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by Helena Andrews onDecember 13, 2011
Quentin Tarantino's upcoming film tackles slavery, but Octavia Butler's Kindred still cuts to its heart.
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by Joshua R. Weaver onSeptember 22, 2011
The Root Recommends: An upcoming movie by Jamie Foxx that highlights the history of a Southern high school's jazz-funk band.
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by Nsenga Burton onJuly 5, 2011
The Oscar-winning actor will lead the cast in Quentin Tarantino's much anticipated reimagined Western Django Unchained.
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February 24, 2011
The White House celebrated Black History Month with a Motown tribute concert, and The Root was there (well, for about 20 minutes).
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by Nsenga Burton onFebruary 24, 2011
A decade-long winning streak for black folks came to an end this year.
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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onJanuary 16, 2011
The BET Honors showed off the grown-up side of BET and offered a taste of the network's potential.
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March 24, 2010
Were there even any black people on the show?
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February 25, 2010
At the 41st Annual NAACP Image Awards, those who uplift the race in film, TV, music and books, get their due. Natalie Hopkinson, The Root’s media and culture critic, tells you which 2010 nominees have no business even being in the running.
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May 19, 2009
The Afternoon Round-Up: President Obama bows down...to a little kid, MLK's story destined for the silver screen, Jamie Foxx 'in the running' for Frank Sinatra role...
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May 13, 2009
Don't worry—not at Desiree Rogers' spoken word jam last night.
If we thought black comics would forget how to be funny now that we have a black president, boy were we wrong. (See Sykes, Wanda and Foxx, Jamie.) And now, enter Alphacat, one of YouTube’s most viewed black comedians, whom The Root featured last week...
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