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Kevin Hart Jokingly Recalls Saving Lady Gaga’s Life at the Golden Globes
Let Kevin Hart tell it, and Lady Gaga might’ve been severely injured at the Golden Globes if he hadn’t saved her life. Hart spilled the beans about the incident during an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. He could hardly keep his composure as he told the story, so it’s a good chance that there’s…
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NFL Player Devon Still Declares That His 5-Year-Old Daughter Leah Is Cancer-Free
“With Leah finishing her last treatment last night, I can really say my daughter BEAT CANCER!” That’s how NFL player Devon Still, a defensive tackle for the Houston Texans, began an Instagram post that went on to describe his 5-year-old daughter Leah Still’s journey battling, and apparently defeating, stage 4 neuroblastoma, a form of cancer.…
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These Instagram Posts Reveal That 50 Cent Has Had It With the Way the Hollywood Machine Ignores Power
Editor’s note: This post contains social media messages that some may find offensive. Rapper-actor-mogul 50 Cent is riding an emotional roller coaster over the lack of recognition that his hit TV show, Power, gets from the Hollywood machine, or the powers that be. He vents about all of this from time to time on Instagram.…
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Hillary Clinton Is Asked for an Example of Her White Privilege
The presidential candidates at Monday’s Iowa Brown & Black Forum, broadcast from Drake University in Des Moines, were well-prepared for the ebb and flow of questions about such topics as immigration and criminal-justice reform and inequality. The event, broadcast by Fusion TV, was the first of its kind this campaign season, focusing primarily on issues…
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Watch: 2016 Iowa Brown & Black Democratic Presidential Forum
Issues of importance to African Americans and Latinos were front and center at the 2016 Iowa Brown & Black Democratic Presidential Forum, which took place on the campus of Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, on Jan. 11 at 8 p.m. The event was broadcast by The Root’s sister network, Fusion TV, with questions from…
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Watch: Kendrick Lamar Turns Up in a Promo Trailer for Black-ish
What happens when you put one of television’s best ensemble casts in a promotional trailer with one of the most beloved musicians and lyricists of these times? Why, you get the cast of Black-ish and Kendrick Lamar turning up to Lamar’s hit single “Alright” in a cute music video. Black-ish posted the video on Twitter. The entire cast…
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Sylvester Stallone Forgets to Thank Creed’s Director and Lead Actor
During his acceptance speech at the Golden Globes Sunday night, Sylvester Stallone, who won the award for best supporting actor for his performance in Creed, forgot to thank the two people who inarguably resuscitated his Rocky franchise for a new generation: Creed’s director, Ryan Coogler, and lead actor, Michael B. Jordan. “I’m going to try not…
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Watch: Quentin Tarantino Says ‘Ghetto’ During Golden Globes Speech, but It’s Not a Slight Against Blacks
I bet when Ennio Morricone (or the Hollywood Foreign Press Association) asked Quentin Tarantino to accept the award for best original score on Morricone’s behalf during Sunday night’s Golden Globes ceremony, they didn’t think that Tarantino’s speech would cause controversy. Then again, it is Quentin Tarantino, so they had to know something interesting was going…
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Tiny Says She Was Caught Off Guard but Now Feels Good About Being Pregnant at 40
Tameka “Tiny” Cottle-Harris was torn about whether or not she wanted another baby (she has three children; two with rapper T.I.), so when she got pregnant at 40, she took it as a sign that, deep down, she did want a baby. “It kind of snuck up on me,” Tiny said during an interview with…
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Will Black Millennials Dance With the ‘Party of Our Parents’?
“Tamir Rice was 12 years old. He was murdered outside for using his imagination.” The day after the announcement that there would be no indictment of the police officer who killed the Cleveland boy, with tweets and think pieces sprouting out of our nation’s racial woodwork, those words from Mississippi-born writer Kiese Laymon arrested me.…

