creativity
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Massachusetts White Supremacist Charged With Hate Crimes, Accused of Distributing ‘Healthy White Living’ Propaganda
On the bright side, maybe it's a positive sign that white supremacist groups are so desperate for new members that they need to go through this to recruit.
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The Glow Up 50 2021: Celebrating Our Pioneers of Style
Black creativity is not and never has been a trend—though we have certainly launched more trends than we could possibly count, or have ever rightfully been credited for. Accordingly, in March 2020 we launched The Glow Up 50 to celebrate our own—the tastemakers, trendsetters and boundless creators who elevate our organic aesthetic on a global…
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Need a Creative Spark? The Cast and Crew of Pixar's Soul Got You, Boo
This year has done a number on us all in various ways. The “spare time” we’ve been afforded during the lockdown has also made more room for extra existential thoughts. Cue Pixar’s first film with a Black lead character, Soul, which explores the possibilities of the meaning of life. The synopsis for Soul, per a…
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TikTok Users Are Showing Off Their Editing Skills During Self-Isolation—and These Videos Make the Cut
If there’s one thing black folks can do well, it’s make a way out of no way. Every day we sink deeper into the stay-at-home-ordered abyss, it feels like we’re trapped. Thankfully, this bizarre era of self-isolation has produced some creative content. Whether it’s the comedians or the dancers, the growing crossover popularity of TikTok…
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There Was but One Creative Gawd Who Smote All Others in 2019. Mr. Billy Porter Is Kuumba Personified
If there’s one thing black folk are, it’s creative. Whether through necessity or just burned into our melanin-ness, we make sumptuous meals from scraps, our bodies defy gravity when we dance; and we have reimagined fashion, hair, sport, ways of looking at the world, and even naming our children in our burnished image (even if…
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Habari Gani?! Kuumba! Robin Thede Embodied Creativity in 2017
This year, for each day of Kwanzaa, The Root is highlighting one person from the community who exemplifies the principle of the day. On the sixth day of Kwanzaa, Dec. 31, the principle is Kuumba, or “creativity.” To practice Kuumba is to do always as much as we can, in the way that we can,…
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Jeremih's Song "Oui" Bothers The Shit Out Of Me.
I’m not a fan of Jeremih. I’m also not not a fan of Jeremih. In fact, Jeremih exists in a space where I typically forget he exists until one of his songs pops up on a Sirius station I listen to and I read the info and I’m like, “Wow, he’s still around, eh? Well,…