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Take a Minute—Just Sit Right There at Red Table Talk Because Will Smith Reflects on the Janet Hubert Reunion
Y’all won. Pretty much all of Black Twitter predicted that Will Smith would invite Janet Hubert to Red Table Talk (RTT) because there was “some healing that needs to happen”—thirty years’ worth of healing, in fact. Well, y’all were on the right track. Facebook Watch confirmed that Smith took over a special episode of RTT…
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Will Smith and Janet Hubert Flipped and Turned Everything Upside Down
The above header photo is from the year 2020. Yes. You read that right. Because in 2020, everything that you thought was wrong is right and everything you thought was fixed is flexible—just like Janet Hubert in that iconic dance episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. But, let’s back it up for a bit.…
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Before She Was 2nd: Daphne Maxwell-Reid Broke Beauty Barriers
Actress Daphne Maxwell-Reid is arguably best known for being second. Most remember her as Janet Hubert’s replacement in the role of Vivian Banks on the hit TV show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. But Maxwell-Reid had groundbreaking firsts as a black woman: the 1969 cover of Glamour magazine, and homecoming queen at the prestigious Northwestern…
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I Can't Hold A Grudge To Save My Life, So Janet Hubert Is My New Grudge Goals
I’ve been blessed with many talents. I can eat eight buttermilk pancakes in one sitting. I can recite each of the lyrics from Jesus Christ Superstar on call and without instrumental assistance. I can see asses from the front even if they’re not fat. And I have an innate and uncanny gift for accidentally splashing a…