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Founder of SheaMoisture, Richelieu Dennis, Acquires Essence From Time Inc.
Essence Communications Inc., the 48-year-old mutliplatform brand that owns Essence magazine and the annual Essence Festival, has gone back to black (ownership), having been acquired by Essence Ventures LLC, an independent African-American-owned company, Essence Ventures announced in a press release. As reported earlier by Journal-isms for The Root, the Essence brand was not part of…
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North Carolina Woman Who Began College at 12 Receives Doctorate at 23
Julia Nepper was just 12 years old when she began attending community college in Wilmington, N.C. The precocious and gifted young lady had been homeschooled for the previous four years because her parents realized that she was not being challenged in the traditional classroom. Nepper went on to receive her bachelor’s degree at 16 and,…
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Anti-Muslim Gun Nut Says She’s Running for Arkansas Governor. Great
Another proud bigot is going to run for national office. Whooppeee. This time it’s 54-year-old Jan Morgan, an Arkansas gun range owner, who announced that she would be running for governor of the state in a video posted to YouTube. Morgan came to dubious fame in 2014 when she said that her Gun Cave Indoor…
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Sen.-Elect Doug Jones Taps Black Man as His Chief of Staff, the Only Democratic Senator to Do So
Sen.-elect Doug Jones (D-Ala.), who clearly owes his slim victory over accused pedophile Roy Moore to the African-American vote, has chosen Capitol Hill veteran Dana Gresham as his chief of staff—the only black chief of staff for a Senate Democrat. And yes, that includes black Democratic Sens. Cory Booker (N.J.) and Kamala Harris (Calif.). Two…
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Maryland Hospital Sued After OB-GYN Found to Be Lying About His Identity for Years
In a case that is giving me serious Catch Me if You Can vibes, more than 100 patients have filed a class action lawsuit against Prince George’s Hospital Center in Cheverly, Md., after federal authorities busted a man who was a practicing OB-GYN there but who had been using false identities for decades. The Washington…
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Habari Gani?! Imani! The Black Women of Alabama Embodied Faith in 2017
Faith. George Michael crooned about it; black people in America somehow maintain it—even if it’s the size of a mustard seed—time and time again. Faith, or Imani, is the last principle of Kwanzaa, the weeklong black cultural holiday started more than half a century ago. This entire week, for each day of Kwanzaa, The Root shone…
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‘Be a Warrior’: Ava DuVernay Drops More Wrinkle in Time Goodness
Director extraordinaire Ava DuVernay dropped yet another tease from her highly anticipated girl-power romp for the 1-8, A Wrinkle in Time, which stars 14-year-old Storm Reid, who made her film debut in 12 Years a Slave. Each and every time we see a cut of this film filled with all the girls of color (and…
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Mariah Carey Came Back to Redeem Herself From Last Year’s New Year’s Eve Disaster
We all know that Mariah Carey had some technical (and movement … and singing) difficulties during her New Year’s Eve performance in New York City’s Times Square last year. Well, bishes—the diva has redeemed herself! Carey performed at the Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2018, and although, as one of The…
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Steve Harvey’s New Year’s Eve Outfit Is the 1st Casualty of Black Twitter for the 1-8
I guess that Trump Plaza photo op got Steve Harvey something besides the ire of black folks and lost viewership. The big-toothed comedian appeared as a host for Fox TV’s New Year’s Eve With Steve Harvey: Live From Times Square in Big Mama’s white coat, a hoodie of sorts to cover his ears, and a…
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Habari Gani?! Kuumba! Robin Thede Embodied Creativity in 2017
This year, for each day of Kwanzaa, The Root is highlighting one person from the community who exemplifies the principle of the day. On the sixth day of Kwanzaa, Dec. 31, the principle is Kuumba, or “creativity.” To practice Kuumba is to do always as much as we can, in the way that we can,…
