Bella Morais's posts

It’s a new month, and you know what they say about April—how it brings showers and all that. Well, this week’s…

Performance occurs in a myriad of ways, from spoken and written poetry to taking the stage, to playing a game of…

On April 6, W Magazine’s Volume 2 of the Directors’ Issue hits the stands, offering a trio of covers directed by the…

The music and accompanying videos released this week all have one thing in common: they all follow some form of…

It seems as though authors this week are gearing us up for some sort of fight. Whether it be of the fictional kind…

After a year of ongoing lockdowns and traumatic racial reckonings, many of us have wondered: When will joy be back…

Have you ever listened to a song and been so moved that it played on repeat for days or even weeks? I have, and the…

Here’s my take: books that are about history—fiction or nonfiction—guide us in the decisions we make about setting…

A Slim Aarons-inspired photoshoot had us swooning over Zendaya, John David Washington and reimagined 1950s glamour…

Spring has sprung, and so have a bunch of artists who have been fairly “hush-hush” during the last year. I guess we…

Here’s the thing about new books: They are the catalysts that inspire readers to try, do, and feel new things.…

Spring is just around the corner, so you know what that means––time for a rebirth, a redo, a refresh. And you know…

Thinking about the promising signs of spring? Feeling the annual need to re-up your space and wardrobe? Looking for…

In celebrating women’s history this month, we should be putting special emphasis on the women who pioneered the…

You know that feeling when you pick up a book for the first time and think, “yeah, I’m going to read this in all of…

Here at The Root, we celebrate Black excellence of all kinds—and so much of that excellence is embodied in the ways…

Soul, man it’s what drives music as a whole. As with all things, music adapts to what’s current, already going on.…

Another year, another Black History Month coming to a close. For the past 28 days, The Root has been celebrating…

Black history has been passed down from generation to generation through storytelling. Stories of religion, trauma,…

Close your eyes and think back to when afterparties were a thing and we could all go out dressed to impress, looking…