the root
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If You're Young, Fabulous and Female and in the Philly Area, You Don't Want to Miss This!
Are you young, fabulous, female and in the Philadelphia area? Then come on out to join The Root at our event on Wednesday, Sept. 28. YFF: Philadelphia will be held at the African American Museum in Philadelphia from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. It will be a fabulous girls’ night out of networking, intriguing panel discussion…
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Watch: Steve Harvey Faces His ‘Twin’ on Family Feud
How does it feel to stand in front of someone who looks just like you (no relation)? Well, Steve Harvey knows all about that. The cold part is that it might sting just a little bit when, as the Family Feud host noted, your twinsie “looks a little better than you” do.
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Unique Views Podcast, Episode 9: If a Podcast Falls in Kaepernick's Afro …
It wasn’t supposed to end like this. We were supposed to be a three-person team until the end. But sadly, we lost “Meats.” That’s right, Yesha “I Like Meats” Callahan has taken her 15,000 Twitter followers and gone home. Stop crying! She’s still alive and kicking and dominating page views on The Root. And while…
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#WeWontBeSilent: 2 Things the DOJ Can Do Now to Stop Police Violence
Two more black men became a hashtag on Twitter last week: Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. It’s a modern marker of our times, of an unnatural death publicly witnessed through a cellphone-camera lens. They were both killed by police officers for dubious reasons: They owned guns in states where carrying guns publicly is legal, but…
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Stacey Dash and the Psychology of Puppets
There is a little-known technique in some areas of psychology called “puppet therapy,” whereby patients use dolls or puppets to express emotions and points of view that they are uncomfortable saying themselves. The puppet becomes a de facto voice for people to vent their feelings freely and release their true thoughts because, after all ……
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How 1 NYC Man Is Helping People Create Their Dream Families for Free
Going about having a baby the traditional route isn’t an option for everyone. Whether you’re a single woman, single man, in a gay relationship or a hetero couple with fertility issues, sometimes the only option is a visit to a cryobank to buy some sperm. But guess what? Sperm ain’t cheap. And it’s not covered…
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Mainstream Digital Media Sites Are Apparently Struggling Right Now. VSB, However, Is Not.
There’s a couple ways to look at the recent spate of news on the difficulties multi-million dollar digital media companies — Buzzfeed, Mashable, Salon, and Gawker Media to name a few — are currently having. The most popular way, it seems, is to conclude that we’re reaching a bust period; that Facebook’s (and Google’s) ubiquity is so pervasive…
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A Summary Of VSB's Very Good But Not Quite As Good As We Want It To Be Yet Year
Happy New Year and shit, everyone! If you’re reading this, you’ve made it to 2016 (congrats!) and you’ve decided, for whatever reason, to spend at least one second of this year reading VSB. So thanks for that. Since you’re here, I might as well let you know that 2015 was, by every measure, the best…