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This Grammy-winning, Mississippi-born songstress always strives for red-carpet elegance when she graces the stage. Blessed with a curvaceous figure, radiant skin and smile, Wilson channels the glamour of divas such as Sarah Vaughan and Nancy Wilson while topping it off with a modern twist with her signature sun-kissed dreadlocks. CAPTIONS BY JOHN MURPH David Sanchez…

A chart outlining the translations and different dialects of African words. Read Felicia Pride’s tribute to The Black Book. Joseph Cinque, a leader of the Amistad revolt that eventually became a legal case tried in the U.S. Supreme Court. An 1851 notice cautioning black people who lived in Boston to avoid police officers because they…

is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University. The cold, cold Inauguration Day may have been filled with confusion regarding which locations were available for public viewing and which changes were made to the D.C. Metro schedule, but nothing was more confusing than Obama’s actual swearing-in ceremony. Somewhere in the…

is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University. Forty-four pictures dedicated to the anniversary of the election of the 44th president. Michelle and Sasha Obama leave a Chicago voting booth on Election Day. Casting a vote in his hometown of Chicago, Illinois, President Obama made his way to the polls…

Enough of Paradise Lost and The Canterbury Tales at school! Check our list of understudied books that students of all ages can and should be reading. Captions and selections by Dayo Olopade. When constructing a syllabus of powerful books on black themes, Things Fall Apart is a natural place to start. The 1958 classic vaulted…

Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” Practicing piano was a chore until a young Jason Moran heard a rendition of “‘Round Midnight.” The classic by Thelonious Monk set Moran on the road to musical innovation that includes a jazz interpretation of…

is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University. A Different World was a world that many in the African-American community had been born and bred to be apart of—the microcosm that is the black college. Before Bill Cosby’s brain child became a hit, mainstream America hadn’t seen the black community’s diversity…

Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” Before starring as a corporate vixen in the hit 1992 film Boomerang, Robin Givens was a Huxtable heartbreaker. In her role as Suzanne, a school friend of Denise, she had Theo jumping through hoops to impress her. Too bad for Theo,…