culture
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5 Promising Careers to Consider if You Can’t Stand Your Job and Are in the Throes of a Quarter-Life Crisis
You’re opinionated and spoke well as a child, so you figured you’d become a lawyer. But maybe you weren’t interested in either cliché, and loved the glitzy side of corporate America. You envisioned yourself in a three-piece suit or a pencil skirt, at the head of a boardroom, defending a strategy to increase your company’s…
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Married to Medicine: From UFC-Style Brawls to Southern Shade, and How I’ve Come to Love It All
Have you ever wondered to yourself, “I wonder what the life of my proctologist’s wife is like?” Or question whether or not your gynecologist can curse like a sailor and fight like Ronda Rousey? Would you want dating advice from your dentist? Ever curious to know if the doctor who tells you to cut down…
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5 Things I Learned From Our Fall TV Role Models
Ahhhh. Fall is around the corner, and once again, it will be time to organize our lives around our TV programming. “Lol, hun. You know better than to ask me out for drinks after 8 p.m. on a Thursday. You know that time is not yours or mine. That time belongs to Shonda,” will probably…
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Ava DuVernay on Moving Beyond the Black-Film ‘Trend’ and Becoming the Norm
It’s hard out there for a black filmmaker. But it’s also hard out there for an Asian filmmaker. And a Latino movie director. And a female director or screenwriter. It’s hard, period, if you don’t fit the standard mold of white and male in Hollywood. But Selma director Ava DuVernay is determined to change that.…
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Black-ish to Kick Off Season 2 With the N-Word Episode
Last year, ABC’s Black-ish introduced audiences to the lovable Johnson family and became the first sitcom to feature a black family on network television in years. While comparisons have been made to The Cosby Show, Black-ish creator Kenya Barris has consistently highlighted a critical difference between the two shows. “The Cosby Show was about a family that sort of happened to be black…
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12 Moments From The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air That We’ll Never Forget
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’s debut, we decided to take a look back at some of our favorite moments from the show. From Carlton and Will’s run-in with the police to Ashley’s fainting spell in front of her celebrity crush to Aunt Viv’s dance recital, here’s a compilation of clips…
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I Want to Get to Know the Guy I’m Sleeping With Better, but He Only Cares About the Sex
I’m having sex with a man that I would like to get to know better. I’m not trying to rush into anything; I would just like to be a little more knowledgeable about the person who is sexing me. I’ve invited him over when we talk, but he never comes. However, when he wants to…
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Survey: Race Relations Worse Than a Decade Ago
In a year that has seen nationwide protests over the police killings of unarmed African-American men, such as Freddie Gray in Baltimore, and the massacre of nine blacks at a historic black church in South Carolina, a new survey (pdf) shows that most Americans think race relations are worse today than they were just a decade…
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Shonda Rhimes Tops The Root 100 List of Top Influencers
To be black and excellent. But excellent not just in the way they conduct their business. To be black and excellent in their lives, in their careers, in their community. Every year since 2009, The Root has defined black excellence with a list of 100 honorees ages 25 to 45, who, while succeeding across multiple…