decade
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The 2019 Wypipo Awards: End of the Decade Edition
We’d like to welcome you to the fifth annual Wypipo Awards. After years of whining that the BET Awards, the NAACP Awards and The Root 100 are inherently racist because they are limited to black people, we created these awards. Our founder, Mr. Y.P. Pull—who made his fortune building desalinization plants that take the salt…
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Look Back At It: 10 Years A Black Hollywood Renaissance Resurgence
Remember when it seemed like the 1990s was the Black Hollywood Renaissance? We had epic dramas, comedies and beyond in film and television. Hell, y’all remember UPN?! Well, the 2010s seemed to be a taste of what we thirsted for all of these years. In an article from this summer, the New York Times spoke…
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Look Back At It: The Top 10 Protest Movements of the Decade
If it were possible to encapsulate the sentiment of an entire decade, the last 10 years could be distilled down to one word: “Nah.” Whether it was Black Lives Matter demonstrations, Colin Kaepernick taking a knee or white people burning Nikes they bought from J.C. Penney, it is impossible to recap 2010-2019 without taking a…