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Quibi Gone, Y'all
You may not tune into anything on the streaming platform, but if you’re active on social media (or your work Slack), you’ve at least heard the name Quibi, specifically because everyone routinely talked about how they don’t know anyone who watches anything on the streaming platform, which launched earlier this year. Did this kind of…
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Academy Dialogues Exclusive Clip: Ava DuVernay Has a Rare Discussion About Craft With Julie Dash and Euzhan Palcy
If you’ve been keeping up with our ongoing coverage so far, you may know that The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has been releasing regular panel sessions called Academy Dialogues as part of its equity and inclusion initiative Academy Aperture 2025. Next up, we have an all-Black female filmmaker panel titled Academy Dialogues:…
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How a Ticket Snub at Disneyland Factored Into Shonda Rhimes Taking Her Shondaland to Netflix
Thursday nights have been always been the time for peak drama, thanks to Shonda Rhimes’ TGIT (Thank God It’s Thursday) primetime TV event featuring the likes of Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal and How to Get Away With Murder. The characters in her stories typically go through some kind of dramatized conflict (or countless ones), leaving audiences…
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Congresswomen AOC and Ilhan Omar Stream Among Us, Thankfully Manage to Avoid Being Cringey
On Tuesday, Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Ilhan Omar went on Twitch to stream the incredibly popular game, Among Us. According to BBC News, the stream managed to get up to 400,000 concurrent viewers, the third-highest stream to ever be hosted on the site. The VOD of the stream has already gotten over 4 million…
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Barney Is a Dinosaur From Daniel Kaluuya's Imagination and Now We Know Why the Hell He's Making This Movie
What would 2020 be without a bizarre introspective film about a big-ass purple dinosaur?! Back in October, Mattel Films announced Daniel Kaluuya would be producing a live-action film based on Barney the Dinosaur. The popular purple dinosaur made his TV debut in 1992 with the premiere of Barney & Friends. “Barney was a ubiquitous figure…
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Exclusive: Meet YouTube 'On the Yard' for Their Virtual HBCU Homecoming; Busta Rhymes and John David Washington Added to Lineup
It’s autumn, which not only means the leaves are turning beautiful colors, but it’s the season swarms of HBCU (historically Black colleges and universities) alumni typically descend upon their alma maters for homecoming shenanigans. Well, not in 2020. Due to the global pandemic, the annual event that most look forward to isn’t happening. Those of…
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Wendell Pierce Will Finally Star as Blues Legend BB King in Upcoming Biopic, The Thrill Is On
After years of twists and turns, acclaimed actor Wendell Pierce, star of The Wire and Treme announced that he will be playing legendary blues musician BB King in an upcoming feature film entitled, The Thrill Is On. Pierce made the announcement Monday via Twitter, sharing a picture of himself alongside the iconic musician. “We are…
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Let's Get Our Hair Did and Play a Round of Black Ass Game With the Cast and Crew of Bad Hair!
We may not be getting our hair did as often in 2020 due to social distancing protocols, but that doesn’t mean we still can’t talk hair! Just in time for its upcoming release, we talked with the cast and crew of Hulu’s Bad Hair. The film’s synopsis via Hulu’s press release sent to The Root:…
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Here’s an Exclusive Excerpt of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Newest Fiction (You’re Welcome!)
For Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie fans, it’s been a long seven years since Americanah, her last novel, and winner of the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. She’s been active on Instagram and it’s always a joy to revisit her catalog of beautiful writing—Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, The Thing Around Your…
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The Safe Negro Guide to Lovecraft Country: 'Full Circle'
I have been telling y’all from the very beginning of our journey through HBO’s Lovecraft Country: Genre matters. So (major spoiler alert), Tic and Ruby are dead? Lies from the pit of hell! This is another reason why genre (and the knowledge of its tropes) is important. Ain’t nobody ever really dead in a horror…