The Biggest Winners of 2018
As we reach this final day of the year in 2018, The Root takes our annual look back at the people, organizations and…
2019 So Black: 10 Black Films and TV Shows Worth Looking Forward To
As 2018 gets ready to make her final curtain call curtsy, 2019 is about to strut onto the stage with a fierceness…
Once You See Jordan Peele's Us Trailer, You'll Never Hear 'I Got 5 On It' The Same Way Again
Jordan Peele’s mind is something else, ya’ll.
More Tea For Us: Jordan Peele Reveals First-Look Photos And The Name of the Monster
It was May 2018 when Jordan Peele first dropped a teaser poster for an upcoming film entitled Us. Not a goddamn…
Jordan Peele’s Us Will Explore What Happens When We Unplug—and It’s the Opposite of Relaxing [Updated]
Jordan Peele, he of “taking over your horror genre for the ’99 and 2000s” fame, has a highly anticipated upcoming…
Spike Lee Wants Us to Respect Our White Allies: 'White People Have Died For Justice'
Spike Lee is well-respected as one of Hollywood’s biggest and blackest directors. On Friday, his latest, BlacKkKlansman …
BlacKkKlansMan Wins Top Prize at Cannes, Spike Lee’s 1st-Ever Nod From the French Film Fest
Love Spike Lee to death, but we wouldn’t be throwing that much shade if we said that sometimes the big homie’s films…
Black Cop’s Tale of Infiltrating KKK Is a Hit at Cannes
- New Spike Lee Joint Gets Standing Ovation
This Is Us: Jordan Peele’s New Social Thriller Boasts Killer Cast
Upon releasing his debut movie, Get Out, Jordan Peele made it clear he wanted to stay within the horror genre. As we…
Black Life, White Wife and the Art Caught in the Middle
Over the weekend, Donald Glover, aka Childish Gambino, dropped a video for a new song called “This Is America.” You are…
(He) Got That Glow: Daniel Kaluuya Shows Us That Fenty Makes the Fellas Flawless, Too!
This is Daniel Kaluuya’s first time running the hectic gantlet of awards season, but we wouldn’t know it. From his bold…
Watch: Jordan Peele’s Untelevised Oscars Speech Is Everything We Never Knew We Needed
Jordan Peele made history Sunday night when his film Get Out won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Peele, who was…
The Fish-Porn Flick That Beat Get Out and Won the Oscar for Best Picture, Explained
Not technically a fish. According to the Wikipedia page about this film, it’s a “captured humanoid-amphibian creature.”
So ... Will Hollywood Finally Learn This Lesson, or Nah?
When writer-director Jordan Peele won his Best Original Screenplay Oscar for 2017’s biggest hit, Get Out, I cheered.…
We Love Us: #BlackExcellence Met #BlackElegance at the 2018 Oscars
While there were no big upsets like last year’s last-minute turnover of the award for best picture, the Oscars also…
In the Spirit: Stars Celebrate at the Independent Spirit Awards
Tonight, cinephiles everywhere will gather in front of their television screens to watch the biggest stars and biggest…
Some Older Academy Voters Won’t Let Get Out Be Oscar-Great, Haven’t Even Watched Film
Even though the film was nominated for four major Academy Awards this year, including Best Picture and Best Director,…
America Wasn’t Ready for Get Out’s Too Depressing (and Too Realistic) Alternate Ending. Neither Was I
A year after I first watched it—and a day after watching it again on HBO (which seems to have a networkwide mandate to…
Oprah Brought SuperSoul Conversations to the Apollo and Aligned All of Harlem's Chakras
When Oprah builds it, we all come. She’s got this undeniable Midas touch, which is why we want her to save America by…
God Bless This #NoirTown Janelle Monáe Photo Shoot Directed by Jordan Peele
What a time to be alive. Jordan Peele, who’s now a little less than two weeks away from hopefully clutching his first…