black women
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Unreleased Music From Beyoncé Leaked and Somebody's Probably Getting Fired
It’s no secret that Beyoncé has no respect for our edges, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that she’d release music at some ungodly-ass hour. We learned that when the Beyoncé digital album dropped in 2013, and ever since that faithful night, we’ve all been on the edge of our seats in anticipation for…
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Beyoncé And Jay-Z Headline the 2018 Global Citizen Festival to Honor Nelson Mandela's Legacy
At a respectable hour—2:47 p.m. EST on Sunday, to be exact—Beyoncé and husband Jay-Z’s philanthropy and benevolence blessed the world with a performance during the Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100 at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg. Unlike Beychella, which aired at an ungodly hour, Beyoncé and the father of her children hopped on South Africa’s…
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The Glow Up Grows Up: It’s Our 1st Birthday!
What a difference a year makes! Only 365 days ago, we were celebrating the birth of The Root’s newest baby, a beauty, fashion and women’s empowerment blog coyly titled The Glow Up. A year, one awards season, two Fashion Months (and a Cruise Collection Week) and well over 1,000 posts later, we’re slightly older, hopefully…
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New Research Says Black Women Are More Objectified Than White Women. Old Research Says We Knew That
Fun fact: The very first article I ever wrote for The Root was titled, “5 Signs You’re About to Be Racially Fetishized.” It was early 2016, and I was a model and musician-turned-relationship-blogger dipping my toe into the shark-infested waters of online dating after reaching the milestone age of 40 as a newly single woman.…
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Like Many Black Women, Kim Porter Was Under a Doctor's Care and Still Died. That's Terrifying
To prepare for the expected birth of our second child next month, my wife and I are enrolled in one of those new age birthing classes where the bulk of each two-hour-long session is devoted to language and connotation. (“Don’t say birthing canal. Say birthing stream, because streams are calming.”) I am bored out of…
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Hidden Figures: The Colored Girls of Politics
Whether seen or unseen, black women have always had a hand in the American political system. “For over four decades we four colored girls have been eyewitnesses to American history. History which we helped make,” said Donna Brazile, the former interim chair of the Democratic National Committee. The colored girls—Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Rev. Leah…
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It’s Time to Listen to Black Women. We’ve Been Talking About Police Sexual Violence for a Long Time
“It’s never true that *no one* is talking about a thing. It’s often true that *not enough* people are talking about a thing …,” anti-violence activist Mariame Kaba recently tweeted from her popular @prisonculture account. That is certainly true of sexual violence by police officers, described as something “no one talks about” in a recent…
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In Memoriam: For Colored Girls Who Grew Up on Ntozake Shange
If you were a colored girl lucky enough (or “enuf,” as she might write) to grow up on the words and work of playwright, performer and author Ntozake Shange, learning of her death at age 70 on Saturday no doubt left you aching. One of the original conjurers of what we now know as “black…