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Ladies Night: Black Women Who Deserve Their Own Late Night Talk Shows
In our endlessly crazy political climate, Keke Palmer, Robin Thede and Tracee Ellis Ross are some of the funny ladies we’d like to see on late night TV.
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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Says What We’re All Thinking About This British Royal
The White House Press secretary was asked whether she’d briefed the President on the drama happening on the other side of the pond.
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Offered $1 Million to Resign By This Famous Comedian
The proposal came from this comedian on Sunday’s episode of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight.”
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Abbott Elementary, Stranger Things, P-Valley: Here’s How Your Favorite TV Shows Are Affected by the Writers’ Strike
From late-night talk shows, to primetime favorites, here’s how TV’s biggest hits will be affected by the WGA writers’ strike.
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Chicago Activists Want Guarantee Obama Library Won’t Gentrify
They fear the $482 million facility might push Black South Siders out.
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Shantira Jackson, Amber Ruffin, Seth Meyers comedy Aunties gets Put Pilot Nod from NBC
NBC has granted a pilot commitment to Aunties from Shantira Jackson, Amber Ruffin and Seth Meyers.
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John Oliver Tackles the Importance of Black Hair on Last Week Tonight—And He Does a Surprisingly Decent Job
Whether it’s a debate about “good hair” versus “bad hair” or whether or not braids are an appropriate birthday hairstyle (yes, that happened), Black hair never ceases to be a wildly popular topic of conversation. While it’s often reserved for the members of the melanated community, on Sunday night’s episode of Last Week Tonight With…
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The Lion King and the Great Circle of Nostalgia
The year was 1994, and a Tiny Tonja sat in a crowded theater to witness what would become her favorite Disney film, and one of her favorite films of all time. Twenty-five years later, that same film would be reimagined using CGI-animated technology that the younger version of Tonja could’ve never fathomed. Jon Favreau takes…
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We've Been Talking About Education All Wrong. Wyatt Cenac Wants to Change That
Wyatt Cenac knows it’s easy to laugh at Aunt Becky. When news broke last month of the college admissions scandal—which saw dozens of the nation’s most privileged parents receive federal indictments for bribing their children’s way into the nation’s top universities—it dominated as many punchlines as it did headlines. Included in the schadenfreude were jokes…
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The Blackest Disney Movie Ever, The Lion King, Will Have the Blackest Cast Ever—Including Queen Bey
I know we are all anxiously awaiting the opening of Black Panther early next year, and we know it is going to be the blackest movie ever—but Disney has just announced the full cast of The Lion King, and now we know that will be the blackest Disney movie ever. Sometime in 2019, when we…