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  • John Legend Cussing Up a Storm About Sarah Sanders Is the Soundtrack You Need Today

    At this point we’re fairly used to TV host and cookbook author Chrissy Teigen—who is, hands down, the best person on Twitter—being the voice-y one in the relationship. But that wasn’t the case Wednesday night, when a TMZ reporter ran up on Teigen and her husband, singer John Legend, as they left a restaurant in…

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    Anne Branigin

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  • Chrissy Teigen Wishes Trump a Happy Birthday in a Way That’ll Turn the Orange Menace Red

    Chrissy Teigen, everyone’s favorite Twitter troll, is causing more chatter on the site, but this time for a cause. Teigen, along with her husband, John Legend, and their two children, donated money to the American Civil Liberties Union on Donald Trump’s 72nd birthday. The family donated $72,000 apiece—a collective $288,000—to the organization and are encouraging…

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    Montana Couser

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  • Kanye Is ‘Free Thought’-ing Again, Posts Text Messages From John Legend

    The inconceivably long train wreck that is Kanye West’s Twitter account just hit a new level of messiness Thursday afternoon, when Yeezy shared a screenshot of an exchange between himself and longtime friend and collaborator John Legend. In the screenshot of the text exchange, Legend sent a check-in text to Kanye at about 9:16 a.m.…

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    Anne Branigin

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  • Jesus, Imma Let You Finish, but Judas Had the Best Performance in Jesus Christ Superstar Live!

    On a very rare Easter Sunday-April Fools’ Day hybrid, John Legend (Jesus), Brandon Dixon (Judas), Sara Bareilles (Mary Magdalene), Alice Cooper (King Herod) and a full cast of superstar talent joined forces for Jesus Christ Superstar Live! The show is admittedly not one of my favorites. To be fair, I’ve never given the show a…

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    Danielle Young

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  • This Easter, We Get a Black Jesus and His Name Is John Legend

    What are you doing this Easter Sunday? I’ve got a suggestion: Check out one of the most iconic musicals ever, Jesus Christ Superstar, live on your TV screens on NBC. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s powerful rock opera, which chronicles the final week of Jesus’ life, is being resurrected as Jesus Christ Superstar Live! with John Legend…

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    Danielle Young

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  • Watch: John Legend Says Gun Culture Must Change

    Last month, America saw one of the deadliest school shootings in modern American history. The Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., left 17 dead and 15 injured—yet officials are still looking for answers to stop mass shootings. Musician-turned-activist John Legend says that gun culture in America must change. “I…

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    Felice León

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  • The Top Criminal-Justice Wins of 2017

    There’s no other way to put it: 2017 was bleak. Bleak because the country’s top public health organization is now prohibited from using the term “science-based.” Bleak because we’re surprised that a man accused of sexually harassing and assaulting young girls—and who extols slavery—lost an election. Bleak because the president of these United States stood in…

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    Kirsten West Savali

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  • John Legend Is Jesus Christ. No, Really, He Is

    John Legend has been cast as Jesus Christ in NBC’s upcoming musical event Jesus Christ Superstar Live. NBC made the announcement Tuesday morning via its Twitter account: “I’m thrilled to join the cast of this production of Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert!,” Legend said in a statement. “It’s such a powerful, meaningful musical and…

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    Yesha Callahan

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  • Pharrell Williams Takes a Knee During Charlottesville, Va., Concert

    Pharrell Williams headlined the Concert for Charlottesville on Sunday night and joined in protests of Donald Trump’s recent comments about NFL players kneeling during the national anthem. The concert, an event hosted by Dave Matthews following the deadly protests that took place in the Virginia college town last month, gave Williams the platform he needed…

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    Yesha Callahan

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  • Underground Season 2 Episode 5 Recap

    This week’s episode of Underground was titled “Whiteface” and it was so jam-packed with plot that I half-way expected the little boy from that one episode of Atlanta to make an appearance. He doesn’t, by the way, but with the season at the midpoint the show has a lot of ground to cover so I guess…

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    Jordan Kauwling

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