brittney cooper
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In Laughing it Up With Trump During the Carter Funeral, Was Obama Playing In Our Faces?
The optics of the two former presidents acting like old friends left a sour taste in our mouths.
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Was It Something I Said?
Each Friday, we clap back at readers' emails, DMs, tweets and messages. We do it because we care.
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The Root Institute 2021: A Special Message From President Joe Biden
On the advent of this year's second annual virtual conference, President Joe Biden offers his remarks and reflections on the power of the Black community
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The Root Brings Our Community’s Activists, Artists and Great Minds Together for The Root Institute 2021
The Root presents, The Root Institute 2021, in partnership with Target.
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‘Let’s Not Play Small’: The Root Presents: It’s Lit! Reignites Our Eloquent Rage With Brittney Cooper
The NYT bestselling author, educator and activist was prescient about our nation's vice president. What else did Dr. Brittney Cooper foresee for America?
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'We Can't Be Afraid to Challenge Our Own People': The Root Presents: It's Lit! Gets Crunk With Brittney Cooper
“There is no Black Freedom Project if you don’t care about Black women.” If there’s one belief upon which “crunk feminist,” author, scholar and educator Brittney Cooper has based her life’s work, it’s this core tenet of Black feminism, as previously maintained by brilliant minds from the Combahee River Collective to 19th-century pioneers like Maria…
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Scholar, Mentor, Pioneer: Remembering Professor Cheryl A. Wall
“What does it mean for a black woman to work in the U.S. academy today?” This is the question longtime Rutgers University professor and author Cheryl A. Wall posed while introducing a panel of black female academics in 2009. It was a question central to Wall’s career and life’s work, as she strove to make…
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Grabbing Feminism by the Mic: This Is How Women in Hip-Hop Are Making a Lane of Their Own
The terms “hip-hop” and “feminism” might seem like oil and water. After all, the culture of misogyny and straight disrespect of women throughout hip-hop culture could lead one to think otherwise. So can a feminist politic exist in a hyper-misogynistic space? The answer: It’s complicated. “Hip-hop feminism” was coined by author and scholar Joan Morgan…
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‘Save Yourself’: Oprah Joins Stacey Abrams, Mae Jemison and More at the 10th Annual Women in the World Summit
“We women people, we are used to saving other folk; we’ve been doing it a very long time,” said Oprah Winfrey, keynote speaker of the 2019 Women in the World Summit on Wednesday night. “And we need to first and foremost honor the sacred time of saving ourselves because that is where our greatest power…