Michelle Obama Shares Her Honest Take On Her Daughters Finding Independence
All The Shocking Testimony from Diddy’s Federal Trial That’ll Make Your Stomach Turn
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Spoilers! Now That Sinners is Streaming, Here’s Symbolism You Probably Missed
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Purple Rain and She’s Gotta Have It Among 5 African American Films Added to National Film Registry
The Library of Congress has announced 25 new films to add to its National Film Registry for 2019. Of the 25 films that are “selected because of their cultural, historic and aesthetic importance to the nation’s film heritage,” five of them are created by and/or centered around African Americans. Those black films are Purple Rain,…
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Hot Girl Small Screen: Megan Thee Stallion Confirms Role in Season 3 of Good Girls
Real good girl shit—Megan Thee Stallion is coming to your television screens! The 24-year-old rapping sensation will be joining the suburban crime mavens on NBC’s Good Girls. She confirmed the news via Instagram on Wednesday. “NBC done let me come on and be on Good Girls. And y’all just need to tune in and get…
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Because Dreams Really Do Come True, BET Announces Miniseries Based on Andre Harrell’s Legendary Uptown Records
On Jan. 24, 2017, our lives were forever changed with the auspicious debut of BET’s The New Edition Story. Looking to perhaps recapture that magic—or at least those ratings—BET announced that it will be blessing us all with Uptown, which will revisit the trials, triumphs, and tribulations of the early ’90s phenomenon known as Uptown…
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SAG Awards 2020: Jharrel Jerome, Lupita Nyong'o and Jamie Foxx Among Nominees
It’s time for the most delightfully dramatic people in the universe to honor their peers! Danai Gurira and America Ferrera announced the 26th Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards on Wednesday morning and, of course, there is a bit more room for blackness to shine. The guild is showing love to Cynthia Erivo (Harriet) and…
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On Your Way to Meet the Grand Wizard of Oz, You’re Bound to Run Into Silver Kanye
Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Old Kanye anymore…and we haven’t been for a while. At his recent Sunday Service performance of his nativity-themed opera “Mary” at Miami Marine Stadium, Kanye decided to arrive fully donned in silver, from his robes to his skin. No word if Kirk Franklin arrived in gold to…
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Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning to Premiere in January, Will Feature Interviews With More Survivors
Surviving R. Kelly was not only a documentary series, it was a significant moment in time that we’ll never forget. In addition to fostering further difficult conversations surrounding the continued saga of Robert “R.” Kelly, it truly gave a voice to the voiceless: black girls. The Emmy-nominated series certainly made an impact, racking in over…
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Keyshia Cole’s ‘Love’ Versus O.T. Genasis’ ‘Never Knew’: Who Did It Better? An Analysis
If you have spent more than five minutes online in the past week, know some gang members, or (oddly) have a Google alert set for “Keyshia Cole” then you have been made privy to the song and video, “Never Knew,” by Long Beach, Calif., rapper and Crip-extraordinaire, O.T. Genasis. You may remember him from such…
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Oh My God, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
Writer’s Note: Major Watchmen spoilers are ahead! Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is a work of art. Racking up credits in The Get Down, Aquaman, Black Mirror (as well as the upcoming Aquaman 2, Candyman, The Matrix 4 and The Trial of the Chicago 7), the 33-year-old actor really has come a long way. Now, Abdul-Mateen’s star…
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Just Mercy: 'Bryan Stevenson's Impact Has Been Felt, Even If You Don't Know Him Just Yet'
In 1988, lawyer and activist Bryan Stevenson sought to give voice to Walter McMillian, a man wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of a white woman. In 2020, Just Mercy will give a new voice to their story. In an exclusive clip obtained by The Root to honor Global Human Rights Day, some of the cast…
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The African American Film Critics Association Selects Jordan Peele’s Us as 2019 Film of the Year
The blackest group of critics are back with their picks for the best of the best during the 2019 movie season! That’s right, you don’t have to worry about our black excellence not being recognized (you know, since other folks have apparently lost their minds), because the African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) is back…