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First Look: The Children Are Our Future In HBO's We Are the Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest
It’s Black History Month and The Root is here to give you the most adorable inspiration ever. Growing up black meant realizing that the most important speech ever uttered was by a man named Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Four words, “I Have A Dream,” would be embedded in the minds of every black kid…
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Watchmen Is Getting the F*ck Up Off the Pool and Will Not Return for a Second Season
A network and a show creator walk into “Abar”… and decide to end their popular and acclaimed show on a high note. It’s official, show creator Damon Lindelof is stepping away from Watchmen and will not be pursuing a second season of the series. USA Today reports: Lindelof told USA TODAY this week that he’s…
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How ‘The Case for Reparations’ by Ta-Nehisi Coates Inspired Damon Lindelof in Watchmen
Writer’s Note: Major spoilers ahead for Season 1 of Watchmen, including the season finale. What has been heralded as one of the greatest seasons of television has now ended and we’re still left with a bunch to unpack. HBO’s Watchmen is one of those shows that leaves you thirsty and obsessed with revisiting every missed…
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My Best Friend and I Went to the Taping of Lil Rel’s HBO Special and Had The Time of Our Lives. It Was Also the Last Time I Saw Her
I don’t remember the very last words she said to me, but I remember the overall sentiment: “That was fun as hell.” When I was invited to the live taping of HBO’s Lil Rel Howery Live In Crenshaw, I knew the perfect person to join me: one of my best friends, Bonique’a (We called her…
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She’s Our Hero: In HBO’s Watchmen, Regina King Kicks White Supremacist Ass
Black women do it again. In HBO’s Watchmen, the queen, Regina King, plays Angela Abar, a superhero who kicks white supremacist ass. We stan. For the record, Regina King has always been a superhero in our eyes—only difference is that this time, Hollywood gave her a flyyy (presumably) leather ‘fit, a rosary, and a mask.…
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Regina King Has 'A Nose for White Supremacy' in HBO's Watchmen
Tick tock—we’re counting down to Watchmen’s series premiere on HBO. From the series’ press release: Set in an alternate history where masked vigilantes are treated as outlaws, Watchmen, from executive producer Damon Lindelof (Emmy winner for Lost; HBO’s The Leftovers) embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel of the same name, while attempting…
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I Just Binged Season 1 of Succession and It Feels Like I Was on a White People Safari
I don’t remember exactly what Kotaku staff editor Natalie Degraffinried said a month ago when attempting to convince me to watch Succession. But knowing Natalie, I’m certain it involved some combination of “these white people” and “wild.” What I do remember was that she was the fourth or fifth black person in the last two…