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Tory Lanez Allegedly Shot Megan Thee Stallion as She Was 'Trying to Leave,' Witnesses Not Cooperating With Police
Now that she has confirmed being shot, additional details are surfacing about the incident that occurred involving Megan Thee Stallion and Tory Lanez outside of Kylie Jenner’s house party over the weekend. Reports have emerged alleging that Tory (born Daystar Peterson) shot Meg outside of the party. “Tory fired the shots from within the vehicle…
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Fatal Affair Is Obsessed With Insert Shots
I always feel like somebody’s watchin’ me—oh wait, you are, technically, because you’re reading my words right now. Hey there. Sit down and get comfortable. I’ve prepared you for this day. Well, I specifically prepared those of you who follow my Trailer Roundup series in which I told you—based on the trailer alone—that this film…
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Home Sweet Home: NBC Orders Ava DuVernay's Unscripted Family Social Experiment Series on Race, Religion, Economics and Gender
Ava DuVernay and her arts advocacy collective ARRAY has another project in the works—and this time they’re diving into reality TV. Or since she is a documentarian, perhaps “docu-series” fits better here. NBC has ordered 10 hour-long episodes of an upcoming unscripted family social experience series called Home Sweet Home, which will be produced by…
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British Vogue Editor-in-Chief Edward Enninful Says He Was Racially Profiled by a Security Guard While Entering His Office
Every so often, we’re forced to utter some variation of the phrase, “This is still happening in [insert contemporary year]?” Whether it’s the consistent racism in an idealistic (and non-existent) post-racial society or the fact that we’re still experiencing “firsts” in Black history, we’re continuously reminded just how much further we have to go, despite…
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Fatal Affair: Nia Long and Omar Epps Discuss Hollywood 20 Years Later—Has It Changed?
A lot can happen in 20 years. On the flip side, those two decades can also shine a light on how much hasn’t changed. The Root sat down with Nia Long and Omar Epps, two Black actors who dominated the ’90s and are reuniting in Netflix’s new thriller, Fatal Affair. The synopsis of the film,…
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'I'm Incredibly Thankful to be Alive': Megan Thee Stallion Clarifies Previous Reports, Says She Suffered Gunshot Wounds
Megan Thee Stallion has spoken up and given her own version of what went down this past weekend with Tory Lanez and the house party incident that ended up with Tory being arrested and Meg taken to the hospital for a foot injury. On Wednesday, the “Savage” rapper took to Instagram to clear up some…
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Tory Lanez Arrested for Gun Possession Following Alleged Argument, Megan Thee Stallion Taken to Hospital for Foot Injury
It looks like Tory Lanez and Megan Thee Stallion weren’t exactly on lockdown this weekend, and things escalated quickly. According to TMZ, cops arrived at the scene Sunday after an alleged argument occurred outside of a house party. When they arrived, they found a gun inside Lanez’s car. Megan and another woman were passengers in…
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Kenya Barris Is Milking It for All It’s Worth-Ish; Planning 1 More -Ish Spinoff
Kenya Barris is busy AF. In a recent interview with Deadline, Barris talked about the critique he’s received for #BlackAF, the stark difference between being at Netflix versus ABC and the other projects he has coming down the pipeline. One thing that stuck out from the interview, of course, is whether or not he’s still…
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Knife Fight: Vivica A. Fox Wants Quentin Tarantino to Cast Zendaya as Her Daughter in Possible Kill Bill 3
My name is Tonja Stidhum and I am a Kill Bill stan. In fact, after seeing the ending to the amazing fight sequence between Vernita Green (Vivica A. Fox) and The Bride aka Beatrix Kiddo (Uma Thurman), I immediately yearned for what was obviously to come in the foreshadowing exchange between Beatrix and Vernita’s daughter,…
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Naya Rivera's Body Reportedly Found at California Lake [Updated]
After an extensive search, we unfortunately have very sad news to report: Naya Rivera’s body has been reportedly found in Lake Piru, California. The beloved Glee actress was 33 years old. TMZ adds more details: Ventura County officials said Monday that a body had been found at the lake, and our law enforcement sources have…
