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11/24/17

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11/23/17

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11/21/17

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11/20/17

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11/20/17

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11/20/17

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Watch: Maxine Waters Honored With The Root 100 Gladiator Award

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11/19/17

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Watch: The Root 100 Gala Co-Host A.J. Calloway Celebrates the Obamas

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11/19/17

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Watch: Raquel Willis on Bringing Your Black Transgender Identity to Work

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11/16/17

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Watch: Angela Rye Makes Power Moves at The Root 100 Gala

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11/10/17

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11/10/17

The Root 100 Gala Is an Unapologetic Celebration of Black Brilliance, and This Year the Revolution Will Be Televised

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11/9/17

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11/9/17

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11/7/17

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11/7/17

Tito Jackson Hopes to Become Boston’s 1st Black Mayor Today

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10/4/17

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10/4/17

#FanniesArmy: GirlTrek Organizes Thousands of Women to Walk on Fannie Lou Hamer’s 100th Birthday

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9/26/17

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Watch: Sterling ‘Bae’ Brown Explains That Viral Thirst Trap Emmy-and-Abs Pic

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9/18/17

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9/18/17

Jordan Peele is No. 1 on The Root 100, Our Annual List of the Most Influential African Americans

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9/11/17

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The Root 100 No. 1s: Beyoncé Will Forever Be Bey-ond. She’s So Fly, They Named a Fly After Her

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9/5/17

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The Root 100 No. 1s: Shonda Rhimes Changes the Face of Television Forever

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8/21/17

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The Root 100 No. 1s: Ben Jealous, a Supreme Builder of Bridges Over Left and Right

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8/14/17

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The Root 100 No. 1s: Melissa Harris-Perry Lets the World Know She Is Not Your Mammy

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New York City Shells Out $625K to Woman Whose Baby Was Ripped from Her Arms During Welfare Office Confrontation

Stephen A. Smith’s Ego and Hairline Suffers 2-Inch Setback After Jemele Hill Snatches His Wig on Twitter

Apparently, White People Had No Idea Who Frankie Beverly Was Until Black Twitter Taught Them

Lena Waithe’s The Chi Expertly Gives the People of Chicago Humanity and Backstories

Watch: Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins on Race’s Importance in Narratives

Watch: NFL Star Michael Bennett Refuses to Stay in His Lane

Watch: Why Black Thought of the Roots Believes Art Should Represent the Times We Live In

Watch: The Root 100 Gala Was the Blackest Event on TV

Watch: How Mayor Lumumba Is Rewriting the Story of Jackson, Miss.

Watch: Maxine Waters Honored With The Root 100 Gladiator Award

Watch: The Root 100 Gala Co-Host A.J. Calloway Celebrates the Obamas

Watch: Raquel Willis on Bringing Your Black Transgender Identity to Work

Watch: Angela Rye Makes Power Moves at The Root 100 Gala

The Root 100 Gala Is an Unapologetic Celebration of Black Brilliance, and This Year the Revolution Will Be Televised

The Root 100 Is Tonight ... and You Aren’t Ready

Tito Jackson Hopes to Become Boston’s 1st Black Mayor Today

#FanniesArmy: GirlTrek Organizes Thousands of Women to Walk on Fannie Lou Hamer’s 100th Birthday

Watch: Sterling ‘Bae’ Brown Explains That Viral Thirst Trap Emmy-and-Abs Pic

Jordan Peele is No. 1 on The Root 100, Our Annual List of the Most Influential African Americans

The Root 100 No. 1s: Beyoncé Will Forever Be Bey-ond. She’s So Fly, They Named a Fly After Her

The Root 100 No. 1s: Shonda Rhimes Changes the Face of Television Forever

The Root 100 No. 1s: Ben Jealous, a Supreme Builder of Bridges Over Left and Right

The Root 100 No. 1s: Melissa Harris-Perry Lets the World Know She Is Not Your Mammy

Wait, Did J.J. Abrams Really Just Tease an Ahsoka Tano Cameo in The Rise of Skywalker?

Feds Break Up Illegal Streaming Network That Dwarfs Netflix and Hulu Libraries

Scarlett Johansson's sixth Saturday Night Live succumbs to smirking centrism

Lena Waithe’s The Chi Expertly Gives the People of Chicago Humanity and Backstories

Watch: Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins on Race’s Importance in Narratives

Watch: NFL Star Michael Bennett Refuses to Stay in His Lane

Watch: Why Black Thought of the Roots Believes Art Should Represent the Times We Live In

Watch: The Root 100 Gala Was the Blackest Event on TV

Watch: How Mayor Lumumba Is Rewriting the Story of Jackson, Miss.

Watch: Maxine Waters Honored With The Root 100 Gladiator Award

Watch: The Root 100 Gala Co-Host A.J. Calloway Celebrates the Obamas

Watch: Raquel Willis on Bringing Your Black Transgender Identity to Work

Watch: Angela Rye Makes Power Moves at The Root 100 Gala

The Root 100 Gala Is an Unapologetic Celebration of Black Brilliance, and This Year the Revolution Will Be Televised

The Root 100 Is Tonight ... and You Aren’t Ready

Tito Jackson Hopes to Become Boston’s 1st Black Mayor Today

#FanniesArmy: GirlTrek Organizes Thousands of Women to Walk on Fannie Lou Hamer’s 100th Birthday

Watch: Sterling ‘Bae’ Brown Explains That Viral Thirst Trap Emmy-and-Abs Pic

Jordan Peele is No. 1 on The Root 100, Our Annual List of the Most Influential African Americans

The Root 100 No. 1s: Beyoncé Will Forever Be Bey-ond. She’s So Fly, They Named a Fly After Her

The Root 100 No. 1s: Shonda Rhimes Changes the Face of Television Forever

The Root 100 No. 1s: Ben Jealous, a Supreme Builder of Bridges Over Left and Right

The Root 100 No. 1s: Melissa Harris-Perry Lets the World Know She Is Not Your Mammy