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Watch: Take a Page From Toya Wright's Book
TV personality and New York Times best-selling author Toya Wright wants to introduce you to “Toya.” And her memoir, In My Own Words, does just that. Be clear: The independently published book isn’t about “Toya Wright,” the reality-TV star, the public figure—it’s about a mother, daughter, sister and a wife. In My Own Words is…
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The Root’s Young Futurists, Where Are They Now: Arielle De Souza
Arielle De Souza is impassioned by the ocean. The 23-year-old fell in love with marine life at the New York Aquarium, but with family from Trinidad and Tobago, she also attributes this passion to her family’s frequent trips to the beach. Her “oneness” with the sea spilled into her academic interests. In May 2016, De Souza received…
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Watch: Brian Tyree Henry Is All About That Paper Boi
Brian Tyree Henry is Atlanta’s Paper Boi. The Morehouse man and Yale Drama alum had his big break on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning play The Book of Mormon. And now he’s in homes across the nation as one of the stars of Donald Glover’s unapologetically black comedy, Atlanta. Henry’s character, Alfred—also known as Paper Boi on the show—is…
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National Association of Black Journalists Projects $1,000,000 Surplus
The National Association of Black Journalists, which projected a 2015 deficit of nearly $380,000, is set to end 2016 with a projected $1 million surplus, the association announced on Sunday. “The unaudited amount represents a half million dollars more than what NABJ reported as the expected 2016 surplus during its national convention in August,” according…
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Watch: Jennifer Holliday's 2nd Coming
Jennifer Holliday is a self-proclaimed Broadway baby—and once a Broadway baby, always a Broadway baby. The legendary actress started her career decades ago in Your Arms Too Short to Box With God but won the world over in Dreamgirls as Effie White—for which Holliday won a Tony Award. The iconic play ran on Broadway 35…
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The Central Park Five’s Yusef Salaam: ‘I Am Overwhelmed With a Nagging Fear’
“For 27 years, I’ve been in Donald Trump’s crosshairs,” Yusef Salaam wrote Wednesday for the Washington Post. “I’m a member of the Central Park Five (video), a group of teenagers imprisoned for a brutal sexual assault in Central Park in 1989. When we were arrested, the police deprived us of food, drink or sleep for…
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The Root’s Young Futurists, Where Are They Now: Nicholas Cobb
Nicholas Cobb is a young man driven to serve others. The budding philanthropist started Comfort and Joy, a nonprofit that raises money to buy jackets for the homeless in North Texas. A computer science wiz, Cobb, even built the Comfort and Joy website by himself. Now the 20-year-old altruist is enrolled at the University of Texas at…
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Born Into This: Romeo Miller on Failure, Success and Entrepreneurship
Believe it or not, Romeo Miller’s first job as a child was selling yo-yos and Pokémon trading cards. Yep, the actor-rapper-producer formerly known as Lil’ Romeo (who is also a child of hip-hop royalty) had a lil’ hustle growing up. Go figure. Now, decades later, Miller is at the helm of a hip-hop empire and…
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Calling Out Donald Trump’s ‘Thug-ocracy’
For an hour after Sunday’s Hillary Clinton-Donald Trump debate, cable news commentators critiqued the performances of the key players in an event in which the tawdry subject matter represented a new low in recent American politics. The pundits analyzed which statements appealed to which base and, by and large dispassionately, whose style was more fitting—until…
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Ben Carson: Trump’s Lewd Tape a Progressive Conspiracy
Dr. Ben Carson, who with boxing promoter Don King and Theresa “Omarosa” Manigault is vying for the title of Donald J. Trump’s most conspicuous African American supporter, wrote Saturday that the release of lewd comments by Trump is part of a conspiracy by progressives. The surgeon and former GOP presidential primary contender said he believes…