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  • Real Table Talk: Tiffany Haddish Turned Jada’s Red Table Into an Inspiration Station

    We can only imagine how incredible it would be to give Tiffany Haddish a seat at our table—or what it’d be like to receive a Valentino bag just for sitting at Jada Pinkett Smith’s table—but we got a taste on the most recent Red Table Talk, when Pinkett Smith hosted her Girls Trip bestie for…

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  • Bona Fide Badass: Serena Williams Covers InStyle’s Badass Women Issue

    Is there anyone more badass than Serena Williams? InStyle magazine doesn’t think so, having chosen Williams to cover its inaugural Badass Women issue. The queen of the power serve serves face in a hat by Eric Javits and a dress by the Row on the cover of the August issue. Inside, Williams discusses motherhood, marriage and…

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  • Behind the Seams: Brea Stinson Uses Couture to Create Culture

    Behind every incredible look a celebrity wears onstage or on-screen is a creative visionary. For instance, if you were lucky enough to catch the final stop of Beyoncé’s 2016 Formation World Tour at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, you’d no doubt remember Queen Bey strutting out in a voluminous gold hooded bubble coat, which…

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  • Greatest American Shero: Tarana Burke Takes on Cannes and the Ad Industry Alongside Gloria Steinem

    #MeToo movement founder Tarana Burke never ceases to amaze, and last week, she amazed the advertising crowd gathered for the 2018 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, appearing alongside fellow feminist icon Gloria Steinem for global marketing organization Interpublic Group’s (IPG) eighth annual Women’s Breakfast. IPG Chairman and CEO announced the event via press release,…

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  • I Like It Like That: Hennessy Carolina and Michelle Diaz Get Glammed Up for Pride

    She may not have a gold album and multiple platinum singles like her big sis, but don’t sleep on Instagram and reality-TV star Hennessy Carolina (and yes, that’s her real name). Like Bey’s sibling Solange before her, Cardi B’s stylish little sister has been making her own distinctive imprint on pop culture, switching up her…

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  • Blakanda and the Beautiful: The Best, the Boldest and the Bad(dest) Looks of the 2018 BET Awards

    “Blakanda” was the theme, and black Hollywood didn’t disappoint at the 2018 BET Awards Sunday night, when black excellence took center stage at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Since several of our Root crew were in attendance, we left it to them to fill you in on all the details about the show, while…

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  • ‘Fash-Lighting’: How Fascists Do Fashion?

    Anyone who says personal style isn’t political is fooling themselves—and anyone who’s ever been discriminated against because of their chosen hairstyle or non-gender-conforming style of dress knows this. From “message tees” to choosing to wear our natural hair to work (or on the red carpet), our appearance is our statement to the world of who…

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  • #ThriveOver35: We Can No Longer Accept the Brief Life Expectancy of Trans Women of Color

    As Ashlee Marie Preston approached her 34th birthday in early June, it was less a celebration than a sobering milestone. Preston is a successful media personality, producer, writer, speaker, civil rights activist, recent political candidate and The Root 100 honoree for 2017. She is also a black transgender woman, fully aware that the average life…

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  • Forever 51: Why Halle Berry’s IG Is All the #Fitspo We Need

    Ma’am. We know black don’t crack, but one of the greatest wonders of the modern world is how Halle Berry actually seems to look better with age. Access to all of the amenities Hollywood has to offer notwithstanding, at 51, the Oscar-winning actress and mother of two (both born after Berry’s 40th birthday) not only…

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  • Melania Trump Doesn’t Care. Do U?

    File this under “I’m not an immigrant but you are”: Deplorable First lady Melania Trump wore a cargo jacket that would better be described as “IDGAF” than “insensitive” during her “surprise” trip to Texas (doubtful, since there were painted signs welcoming her upon arrival) to visit immigrant children heartlessly separated from their parents. The back…

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Maiysha Kai is former managing editor of The Glow Up and host of The Root Presents: It’s Lit!, and your average Grammy-nominated goddess next door. May I borrow some sugar?


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