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Thanksgiving Dishes, Ranked
Cranberry sauce is better out of the can, which means that people who like homemade cranberry sauce are bougie or just want to show off. I know turkey is the headliner of the Thanksgiving meal, but it’s highly overrated. The difference between a great turkey and a terrible turkey can be overcome with a little…
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The Survival Guide to Black Thanksgiving
Although I am known mostly for my groundbreaking research in wypipology and cookout studies, my family background has given me extensive experience in Thanksgiving-related arts and sciences. Seriously. Because I was raised in a family of women who love to cook and are saved, sanctified and filled with the Holy Ghost, we never had family…
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How Do You Cook a Thanksgiving Turkey?
It’s two days before Thanksgiving, and today my sister called to ask me if I know how to cook a turkey. I don’t, and neither does she, but we are going to struggle through it together this week because by some dumb stroke of luck we have ended up with two of them. Yep. I…
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Happy 'Transgiving': Pose Actress Angelica Ross Sheds Light on the Holiday
Pose actress and activist Angelica Ross definitely understands the importance of community during the holiday season.When she received an invite to attend the third annual Transgiving Holiday Festival hosted by The G.H.O.S.T. Project, she told The Root, “It’s so important to have events like Transgiving where we get our flowers while we’re living.”And according to…
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Pose Sweeps the Out100—and Adds Some Major Melanin to the List
Last week, Out Magazine announced the Out100, their annual list of influential movers and shakers, and this melanin-filled list showed that black people have always been part of what makes the LGBT+ community shine. In a statement, Executive Editor R. Kurt Osenlund said that this is the most diverse Out100 in the 24-year history of…
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Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen on What Has Changed Since the Civil Rights Movement and Jim Crow
In the new film Green Book, Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen play a black musical genius and the hard-nosed Italian he hires to drive him through the Jim Crow south on a concert tour. The Root recently sat down with both actors to get their take on the ways in which not much has changed…
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‘Lullabies to Lies’: The Release Date of Samantha Markle’s Tell-All Coincides With Meghan’s Due Date
If this doesn’t make you more thankful for your family this Thanksgiving, I extend my sincerest condolences. Apparently, the Markle family hasn’t gotten the memo that Her Royal Highness Meghan is living her best life and ain’t goin’ back and forth with them anymore—or maybe they have, since at least one member is still making…
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Condoleezza Rice Might Finally Save the Cleveland Browns from Themselves as Their Next Head Coach
“If Donald Trump can be president, why can’t Condoleezza Rice be an NFL coach?” That question and others are apparently circling around the Cleveland Browns offices as ESPN reports that the former Secretary of State is in their crosshairs as their potential next head coach. While the NFL currently has three female assistant coaches, Rice…
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Mr. Big, Therapy and Creating Closure for Myself After a Toxic Relationship
You probably were not expecting another chapter in the saga of Mr. Big and, quite frankly, neither was I. That relationship ended on a less than cordial note, and I had put it behind me and begun focusing on working my own shit out. I tend to do that after intense situations. I always want…
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I Got to See Michelle Obama at Her Becoming LA Tour Stop and She Is as Magical as You’d Imagine
Last night, I was part of the sold-out crowd that gathered at the Forum in Inglewood, Calif., to see the only first lady I will recognize—Michelle Obama—at her Los Angeles tour stop for her new book, Becoming: An Intimate Conversation With Michelle Obama. The Forum was packed. There was not an empty seat in the…