The Root (magazine)

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The Root
Type of site
Online magazine
Available in English
Owner G/O Media
Created by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Donald E. Graham
Editor Vanessa De Luca
URL theroot .com
Commercial Yes
Launched January 28, 2008 ; 16 years ago  ( 2008-01-28 )

The Root is an African American-oriented online magazine . It was launched on January 28, 2008, by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Donald E. Graham .

History [ edit ]

The Root was owned by Graham Holdings Company through its online subsidiary, The Slate Group . [1] [2] In 2015, Graham Holdings sold The Root to Univision Communications . [3] The site was subsequently re-launched under the Kinja platform used by other Gizmodo Media Group (formerly Gawker Media ) websites. [4] GMG was later succeeded by G/O Media as owner of The Root .

In July 2017, the blog Very Smart Brothas, co-founded by Damon Young and Panama Jackson, became a vertical of The Root . [5]

Danielle Belton was editor-in-chief at The Root between 2017 and 2021, when she was appointed editor of HuffPost . [6] [7] On April 14, 2021, it was announced that Vanessa De Luca had been appointed editor-in-chief. [8]

Since April 2021 The Root has seen substantial staff turnover with 15 out of the 16 full-time staffers resigning following internal tensions, with former staff member Michael Harriot saying that, "as a staff, we came to the conclusion that, basically, The Root is over." [9]

The Root 100 [ edit ]

The Root 100 is the magazine's annual "list of the 100 most important black influencers between the ages of 25 and 45." [10] This list has been published since 2011. Readers of The Root are allowed to nominate those who they feel are deserving of being on this list. The list has had a wide variety of people from celebrities such as Donald Glover , writers like Roxane Gay , and athletes. Other influential people in the black community who are not as well known, such as activists, are encouraged to be added to the list as well. [11]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ Ahrens, Frank (January 28, 2008). "Post Launches Site With African American Focus" . The Washington Post . p. D01 . Retrieved February 20, 2010 .
  2. ^ Perez-Pena, Richard (January 28, 2008). "Washington Post Starts an Online Magazine for Blacks" . The New York Times . Retrieved February 20, 2010 .
  3. ^ Bond, Shannon (May 21, 2015). "Univision buys African-American news site The Root" . Financial Times . ISSN   0307-1766 . Archived from the original on May 24, 2015 . Retrieved May 24, 2015 .
  4. ^ Belton, Danielle C. (January 12, 2017). "Please Allow Us to Re-introduce Ourselves" . The Root . Retrieved January 12, 2017 .
  5. ^ "Gizmodo Media Group Announces Partnership With Very Smart Brothas" . MSN . July 7, 2017.
  6. ^ "Danielle Belton" . LinkedIn .
  7. ^ Spangler, Todd (March 21, 2021). "BuzzFeed Appoints New HuffPost Editor in Chief, Danielle Belton of The Root" . Retrieved September 12, 2021 .
  8. ^ "Vanessa De Luca Joins The Root as Editor-in-Chief" . April 14, 2021 . Retrieved September 12, 2021 .
  9. ^ "What Happened at The Root?" . Gawker . Archived from the original on 2022-01-29 . Retrieved 2022-01-29 .
  10. ^ "The Root 100: A Who's Who Of Black America" . WAMU Tell Me More . NPR . October 26, 2013 . Retrieved July 30, 2016 .
  11. ^ "The Root 100: Tell Us Who Should Be on Our Annual List of Influential African Americans" . The Root . Retrieved May 1, 2018 .

External links [ edit ]


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