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Getting my first car was a huge milestone for me, especially since I already had a lot of driving experience before owning one. My parents spent a lot of time teaching me how to drive and making sure I was fully prepared for the road, which helped me feel confident behind the wheel. I got my first car for Christmas, and it’s a 2003 model, so it doesn’t have all the modern features like a backup camera or autopilot.
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The Realizing the Dream Health Living Expo Cook-off is one of the most popular features at the Expo. Last year, it was the battle of the collard greens and cornbread. This year, we found the BEST Macaroni and Cheese. The winners were: 1st Place, Jaqueline Williams with Old School Mac & Cheese; 2nd Place Cheron Sneed with Mac and Cheese and 3rd Place Felicia Guimont with Loaded Mac Attack.
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The glitz and glam of Hollywood’s biggest night was on full display and The Root was privileged to be in the building! But along with the pomp and circumstance that you see televised—there are a lot of other things you don’t see behind the scenes. But luckily for you, we’re here to show it all to you! So, keep reading to take a sneak peek at all the hidden chaos and secret goodness inside!
Before Michael Jordan was the face of the NBA there was Dr. J. Before the TV sitcom Friends gave viewers 236 Episodes, so iconic that they are now prefixed as “the one about” there was the show called Living Single, yes, based around a group of friends indeed. Before its MTV birth in July of 2005 and now 20 seasons of “Wild N’ Out” with Nick Cannon there was “The Way We Do It” and Andre’ Barnwell. On a recent call with the proud 1986 Howard University graduate, Mr. Barnwell, now in Pasadena California, has a calm demeanor and a passionate yet measured speech that held not even an ounce of bitterness.
“I want other people who are deaf and Black and also have been mainstreamed to be able to see that we’re out here,” 30-year-old deaf TikToker, singer, freelance artist and model Anjuli Symone told the AFRO. “We’re not all a monolith in our experience. We can do anything that we want to do. Just because there may be expectations, whether that’s put on us by us or society or family, doesn’t mean that we can’t or can do everything.”
Across four hours, “James Brown: Say it Loud” traces the incredible trajectory of Brown’s life and career from a 7th grade drop-out arrested for robbery in the Jim Crow-era South to an entertainment legend whose groundbreaking talent and unique perspective catapulted him to become a cultural force whose words, songs, style and moves inspired musical revolutions and molded a nation’s view of Black Pride and Black masculinity
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