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  • Dressed for Success? This Charter School’s Policies Are Humiliating Its Female Students

    As if puberty isn’t humiliating enough, the award-winning Noble Charter Schools network of Chicago was recently accused of instituting what several former teachers call “dehumanizing” policies to monitor their high school students. In addition to boasting high test scores and graduation rates, the schools, which are located in predominantly black and brown neighborhoods, go above…

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  • Azealia Banks Hates Bath Bombs but Clearly Loves Glitter Bombs, and We Have Questions

    Just when we thought Kanye West was going to cause the most confusion this week, Azealia Banks popped up to give us another dose of her special brand of “Huh?” with an “Over/Under” video for Pitchfork as part of the promotional rounds for her new single and bona fide bop, “Anna Wintour.” Banks, who, like…

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  • Ahead of the Curve: Curvsi Wants You to Love Your Closet

    Fun fact: I’m a former eBay addict. Between my late 20s and early 30s, I was an avid shopper and seller on the auction site, scouring it daily for designer deals and vintage gems alike, and garnering a 100 percent rating and any number of useless pieces of clothing in the process. Another fun fact?…

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  • Comic Relief: Wash Day Captures the Radical Self-Love in a Hair-Care Ritual

    When is your “wash day”? Saturday mornings? Sunday afternoons after church? However a black woman wears her hair, the wash-day ritual is one she undoubtedly knows well, with techniques sometimes preserved since childhood, or honed to perfection after starting her natural-hair journey. A group of young female creatives are paying “tribute to the beauty and…

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  • Tribeca Film Festival 2018: Time’s Up Staged a Tribeca Takeover

    Saturday was a day of reckoning at the Tribeca Film Festival as voices from the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements brought their message of survival, empowerment and advocacy from Hollywood to New York City. Oscar-winning actresses Julianne Moore and Lupita Nyong’o, Tony Award winner Cynthia Erivo, actresses Jurnee Smollett-Bell and Ashley Judd, former NFL player Wade…

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  • So … We Went to the ‘Nerd Prom,’ and It Was As Awkward as It Looked

    Sequins and tuxes and smokey eyes made of burnt facts, oh my! On Saturday night, three members of your fearless crew at The Root ventured to Washington, D.C., to attend the “Nerd Prom,” also known as the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Even aside from a surprisingly suspenseful debate on what to wear (a process that…

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  • Tribeca Film Festival 2018: Tribeca’s 5 Most Fashionable Films

    The 2018 Tribeca Film Festival wrapped Sunday after a 12-day flurry of excitement, events, activism and, of course, brand-spanking-new entertainment to look forward to this year. Surprisingly, style was a big theme at Tribeca 2018—and not just on the step-and-repeats. Among the 70-plus premieres this year, there were five fashion-focused documentaries (which, believe it or…

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  • Tribeca Film Festival 2018: A New Film on Blue Note Records Takes Us Beyond the Notes

    A horn riff. A thump of the bass. A tinkle of the keys followed by the “boom-bap” of the drums. These sounds are the hallmarks of legendary jazz label Blue Note Records, which was the first recording showcase of talents like Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk and many more who would go on to…

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  • The Glow Up Anthem of the Week: Janelle Monáe and Pharrell Got the Juice

    We promise, we’re going to stop with the all-Janelle Monáe-everything … just as soon as we listen to Dirty Computer about 200 more times. But seriously: We’ll definitely give you a break next week, but for the second week in a row, the artist occasionally known as Cindi Mayweather has The Glow Up’s hearts—and ears—with…

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  • Tribeca Film Festival 2018: First-Time Feature Filmmaker Nia DaCosta Wins for Little Woods

    There were dozens of incredible films, events, awards and celebrity sightings at the Tribeca Film Festival this week, but here’s one to really watch: On Thursday, writer and director Nia DaCosta took home the Nora Ephron Award at the festival’s juried awards ceremony for her first feature film, Little Woods. Starring Tessa Thompson and Lily…

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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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