In corporate America, being a black woman can be lonely as fuck, especially once you reach a certain level of power or…
The Oscars may still be a little whiter than we’d like in the leading actress and actor categories, but for their 25th…
It was 2017, and I was sitting in a packed theater in Salt Lake City, Utah watching horror-themed short films directed…
The last two years have shown Hollywood that diversity in front of and behind the camera pays major dividends, both in…
Director Jon M. Chu thought he was done with crying over Crazy Rich Asians.
As his career shows, Michael B. Jordan has not been one to shy away from complex portrayals of black people. The actor,…
The critically acclaimed drama from Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey, Queen Sugar, returns to OWN in May, and once again,…
When writer-director Jordan Peele won his Best Original Screenplay Oscar for 2017’s biggest hit, Get Out, I cheered.…
Ava DuVernay is super clear about how Hollywood is still a white man’s game. Although she is set to release a $100…
Viola Davis is sick of Hollywood’s shit.
Welcome to my Caucasian home, said the Golden Globes this morning, before flooding us with the sort of nominations list…
Jason Johnson, our political editor at The Root and an in-real-life close and personal friend of mine, wrote this last…
Much the way white America was flabbergasted when it found out about police brutality by seeing the Eric Garner video,…
When Netflix announced its Iron Fist series, some people (not all) hoped that the series would cast an Asian actor as…
The 23rd Screen Actors Guild Awards took place Sunday night, and on the heels of President HWSRN’s immigration ban…
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