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Tracy Reese Dazzles With 2013 Collection
Tracy Reese’s Spring/Summer 2013 line made a fresh, bright debut at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week on Sunday. The designer, a favorite of celebrities like Beyoncé and Alicia Keys, incorporated patterns and pastels into flowy garments, making for an impressive spring collection. It’s been quite a week for Reese. Last Tuesday night, first lady Michelle Obama wore…
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Fashion's Night Out 2012: Street Chic
New Yorkers stepped out Thursday night in an array of fierce, odd, unique and impressive outfits during the fourth annual Fashion’s Night Out, a global event celebrating style. Amid an atmosphere that bore more resemblance to Mardi Gras than any ordinary night in Manhattan, fashion buffs, clothes experts and style mavens braved the raucous streets…
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African Style Shines at NYC Fashion Week
If you want to see what’s hot on black Twitter, check out The Chatterati.Akoto Ofori-Atta is the editor of The Grapevine. Like her Facebook page and follow her on Twitter. African fashion and lifestyle magazine Arise brought its annual Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week event to new heights on Thursday with “African Icons,” a runway show honoring…
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12 New Must-See TV Shows With Black Stars
Once again, the big five networks — ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox and the CW — and a few cable networks are trotting out new shows for the fall TV season. Though we’ve given up hope that the big five will ever feature shows that tell stories strictly from a black perspective (Kerry Washington’s Scandal, which…
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'Martin' Cast: 20 Years Later
Martin Payne, the title character of the classic sitcom that ran from 1992 to 1997, was an egotistical male chauvinist who worked at Detroit radio station WZUP. He had a group of friends whom he was never afraid to crack on — or kick out of his house. His antics were always ridiculous — especially…
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Young, Fabulous and Female Artists
The Root’s Young, Fabulous and Female event on Aug. 22 at New York City’s Open House Gallery wasn’t just about networking and listening to successful black women tell their stories — although there was a lot of that. Guests were also provided the the opportunity to check out the art of amazing black female artists,…
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Interracial Political Couples
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Exploring Minstrelsy: 14 Stars and Critics
As co-authors Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen explore in their exhaustively researched book, Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy From Slavery to Hip-Hop, the once hugely popular form of entertainment has a complicated history. By today’s standards, donning blackface makeup and performing an exaggerated song-and-dance number would be considered in extremely poor taste. But in the 19th…
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Scenes From Young, Fabulous and Female
On Wednesday, Aug. 22, New York artists, media moguls, entrepreneurs, mothers, daughters and sisters made their way to Soho’s Openhouse Gallery to join The Root in celebrating being “Young, Fabulous and Female.” The event (part of a series) featured NBC News correspondent and host of MSNBC’s NewsNation Tamron Hall; green advocate and radio-show host Majora…
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Road Trip! 12 Must-See Black Landmarks
If you want to see what’s hot on black Twitter, check out The Chatterati.Akoto Ofori-Atta is the editor of The Grapevine. Like her Facebook page and follow her on Twitter. Located in Washington, D.C.’s historic U Street neighborhood, the museum preserves the stories of black troops in the American Civil War. It’s also home to…