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"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." I grew up in an 1850s Greek Revival that my parents restored from top to bottom over the course of ten ...

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Steve Chen, founder of CALLTOLEAP, always shares powerful insights. Here is one that took him a decade to learn. His message resonated deeply with me because these are truths many of us realize far ...

Living with people 40 years older than me taught me more about life than any self-help book ever could. In the spring of 2021, my life was what one might call a train wreck. I was rehabbing an ACL ...

“You only learn half the things you need to know in the classroom.” When I first heard that saying, I brushed it off as something adults said to make school sound deeper than it really was. But now, a ...

The Root Exclusive Series: Black History Month was established 100 years ago, in February 1926. To commemorate this momentous ...

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