Michelle Obama Shares Her Honest Take On Her Daughters Finding Independence
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Spoilers! Now That Sinners is Streaming, Here’s Symbolism You Probably Missed
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Oprah Had Time Today: See How She Claps Back to Trolls on the ’Gram
Leave it to Oprah Winfrey to dismiss her Instagram haters while simultaneously helping them live their best life. On her official Instagram account, Oprah shared a clip from an interview she conducted with Time’s Up backers Reese Witherspoon, Shonda Rhimes, America Ferrera, Tracee Ellis Ross and Natalie Portman. Pretty standard Oprah stuff. Well, a troll…
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Journalists Offered Reward to Ask Trump About US-Wakanda Relations
Want to know what would happen if a reporter seriously asked President Donald Trump how that bilateral trade agreement with Wakanda is panning out? You’re not the only one. On Saturday, a widely shared tweet from Sara Benincasa, a screenwriter and author, called for a journalist to “very seriously” ask Trump “his opinion on our…
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Episode 1: Our Video Series Shares Never-Been-Told Stories of the Memphis Sanitation Workers
In Memphis, Tenn., 1968, 1,300 sanitation workers braved the bitter cold to engage in a revolutionary 65-day action to defend their right to personhood. These men struggled against the noose of white supremacy to proclaim their dignity. They stood, shoulder to shoulder, armed with picket signs and perseverance, determined to declare to the world, “I…
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Trump’s DC Hotel Branded With New Name: Shithole
The word “shithole” was projected onto President Donald Trump’s Washington, D.C., hotel Saturday for about 40 minutes. Video from Robin Bell, who has projected other words along the Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C. (formerly the Old Post Office Pavilion), projected “shithole” along with tons of “poop” emojis, with an arrow pointing at the rounded entrance.…
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Did the White House Fake Trump’s Physical Results?
We all waited with bated breath for President Donald Trump’s physical results —asking how in the world could this rotund, KFC-and-McDonald’s-eating 71-year-old be in decent health? How, indeed? On Friday, the White House released a statement allegedly written by the doctor who administered the exam. It said that the president was “in excellent health.” Except…
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Black Girl Magic and Black Boy Joy Hit Platform 9 3/4, and #BlackHogwarts Was Born
Although we now have Black Panther, Black Mirror and A Wrinkle in Time—films that, in fact, employ black actors to play black characters—a few years back, black folks in mainstream sci-fi and fantasy were few and far between. As Ashley Nkadi recently wrote for The Root, we were usually “erased” from these genres, though rich racial…
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Eric Clapton Whitesplains His Racism. He Even Had a Black Girlfriend
I had no idea that Eric Clapton was once an avowed (rather than just a plain ole complicit) racist. In fact, I thought all those soulful white singers/rock ’n’ rollers from England loved black men, especially those who gave birth to their beloved (and quite fruitful—especially for white men) rock music. But, uh, not Eric…
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Mariah Carey, Tea Goddess, Turns Memes Into Merch, and I’m Here for It
Jesus may have turned water into wine, but leave it to Mariah Carey to flip cups of tea into cash. For the second year in a row, Carey, the living Queen of Christmas Music, delivered a memorable and meme-able New Year’s Eve performance, demanding tea during a live performance on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’…
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Tracee Ellis Ross, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon Discuss Time’s Up Movement With Oprah Winfrey
Hollywood’s leading women gathered with Oprah Winfrey in Pasadena, Calif., this week to discuss Hollywood’s reckoning with sexual harassment and abuse and the resulting Time’s Up movement. The panel included actresses Reese Witherspoon, America Ferrera, Natalie Portman and Tracee Ellis Ross, as well as producer Shonda Rimes, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy and attorney Nina Shaw.…