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‘Dear White People’: The Secret White Email That Started the Netflix Boycott
On Wednesday, butt-hurt wypipo everywhere joined together to boycott Netflix because of the trailer for the new show Dear White People. After Issa Rae’s Insecure and Russian spies exposed America’s secret white email network last year, we managed to hack into the white server and unearth the email that started the entire Netflix controversy: Dear…
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Watch: My Black History: Michael Eric Dyson on How MLK’s Assassination Opened His Eyes
Editor’s note: During Black History Month, the focus is usually on historical figures who loomed larger than life, paving the way for the progress we experience today. But black history isn’t just about telling stories of our past. History is being made every day and has been made throughout our lives; it’s not just in…
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Here’s Why Maxwell (the R&B Singer, Not the Coffee) Is Trending
Looks like someone has something against Black History Month … well, at least that’s the consensus on Twitter. I’ll never know what Maxwell is actually talking about because he blocked me on Twitter earlier this summer after I questioned his “All Lives Matter” tweet. But here’s what everyone else is saying (and he apparently called…
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Sheryl Underwood Defends George Lopez on The Talk
Sheryl Underwood wants the world to know that she and George Lopez are friends and that he is not racist. Also, she wants us all to know that if a woman had flipped her off during her comedy show, she would have called her a “bitch,” too. As previously reported by The Root, George Lopez…
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Watch: Baltimore, Freddie Gray and the Struggle of Race in America
Peabody Spotlight is a digital series produced by the Peabody Media Center at the University of Georgia. Each part of the series draws from the vast Peabody Awards archives, the third-largest repository of audiovisual materials in the United States. Peabody Spotlight will focus on significant societal issues as represented through the storytelling of Peabody winners…
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Netflix Sets Premiere Date for Dear White People
Dear White People is finally getting its time to shine as a series on Netflix. On Tuesday the streaming service announced that the 10-episode series will premiere April 28. Tessa Thompson will not be returning as Samantha White, but Logan Browning will take over the role. Justin Simien, the writer and director of the 2014…
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Being Mary Jane Recap: Are You Man Enough?
Something about this season of Being Mary Jane is different. I’ve been hoping for it to pick up like past seasons, when complex subjects that black women deal with every day were subtly woven through the storyline. Mary Jane was always over-the-top extra, making her hard to like. But every time you screwed your nose…
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Unsung: Gospel or R&B? Dave Hollister Won’t Let Anyone Box Him In
Chicago native Dave Hollister has always had vocal chops, straddling the secular and gospel worlds with seeming ease. But after a peak career in the ’90s with Teddy Riley’s group Blackstreet, and then as a solo artist, his name disappeared from the lips of fans who had reveled in his old-school-style love songs. Hollister is…
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My Black History: The Cash Money-Ruff Ryders Tour Changed Me Forever
Editor’s note: During Black History Month, the focus is usually on historical figures who loomed larger than life, paving the way for the progress we experience today. But black history isn’t just about telling stories of our past. History is being made every day and has been made throughout our lives; it’s not just in…
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Move Over, Jodeci. These R&B Groups Deserve Some Biopic Shine, Too
Following the popularity of BET’s wildly successful New Edition miniseries, crooner Mr. Dalvin announced that production would begin soon on a biopic based on the ’90s R&B group Jodeci. BET’s parent company, Viacom, wisely took note of how the feel-good nostalgia for Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky, Mike, Ralph and Johnny made for appointment viewing that propelled…