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Photo: Alex Wong (Getty Images) Last week, The Root reported that Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed into law yet another Republican white fragility bill prohibiting teachings in K-12 schools that include conservative’s favorite new boogie man Critical Race Theory or any other race-based curriculum that causes “discomfort, guilt, anguish or …
Read More »Janet Jackson Auctions Off Wardrobe For Children In Need
Five-time Grammy winner and Queen of Pop, Janet Jackson plans to celebrate her 55th birthday on May 16 in part by auctioning off more than 1,000 items from her personal collection and wardrobe. Remember the iconic sweater from the “Scream” video, her baseball cap from the “Rhythm Nation” video or …
Read More »Gayle King Announces Million Dollar Scholarship For HBCU Students From ViacomCBS
Gayle King helped announce ViacomCBS’ new multimillion-dollar scholarship to help HBCU students obtain media careers post-graduation and increase the representation of Black journalists nationwide. On Thursday, the CBS This Morning host sat down with Willow Bay, Dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, to unveil the ViacomCBS …
Read More »She's a Business, Man: New Study Confirms Black Women Are More Entrepreneurial Than Their White Counterparts
Photo: Dragon Images (Shutterstock) Here at The Glow Up, we’ve been clued in to Black women’s entrepreneurial prowess for a while now—it’s one of the reasons this vertical exists. That said, the rest of the world is still catching up to the fact that Black women, widely reported to be …
Read More »The Books Briefing: What’s Wrong With Following a Recipe?
Eric Wolfinger Writing an Iranian cookbook in an age of anxiety “As the world thundered, I paved a new, diplomatic relationship with my measuring cups and timer, finding solace in their certainty. Whereas only months before I’d felt restricted by the written recipe, …
Read More »‘Red Table Talk’: To Be A Black, Invisible Woman In America
On April 20, news broke of a police shooting of 16-year-old Ma’Kiah Bryant in Columbus, Ohio who called the police for help after getting into a physical altercation with someone that lived in her foster home. Bryant had a knife, but her aunt Hazel Bryant claims she dropped it before being shot multiple times …
Read More »Students Call For Colleges to Atone for Slavery Ties Through Forms of Reparations
As colleges across the country face pressure to atone for their ties to slavery, students from Rhode Island’s Brown University recently voted for the school to identify the descendants of slaves that worked on the campus and pay them reparations. Results from the referendum show 88.61% of Brown University students …
Read More »Kevin Seefried, the Man Who Stormed the Capitol With the Confederate Flag, Is Going on Family Vacation While Awaiting Trial
A supporter of President Donald Trump carries a Confederate flag during the insurrection of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. – Photo: SAUL LOEB (Getty Images) Kevin Seefried, the giant asshole with the even larger Confederate flag who was captured walking the halls of the Capitol …
Read More »Pleasant Days Is Open for Business on Assisted Living
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Read More »Defense Lawyers in Ahmaud Arbery Case Want To Reframe The Narrative; Says Killing Was a ‘Good Deed’
The defense lawyers representing Gregory McMichael, his son Travis McMichael, and their friend and neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan in the murder trial of Ahmaud Arbery, are spinning the narrative to make the defendants look like the good guys. On Feb. 23, 2020, the McMichael duo and company filmed themselves making …
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