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Easy, Breezy, Beautiful Issa Rae: How the CFDA Awards Host Rocked a Flawless Red-Carpet Face
Call us obsessed, but we can never seem to get enough of Issa Rae’s seemingly endless array of stunning red-carpet looks. The star’s hosting gig at Monday night’s CFDA Awards provided yet another opportunity for us to gawk at her flawlessly executed face and fashion sense, which is now almost in another stratosphere from the…
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The Men From Issa Rae’s Insecure Are out Here Doing God’s Work and Laying Thirst Traps
The men from Issa Rae’s award-winning show Insecure are out here saving our souls from the post-long-weekend Tuesday blues, laying thirst traps and reminding us to be thankful for the simple things. Indeed, God must be a black woman, and she definitely took her time when she made the cast of this show. Covered in…
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Did I Do That? Issa Rae Dresses Up as Our ’90s Faves for GQ—and It’s Pure Comedy
Urkel. Moesha. The Fresh Prince. If you were a kid in the 1990s, at least one or all of the above were likely among your faves. We’re not sure if Issa Rae, who was born in 1985, grew up on these classic characters, but it sure gave us a laugh to see her dress up…
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Watch: Issa Rae Is Still Rooting for Everybody Black (and Female)
Issa Rae spoke at the LinkedIn panel discussion held at the Art of Elysium Center on Wednesday in Los Angeles. The Insecure star and creator discussed the importance of creating opportunities for people of color, as well as the importance of women demanding their worth in the workplace. Watch the full video above.
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Smile! This Valentine’s Day, Yvonne Orji Is All the Single Ladies
“Hey, girl, why don’t you smile?” If you’re a woman, there’s a likelihood you’ve heard this sometime in your life—or several times already this week. But this Valentine’s Day, one of our #Faves, comedian and Insecure star Yvonne Orji, reminds us that smiling isn’t the worst thing we can do, even if we don’t think…
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Brown Beauty Alert! This Is the Melanated Moment We Didn’t Know We Were Missing This Week
Updated Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018, 6:20 p.m. EST: As if we weren’t already jelly enough, Erivo’s team reached out to let us know everyone we missed at the soiree, organized by legendary celebrity event planner Kathy Romero (who has spearheaded high-profile events such as Asahd Khaled’s birthday, Gucci Mane’s wedding and more), along with celebrity…
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Top 5 Black Movies and TV Shows of 2017 and No, She’s Gotta Have It Didn’t Make the Cut
2017 was a great year for black movies and TV shows, but one would not know it if one looked only at most critics’ year-end top 10 lists. That’s why The Root presents to you the best black films and TV shows of 2017—but first, a few caveats: 1) Power is not on the list…
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The Village: Behind Every Issa Rae Is a Felicia Leatherwood Slaying Her Natural Tresses
If you have eyes and working salivary glands, chances are you’ve drooled over Issa Rae’s many natural hairstyles, in everything from Insecure to CoverGirl ads. “With Issa, she just lets me create,” says the self-proclaimed natural-hair whisperer herself: Felicia Leatherwood. “She just, she’s like my beautiful black Barbie because she sits there and she trusts…
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Issa Rae’s ‘I’m Rooting for Everybody Black’ Was FUBU
Today’s post was not intended to be about Issa Rae. After writing about the season finale of Insecure last week, I wanted to move on to other topics for discussion. But then, at last night’s Emmys, Rae, in a moment of candor, found a way to make all her fans proud to be a part…
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Is Lawrence From Insecure Trash? An Important Debate
It’s a question that has dominated the conversations about Insecure, both on Facebook and Twitter and at happy hour and game nights. Of course, Lawrence wasn’t the main character on the show, and Insecure featured several other compelling storylines, but there seems to be a consensus about each non-Lawrence character and subsequent character arc. Molly’s…