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Sean Penn Files $10,000,000 Defamation Lawsuit Against Lee Daniels After Being Compared to Terrence Howard
You see the trouble Terrence Howard is causing? Well, technically he didn’t cause it, but when director Lee Daniels recently defended Howard’s past abuse, he mentioned actor Sean Penn. In a recent interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Daniels commented on Howard’s domestic-abuse issues, as well as his interview in Rolling Stone. “That poor boy. [Terrence]…
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F. Gary Gray Is the Highest-Grossing Black Director of a Single Film Because of Straight Outta Compton
When asked who is my favorite director of all time (I’m a bit of a movie buff), I always say F. Gary Gray. His directing brought tears to my eyes as I howled while watching Friday, and then again as I wept watching Set It Off—two movies that sit on opposite sides of a spectrum. And…
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Nancy Lee Grahn Pulls an #AllLivesMatter in Wake of Viola Davis’ Historic Emmy Win
Miscellaneous-daytime-drama actress Nancy Lee Grahn wants the world to know that the Emmys are no place to discuss the marginalization of black actresses in Hollywood, because all women are discriminated against, and “dramatic” race talk distracts from the bigger picture. As previously reported by The Root, Grahn made these ridiculously racist statements on Twitter in…
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Nancy Lee Grahn’s White Tears, Explained
So, I’ve heard this term “white tears” used before. What exactly does it mean? As I’ve written before, “white tears” is a phrase to describe what happens when certain types of white people either complain about a nonexistent racial injustice or are upset by a nonwhite person’s success at the supposed expense of a white person.…
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Soap Opera Star Nancy Lee Grahn Apologizes After Negative Tweets About Viola Davis’ Emmys 2015 Acceptance Speech
Sometimes you’re better off keeping those tweets right in your head, and not even spending the time to type out 140 characters that will end up embarrassing you in the end. And General Hospital star Nancy Lee Grahn learned that lesson Sunday night. During Viola Davis’ acceptance speech after becoming the first black woman to win…
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Calif. Teen Who Was Violently Arrested by 9 Cops for Jaywalking Speaks
On Tuesday, cellphone video showing some five Stockton, Calif., police officers violently arresting a teen for jaywalking went viral on social media. Since then, demonstrations have been held in and around Northern California to protest the use of force against the teen, who says he did nothing wrong. Emilio Mayfield, 16, told CBS Sacramento that…
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NY Times Hires Pulitzer Prize Winner Wesley Morris as Cultural Critic at Large
“Angry Black Woman” Line Laid Bare Lack of Diversity Wesley Morris, a black journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2012 while at the Boston Globe, is joining the New York Times as a critic at large, the Times announced on Thursday. The Culture section of the Times came under fire last year…
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Lee Daniels Defends Terrence Howard’s Abusive Behavior
The Empire cast is gracing the cover of next week’s Hollywood Reporter, and millions of eyes will be tuned in next week when the show returns to Fox for its second season. Last week Terrence Howard made eyes roll when he divulged details about his past, which included his history of violence against women as…
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9 Calif. Police Forcefully Arrest Black Teen for Jaywalking
Stockton, Calif., police are under scrutiny after a video posted to YouTube Wednesday showed a total of nine officers ganging up to arrest a black teenager for jaywalking, the International Business Times reports. In the beginning, one officer approached the teen, presumably to write him a ticket for jaywalking to catch a city bus. The…
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Why PTOWB (Paid Time Off While Black) Needs to Happen
If you’re black and in America, there’s somewhere between a 100 percent and a 100 percent chance that the following has happened to you at least once. And somewhere between a 95 percent and 99 percent chance that it’s happened at least once this week. You’re minding your black-ass business, living your black-ass life. You…