Nah, but call me when Ye or any of them reach out to Azealia Banks!

I’d like to introduce a change to our Black Traditions:

Yeah, there are some master manipulators out there catching even smart ones. But my comment came from two perspectives. One, let’s acknowledge a grown woman’s agency and having trauma doesn’t absolve you from responsibility not to inflict it on anyone else. It takes minutes to google therapists and make an…

Chef’s kiss!

Noooo NOOOOO NOOOOOO!! I know you’re a baller and a poet, a writer and destined for greatness (while being off the market & married to a doctor!) but I can’t handle change right now! So stop, call it off, come back and keep The Root’s continuity! I haven’t even read your post but I’m upset now for the rest of the…

It WORKS! A swipe under the toes and another over the whole sole (or a spray) and you’ll wonder where you’ve been all your life! Now understand that it works best with new insoles cuz foot funk will reactivate old odors in old shoes but even then, your feet won’t sweat! Make it your new habit (I use cheaper Dollar…

People are scandalized seeing me walk into Michigan businesses Oct thru mid-January without a coat! It stays in the car for emergencies like me having to walk more than a few hundred feet to the entrance because I can’t even carry it over my arm without bursting into flames with sweat running out of my hair down my…

Drenched I tell ya! I’m in 40-degree Michigan and haven’t turned on my heat yet! I can’t sleep in ANY clothes, EVER! This weekend sleeping in my back family room with cathedral ceilings under only the cheapest, thinnest 5 year old comforter, I awoke 3 separate times so drenched in sweat that both sides of the pillow…

I’ve figured out during the pandemic that I use way too much solid deodorant/antiperspirant and probably have been all my life. Preteen me was so terrified of musty pits that I overdid it. Decades later, being at home I don’t need to swipe so much or everyday.

Listen, my Daddy had a crush on Chaka so I listened to Chançon Papillion growing up too! Besides seeing Whitney pregnant and so happy, Chaka popping up so joyous and decidely not-jealous in the I’m Every Woman video still makes me happy!

Agreed. Although it bugs me when people act as though food is just for filling one’s belly. The people who can’t appreciate the difference between Golden Corral cooking the same bland, overcooked and underseasoned five basic items we all ate as children and fine food pisses me off the more I think about it!

In that vein, I love food from home-cooked experiments to holes-in-the-wall to higher-end (maybe not quite a Michelin star) places. I left Emeril’s in Miami Beach angry about not-warm roadkill chicken (spatchcocked) with chorizo poop coming out of the butt, $15 bottled fizzy water because I didn’t specify flat or tap,…

I always THINK I forgot sage then find 2 bottles on the top shelf in the back!

I mostly do the rinse and hand-swiggle method with most fruits & veggies. For the past 10+ years, I’ve been using my salad spinner to do a vinegar dunk/rinse/spin of my strawberries simply so they don’t grow mold and last more than a day!

Oh, don’t get me to lying. But we Detroiters usually do help those who need it!

Rich and repugnant white people always get to spew their hateful vitriol and still get multiple opportunities; only the poor(er) and powerless whites will suffer any real and lasting consequences. It.Is.Known.

I’ve wondered if The Honey Pot works for sweating/chafing in the nether regions. The living ain't never easy in the summertime or on tropical vacations!

Come on now, Stephanie was On The One, at least in Motown (where we know More Than A Few)! You don’t get to The Wiz on Broadway just cuz you took a cab!

IKR?! Immediately thought about the world’s shortest fan with the 2nd-most powerful voice, my aunt Connie! She had a similar vocal quality/range and was a huge Stephanie Mills fan! Unfortunately, she’s got dementia now. But she used to make my grandma’s wooden floors vibrate hitting the crescendo on “I Feel Good”!

Wow, I too have found the ‘Quiet because nothing’s being thought’ to be the case 9 times out of 10 but I felt bad for thinking it. So thanks for the validation!