Launching The Glow Up launched my my own glow up at The Root. But with a new year comes new growth.
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After five years at The Root, Michael Harriot says goodbye.
Turkey day is right around the corner--are you ready?
We aren't the only critics to describe Percival Everett's novel The Trees as 'page turning'; James Baldwin's…
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According to a source that is also Tonja, we heard through The Grapevine (heh) that this is the end of an era.
Entering its 2nd year, Unlock Her Potential, the industry heavyweight mentorship platform launched by Sophia Chang,…
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As with most memoirs, when shit starts hitting the fan, family and friends who may have been mentioned often come…
This month makes 10 years from the weekend I drove from Pittsburgh to D.C. for a party to celebrate both the…
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As Kyrie Irving made abundantly clear this weekend, the n-word isn’t for everybody.
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Danielle Belton (The Black Snob, The Root) has been tapped to star in Tyler Perry’s The HuffPostThat Preys, The Root…
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The first time Danielle Belton and I chatted by phone was in 2017. At the time, I was still working in Miami at…
Like most people, I have a special alert for when I receive emails from important people. And, of course, The Root’s…
Real talk? The Root’s Editor-in-Chief Danielle Belton and I consider ourselves to be pretty smart people—but…
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When’s the last time you had a good kiki? With our social lives deeply lacking during quarantine, many of us have…
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Six years to the day that she became a full-time staffer and associate editor at The Root, Editor-in-Chief Danielle…
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The Clapback Mailbag was never supposed to be about me.
In case you haven’t noticed, “Black joy” has been our theme for Black History Month 2021 at The Root—and as the…
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