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Birth of Cool Series From Lena Waithe’s Hillman Grad and Macro Finds a Home at BET+
A new series from Lena Waithe’s Hillman Grad Productions and Macro will be headed to BET+ soon, The Root has learned. According to Deadline, the show, titled Birth of Cool, will be centered around “Crispus Attucks High, a predominantly Black high school in Compton [Calif.]. The half-hour dramedy follows the adventures and misadventures of both…
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What I Hear on Clubhouse: For Black People, Will Silicon Valley’s Hot New Thing Be More Terrordome Than Mecca?
What happens when everyone is an “expert?” How to navigate a world where everyone’s “insights,” no matter how dubious, are cloaked in corporate-speak, strenuously hyped by like-minded cohorts, then injected straight into your brain via a mechanism intentionally designed to push your emotional buttons? And how much do you think your ideas and energy are…
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28 Days of Album Cover Blackness With VSB, Day 23: Ohio Players' Honey (1975)
There is no discussion about Black album covers, iconic or otherwise, that doesn’t include the string of album covers the Ohio Players put together in the 1970s. I could have included any album cover from 1972’s Pain to 1981’s Everybody Up and it would be a worthy inclusion to the conversation. But 1975’s Honey is…
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'This Lacks Respect and Tact': Vanessa Bryant Calls Out Meek Mill for His Kobe Lyric
Vanessa Bryant has spoken out against Meek Mill’s lyric referencing the late Kobe Bryant, which she believes was “disrespectful.” The widow of the late NBA legend, who also lost their daughter, Gianna, in the tragic helicopter crash last January took to Instagram to directly call out the “Dreams and Nightmares” rapper, expressing her disappointment with…
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From Scratch: Director Nzingha Stewart Tapped for New Limited Series From Netflix
Nzingha Stewart, one of the directors of Hulu’s Emmy Award-winning Little Fire’s Everywhere, will be flexing her directorial skills once again for an upcoming limited series starring and executive produced by Zoe Saldana. Per Deadline, the series titled From Scratch, will be based on the 2019 bestselling memoir from Tembi Locke and is being described…
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'Get Your Hand Out of My Pocket': Dr. Dre References Divorce Proceedings and Aneurysm in New Song
Dr. Dre is back in the studio—and it looks like he is intentionally using art to imitate life. According to Complex, DJ Silk recently previewed an unreleased song on Instagram Live by Dre featuring Long Beach rapper and former Slaughterhouse member KXNG Crooked. One particular set of lyrics appears to reference both his divorce proceedings…
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Mic Drop: Let's Take a Genre Trip
Whether it’s personal growth, stories of the past, love or jealousy, music has a way of pulling us in. From pop-rock to hip-hop to soul and R&B, this week’s releases explore a variety of emotions, voices and unique points of view on multiple important topics. Lava La Rue, a British hip-hop/R&B artist takes us on…
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Kerry Washington and Charlize Theron to Star in School of Good and Evil for Netflix
Little Fires Everywhere star Kerry Washington and The Old Guard star Charlize Theron will be facing off in School of Good and Evil, a new feature from Paul Feig, The Root has learned. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the upcoming film is based on the New York Times bestselling children’s book by Soman Chainani and will…
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28 Days of Album Cover Blackness With VSB, Day 22: Max Roach's We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite (1960)
Max Roach was a famed jazz drummer and composer who has countless albums with various configurations of artists. His career spanned decades and if you are up on jazz at all, you know Max Roach even if you don’t know that you know Max Roach. One thing that stands out to me about him is…
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Who’s That Queen?: Grammy-Winning Rapper Eve Set to Star In Upcoming Musical Drama for ABC
Over the weekend, it was announced that former The Talk co-host Eve will be making her return to scripted television, via an all-new musical drama pilot from ABC. Variety reports that the upcoming series, titled Queens, will see Eve in the lead role as “Brianna,” one of “four estranged and out-of-touch women in their 40s…