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Are Hair Extensions for Girls a Bit Too Much?
I’ve been following the recent outrage on hair blogs about a mother, who shared a video of her 2-year-old daughter, Kailee, getting crochet twists, a “protective style,” which is more or less the latest euphemism for a weave. That statement is likely to get some backlash, so let me explain it up front. The differences…
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Chris Rock: Forget Jennifer Lawrence; Talk to a Black Actress About Hollywood’s Gender Income Gap
Chris Rock is going to bat for black actresses, and he wants to reiterate, as he has time and time again, that they’re at the bottom of the totem pole when it comes to which groups have it worst in Hollywood. “I’ve never done a movie, any movie, the silliest movie, where someone, some studio…
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Lupita Nyong’o: I’m Using the Little Weight I Have to Get Diverse Stories Told
Lupita Nyong’o says she’s using the clout she has to be a part of the solution to the whole #OscarsSoWhite diversity issue in Hollywood. “I think what we are asking for is really for more stories to be told—for inclusion in the stories that are told,” Nyong’o explained during an interview with the Today show. “And I…
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Watch: L.A. Reid Says Pebbles Didn’t Shortchange TLC; Parent Label Was the Bottleneck
L.A. Reid said something during a recent radio interview that his ex-wife and former TLC manager, Pebbles, has been insinuating for years: that it was LaFace Record’s parent-label companies—Arista and BMG—that caused the money-flow problem for TLC. Not Pebbles. Even when Pebbles insinuated this, as she did during TLC’s Behind the Music special on VH1…
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David Oyelowo Thinks His Next Movie About an African King’s Love Story Is What the World Needs
When was the last time you saw a movie about an African king that didn’t focus on corruption or war but instead featured a love story that supposedly “changed the world”? That’s the reason British-Nigerian actor David Oyelowo is excited about his leading role in the upcoming movie A United Kingdom. He opened up about…
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Beyoncé Is Taking Her Career to Greater Heights With a Few New Hires and Dismissals
Change is an integral part of every organization’s growth. Especially if you’re running the Beyoncé empire. According to Page Six, Queen Bey made huge personnel changes at Parkwood Entertainment—her managerial and production hub that oversees all of her projects, tours, albums, artist management, endorsements and film endeavors. She hired a corporate bigwig, Steve Pamon, who…
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Watch: Alicia Keys Uses Valentine’s Day to Woo the Speaker of the House Into Action Over Justice Reform
They say love conquers all, even drives out hate. But can it change a politician’s mind about the excessive prison terms that some people are serving for nonviolent crimes? Alicia Keys certainly hopes so. She posted a tongue-in-cheek video asking Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) to be her Valentine. She wants him to…
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We Dated for 2 Years and He Still Wouldn’t Claim Me as His Girlfriend
I was dating this guy for about two years and I wanted to become his girlfriend, but he kept telling me that he wanted to wait until he got a full-time job because he wanted to take care of me, but we were doing boyfriend-girlfriend stuff anyway. I didn’t understand, so I told him I…
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Is My Mom Passing on Straight-Hair Ideals to My Daughter?
Aliya’s turn: Recently, my mom and I wrote about spanking and the choices she made regarding punishments when I was younger. It led to a broader discussion on how we can grow up and bring parenting into the modern era while respecting our parents and the choices they made. Dealing with hair care for a…
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How Spike Lee Inspired This Filmmaker to Do His Own Thing
Editor’s note: This short-film series is a collaboration between The Root and El Rey Network to support, elevate and promote African-American filmmakers throughout Black History Month via on-air, digital and editorial platforms. Filmmakers were contacted and recruited through film festivals and industry partnerships in December, with finalists selected by both El Rey Network and The Root…
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