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The Root Presents: It’s Lit! Revisits In Search of The Color Purple
Nearly 40 years after Alice Walker’s seminal work sparked controversy, we revisit our conversation about the pivotal novel with scholar Salamishah Tillet.
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Megan Thee Stallion Wants You to Wear White After Labor Day
The platinum-selling artist goes platinum blonde as alter ego ‘Tina Snow’ for the September/October cover of Essence magazine.
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Ivy Park Comes for the Children’s Market—With Cameos From the Carter Kids
The Bey-Yee-Haw Agenda continues as Blue, Sir and Rumi all appear in the first campaign for Ivy Park Rodeo Kids.
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BRB, I’m About to Go Live Vicariously Through the Women Who Will Be Making $10K a Month to Work in Wine
Murphy-Goode Winery’s ‘A Really Goode Job’ contest reportedly started as a stunt. 7,000 entries later, two women have wine lovers buzzing about the opportunity.
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Watch: How Gwen Jimmere Made a Naturalicious a Mud-Based Movement
The beauty entrepreneur has taken an unconventional approach to hair and skincare by convincing a cult following to play in the mud.
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How Beyzaar: Beyoncé Covers the 2021 Harper’s Bazaar Icons Issue
Ahead of her 40th birthday, the icon grants a rare and retrospective interview for Bazaar’s September issue.
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What Should a Woman Smell Like? According to Rihanna, ‘However TF They Want to Feel’
As Rih’s first fragrance for Fenty hits shelves, the ever-provocative star claps back at gender norms.
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Cuomo’s Sexual Harassment Allegations Cause Turmoil for Leadership of Time’s Up and the Human Rights Campaign [Updated]
Board co-chair Roberta Kaplan steps down after advising Cuomo’s staff; HRC President Alphonso David now under internal investigation for similar involvement.
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Barbie Released a Line Celebrating Global COVID-19 Heroes—but We Feel Like Someone’s Missing
The line of six one-of-a-kind dolls honors women working in all aspects of the fight against the coronavirus, but Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett wasn’t among them.
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Saddle Up, Because Beyoncé Is Taking Ivy Park to the Rodeo
Bey’s next drop for Ivy Park x Adidas brings the Texas native back to her roots with a sartorial take on the ‘Yee-Haw Agenda.’
