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  • Once on This Island’s Opening Night Gives Me Jitters While I Consider Reginald F. Lewis’ Billion-Dollar Deal

    OK, first off, in this revival of the 1991 Tony Award-nominated musical Once on This Island, I had no clue that it was Merle Dandrige from Greenleaf playing the death demon, Papa Ge. I’ve watched one-and-a-half entire seasons of the OWN religious drama, and I thought I could pick her out of a lineup, but…

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    Danielle C. Belton

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  • The Glow Up With Supermodel Veronica Webb Is on The Root

    Beauty is more than what you look like. It’s more than when you’re dressed nice or you bothered to dust on a little foundation. It’s more than when your shoes are both comfy and cute (or wildly impractical but still to die for). It’s more than when your nails are freshly polished, your melanin is…

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    Danielle C. Belton

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  • ‘Brand’ Trump Takes Another Hit: Trump Name Coming off SoHo Hotel

    Don’t you know that you’re toxic? The Washington Post is reporting that the Trump name is coming off one of the best-known hotels in New York City’s lower Manhattan: the Trump SoHo. It will be the third building to lose the eponymous name since the election of President Donald Trump last year. The Trump International…

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    Danielle C. Belton

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  • SportsBalls and Benefit Galas: I Went to All These Things and Managed Not to Almost Kill Myself (Yet)

    There are literally too many things to go to in the fall. During that season in New York City, every charity group, institution, media company and rando (including The Root) throws a ball, gala or fancy party of some kind. Our own shindig, The Root 100, goes down Nov. 9. So October, for me, has…

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    Danielle C. Belton

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  • Tidal X Was an Epic 6-Hour Musical Marathon I Wasn’t Fit Enough to Run

    I’m out of shape. It’s a reality. I just recently started working back out again because stairs were looking like obstacles I could not surmount without sounding like Lord Vader when I was through. I can’t run a marathon. I can’t even run the block. And I definitely wasn’t prepared to run the race of…

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    Danielle C. Belton

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  • Too Sick to Socialize, but I Went to the NY Urban League’s Black & White Champagne Brunch and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Conference in DC Anyway

    Three weeks. That is how long I’ve been sick with an unknown virus (the thing doctors tell you when they don’t know what it is but know it won’t kill you). It’s not the flu. It’s not a cold. But it is one thing—a jerk. Just the biggest jerk of a disease ruining my social…

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    Danielle C. Belton

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  • NaturallyCurly’s ‘Texture on the Runway’ Laid My Edges

    I went natural before going natural was cool, back in 2000, 17 years ago, when curly-hair products for black hair were garbage. Armed with some stuff called “CurlUp” (which was clearly made for white hair), a tub of clear hair gel, the only book on natural hair I could find in 2000 and some hot-oil treatments,…

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    Danielle C. Belton

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  • Harlem’s Fashion Row Celebrates 10 Years While I Contemplate Whether I’m Over- or Underdressed

    First off, I didn’t realize check-in was at 7, not 8:30. It was just the beginning of a series of disasters that led to my living out one of my nightmares: showing up late for … anything. I abhor being late. I have recurring nightmares about it, and normally I’m the spy who shows up…

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    Danielle C. Belton

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  • Here’s a Cookie

    Wow. I guess a hit dog will holler. When I wrote this on Sunday regarding the gaggle of white people online who turned the carnage of Charlottesville, Va., into a contest to prove they’re not terrible, I was surprised that so many white people would interpret this to mean I was talking about all white…

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    Danielle C. Belton

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  • Watch ‘Unite the Right’ Rally Organizer Jason Kessler Run for His Life

    I guess organizing a gathering of hateful bigots where a person was murdered is a … bad thing? Huh? Who knew! If the guy behind the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va. (who, for some fool reason, attempted to hold a press conference Sunday), didn’t know, the crowd of “indict for murder!” protesters who…

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    Danielle C. Belton

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