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by Hillary Crosley onJanuary 20, 2013
The Gangster Squad star has stayed under the radar; playing a superhero in two new films may change that.
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by Kirsten West Savali onJanuary 12, 2013
Clutch magazine's Kirsten West Savali wonders when the African-American men who "slut shame" Olivia Pope's character on the Shonda Rhimes series suddenly developed such strong morals.
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Unlike Rhimes' hit, NBC's new series seems to tiptoe around what it means to have a black leading lady.
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by Celeste Little onNovember 16, 2012
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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onNovember 15, 2012
The woman whose crisis-management firm inspired ABC's Scandal gets involved. Who needs television drama when this is real life?
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