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FX Gives Series Order to TV Adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Kindred
The upcoming sci-fi series will be helmed by Zola director Janicza Bravo.
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Amandla Stenberg in Talks for Star Wars Series The Acolyte
Amandla Stenberg is in negotiations to lead the next Disney+ Star Wars series The Acolyte.
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Part 2: Books Black Harvard Students Read When They Were Children
If you’re looking for a gift for a special child this holiday, why not pick one of these classic reads!
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Author Alice Sebold Issued a Long-Owed Apology to the Man Wrongly Convicted of Her Rape. Should More Be Owed?
Sebold’s Lucky was based on a 1981 rape for which Anthony Broadwater unjustly served 16 years. As her publisher pulls the memoir, what happens to the profits?
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Is Stacey Abrams Thinking White House?
At the very least media and some of her supporters are already salivating
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Charley Bordelon on Queen Sugar Is Running for Congress. There Are a Whole Lot of Family Skeletons in That Closet
Charley Bordelon has decided to run for Congress. The attack ads from her opponent will write themselves.
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‘I Wanted to Be a World Builder’: The Root Presents: It’s Lit! Gets Into The Gilded Ones With Namina Forna
The screenwriter’s first novel in a forthcoming YA fantasy trilogy was an instant bestseller already being adapted for the screen.
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Zendaya Stuns in Bespoke Balmain at the Venice Film Festival and Custom Valentino on the October Cover of British Vogue
The star of style and screen once again had a red carpet look custom-sculpted to her bust.
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Yes, a Black Woman Is Directing Film Adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower—Which Is Timely and Relevant AF
Garrett Bradley (Time, Naomi Osaka) will helm the film based on the novel addressing climate change and social inequality.