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The Root's 2025 Ultimate Black Father's Day Gift Guide

The Root’s 2025 Ultimate Black Father’s Day Gift Guide

Show your dad just how much you care with these great gifts.
A Look Inside David Ortiz's Former $11.5M Miami Mega-Mansion Now Up For Grabs!

A Look Inside David Ortiz’s Former $11.5M Miami Mega-Mansion Now Up For Grabs!

The Red Sox legend's old stomping grounds can now be yours for the right price. Let's take a look at all the home has to offer!
Red Carpet Looks At The 2025 BET

Red Carpet Looks At The 2025 BET

From T.I. to Chante Moore, our favorite celebrities did not disappoint with their black tie looks.
TikTok Blasts Vogue Magazine for Allegedly Lightening Teyana Taylor's Skin— <i>With</i> Receipts

TikTok Blasts Vogue Magazine for Allegedly Lightening Teyana Taylor’s Skin— With Receipts

A newly resurfaced video has fans questioning why Taylor looks so different in the iconic magazine's social posts.
  • A Tale of Lost Edges: Don’t Try This at Home

    Girl. Today in “What is you doin’?” news: Popular beauty blogger Gigi Beauty shared a very personal—and teachable—moment with her fan base, ending with a very big reveal: Girl. Through nervous laughter, Gigi explained that a beauty experiment (read: bad idea) had compelled her to relax her hair not once, but twice. In one day.…

  • 24-Karat Magic: Issa Rae Has Us Wanting to Get Gilded

    Yeah … she cute. Issa Rae stole our hearts once again Monday with her Insecure-inspired CoverGirl ad for its new Melting Pout Metallics line. We love Issa’s signature, self-monologuing humor and this gorgeously shot spot, and will definitely be test-driving her bronzed-lip look. (Issa’s rocking 24 Karat available here.) But alas, these shades are limited…

  • Everything but the Burden: Why We’re Done Getting Mad Over Makeup

    Here we go again: Another day, another blackface makeup tutorial. Cue the moral outrage … and another horrible human goes viral. Today’s transgressor is @notcatart, a Russian-speaking makeup hacker who claims to “love skin of all colors”—which likely inspired this idiocy, after he apparently ran out of other looks and cultures to imitate. Of course,…

  • Winged Victory: The Victoria’s Secret Runway Got More Colorful This Year … but Is It Enough?

    “I’m rooting for everybody black.” Issa Rae’s now-famous quote from the 2017 Emmys is the gift that keeps on giving. Case in point: Now, in the season of giving, it was the exact phrase that came to my mind while watching the 2017 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, which aired last night on CBS. This year’s…

  • Welcome to The Glow Up! 

    What’s up, gorgeous?! If we haven’t yet met, I’m Veronica Webb, a woman with 30 years of experience in the fashion industry under my proverbial Gucci belt. I’m proud to be known as one of the original supermodels to rule the runway and slay magazine covers, and as the first black model in history to…