glamour women of the year
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Regina King, Keisha Lance Bottoms and Sherrilyn Ifill Are Among Glamour's 2020 Women of the Year
A mayor, a legal titan and Hollywood royalty—Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, NAACP Legal Defense Fund president and director-counsel Sherrilyn Ifill, and Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actress Regina King are just three of the incredible women named Glamour magazine’s 2020 Women of the Year, each honored with her own digital cover. Inside the issue,…
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'We Have to Do More': Champion Ally Megan Rapinoe Thanked Kaepernick, Tarana Burke and Black Lives Matter in 'Woman of the Year' Speech
If you follow The Root on a regular basis, you know white women warrant a surprising amount of our coverage. This is not because this is a site for or about white women (quite to the contrary). It’s because some white women’s interactions with and responses to blackness have consistently proven dangerous to the people…
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Doing the Work: Ava DuVernay and Yara Shahidi Are Among Glamour's 2019 Women of the Year Honorees
A passion for justice unites the black and brown women honored by Glamour as their 2019 Women of the Year, as Ava DuVernay and Yara Shahidi join the Women of the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) on a list that includes Megan Rapinoe, Charlize Theron, Margaret Atwood, Tory Burch, and…
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Maxine Waters Leads an ‘Impeach 45’ Chant at the Glamour Women of the Year Ceremony
Your Auntie Maxine Waters showed up and showed out Monday night at the Glamour Women of the Year ceremony in New York City. As the California congresswoman was wrapping up her remarks and receiving a standing ovation from the crowd, she began shouting, “Impeach 45!” and encouraged the gathered crowd to join her. And join…