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Tapping Into Your "Why?": A Blueprint For Better Black Entrepreneurship | The Root Institute 2023

Tapping Into Your “Why?”: A Blueprint For Better Black Entrepreneurship | The Root Institute 2023

Successful Entrepreneurs On Leveraging Your Niche & Accelerating Your Brand | The Root Institute

Highlights from the 2023 Root Institute panel featuring a diverse array of entrepreneurs invested in economic equity and turning their niches into empires.

Adriano Contreras

Bravo Stars Give Advice on Building Better Black Representation on TV | The Root Institute

Bravo Stars Give Advice on Building Better Black Representation on TV | The Root Institute

The Plight of Black Women: Targeted At Home, At Work & In Politics | The Root Institute

The Plight of Black Women: Targeted At Home, At Work & In Politics | The Root Institute

Watch: How to Tackle the Black Maternal Health Crises

Watch: How to Tackle the Black Maternal Health Crises

Entertainment & Culture, Events, The Root Institute

The Root Institute 2021: Media Coverage and the Black Community

In this roundtable discussion, April Reign, Errin Haines and Angela Rye break down the ways media portrays our community and how we can make it better

By

Vanessa De Luca

Published

September 22, 2021
Entertainment & Culture, Events, The Root Institute

The Root Institute 2021: Does a New ‘Black Renaissance’ Mean We Can Be Critical of Our Art?

2020 MacArthur Fellow Tressie McMillan Cottom on the white and Black gaze, the necessity of critique and the dangers of indiscriminate adulation.

By

Maiysha Kai

Published

September 22, 2021
Events, The Root Institute

The Root Institute 2021: Tarana Burke’s New Memoir Unbound Retraces the Birth of a Movement

The founder and leader of the Me Too movement retraces her steps in a deeply vulnerable and moving memoir under Oprah’s imprint.

By

Maiysha Kai

Published

September 21, 2021
Events, The Root Institute

The Root Institute 2021: Defund, Abolish or Reform? What to Do About Police and Prisons

Brittany Packnett Cunningham and Monifa Bandele join Michael Harriot to discuss the controversial opinions surrounding this thought-provoking issue.

By

Vanessa De Luca

Published

September 21, 2021
Events, The Root Institute

The Root Institute 2021: A Master Class in Grassroots Organizing

Trailblazing change agents LaTosha Brown, Melanie Campbell and Glynda Carr school us on how to build momentum and turn imagination into action.

By

Vanessa De Luca

Published

September 21, 2021
Events, Politics, The Root Institute

The Root Institute 2021: Unpacking the Attacks on Critical Race Theory

Michael Harriot sat down with noted scholar and Crunk Feminist Collective co-founder Brittney Cooper to dispel some myths about CRT.

By

Vanessa De Luca

Published

September 21, 2021
Events, Politics, The Root Institute

The Root Institute 2021: A Special Message From President Joe Biden

On the advent of this year’s second annual virtual conference, President Joe Biden offers his remarks and reflections on the power of the Black community

By

Vanessa De Luca

Published

September 21, 2021
Events, The Root Institute

Welcome to The Root Institute 2021

This year we convened some of the Black community’s brightest minds to help set the agenda for Black America’s future

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Vanessa De Luca

Published

September 20, 2021
Events, The Root Institute

The Root Brings Our Community’s Activists, Artists and Great Minds Together for The Root Institute 2021

The Root presents, The Root Institute 2021, in partnership with Target.

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Peter J. Rickards

Published

September 20, 2021
Events, The Root Institute

The Root Gets Together to Talk The Root Institute

With heavy-hitters like Stacey Abrams and Ava DuVernay, The Root Institute was a must-watch online event this past August and we at The Root were excited to be part of it. In this conversation with several of the hosts from the Institute—including The Root’s video producer and host Felice Leon, The Glow Up’s managing editor,…

By

Danielle C. Belton

Published

September 21, 2020