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Dascha Polanco and Dove: Believing in Your Beauty Is Power
You’d never know that Dascha Polanco, star of Netflix’s hit series Orange Is the New Black and, more recently, a recurring character in FX’s miniseries American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace, almost didn’t become an actress because she lacked confidence in her body type. “Growing up,” she tells The Glow Up, “the beauty…
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Not A Wrinkle in Time: Ava DuVernay Proves That #BlackGirlMagic Is Eternal
So here we were, minding our business on an otherwise tepid Tuesday, skimming the Twitter, when we stumbled upon the most adorable—and strangely recognizable—little face on the Toronto International Film Festival’s feed. It was a baby Ava DuVernay, giving #BlackGirlMagic in braids and barrettes, and reminding us that every great person was once just a…
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Red-Carpet Roundup: It’s All Love at the iHeartRadio Awards (With a Healthy Dose of Cardi B)
Working in digital media as a middle-aged person can be challenging. After all, there’s a constant need to know what the kids are into these days, and without kids of my own, it can be tough. Thankfully, we’ve got the annual iHeartRadio Awards to tell us old heads who’s hot and who’s on the come…
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Add Serena Williams to the List of Celeb Beauty Moguls to Throw Your Paycheck At
This is not a drill. The Greatest Tennis Player of All Time (don’t @ me on this until Roger Federer wins a major tourney while pregnant) is gearing up to launch a beauty brand, according to TMZ. In late January, Williams filed to trademark “Aneres” (pat yourself on the back if you caught that that’s…
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Find 100 Ways: Wondering How to Help Women? Broadly Built Us a Whole List
Each year on March 8—including last Thursday—the world celebrates International Women’s Day. The holiday dates back to 1911 and is the origin of Women’s History Month, which we also celebrate in March and which The Root is celebrating in tandem with our sister site Jezebel. But like the all-too-fleeting Black History Month, both International Women’s…
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Lisa Bonet Just Showed Us What We Want Our Summer to Look Like
There are a few women in the world who possess a preternatural mystique: We’re talking women like Nefertiti, Eartha Kitt, Sade, the supermodel Iman and, of course, Lisa Bonet. If you were of TV-watching age in the mid-’80s to early ’90s, chances are Bonet’s Denise Huxtable was either one of of your style icons or…
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You’re Fired! What to Do When You’ve Been Let Go From Your Job
Last week I was told that my position at my day job is being eliminated. It’s the second time this has happened in the past two years. The first time, it was under very different circumstances; to be honest, being let go from a gig that caused me very real emotional and mental stress was…
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A Model Marriage: Chanel Iman Shows Us How Supermodels Say ‘I Do’
Last Saturday, while most of us were picking out our Oscar-watching pajama sets (and Michael Harriot was frantically looking for his lost invite to Bey and Jay’s Oscar after-party), model Chanel Iman and New York Giants wide receiver Sterling Shepard were celebrating some California love at their nuptials at the iconic Beverly Hills Hotel in…