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Somehow Steph Curry Dropping 50 Points Wasn’t the Most Surprising Thing to Happen in the NBA Last Night
All hell broke loose during the final minutes of the Denver Nuggets win over the Miami Heat on Monday night.
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‘Skate’: Silk Sonic Debuts New Single and Music Video to Help Us Glide Into the Summertime
After teasing fans and followers with a cryptic post Wednesday, the dynamic duo delivered new sounds for the season.
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Kanye West Is Suing Walmart for Selling Knockoff Yeezys
A suit filed Thursday escalates an ongoing trademark dispute between West’s label and the big box retailer.
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How We Do: Panama and Simona's Very Smart Marriage
To celebrate the start of wedding season, The Root has launched ‘How We Do,’ a two-week series centering Black love stories, commitment and nuptial style.
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Recap: 28 Days of Album Cover Blackness with VSB
Another year, another Black History Month coming to a close. For the past 28 days, The Root has been celebrating Black Joy and how that looks—whether it’s through art, family, food or music. Panama Jackson, senior editor of Very Smart Brothas, has brought us all the joy through the most iconic and Blackest album covers…
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The Root Gets Together to Talk The Root Institute
With heavy-hitters like Stacey Abrams and Ava DuVernay, The Root Institute was a must-watch online event this past August and we at The Root were excited to be part of it. In this conversation with several of the hosts from the Institute—including The Root’s video producer and host Felice Leon, The Glow Up’s managing editor,…
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Aunties Don’t Sleep, Black Girls Are Not Magic and Other Things I Learned During CBC Week
I’ve known about the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Legislative Conference for years, but I have never attended because a very close friend of mine went one year and came back infected with a disease from which she still suffers to this day. I know it makes no sense, but even after people told me…
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The Hangover: We've Finally Recovered from The Root 100 Gala (and Gee, Did We Clean Up Nice)
What do you get when you put hundreds of well-dressed black folk, a great DJ, an open bar, and boundless black excellence into a trendy event space in New York City ? Well, if you’re me, you likely get a weeklong hangover, but you also get The Root 100 gala, our annual celebration of the…
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Marriage Advice for Panama Jackson, Who Is Getting Married This Week
Three weeks ago, while Panama and I were doing a talk at Princeton University, I shared the story of how, although we first met in 2004 and started VSB in 2008, we didn’t meet in person until our three-year anniversary party in D.C. in 2011. The more I tell that story, the less sense it…