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Watch: Did Rough Night Steal From Girls Trip? Director Says Yes
Girls Trip, the new girls-just-wanna-have-fun flick starring Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, Regina Hall and Tiffany Haddish, has been on a promo tour like no other. It’s been a full year of the production powers that be pushing this Hangover-meets-Girlfriends (shoutout to Joan Clayton, aka Tracee Ellis Ross) mashup and then … Rough Night came…
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Watch: This Is What Happens When Your Privilege Is Showing and There’s a Black Woman in the Room
By now you may have seen the viral clip from Katy Perry’s livestream promoting her new album, Witness, that catapulted actress Amanda Seales and former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner more into the spotlight more than they already were! To recap: Jenner adores America and Seales doesn’t quite feel the same, and Jenner is perplexed by Seales’…
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Watch: Does Claws Challenge Stereotypes on TV of Women of Color?
When you hear about a new TV show that stars Niecy Nash and Karrueche Tran and it’s all about a nail salon, thoughts of stereotypes of Asian women and black women immediately pop up. At least they did for me when I saw the trailer for TNT’s new dramedy, Claws. But after watching, I was…
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Judge of Characters: These White Women Were Told by AppleCare!
White women gonna white women. This week, white women decided to get in “Formation” for an unseasoned display of white-womanness. First, Elizabeth Banks used her speech after winning an award at the Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards (something I have never in my life heard of) to call out famed director Steven Spielberg…
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Al Sharpton Explains Why His Thirst-Trap Selfies Might Steal Your Great-Auntie
Listen, if you’re not following the Rev. Al Sharpton on social media, what are you doing with your life? Lately, the civil rights leader has been posting selfies like the one above, and while he thinks it’s just a harmless promotion of a healthy lifestyle, the internet, namely black Twitter, thought it was hilarious meme…
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Jerrod Carmichael Plays the Comedic Relief in Transformers: The Last Knight … Only if You Laugh, Though
There’s nothing more impressive than Michael Bay, the director of many of your favorite blockbusters, hitting you up specifically to be in his next movie. This is exactly what happened to blossoming comedic superstar Jerrod Carmichael, who appears in the latest Transformers flick, The Last Knight. It’s called networking, kids, and it works! Carmichael sat…
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Watch: Kofi Siriboe Says Being Black Is a Blessing
We have a new video series here at The Root that we want to share with you all, and it’s called Black and Proud. We get the chance to chat with a lot of our favorite black celebrities, tastemakers and thought leaders, so we decided to ask them about their pride in being black. Many…
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Started From the Blog, Now We’re Here: Rae Holliday Is the ‘Stuff’ Fly People Like
We’re living in a do-it-yourself culture, and there’s no one more DIY than bloggers. Blogging is a means of communication, self-expression, culture, news and so much more. And the people who create blogs are typically ridiculously talented and effortlessly wear the responsibility of being a voice for their culture. Bloggers are inspiring, to say the…
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Everybody’s Queen Sugar Bae, Kofi Siriboe, Is Trolling All of Us
Kofi Siriboe is easily the bae of anyone who is attracted to the male species. Kofi knows he’s bae. Kofi also loves black women, fully, unapologetically and relentlessly. It’s clear in the way he treats his momager (who happens to be a friend of mine), Koshie Mills. When he speaks to her, his voice is…
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Watch: Detroit Exposes the Terrifying Civil Unrest That Ripped the City Apart in 1967
From the Academy Award-winning director of The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty comes a new story that puts you smack dab in the middle of one of the most terrifying moments of civil unrest, one that rocked Detroit in the summer of 1967. Detroit brings to the big screen the horrible reality of racism,…
