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Fans Think Rihanna is hiding a Baby bump, Peek Inside the House Billy Porter had to Sale, Oprah Wants to Discuss Ozempic and More News for The Culture
A collection of The Root’s best posts of the week for The culture
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Ex-NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Isn’t Divorced, But He’s Doing His Thing in These NYC Streets
The Will and Jada Smith of Politics? Former NYC and his wife have been seen living their best lives since publicly uncoupling and oversharing the details.
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NYC’s De Blasio Accused of Firing White NYPD Brass for Black Replacements
After four white NYPD chiefs were forced to resign, de Blasio was suspected of deliberately filling their positions with people of color.
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A Little Piece of Light: With a New Memoir, Donna Hylton Proves There Is Life After Prison
Dear Kim Kardashian West, My name is Donna Hylton. I am a mother who served 27 years in prison, including years in solitary confinement. I am an author and leader for social justice and an advocate for women and criminal-justice reform. You clearly had a successful meeting with the president at the White House to…
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NYC’s First Lady Is Addressing the Intersection Between Incarcerated Women and Mental Illness
We want people to recognize that [the state of] our jails, our prisons, our emergency rooms—these are the results of untreated mental illness. So said New York City’s first lady, Chirlane McCray, during a recent visit to Chicago, telling her audience that she hopes to “disrupt” the link between mental illness and incarceration. To do…
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NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray Is Disrupting Domestic Violence With a New Initiative
Chirlane McCray, the first lady of New York City, is working to close the gap in support for the majority of domestic violence victims in the city whose abuse goes unreported to law enforcement. On Wednesday McCray, who is also co-chair of the city’s Domestic Violence Task Force and the Commission on Gender Equity, announced…
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We Got the Golden Ticket! Glowing Up at Studio Museum in Harlem’s Spring Luncheon
The Studio Museum in Harlem Spring Luncheon is the hot ticket event of the social season for Manhattan’s most powerful and influential black women. I know it’s spring when the #BlackGirlMagic telegraph starts buzzing in celebration of who’s going, who’s sitting with whom and, of course, what everyone’s wearing. Like Chirlane McCray, New York City’s…
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Chirlane McCray Is Making Mental Health an Open Discussion, and We’re the Better for It
New York City’s first lady, Chirlane McCray, told the audience here at the National Action Network Convention on Wednesday that “we all deal with mental illness, but we don’t talk about it.” People nodded their heads, saying, “That’s right”and “Mmm-hmm,” as she talked about shattering the stigma of discussing mental health publicly. The session was…
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With Sisters Thrive, Chirlane McCray Is Tapping the Power of Black Women to Address the Mental Health Crisis
Chirlane McCray is doing the work. A recent write-up in the New York Times noted that McCray had redefined the role of first lady in the nation’s most populous city, with the paper calling her “likely the most influential, if not consequential” first lady in New York City’s history. McCray’s focus on mental health services…
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NYC’s First Lady Remixes ‘Reclaiming My Time’ as a Mental-Health Anthem
Arguably, the only thing better than Rep. Maxine Waters’ skewering of White House weasel and Treasury Department Secretary Steve Mnuchin was the song it inspired—a gospel spin on Waters’ infamous remarks, performed by Broadway actor Mykal Kilgore, that immediately went viral. It turns out that New York City’s first lady, Chirlane McCray, is also a…