Singer Tamar Braxton, 45, recently celebrated her birthday on March 17 and received a tender shout-out from megastar Beyoncé on her website, The Jasmine Brand reports. The “Heaven” singer routinely gives birthday shout-outs to her celebrity friends in a long-honored tradition. However, she posted an incorrect photo of Braxton, that …
Read More »Oscars 2022: All-Star Band Featuring D-Nice, Sheila E., Robert Glasper and More Set to Perform
D-Nice, left; Sheila E., Robert Glasper.Photo: Alexander Tamargo for Stronach Group/Arturo Holmes/ Joe Scarnici for GQ (Getty Images) On Friday, performers for this year’s Academy Awards were revealed. Per a press release sent to The Root, the first handful of musical acts will include an all-star band comprised of Club …
Read More »Michigan Students Make Black Beauty Products More Accessible Through Beauty Supply Vending Machine
Mia Wilson and Rico Ozuna-Harrison, two University of Michigan students, understood the assignment when they realized how hard it was obtaining Black haircare products in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a predominantly white area. So they decided to deliver on that challenge and sought to solve a unique problem. The nearest beauty …
Read More »Black Women are Still Paid Less than Men Despite their Positions, College Degrees or Years of Experience, According to Study
Photo: Monkey Business Images (Shutterstock) Black-owned businesses are thriving because of Black women, but Black women are still struggling in the corporate world. While the gender pay gap is starting to close, Black women are still being paid the least. The worst part is, no matter how many college degrees …
Read More »More Than Just ‘Hate’
One year has passed since a gunman took the lives of six Asian women and two others at spas in the Atlanta area. The shooting spurred new activism and awareness around violence against the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. And yet reports of such violence are on the rise: …
Read More »OPINION: Delta Airlines Soars in Supporting Black Businesses
In late 2021, my wife and I sold our house, car, and material possessions to travel full-time. We’re empty-nest entrepreneurs that don’t have to be anywhere. We’ve decided to spend our golden years building our business from locations worldwide. We were on a Delta Airlines flight from Puerto Rico to …
Read More »Should Gap continue to bet on Ye?
Within weeks of the June 2020 announcement of the 10-year Yeezy x Gap collaboration, the artist then known as Kanye West was prepared to “walk away”—or at least, he threatened to, while campaigning for his doomed presidential run that July. As a result of the stunt, Gap shares, which had …
Read More »All-Black Female WWII Battalion Will Receive Congressional Gold Medal
Members of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion participate in a parade ceremony in honor of Joan d’Arc at the marketplace where she was burned at stake in 1945.Photo: Smith Collection/Gado (Getty Images) On Monday, President Biden signed a bipartisan bill to honor the only all-Black, all-female battalion to serve …
Read More »Rachel Rodgers’ millionaire mindset is helping Black women win
Rachel Rodgers, author of We Should All Be Millionaires: A Woman’s Guide To Earning More, Building Wealth, and Gaining Economic Power and founder of Hello Seven, a coaching company that helps a largely Black clientele make money through entrepreneurship, was the first Black woman who made me feel like I …
Read More »Literature Isn’t Bound by the Rules of Time
Humans can move through time in only one way: forward, second by second, even when we set the clocks ahead an hour. But literature isn’t bound by the same rules. When narratives take place in the past or future, transporting the reader to the scene of events that already occurred …
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