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Toni Morrison would be proud. The Center for Fiction’s Annual Awards Benefit was dedicated to the memory of the…
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If you’ve been trying to decipher the mystery behind writing great fiction, let acclaimed mystery writer Walter…
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Tina Turner is an international treasure. In her 81 years, her incomparable talent and incredible tenacity have…
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Remember zines? Okay, maybe we’re dating ourselves, but younger versions of The Root’s Editor-in-Chief Danielle…
Nov 25
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When it comes to living American presidents, it’s indisputable (and infuriating, if you’re Donald Trump), that…
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Jason Reynolds famously didn’t read a novel cover-to-cover until he was nearly 18. At 36, he is one of the…
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Because he’s been pretty low-key about it, you might not be aware that a promising politician that we’ve been…
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“So, it turns out that we’re better than this, but just barely,” laughs Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings in the days…
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Another Ta-Nehisi Coates adaptation is on the horizon!
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This Black Woman Just Got a New Executive Role in Publishing—Here’s Why That Matters to the Industry
Before “diversity and inclusion” were buzzwords and hashtags, Monique Patterson had been actualizing them in the…
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When we grow up, we want to be like Marley Dias. At 15, the founder of #1000BlackGirlBooks—which she launched in…
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If you’re an avid reader or writer, you might have three bucket-list-style ambitions in life: 1. to have your own…
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“I think I’m relevant past Halloween,” laughs Rachel True, who first broke into our pop-cultural consciousness as…
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When The Root first spoke to George M. Johnson (one of our longtime contributors) just ahead of the release of their…
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It’s the time of year where I try to decipher whether I’d prefer to channel my inner pumpkin or Catwoman. It’s…
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On the social media surface, the country is engaged in a big embrace of Blackness. Companies vowing to hire and…
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Triumph amid tragedy is always bittersweet—a unique type of survivor’s guilt many of us have become all too familiar…
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For Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie fans, it’s been a long seven years since Americanah, her last novel, and winner of the…
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There is the multiverse, and then, there are the multi-versed; award-winning poet, playwright, author, editor, and…