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Beyond Fame With Cornel West
Anji Corley, contributing editor for The Root, goes Beyond Fame in an interview with celebrity scholar Cornel West this week, chatting with the celebrity scholar about his new public radio show with Tavis Smiley called Smiley & West, where single black women can find a good man, and whether or not Jay-Z is his homeboy.…
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Review: 'For Colored Girls,' the Movie
Converting Ntozake Shange’s award-winning For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf from stage to screen is clearly not a task for the faint of heart: It’s a big, modernist painting, abstract and minimalist — a “choreopoem”— told in verse and movement, with anonymous characters identified only by the color of…
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The Root Review: Black Exodus to 'The Warmth of Other Suns'
By Jabari Asim “Scratch a name in a landscape,” the writer Chet Raymo has observed, “and history bubbles up like a spring.” Isabel Wilkerson, the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, doesn’t settle for a single name; nor does she merely scratch. Her lengthy, long-awaited exploration of…
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Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
