Tapping Into Your “Why?”: A Blueprint For Better Black Entrepreneurship | The Root Institute 2023
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The Root Institute 2021: Black Women, Are We Thriving or Simply Surviving the Workplace?
Black women are among the most educated demographics but remain among the most vulnerable in the workplace. How do we translate our dynamism to power at work?
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The Root Institute 2021: A Fireside Chat With LaChanze
Vanessa De Luca talks to the Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress about her latest stage project, Trouble In Mind, and why Broadway needs more diversity.
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The Root Institute 2021: A Fireside Chat With Yara Shahidi
We sat down with the grown-ish star to discuss her career journey and how she balances her art with activism.
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The Root Institute 2021: Storytelling Is a Revolutionary Act
The Root's Michael Harriot and Monique Judge do a deep dive into storytelling and how it can impact change more than ever.
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The Root Institute 2021: Media Coverage and the Black Community
In this roundtable discussion, April Reign, Errin Haines and Angela Rye break down the ways media portrays our community and how we can make it better
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The Root Institute 2021: Does a New ‘Black Renaissance’ Mean We Can Be Critical of Our Art?
2020 MacArthur Fellow Tressie McMillan Cottom on the white and Black gaze, the necessity of critique and the dangers of indiscriminate adulation.
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The Root Institute 2021: Tarana Burke’s New Memoir Unbound Retraces the Birth of a Movement
The founder and leader of the Me Too movement retraces her steps in a deeply vulnerable and moving memoir under Oprah's imprint.
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The Root Institute 2021: Defund, Abolish or Reform? What to Do About Police and Prisons
Brittany Packnett Cunningham and Monifa Bandele join Michael Harriot to discuss the controversial opinions surrounding this thought-provoking issue.
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The Root Institute 2021: A Master Class in Grassroots Organizing
Trailblazing change agents LaTosha Brown, Melanie Campbell and Glynda Carr school us on how to build momentum and turn imagination into action.
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The Root Institute 2021: Unpacking the Attacks on Critical Race Theory
Michael Harriot sat down with noted scholar and Crunk Feminist Collective co-founder Brittney Cooper to dispel some myths about CRT.
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