelling number of designers — so many that it was impossible to see them all. It was also the fabulous…

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  • Fashion Week 2012: Duro Olowu

    Harriette Cole is the author of the book of meditations 108 Stitches: Words We Live By and a contributing editor at The Root. Follow her on Twitter.  London-based fashion designer Duro Olowu, a favorite of first lady Michelle Obama, hosted a pop-up shop in lower Manhattan at Salon 94’s Freeman Alley Gallery that proved to be…

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  • Fashion Week's Message-Driven Kickoff

    The ribbon cutting that signaled the official start of New York’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Wednesday was exciting for those who are still basking in the glow of the Giants’ big Super Bowl win. Giants receiver Victor Cruz (the now-infamous salsa dancer) did the honors. By nightfall, the fashion world was treated to even more flavor.…

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  • Why 'Stick Fly' Is Must-See Theater

    Telling a “black” story that is free of stereotypes can be the most elusive project to undertake. When the story being told reflects the lives of the black elite, the challenges become even more daunting. This is why Stick Fly, at the Cort Theatre on Broadway, is such a hauntingly successful surprise. Well, in a…

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  • The Value of Endings

    I have heard so many horror stories in the past few weeks: stories about folks who have lost their jobs, some because of bad performance, plenty more because of a bad economy. Then there are the stories I’ve been hearing about couples who have parted ways for a bevy of reasons. In many of those…

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  • Life Lessons Courtesy of Elizabeth Edwards

    When you have lived long enough, you realize your mama’s wisdom: that you truly have only one life to live. The question then is, how will you live your life? I ask myself some version of this question out loud at the start of every year. I find myself asking it early this go-round, urged…

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  • The Art of Networking

    I spoke at an event recently before a group of about 100 young people. The group was very engaged. They had assembled to learn from a range of successful professional women, and they were poised to consume all the information being served. Many of the students asked questions afterward. As I was leaving, a young…

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  • Cherishing Thanksgiving Memories

    Thanksgiving is one of my favorite times of the year. I consider this holiday one part family, another part magic in a way. Why? Well, there always seems to be something out of the ordinary — something memorable and at the same time classic — waiting to happen. When I was growing up in Baltimore,…

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  • Child Discipline: It's About the Golden Rule, Not Blackness

    After years of speculation, one of the claims that the late icon Michael Jackson made about his family was confirmed. Katherine Jackson, the Jackson-family matriarch, told her estranged husband, Joe Jackson, that he may as well tell the truth: that like most black families — back in the day, anyway — of course he beat…

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