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Wu-Wednesday: The Wu-Tang Clan Play 'Black Ass Game'
It’s Wu-Wednesday, folks! Wu-Tang: An American Saga on Hulu is well underway. Have y’all caught the series yet? What’s the read—are folks feeling it? On this Wu-Wednesday, allow us to offer some levity for that azz. With that, The Root welcomed members of the Wu Tang Clan, as well of some cast of Wu-Tang: An…
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Joy-Ann Reid: Everything About Donald Trump Is a Con
Joy-Ann Reid sees Donald Trump in very clear and simple terms: a con man. Trump, as Reid explains in her op-ed video with The Root, is a con man with a track record of screwing over people with his various failed business deals who ended up convincing enough Americans that his mediocrity, masked as entrepreneurial…
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Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Is Set for a Rare Revival On the Stage Where It All Began, NYC’s Public Theater
While it’s widely celebrated as a major work of American theater, Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf is rarely professionally performed onstage. That’s changing beginning in October when the choreopoem will be revived at New York’s Public Theater, the stage where For Colored Girls premiered over…
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Hollywood Once Told Francis Ford Coppola The Cotton Club Had 'Too Many Black Stories'. Now, He's Restoring Them
You know how kids have a list of things they want to be when they grow up and toggle between them until they actually do grow up and (maybe) decide on one thing? Well, for me, one of those things was a tap dancer. Now, this urge was completely inside of my head, as I…
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'I Am What I Am': In Concert and Conversation, Audra McDonald Pulls Back the Curtain on a Brilliant Career
When you get an opportunity to see Audra McDonald perform, you take it. The record-breaking six-time Tony Award winner, Grammy and Emmy winner and 2015 National Medal of Arts recipient has conquered both stage and screen with her acting and singing and is lauded across the globe as one of the brightest lights of Broadway.…
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Peace Is a Lifestyle: Erica Ford’s Peace Mobile Is Healing a Community Affected by Gun Violence, One Ride at a Time
Like fellow Queens, N.Y., native, L.L. Cool J, Erica Ford has been here for years. She’s been in these streets. Always a standout, with gray tresses since she was in her 20s, Ford has long been at the intersection of hip-hop and activism. At turns playful and stern, like a drill sergeant, sis is serious…
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Google Celebrates Late, Great Blues Legend B.B. King on 94th Birthday
Never ever forget the great ones who came before you. We give props to the folks at Google for keeping some of our historical events and figures at the forefront through its remarkable Google Doodle initiative, which dates back to 1998 and aims to “enliven the Google homepage and bring smiles to the faces of…
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She's a Hustler, Homie: Watch Keke Palmer Play a Game of 'Never Have I Ever'
You may know Keke Palmer as a lovable childhood star, but y’all: She’s all grown up now. Yes, Palmer is a grown-ass woman, and we wanted to get all the hot and juicy 20-something tea. As such, we invited the self-proclaimed “Millennial Diva” to play a game of “Never Have I Ever.” Palmer’s a Virgo,…
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LeBron James Gets Shot-Blocked on His Attempt to Trademark ‘Taco Tuesday’
LeBron James will have to take an “L” on his desire to trademark the phrase “Taco Tuesday,” a phrase he often employs while sharing his family’s dinner menu with his followers on Instagram, but he’s sees a silver lining. If James can’t trademark “Taco Tuesday,” his representatives say, ESPN reports, then no one can, protecting…