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Meghan, Harry and the Queen of All Media: What Should We Expect From Oprah's Exclusive Interview?
A duke and a duchess are about to have a sit-down with a queen—to discuss, among other things, their departure from the royal family and concerns about outside interference on their growing family. No, it’s not another “Sandringham Summit.” It’s Oprah With Meghan and Harry: A CBS Primetime Special, airing this upcoming Sunday, March 7,…
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Nine-Time World Champion Claressa Shields Is Fighting for More Than Just Boxing Titles–She's Fighting for Gender Equality, Too
Don’t get it twisted: Claressa Shields has been knocking people out for a long time. From being propelled into the boxing world as a bright-eyed 11-year-old, to a decorated amateur career that made her the first American boxer—that includes men, too—to win consecutive medals at the Olympics (they were gold, by the way), to her…
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Glamour Optional: In a Very Unbecoming Year, Black Celebs Gave the Golden Globes Some Style
If you’ve ever wondered what it might be like to have Al Pacino on your biweekly Zoom meeting, you likely found out Sunday night. In addition to all the woker-than-thou snide remarks about the all-white Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the 78th Annual Golden Globes, were, in a word, awkward. While we’ve all become well-accustomed to…
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What's Good? Black History Month Collabs That Will Make a Difference Well Past February
“You good?” read the motif on one of the designs in Target’s Black History Month 2021 assortment, a now-annual rollout featuring collaborations with Black makers—and one arguably ahead of the curve of last year’s so-called “racial reckoning.” In the wake of the current racial justice movement, which was tragically reinvigorated in May on 2020, followed…
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The W Stands for 'Why': What Is Going on With This Shoot for W Magazine—and What's With the Trees?
“Defund W Magazine!” exclaimed The Root’s contributing entertainment writer Shanelle Genai on Thursday, after seeing the most recent images released from W’s annual “Best Performances” issue—which we should note is a bevy of Black excellence. In truth, we’ve been clowning the cover story for days, a side-eye turned full-on facepalm as more images emerged featuring…
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Thasunda Brown Duckett Will Be the Next CEO of TIAA, Making Her 1 of 2 Black Women to Lead a Fortune 500 Company
January brought big news to the business world, as Starbucks COO Roz Brewer was named the new CEO of the Walgreens Boots Alliance, making her the only Black woman to currently helm a company in the Fortune 500 (and only the third, after former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns and Ursula Burns and Bed Bath &…