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Unlike so many other reality stars, Stacie Turner of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of D.C. stays true to the first word in the title of her show. The “diplomatic one” out of her castmates, Turner sat down with Contributing Editor Anji Corley to talk about her Extra-Ordinary documentary, Michelle Obama and the news she discovered…

Columbus Circle in midtown Manhattan came to life in vivid African style last week with the grand opening of an even grander art exhibition, “The Global Africa Project,” at the Museum of Arts and Design. Hundreds of artists, art lovers and well-heeled lovers of the African Diaspora ran between raindrops to get a peek at…

The term “baller” just got a face-lift from Marsha Ambrosius, the beauty who’s running game in the music industry and burning up the charts with her hit single “Hope He Cheats on You.” Contributing Editor Anji Corley caught up with the singer, formerly of the duo Floetry, backstage at this month’s For Sisters Only concert,…

Isabel Wilkerson spent 10 years and interviewed more than 1,500 people to write The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, her magnificent opus on the flight of 6 million African Americans from the South to the North and West. Wilkerson has challenged long-standing assumptions that blacks moved simply for economic…

Anji Corley, contributing editor for The Root, goes Beyond Fame in an interview with celebrity scholar Cornel West this week, chatting with the celebrity scholar about his new public radio show with Tavis Smiley called Smiley & West, where single black women can find a good man, and whether or not Jay-Z is his homeboy.…

In this exclusive interview with The Root’s contributing editor Harriette Cole, playwright-poet-novelist Ntozake Shange talks about the strokes that almost took her life, the new novel she wrote with her sister and what she told Tyler Perry when he told her he wanted to adapt her Tony Award-winning choreopoem, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered…

The Root obtained the audio clip below from a source at the National Association for Consumer Advocates, a group that helped Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) craft the End Debt Collector Abuse Act (EDCAA) bill. Though the clip depicts the behavior of just one California debt collector, it’s the kind of virulent harassment that has become…

Ever wonder what is going on inside the heads of Glenn Beck’s followers? The Root’s staff writer Cord Jefferson and a Slate V video crew caught up with some of them at the Restoring Honor rally on Aug. 28 in Washington, D.C. They opened up about why they were there and what they think is happening in…

Did you miss The Root’s Young, Female and Fabulous event Wednesday evening in New York City? More than 200 women (and a few men) came out to the Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater in Manhattan to network over cocktails and enjoy a panel discussion about the joys and challenges of being a success-minded black woman. Moderated…

In our ongoing video series Bookmark, The Root talks to authors to find out the personal stories behind their talked-about books. Here, Nell Painter, a leading American historian, talks about her latest book, The History of White People. In this conversation with The Root’s editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Painter discusses the definition of whiteness,…