(The Root) — Vanessa Huxtable is back home on the Peacock Network this fall.
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(The Root) — The love affair between Atlanta's most notorious housewife, NeNe Leakes, and TV's most prolific…
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On Friday, July 13, policymakers, doctors, health advocates and food and beverage professionals convened at the…
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(The Root) — Gary Clark Jr. may not be a household name, but the talented blues guitarist struck a chord with the…
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(The Root) — Bishop T.D. Jakes, head of Dallas megachurch The Potter's House and the successful film producer behind …
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Chaka Khan, one of R&B and funk music's greatest talents, took the stage at the 2012 Essence Music Festival on…
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The Root's senior political correspondent, Cynthia Gordy, moderated the 100 Black Men of Greater Washington, D.C.'s…
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June is Black Music Month, and The Root is celebrating with an analysis of some of the most memorable turning points…
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A surprise lay hidden within historical documents of comedian Wanda Sykes' ancestors — a surprise that even Sykes…
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The search for Sanjay Gupta's family history may have been simpler than the CNN medical expert expected it to be.…
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Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart sat down with The Root's editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., on his PBS series Find…
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Tech investor and entrepreneur Ben Horowitz joined Marcyliena Morgan, founder and director of Harvard's Hip-Hop…
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In April 2011, scupltor and print artist Elizabeth Catlett sat down with The Root's editor-in-chief Henry Louis…
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Beverly Bond has reinvented herself from a disc jockey and fashion model to a self-esteem guru for black girls.
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Baratunde Thurston would never have known how much he liked writing if his mother (and chief mentor, he says) hadn't…
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At a panel held after the premiere screening for Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s new genealogy-themed PBS series, Finding…
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Melanie Roussell, press secretary for the Democratic National Comittee and member of the 2011 class of The Root 100,…
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