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The Root's top 10 nearest neighbors span academics, websites, blogs, a non-profit, a TV personality, a musician, and two fellow news publishers — no single subcategory dominates, and the scores compress into a narrow band from 0.97 to 0.99.
The shape is flat: Marc Lamont Hill leads at 0.99, followed closely by Cornel West at 0.99, Blavity News at 0.98, Black Girl Nerds at 0.98, and NAACP at 0.98. Rounding out the top 10 are Shonda Rhimes at 0.98, Janelle Monáe at 0.98, NBCBLK at 0.98, Angela Rye at 0.98, and theGrio.com at 0.97. The subcategory tally across these ten: two Academics, two Websites, one Blog, one Non-Profit, one TV Personality, one Musician, and two News Publishers. The center entity is itself a News Publisher, so two neighbors share that subcategory — but the majority do not. The cluster is genuinely mixed: academics and commentators sit alongside digital media properties and a civil-rights organization, with no single subcategory accounting for more than two of the ten slots.
That breadth, compressed into a less-than-two-point spread, indicates an audience whose shape is highly consistent across a wide range of entity types rather than tightly bound to any one kind.
