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  • *Crying Emoji*

    So this is hard! Even though I always knew this day would eventually come, I never really expected it to come! After all, being editor-in-chief of The Root was my dream job! To give Black writers and editors and videographers and hosts a platform was my dream job! To create meaningful stories, content, reported pieces…

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  • 20 More Things I Cooked, Baked and Fried While Surviving the Pandemic, Pt. 2

    20 More Things I Cooked, Baked and Fried While Surviving the Pandemic, Pt. 2

    Can’t stop, won’t stop…making food! There was literally nothing better to do and I had to feed myself! And since restaurants were often out of the question (there’s nothing sadder than ordering Postmates, Uber Eats or Grubhub, getting excited over it, then realizing you spent $50 and got back subpar offerings), it meant I needed…

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  • 28 Days of Black Joy: Going Down South to 'Infinite' Cousins

    Like many a child of the Great Migration, all my extended family actually lived nowhere near me. My mother “escaped” Arkansas for Iowa right after graduating from Philander Smith College in Little Rock to become a school teacher, but Iowa was too cold, too white, and too far from her ancestral home, so she moved…

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  • 28 Days of Black Joy: Mama's Hands

    I’m one of those people who falls asleep in the salon chair. I don’t mean to. But there’s nothing more relaxing to me than someone’s hands in my hair doing what needs to be done. It is where I get my joy. #BlackJoy, even. And my relaxation. Whether it’s the luxuriousness of the shampoo bowl…

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  • Exclusive: RHOA Star Kenya Moore and Marc Daly Call It Quits Again

    Exclusive: RHOA Star Kenya Moore and Marc Daly Call It Quits Again

    The on-again, off-again, played-out-in-front-of-the-cameras (sometimes) marriage of Brooklyn restaurateur Marc Daly and Bravo’s Real Housewives of Atlanta star, actress and former Miss USA, Kenya Moore, is on the outs again. In a statement released exclusively to The Root, Marc Daly announced that the couple is ending their marriage for the second time. For real, for…

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  • My Daily, Less-Than-5-Minute, Quarantine Skincare Routine

    My Daily, Less-Than-5-Minute, Quarantine Skincare Routine

    It’s Big Beauty Tuesday here at The Glow Up, and in lieu of our regularly scheduled programming, there’s a glow I felt deserved special attention this week: the glowing skin of The Root’s Editor-in-Face-Chief, Danielle Belton. In fact, Danielle’s skin is so lit-from-within, it recently inspired comedian, actress and author Michelle Buteau to pause mid-interview…

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  • The Root Gets Together to Talk The Root Institute

    With heavy-hitters like Stacey Abrams and Ava DuVernay, The Root Institute was a must-watch online event this past August and we at The Root were excited to be part of it. In this conversation with several of the hosts from the Institute—including The Root’s video producer and host Felice Leon, The Glow Up’s managing editor,…

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  • 'Let's Just Start A Dialogue': Actor Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Director Julius Onah Get the Conversation Going About Social Justice

    Director Julius Onah had no way of knowing back in 2019 how prescient his adaption of the play Luce would be in 2020—a story of how race and expectations due to one’s race impact one young man’s life. In this conversation between me, Onah and Luce’s star, Kelvin Harrison Jr. we talk about the themes…

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  • Director Julius Onah and Actor Kelvin Harrison Jr. Talk Race and Aggressions—Both Micro and Macro—in Their Film Luce

    As The Root Institute winds down for its final day, we’re happy to present a panel and film that is more relevant today in 2020 than it was in 2019 when it was first released. Direct Julius Onah’s adaptation of the play Luce, is a story of race, expectations and identity, wrapped up in a…

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  • Everybody Wants a Diversity and Inclusion Officer, but How Can They Reshape the Face of Corporate America?

    Everybody Wants a Diversity and Inclusion Officer, but How Can They Reshape the Face of Corporate America?

    When protesters took to the streets in 2020, it was clear—the status quo wouldn’t do. There needed to be a change, tangible and real, to how our government and our corporate structures do business. From reckonings in the media at Bon Appetite and the New York Times to a rapidly changing corporate landscape where more…

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