The Root
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For The Root Thursday I penned a piece about my struggles to make my hair look like the enviable hair of Hollywood actresses and shampoo bottles only to be endlessly disappointed. There was no way to “wake up like dis.” Beauty is hard work.
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Sorry I haven’t been updating my page lately, but it’s for a good reason! I joined the staff of The Root last week as their newest associate editor. I will be writing, editing, recruiting and producing story packages for the African American interest news site. I’ve written for The Root off and on for years,
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Wrote an introspective piece on how black people don’t like talking about race so much as they have to, lest it looks like we’re endorsing our own slaughter. The backdrop? My years avoiding race (and failing at it) in California and Kanye West’s embrace of a French designer who was shamed out of using the
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I wrote a piece for The Root today on how the drama between Khloe Kardashian and Amber Rose seems to be much ado about “slut shaming,” race and class. Namely, Rose and Kardashian trade in the same industry, but for some reason having wealth and privilege makes being a sexy femmebot an empowering decision. How
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One of my pet peeves has been the recent push to turn Martin Luther King, Jr. Day into a generic national “Day of Service.” It annoys me not because I hate volunteerism (volunteering is great!) but because we all know damn well Martin Luther King didn’t live his life under threat of death constantly to
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Families fight. All of them do. But most are able to do that without taking it to the courts. And most families aren’t the scion of a Civil Rights icon. Unfortunately for the King family, they’re famous whether they want to be or not and they can’t, for some reason, get along. For The Root
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Hey! I’m finally back from attempting to sleep through most of the holidays! (Congratulations to me.) I celebrated my return by watching a lot of television, including FOX’s new show “Empire.” The show is horrible, but I didn’t let that stop me from enjoying it!
Live Your Best Life. 