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Legendary Game Show Gets Hip-Hop Edge
Featuring a bevy of household hip-hop names old and new, MTV2 plans to shake things up with its own spin on the classic game show Hollywood Squares. Hip-Hop Squares, which premieres Tuesday, May 22, will feature Nick Cannon, Childish Gambino, Biz Markie, Kreayshawn, Common, Fat Joe and more, all helping out contestants with various trivia…
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Gates Highlights Influential Works in New Book
The Root’s editor-in-chief Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who is also the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University and the director of the university’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, has compiled three decades of cultural, racial and political analyses, opinions, writings and more in his latest compilation The Henry Louis Gates Reader. The newest addition to…
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Explore the World of African Cinema Online
Electronic Media Network, or M-Net, leads the pack of online film services, and its latest creation, the African Film Library, seeks to conquer unchartered territory by offering close to 600 film titles that portray aspects of the Diaspora. Films from a range of different languages, including French, Arabic and Zulu, make up the collection. M-Net…
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Real Mothers, Rare Style: Reader Photos
Submitted by Laurel Sayler: A photo of Laurel Sayler’s mother, Mary Sayler, taken around 1957. “Her style has always been classic, timeless and not too flashy,” Sayler said. Submitted by Ellisha Teapot: A photo of Teapot’s mom, Lenora Davis McKinney Clark, taken around 1952. Submitted by Robert Harcum: Harcum’s mother, Edith L. Harcum, in a high school photo…
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Not Everyone Thinks Obesity Is a Problem
In honor of The Root’s Black, Fit and Healthy Series, we hit the streets to see what people in downtown Washington, D.C., had to say about our community’s weight issue. Despite new research that suggests that there’s no end in sight to America’s obesity epidemic, not everyone thinks it’s such a big problem to solve.…
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Lalla Essaydi's Photos Hit African Art Museum
Moroccan-born artist Lalla Essaydi brings the Arab-African Diaspora to life with the opening of her latest exhibit, “Lalla Essaydi: Revisions,” at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. “Revisions” highlights the intertwining themes of gender, identity and feminism in the African, Muslim and Arab worlds. Derived from Arabic calligraphy, Essaydi evokes the…
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Join Dominique Dawes and The Root on May 12
Join The Root for a festivity-filled day of workshops, fitness clinics and more that educate on healthy living and wellness during our inaugural Black, Fit & Healthy Series Family Day on Saturday, May 12, at the Prince George’s County Sports and Learning Complex in Landover, Md. Addressing health, diet and fitness in the black community,…
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Help Preserve the Apollo Theater
Harlem’s famed Apollo Theater has occupied its space on West 125th Street in New York for almost a century and has hosted a slew of music’s giants, helping launch the careers of James Brown, the Jackson 5, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder and more. The Apollo Theater’s storied history doesn’t reside just on its stage. The…
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Kehinde Wiley Takes on Women in New Portraits
Contemporary painter Kehinde Wiley is set to debut his latest exhibition, “An Economy of Grace,” at New York’s Sean Kelly Gallery on Saturday, May 5. In the painter’s first exhibition featuring female subjects, Wiley uses his urban baroque style to celebrate the beauty of black women, who, he claims, are often marginalized as subjects in…
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Stars' Family Tree Questions Answered
What sobering fact did Rice learn about her grandmother? Click here to find out. What is the origin of the actress’ last name? Click here to find out. Just how far back do this mega-church pastor’s roots go? Click here to find out. The Iron Man star had a hunch that his ancestors came across…
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