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No Third Term for Former Atlanta Mayor
Kasim Reed’s supporters circulated “Trumpian” fake news before conceding
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First She Beefed With Denzel, Now Katie Couric Admits to Editing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Negative Comments on Kneeling Protest
In her upcoming memoir, Going There, Couric claims that she kept RBG’s response on the cutting room floor to ‘protect’ her.
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Megan Thee Stallion Makes History With Leyna Bloom and Naomi Osaka on Sports Illustrated’s 2021 Swimsuit Issues
The rapper is the first to cover the highly anticipated annual issue, while Bloom is the first trans woman to do so and Osaka the first Black female athlete.
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Billie, Jimi and Virgil Take on Rock 'n' Roll 'n' Haute Couture
All the while, Storm Reid turns 18 and stunts on the swimwear game and Kenneth Ize x Karl Lagerfeld arrive in Paris
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Orange Is the New Red Carpet: Laverne Cox Is E!'s New Red Carpet Host
If there’s one thing Laverne Cox knows how to do, it’s work a red carpet. On Monday, it was announced that the primetime Emmy-nominated and Daytime Emmy-winning actress-activist-producer best known for her breakout role in Orange Is the New Black will soon be working the red carpet for E!, as the network’s newest host of…
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Pose: The Final Season: How the Series Set an Industry Standard for LGBTQ+ Safe Spaces
To kick off the month of May, Pose fans will be living, werking and posing for the very last time. As announced in March, the Peabody-winning, Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated series will be saying its final goodbye this year with its third season. As someone who has screened the entire final season in advance, I…
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The Glow Up 50: In Praise of the Glam Squad
In this most unconventional of awards seasons, we are proudly closing out our second annual celebration of Black creatives innovating the worlds of fashion, beauty and media, better known as The Glow Up 50. We’re uniquely proud of each of our honorees this year (and hope you’ve taken a moment to applaud all of them…
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'Cosmology Is Black—It’s Blackity-Black': The Root Presents: It's Lit! Explores The Disordered Cosmos With Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Real talk? The Root’s Editor-in-Chief Danielle Belton and I consider ourselves to be pretty smart people—but scientifically minded, we are not. So when we received a pitch to review and speak with cosmologist Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on her first book, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred, we were both…
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And the Category Is…Grand Closing: FX's Pose 3rd and Final Season Will Debut in May
Much like the song that became Candy’s (portrayed by The Root 100 honoree Angelica Ross) theme song, “Never Knew Love Like This Before” by Stephanie Mills, we never knew joy quite like Pose gave us. The breakout FX series is special. In a press release sent to The Root on Friday morning, FX announced that…