Television
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Chris Harrison Makes Bachelor-Verse Exit Official After Race-Related Controversy, Exchanging the Final Rose for a Major Payday
The Bachelor franchise's longtime host and producer reportedly negotiated 'a mid-range eight-figure payoff.'
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Mark Your Calendars for June 6 Because The Kings Cometh
Fans of the sweet science—that’s boxing to you mere mortals—know that between 1980 and 1989, there were four fighters that ushered in a boxing renaissance that not only blessed us all with bitter rivalries, but a smorgasbord of legendary bouts. These “Four Kings”—Roberto Durán, Thomas “The Hitman” Hearns, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, and Sugar Ray Leonard—were…
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Dr. Fauci, Please Come Get This Beverly Hills Housewife Who Said Being Called Racist Is a 'Virus Worse Than COVID'
The Beverly Hills are alive with the sound of a white woman’s weaponized tears. On the latest episode of The Real Beverly Housewives of Beverly Hills (Season 11, Episode 3, titled “Sutton’s Gotta Give”), viewers witness an aggravating conversation about race relations involving cast members Kyle Richards, Sutton Stracke and Crystal Kung Minkoff (with a…
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Antoine Fuqua to Direct Series Highlighting Hypocrisy of Enslaved People Owner George Washington
America’s first-ever president is getting a series…helmed by a Black man. According to Deadline, Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, The Equalizer) is set to direct and serve as executive producer for a pilot about the contradictions surrounding George Washington’s first term in office. The series, titled The President, was created by Brian Burns (Blue Bloods) and…
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RHONY’s 1st Black Housewife Eboni K. Williams Calls Out Castmembers’ ‘White Fragility’ During Group Argument
*Bravo Housewife Franchise Intro Music* “They call me The Root’s Staff Entertainment Writer because I always hear it through the Grapevine.” *poses with folded arms for emphasis as my name is displayed across the screen* In Housewife franchise news that doesn’t involve Porsha Williams’ peachy production of an engagement announcement, Real Housewives of New York’s…
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Don’t Freeze! Danai Gurira’s Okoye Is Reportedly Starring In Black Panther Origin Series [Corrected]
Correction: 5/29/2021, 2:21 p.m. ET: An earlier version of this blog noted that Okoye will be getting her own original series, but upon clarification of the below blurb, it appears an Okoye-led series has not yet been confirmed. What has been confirmed via the below quoted section is Gurira’s character will be starring in the…
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Bird Box(ing): Trevante Rhodes to Star as Mike Tyson in Hulu Biopic Series
Go ahead and picture Trevante Rhodes working on Mike Tyson’s famous lisp with a dialect coach because the actor has been cast as the legendary professional boxer for a new Hulu series. According to Deadline, the co-star of The United States vs. Billie Holiday will be portraying Tyson in Iron Mike, which is “set to…
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The Cast of A Different World Take a Trip Down Memory Lane, and I’ve Never Wanted to Be a Hillman Alum So Bad
Mellifluous. A word that means “having a smooth rich flow,” as defined by Merriam-Webster. It’s also a word that I first heard many years ago while watching an episode of A Different World, uttered by Freddie’s then-boyfriend Shazza while explaining God knows what to who knows who. At the time, I thought the word sounded…
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Empire Star Bryshere Gray Is Sentenced to 10 Days in Jail Following Domestic Violence Charges
Bryshere Gray, the actor best known for his role as Hakeem Lyon on Fox’s Empire and his portrayal of Michael Bivins in BET’s The New Edition Story, has pled guilty to assaulting his wife, The Root has learned. People magazine reports the actor has been sentenced to 10 days in an Arizona county jail after…
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Meghan McCain Is Back in the Habit of Annoying Whoopi Goldberg, and We All Need Behind-the-Scenes Tea
In The Color Purple, Shug Avery (Margaret Avery) told Celie (Whoopi Goldberg) that it pisses God off when you walk by nature’s color purple without noticing. It’s pretty safe to say that it pisses Whoopi off when Meghan McCain continues to rant without noticing that Whoopi has to give the verbal cue for a commercial…