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The Black Women of New Orleans Have Spoken: The Root’s Young, Fabulous and Female Event Slays
New Orleans is the perfect city to serve as the location for The Root’s latest Young, Fabulous and Female event. NOLA is so richly marinated in black culture and history, it’s hard to ignore it. It croons sultry jazz and stands tall in unbreakable resilience. And the professional women who reside there? Well, they exhibit…
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Watch: In Focus With Director Steven Caple Jr., Who’s Set to Write HBO’s Emmett Till Miniseries
Editor’s note: In Focus is a video series showcasing the new wave of black filmmakers. Steven Caple Jr. is the writer and director of The Land, a coming-of-age tale set in Cleveland that tells the stories of four teens who aspire to be professional skateboarders. It is Caple’s first feature and stars The Wire’s Michael…
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Some Journalists Feel Trump Ban Personally
Mohammed Al-Rawi’s passion for computers carried him through the war in Iraq all the way to the shores of California,” Marjorie Miller wrote in 2010 for a Fourth of July story in the Los Angeles Times.“His fluency in Windows and in English landed him a job with journalists, put him in the path of multiple…
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Today Hour 3: Kelly in; Roker, Hall Out
NBC intends to launch a new daytime show featuring former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, displacing black journalists Tamron Hall and Al Roker from the third hour of the “Today” show, according to reports Friday .Hall’s contract expires in February. That the contract of fellow black journalist Joy Reid, host of the weekend “AM Joy”…
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BET.com Traffic Dwarfs All Competitors
Editor’s note: The percentages below comparing increases or decreases from 2015 to 2016 actually compare only December 2015 with December 2016. The correct full-year-to-full-year percentage changes will appear in the next column. BET.com registered a 90 percent increase in average monthly unique visitors in 2016, according to the comScore, Inc., research company, making it the…
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The Root Brings Young, Fabulous and Female to New Orleans!
It’s no coincidence that The Root is throwing a party with a purpose on the first day of Black History Month in one of America’s cities that is richest in black culture—New Orleans. It’s a city so bold, it doesn’t need its state attached to it. NOLA’s history is saturated in blackness—from Tremé to Congo…
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Trump Team’s Lies Ignite Firestorm
After a weekend of unprecedented criticism of the newly inaugurated President Donald J. Trump and his new press secretary Sean Spicer for their equally unprecedented string of falsehoods and hectoring of the news media, Spicer told reporters on Monday that the White House’s intention is never to lie. It was a conversation in which the…
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Watch: New App Lets Men Shop Like a Boss and Make the World a Better Place
Isaac Ewell believes looking good shouldn’t cost you a fortune. Ewell, a Morehouse and Harvard grad, left a lucrative job in education to lead a burgeoning startup company, Onehunted. This Philadelphia-based tech-lifestyle brand offers events and experiences, encouraging men to be their authentic selves, or “one hundred.” Get it? And as the co-founder and CEO…
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Watch: The Root Staff Tries Ms. Robbie’s Soul Food
By now you may have noticed that The Root staff likes a plate of good food and we offer the sharp opinions—hence the premise of our new video series, The Root Eats. Genius. In the past we were appalled by $66 collard greens (that had the nerve to be nasty), pitted fruitcakes against one another…
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What Black Networks Missed by Not Showing the Inauguration
Black Entertainment Television and TV One, the major African American-oriented networks, provided a much-needed service on Election Day by providing a sympathetic outlet for their stunned viewers to process Donald Trump’s presidential victory. But on Inauguration Day, both took a pass. They blew it. “Our viewers are far more emotionally moved by the exit of…