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Watch: Star of Broadway’s Aladdin Keeps Getting His Wishes Granted With New Roles in Hamilton
James Monroe Iglehart won the Tony in 2014 for his role as the Genie in Broadway’s Aladdin. Earlier this year, he moved on to join the cast of Hamilton, where he plays both the Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson, roles that earned original cast member Daveed Diggs both a Tony and a Grammy. Iglehart…
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The Carmichael Show Is Back, and Jerrod Carmichael Says It Will Continue Confronting Black Conversations You Don’t See on TV
The Carmichael Show is easily one of the best black shows on television right now. It stars its namesake and creator, Jerrod Carmichael, as a son, brother and fiance who is not only opinionated but often finds himself in the crossfire of the even stronger opinions of his family. In the first two seasons, we…
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Sportswriter Fired After Anti-Japanese Tweet
Terry Frei ‘Uncomfortable’ With Indy 500 Winner Woods Arrest a Gift for New Sports Columnist Lantigua-Williams Leaving NPR ‘Code Switch’ Europeans Say They Find Trump Unstable Trump Budget Would Gut Civil Rights Programs In Monuments Debate, What About the Indians? At ESPN, ‘Role Was Changing Seemingly Every Year’ Reporter’s Scary Ride Nets a Million Views…
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Suddenly, Mitch Landrieu Is America’s Mayor
Speech on New Orleans Statues Goes Viral D.C.’s WAMU Boosts Black, Latino Listeners Trump Budget Panned for Effect on Latinos Jerry Perenchio Dies at 86, Built Univision Being Biracial Teaches Activist Not to Generalize Nominate a J-Educator Who Promotes Diversity Donald Franklin, St. Louis Journalist, Dies at 79 Short Takes A speech by New Orleans…
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Tupac’s Godfather, Jamal Joseph, on His Journey From Panther to Political Prisoner to Film Director
Writer, director and activist Jamal Joseph was a member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. At 16 years old, he was arrested in the Panther 21 case along with Afeni Shakur, the mother of rapper Tupac Shakur. The Panther 21 case was designed to wipe out the New York Black Panther…
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Tenants Call Trump’s Son-in-Law a Slumlord
Reporter Examines Kushner’s Md. Properties Trump Budget a ‘Crackdown on the Neediest’ . . . Public Broadcasting Funds Would Be Slashed Hannity, Pushing Conspiracy, Loses Advertisers David Louie Still Chases Stories After 45 Years Coates’ ‘Black Panther’ Comic Spinoff Canceled Univision, Telemundo Accused of Defamation Journal-isms Inc. Gains Tax-Exempt Status Chicago Radio Raises Funds for…
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Does Charlamagne tha God Hate Black Women?
Tomi Lahren is a certified troll. Our friend Damon Young of Very Smart Brothas stuck “Darth” in front of her name to truly capture the essence of her evil. She’s like Donald Trump in Becky’s clothing. So when radio personality, author and all-around professional under-your-skin dweller Charlamagne tha God was not only spotted with Lahren…
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Where Are the Black and Brown Journalists Probing Trump?
‘Not Enough’ Investigative Reporters of Color Wilkins Recalled as Father Confessor, Go-To Guy . . . ‘Tried to Educate’ Washington Post Editor 3 More File Discrimination Complaints Against Fox Trump News Overwhelming Famine Crisis Richmond Paper to Neo-Confederates: Surrender Sinclair Could Reach 7 of 10 Americans Black, Latino Voter Turnout Declined in ’16 Morgan State…
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Watch: Remembering Black Radical Women Who Used Art to Start a Revolution
“We think of artists usually in history as European, as male, as being trained in a certain way,” said Rujeko Hockley, co-curator of “We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85,” an exhibition currently on display at the Brooklyn Museum. “We don’t necessarily think of black women making quilts as artists in the South in…
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Watch: The Root’s Young, Fabulous and Female and manCODE Chicago Completely Redefined Success
Big house + big job = great life? Maybe, but maybe not. Maybe it’s time to take a different look at what success really means for us, personally and professionally. In our joint Young, Fabulous and Female and manCODEevents Tuesday, May 16, in Chicago’s Zhou B Art Center, we did just that. The Root and…