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Tiana’s Bayou Adventure Will Come to Disney Theme Parks in 2024
Splash Mountain will officially become themed around The Princess and the Frog in 2024.
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Black and Magical: Cast of Netflix's Jingle Jangle Plays Black Ass Game
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey is pure magic. The David E. Talbert-penned and directed musical transports audiences to a mythical village of Cobelton and follows a brilliant but down-on-his-luck toymaker, Jeronicus Jangle, (played by Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker). Jangle is betrayed by Gustafson ( played by Keegan-Michael Key, who is so phenomenally wicked in this role)…
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First Look: Mary J. Blige Asked for 'No More Drama' but She's Experiencing a Lot of It in Body Cam
Sometimes, you prepare to watch a movie trailer expecting one thing and something else happens. That’s what I experienced watching the trailer for Body Cam. Before knowing anything about the film, I figured it was yet another police drama, which may or may not tackle the racial complexities of police interactions. After all, one of…
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There Are Little Fires Everywhere—and Tiffany Boone Has Been Set Ablaze
In a wistful warble under the sea, The Little Mermaid’s Ariel once queried, “What’s a fire and why does it—what’s the word—burn?” Though it’s meant to be more of a rhetorical question, I think I’ve found the answer: Hulu is the reason why. And Little Fires Everywhere, its original miniseries adapted from Celeste Ng’s novel…
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Top 10 Moments Black People Won in 2017
2017 has been, how do I put this succinctly, a fucking shit year. From the plagues of biblical proportions that this administration keeps trying to drop on us to the fact that Mother Nature is sick of the bullshit and has been trying to finally kill us all via hurricane, 2017 has not been skimpy…
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Anika Noni Rose’s Patience With Cicely Tyson Is the Blackest Thing That Ever Happened This Week
The Emmys began last night with a skit featuring disgraced former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, a clear reference to Melissa McCarthy’s brilliant impersonation of him on Saturday Night Live, and an act in which the consequencelessness of whiteness has never been better exemplified. Whatever hope there is that the people connected with Donald…
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Join Us Sunday on Facebook Live With Anika Noni Rose and Amandla Stenberg to Discuss Everything, Everything
This Sunday on Facebook, The Root will host a live panel with Anika Noni Rose and Amandla Stenberg to discuss their upcoming movie, Everything, Everything. Everything, Everything is based on the best-selling novel written by Nicola Yoon. The movie tells the story of Maddy (Amandla Stenberg), a girl who’s literally allergic to the outside world,…
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BET’s The Quad Out to Prove Why HBCUs Matter
It’s been 30 years since we saw Denise Huxtable go to Hillman College, a fictional HBCU in Virginia, where she would meet Dwayne Wayne and the prissy Whitley Gilbert in The Cosby Show spin-off A Different World. BET’s new show The Quad takes us on the campus of the historically black Georgia A&M University, home…