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A Wrinkle in Time’s European Premiere Made Us Wonder if Everything’s Better With a British Accent
OK, it’s time to take to a long-overdue trip across the pond, because they clearly know how to throw a better party than we do. Fresh off its strong opening weekend here in the U.S., A Wrinkle in Time took a transatlantic trip for its European premiere in London, and we now officially envy the…
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Can We Be Oprah Book Club-Smart With a Fraction of the Books?
Oprah is the type of anomaly that is an eternal source of inspiration: black, female, plus-size, from humble origins, and a beloved household name and self-made billionaire (three times over, at last estimate). Few of us can even hope to meet Oprah, let alone aspire to reach Oprah levels of success. In fact, most of…
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Dascha Polanco and Dove: Believing in Your Beauty Is Power
You’d never know that Dascha Polanco, star of Netflix’s hit series Orange Is the New Black and, more recently, a recurring character in FX’s miniseries American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace, almost didn’t become an actress because she lacked confidence in her body type. “Growing up,” she tells The Glow Up, “the beauty…
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Not A Wrinkle in Time: Ava DuVernay Proves That #BlackGirlMagic Is Eternal
So here we were, minding our business on an otherwise tepid Tuesday, skimming the Twitter, when we stumbled upon the most adorable—and strangely recognizable—little face on the Toronto International Film Festival’s feed. It was a baby Ava DuVernay, giving #BlackGirlMagic in braids and barrettes, and reminding us that every great person was once just a…
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Red-Carpet Roundup: It’s All Love at the iHeartRadio Awards (With a Healthy Dose of Cardi B)
Working in digital media as a middle-aged person can be challenging. After all, there’s a constant need to know what the kids are into these days, and without kids of my own, it can be tough. Thankfully, we’ve got the annual iHeartRadio Awards to tell us old heads who’s hot and who’s on the come…
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Add Serena Williams to the List of Celeb Beauty Moguls to Throw Your Paycheck At
This is not a drill. The Greatest Tennis Player of All Time (don’t @ me on this until Roger Federer wins a major tourney while pregnant) is gearing up to launch a beauty brand, according to TMZ. In late January, Williams filed to trademark “Aneres” (pat yourself on the back if you caught that that’s…
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Find 100 Ways: Wondering How to Help Women? Broadly Built Us a Whole List
Each year on March 8—including last Thursday—the world celebrates International Women’s Day. The holiday dates back to 1911 and is the origin of Women’s History Month, which we also celebrate in March and which The Root is celebrating in tandem with our sister site Jezebel. But like the all-too-fleeting Black History Month, both International Women’s…
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Lisa Bonet Just Showed Us What We Want Our Summer to Look Like
There are a few women in the world who possess a preternatural mystique: We’re talking women like Nefertiti, Eartha Kitt, Sade, the supermodel Iman and, of course, Lisa Bonet. If you were of TV-watching age in the mid-’80s to early ’90s, chances are Bonet’s Denise Huxtable was either one of of your style icons or…