danielle belton
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We Glossed, We Flossed, We Bossed…and We Glow On
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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Thank You for the World, Very Smart Brothas
Cheers to VSB, a site that changed the game, the culture and my life
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5 Thanksgiving Recipes You Need In Your Life Right Now
Turkey day is right around the corner--are you ready?
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PageTurners: In Both Fiction and Nonfiction, This Week’s Authors and Characters Play ‘Make Believe’
We aren't the only critics to describe Percival Everett's novel The Trees as 'page turning'; James Baldwin's prophetic essays are now available in paperback.
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Tonja Renée Stidhum to Throw in the Tile as The Root‘s Staff Entertainment Writer
According to a source that is also Tonja, we heard through The Grapevine (heh) that this is the end of an era.
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A Woman of Color Is the Least Likely to Receive Mentorship. How Can We Unlock Her Potential?
Entering its 2nd year, Unlock Her Potential, the industry heavyweight mentorship platform launched by Sophia Chang, is seeking its next class of mentees.
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Memoirs of an Imperfect Sibling: Mariah Carey Says Inspiration, Not Defamation Was the Goal of Her Book
As with most memoirs, when shit starts hitting the fan, family and friends who may have been mentioned often come out to either support or detract from whatever’s been said. Such is the case with Mariah Carey, whose siblings haven’t been quite so happy with the things revealed in her September 2020 bestseller, The Meaning…
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I'll Be Around
This month makes 10 years from the weekend I drove from Pittsburgh to D.C. for a party to celebrate both the three-year anniversary of the launch of VerySmartBrothas—the blog Panama Jackson, Liz Burr, and I created in 2008—and the release of Your Degrees Won’t Keep You Warm At Night, a self-published compilation of satirical dating…
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Kyrie Is Not Your Negro
As Kyrie Irving made abundantly clear this weekend, the n-word isn’t for everybody. While there are people like myself who can’t recall the last time they didn’t deploy it as a term of endearment, a convenient expression of excitement or confusion, or a final warning before violence ensues, there are also people like our former…