comics
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It's Pride Month, So Let's Celebrate With Some of the Best Comics Centered on LGBTQ Characters
They’re here, they’re queer, and they’re going to save the goddamn world.
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RHONY’s 1st Black Housewife Eboni K. Williams Calls Out Castmembers’ ‘White Fragility’ During Group Argument
*Bravo Housewife Franchise Intro Music* “They call me The Root’s Staff Entertainment Writer because I always hear it through the Grapevine.” *poses with folded arms for emphasis as my name is displayed across the screen* In Housewife franchise news that doesn’t involve Porsha Williams’ peachy production of an engagement announcement, Real Housewives of New York’s…
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A Respectability Rumble of Hotep-tly Hostile Proportions Is Brewing. Ashiness Expected to Follow
Before we begin please join me, my kings and kweens in a word of prayer: First, giving honor to Black Jesus, who is the head of my life. Secondly, Black Jesus, I’d like to say thank you for giving me the divine feminine right to dwell in the Hotep House of the Lord forever and…
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Regé-Jean Page Reportedly Got Passed Up for a Role in Syfy’s Krypton Because 'Superman Could Not Have a Black Grandfather'
Another day, another unimaginative, mediocre white man not knowing what the hell he’s doing in Hollywood. I’ll explain. For a while now, The Root’s Staff Entertainment writer Tonja Renée Stidhum has been doing thorough job at keeping you in the loop regarding all the latest developments concerning Justice League actor Ray Fisher and the investigation…
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Hardware, Icon and Static Will All Make Their Triumphant Return This Summer in Milestone Returns!
I’ve been in eager anticipation ever since it was announced last summer that the Milestone universe would make its glorious return to comic stands this year. Luckily, we don’t have to wait too much longer as DC announced the line will release in both print and digital this summer. A press release from DC Comics…
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From Blackest Night to Brightest Day: How the Present Has Seen the Glorious Rise of the Black Superhero
Editor’s Note: The Rise of the Black Superhero is a three-part series breaking down the past, present and future of Black superheroes across comics, film, and tv. This is part 2. Read part 1. Welcome back, true believers! In our last thrilling adventure, the Black superhero was in dire straits. Heroes such as Black Panther…
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The Lightning and the Storm: How an Imperfect Past Shaped the Rise of the Black Superhero
Editor’s Note: The Rise of the Black Superhero is a three-part series breaking down the past, present and future of Black superheroes across comics, film, and tv. This is part 1. Before we get into it, you need to be aware of one thing reader: I love this shit. If you ask my family, they…
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John Ridley Talks Reshaping Both the Past and Future of DC Comics With The Next Batman and The Other History of the DC Universe
As a part of DC’s ongoing Future State event, The Next Batman depicts a near-future where Bruce Wayne/Batman is believed to have been murdered by a private, hyper militarized police force called The Magistrate. With caped crusading becoming a crime punishable by death, Tim Fox—son of tech genius Lucius Fox—dons the cape and cowl to…
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Rare Black Panther Comic #1 Signed by Chadwick Boseman Is Currently Up for Auction
To fans who would like a piece of memorabilia to honor the late Chadwick Boseman and are able to afford it—there’s something pretty damn valuable that may catch your eye. On Monday, Nate D. Sanders Auctions announced that they were in possession of a rare Black Panther Comic #1 signed by the late Boseman as…
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Happy Birthday, Kamala Harris—and Welcome to the Female Force!
Should Kamala Devi Harris be elected vice president in two weeks, she will have achieved several simultaneous “firsts,” all of which will be especially significant to wide swaths of women, women of color, immigrant families, DREAMers and more. The ballots may not yet be counted (praying for their safe return), but the California senator turns…