women
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Protect Black Women: Chicago Mayor says City Must Improve on Finding Missing Black Women and Girls
Cases of missing Black women are girls are ignored disproportionately compared to white women
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Metta World Peace, Ray Lewis, Eboni K. Williams Head Beyond the Edge
Former athletes Mike Singletary, Ray Lewis and Metta World Peace join TV personality Eboni K. Williams on CBS competition Beyond the Edge.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Tests Positive For COVID-19 in Latest Omicron Surge Through Congress
"She is experiencing symptoms and recovering at home,” the office for New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a statement.
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Ladies Night: The Other Characters in Insecure‘s 7th Episode? A Wardrobe by All Black Female Designers
For the first time in the series' history, the characters' covetable wardrobes were designed head-to-toe by Black women.
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Looks Like Things Are Shifting for ‘Time’s Up’
"Crocodile tears" were shed by Ashley Judd in the wake of 'Time's Up' firings
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Candace Owens Wants to Go to War With Australia. Meanwhile, Australia Is Wondering WTF Is a Candace Owens
The Black woman who doesn't wear a bonnet at night wants to go to war with Australia. I wish this wasn't life.
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‘This Isn’t About Good People or Bad People’: The Root Presents: It’s Lit! Explores The Purpose of Power With Alicia Garza
The Black Lives Matter co-founder and Black Futures Lab founder puts our present moment in context with a riveting retracing of her own path to activism.
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The 2021 TIME100 Calls Meghan and Harry ‘Icons’; Sherrilyn Ifill, Lil Nas X, Red Table Talk and Verzuz Among Honorees
Serena Williams pays tribute to Biles in the annual list of 'the world's most influential people,' while the Sussexes honor WTO leader Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
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PageTurners: George M. Johnson Blesses YA Shelves With a 2nd Memoir; Michaela Coel Publishes Her Manifesto
New releases include tales of trauma, family and coming of age, essays about Jim Crow and a girl trying to survive in New Rochelle at the start of the pandemic
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Did a Lab Really Refuse to Test Candace Owens for COVID-19? The Root Investigates
Owens claims a testing lab sent her an email that it wouldn't be testing her for COVID-19 because of her political views.