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When Tweets Come Home to Roost: UK Columnist Fired for Post Correlating Meghan and Harry's Baby and George Floyd
The Sunday Telegraph’s Julie Burchill tweeted the Sussexes should’ve named their daughter ‘Georgina Floydina.’
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Chris Harrison Makes Bachelor-Verse Exit Official After Race-Related Controversy, Exchanging the Final Rose for a Major Payday
The Bachelor franchise’s longtime host and producer reportedly negotiated ‘a mid-range eight-figure payoff.’
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Big Beauty Tuesday: Here Comes the Groom With Mr. Baldwin Style
To celebrate the start of wedding season, The Root has launched “How We Do,” a two-week series centering Black love stories, commitment and nuptial style.
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How We Do: Get on the (Gift) Request Line
To celebrate the start of wedding season, The Root has launched “ How We Do,” a two-week series centering Black love stories, commitment and nuptial style.
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Yeezy's Takeover of Gap Begins With a Tease of Its First Design
The first design in the coveted collaboration drops with a preorder and projections in major cities
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Like a Boss, Tiffany Haddish Is Reportedly Fielding Multimillion-Dollar Offers for Her Next Memoir
Another bestselling memoir from The Last Black Unicorn? She ready! Better yet, she’s ready to get paid for her next tell-all; well before its completion, the follow-up to her 2017 release is reportedly already fetching offers between $2 and $3 million. That’s right, she’s nobody’s fool. From Page Six: Insiders tell us that Haddish, 41,…
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Ellie Kemper Responds to Backlash Over Debutante Past in Historically Racist Ball: 'I Unequivocally Deplore, Denounce, and Reject White Supremacy' [Updated]
The actress came under fire last week for her 1999 association with St. Louis’ controversial Veiled Prophet Ball.
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How We Do: Panama and Simona's Very Smart Marriage
To celebrate the start of wedding season, The Root has launched ‘How We Do,’ a two-week series centering Black love stories, commitment and nuptial style.
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She's Arrived! Meghan and Harry Welcome Daughter Lilibet Diana
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have a new little royal to love! People reports that on Friday, the couple’s second child arrived, a daughter they have named Lilibet “Lili” Diana Mountbatten-Windsor. “Lili was born on Friday, June 4 at 11:40 a.m. in the trusted care of the doctors and staff at Santa Barbara Cottage…
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'I Want to Make Readers Think Twice': The Root Presents It's Lit! Does a Double Take With Zakiya Dalila Harris and The Other Black Girl
In the minefield of microaggressions, marginalization and outright racism that can plague the modern office environment, it’s often a relief to see another Black face amid a predominantly white world of cubicles. But as editor-turned-author Zakiya Dalila Harris deftly reminds us in her much-buzzed-about debut, The Other Black Girl: A Novel, all skinfolk ain’t kinfolk.…
