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11 Thoughts About Power Book II: Ghost Now That the 1st Season Is Over. All the Spoilers, Fam
1. Let’s just start at the top: I really enjoyed Power Book II: Ghost, which is hard for me because I literally was only hate-watching it at the start. My entire reason for watching this show was to see Tariq laid out on a Manhattan street somewhere, dead. I HATED Tariq in the entire last…
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'Suddenly, You See the Story More Clearly': The Root Presents: It's Lit Talks Transcendent Writing With Yaa Gyasi
“I always say, writing a first novel, you feel like you’re writing in the dark, unsure of whether or not your book will ever see the light of day,” says author Yaa Gyasi, who has written not one but two bestsellers since 2016, when her debut novel Homegoing was published by Penguin Random House. An…
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Sundance 2021: A List of Black Movies to Watch While You’re in the (Virtual) White Mountains
I’m salty. As The Root’s Staff entertainment writer, one of the most exciting aspects of my job is being able to travel to a lot of cool places. In fact, the Sundance Film Festival typically kicks off the year of traveling shenanigans within my beat. In 2020, I flew to Park City, Utah to cover…
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Verzuz Is Returning to Its Origins, Y’all—With Its Performers in Separate Locations
Many people have been hoping that 2021 will be a reset from the dumpster fire that was 2020 (turns out, it’s kicking off as its own special kind of dumpster fire). Normally, every new year is a time to hit the reset button, an opportunity to refresh. Well, it looks like Verzuz is about that…
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Tonya Pinkins to Replace Niecy Nash in Upcoming ABC Limited Series Women of the Movement
All My Children alum Tonya Pinkins has been tapped to co-star in the new limited series from Marissa Jo Cerar, Women of the Movement. Deadline announced today that the Tony-winning actress will take on the role of Alma, mother to actress Adrienne Warren’s Mamie-Till Mobley, in the six-episode series set to premiere some time in…
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Shonda Rhimes Called Trump an 'Ignorant Bitch Baby': How Black Hollywood Responded to the D.C. Dumpster Fire
Wednesday happened. January 6, 2021, happened. That really happened, y’all. I wanted to make sure that I—The Root’s staff entertainment writer who routinely deals in fiction—noted that this thing that seems to only happen in the movies…happened in real life (because to be fair, we can’t forget the attempted Michigan governor kidnapping plot from a…
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SZA Talks Taking CTRL of Her Music and Legacy for Cosmo Magazine
It seems like just yesterday I was riding around and gettin’ it to Grammy-nominated artist SZA’S album CTRL, singing (albeit loudly and offkey) to “Love Galore.” To say that that particular single was one of my favorites off the album would be an understatement. To say that I, along with countless other SZA fans have…
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Oh When It All, It All Falls Down [Updated]
Jesus Is King and He saves…but will he save Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s marriage? Page Six shook the table (that had already been flipped over, to be honest) when it reported that sources are saying “divorce is imminent” for the famous couple and that Kim has reportedly retained celebrity divorce attorney Laura Wasser. “They…
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Lashana Lynch to Join Netflix’s New Matilda Movie Musical
Captain Marvel star Lashana Lynch has been tapped to join the cast in the upcoming Matilda movie musical adaptation for Netflix. Variety reports that Lynch will be taking on the role of Miss Honey, Matilda’s sweet yet strong teacher. For those unfamiliar, Matilda, originally written by Roald Dahl, tells the story of five-year-old Matilda, whose…
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The Undoing's Noma Dumezweni Will Be Part of the Live-Action World of The Little Mermaid—as Brand New Character
The live-action world of The Little Mermaid just got a little bit bigger. Noma Dumezweni (The Undoing) has been cast in the upcoming Disney flick, per Deadline. The Little Mermaid will star Halle Bailey as Ariel and yes, we’re anxiously awaiting first-look images of what we expect to be a head filled with luscious red…