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Does BET Get a Fair Shake These Days?
Very Smart Brothas‘ Panama Jackson asks whether the network is finally giving us what we’re looking for — and whether we even know what that is. A few weeks ago, I got into an argument with a friend of mine who happens to work for what I once dubbed “The Evil Empire”. That company is…
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How Will Obama Handle Affirmative Action?
(The Root) — Between now and the inauguration on Jan. 21, The Root will be taking a daily look at the president’s record on a number of policy issues, including his first-term accomplishments and what many Americans hope to see him accomplish in a second term. Today: affirmative action. See previous postings in this series…
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'Django Unchained' Action Figure Stokes Debate
Some Editors Failed to See No-Brainer Story The controversy over Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained,” in which slavery is the backdrop for a spaghetti Western, ratcheted up a notch over the weekend when freelance entertainment journalist Karu F. Daniels, writing in the Daily Beast, reported that the movie characters — slaves and slavemaster — are being…
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Jay-Z to Compose 'Great Gatsby' Score
Hip-hop mogul Jay-Z probably isn’t the first artist who comes to mind when most people imagine the soundtrack to the film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel The Great Gatsby, but a recent tweet from the Bullitts’ Jeymes Samuel confirmed that he and Jay-Z are part of the team producing the score for the…
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Who's Played the Twitter Blame Game?
Just as starlets who accidentally overdose are admitted to the hospital under the wink-wink term of “exhaustion,” some rap and R&B stars, including Kanye West, Chief Keef and Chris Brown, have recently claimed that their Twitter accounts were hacked when they were caught saying something dumb or controversial. Since Charlamagne Tha God, radio co-host of…
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Who's Played the Twitter Blame Game?
Just as starlets who accidentally overdose are admitted to the hospital under the wink-wink term of “exhaustion,” some rap and R&B stars, including Kanye West, Chief Keef and Chris Brown, have recently claimed that their Twitter accounts were hacked when they were caught saying something dumb or controversial. Since Charlamagne Tha God, radio co-host of…
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Tarantino 'Unchained,' Part 3: White Saviors
(The Root) — Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained is about a slave named Django (Jamie Foxx) who gains his freedom and becomes a bounty hunter with the help of Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz). They travel (under a ruse developed by Schultz) to Mississippi to free Django’s wife, Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), from evil plantation owner Calvin…
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Tarantino 'Unchained,' Part 1: 'Django' Trilogy?
(The Root) — If you thought Quentin Tarantino was done with historical revenge fantasies after Inglourious Basterds and his latest, Django Unchained — a “postmodern, slave-narrative Western,” in the words of The Root’s editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr. — you’d be wrong. The spaghetti Western-inspired Django Unchained, in theaters Dec. 25, depicts the horrors of…
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Newtown: Intersection of Thorny Issues
“There’s been a lot of talk about media in the wake of the horrific shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., as the world struggles to understand something that may be beyond rational thought,” media critic Eric Deggans wrote Monday in the Tampa Bay (Fla.) Times. “Big picture-wise, I think America is experiencing…
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Racist Tweets During Obama's NFL Pre-Emption
Monday, Dec. 17, 3:04 p.m. EST: NBC pre-empted the first quarter of Sunday night’s football game between the San Francisco 49ers and the New England Patriots to televise President Obama’s speech at the Newtown, Conn., memorial for victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting. That riled several football fans who were so upset about the…