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Protests Quash 'All My Babies' Mamas'
“Author Sabrina Lamb was looking forward to kicking off her New Year with a bottle of champagne and a quiet walk on the beach. Instead, on the first day of January she was greeted with a video link from a friend of a brand-new reality show that sent chills down her spine,” Allison Samuels wrote…
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'The Root Live' Video: Habits for Success
(The Root) — Have you ever wanted to pick the brains of highly successful people to figure out how they got to where they are? The Root Live viewers had just that opportunity on Monday, Jan. 14, during the live taping of the fourth webisode of the series — which featured Tom Burrell, founder of…
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Kevin Hart Is Ready to Act a Fool
(The Root) — BET is keeping it not really real with its new, semiscripted reality spoof, The Real Husbands of Hollywood. The show, which premieres on Jan. 15, stars Kevin Hart, Boris Kodjoe, Duane Martin, J.B. Smoove, Robin Thicke and Nick Cannon as buddies who often dis one another but don’t take it to the…
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Don Cheadle Talks Obama Hopes, 'Django' Toys
(The Root) — Don Cheadle and crew return tonight at 10 p.m. ET in the second-season premiere of House of Lies on Showtime. The show, which features Cheadle’s slick-talking character Marty Kaan as the head of a management-consultant firm, also stars Glynn Turman as his dad, Donis Leonard Jr. as his son and Josh Lawson…
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Mayor 'Outraged' by Cop Conduct
Cops Gave Rivals Questions Asked by Post-Gazette The mayor of Pittsburgh called the executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and “professed outrage” that the city’s police chief had distributed to other reporters the questions Post-Gazette journalists were asking about police conduct in the slaying of a young woman and the suicide of the man police…
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MSNBC Makes Gains With Black Audience
MSNBC “. . . enjoyed significant (around 20%) ratings increases across the board” in 2012, “but made astonishing gains with their already-large African American audience, growing that audience by 60.5% for the Mon-Sun 8pm-11pm period,” Tommy Christopher reported Monday for Mediaite. “MSNBC President Phil Griffin told me, in a phone interview, that he is ‘thrilled’…
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'Django Unchained' Action Figure Stokes Debate
Some Editors Failed to See No-Brainer Story The controversy over Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained,” in which slavery is the backdrop for a spaghetti Western, ratcheted up a notch over the weekend when freelance entertainment journalist Karu F. Daniels, writing in the Daily Beast, reported that the movie characters — slaves and slavemaster — are being…
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'The Root Live' Video: Where to Work in '13
(The Root) — The jobs crisis isn’t a story we left behind in 2012; as we enter the new year, employment is on everyone’s mind! In the third webisode of The Root Live, taped on Jan. 7, host Harriette Cole was joined by Dedrick Muhammad, executive director of the NAACP’s Financial Freedom Center; executive recruiter Volora Howell;…
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Laz Alonso on 'Jumping the Broom' Sequel
(The Root) — Meagan Good jumps the broom from supporting player to leading lady in NBC’s new soapy thriller, Deception, which premieres Monday at 10 p.m. ET. The show features Good as undercover detective Joanna Locasto, who has returned to her hometown to investigate the death of her childhood friend. She’s joined in this effort…
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Critic Wesley Morris Departs Boston Globe
Pulitzer Winner to Devote More Time to Grantland Website Wesley Morris, the African-American film critic for the Boston Globe who won a Pulitzer Prize last year, is leaving for Grantland, the ESPN-affiliated sports/pop culture website that specializes in longform journalism, his Globe editor told staffers Thursday night. “I just didn’t have a reason to say…