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Watch: 3 Things We Learn From the New Trailer of Toni Braxton’s Unbreak My Heart TV Biopic
Lifetime recently released an extended trailer of its Toni Braxton Unbreak My Heart biopic that’s coming out later in January. It’s no secret that Braxton, one of the queens of R&B soul, has had a storied journey to the top of the charts and has endured a lot of bumps and bruises along the way. Here…
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Tuskegee University Scientist Wins $1,100,000 Cancer Research Grant
Hadiyah-Nicole Green is in a league of her own. She was the second African-American woman to receive a doctorate in physics from the University of Alabama in Birmingham. And today she’s an assistant professor at Tuskegee University and stands as one of fewer than 100 black female physicists in the U.S.—in a field that is still dominated…
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No, Tyler Perry, People Don’t Dislike Your Work Because Your Characters Are Fat
I feel about Tyler Perry the way Spike Lee did before they both called a truce on bashing each other in the media, which is to say, with rare exception, I’m no fan of Perry’s work. I respect that many good people are Perry fans. Case in point: Perry has four shows on OWN, including…
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‘Obama Wants Your Guns’: Ted Cruz Campaign Reacts to President’s Speech on Gun Control
On the heels of President Barack Obama’s 40-minute speech on gun control Tuesday, this happened: “Obama wants your guns.” Said phrase, accompanied by what appears to be a photoshopped image of President Obama clad in black combat attire—helmet and all—headlines a page of Ted Cruz’s campaign website. Just below the headline, the Cruz campaign solicits backing:…
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African Boy Attacked by Chimps to Receive Reconstructive Surgery in NY
Two years ago Dunia Sibomana, his younger brother and a cousin were the victims of a chimpanzee attack. According to the Associated Press, his brother and cousin died in the assault—they were dismembered—while Dunia, now 8, was left severely disfigured. He is missing his lips and a finger, and his cheek was torn during the…
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Watch: Idris Elba Explains Why Stringer Bell Was Such an Important Role
Idris Elba is becoming a veteran right before our eyes. It seems like just yesterday he burst onto the scene playing the sexy and complicated Stringer Bell in The Wire. His recent video interview with the New York Times allowed him to reflect on some of his most significant roles. “I consider every character my…
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Serena Williams: I Know I Get Flak for My Physique, but Curves Are In and I’m Happy
A large chunk of the interview that Serena Williams recently conducted with the United Kingdom’s The Times Magazine is inaccessible to nonsubscribers, but a few more excerpts from the chat got published online. And it’s worth screaming from the mountaintops about. There’s nothing better than hearing Williams say that she’s well-aware of the criticism she sometimes…
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‘The Year We Mispronounce Back’ Takes Off as Black South Africans Shed Light on Their Reality by Butchering White Names
Nearly everyone with a non-Anglican-sounding or -looking surname can relate to the dread you sometimes feel when someone asks you what your name is with the intent of repeating it back to you. Same when a teacher butchers your name during roll call. For more of black Twitter, check out The Chatterati on The Root and follow The Chatterati…
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Don’t Blame Your Hysterectomy if He’s Not Happy
I am a 44-year-old married mother of three. A year ago, my doctor advised me to have a hysterectomy. My research and a second opinion proved him correct. I had the surgery but kept my cervix and ovaries. Since then, my husband complains that sex is not the same. He hints that I am not…
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Finding Your Roots Returns to PBS With New Episodes
The past always informs the future, and never more so these days than in Finding Your Roots, the PBS program hosted by renowned scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., a Harvard professor and the founding director of Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. He is also chairman of The Root. “There is something…
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