black in america
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Don Lemon Has Been Accused Of Misogyny For Years. Will Variety’s Cringey Report Be The Final Straw?
The host has dismissed the latest allegations as “reckless” according to his reps.
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Watch the Stars of HBO's Native Son Get Real About Surviving While Black
Richard Wright’s Native Son has been resurrected. This time, HBO brought the novel to life with some of your faves: Sanaa Lathan, Ashton Sanders and Kiki Layne. One of the film’s more prominent themes is survival, so The Root attended the New York City premiere of Native Son to ask stars about surviving while black.…
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White Producers Threw W. Kamau Bell to the KKK on Day 1, so He Got Rid of Them
W. Kamau Bell’s United Shades of America became infamous for its first episode, “The New KKK,” in 2016. In the series opener, Bell attends a cross-burning ceremony and interviews hooded Klansmen. At the end of the cross burning, Bell poignantly states, “I actually feel lucky. Unlike most of the black people in this country who…