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  • Why Isn’t Billy Dee Williams in Star Wars: Episode 7?

    When the cast photo for the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII was released in April, nerds everywhere jumped for joy. The rumors that had been swirling around for a few years were true. Not only were Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher reprising their roles from the original trilogy, but they were apparently going…

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    Gregory Engel is a Software Engineer at The Root. Ninjasonik, New York City-based musicians and performance artists, take care to call themselves “a band, not a rapper.” The band’s enthusiastic claims to blipsterhood are manifest in its underground hit: “Tight Pants.” Now I’ve come home to finish finish my Brooklyn Blues —Barry Manilow

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