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Grammys 2025 Best Moments: Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar and Doechii Win Big
Music’s biggest night was filled with stars, epic performances and unforgettable speeches.
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Brittany Howard on Voicing Thelma in Netflix’s ‘Thelma the Unicorn’ & Her Studio Album ‘What Now’
Brittany Howard talks what to expect in the Netflix film ‘Thelma the Unicorn’ and how she feels about her album being compared to Prince.
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Mic Drop: Yearning for a Nostalgic Future… Does Such a Thing Even Exist?
Artists answer what it means to combine the joy of warm weather with the nostalgia of what summer once was…and Lil Nas X dances naked in a ‘prison’ shower.
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'I Love the Way Voices Play With Each Other': The Root Presents: It's Lit! Trips Through Rock History With Dawnie Walton and The Final Revival of Opal and Nev
The author’s highly acclaimed debut novel evokes several of rock music’s unsung Black divas.
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Mic Drop: Throw Open Your Doors and Windows, Spring Bangers Are Here
Spring has sprung, and so have a bunch of artists who have been fairly “hush-hush” during the last year. I guess we can give them a pass since we were in a global panorama, but now that the weather is getting warmer and the clothing layers are lessening, artists are coming out with a bang.…
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Grammys 2021: This One Goes Out to the Classy, Bougie, Ratchet and History-Making Brown Skin Girls
The event known as “the biggest night in music” has come and gone! There were some bumps in the road due to the global pandemic and a globally reported snubbing mishap, but the Recording Academy managed to pull it off. Like similar awards shows during this unprecedented time, there was limited attendance—strictly for those who…
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Grammys 2021: Beyoncé Is Queen of Nominations; Trevor Noah to Host
Y’all, we have made it toward the end of the year, which means the formally designated awards season (not just the informal awards season that pretty much happens all year in Los Angeles because…Hollywood) is here! First up, we’re getting Grammy nominations! The 63rd Grammy Awards nominations were announced Tuesday and we have the Black-ass…
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Replay, Revisit, Reject: the Best and Worst Music From This Past Weekend
We get it: With everything going on in the world, it can be difficult to carve out time to discover new music. Industry-pushed tunes that you may not even bang with like that could also get in the way of you finding something that tingles your consumer taste buds. While new tunes are usually released…
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We Need a New National Anthem; Here Are 10 Folks Who Could Do It
Despite going to graduate school in the discipline, my greatest education in philosophy happened at the barbershop. Old Man James, my barber since I was in elementary school, once hipped me to some game about the tension between blackness and patriotism in America. “Y’all still singing the national anthem in school, young blood?” he once…