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Sha’Carri Richardson Spills The Tea On Why She Famously Ditching Her Wig on the Track in 2023
Ripping off her wig to reveal a set of braids made for one of the most iconic moments in sports that year.
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Let’s Get Nerdy: Our 2024 Preview for Black Comic Book Fans
We’ve got news on all the titles, specials, anthologies and variant covers Black comic book fans will be looking for in 2024.
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Gabrielle Union to Play Tootie in Live From a Studio Audience: ‘The Facts of Life’ and ‘Diff’rent Strokes’
Gabrielle Union, Kathryn Hahn, Allison Tolman and Jennifer Aniston lead The Facts of Life half of Live From a Studio Audience.
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Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Becomes 2nd Fastest Woman of All-Time After Running Fastest 100m Since Florence Griffith Joyner
Usain Bolt is cool and all, but it’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce who’s got the juice.
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Tiffany Haddish to Portray Olympic Gold-Winner Florence Griffith Joyner in Upcoming Biopic
It looks like Girls Trip and Like a Boss star Tiffany Haddish will be going from “she ready” to “she runnin’” soon, thanks to a new project from game1. Deadline reports that Haddish is set to portray three-time Olympic gold winner Florence Griffith Joyner, aka Flo-Jo, in an upcoming untitled biopic. The feature will tell…
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PSA: Y'all, This is Probably the Best Time Ever To Be a Blerd
Growing up, it always felt like the things I was deeply interested in and the things that had that good-good representation were always on two separate planes. Now, I wasn’t up here being one of those Black people who love to say they weren’t like other Black people. I’m pretty sure I happily consumed like…
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Shonda Rhimes Addresses Rumors Regé-Jean Page Left Bridgerton Over 'Creative Differences'
My Dearest Reader, ‘Tis I, Lady Welpington of The Root, here with a bit of news that has caused my royal feathers to be ruffled in the most upsetting way. It seems a daily news site from across the pond is spreading word that our beloved Duke of Hastings aka Regé-Jean Page has decided to…
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From Blackest Night to Brightest Day: How the Present Has Seen the Glorious Rise of the Black Superhero
Editor’s Note: The Rise of the Black Superhero is a three-part series breaking down the past, present and future of Black superheroes across comics, film, and tv. This is part 2. Read part 1. Welcome back, true believers! In our last thrilling adventure, the Black superhero was in dire straits. Heroes such as Black Panther…