• Disney's Very First B.A.P.

    Finally, little girls of African descent will have a Disney princess who looks more like them, with her very own hair products and happily ever after.

    The Princess and The Frog with Anika Noni Rose: Disney's First B.A.P.
  • "Brick City" Offers More Real Talk Than Pep Talks

    Brick City, the Sundance Channel documentary on Newark, New Jersey and its Mayor, Cory Booker, aired last week. What have we learned?
    New Documentary on Newark, New Jersey, and Mayor Cory Booker Offers Real Talk on Cities
  • Male Nudity, Illicit Substances and Ill-Timed Professions of Love

    Can black male characters hang in the era of the bromance? Or is the trend all about emasculation?
    Bromance Films: Couples Retreat, Pineapple Express, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and The 40-Year-Old Virgin
  • Entering 'District 9'

    With its social commentary and existential angst 'District 9' is certainly not your typical alien invasion flick in which plotline is secondary to special effects. Who knew a sci-fi thriller could actually have a heart?
    'District 9': Who knew a sci-fi thriller could actually have a heart?
  • Transformers: No Racism or Plot

    Maybe even less than meets the eye...

     
    Transformers: No Racism or Plot
  • Spike Lee Speaks About 'Do the Right Thing' 20 Years later

    VIDEO: Spike Lee, in a conversation with Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Root's Editor-in-Chief, calls out the critics who predicted violence at the release of his groundbreaking 1989 film and clarifies what the "right thing" really was.
    Spike Lee and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Discuss the 20th anniversary of Do the Right Thing
  • Me and Spike Lee Do the Right Thing

    Maybe Spike will play along and give me a scene from the script.
    Me and Spike Lee Do the Right Thing
  • L'Enfant Terrible of Black Cinema

    Twenty years after Do the Right Thing, and Spike Lee, that angry, ebony wunderkind of the ’80s, is now middle-aged. The 1989 film may not be his masterpiece, but no other film got people talking about race—or still has people talking about race—like it did, and does.
    Henry Louis Gates Marks Do the Right Thing @ 20
  • Do the Right Thing Party Kit

    Join us in celebrating the 20th anniversary of our favorite Spike Lee Joint.
    Do the Right Thing Party Kit -- Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Your Favorite Spike Lee Joint
  • Baseball's Brown 'Sugar'

    Algenis Perez Soto steals the spotlight in this baseball film as a young Dominican pitcher trying to make it to the big leagues.
    'Sugar'
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