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Kanye Says He Will Run for President, but Here’s How He Wants to Reinvent the Campaign Process
Yes, Kanye West is “definitely” giving his 2020 presidential run some thought, but the way he wants to run for president is drastically different from how our political-campaign system is currently set up. He spoke about all of this during a recent interview with Vanity Fair. “When I run for president, I’d prefer not to…
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Watch: Jeremy Lin’s Video About What It’s Like Being a Nonblack Guy in the NBA
Jeremy Lin came into the nation’s collective purview when he went on a scoring streak back in 2012 as an off-the-bench point guard for the New York Knicks. The blitz came out of nowhere and was sensationalized even more because he’s Asian American. It goes without saying that NBA players are overwhelmingly black. Well, Lin—now…
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Michael B. Jordan, Here’s the Thing About Going for White Roles Only and Wanting to Be Post-Racial
Michael B. Jordan’s interview with GQ magazine gives a prime example of the kind of well-intentioned, young black person who seems to think that it’s black people who are unnecessarily obsessed with race, and that everyone else is trying to get on with their lives and move the ball forward on race relations. After he…
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Aisha Tyler Says She Doesn’t Regret Prioritizing Her Career Over Having Children
Women are coming out of the woodwork, opening up about the pressure they’re under to get married by a certain age, be at a certain level in their careers by a certain age and have children by a certain age. Tyra Banks and Chrissy Teigen poured their hearts out about all of that recently. You’re…
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Finance Exec Accused of Saying His Client Rihanna Is ‘Hot’ Because She’s ‘Not Too Dark’
It seems like Rihanna’s financial-management firms always got something going on. Back in 2012, Rihanna sued her former financial-management firm for mishandling her funds. Her experience was actually the inspiration behind the “Bitch Better Have My Money” music video, in which she kidnapped her accountant’s wife in order to get the money she says she…
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Guess Who’s Writing the New Black Panther Series? Jay Z Told America to Read His Book
Ta-Nehisi Coates is not just any ol’ journalist (we should know; he was the No. 1 honoree last year on The Root 100, an annual list we put out ranking the most influential African Americans). He’s the guy who wrote “The Case for Reparations”—one of the highest-trafficking articles in the history of The Atlantic magazine. He also…
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F. Gary Gray Is the Highest-Grossing Black Director of a Single Film Because of Straight Outta Compton
When asked who is my favorite director of all time (I’m a bit of a movie buff), I always say F. Gary Gray. His directing brought tears to my eyes as I howled while watching Friday, and then again as I wept watching Set It Off—two movies that sit on opposite sides of a spectrum. And…
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Watch: Regina King Talks About Emmy Win: ‘When Taraji Gasped, I Knew I Had Won’
Taraji P. Henson demonstrated Sunday night at the 2015 Emmy Awards that she’s the type of chick who, if her friends are winning, feels like she’s winning, too. She jumped up in excitement, gasped, screamed out from the stage and ran up and gave bear hugs to the brown girls who picked up trophies that…
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Watch: Tracy Morgan Receives Standing Ovation at the Emmys After His Near-Fatal Accident
Tracy Morgan walked out to a standing ovation Sunday night at the 2015 Emmy Awards. It was the first time he was onstage since being involved in a fatal vehicle accident in June 2014 that took the life of his friend and comedian James McNair. The accident left Morgan with serious brain and bodily injuries—including…
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Mary, Taraji and Kerry Kick It Like Homegirls in Ad Promoting Apple Music
Is Apple Music marketing directly to black people or what? During Sunday night’s Emmy Awards show on Fox, Taraji P. Henson, Kerry Washington and Mary J. Blige appeared in a new commercial promoting Apple Music’s online streaming service. There were several, um—how should we say?—cultural clues that had my around-the-way, black-girl self feeling all nostalgic,…
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